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Parents should always make the time to play the games alongside their kids; the only problem with using this approach to picking video games is the fact that the game is already in the house and the money spent. Opened games are rarely returnable and once they are in the house and their hot little hands, kids will not let go of games without a lot of arguing, complaining, and upset. Thus, making an informed decision prior to bringing the games home is a must!
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At the same time, simply because a game is very popular and the evening news shows long lines of consumers waiting outside the stores for them to go on sale, does not mean that it offers the kind of game play the parent wants to invite into the home. Fortunately, there are five simple steps to picking video games both parents and their kids will love. These steps are not complicated, require a minimum of effort, and are rather reliable.
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Since preschoolers and grade-schoolers cannot simply be pigeonholed into age brackets, but should be much further differentiated by their maturity levels, parents will be wise to read the ESRB content descriptions on the backs of the video game packets. They list potentially objectionable content.
For example, "animated blood" refers to purple, green, or other kinds of unrealistic blood that may be shown during game play, while a listing of "blood" is an indicator that realistically depicted blood is part of the game play. Children highly sensitive to blood may not enjoy playing these games, even if they are rated for their age brackets.
Parents who have braved the age appropriate ratings, and also made it through reading the descriptions may now be stumped by a further classification: the kind of game-play their kids may expect.

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Grindr's blog, INTO, published a story yesterday accusing the company's president, Scott Chen, of being anti-marriage equality – and Chen is firing back in the comments of the story.
The knee-jerk outrage appears to have been spawned by a shoddy Facebook translation and a misunderstanding of what Chen was actually saying.
The site clipped a post Chen made on Facebook as proof, but the Chinese language post was mistranslated or misunderstood, he says. Chen posted a link to a different INTO story about Cher Wang, the CEO of smartphone maker HTC, and her donations to anti-LGBTQ groups in Taiwan.
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Chen said in the post that he would boycott HTC products and would never donate to an anti-LGBTQ cause.
But in the beginning of the post, Chen gives several reasons why people could oppose marriage equality, but repeatedly concludes "but that's your own business." It's the opening line that spawned the story by Chen's own site.
"Some people think the marriage is a holy matrimony between a man and a woman. And I think so too. But that's your own business," Chen wrote. "Some people think the purpose of the marriage is to have a child carries your DNA. But again, that's your own business."
"Marriage is personal. Why can't you use your money to help the people suffer from poverty, hunger, war or disasters? Why would you want to spend your money on preventing people who love each other from getting married? There is nothing else more important in your life?"
In his response in the article's comments section, he took the article's author to task for not reaching out for comment before publishing the story.
"This article is unbalanced and misleading," he wrote. "It hurts my feelings and it also hurts INTO's and Grindr's reputation."
Chen explained that he wasn't implying that marriage should only be between a man and a woman, he was expressing that he considers his own marriage to his wife to be holy.
"I am a straight man married to a woman I love and I have two beautiful daughters I love from the marriage. This is how I feel about my marriage," he wrote in the comments section. "Different people have their different feelings about their marriages. You can't deny my feelings about my marriage."
A different commenter directly asked Chen in the comments whether or not he supports marriage equality.
"Yes. Of course! I fight for this. That's why I am here work for Grindr!" he replied.
Grindr was purchased by Chinese gaming corporation Kunlun in 2017.
Request for comment from INTO staff were not returned by publication.


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Interesting coincident with Mercedes models. When you take a closer look to new Mercedes models, you will see one thing in common, the steering wheel. I know it does not sound that important but, Mercedes offers the same steering wheel on these models; B, C (Sedan, Estate, Coupe), E (Sedan, Estate, Coupe, Cabrio), CLS and SLK
The important point is, regardless of the model and the price tag. The steer wheel looks the same, in terms of design and quality. And this is not something really nice to see, when you buy an expensive Mercedes!
Why they do it? In order to save costs, because nobody will ever change decision to purchase a competitor because of the steer wheel. And this save money for Mercedes and sustains the same sales figures ;)
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The Fuji GFX 50S II
Fuji recently made a flurry of new product introductions. All save one serve to tidy up the catalog. That is, they groom and rationalize the product lineup, keeping it logical and balanced and up to date (and no company is better at keeping its lineup logical and balanced than Fuji).
When a manufacturer constructs a product lineup, it has to consider all sorts of things—tiers and prices and overall completeness (that is, there should be neither "holes" in the lineup nor unnecessary duplications). And consumer tastes and expectations, naturally. But the manufacturer also has to deal with time. Individual products don't stay in stasis over time. Their place in the lineup and their suitability to their target niche changes, relative to competitors as well as to the company's own mix of offerings. Their meaning changes, you might say.
