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Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. Share Your Faith Products
It was carved with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces, a man's face toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were carved on all the house all around. From the ground to above the entrance cherubim and palm trees were carved, as well as on the wall of the nave. The doorposts of the nave were square; as for the front of the sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other. The altar was of wood, three cubits high and its length two cubits; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood And he said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD." The nave and the sanctuary each had a double door. Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other. Also there were carved on them, on the doors of the nave, cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside. There were latticed windows and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch; thus were the side chambers of the house and the thresholds.
So he made two doors of olive wood, and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees. So also he made for the entrance of the nave four-sided doorposts of olive wood and two doors of cypress wood; the two leaves of the one door turned on pivots, and the two leaves of the other door turned on pivots. He carved on it cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the engraved work.
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Share Your Faith Products
The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month. Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations." ... Christian Canvas Art
What does the Bible say about creativity? The very first verse of Scripture actually describes a creative act as "God created the heavens and the earth." Additionally, from Genesis, the Bible says, "God created man in his own image." This could be interpreted as we are creators just as God created us. We create relationships, art, homes, cities, nations and many more things including inventions even yet to be known! The creative spirit is certainly favored by God and our fellow man. Learn more from the collection of Bible verses about creativity below! Christian Canvas Art
1 Then the LORD said to Moses, 2 "See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills— 4 to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, 5 to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts. 6 Moreover, I have appointed Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, to help him. Also I have given ability to all the skilled workers to make everything I have commanded you: Bible Verse Wall Art
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ... Share Your Faith Products
and in the cutting of stones for settings, and in the carving of wood, that he may work in all kinds of craftsmanship. "And behold, I Myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are skillful I have put skill, that they may make all that I have commanded you: the tent of meeting, and the ark of testimony, and the mercy seat upon it, and all the furniture of the tent, the table also and its utensils, and the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering also with all its utensils, and the laver and its stand, Bible Verse Wall Art
We are faced with a startling opportunity. We may think that we can't walk this Christian path, but Peter tells us that we have all of the resources that we need in his "very great and precious promises". When our circumstances cause insecurities and thoughts of despair to dance around our minds, God gives us a way out. We can escape this corruption by knowing God through Jesus Christ. How can we know God? By taking Him at His word! God has already provided for us and He is looking for people who will have the courage to replace their current thinking with God's faithfulness. Are you looking for the thoughts of God? The Bible is God's life support to us as we encounter a world of difficulty. Bible Verse Wall Art
Until the adoption of Christianity by Constantine Christian art derived its style and much of its iconography from popular Roman art, but from this point grand Christian buildings built under imperial patronage brought a need for Christian versions of Roman elite and official art, of which mosaics in churches in Rome are the most prominent surviving examples. Christian art was caught up in, but did not originate, the shift in style from the classical tradition inherited from Ancient Greek art to a less realist and otherworldly hieratic style, the start of gothic art. Christian Canvas Art
Early Christian art survives from dates near the origins of Christianity. The oldest Christian sculptures are from sarcophagi, dating to the beginning of the 2nd century. The largest groups of Early Christian paintings come from the tombs in the Catacombs of Rome, and show the evolution of the depiction of Jesus, a process not complete until the 6th century, since when the conventional appearance of Jesus in art has remained remarkably consistent. Bible Verse Wall Art
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar. The fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm. The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth. Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge. ... Christian Gifts
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. ...
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Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him. Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. ...
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord. The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house. And he made for the house windows with recessed frames. He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around. ... Christian Canvas Art
"You shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel, six of their names on the one stone and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, according to their birth. "As a jeweler engraves a signet, you shall engrave the two stones according to the names of the sons of Israel; you shall set them in filigree settings of gold.read more.
Solomon made all the furniture which was in the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence; and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold; and the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of gold. Christian Gifts
Until the adoption of Christianity by Constantine Christian art derived its style and much of its iconography from popular Roman art, but from this point grand Christian buildings built under imperial patronage brought a need for Christian versions of Roman elite and official art, of which mosaics in churches in Rome are the most prominent surviving examples. Christian art was caught up in, but did not originate, the shift in style from the classical tradition inherited from Ancient Greek art to a less realist and otherworldly hieratic style, the start of gothic art. Christian Gifts
He made 300 shields of beaten gold, using three minas of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold. There were six steps to the throne and a round top to the throne at its rear, and arms on each side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms. Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom. All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None was of silver; it was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. Share Your Faith Products
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. ... Christian Gifts
and in the cutting of stones for settings, and in the carving of wood, that he may work in all kinds of craftsmanship. "And behold, I Myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are skillful I have put skill, that they may make all that I have commanded you: the tent of meeting, and the ark of testimony, and the mercy seat upon it, and all the furniture of the tent, the table also and its utensils, and the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering also with all its utensils, and the laver and its stand, the woven garments as well, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, with which to carry on their priesthood; the anointing oil also, and the fragrant incense for the holy place, they are to make them according to all that I have commanded you." The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "But as for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'You shall surely observe My sabbaths; for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. 'Therefore you are to observe the sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people. Share Your Faith Products
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Christian Canvas Art
Then Moses said to the people of Israel, "See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft. And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan. ...
As a secular, non-sectarian, universal notion of art arose in 19th-century Western Europe, ancient and Medieval Christian art began to be collected for art appreciation rather than worship, while contemporary Christian art was considered marginal. Occasionally, secular artists treated Christian themes (Bouguereau, Manet) — but only rarely was a Christian artist included in the historical canon (such as Rouault or Stanley Spencer). However many modern artists such as Eric Gill, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Jacob Epstein, Elizabeth Frink and Graham Sutherland have produced well-known works of art for churches.[1] Salvador Dali is an artist who had also produced notable and popular artworks with Christian themes.[2] Contemporary artists such as Makoto Fujimura have had significant influence both in sacred and secular arts. Other notable artists include Larry D. Alexander and John August Swanson. Some writers, such as Gregory Wolfe, see this as part of a rebirth of Christian humanism.[3] Christian Canvas Art
"Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. "This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. "You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. Christian Canvas Art
It was carved with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces, a man's face toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were carved on all the house all around. From the ground to above the entrance cherubim and palm trees were carved, as well as on the wall of the nave. The doorposts of the nave were square; as for the front of the sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other. The altar was of wood, three cubits high and its length two cubits; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood And he said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD." The nave and the sanctuary each had a double door. Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other. Also there were carved on them, on the doors of the nave, cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside. There were latticed windows and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch; thus were the side chambers of the house and the thresholds. Bible Verse Wall Art
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ... Share Your Faith Products
The porch which was in front of the house was as long as the width of the house, twenty cubits, and the height 120; and inside he overlaid it with pure gold. He overlaid the main room with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains. Further, he adorned the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.read more. Bible Verse Wall Art


