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How do Christians in support of gay marriage interpret anti-gay Bible verses?
I don't want to spark a debate, but I'm curious how Christians in support of gay marriage interpret seemingly anti-gay Bible verses? See the following:
If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Don't you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people-none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine ...
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There's also an argument from "my kingdom is not part of this world", where "this world" means the political system, that Christians shouldn't care about the secular, legal definition of marriage one way or the other. But I suspect this question is specifically about same-sex marriage within the Church, so that's a different issue. – TRiG Sep 23 '13 at 18:56
I would first like to thank you for asking in a polite and constructive way! The following answer is based on my experience as a member of a congregation which is accepting of QUILTBAG people - a category which includes the minister - and their loving relationships; not everyone is in favour of same-sex marriage, but we've talked about it quite a bit. I have affection and respect for people who disagree, and I hope that we can all get along as we learn about this issue in good faith.
There are two sides to the answer. You asked about one of them, which is how to deal with the apparently anti-gay passages in Scripture. The other one, which I'll get to as well because it is closely related, is the positive case for affirming homosexual people and relationships on the same level as heterosexual ones. (The title of your question asks about marriage, and to get all the way over there one must do a bit more than just say that homosexual behaviour or activity isn't that bad.)
As far as the "clobber verses" go, the usual answer is to distinguish between what it is that homosexual people do today, and what is being condemned in those passages. Today, the idea of "same-sex marriage" is proposed to be exactly the same as opposite-sex marriage, except that the two people in the marriage are the same sex. In all other respects - love, mutual trust, shared commitment, and so on - it is meant to be identical. But this is indeed a new idea, and is not characteristic of the way that relationships between people of the same sex were construed in the ancient world. In a system where the institution of the family hinges on the dominant presence of the paterfamilias, typical male homosexual relationships ended up being socially marginal (no inheritance is going on here) and unequal (the penetrator being treated differently from the penetrated - the latter was shameful because he had degraded himself to the level of a woman). The point is that what's being condemned may be the unequal, abusive, lust-filled sort of relationship that would have come to Paul's original readers' minds when they thought about men in sexual relationships with other men.
Accompanying textual criticism has tried to understand just what Paul might have meant by his neologism arsenokoites, for example. This is the Greek word that is often translated as "homosexuals" or "sodomites" in the two NT passages you quote. It seems that there's definitely a sense of men (arsenes) going to bed/having sex (koite) but some have argued that he was upset about paedophiles, or procuring male prostitutes, or something else, in addition to the option I presented in the paragraph above. Lesbians do not seem to be treated here.
There is also a strand of interpretation that says that Paul did mean all homosexual people, but that he was wrong - and equally, that the Law of Moses did intend to condemn everyone who participated in a male homosexual act to death, but that it was wrong to do so. This differs from what I've mentioned so far because it doesn't even attempt to recover anything from Paul's words, instead only dismissing them as the product of a flawed culture. (In so doing, some obvious other problems are created.) This view is probably quite common but it is far from universal.
Now at last, the positive case is about believing that the love that exists between a couple is the same love regardless of their sex, and that their love is of divine origin. In other words,
God, who knows the human heart, testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us; and in cleansing their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us. Acts 15:8-9 (NRSV)
Peter was speaking there about whether Gentiles could become Christians, but he is also making a general point about the testimony of the Spirit. We Gentiles can be saved because
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28 (NRSV)
Recall that for Paul, these three distinctions were all about social caste. There is still such a thing as male and female identity, but what has vanished is the associated power relationship and privilege that denies proper love. This goes right back to the divergent ideas about homosexuality I spoke about above. Christians who support same-sex marriage find that it fits better with passages like these than with the clobber verses. Moreover, the ideas expressed here by Peter and Paul are felt to be closer to the heart of the Gospel. While this is very far from an open-and-shut case - there's a ton of stuff to consider about natural law, reproduction, and so on - it is the central pillar of the argument.
James TJames T
Wow, do you see any parallels with Eunuchs "so born" – Rick Jul 23 '13 at 12:42
@Rick, that sounds like the seed of a good question that you could ask here or on BH.SE (depending on the exact question) – James T Jul 23 '13 at 13:45
@Rick I find that passage (in Mt 19) quite mysterious and I don't have an answer at this time, sorry! – James T Jul 23 '13 at 13:47
@Fofole, you can ask on this site, or maybe on the Biblical Hermeneutics site if you are more interested in textual than doctrinal issues. Do check the existing Q&A first, though, to see what's been asked and answered before, as well as the guidance for both sites. – James T Dec 11 '13 at 14:10
Interesting response. So, in this interpretation, "anti-gay" means "anti-woman". – Double U Feb 25 '15 at 14:11
To very briefly summarize one point of view:
Old testament: These are understood as a purity law that was meant for Israel, alongside the other "abominations" like eating shellfish.
New testament: These are references to the adult male / young boy relationships that were rampant at the time in Greek and Roman culture, and understanding them to mean all homosexual relationships is misunderstanding their meaning and intent.