The original Fuji GFX 50S is a good case in point. When it came out in September 2016 it was Fuji's first and only 33x44mm ("medium" format or larger-than-FF, hereinafter referred to as large-format digital) offering. Accordingly it was a deluxe product with lavish features like its high-quality interchangeable viewfinder, and it had an initial price, $6,500, that was suitable for all it offered.
As the years went by, however, other Fuji large-format digital cameras followed. First, two years later, the then-price-leading GFX 50R, with its rangefinder-style body shape; then the ceiling-shattering high-megapixel GFX 100 in May of 2019; and most recently the more compact and less expensive "everyman" version, the 100-megapixel GFX 100S, in January of this year. Forward strides.
Weird limbo
Those later introductions gradually relegated the original GFX 50S to a weird sort of limbo in the lineup. Despite a considerable price adjustment, at $5,500 the GFX 50S was only $500 cheaper than the GFX 100S that has double its pixel count, and the GFX 50R, with the same pixel count, is not only newer but $1,000 cheaper—enough to make most of us stop and think. So while the GFX 50S made perfect sense in the lineup in 2016 and 2018, well, the times, as they say, changed.
I don't know sales numbers or popularity firsthand (Yr. Hmbl. Ed. just stands outside the shop window looking in), but Fuji has said that the GFX 50S sold greatly in excess of expectations at first. With the other three models now in the lineup, I imagine that situation probably reversed itself recently. Up till last week you could simply do better with your $5,500 even within Fuji's own lineup, never mind outside competition.
The Fuji GFX 50S II with its new 35–70mm kit lens
Hence the GFX 50S II. The revised model is interesting on its own, but a big part of its purpose is to adjust the position of the model within Fuji's current large-format digital lineup. It's now merely the "SLR-style" body shape version of the 51.4-MP-sensor tier in the line. Gone, along with its status as the one and only, is its position as the top of the line—and thus, gone as well is its deluxe viewfinder (a good reason to keep your GFX 50S if you already have one).
At $4,000 to start with, it's also the cheapest Fuji 33x44mm large-format digital body yet.
Of course, there are many of the upgrades one would expect after five years, and a tasty new feature the original didn't have. Y'all know what it is. But we'll get to that next.
P.S. This is the month that B&H Photo has a lot of closings, starting tomorrow. So if you want to get your name on the list for the new GFX 50S II, better do it today! (You can't pre-order when B&H is closed.)
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Dan: "This 'sort of big' format is just not doing it for me. I don't see what the combination of this sensor and the slowish lenses Fuji has offered can do that differs from a good 35mm sensor and fast lenses. I'll wait for the inevitable introduction of a reasonably priced true medium format camera. A 6x6 sensor at $6k or less would have me at 'hello.'"
Mike replies: Well, I have three comments, for what they're worth: first, we'd need to compare actual cameras and results to see if 33x44 differs, and how much, from various FF offerings. I don't shoot FF and medium format, so I'm not keyed in to the real-world differences enough to speak confidently about them.
Second, it's always been a useful seat-o'-the-pants rule of thumb for me that you have to skip a sensor size to see appreciable differences. (I got that from Ctein, I believe.) Thus, in my experience, FF is not really all that much better than APS-C; I mean, I can see it, but it's a little too subtle to really nourish my enthusiasm. This rule of thumb would predict that 33x44 might also be a little too close to FF. What you have to remember, though, is that Fuji's mainstream line is the X-series, which use APS-C sensors. So in that context, 33x44 is two sizes larger than APS-C and hence the GFX line provides a useful counterpoint to Fuji's other line. For Fuji to make APS-C cameras and 33x44 cameras makes a great deal more sense than for the company to make APS-C cameras and FF cameras. I like their choice, myself.
Third, remember that several very formidable industry players and lots of happy customers are invested (in several senses of that term) in FF, and thus it serves their collective interests to encourage and spread the notion that 33x44 doesn't really have any advantage. The larger format would be vulnerable to such rumors, too, because so few people have direct experience with it. My advice: stay open minded and trust your own eyes, not the popular conventional wisdom which might or might not amount to a subtle sort of brainwashing.
Greg Heins: "The 50S is truly one case where that accessory viewfinder makes the camera. I love it."


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Boston's elite exam schools are not admitting enough students of color to reflect the racial diversity of the public school district, according to a study released Tuesday by several civil rights organizations.
