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It isn't always easy to completely overhaul your house for all the seasons, but it is easy to change out a piece of artwork here and there. I'm in love with all the free printable scripture art options you can find online these days. If you want a pretty yet inexpensive way to decorate these choices are perfect for you! Looking for a thoughtful gift, these would be perfect. Christian Art and Gifts
Visual art, including stained glass, sculptures, and paintings, was incredibly important in Medieval times when most people were illiterate. The Bible was unavailable except to the very upper classes (who were more likely to be able to read), but by using the visual arts the biblical account was made available for everyone. Biblical art was known as biblia paupernum or "the Bible of the poor." Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
2 Chronicles 2:14 - The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished. Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference. Under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the rest. It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward. It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, as a lily blossom; it could hold two thousand baths. Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three cubits. This was the design of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the frames, and on the borders which were between the frames were lions, oxen and cherubim; and on the frames there was a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side. Its opening inside the crown at the top was a cubit, and its opening was round like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening there were engravings, and their borders were square, not round. The four wheels were underneath the borders, and the axles of the wheels were on the stand. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half. The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast. Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around. He made the ten stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form. He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin. Then he set the stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea of cast metal on the right side of the house eastward toward the south. Now Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. So Hiram finished doing all the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of the LORD: the two pillars and the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars; and the ten stands with the ten basins on the stands; and the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea; and the pails and the shovels and the bowls; even all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were of polished bronze. In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because they were too many; the weight of the bronze could not be ascertained. 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. Thus all the work that King Solomon performed in the house of the LORD was finished And Solomon brought in the things dedicated by his father David, the silver and the gold and the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD. Share Your Faith Products 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.
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...
David built houses for himself in the city of David. And he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. Then David said that no one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the Lord had chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister to him forever. And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had prepared for it. And David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites: of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, with 120 of his brothers; ...
"Now I am sending Huram-abi, a skilled man, endowed with understanding, the son of a Danite woman and a Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone and wood, and in purple, violet, linen and crimson fabrics, and who knows how to make all kinds of engravings and to execute any design which may be assigned to him, to work with your skilled men and with those of my lord David your father. 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
Thus says the Lord, "Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests, and go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you. You shall say, 'Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle. Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents, and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind— ...
Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many. And I said to them, "Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their guard posts and some in front of their own homes." The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no houses had been rebuilt. Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it: ... Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
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.
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: Christian Art and Gifts
In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him. Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. And the king said to them, "I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream." Then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, "O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation." The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, "The word from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins. ...
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. Christian Canvas Art
He measured the length of the building along the front of the separate area behind it, with a gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner nave and the porches of the court. The thresholds, the latticed windows and the galleries round about their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered), over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement.read more.
Visual art, including stained glass, sculptures, and paintings, was incredibly important in Medieval times when most people were illiterate. The Bible was unavailable except to the very upper classes (who were more likely to be able to read), but by using the visual arts the biblical account was made available for everyone. Biblical art was known as biblia paupernum or "the Bible of the poor."
Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men. But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation. Thus shall you say to them: "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens." Christian Canvas Art
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ... Christian Canvas Art
For the last 5 years, the in-house design team at the Faithlife Corporation has illustrated one Bible verse every day. This art has found its way onto t-shirts, magnets, and postcards—and now, a beautiful picture book. In print for the first time, art from Faithlife's Verse of the Day series paired with uplifting devotionals will encourage and inspire you. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods. But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him? So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ... Christian Art and Gifts
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Remember that biblical art, as a visual representation of the Bible, is not always rated "G." The Bible is not a children's story, so some biblical art contains nudity or bloody depictions of violence. Not all things in the Bible are beautiful and calming; many times biblical stories are full of distortion and dissonance. As such, biblical artwork will tell the full Story of God that includes creation, fall, and redemption, with each of its harsh realities. As in all of life, the believer is called to be discerning. Christian Art and Gifts
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. ... Christian Art and Gifts
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He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished. Christian Art and Gifts
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Landscape and setting contribute significantly to the education of all children. The beautiful surroundings at Longridge Towers School extend to over eighty acres and contain the main school building, a magnificent Grade 2 listed Victorian mansion, and consist of woodland, lawns and playing fields. Facilities include a library, science laboratories, assembly hall, a specialist music room, a dedicated art studio, a design centre, a sports hall, rugby, hockey, cricket pitches, an athletics facility, and all-weather tennis courts. The recently upgraded computer network extends throughout the school. The Junior Department, with its own fully equipped playground, is housed next to the main school in two buildings, the latest of which was built in 2004. The Jerningham builiding, for our youngest pupils, has four classroom areas. Using inter-connecting doors, two very large teaching spaces can be created. The Stobo building incorporates six classrooms, changing facilities and a large Atrium.