There's a lot more detail and discussion about interpretation out there, but these two points seem to be the crux of the matter. Another thing to note, is that the verses you quote have nothing at all to say about female homosexual relationships.+
Another entirely separate point of view follows from classic liberal democratic values - marriage is no longer a religious institution, but rather a civic one, and the rights, status, and responsibilities that go with it should not restricted based on any religions standards. Provided that the arrangement is entered into willingly and uncoercedly, the age, gender, sex, religion or race of either participant should not be taken into account.
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"Nothing at all to say about female homosexual relationships" -- except for this part: "or practice homosexuality"... – Matt Jul 23 '13 at 4:28
The NIV has this note about that phrase: The words "men who have sex with men" translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts. – Eclipse Jul 23 '13 at 5:49
There are many interpretations of the so-called clobber passages that are LGBT-affirming. I will give just one set of interpretations of these passages below:
The story of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19) is about gang rape, not about monogamous same sex relationships.
The 2 verses in Leviticus (Leviticus 18:22, 20:13) seem to be in the context of Molech worship, which would indicate that what is being condemned is ritual same-sex sex, again not monogamous same sex relationships.
The Romans passage (Romans 1:26-27) is describing idolatry leading to same-sex sexual rituals, not homosexuality in general (read the entire chapter, not just verses 26-27).
Then we have the problem of translating the terms arsenkoitai and malakoi in 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10. No one really knows what arsenkoitai means because Paul coined the term. Many LGBT-affirming Christians believe this is harking back to the Leviticus passages and thus refers to those participating in the same-sex sexual rituals.
If you accept these interpretations, monogamous same-sex relationships are never condemned in Scripture.
LGBT-affirming Christians also like to point out that Jesus never explicitly condemned homosexuals. Also, the Bible only has 6 passages which seem to condemn homosexualit, yet has dozens, if not hundreds, of condemnations against other sins like adultery, fornication, greed, etc. If homosexuality was as big a sin as many Christians say it is, why would Jesus have never mentioned it, and why would it be mentioned so relatively few times in the Bible?
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I appreciate how uncontroversially this question was asked. Personally, I know that homosexuality is a sin. However, one of the things the Bible tells us we are not to judge one another. Who are we to judge when we are not free from sin ourselves. In a modern time especially we cannot kill someone for being homosexual. That would be a hate crime, and illegal. The Bible warns us against homosexuality. It tells us that it is a sin, and punishable by God. However, Jesus tells us in Matthew 22:39 that the second most important commandment is to "love your neighbor as yourself." So this is what affects my interpretation. While homosexuality is a sin, it is not any different from the sin that we have all committed and continue to commit. We are to love our neighbors as ourselves and most of us would not kill ourselves or even punish ourselves, so why would we do that to our neighbors. We are to love everyone, regardless of their sin. When the time comes they, just like ourselves, will have to answer to God for their sins. Until that day, let them live in peace. We cannot pass judgement on them because of their sin.
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Sure, but we also shouldn't assist them in committing sin. You'll recall that God is VERY vengeful when it comes to those who would lead His sheep astray. – Captain Kenpachi Aug 5 '13 at 8:18
Which Bible verses support adult-only baptism?
How can Christians reconcile the request to prohibit same-sex marriage and the lawfulness of homosexuality itself?
How would Reformed Christians deal with homosexual marriage of individuals prior to their conversion to Christianity?
Are there any churches that claim to be Sola Sciptura that also are pro gay-marriage?
Does the Orthodox Church accept Gay marriage and why?
How do denominations that ordain women at the same time justify not ordaining homosexuals?
Was this (allegedly gay) marriage in a Catholic Church valid?
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#1 ChaosLex
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This is not a joke. Supposedly, an announcement is expected in the next month. LOL
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Maybe I'm forgetting, but didn't the XFL allow even more head-to-head contact than the NFL did at the time? Yeah, that'll go over well today.
If the XFL keeps the few things that worked for them (custom nameplates, fun for the players, innovations in the broadcast of games) and does away with what wouldn't fly today, and didn't benefit them anyway (overt sexual exploitation, too much WWE influence), they could lay the groundwork for something. They also would need to, IMO, capitalize where the NFL is lacking. A few rules tweaks maybe. Refine a replay system. Common sense rule for what is a catch. Common sense rules for hits to the head. Not throwing a flag when a pass rusher trying to bat down a pass grazes the side of the helmet with a fingernail.
The biggest downfall of the XFL though was simply just bad football by semi-pro players. If they can't fix that, it won't matter what else they do. One way to improve that would be to have two a day camps again. More contact practices. Not advocating for Oklahoma drills, but O-lineman need to be able learn blocking technique. Use the two a days to teach heads up proper tackling. That way the semi-pro players become more polished and the product looks better. But thats a long game and it will take more than a year or two to get there.
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What they REALLY need to do is be prepared to lose a lot of money in the short term. Get solid ownership in place willing to spend a lot, and use that money AFL/USFL-style to sign quality college talent away from the NFL.