Boston Latin School especially lags in the admission of minority students, while Boston Latin Academy and the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science are faring better, the study found.
The breakdown of minority students admitted to BLS — where federal investigators last year found a climate of racial discrimination and harassment — is 11 percent black, 16 percent Latino, 43 percent white, and 26 percent Asian, according to the study.
Students admitted to Latin Academy are 23 percent black, 26 percent Latino, 31 percent white, and 17 percent Asian. The O'Bryant is set to admit a new group of students that is 35 percent black, 35 percent Latino, 13 percent white, and 15 percent Asian, according to the study.
"No exam school enrolls Latino students at a rate proportional to their enrollment in BPS (41.8 percent)," according to the study, which is titled "A Broken Mirror: Exam School Admissions Fail to Reflect Boston's Diversity." "Only the O'Bryant enrolls black students at a rate proportional to their BPS enrollment (31.8 percent)."
Currently, total enrollment in the nearly 54,000-student district is 31.8 percent black, 41.8 percent Latino, 14.2 percent white, and 8.8 percent Asian, the study said.
The exam schools are elite public schools whose seats are coveted by BPS families intent on sending their children to college. Applicants must take an entrance exam.
The seven-page study was released by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, the ACLU of Massachusetts, the NAACP Boston branch, Massachusetts Advocates for Children, and the Black Educators Alliance of Massachusetts.
Boston School Superintendent Tommy Chang defended the district's efforts to improve diversity at the city's most prestigious schools.
"[The district has taken] unprecedented steps over the past year to provide all students access to the pathways for our exam schools," he said.
In his statement, he cited expanding the number of seats in the Exam School Initiative, a test preparation course, and launching Excellence For All, an enrichment program for fourth-graders at 13 pilot schools that provides the same rigorous instruction offered to students enrolled in the district's Advanced Work classes.
But those efforts have fallen short, according to the civil rights advocates.
"The city has long held out exam schools as a means of upward mobility for children of all backgrounds," Matt Cregor, education project director at the Lawyers' Committee and lead author of the study, said in a statement. "The new admissions data make it very hard to stake that claim, especially at Boston Latin."
Racial tensions have been a flashpoint at Boston Latin since two students went public with allegations of discrimination in January 2016, including an incident in which a black female student was called a racial slur by a male student who also threatened to lynch her.
Then-US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz's office launched an investigation and announced in September that the school's mishandling of the incident was a violation of the Civil Rights Act.
Kim Janey, senior project director at Massachusetts Advocates for Children, referenced Ortiz's investigation in a statement Tuesday.
"As the recent crisis and Department of Justice finding of discrimination at Boston Latin remind us, we fail our children when we ignore issues that deprive them of equal educational opportunity," Janey said.
School officials provided additional information pointing to gains made in the racial makeup of the exam schools.
The number of black and Latino students who accepted entrance into one of the three exam schools next fall as seventh-graders is 341, up from 281 in the current year. The number of black and Latino students accepting entry as ninth-graders for the fall is 324, up from 128 this year, according to the BPS data.
In addition, 62 percent of black students and 68 percent of Latino students who enrolled in the Exam School Initiative last summer were admitted to an exam school, compared to 42 percent and 44 percent, respectively, who did not attend the program, the data shows.
"We look forward to engaging the organizations that put this report together," Chang said. "I know that we have the shared goal of giving all BPS students equitable access to the exam schools."
Meghan E. Irons, Jan Ranson, and Milton J. Valencia of the Globe staff contributed to this report.


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All of the nutrient minerals work together to keep you healthy and feeling good. Here is a summary of the role of selenium, a trace mineral, in your good health.
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|[Infants: 15-20 µg] [Children: 20-55 µg] [Men: 55 µg] [Women: 55 µg] [Pregnant: 60 µg] [Lactating: 70µg]]
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|Severe deficiency may lead to heart disease
|Too Much
|Skin problems including rash; hair loss; irritability; bad breath
|Organ meats, seafood, meat, grains, Brazil nuts, vegetables and fruits
*The lower value is for infants up to 6 mos., higher value is for infants up to a year old.
† The first value is for children 1-3 with the amount increasing until age 18.
Just a trace
Note that the adequate daily intake of selenium is given in micrograms (µg). A microgram is .0001 milligrams (mg), so it is a very small amount. Only a trace of this mineral is needed, but it is nevertheless very necessary to your good health.
Selenium functions in your body as an antioxidant mineral that helps protect you from the damaging effects of free radicals, by helping to block the formation of these unstable and highly reactive molecules. In addition, selenium forms part of the enzyme that activates the thyroid hormone.