In my last post, I wrote about my research into my newly-discovered Panek ancestry. To briefly recap, the marriage record for my great-great-great-grandparents, Michał Zieliński and Antonina Ciećwierz, stated that Michał was the son of Piotr Zieliński and Marianna Panek. Piotr and Marianna's marriage record is indexed in Geneteka, and states that Marianna was the daughter of Helena Panek, with no father's name given. Although this suggests that Helena was an unwed mother, I believe she was actually Helena (née Święcicka) Panek, wife of Tomasz Panek, of Kuznocin in Sochaczew County. The fact that Helena was married to Tomasz Panek at the time of Marianna's birth does not necessarily mean that Tomasz was Marianna's father, however, so the question remains as to whether he was named on Marianna's marriage record and merely omitted from the index, or whether the marriage record itself states that Marianna's father is unknown. Of course, the actual marriage record is needed here and may shed some light on the situation, and I have requested a copy from the diocesan archive in Łowicz. However, since I requested a large number of records, and since the archive is closed from now until the end of July, it might take some time before I have Marianna's marriage record in my eager little hands. Since patience is not always my virtue, I turned to DNA to see if there was evidence to prove or disprove my hypothesis that Marianna Panek was the daughter of Tomasz Panek and Helena Święcicka.
Considering the distant time frame of the research problem, it's better to analyze my mother's DNA match list rather than my own, since she is one generation closer to these elusive Panek/Święcicki ancestors than I am. I searched her matches at Ancestry for the surname Panek, and came up with 3 distant cousins with this surname in their family trees. Of these matches, two had family trees which were locked, and one had a public tree. I could request access to the locked trees, but I have no reason to suspect anything earth-shattering there, because the matches are only 10 centimorgans (cM, a unit of genetic distance) across 2 segments, and 7 cM across 1 segment, respectively. Such small segments suggest a very distant match at best, or perhaps even a matching segment that is identical by chance (a false positive). The public family tree of the third Panek match revealed that his Panek family was from Oblekon, Świętokrzyszkie province, which isn't especially close to Sochaczew, where my Panek family lived. Panek is not an uncommon surname, and moreover, that match, too, was only about 10 cM, so it won't be an easy task to identify our common ancestors.
The fact that Mom doesn't yet have any strong matches to Panek cousins does not in itself offer evidence regarding the question of whether Tomasz Panek was Marianna's father. It's entirely possible that Tomasz Panek could have been Marianna's father, but that Mom simply did not inherit the right bit of DNA to match another of Tomasz Panek's descendants. It's also entirely possible that a match will show up some day as more people test. At the moment, the vast majority of Mom's 117 DNA matches at the level of 4th cousins or closer, appear to be people living in North America who have traced their ancestry back to Poland, rather than Poles living in Poland today. DNA testing is still unaffordable for many Poles, and Ancestry DNA is not well known in Poland, so there are very few Poles in their database. As DNA testing becomes more affordable, hopefully the situation will improve and more Poles will become interested in testing with Ancestry, increasing the likelihood that I'll find cousins from Poland in my match list. However, at this point, the search for cousins from the Panek family didn't pan out, so it was time to try a different angle.
I searched Mom's matches for the surname Święcicki with much more promising results. A fourth-cousin match immediately popped up to "D.K.," as well as one 5th-8th cousin match to "J.G." Both of them have public trees, and based on these trees, D.K. and J.G. are related to each other as well as to Mom. Note that diacritics matter when searching DNA matches in Ancestry, as a search for "Święcicki" will produce different results than a search for "Swiecicki." If you try to get around this problem by checking the box to include similar surnames, all hell breaks loose. In the case of this search, Mom's list suddenly jumped from two matches to 68 matches, many of whom had surnames that weren't remotely close to Święcicki/Swiecicki. Rather than wading through all these matches, I chose to focus on just the first two Święcicki matches see if I could determine how we might be related.
Both J.G. and D.K. trace their ancestry back to the Gontarek families of Minnesota. Their family trees document several siblings — Michał, Wiktoria, Ludwik, Rozalia, Bronisława, and Lena — who emigrated from Russian Poland to locations in Steele, Le Sueur, and Waseca Counties, west and south of the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The fact that they settled in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area was immediately interesting to me, since previous research led to me discover that this area was the destination for other ancestral cousins from Sochaczew County. Although the family trees are well-documented through census records, it's not immediately clear what evidence they have for the names of the parents of these siblings, since the trees are a little light on vital records. Nonetheless, both family trees report that these immigrants were all children of Stanisław Gontarek and Marianna Święcicka. Furthermore, J.G.'s tree states that Marianna Święcicka was the daughter of Piotr Świecicki and Anna, maiden name unknown, and that she died in Kuznocin on 9 December 1890, and in her gallery, I found a note indicating that she hired a professional genealogist in Poland to find this information.
By this point I was sitting on the edge of my chair. Kuznocin was exactly where my Święcicki ancestors were from, so this could not possibly be a mere coincidence. A quick search in Geneteka revealed the births of most of these siblings in Sochaczew and nearby parishes, including Młodzieszyn, where the most recent generations of my Polish family lived (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Geneteka search results for births of children born to couples with surnames "Gontarek" and "Sw,*" searching as a pair in Sochaczew and indexed parishes within a 15-kilometer radius.
In translation from Russian, the record states that Bronisława was born in Młodzieszyn on 3 August 1885 at noon. Her father was described as Stanisław Gontarek, a laborer residing in the village of Młodzieszyn, age 59. The text pertaining to her mother, underlined in red, states that the child Bronisława was born "….of his [Stanisław's] lawful wife, Marianna née Swięcicka, age forty-eight." Marianna's age suggests that she was born circa 1837, and if that was the case, then she would have been about 21 at the time of Julianna Gontarek's birth. This is quite reasonable, and consistent with the hypothesis that all the children found in our Geneteka search belong to the same couple.
Since Marianna was reported to be age 56 when she died in 1890, she was probably born circa 1834. Lo, and behold, there are two matching birth records in Geneteka for Marianna Święcicka or Swięcicka in 1835, recorded in Sochaczew which is the correct parish for the village of Kuznocin (Figure 4).
Figure 4: Search result for birth of Marianna Swiecicka, born between 1830 and 1840 in Sochaczew parish.
The two records shown here are the civil record and the church record. It's possible to tell which is which because the "i" infodot in the "Remarks" column indicates that the second record was taken from the Latin church book, so the first record must be the Polish-language civil transcript. Both versions are only available from the diocesan archive in Łowicz, so it looks like I'll be placing another order with them. Marianna's mother's maiden name is recorded as Janiak, which is new information for me, and presumably for my DNA matches as well.
Another search in Geneteka quickly produced Piotr and Anna's marriage records — and revealed how I am related to D.K. and J.G. (Figure 5).
Figure 5: Geneteka search result for marriage of Piotr Swięcicki and Anna Janiak.
Piotr was the son of Stanisław and Urszula Święcicki, my putative 6x-great-grandparents!
I say "putative," because at this point I still don't have a single shred of direct documentary evidence that I have any ancestors with the Swięcicki/Święcicki surname. I only have a theory based on indirect evidence that my documented ancestor, Helena Panek, was born Helena Swięcicka, daughter of Stanisław and Urszula. Up until this point, one could argue that there might still be an unmarried Helena Panek who was actually my ancestor, but who was not found in the indexes in Geneteka because those indexes are incomplete and don't cover every year in every parish in the vicinity of Sochaczew. However, the discovery of this DNA evidence certainly adds substantial weight to my theory. Based on the paper trail, both J.G. and D.K. are 5th cousins once removed to my mother, and the amount of DNA shared by my mother with each of them supports this relationship. Due to the random nature of DNA inheritance through recombination, D.K. and my mother share 40 cM of DNA over 2 segments, while J.G. and my mother share only a single segment of 8.6 cM. However, both of these values fall within the normal range of centimorgans shared by people who are 5th cousins once removed. According to Blaine Bettinger's handy Shared cM Project chart, people who are 5th cousins once removed might share anywhere from 0 to 79 cM of DNA, with an average of 21 cM shared DNA.
Of course, the DNA evidence in itself is not "proof" of my descent from Stanisław and Urszula Swięcicki. It's true that DNA doesn't lie, but in cases such as this, where DNA evidence is used to confirm a relationship that's further back than parent-child, DNA evidence is still open to interpretation. The possibility exists that Mom (and I) might be related to D.K. and J.G. through some other set of common ancestors. However, one can invoke the law of parsimony here and conclude that Stanisław and Urszula are, indeed, our common ancestors because that explanation is the simplest, given the substantial body of indirect documentary evidence that's accumulated. To put it another way, when you hear hoofbeats, expect horses, not zebras.
I just love it when the pieces fall into place like this. I just heard back yesterday from both J.G. and D.K., and I'm delighted to have an opportunity to share all this new information with them. And of course, I still can't say whether Tomasz Panek was Marianna's father or not, so that remains a mystery for now. Hmmm….. maybe I'll go and reexamine those DNA matches with the surname Panek in their family trees. This may be my lucky day!
1 "Akta stanu cywilnego parafii rzymskokatolickiej w Młodzieszynie" (Młodzieszyn, Sochaczew, Mazowieckie, Poland), Księga urodzeń 1885-1895, 1885, no. 105, birth record for Bronisława Gontarek, 3 August 1885, accessed as browsable images, Polskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne, Metryki.genealodzy.pl (http://metryki.genealodzy.pl : 20 July 2018).
2"Akta stanu cywilnego parafii rzymskokatolickiej w Młodzieszynie" (Młodzieszyn, Sochaczew, Mazowieckie, Poland), Księga zgonów 1889-1901, 1890, no. 79, death record for Marianna Gontarek, 9 December 1890, accessed as browsable images, Polskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne, Metryki.genealodzy.pl (http://metryki.genealodzy.pl : 20 July 2018).