If they want to build something long-term, they can even establish some kind of training academy (with the eventual plan of breaking it off by team) as an alternative to college football for prospects who want to get paid.
The problem is the same problem that the original XFL had, which is that they didn't have a real long-term plan. They built a league based around buzzwords and perception, and when people tuned in the product wasn't up to those standards, so they were a miserable failure.
Basically, they were the Trump Steaks of professional sports.
Before I think that this would have a chance of working, I would need to see if Vince McMahon actually learned that lesson. They will couch this in terms of "real" football and the flag and respect and other concepts that are meaningless for what they are actually supposed to be creating. If they don't have the better foundation, though, they will get the same outcome, because nobody wants to watch bad football when they are being told that it's good.
@DJ_McCann
At a time when one of the issues I hear with the NFL is over-saturation (which I agree) I don't know that it's ripe for a new football league.
But the first and foremost thing they have to do if they want a chance is get a good TV deal. And that doesn't necessarily mean they will make a lot of money off of it, but it needs to be on a major network with prime broadcast windows for the exposure. They also have to choose their markets for franchises wisely.
They had a fantastic TV deal last time. It didn't help. In fact, it probably hurt them more than anything else, because once the ratings started to fall off NBC panicked and the whole situation became a national joke.
What they need this time is a way to make sure people can watch games. Maybe that means a weekly nationally-televised game on a broadcast or major cable channel to go with streaming. Or maybe they just steam everything.
They will need a decent product that isn't over-hyped and eyeballs to watch it.
Also need to have major sites offer a fantasy league platform around it. That wasn't as huge a deal back then as it is these days.
#8 mweb08
I'm not interested.
If I were to get into another pro football league, which I'm not going to, it would probably be the Arena League with the team here and all.
#9 Pedro Cerrano
Pass on this. It failed once because the product was bad. It will fail again.
#10 BSLMikeRandall
If it get's major network exposure I may tune in the first week, or see how the build up to it goes. If it has the makings of a shit show, or if they can't get on anything better than like Spike TV, no thanks.
It would probably need to be something similar to what NBC did with the NHL a while back, where it wasn't a set broadcast rights fee, but rather an arrangement where the two sides shared whatever revenues came from the broadcasts. I think that sort of arrangement helps ensure the league and its franchises are putting the best product out there that they can, rather than being able to simply count on a certain amount of money incoming no matter what.
#12 NewMarketSean
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I think streaming is the way to go.
That said, this either won't take off or it'll fail like it did last time.
I just think people are generally fed up with football...or are at the very least they're not looking for more football to watch.
I never had friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?
I would like to see this as an experimental league as far as what the NFL could change for the better.
The football will be bad, but try having a reveloutionary, faster replay challenge system. Try not throwing flags for incidental contact. Don't have illegal contact on WRs and DBs. Just blatant holds and PIs. Come up with a different, common sense "catch" rule and see if it works.
Maybe even try a 25 second play clock. Limit the ways the clock can stop in game. Advertise all over the field but limit TV timeouts. If they can get game time down to 2.5 hours or less, even for a bad product, it might be an easier watch.
#14 tennOsfan
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I gotta find out how to become an official for it!
I work a lot of local semi pro games. It gets rough at times. I white hatted a women's "national championship" game last year between Houston and D.C. where I ejected a total of three players, should've ejected more, and ended the game with a minute to go to keep it from degenerating into a brawl. One of the players I ejected was DeAndre Hopkins' sister.
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BSLMikeRandall, on 18 Dec 2017 - 07:23, said:
Unless the NFL is subsidizing them, why would they want to be little more than a laboratory for the NFL? I'd be all for them trying to make the game better for their own sake, but if your purpose of going into business is just to help out your behemoth competitor with new ideas, you probably don't have much chance.
Unless the NFL is subsidizing them, why would they want to be little more than a laboratory for their behemoth competitor? I'd be all for them trying to make the game better for their own sake, but if your purpose of going into business is just to help out your behemoth competitor with new ideas, you probably don't have much chance.
I wasn't clear there. They shouldn't do these things for the NFL. But they should take what people don't like about the NFL and try alternatives themselves. The college game has some different rules than the NFL, so it wouldn't be unheard of to do things different without making a mockery of the sport.
Gotcha. I think that was somewhat the approach they took the first time around. But that's been like 15 years ago, so obviously a lot has changed. Like back then people thought the NFL babied QBs too much, so the XFL was going to let you hit them just like any other player. Now we're mostly used to QBs having different rules, and when you see the caliber of play and interest in the games for someone like Green Bay when Rodgers was out, it's easier to understand why. (except Brady....he can get his ass driven into the ground all day as far as I'm concerned).