Deficiency is rare
Most people get enough selenium, and when deficiency does occur, it is generally associated with digestive disorders such as Crohn's Disease or with poor or restricted diets. Since selenium is found in the soil, the selenium content of fruits and vegetables varies based on the amount of selenium in the soil.
Can be Toxic
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Upper Level
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Ukraine's east on fire: Kharkov demands referendum, Donetsk prosecutor's HQ stormed
Demonstrators in Kharkov, north-east Ukraine, have appealed to Russia to pass to the UN their demands over a referendum on the federalization, while hundreds of protesters in Donetsk stormed a prosecutor's office demanding to free a local "governor".
As Crimea decides on its future in a referendum, Sunday in eastern Ukraine was marked by a fresh series of pro-Russian rallies.
In Kharkov, the country's second-largest city, between 1,500 to 3,000 protesters gathered on the central square demanding a referendum on federalizing Ukraine.
"Our city has been Russian and will remain such albeit within Ukraine. We are ready to live in a single country but on our terms," one of the activists, leader of Civic Platform movement Yury Apukhtin announced from a stage, as cited by Itar-Tass.
After the so-called "popular assembly", the crowd of demonstrators - chanting pro-Russian slogans and carrying a huge 100-meter long tricolor - proceeded to Russia's consulate general where they handed over a letter addressed to President Vladimir Putin.
Protesters, on behalf of Kharkov's assembly, asked Putin to "guarantee their rights and freedoms" and pass to the United Nations their demands regarding a referendum on the federalization, which they plan for April 27, reported Ukrainian National News (UNN) website. Additionally, activists asked to deploy Russian peacekeepers to Kharkov region, adding that they fear for their lives and property.
The demonstrators then marched to the nearby consulate of Poland, protesting against Western interference into Ukrainian affairs.
Kharkov protesters also looted the building housing offices of radical-nationalist organizations, including the Right Sector group, reported Interfax-Ukraine. The activists broke into the building, took out books and nationalist symbols and burnt them.
Donetsk rally demands release of 'people's governor'
Several thousand pro-Russian protesters took to the streets in Donetsk, a large industrial city in eastern Ukraine.
The demonstrators demanded that the parliament, Verkhovna Rada "remove from power the illegitimate Cabinet and cancel its decision," cited Itar-Tass. They also urge the creation of a new coalition government, the composition of which would be agreed with the people. Protesters said it was necessary to go back to the February 21 agreement on the crisis settlement, which was signed by ousted President Viktor Yanukovich and opposition leaders and provides for early parliamentary and presidential elections.
Among other demands is giving Russian language a status of a second official tongue and an investigation of killings of law enforcers and protesters on Kiev's Maidan Square in February.
A crowd of up to 2,000 people reportedly stormed the regional Prosecutor's Office, demanding to free "people's governor" Pavel Gubarev. The political activist – who was spontaneously proclaimed the governor during a demonstration on March 1 - was detained on March 6 on charges of violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine, takeover of power, and seizure of government buildings.
Demonstrators broke into in the building, smashed windows, tore off and threw away the Ukrainian national flag and replaced it with Russian, according to Interfax.
Activists also reportedly entered into the office of a company owned by oligarch Sergey Taruta, the head of the regional administration appointed to the post by Kiev authorities. Protesters stated that they consider the governor illegitimate, reported RIA Novosti. Having not found Taruta in the building, protesters then marched to the regional administration office.
Meanwhile, Kiev sent heavy military hardware to the borders with Russia. Activists in eastern Ukraine regions, including Donetsk and Lugansk, were reportedly blocking trains delivering military equipment from the central and western parts of Ukraine.
Dnepropetrovsk demands action
In the Ukrainian eastern city of Dnepropetrovsk, thousands have marched through the streets denouncing the nationalist coup in Kiev and demanding a referendum on the federalisation of Ukraine. They expressed their support for the residents of Crimea and referendum while calling on people to join Russia and Belarus.
Holding placards reading "Slavic unity!", "Referendum - is better than war," and waving Russian flags the activists chanted "Russia!" and "Berkut."
Speakers in front of the Opera and Ballet theatre in the center of the city urged the participants of the meeting to move from "talk" to "action," citing the examples of Kharkov and Donetsk. Earlier on Sunday, the regional head of Right Sector declared a general mobilization of the local "patriotic" forces due to tensions in Crimea, Ukrainian Pravda reports.