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What Does the Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Mean for Florida?
On Behalf of Tom Saunders | Jul 10, 2015 | Family Law
The United States Supreme Court, in a landmark and historical decision, ruled recently that the Constitution ensures the right of same-sex couples to marry.
The decision was a close one, 5-4, meaning that 5 Justices agreed with the decision and 4 disagreed. In its Opinion, The Court answered two questions: 1) Does the 14th Amendment require States to license a marriage between two people of the same sex? And 2) Does the 14th Amendment require a State to recognize a same-sex marriage licensed and performed in another state which doesn't grant that right?
The answers to these questions were yes, and yes. The majority ruled that the 14th Amendment equal protection and due process clauses guarantee same-sex marriage rights and that marriage is a fundamental right. Practically speaking, this means that states are required to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples; that marriages among same-sex couples shall have the same legal effect as heterosexual marriage; and that every state in the Union is required to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, just as they would recognize heterosexual marriages performed in other states.
The decision was made in response to marriage restrictions in four states: Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Michigan, whose cases had been consolidated under the name Obergefell v. Hodges. Specifically, the Court overturned those states' constitutional amendments that provided that only marriage between "one man and one woman" was valid and to be recognized. The Court also overturned state restrictions which prohibited the recognition of same-sex marriages performed in other states. The High Court's decision in Obergefell overturned those restrictions and opened up marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide.
Those four states were among the few that still limited marriage to heterosexuals. Before the Obergefell decision, 37 states as well as the District of Columbia allowed same-sex marriage, either due to a court ruling or the state's action.
The effects of the decision are profound. It provides that same-sex marriages that have already been performed must be recognized in every state in the Union, including, of course, Florida. In fact, at this point, the only way to, effectively, undo what the Court has done would be to actually amend the U.S. Constitution.
The decision also requires all states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. While stories of Clerks of Court refusing to issue marriage licenses have made the news in the past, these persons who continue to refuse to issue said licenses based on religious or other beliefs may only do so if they resign from their position.
Justice Kennedy, who wrote for the Majority, explained the Majority's position as follows:
"The right to marry is fundamental as a matter of history and tradition, but rights come not from ancient sources…. They rise, too, from a better informed understanding of how constitutional imperatives define a liberty that remains urgent in our own era. Many who deem same-sex marriage to be wrong reach that conclusion based on decent and honorable religious or philosophical premises, and neither they nor their beliefs are disparaged here. But when that sincere, personal opposition becomes enacted law and public policy, the necessary consequence is to put the imprimatur of the State itself on an exclusion that soon demeans or stigmatizes those whose own liberty is then denied." Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. ___ (2015).
Of course, the legalization of same-sex marriage also means legalization of same-sex divorce. If you have a family law problem, call the skilled attorneys at Saunders Law Group. We are here to help.

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Q: Ebnf – Is this an LL(1) grammar? I found the following EBNF on wikipedia, describing EBNF:
letter = "A" | "B" | "C" | "D" | "E" | "F" | "G"
   | "H" | "I" | "J" | "K" | "L" | "M" | "N"
   | "O" | "P" | "Q" | "R" | "S" | "T" | "U"
   | "V" | "W" | "X" | "Y" | "Z" ;
digit = "0" | "1" | "2" | "3" | "4" | "5" | "6" | "7" | "8" | "9" ;
symbol = "[" | "]" | "{" | "}" | "(" | ")" | "<" | ">"
   | "'" | '"' | "=" | "|" | "." | "," | ";" ;
character = letter | digit | symbol | "_" ;

identifier = letter , { letter | digit | "_" } ;
terminal = "'" , character , { character } , "'"
     | '"' , character , { character } , '"' ;

lhs = identifier ;
rhs = identifier
 | terminal
 | "[" , rhs , "]"
 | "{" , rhs , "}"
 | "(" , rhs , ")"
 | rhs , "|" , rhs
 | rhs , "," , rhs ;

rule = lhs , "=" , rhs , ";" ;
grammar = { rule } ;

Now, because of my limited knowledge on parsers and grammars, I don't know if this is an LL(1) grammar. I tried to write a parser for it, but it fails when trying to read rhs, which reads itself again, which reads itself again, which oh, you got it...