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I'd add a couple things:
- Choose your markets wisely. For the most part, I'd avoid places that already have an NFL team. Maybe poll and see how it would go over in places like St. Louis, San Diego, and (soon) Oakland that just lost NFL teams. Target other cities that you think would be ripe for an NFL team that haven't had the chance yet, like San Antonio. Try college football cities like Birmingham, Omaha and Columbus and see if stocking those teams with ex Alabama/Auburn, Nebraska and OSU players, respectively, works. And go ahead and start off by going beyond the borders with Toronto and Mexico City (assuming the right ownership group is there). After a while, if you start off successful, look at London.
- You want as many household names as you can get. That might mean taking a chance on some players that have checkered pasts. Obviously there are some bridges you don't want to cross so you have to be very careful, or it will backfire and you will turn the public off. Greg Hardy is someone you want to stay away from, but if guys like Ray Rice and Johnny Manziel still want to play, I might take a flier on them. And then of course there is Kaepernick....he will bring you both positive and negative attention, but it will be lots of attention either way.
I'd make the tickets absurdly cheap - $5. Fill the stadiums, and it'll look better on TV, which is where the money is to be made.
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TAQA's targeted capex for 2018 is US$572 million (2.1 billion dirhams).
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October 5, 2010 • 2010: Las Vegas
I must profess: Journalism pros turn 'prof' after years in the industry
By Billy O'Keefe
By Michelle Phillips
Tired of crashing on deadline? Thinking of leaving journalism? Ever consider teaching?
Jerry Ceppos, dean of the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, was a panelist at Monday's program on the ethical dilemmas associated with social media. (NIKKI VILLORIA	/ The Working Press)
Three journalists who traded the newsroom for a classroom offer some advice.
Jerry Ceppos, dean of the journalism school at the University of Nevada, Reno, said he served on the accreditation boards for so many journalism schools that he felt as though he was "on the outside looking in."
At the same time, he had helped many young journalists at his paper, the San Jose Mercury News, where he was executive editor.
"I had a lot of fun doing it at the paper, so I thought I could try doing it full time," he said. So Ceppos slowly eased into an academic career, beginning in 1996 with part-time teaching positions.
Academia came with its own challenges. Ceppos said the politics of campus life, such as promotions and tenure, took some getting used to.
However, Ceppos said he found the transition relatively easy and was excited to be doing something different. He added that teaching gives him a chance to learn about social media from his students, "the one part of journalism that the younger generation knows more about."
Ceppos recommended starting an academic career slowly, such as teaching part time; he said most search committees are looking for candidates who are committed to teaching.
Deb Wenger, an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi, said she ran into "a case of newsroom burnout."
"I got to a crisis point in my life when I had to ask, 'What else is there?'" she said. After working in TV news for 17 years, she took the opportunity to teach multimedia journalism at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2002.
During her transition, though, Wenger struggled with boredom. She often sat in her office with nothing to do – no emails to answer, no phones to pick up and no stories to crank out.
"I didn't have to juggle things around," she said, and that was her biggest adjustment.
Wenger added that many journalism programs lack a clear direction for students and that that can put a strain on the faculty. But she said the stress can also be energizing.
"You can't be innovative unless it gets messy," she said. She tries to "embrace the chaos."
Neil Ralston, vice president for campus chapter affairs at the Society of Professional Journalists, said he got to a point in his career when he thought he had to make a choice: become an editor, go into academia or leave journalism altogether.
"I saw the editors at my paper, and realized that they didn't get much reward for what they were doing," said Ralston, an assistant journalism professor at Western Kentucky University. That realization, he said, convinced him to avoid that route.
And it was around that time that his alma mater, Truman State University (then Northeast Missouri State University), asked him to apply for a teaching position. The rest just seemed to fall into place, he said, and he moved into academia in 1989 from the San Antonio Light.
The transition was not necessarily easy, though.
"Journalists should remember that they need to grade all the assignments," Ralston said. He said he had made the mistake of assigning his students so much work that he could barely keep up with grading his own classes.
He said journalists should be prepared to work hard for the first few years.
Wenger said the opportunities for journalists in academia are increasing, especially in the realm of multimedia and online content. She encouraged journalists to get a master's degree and some experience in online production.
Strangely, Ralston said the thing he missed most about professional journalism was also what he hated most: the deadline pressure. Although he said it used to kill him as a reporter, he missed the adrenaline rush that came with it.
That rush doesn't exist much in academia, he said.
Other journalists turned teachers agree.
"If there's a big story, it kills me to not be directing the coverage," Ceppos said.
The rewards of academia also tend to come in unexpected places.
Wenger said that because she had to find a way to teach the secrets of the trade, she felt as though she was constantly learning. As a result, she thinks she would be a better journalist if she went back into the field.
Ralston compared the rewards of teaching to that of practicing journalism. He said he likes to see his students put into practice what he teaches them in class.
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Amy Wetnight's Northview High School art students paint a mural on a wall of the Coffee Grounds in Terre Haute. Nick Karn, Callie Froderman, Curt Vanatti, Felicia Smith and Travis Fields participated.
On Sunday, Mary Lou Howard and Garlinda Mathews looked through the many photos The Brazil Times is giving away at the Clay County 4-H Fair. The newspaper's booth is located in the north end of the AMAX building.