The dramatic main building at the heart of the grounds was built in the 1880s by Lord Jerningham, the MP for Berwick upon Tweed, at great cost. Boldly, it incorporated the very latest technology, including a hydraulic lift and gas lighting to all parts of the main building. The portico to the building was probably built for a visit of the Prince of Wales - just to make sure he did not get wet when alighting from his coach. When Longridge Towers was completed, it was one of the largest private houses in Northumberland, and Lord Jerningham lived there until his death in the early 1920s. Lady Jerningham had died in 1902 and her statue on the Elizabethan town walls in Berwick upon Tweed two miles away, looks towards the school. The building was for a while a hotel before it became a convent school in 1949. It remained as such until 1983, when Longridge Towers School as we now know it came into existence.


This morning, we were making birthday cards, when it crossed my mind to chop up one of the paper rolls that children had filled with paintstick marks at Feets' birthday party. Somehow, this evolved into a feast of cutting, and collaging, as Feets realised she'd made a great set of teeth for a crocodile.
You picked my clothes up off the floor.
You brought me aater, then juice, then milk.
I spilt the milk and you mopped it up.
You cooked, and cooked - meals, puddings, and more meals.
Lemon meringue pie, rice pudding, apple crumble, strawberry mousse.
You helped me, time and again, to say thank you.
Still, I forgot, I forget.
You loved me through my tears, my screams.
My foot-stamps, pushes, door-slams, biting - was I a biter?
I wound you up, up, up, and you wound me down.
Work in Progress: Whose Shoes?
When Feets was about 18 months old, she couldn't bear to get her fingers dirty. After a colleague commented that Feets surely must love painting, as a daughter of mine, I realised that something had to be done about this issue. Similarly, she was on the brink of starting to recognise colours.
I decided I needed to come up with a painting activity that I was myself invested in, that I could invite Feets to help me with - no more half-heartedly showing Feets what she could do with the paint while keeping my own hands as clean as possible; I would start painting and Feets could help me if she wanted to.
She also loved shoes at the time - indeed, 'shoes' was her first word. So I drew pictures of all the shoes in our house onto cereal packets and painted them with Feets ... with plans to make a book of colours and rhyming words alongside, loosely inspired by The Foot Book by Dr Seuss, which we loved.
Well, we didn't finish that project. I couldn't keep up with the speed of her learning, and she knew her colours long before I was ready.
But, roll on three years, and I found myself in exactly the same spot with Bean - after a messy play session at a gallery where I couldn't convince her to do anything, I decided to open the half-finished folder of painted shoes, draw a few new ones, and invite Bean to help with them.
Well, time is fast running out once again, but fingers crossed, the book will be finished before it's too late! I've created characters for Feets, Bean, myself and Mr Liam, and they will scramble over the shoes throughout the story. Watch this space!
What I didn't really expect when organising an Arty Party for 25 children, was to have materials left over. For the sake of efficiency, I expected to throw everything away, but in the end, we managed to salvage a lot of stuff, and in many ways, having the time to enjoy such a lavish set of materials has been the best part of all ... ... which led to a magical monster-making session with some family friends, and ages ranging from 2 - 13. And, because I forget just how long home-made playdough lasts, Bean had a glorious time with the playdough and the pasta a few weeks later - first cutting the playdough with a knife (one favourite activity)... ... and then breaking down the pasta with a pestle and mortar. By now, the playdough has merged into one big ball, but it's not yet mucky and it looks absolutely beautiful!
I don't lead or deliver many activities at the moment. So when I finally decided that the best plan was to devise and carry out Feets' fifth birthday party myself, it turned out to be a fun and creative adventure - and wonderful at last to develop a workshop for the most important children in the world - my own! I made eight batches of playdough and got carried away with experimentation, mixing some coloured with rice for texture (didn't work so well - the colour is prone to run and the rice goes a bit soft with the moisture of the playdough) and others with glitter when the colouring wasn't so bright. I also dyed masses of pasta for children to embellish their models with, along with googly eyes and pipe cleaners. To try and prevent one child from massing all the playdough together, Feets invited each child to choose a ball of playdough as they arrived. This was a nice welcome, but actually it limited their imagination to playing only with the colour they'd been given. Otherwise, playdough was a great success! I gatherred loads of wisdom from other blogging parents and will share this in a future post.