*

*Is it an LL(1) grammar?

*If not, how to turn it into one (possible?)?

A: In short, no, your grammar is not LL(1).
The first reason is the left-recursion of rhs you already discovered.
I assume, you wrote a recursive descent parser (or something else that bases on LL(1) grammars). Such a parser is not able to handle left-recursive rules since they cause a special case of a so-called FIRST/FIRST conflict (cf. 1).
To tackle this problem and answer the second part of your question, you can left-factor your grammar and replace left-recursion as shown in 2.

A: The quoted Wikipedia extract is not a correct EBNF grammar for EBNF. It's also not left-parseable: indeed, it is ambiguous, so it's not unambiguously parseable at all.
In general, the terms LL(k) and LR(k) (and many other such terms) apply to Context-Free Grammars (CFGs) (and, by extension, the languages generated by those grammars). EBNF is not a formalism for describing CFGs. It is designed to be a formalism to describe context-free languages and therefore it should be possible to create a CFG from a given EBNF grammar (but see Note 1), but there is not a direct correspondence between an EBNF syntax rule and a single production in a CFG.
That said, you can usually directly create a CFG by using some standard transformations. For example:
{ ... }

can be substituted with the generated non-terminal M'', with the addition of the following productions: (ε is the empty string)
M'  → ...
M'' → ε
M'' → M' M''

The above transformation does not introduce left-recursion, so it does not artificially make the original grammar non-LL(1).
The most important error in the cited grammar [Note 2] is the ambigous EBNF rule:
rhs = identifier
    | terminal
    | "[" , rhs , "]"
    | "{" , rhs , "}"
    | "(" , rhs , ")"
    | rhs , "|" , rhs
    | rhs , "," , rhs
    ;

It's also left-recursive, so it will not correspond to an LL(1) CFG. But more importantly, it does not indicate either the associativity or the precedence of the | and , operators. (Semantically, these operators do not have a defined associativity, but the syntax should still specify one; otherwise, it is impossible to unambiguously create a parse tree. The precedence between the two operators is important semantically.)
A better set of rules would be:
primary = identifier
        | terminal
        | "[" , rhs , "]"
        | "{" , rhs , "}"
        | "(" , rhs , ")"
        ;
factor  = primary , { "|" , primary } ;
rhs     = factor ,  { "," , factor } ;

This is still an oversimplification, but it covers a large number of use cases. It's neither ambiguous nor left-recursive. [3]

Notes

*

*Syntactic constraints specified in comments may not be easy to translate into CFGs, though. For example, the ISO standard EBNF for EBNF defines the non-terminal "syntactic exception" as follows:syntactic exception =
   ? a syntactic-factor that could be replaced
     by a syntactic-factor containing no
     meta-identifiers
   ?
The intention of the above text is to restrict an exception to be a regular language. That's important, since the set difference between two context-free languages is not necessarily context-free, while the difference between a context-free language and a regular language is provably context-free. Ironically, the "special sequence" describing this restriction cannot be expressed as a context-free grammar because it depends on the definition of meta-identifiers. (If it had said "a syntactic-factor containing no meta-identifiers" it would be easy to write without resorting to a special sequence, but clearly that was not the intent.)

*There is another important error in the Wikipedia excerpt. It defines both types of quoted strings as having the same body, but that's not correct; a double-quoted string cannot include double-quote characters, and a single-quoted string cannot contain single-quote characters. So the use of the identifier character in both of those definitions is incorrect.

*The formal EBNF grammar allows primary to be empty. I left that out, because it's not usually needed.

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Re: Programmable digital knock filter?
Can you use this with the twin ecotec knock sensors? Wondering if it is possible to wire in in parallel with the ECU and listen to the engine using headphones?
there's no headphone port, you can wire up 2 knock sensors but there's no data for each.
BTW does anyone have a link for the software, i lost it a while ago and havn't gotten around to doing something with mine yet till now.
this was an interesting read. Defiantly feel like there's still not alot of hard testing and facts out there about it all, but atleast it works and when using a dyno gets the top results.
a copy here on USB drive.
I haven't been able to track down one of the components for these boards so I can't make any more at the moment.
I've been going to design a v2 board for a while with some extra features but haven't got around to it yet, that would also solve my parts sourcing issue so I'll make a start on it this week.
Anyone here ever used the good old piece of flexible tubing plumbed into some earmuffs?
Apparently works quite well for how primitive it is.


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Carpe Diem — двадцать четвёртый студийный альбом английской хеви-метал-группы Saxon, выпущенный 4 февраля 2022 года на лейбле Silver Lining Music. Тур в поддержку альбома стартовал 2 октября 2022 года.

Об альбоме
О том, что Saxon выпустят двадцать третий студийный альбом 4 февраля 2022 года, стало известно 2 ноября 2021 года в интервью Blabbermouth. Фронтмен и сооснователь группы Бифф Байфорд сказал: «Все начинается с риффа. Если рифф говорит со мной, то мы на верном пути. Это очень насыщенный альбом, и все благодаря тому, что суть великой метал-песни — это рифф, с которого она начинается, а на этом альбоме их множество. На латыни "Carpe Diem" означает "лови момент", и я думаю, что это отличная вещь», — продолжает Бифф. «Это то, что римляне обычно говорили друг другу, по-видимому. Никогда не встречая ни одного, я бы не знал. Но мы собираемся отправиться в мировое турне "Seize The Day", альбом "Carpe Diem", эта песня называется "Carpe Diem (Seize The Day)", и это такая мощная вещь». «Мы хотим, чтобы каждый наш альбом становился платиновым», — с вызовом говорит Бифф. «Мы никогда не делаем альбом, который, как нам кажется, не будет фантастическим, потому что не собираемся почивать на лаврах, и как группа мы всегда пытаемся сделать что-то немного новое, немного смелое. Я люблю быстрый металл, как на "Princess Of The Night" и "20,000 Feet", и сейчас я пытаюсь привнести этот стиль Saxon в музыку, но в более современном стиле. На записях мы не звучим как старая группа, потому что мы не оглядываемся на наш прошлый успех, мы всегда пытаемся сделать отличный альбом». «Это были трудные два года, — говорит Бифф со значительным преуменьшением, — потому что в сентябре 2019 года у меня случился сердечный приступ, так что для группы дела пошли немного хуже. А затем два или три месяца спустя разразился COVID, но к счастью, мы начали писать и записывать этот альбом ещё до COVID. Мы записали ударные в Германии, а гитары — в разных местах. Я много писал, пока лежал на больничной койке, и мы довольно долго вместе писали и собирали идеи, которые у всех нас были. Я действительно думаю, что это очень напряженный альбом, и, возможно, часть этой интенсивности проистекает из разочарования от невозможности что-либо сделать в период COVID».