The Bulls shocked the Seminoles in 2009, can they do it again?
HS: In 2009 USF won six straight games against competition in the state of Florida leading up to the colossal upset of Florida State. Before last week's game against FAMU, the Bulls were 0-6 in their last six match-ups against teams from the Sunshine State. What is the mindset of USF entering the contest in Tallahassee? What buzzwords are resonating within the program this season?
JO: It's been a tough few days for USF. On Sunday morning, one of the team's former standouts—defensive lineman Elkino Watson—was killed in a stabbing incident at a night club in Tampa's Ybor City. Though his playing career ended last season, many players and coaches still kept in contact. It kind of came as a shock to everyone, obviously. So, I think the mindset against the 'Noles will be to play hard in remembrance of him. This program has had plenty of downs over the last three or four years. As coach Willie Taggart likes to say, you have to "show up and show out" against the best of the best. I think just being able to stay competitive against one of the top teams in the country would certainly help that healing process and give them confidence for the coming weeks.
HS: In USF's opener against FAMU the Bulls held the Rattlers to a mere 12 yards on the ground. How does defensive coordinator Tom Allen prepare for an imposing run threat in halfback Dalvin Cook?
JO: To be honest, I didn't realize they played that well before you pointed it out. But what folks have to understand is it came against a soup can of a football team. The real test will obviously come this week in stopping Cook and slowing down Everett Golson. Allen has transitioned this unit into the 4-2-5 system he brought with him from Ole Miss and, so far, players are loving it. The scheme is much simpler than what they the 3-4 used last year out of necessity because of depth issues. But it's going to be a tough, tough challenge. Even Taggart admitted during his weekly teleconference Monday that they would need to pray every night and day before kickoff. I can't blame him.
HS: Willie Taggart has completely reconstructed his offense for this season. The head coach is looking for more big plays in his remodeled "fast" and "exciting" attack. It would seem that USF accomplished just that with 556 yards against FAMU. Is there a chance that USF sustains this amount of offensive success against the other school from Tallahassee? Why or why not?
JO: The Bulls finally made strides on offense against the Rattlers and that's saying a lot. In Taggart's first two years, the West Coast, power-run style he was running just couldn't cut it. Heck, USF scored 11 offensive touchdowns in all of 2013. It was bad. But this new spread-style scheme seems to fit the athletes much better. Quinton Flowers is a young quarterback, making just his third start against FSU. Marlon Mack came out of nowhere as a freshman last season to have one of the best campaigns a running back has ever had at USF. There are also guys like receiver Rodney Adams and tight end Kano Dillon, who provide the Bulls with some nice threats downfield. But they haven't faced a defense like FSU. It's going to be hard to sustain what they did in Week 1.
HS: Florida State was perfect in the red zone going six-for-six, with five touchdowns and a field goal against Texas State. FAMU came away with points, albeit a field goal, in its only red zone opportunity against USF. Who will the Bulls look to when it comes to interrupting the 'Noles rhythm in the red zone when it matters most?
JO: I think defensive lineman Bruce Hector and middle linebacker Auggie Sanchez are going to be key if USF has a chance to keep the 'Noles out of the end zone. Hector, a redshirt freshman, busted onto the scene against FAMU with two sacks. Sanchez is a concerted fullback, but in his second year on defense, he's really become the unit's leader and his performance on the field has been exemplary. He had a team-high 10 tackles on Saturday.
HS: Finally, give me a score prediction and bold prediction for this game.
JO: If USF can keep this game within two scores, I'll be impressed. Though there are some guys on the roster that FSU heavily recruited—defensive back Tajee Fullwood, Flowers—I believe there is still a massive gap between the two programs. This isn't the same team that stunned FSU in 2009. But I still think they can keep it close early. I mean, Texas State turned some heads in the first half of Saturday's opener, right? FSU comes out on top, 38-13.


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look at how to calculate the CF list format for the square root of an integer.
take 20 . map evalFrac . convergents . cfListSqrtN $ 234 which will give the first twenty approximations to the square root of 234.
Wikepedia has a very good reference and explanation of the iterative formulae for the CF list of an integer. An implementation in Haskell is shown below.
The above code is slightly different to the referenced formulae in that it handles the degenerate case of the input being a perfect square.
It can be shown that all CF lists for the square roots of integers are infinite and periodic.
Both functions are essentially the same – it's just a matter of where the 'no longer taking happens' . e.g.
As can be seen the list repeats on twice the first term i.e at 16. Which to use? It's just a question of whether you want a finite but implicitly infinite list or an explicitly infinite list. In what follows I'll use the explicit form and just take however many terms are needed.
My post Continued Fractions Continued described how to generate the convergents from a CFList – and I've copied it in here.
As can be seen the differences (second term of tuple) alternate +ve and -ve.
I had originally planned this post to be about Pells Equation and its solution in Haskell using CFs and convergents. However, central to solving Pell is the expression of the square root of an integer as a CF. And, given my previous posts about calculating square roots I thought this technique warranted its own small post. So, the next post in this series on CFs will explore Pells equation and provide a neat Haskell implementation of its solution. All this code is in GitHub.