Lugansk holds 'people's referendum'
In Lugansk, several thousand anti-coup activists were conducting a public poll by handing out "ballot papers" of "people's referendum" of Lugansk region. The poll raised questions of trust in the authorities in Kiev, the possibility of joining the Customs Union following the federalization of Ukraine.
One of the questions was about the international bailout: "Do you support reduction of social benefits and cancellation of benefits at the request of the IMF?"
"This is for all an opportunity to officially announce their choice. Now we have run out of 5,000 forms, we are rushing to print more," organizer Irina Gotman told UNIAN.
Odessa stands strong against the coup
Thousands held a Pro-Russian rally in support of Crimea's referendum in Odessa, despite calls from the city's authorities not to participate in meetings. Organizers claim more than 5,000 people joined the demonstration.
The people were chanting "Ukraine and Russia – one country," and "Odessa, be bold, drive the fascists out," as they gathered in the center of the city.
"Odessa is against the coup in Kiev, paid for by the West and Ukrainian oligarchs who remained in power with the help deceitful extremists and militants. We are tired of living in poverty and we are no longer going to tolerate the tyranny of oligarchs and officials," the head of the Resistance movement, Rostislav Bard told the rally.
Nikolaev calls for federalization of Ukraine
In Nikolayev, organizers say more than 5,000 people gathered to also hold a "public referendum" and show their support for Crimea.
The ballot included two simple yes or no questions: "Do you support a federal system of Ukraine," and "Do you support the creation of a federal district Novorossia within Ukraine, including the Nikolayev, Odessa and Kherson regions?"


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So…You're a Sinner?
"Either sin must drown or the soul burn." – Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance
I am so thankful that God is in the business of restoring lives from the ravages and tragedy of sin. I am so thankful that in Christ, we have been and are being transformed into new creatures who have been delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God's dear Son. I am so grateful for the Son who has allowed us entrance through the narrow gate leading to life and for the Holy Spirit's ministry that trains our feet to walk confidently on paths of righteousness for His name's sake according to the Father's plan. I am so appreciative of the church of God that shines as light in this dark world, providing salt to those who are perishing.
God's purpose in the church has more than once been described as a hospital for the spiritually sick. By God's design, a healthy church becomes an organism used for the purpose of healing broken lives. I have seen first hand when a clear presentation of the gospel during a sermon leads several to the altars in a call to personal repentance from sin and commitment to the Lord. I have also seen a strong church surround themselves in love around an individual or family that in a moment of weakness has given in to the destructive temptation of sin restoring their lives and dignity through the truth of scripture. I have watched as an individual who is filthy and stained from the world wanders into the local church and is able to find refuge and forgiveness amongst God's redeemed people. These are always exciting moments for me as a believer and warms my heart as a pastor.
Unfortunately, I have also seen the church in error concerning their approach to sin and the gospel. I have seen where we have overreacted with unloving, uncaring self-righteousness towards someone who cries out for mercy over their confessed sin. I have also seen where we have failed to react at all towards sin, shrugging it off as something insignificant. I have watched as sin tore a church apart because it wasn't handled properly by leadership. I have also watched as pastors fail to clearly address sin out of fear of hurting someone's feelings leading to the possibility of losing their audience.
Needless to say, congregations as well as individuals can be confused on how to respond to sin in a person's life. In fact, we as believers can be down right perplexed and baffled concerning what scripture says about sin. It seems to be a growing trend where, in this day and age, more and more followers of Christ are sidestepping the issue of sin because of the confusion surrounding this topic.
While I do not intend in this post to give an exhaustive study on hamartiology, I do want to simply remind ourselves of something that should be a very basic, cardinal equation but for some reason has become muddy and difficult.
The Gospel Equation
If we were to write out the gospel as a simple mathematical equation, we may choose to write it out as follows:
Sin + Jesus Christ = Good News
Now, I know some of you are probably saying to yourselves that this is too simplistic, what about this or what about that? For the purpose of this post, this equation works. Let me explain.
Mankind, through our common ancestor, Adam, are inherently sinful. Through his transgression, sin entered the world causing all to be sinners punishable by death.
"Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned…" Romans 5:12 (NASB95)
Conversely, through one man, the final Adam, Jesus Christ, mankind has the opportunity to be forgiven of all sin and cleansed of all unrighteousness.
"So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men. For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous." Romans 5:18-19 (NASB95)
This then leads us to the end result of Good News (gospel).
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, 'but the righteous man shall live by faith.'" Romans 1:16-17 (NASB95)
This is a simple equation, I know, but I truly believe in the simplicity of the gospel and for our purposes here, it is sufficient enough to prove my point. So, what happens when we take out part of the equation?