На песни «Carpe Diem (Seize the Day)», «Remember the Fallen», «The Pilgrimage» и «Black Is the Night» были выпущены видеоклипы на официальном канале группы в YouTube.

Saxon отправились в британско-европейский тур с Diamond Head в качестве специальных гостей. Тур получил название «Seize the Day» в честь вступительного трека альбома. Британский этап тура открылся в Ипсуиче 11 ноября и завершился 26 ноября в Лондоне.

Приём
Carpe Diem стал самым популярным в чартах альбомом группы в Великобритании с Power & the Glory 1983 года, заняв 17 место, а также попал в чарты США, заняв 18-е место в Top Heatseekers, 26-е в Top Current Album Sales и 63-е — в Top Album Sales. Также альбом показал наилучшие результаты для группы в чартах еще нескольких стран, включая Германию, где он занял 3-е место, Швейцарию (4-е место), Австрию (7-е место) и Финляндию (4-е место).

Альбом получил положительные отзывы от критиков. Sputnikmusic рецензент назвал альбом, возможно, самым вдохновлённым со времён Unleash the Beast. «В основе каждой песни лежит могучий рифф, тексты солидные, а уникальный голос Биффа по-прежнему выделяет Saxon из множества исполнителей хэви-метала, как и в последние 200 лет[…] На самом деле, я не могу сказать, сыграл ли какую-то роль его сердечный приступ в 2019 году, но это самая тяжелая и самая обозлённая запись Saxon за последнее время».. Рецензент Джейсон Рош из Blabbermouth написал, что «23-му студийному альбому группы, Carpe Diem, кажется, суждено присоединиться к длинному списку записей Saxon пост-2000 года, которые обеспечивают несколько моментов триумфа хэви-метала, демонстрируя то, что продвинуло Saxon к их легендарному статусу, но никогда полностью не поднялось до уровня действительно великой записи. Carpe Diem в целом служит свидетельством того, что у Saxon все ещё осталось много пороха в пороховницах, и демонстрирует группу, вступающую в свое пятое десятилетие существования с огнем, который все ещё горит». Джейсон Арнопп из Classic Rock написал, что «альбом, в принципе, обычный для Saxon, но это и хорошо. Заметно динамичный, альбом был спродюсирован давним соавтором и по совместительству гитаристом Judas Priest . Как и в случае с Motörhead, приятно знать, чего ожидать от подобных соленых морских волков. И кроме того, в мире, который чувствует себя все более нестабильным, было бы слишком тяжело, если бы Saxon вдруг стали эмо». Metal Storm назвали альбом «самой запоминающейся записью группы за последнее десятилетие или около того», прокомментировав, что группа «все ещё сильна» и поставив альбому рейтинг 7,2/10.

Список композиций

Участники
 Бифф Байфорд — вокал, продюсирование, тексты песен
 Пол Куинн — гитара
 Дуг Скэррэтт — гитара
 Ниббс Картер — бас-гитара
  — ударные
 Пол Реймонд Грегори — обложка
 Энрике Забала — обложка (дизайн буклета)
 Стеф Байфорд — фотография
  — продюсирование, сведение, мастеринг, запись
 Джеки Леманн — запись ударных
 Себ Байфорд — запись, бэк-вокал

Чарты

Примечания

Ссылки

Альбомы 2022 года
Альбомы Saxon

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Home Tourism, Leisure and Event Management Research Publications USC Students in Fiji: A Win-Win Educational Experience in Sustainability
Home Sustainability Research Centre Research Publications USC Students in Fiji: A Win-Win Educational Experience in Sustainability
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USC Students in Fiji: A Win-Win Educational Experience in Sustainability
Mayes, G J | Thomsen, D C | Ryan, L
Experiential education strategies in the formal education context should be real, that is, education should be about life itself and not mere preparation for life (Dewey 1938, p. 25). This paper discusses the development, design, and outcomes of a pilot research and education field trip to the Fiji highlands by a small group of third year students from the University of the Sunshine Coast. The trip was designed in response to the needs of a village that wanted to develop a small scale sustainable tourism venture (Weaver 2000). The achievable recommendations given by the students to the village resort owner were intended to enhance the economic, cultural, environmental and social sustainability of the micro business, which would in turn, empower the owner and his staff, offer training and employment to the villagers, and most importantly: assist in building a much needed school for their children. The desired outcomes of the experiential approach to educating for sustainability were: empowerment, enhanced self-efficacy and confidence in applying and implementing sustainable cultural tourism practices, putting sustainable theory into practice, increased confidence levels in recommending and implementing sustainable practices in the students' own countries. The expedition was organised by a tourism lecturer from USC and Fiji Dreaming, a fledgling sustainable tourism business on the Sunshine Coast that aims to inspire people to travel responsibly and learn about other cultures through cultural immersion, community engagement, and adventure-based experiences. The company supports local indigenous communities whilst providing travellers with the opportunity to participate and contribute to an authentic travel experience with a transformative purpose. Over the past two years Fiji Dreaming has performed the vital role of "cultural broker" and taken schools from the Sunshine Coast to Fiji for cultural tourism experiences. Similarly, the pilot program in this paper was designed to combine sustainable theory, practice, research and education for University level students. Not only did the students deliver a comprehensive set of achievable short and long term recommendations to the owner of the primitive resort that were accepted and appreciated, but the cultural immersion experience proved to be intense, emotional, highly motivating, and both powerful and empowering for the students. Students were asked to reflect on the experience as an important part of the experiential education process. Self-reported impacts of the expedition on the international group of 10 students were: students were able to apply university theory to practice; each student's career interests and directions were confirmed; individual levels of sustainability, self efficacy and selfconfidence were increased; and intentions to behave and act more sustainably were stronger. Most importantly, students felt competent in transferring the learning and education about sustainable travel, tourism and development from Fiji to other destinations, including their own countries. Students also expressed a strong desire to return to Fiji and/or go to other developing destinations where they could build on this introduction to involvement in small scale sustainable developments in the Pacific Islands and the Asia/Pacific region. All objectives of the expedition were achieved including the identification other opportunities to respond to the needs of the same and other villages in Fiji over a long-term basis using the combination of adventure, meaningful travel, research, education and regional engagement. This style of research/education expedition approach to educating for sustainability offers numerous and worthwhile opportunities for responding to the needs of the region, such as: ongoing research; learning; cultural connection; potential for involvement of the students, staff, and the entire University community in service activities in Fiji and other developing Asia/Pacific destinations; work integrated learning and internships.
2008 Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance (AUCEA) National Conference: Engaging for a sustainable future, Sunshine Coast, Australia 9-11 July 2008
Proceedings of the 2008 Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance National Conference / pp.9-15
http://aucea.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/2008_refereed.pdf
Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance Incorporated
FoR 1506 (Tourism) | small scale | sustainable tourism | cultural tourism | Fiji highlands | community engagement | experimental education
Copyright © 2008 The Australian University Community Engagement Alliance (AUCEA Inc.). All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permisssion of the publisher. The definitive version is available from http://www.aucea.com.au.
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Een Transformagiër (Engels: Metamorphmagus) is een gave die sommige personages uit de Harry Potterboekenreeks van J.K. Rowling bezitten. Het is een heks of tovenaar die zijn of haar uiterlijk naar believen kan aanpassen. Men kan dit niet leren, het is een talent waarmee men geboren wordt.