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Age is a strong predictor of spontaneous myocardial infarction in medically managed patients
Renato D Lopes (Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Clinical Research, Durham, USA) and others report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology that certain baseline characteristics, such as age, can be used to predict the risk of spontaneous myocardial infarction in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome who have not undergone revascularisation.
Lopes et al report that medically managed patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome are at increased risk of subsequent spontaneous myocardial infarction compared with those who have received revascularisation. They add: "A study observed spontaneous myocardial infarction is perceived by patients as being equally important as death or stroke." However, they note that the "frequency and predictors of such events in this setting have not been delineated". Therefore, the authors comment: "We sought to comprehensively characterise patients with spontaneous myocardial infarction events during long-term follow-up through 30 months to develop a prediction model for time to first spontaneous myocardial infarction event."
Using data from the TRILOGY ACS (Targeted antiplatelet inhibition to clarify the optimal strategy to medically manage acute coronary syndrome), which compared the use of aspirin plus prasugrel (Efient, Daiichi Sankyo) with aspirin plus clopidogrel (Plavix, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi Aventis) for the medical management of acute coronary syndromes, Lopes et al assessed the time to first spontaneous myocardial infarction during 30 months of follow-up and used these results to develop a prediction model. They report that among 9,294 patients in the study, 695 spontaneous myocardial infarction events occurred over a median 17 months which they say represented "94% of adjudicated myocardial infarction events" (737 events in total). "Our results add to a growing body of evidence indicating that spontaneous myocardial infarction is a common and clinically important event following acute coronary syndrome," Lopes et al comment. They add that a registry study of 8,582 patients who underwent successful percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with a drug-eluting stent reported an incidence of spontaneous myocardial infarction of 4.1% among the 4,205 patients who presented with acute coronary syndrome—"much lower than the incidence than we observed in our analysis".
The authors state: "In general, patients who developed subsequent myocardial infarction were older, had more comorbidities, presented more commonly with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI)—rather than unstable angina—and received more medications at discharge, suggesting a perceived higher risk of cardiovascular events." However, the final multivariable prediction model for a first spontaneous myocardial infarction event included 17 variables (with age, NSTEMI, and diabetes being the top three variables). According to Lopes et al, the model's ability to distinguish patients who had an event from those who did not was good, with a Harrell's c index of 0.732. "Meaning that the probability of concordance between predicted and observed response is 73.2%," they explain.
Lopes et al conclude: "Our findings provide unique insights into the long-term natural history of medically managed unstable angina/NSTEMI patients and may help inform clinical practice and the design of clinical trials evaluating novel acute coronary syndromes for this under-studied populatuion."
Lopes told Cardiovascular News: "We were able to construct a new predictive model for physicians that provides real-time and individualised time-varying risk estimates on the basis of key variables. This is a well-developed, very good predictive model, not just for patients who are at high risk of a heart attack, but particularly for low- and intermediate-risk patients. Now it is just a question of familiarising physicians with the tool."
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A case against Atlanta Falcons cornerback Christopher Owens was dismissed this morning in Gwinnett County, Ga.
D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Latia Terry, the mother of the couple's 9-month-old child, has decided not to pursue the matter. Terry had alleged that Owens trashed the apartment he was renting for her and the child, and destroyed a significant amount of her personal belongings. Owens' camp claimed Terry was seeking revenge because he no longer had interest in a relationship with her.
Per Ledbetter, the initial reports were out of character for Owens, who was the Falcons man of the year in 2010.


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August 23, 2017 Arts & Culture | Performing Arts Feature
The Fly Honey Show grows into a Chicago institution
The performing-arts showcase doubles as a celebratory creative outlet for marginalized people.
By Ashley Ray-Harris @arayyay
The case of The Fly Honey Show
Megan Lee Miller / harnesses by Emma Alamo
The Fly Honey Show
Through 9/2: Thu-Sat 10:30 PM
Den Theatre
1329-1333 N. Milwaukee
theflyhoneyshow.com
It's part cabaret, part variety event, and part burlesque. Its overarching themes are body positivity, self-love, and acceptance: "Everybody, no matter what your body" is its mantra. Its cast is made up of a rotating assembly of professional and nonprofessional performers, dancers, and singers. And since its debut in 2009, The Fly Honey Show has moved from an intimate loft space to, as of this summer, the 150-seat Den Theatre. This year's run is the production's most ambitious season yet.
Erin Kilmurray, the show's creator, director, and choreographer, sees the expansion as a necessary step. "Moving to the Den feels like growth," she says. "We were eager to be able to build a show that allowed our creative and design teams to flex and try something new and to keep pushing the boundaries of what it means to literally create a community and space like this hive from the ground up.
"We've built this show in multiple venues prior to the Den, and we've needed each of those spaces," Kilmurray continues. "We've also added another weekend to our run, and all of these moves together, quite simply, allow us to tell more stories to more people."