Along one wall, we laid down a strip of lining paper and laid out paintsticks. I wasn't sure whether to set children in a certain direction with a given theme, but time dictated that and we left them to it. I love paintsticks! They are so bold and bright, and mess free, and again, the kids had a blast, filling two long strips with scrawls and patterns.
Finally, the age old favourite scratch masks - except this time I explored scratch glasses to avoid the need for adults helping with elastic. Definitely better for this age group.
I've been drawing leaves. I find a kind of calm there, in the midst of mental tumult.


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Q: Avoid suggesting same tag twice When you enter a tag, it makes suggestions which you can select from.  If I enter:
SQL-Server
Then I enter
SQL-Se
It suggests SQL-Server even though I've already used this tag.  It would be a little faster to enter tags if it ommited tags that you have already typed as the 2nd suggestion is often the one I want, not the same one again!

A: This would certainly help, especially with tags that have version specific tags also. Maybe it would even be easier if one could add several tags at once, selecting multiple ones from the list presented by the suggestions.

A: If you are talking about entering tags in the Ask Question page, I don't think it's necessary as only a maximum of five tags are allowed. I guess our eyes are good enough to scan the five tags in one line :)
If you are talking about entering tags in the User Prefs page, then I agree your suggestion would be useful. Or, perhaps even better, show something like this (note the "Added" visual cue):

(Special credit to @Ralph Rickenbach :)

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A very perplexing ecological problem is unravelling the nature of relationship between diversity and stability of ecosystem. The problem here is that neither the meaning of stability is entirely clear, nor what aspects of diversity are being consided. Are only the number of species in the community and its relation to stability, or the relationship of evenness to stability, or some combination of both is to be considered? Most of the theoretical and empirical studies for long focused only on species diversity, i.e., the number of species present. Only recently works have focussed on the degree of functional diversity represented by species diversity. Advocates of conserving biological diversity have always invoked the diversity-stability hypothesis to justify concern about the loss of individual species. However, if other aspects of diversity also play important roles in the structure and function of ecosystems, a focus on the number of species alone may hinder proper appreciation of the role that evenness plays in the ability of ecosystems to respond to changes in energy and nutrient inputs.
1. Constancy- The ability of a community to resist changes in species composition and abundances in response to any disturbance.
This is not a particularly useful concept of stability for conservationists because few, if any, ecosystems could be described as truly constant. Even the ecosystems having powerful mechanisms for reacting to environmental fluctuations do so through internal changes that as quickly as possible bring it back to a stable state. But these surely involve responses and changes. These may more appropriately be regarded as examples of resilience than of constancy.
2. Resilience- The ability of a community to return to its pre-disturbance characteristics after changes induced by a disturbance.
Resilience corresponds to stability in the way it is studied in mathematical models. If deviations from an equilibrium are reduced with time, system is stable or if these are amplified with time, system is unstable. This approach still has little applicability to actual ecosystems. It measures a system's tendency to return to a single stable point, but many ecological sytems appear to have multiple stable points. If disturbance remains below a particular threshold, ecosystem will return to its predisturbance configuration. If it exceeds that threshold, it may move to a new configuration. Furthermore, most ecological systems change not only in response to disturbance but also in response to natural, successional change. There is little evidence that ecological communities ever represent an equilibrium configuration from which it would make sense to study perturbations. Common between the constancy and resilience is focus of both on species persistence and abundance as measures of stability. For example, Selmants et al. show that with decline in species diversity of serpentine grasslands in California, their susceptibility to invasion by exotic species increases. Put differently, diverse grasslands were more resilient than those with lesser diversity.
3. Dynamic stability- A system's ability to determine its future states largely by its own current state with little or no reference to outside influences.
In many ways, this approach corresponds with our intuitive notions of stability and seems to make sense of the relationship between diversity and stability. It recalls saying of Commoner : "The more complex the ecosystem, the more successfully it can resist a stress." A dynamically stable system is relatively immune to disturbance like a rapidly spinning gyroscope is dynamically stable because the gyroscopic forces generated by it resist external forces that would alter is plane of rotation. This approach reflects the hope that stable systems would be able to maintain themselves without intervention.
A biological system with high diversity is more likely to be dynamically stable than one that has low diversity. The reason is very important role played by biotic interactions in ecosystem dynamics. This has increasingly been appreciated through many studies. In diverse communities, biotic interactions may often play a larger and very important role in the success of a species than its interactions with the physical environment. To the extent that changes in the system are driven by biotic interactions, it is dynamically stable, since characteristics of the system itself are determining its future state.