Er zijn van twee mensen in de boeken bekend dat ze Transformagiër zijn, namelijk Nymphadora Tops en Teddy Lupos. Nymphadora staat erom bekend dat ze steeds de kleur van haar haar en de vorm van haar neus verandert. In het vijfde boek maakt ze zich daar erg populair mee bij Hermelien Griffel en Ginny Wemel. Bij zowel Nymphadora als Teddy veranderde hun haarkleur al vlak na hun geboorte.

Transformagiër zijn is een zeer handige eigenschap voor Schouwers, omdat ze zonder moeite alle mogelijke vermommingen kunnen aannemen.

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A NIST 800-53 assessment is an information security assessment measured against the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53 security standard.
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Sword & Shield partners with you to carefully assess your infrastructure to include systems, processes, and procedures. Our compliance experts interview key system owners and management personnel to determine gaps, as they relate to NIST 800-53 compliance.
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As a full-service cybersecurity and compliance firm, Sword & Shield offers a host of NIST 800 related services. In addition to a NIST assessment, Sword & Shield can assist you with remediation and implementation of the needed solutions identified in your evaluation.


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Die evangelische Kirche befindet sich im Ortsteil Randerath der Stadt Heinsberg in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Sie steht als Baudenkmal unter Denkmalschutz.

Lage
Die Kirche steht an der Asterstraße 9, in der Nähe des Marktplatzes und der katholischen Pfarrkirche in Randerath. Gegenüber an der Asterstraße 8 stand von 1790 bis 1900 die Synagoge.

Geschichte
Dort wo heute die evangelische Kirche steht, wurde bereits 1572 eine evangelische Synode abgehalten. Gottesdienste und Amtshandlungen fanden zu diesem Zeitpunkt in Privathäusern, Scheunen oder behelfsmäßigen Unterkünften statt. Eine erste Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts errichtete eigene Kirche wurde Opfer eines Großbrandes. Im Jahre 1718/19 errichtete man die jetzige Kirche als Saalkirche. Bis nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde das Gebäude flankiert von der evangelischen Schule auf der einen und dem Pfarrhaus auf der anderen Seite. Letzteres wurde nach seiner Zerstörung nicht wieder aufgebaut. Nach der Beseitigung von Kriegsschäden erfolgten von 1957 bis 1961 eine Renovierung und bauliche Erweiterungen. Im Jahre 1982 entstand im rückwärtigen Bereich des Kirchengeländes ein Gemeindezentrum mit einem Jugendheim. 1996 wurde der Glockenturm erneuert und die Kirche mit einem neuen Anstrich versehen.

Architektur
Die Kirche ist eine Saalkirche aus Backstein. Die Fenster sind leicht rundbogig. Links über dem Eingang steht auf dem Dach ein Dachreiter, in dem eine Glocke hängt. Die Eingangstüre ist in Blausteingewände gefasst. Über der Türe ist ein Chronogramm von der Grundsteinlegung vom 17. September 1717 eingemauert.

Ausstattung
 Eine mechanische Orgel ist vorhanden.
 Im Dachreiter befindet sich ein zweistimmiges Bronzegeläute, welches auf die katholische Kirche abgestimmt ist. Es erklingt in den Tönen dis′ und fis′, darunter befinden sich eine neue Glocke der Gießerei Rincker, sowie eine alte Glocke.
 Die Kirche besitzt eine Buntverglasung.
 In der Kirche stehen ein Abendmahlstisch, eine Kanzel

Presseberichte
 Randerather Konzerte gehen in die nächste Runde (AZ vom 28. Januar 2011)
 Randerather Kirchenkonzerte bieten wahren Hörgenuss (AZ vom 27. September 2013)

Weblinks

 Denkmaleintrag der Evangelischen Kirche
 Website der Evangelischen Kirche

Einzelnachweise

Kirchengebäude in Heinsberg
Erbaut in den 1710er Jahren
Baudenkmal in Heinsberg
Heinsberg
Backsteinkirche


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With more than 9,400 views, I still find the interest in fly tying videos, as Spock would say, "fascinating." Here is the Coyote Carp Fly, again, from a 2009 video.
I will be demonstrating how to tie the Coyote Carp Fly tomorrow at Sportsman's Finest in Austin, Texas, tomorrow evening. If you are unfamiliar with flats fishing for carp, tying flies for carp or just maybe need something to do – be sure to make your way over to Sportsman's Finest and sit in on their weekly fly tying.
Apparently, Greg Welander at Sportsman's Finest, has a good thing going every Tuesday evening at Sportsman's Finest located at 12434 Bee Cave Road, one-half block off 71. I met Greg at Trout Unlimited's Troutfest this year, and he said they have between 20 and 30 fly tiers every Tuesday at Sportman's Finest – every Tuesday! That is truly amazing.