The Fly Honey Show is a break from traditional theater norms, but this year's move to the Den creates the impression of a more polished production. The thrust-stage seating expands the once-cramped spacing without threatening any of the show's intimacy. Honeycombs hang from the ceiling. Performers pop up in a variety of unexpected illuminated spaces to either sing, twerk, or sit on the laps of audience members.
Still, the raw honesty and openness of previous editions remains consistent. As the show begins, dancers move throughout the audience, encouraging participation and enthusiastic consent. They twerk in the aisles and commune with each other, never allowing the presence of the audience to temper what feels like a joyous private party. Eventually, the hosts make their way to the stage, calling things to order. Rules are laid out plainly at the beginning: don't touch the performers and feel free to say no if you're uncomfortable.
This year's costumes feature an array of leather harnesses, straps, and handcuffs, all designed by local artist Emma Alamo. In the show's first act, a leather-clad Fly Honey member carries a sign introducing "The Sweet Tease," asking the audience to both dominate and submit to the varied performances.
There isn't just sexuality on display: local comic Sarah Sherman leads a hilarious meditative chant, and there's an energetic musical duet between singer Lindsay Charles (of the Cell Phones) and performer Bethany Thomas. The Fly Honey Show attempts to channel the catharsis that occurs when marginalized people are finally given the spotlight.
Quinn Tsan has been performing in The Fly Honey Show for six years. "This was my first community of friends," she said in a group interview before opening night. "The first time that I ever performed music was at Fly Honey, so I feel very kindred to the spirit of the show."
"The feeling of a cabaret is kind of there with the celebration and sex and entertainment," Tsan continues. "Except it's turning on its head any association we have with typical standards of beauty. It still does the job that the cabaret is meant to do, but it does it in a way that's super contemporary and acknowledging of diversity without pigeonholing itself."
The Fly Honey Show does pays homage to traditional burlesque and cabaret, but the production's focus on minority voices and its inclusion of a variety of body types is nontraditional. The performance is also more interactive than the typical burlesque experience. "Personally, I don't call it a burlesque show," says Darling Squire, who has performed in The Fly Honey Show for five years. "It's cabaret, but not just any cabaret either. It's not for kids, but there's still a family component to it. The show really reaches out to the community and tries to bring everyone together. We want to celebrate our differences and the variety of life, not focus on the things that keep us separate. Let's celebrate the things that make up our own individual selves."
Individuality is at the core of The Fly Honey Show's rotating cast—the production is a rare chance to hear some of the most creative voices in Chicago share their insecurities and hopes. "When I found The Fly Honey Show, I was in a dark place personally, in terms of self-confidence and body image," says five-year performer Marta Jean Evans. "It kind of brought me back to life a little bit. I think the community and the ability for me to be free and to really be who I am—I'm loud, I'm raucous, I'm offensive, and I'm sexual—it allows me to be myself unapologetically."
During the first weekend of the show's run, writer and actor Bea Cordelia performed a poem and dance piece with local dancer Andy Slavin. The work explores the difficulties of finding love as a trans woman; routinely mundane relationship activities, like meeting her partner's parents and a first kiss, are explored with a sincerity and bluntness that mainstream culture rarely allows trans performers. Cordelia's performance represents The Fly Honey Show at its best—a space for lesser-heard voices to be sexy, messy, funny, and honest.
Yet Kilmurray sees an opportunity to expand the show to even more communities—as long as it's done with the same care that went into building the production in Chicago. "We would love to bring The Fly Honey Show to other cities," she says, "and to do that, it's essential to build partnerships with local organizations and existing performance communities that speak to the mission of this work."
But at its core, The Fly Honey Show is a Chicago institution. "I want this to be, like, the Moulin Rouge of Chicago," Squire says. "I want this to be something that is a Chicago staple. There's a lot of work that goes into that, but I feel like that would be a great thing." v
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This game came in a generic Sega wood grain panel cabinet (sticker sideart was optional). These were technically all dedicated cabinets, although the lack of any painted art makes the machines easy to switch and still retain originality (a lot of early Sega titles came in this same cabinet). The game boards themselves were Sega G80 System compatible (as were several other Sega titles before "Zaxxon"), and will work in any G80 cabinet. The monitor is mounted vertically, as were most early Sega titles. The monitor bezel sported the standard game instructions and the marquee showed a '005' logo and a shining flashlight.
005 was released in October 1981 in Japan by Sega. It was then exported in USA by Gremlin Industries and released there in December 1981.
005 (pronounced 'double O five'), is based around a pseudo 'James Bond' theme. Instead of secret 'agent 007' you get to play secret 'agent 005' (which allowed Sega to save money by not licensing the 'James Bond' character for this game).
Original 005 PCBs are very rare today, as most of them were converted to "Monster Bash" when it came out.
Dwayne Richard holds the record for this game with 1,500,000 points on July 25, 1982.
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Guard knocked out = 200 points.
No stun gas cannister = 500 points.