Sin +
Jesus Christ = Good News
Sin + Jesus Christ = Good News
If Christ is removed or if sin is removed, the end result is no longer good news. We are either left with sin alone with no way of having it atoned for in our lives or we are left with Jesus, who is good but would be worthless to us as a Savior because we wouldn't even realize we need a Savior.
Furthermore, if it is sin that is removed either by being falsely represented or downplayed or God forbid, ignored completely, then we have nothing by which we are motivated to turn from. Even more so, even if we were to have an inner sense of wrong but there isn't a clear beacon (think lighthouse) warning us of the dangerous surf from which to navigate away from, then how will we know if we are truly moving away from it?
"Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God; because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin." Romans 3:19-20 (NASB95)
"Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law." Romans 3:31 (NASB95)
Put in other words, how can we be saved if we cannot repent? And how can we repent if we aren't warned of the dangers of sin? And how will we know what sin is unless God's righteous law is established? False or ambiguous teaching that leaves us in the fog concerning sin short circuits salvation by obstructing the path of repentance. Therefore, the biblical preaching and teaching of sin is critically important to get right, as Jesus said,
"…unless you repent, you will all likewise perish." Luke 13:3 (NASB95)
On the other end of the equation, if it is Christ who is removed, through a denial of His deity, His sinlessness, His atonement, His resurrection, etc., then our equation is obviously just as broken since without Christ we are all still in our sins no matter how accurately or pointedly our sins are explained to us.
"and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins." 1 Corinthians 15:17 (NASB95)
So, for the gospel to truly be good news, both values of the equation must be properly represented in the fullness of their meaning. I believe we understand this concerning the characteristics of Jesus but often miss it concerning sin. Let's look more closely at how I believe we miss an accurate representation of sin by substituting other approaches.
Four Approaches that Lead to Error
While we can definitely err on the side of overreacting and irrationally responding to sin which could hinder the provision of forgiveness through Christ, in this article I wish to focus on the opposite response – that of minimizing and discrediting the doctrine of sin and it's consequences.
As I sat pondering the issue of sin, I identified four philosophies that seem to be prevalent today in the society of the church (I will probably think of more once this is published which always seems to happen). All four of these views lead to error by offering a misrepresentation of the gospel of Jesus Christ because they short circuit the process of salvation. If we give in to these false representations of sin, then we are truly failing to love sinners by warning them of the wrath to come against all ungodliness and sin. (see Who Are You to Judge?)
1. Ignore the Sin
First off is the approach of simply ignoring the sin. This way of dealing with sin is to not deal with it at all. This method says that even though everyone knows about the pink elephant in the room, no one is willing to address it. Sometimes it is inspired out of fear of causing disunity, sometimes it is inspired out of fear of hypocrisy, sometimes it is inspired out of fear of personal sin being exposed, and sometimes it is inspired by pride and self-righteousness that believe it or not, can overtake an entire congregation of people. So, therefore, sin is overlooked and transgression is disregarded. But just because the issue is avoided, doesn't mean it goes away. Actually it becomes more difficult to deal with the longer it is avoided.
Paul dealt with this method in the Corinthian church.
"It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father's wife. You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst. For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present." 1 Corinthians 5:1-3 (NASB95)
Those in the church at Corinth had chosen to ignore a severely gross sin that was being reported among them. They had chosen to deal with it by not dealing with it – just ignore it and it will go away. But Paul shows us the way. Even though he was not there in person, he told them how he was going to deal with it when he finally arrives. In the following verses, he explains how he will turn the sinners over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh so that his soul will be saved in the day of the Lord. Paul had a firm grasp on the big picture. Judgment day is coming therefore, we must always be on short accounts with sin.
2. Call Sin Good
Secondly, another error that is often made is when we attempt to call sin something good. In the world we live in, we have really lost our moral compass where we call good, evil and evil, good.
This method is similar to when someone decides to go to the bar, loses their self-control, ends up drunk which leads to further misconduct, wakes up the next day sick, and later justifies it as being a "good time." Or someone decides to sleep around as a young adult claiming that it is "good" to test the waters before marriage. Or two gay partners are joined in the eyes of the law in what they call marriage and the world celebrates it as "good." Or innocent babies are aborted and farmed for their body parts or stem cells in the name of personal rights and believe it or not, some people call it "good." Or a spouse chooses to have an affair with someone and justifies it as something that is "good" because they are in love. On and on it goes.