As a landlord, you have a duty to protect the best interests of your property and the tenants residing within. If you've never given security a thought, now may be a good time to reconsider. There's a lot to gain from stepping up your efforts.
Rental properties have a couple of unique features that make them bigger targets for criminal activity. First off, there tends to be higher turnover in rental properties than your average residential, owner-occupied dwelling. These periods of vacancy represent opportunities for vigilant criminals.
Secondly, rentals tend to be in lower to middle class areas where it's less likely that there are significant security deterrents in the neighborhood or on individual properties.
Keeping tenants safe. First and foremost, you owe it to your tenants to keep them safe while they're living on your property. You can't always prevent every issue, but you can take practical steps to ensure they aren't targets.
Protecting property. You should want to protect the investment of the physical property itself. Criminals don't just seize household possessions; they can also break windows, steal HVAC units, strip copper from household systems, etc.
Staying out of legal trouble. If a violent crime happens on your property, there are certain legal complications you could face. An investment in security is a good way to prove that you're looking out for the safety of your tenants.
A security camera is one of the single greatest deterrents you can use to prevent crime. It's also one of the best resources you have for documenting criminal activity and catching the perpetrator.
While tenants obviously won't want cameras installed inside the house, most will be fine with one or two outdoor cameras. Thanks to advances in the industry and new technology, it's pretty easy to install your own DIY camera setup. For a few hundred dollars, you can have an entire system up and running.
2. Replace locks after each tenant.
While it'll cost you a few bucks—and a little bit of your time—it's a smart move to replace locks after each tenant moves out. The last thing you want is for an old tenant to have keys to the property and take advantage of this access.
The opposite is true as well. As the landlord, you need access to your property. While you can't just barge in unannounced whenever you please, you do need a working key that gives you access to the property in appropriate situations. Make sure you include a lock policy in your lease that speaks directly to this.
3. Create a safe perimeter.
You never want a property to be conducive to crime. However, if you aren't paying attention to the property—and particularly the perimeter of the dwelling—you may be unknowingly increasing risk.
A safe rental property needs adequate outdoor lighting around the entire perimeter. The more you reduce dark areas, the less space you give criminals to lurk. The same goes for hiding spots—such as tall shrubs, storage sheds, and other areas that can shield unwanted intruders.
It's a lot easier to ignore security and hope things work out for the best, but taking such a nonchalant approach will create problems for you on multiple levels. It's important that you step up and do your part.
Security is something that needs to be taken more seriously than it is. As a landlord, you have a certain duty of care that's owed to your tenants and an investment in both direct and indirect security mechanisms and strategies will show that you care for their well-being.
How do you ensure the safety of your tenants?
Great article Larry, what do you think of Kwikset's SmartKey with rekey technology? They'll cut down on the costs of hiring a locksmith, or buying new locks.


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Let's get the fun stuff out of the way first: Season Two of Preacher does not fail to deliver on the dismemberment. Nor does it forget to cover every available surface with blood spray, turn outrageous violence into humor, or get very weird just for the hell of it–basically, everything you need for a good TV show.
Perhaps more importantly, however, this season improves on its predecessor by starting to delve into its source material. Despite the serious buzz surrounding Preacher's initial season, one complaint from viewers was that the show strayed too far from the comics. Showrunners Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's decision to keep the action in Annville for Season One forced them to mostly rely on original plotlines, which might be fine for other comic-based TV series, but isn't a great plan when your source text is created by people as hugely skilled as Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. There will be a disparity between Ennis and Dillon's work and your work, and viewers will notice.
Although Preacher Season Two doesn't stick 100 percent to the comics, it draws much more story elements from them than Season One. As a result, the characters are allowed to move in something closer to their natural environment, which gives them greater scope for development. Ruth Negga's Tulip, for instance, has softened up a tiny bit–not in any way that looks like appeasement, but just enough to suggest that she might be a decent person underneath it all, at least by Preacher's metric of decency. We're also starting to see how Dominic Cooper's Jesse handles ideas of tradition and masculinity now that his entire social structure has exploded. Meanwhile, the darker side of Cassidy's roguish hedonism is beginning to show, underscored by the gleefully self-destructive edge Joseph Gilgun lends to the role. (By the way, Cassidy's accent, which was a little they're-after-me-Lucky-Charms in Season One, has now bypassed the character's supposed Dublin origins entirely and veered all the way into Northern Ireland for some reason.)
It helps, too, that the changes made to the source material are more in keeping with the overall themes of the comics than they were in the previous season. In the comics, Jesse is preoccupied with protecting Tulip from any collateral damage incurred by his acts of violence and his disturbing past, which is part sincere concern and part outmoded masculinity; Tulip is more than capable of holding her own when bullets start flying, and provides backup to or rescues Jesse on several occasions. While this isn't entirely absent from Jesse's character in the show, some of those concerns have been reassigned to Tulip, who continually strives to keep Jesse from finding out about her contract killing career. With both lovers trying to shield each other from their pasts, the focus shifts from Jesse learning about gender equality to a couple needing to learn about emotional openness. It's a 21st-century update on their relationship.
Another thematic gem that shines through these alterations is the source material's dark comedy. Ennis and Dillon were masters at going from harrowing to hilarious in the blink of an eye, and original sequences like this are woven throughout Preacher Season Two, such as a man less worried about the limb that's just been blown off his body than he is about getting quarters for a soda vending machine. It's not an easy line to walk, as a sequence where a character undertakes a series of increasingly cartoonish suicide attempts reminds us. Here, the scenes are played for laughs, yet never without shying away from the emotional trauma that has driven the character to this point; the camera lingers on the person's face, reminding us that their actions come from a place of heart-freezing loss. The balance could have gone horribly wrong at any moment, especially considering the sensitivity of the subject at hand, but the show pulls it off. Just like the comics would.
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It's a very good sign, not only because it makes for a better show, but because it implies that Rogen and Goldberg are looking at what made the comics so wonderful in the first place. If they're applying deeper levels of insight to the adaptation process, the show is likely to continue on an upward trajectory, which means this ride is going to get wild. And if that's the case, we should definitely stick around to see how far it goes.
RATING: 4 OUT OF 5 BURRITOS
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Troy grew up in L.A. where he and his family moved thirteen times before his thirteenth birthday. Through the challenges, however, his mother passed her faith on to him. He recalls being seven years old and strongly impressed one night with the awareness that he did not want to go to hell. His mother sat down with him and his brother and led them to Christ. And that decision stuck.
Following high school, Troy served in the Marine reserves for six years. During those years he also began in youth ministry at Willow Creek in Chicago and studied at Moody Bible Institute. At Willow, he met Tricia, and the two married in 1989. Eight years later, he had an opportunity to pastor in Southern California. While living in the Golden State, Troy completed a Masters in Education at Azusa Pacific University where he also taught. In 2005, the Murphys moved to Green Bay and began attending GBCC. In 2009, Troy joined the staff as the lead pastor. What he loves about his job is seeing people's lives changed and individuals growing through Christ. He and Tricia have four daughters—Lauren, Jackie, Hailee, and Allie. In his spare time, Troy enjoys being with his family, hunting, and working out, and if he could magically add a skill to his life, he'd choose cooking. He lists Ted Dekker's The Complete Circle Series as a favorite fiction book because of the allegory's powerful depiction of the fall of man and our redemption through Christ's work. In heaven, Troy would like to watch history on "tape," but before he gets there, he hopes to visit Ireland and to parachute.