One stun gas cannister = 500 points.
Two stun gas cannisters = 500 points.
Balloon Bomb = 200 points.
Enemy helicopter = 5,000+ points.
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Now in possession of two attache cases, 005 is pursued by an enemy helicopter. Avoiding hedges, shrubbery, descending helicopter bombs, and ascending balloon bombs, points are scored as 005 shoots balloon bombs, shrubbery or the enemy helicopter. The game ends if 005 is caught, or his helicopter is shot down a total of three times (operator selectable).
A ColecoVision port was planned but never released.


There is lots of overhead, even if it is not a waste of time. Some of it is good because it promotes trust, teamwork, communication, and accountability...but it is overhead nonetheless.
> overhead is a killer!
> > I am constantly updating Rally. We not only have our scrum team meetings, we have Scrum of Scrums every day. Sprint reviews, retros, and planning take an entire day.
> > I can go on but I have release planning to attend!
> the team and its goals.


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June to September 2021
The residency at The New Art Gallery Walsall takes its title from the grid reference for the Gallery, for the residency I embarked on walks across Walsall and its surrounding areas using the Ordnance Survey's Explorer paper map series. I then recorded each journey through analogue photography and drawing.
Returning to the Gallery to work in the Artists' Studio, l set about creating a drawing in response to my walks.
Walking the West Midlands
February to March 2021
A series of chalkboard drawings based on long distance walks taken around the West Midlands. This series explores the weight, distance and time it takes to go for a long distance walk, and how this relates to the drawing material, in this case chalk. The chalk was weighed at the start and end of the drawings and the work was complete once (x) km of chalk was used. These works incorporate imagery of the types of things that passed below my feet as I walked in the West Midlands.
Walking Logs
February to June 2021
A collection of 35mm films which document walks taken in 2021. These form part of an ongoing body of work being developed into ordnance survey mapping.
2021: List
© 2021 by Drawer


The effects of violent video game play on hostility and support for violence are unclear. Previous studies have shown increases, decreases or no effect at all. At the time of the first study (2007) it was unclear if attitudes and opinions within a game persisted after game play. Also unknown was how long any such effects would last, and if they would be affected by using embodied versus conventional controls in the game. 3 experiments were run on university students to investigate these points. It was hypothesised that violent play would increase hostility and support for violence, and that these effects would be short term and increased by the use of embodied controls. Study 1 investigated whether attitudes and opinions persisted immediately after game play by having participants play either a nonviolent or violent version of a computer game and then measuring their support for violence. The hypothesis was tentatively supported in males, who showed higher support for violence in the violent version group. Study 2 aimed to pilot a behavioural measure of hostility to be used in Study 3 by having participants watch either a non-violent (non-violent group) or violent clip (violent group) before completing the behavioural measure and the violence questionnaire used in Study 1. The hypothesis was not well supported in that the attitudinal scores were almost equal. However, the expected trend occurred in the behavioural measure. Study 3 investigated how long the effects on hostility and support for violence would last, and if they were affected by the use of embodied versus conventional controls. Participants played a non-violent and violent game on either the Playstation 2 or Nintendo Wii. Violent play did not increase support for violence and hostile decision making, it marginally decreased them. Also, the participants' responses did not completely return to baseline after 24 hours. Lastly, embodied controls were not found to have a greater effect on support for violence. Therefore, the 3 predictions of this study were not supported. Overall, the central tenet that video games can affect players' attitudes, opinions, cognition and behaviour post play and that this will be especially true in games wherein an in-game character mimics the physical actions of the player is not well supported.
Koloko, M. 2010. The persistence of attitudes following violent and non-violent video game play using conventional versus embodied controls. University of Cape Town.


We didn't get any bills or Netflix envelopes yesterday, so the mail sat on the counter until this evening. After opening the Netflix envelopes (gotta find out what happened after the 4th season of CSI: Miami), I checked the rest out. There, in white "US Official Business only" glory, was a letter. From the Census Bureau. Telling me that I was going to get my census forms next week, and that I needed to fill them out.
The Census Bureau spent about a dollar printing a custom letter for my address, stuffing it into an envelope, and mailing it, just to tell me that my census form was coming soon. Wow, that's 100 million tax dollars down the drain. Thanks, China, for funding that.
That said, I certainly support the "I am an American" racial choice, and will be checking it for the entire Packrat family. I can't tell which racial groups are in my family, why should the government care?


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Q: Eval & AppSettings in the same expression? This is my mark up :
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Value='<%#Eval("MLTFQuestionId","{0}_1") %>' GroupName='<%#Eval("MLTFQuestionId")%>'
Visible='<%# (int)Eval("MLTFAnswerTypeId") == 1 %>'
class="GroupSelection" />

I want the number "1" to be driven from appsettings.
This obviously wont work
Visible='<%# (int)Eval("MLTFAnswerTypeId") == $ AppSettings: SingleSelect %>

Is it possible to have AppSettings and Eval in the same expression ?

A: why dont you try out like this
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