All of this is wearying to the Lord. This should be nothing of a surprise for us who are readers of the bible but the nation of Israel was also guilty of this same approach to life and sin resulting in the discipline of the Lord.
"You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied Him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and He delights in them,' or, 'Where is the God of justice?' Malachi 2:17 (NASB95)
Just because sin is a tempting pleasure for a season doesn't necessarily make it good. In fact, we know this because of the ultimate penalty that comes with sin, namely, death. It may feel good or seem right for a period of time, but eventually the bill has to be paid for the bad seed that was bought and sown.
Furthermore, just because God hasn't brought about His justice against your sin doesn't mean He approves of it. It just simply means He is being patient towards you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
"'Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien and do not fear Me,' says the LORD of hosts." Malachi 3:5 (NASB95)
3. Change the Meaning of Sin
Thirdly and somewhat similar to approach number two, is the effort to change the meaning of certain sins through false interpretation or citing them to be irrelevant to modern culture. The theory is that those sins that have been explicitly mentioned in the scriptures are somehow different in meaning from those of the same name today. Because there has been a distance of 2000 plus years between the modern times and the Old and New Testaments, we just can't be sure of the proper definitions of those words and their use in that culture. This is the argument that some have used and are continuing to use concerning homosexuality. They argue that the term homosexual in Paul's epoch of time meant something different than our modern English usage of the word. In fact, I heard this similar argument used recently concerning divorce; that it doesn't carry the same meaning and context today as it did in the Hebrew language therefore we shouldn't condemn it or call it sin. For obvious reasons, this is false.
This approach to sin reminds me of a few of the verses in Romans chapter 1.
"Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man…For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever…." Romans 1:22-23, 25 (NASB95)
When it comes to sin, mankind cannot afford to be wise in their own eyes by reinterpreting scripture to mean something it doesn't mean. When we find this approach to sin being practiced, we find along with it self-worship and lies.
4. Minimize the Consequences of Sin
The fourth approach goes along with the third which is the redefinition, diminishment, or complete removal of the consequences of sin. Maybe one of the worst misrepresentations of sin is when we fail to lay out the consequences of sin. The destructiveness of sin must never be underestimated.
"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life." Galatians 6:7-8 (NASB95)
The Correct Response
The common thread which weaves itself through all of these approaches causing them to be in error is that they deny a true biblical representation of what sin is and does. Furthermore, these are in error because they attempt to diminish the holiness of God and avoid the justification for sinners through Jesus Christ. While there are probably multiples of other ways in which sin is mishandled, I believe there is really only one right way to handle it biblically. Once again, this may be seen as oversimplified and non-academic, but the only way in which the Lord is truly glorified as the holy, holy, holy God that He is, where His Son is eternally magnified as our Savior, where sin is given it's proper place, and the equation of the gospel adds up correctly is when we magnify the sin and exalt the Savior.
Step one is to magnify sin. When I say magnify in the context of sin, I am not saying glorify. If I were, I would be guilty of approach number two above where sin is called something that is good or even thinking it is something beautiful, such as sex outside of marriage. It is not…it is ugly. But what I do mean by magnify sin, is that we expose it for what it truly is. It is not making a little mistake, it is not committing a little white lie, it is not a boo-boo, and it is not to be ignored. It is missing the mark of God's call to His holy, perfect righteousness and it sends people to hell. Sin carries with it the utmost highest level of seriousness and calls us to the most extreme position of sobriety in dealing with it. To do otherwise would be spiritual suicide and failure to warn others about it would be unloving.
Step two is to exalt the Savior. As tempting, evil, dangerous, and powerfully corrupting as sin is, Jesus has overwhelmingly broken the curse of sin and death forever. This cannot be overstated, overemphasized, or repeated often enough. Jesus is the One who was prophesied about, was worshiped by shepherds and angels at His birth, was followed by multitudes, was rejected by His own kinsmen, was deceived by one of His own disciples, was numbered with the transgressors, was beaten and abused, was innocent yet condemned, was offered up as our Passover Lamb, was crucified and buried, was laid in a new tomb, was revived after three days, was hailed as victorious over principalities and powers, was the One who made a public display of them having triumphed over them, was ascended to the right hand of the Father, was the One who declared it is finished, and because He lives so I too shall live eternally free from corruption to sin and death in a new heaven and new earth where there is no longer any mourning or crying or pain for the first things have passed away. He is our exalted Savior.
Be Gracious to Me, a Sinner
So…you're a sinner? Me too and I hate it. It breaks my heart. But I am overjoyed and comforted by the fact that God has demonstrated His love for me that while I was yet in my sins, Christ died for me. I would like to leave you with the first fourteen verses of Psalm 51 that are near and dear to my heart.
"Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; according to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against You, You only, I have sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You are justified when You speak and blameless when You judge.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me. Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, and in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom. Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness, let the bones which You have broken rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will be converted to You.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation; then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.
Psalm 51:1-14 (NASB95)
A psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba


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Building counter-propagation artificial neural network (CPANN) models and self-organising maps (SOM)
The software has been developed for building counter-propagation artificial neural network (CPANN) models and self-organising maps (SOM).
For the modelling, the user provides descriptor values and target/endpoint values as input for the program. Then, new CPANN models can be built using the software. The user can then obtain predicted values for the endpoints and view Kohonen top-map which shows either 2D structures of the compounds, classes or ID numbers of the compounds. The response surface of the model or CPANN weight levels can be visualized as 2D map. Usin the developed models, predictions can be made also for compounds with unknown endpoint values. The software can be used as a read-across tool by inspecting the structures of the compounds and the endpoint values for compounds with known experimental values on the same neuron or similar neurons, which can also be identified by the software.


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SCT Series: Justice Kennedy and the Roberts Court
So, is the common wisdom correct? Is Justice Kennedy the new O'Connor? If last Term's voting patterns are any indication, it appears he just may be. Of the 69 full, formal decisions issued by the Court last term, Justice Kennedy voted with the majority in 61 of them. In the majority opinions he authored himself, he showed himself to be firmly on the ideological fence: of the nine majority opinions he wrote, four generated liberal outcomes, four generated conservative outcomes, and 1 was ideologically uncodable (for a list of these cases and information about how the ideological coding was done, see here).
More importantly, Justice Kennedy also was in the majority in almost all of the Term's most significant cases. Measuring the importance of contemporary cases is tricky; however, by examining media coverage, counting amicus briefs, and exercising some editorial judgment, I compiled a list of the 16 most "important cases" decided by the Court last Term (the list, and more information about how I developed it, is available in Appendix B here). Justice Kennedy was in the majority in 15 - all but one - of these cases.
Justice Kennedy also wrote the majority opinion in a startling 25 percent (4) of these cases. No other justice wrote more than 2 majority opinions in this set of cases. (In the Term's cases as a whole, the workload was much more evenly divided, with each of the full-term justices writing between 8 and 13 percent of the opinions). Additionally, each of the important cases in which Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion was itself a close case, decided by either a 5 to 4 or 6 to 3 vote. Finally, the outcomes in these narrowly decided, important cases were - once again - ideologically divided: Justice Kennedy's majority opinions in important cases generated 2 conservative results; one liberal result; and one case, United Latin American Citizens v. Perry (the Texas gerrymandering case), which was ideologically uncodable because the two main holdings of the case reached ideologically opposing results.
Voting records from one Term cannot, of course, tell us very much about the nature of a Court or the role individual justices will play on it. But if the Roberts Court's first Term does turn out to be indicative of the future, Justice Kennedy will indeed by the one to watch.


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Analytical homogenization estimates for the transient and steady-state response of elasto-viscoplastic polycrystals
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In this work, we make use of analytical homogenization methods to develop multiscale models for the macroscopic response and field statistics of elasto-viscoplastic polycrystals in the transient and steady-state regimes.
First, we develop homogenization models for the steady-state response of porous polycrystals composed of large randomly distributed pores in a fine-grained polycrystalline matrix, with grains described by crystal viscoplasticity. The model is then used to estimate the effects of microstructure on the macroscopic response of sea ice. The key finding here is that the brine-air inclusions induce macroscopic compressibility, which is significantly affected by the porosity, pore geometry, and crystallographic texture of polycrystalline ice. Finally, we obtain homogenization estimates for the transient response of polycrystals with Maxwell-type elasto-viscoplastic grains, exhibiting discrete relaxation spectra (short memory). However, their interaction leads to a continuous relaxation spectrum for the macroscopic response (long memory). To capture the elasto-viscoplastic interaction of the grains, and the associated long-memory effects, we develop differential variational estimates for elasto-viscoplastic polycrystals. We find that the long-memory effects increase with the anisotropy and nonlinearity of the viscoplastic response of the grains and that these effects are correlated with rapid changes in the inter- and intra-granular field fluctuations.
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Date: Saturday, December 14, 2019 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Please join us for our monthly meeting! This will be an open meeting to share birth stories, ask questions, and get support from each other. We hope to see you there! We will be in the small conference room.