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In this episode of Confetti Park, we meet Deborah A. Anderson, New Orleans based animator and creator of The Black Hair Alphabet, a children's book that explores different African-American hairstyles from A-Z. In this interview, Deborah discusses why and how she created the book, and shares insight into the interesting worlds of video game avatars, […]
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Arden Cahill in the spotlight! In this episode of Confetti Park, we meet some of the teachers and students at Arden Cahill Academy in Gretna, Louisiana, and hear some of the original poems and essays created by students in the seventh and eighth grades under teachers Nick and Rick Mithun. Nick Mithun teaches French, while […]
Andreas Sahar shares about a musical childhood and following the call
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Andreas Sahar, of New Orleans, is a musician, songwriter, and the artistic director of Totally Square Records. In this interview with Confetti Park, Andreas talks about his record label, about his earliest childhood musical memories, and about nurturing a love for music within his own young children. Wimmerpot From Andreas' childhood recollections is the enchanting […]
New Orleans comedian Mike Strecker publishes a joke book for kids
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Mike Strecker is a stand-up comedian who has been performing in the New Orleans area since 1995. And now, he is a published book author. Mike recently released two volumes of jokes, Young Comic's Guide to Telling Jokes Vol. 1 and 2, which are nationally distributed by Sterling Children's Books. "The way it came about… […]
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In this episode of Confetti Park, Katy Hobgood Ray interviews Ol' Chumbucket, the co-creator of International Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19. Chumbucket, also known as John Baur in certain circles, lives in New Orleans today (he has lived in many places including the Virgin Islands) and spends much of his time traveling the pirate […]
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Children's author, actress, and musician just scratches the surface of the roles and capabilities owned by Melinda Taliancich Falgoust of Metairie, La., as Katy Ray discovers in this interview on Confetti Park. Melinda, who has published several award-winning children's books including Lousy Liver, Footprints, and her newest, Her Royal Majesty, the Superhero Bride of Frankenstein (which just earned a 5-star review with Reader's […]
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NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The death toll in a string of explosions that ripped through busy marketplaces in India's capital has risen to 21, police said Sunday.
The number of people wounded in the Saturday blasts also went up to 97, said New Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat.
Bhagat said police have not made any arrests in the attack, for which the Muslim militant group Indian Mujahedeen took responsibility.
Five minutes before the first blast, CNN-IBN -- CNN's sister network in India -- received an E-mail from the group warning of an impending strike.
An eyewitness told CNN that one of the bombs at Connaught Place was hidden near a public trash can at the market. He said the force of the blast blew a small vehicle from one side of the street to the other.
"It was terrifying," he said, adding that the small automobile rickshaw had blood all over it.
Bhagat refused comment about who might have carried out the attack.
India's Home Minister Shri Shivraj Patil blamed the attack on "anti-national elements" who he said "have been trying to disturb peace and create panic among the people in various parts of the country."
"The government will continue to deal firmly with such elements," Patel said in a written statement. "I am confident that security agencies will soon be able to get to the bottom of these incidents and the culprits will be brought to book."
Indian Mujahedeen claimed responsibility for 17 blasts that struck the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on July 26, killing 49 and wounding more than 100 others. The blasts struck within about an hour of each other within a six-mile (10 km) radius.
Indian Mujahedeen also claimed responsibility in May for near-simultaneous bomb attacks that killed 63 people in the northwest city of Jaipur. In the Jaipur claim, the group declared "open war" against India in retaliation for what it said were 60 years of Muslim persecution and the country's support of United States policies.


The station is to provide live match commentary for the Champions League tie between Arsenal and Bayern Munich from 7pm to mark the milestone.
talkSPORT has added the FA Cup, England Internationals and the Capital One Cup coverage to its Champions League, Europa League and Barclays Premier League commentary this season.
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In a recent study, David Cressy examines two central questions concerning English immigration to New England in the 1630s: what kinds of people immigrated and why? Using contemporary literary evidence, shipping lists, and customs records, Cressy finds that most adult immigrants were skilled in farming or crafts, were literate, and were organized in families. Each of these characteristics sharply distinguishes the 21,000 people who left for New England in the 1630s from most of the approximately 377,000 English people who had immigrated to America by 1700. With respect to their reasons for immigrating, Cressy does not deny the frequently noted fact that some of the immigrants of the 1630s, most notably the organizers and clergy, advanced religious explanations for departure, but he finds that such explanations usually assumed primacy only in retrospect. When he moves beyond the principal actors, he finds that religious explanations were less frequently offered, and he concludes that most people immigrated because they were recruited by promises of material improvement.
23. The passage indicates that Cressy would agree with which of the following statements about the organizers among the English immigrants to New Englandì in the 1630s?
A Some of them offered a religious explanation for their immigration.
B They did not offer any reasons for their immigration until some time after they had immigrated.
C They were more likely than the average immigrant to be motivated by material considerations.
immigrants to go to New England in the 1630s.
the statement in Choice C.
24, The last sentence says that Cressy "concludes that most people immigrated because they were recruited by promises of material improvement." Because this suggests that Cressy believes immigrants were motivated by these promises to go to New England, sentence 5 ("When he . . . improvement) is the correct choice. The preceding sentence suggests that Cressy does not believe religion was a primary motive influencing immigrants' decision to immigrate in the 1630s. Thus, although this sentence provides an opinion of Cressy's concerning some immigrants' stated reasons for immigrating, it does not say what motive he believes was actually behind the immigration, and therefore does not answer the question.
25. The passage is about Cressy's investigation of English immigration to New England in the 1630s, and it summarizes his findings concerning who immigrated and why. Choice A, "summarizing the findings of an investigation," is therefore the best description of the author's primary concern in the passage. The passage does not analyze a method of argument, so Choice B is incorrect. Choice C is incorrect because the passage is not primarily concerned with evaluating a point of view: it does not assess the merits or demerits of Cressy's viewpoint. The passage is concerned with reporting Cressy's findings, not with hypothesizing or with establishing categories, so Choices D and E are incorrect.
"but he finds that such explanations usually assumed primacy only in retrospect."
What does "primacy in retrospect" mean?
means that the historians assume that certain motivations are the real reasons why immigrants moved in New England.
But, eventually, at a closer look, the reasons were different.


Mariam, A.L.; Zakri, A.H.; Mahani, M.C.; Normah, M.N.
Somatic chromosome number and meiotic chromosome pairing were examined in F1 hybrids and BC progenies from Oryza sativa (AA) X O. minuta (BBCC) crosses. All hybrids were triploid with 36 chromosomes.The hybrids showed irregular meiosis with mostly univalents. The mean meiotic pairing obtained was 29.31(16-36)Is + 3.32(0-10)IIs + 0.016(0-1)IIIs + 0.002(0-1)IVs with 3.46(0-13) chiasmata per cell. The chromosome numbers of 17 BC1 plants varied from 44 to 48 and from 24 to 37 in the BC2 plants. The mean bivalents in the BC1s varied from 9.83 (7-14) up to 13.90 (11-19). In the BC2 plants, except the 24-chromosome BC2, the means of bivalents were from 8.58 (6-12) to 11.18 (8-17). Majority of the bivalents observed in both BC1 and BC2 were ring-shaped. For the 24-BC2, the meiosis was more regular. Of the 60 PMCs examined, 60% showed 1211s, 23.3% showed I Ills + 21s, 13.3% showed 10IIs + 4Is and 3.3% showed 9IIs + 6Is.