However, this formulation of the diversity-stability hypothesis is also not free from problems. How to identify systems whose future state depends primarily on their own internal characteristics? Without a method to identify a dynamically stable system, even testing the truth of this approach to diversity-stability hypothesis is not possible. It seems to verge on circularity. The larger (more diverse) the system considered, fewer things are left out of it. Fewer the things left out, smaller the possible outside influences on the system. Smaller the possible outside influences, greater the degree of dynamic stability. Thus, dynamic stability is (almost) a necessary consequence of diversity simply because diverse systems include many components. Moreover, the argument as presented says nothing about the types of diversity present, e.g., a diverse community assembled from non-native species would be as good as one composed solely of natives.
Ives and Carpenter  have suggested a different approach to understanding community stability. Their approach may be quite useful, because it points out firstly, that systems move to a region different from the one from which they were perturbed and secondly, that things other than diversity (like the frequency and character of perturbation) may also affect the stability of ecosystems. A new concept in relation to stability is 'Biological integrity' that refers to a system's wholeness, including presence of all appropriate elements and occurrence of all processes at appropriate rates. But this approach too poses problems.
1. What are 'appropriate elements'?
By definition, naturally evolved assemblages possess biological integrity but random assemblages do not. It, therefore, provides justification for management of ecosystems focusing on native species rather than introduced ones. This seems like the logical fallacy of affirming the consequent. However, species composition of lakes exposed to nutrient enrichment or acidification responds more quickly and recovers more slowly than processes like primary production, respiration, and nutrient cycling. Shifts in biotic composition don't necessarily lead to changes in process rates. These observations mean a focus on integrity rather than diversity makes sense but it makes more sense to conclude that species changes are a more sensitive indicator of what is going on than the process changes. Loss of native species from a system is truly a warning of process changes that may have consequences much larger than are suspected.
From the point of view of conservation, there are still many problems.
1. Can it be psossible that constancy or resilience based approaches to diversity-stability hypothesis probably are not true and may not provide a solid conceptual basis for arguing that conservation of biological diversity is an important goal.
2. Is it possible that a less specific version defining stability as a dynamic property related to the degree that the components of a system determine their own future state, provides a plausible basis for the hypothesis. Unfortunately, this version of the hypothesis verges on circularity and is almost immune to empirical investigation. It may also be pointed out that a system that is "stable" with respect to some perturbations like hurricanes, drought, or other extreme weather events may not be stable to others like invasion by exotic plants or animals, extinctions of component species, or other biotic changes. From the point of view of practical conservation applications, the diversity-stability hypothesis seems to provides merely a useful heuristic.
1. High species richness maximizes resource acquisition at each trophic level and the retention of resources in the ecosystem. 2. High species diversity reduces the risk of large changes in ecosystem processes in response to directional or stochastic variation in the environment. 3. High species diversity reduces the probability of large changes in ecosystem processes in response to invasions of pathogens and other species. 4. Landscape heterogeneity most strongly influences those processes or organisms that depend on multiple patch types and are controlled by a flow of organisms, water, air, or disturbance among patches.
Wang and Loreau  developed the last point more formally and suggested that when thinking about a meta-community or meta-ecosystem it is useful to decompose the variability in response across the entire system into components analogous to those used in partitioning species diversity i.e.
1. Variation within the individual components of a meta-community or meta-ecosystem. 2. Variation among different components of a meta-community or meta-ecosystem. 3. Variation across the entire system, the sum (or product) of alpha and beta variation.
Thinking about ecosystem functioning at various scales, as Wang and Loreau suggest, leads to recognition that the experimental focus on diversity and variation in functioning leaves out a vital component for those trying to manage ecosystems that includes a variety of different habitats. Stability at the whole-system level may depend as much or more on retaining those distinct components as it does on stability within any one of them.
2. B Commoner. The Closing Circle. Alfred Knopf, New York, NY, 1972. 3. R MacArthur. Fluctuations of animal populations and a measure of community stability. Ecology, 35:533-536, 1955.
4. B G Norton. Why Preserve Natural Variety? Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1987.
5. Anthony R Ives and Stephen R Carpenter. Stability and Diversity of Ecosystems. Science, 317(5834):58-62, 2007.
7. Noah A Rosenberg, Jonathan K Pritchard, James L Weber, Howard M Cann, Kenneth K Kidd, Lev A Zhivotovsky, and Marcus W Feldman. Genetic structure of human populations. Science, 298(5602):2381-2385, 2002. 8. F S Chapin III, O E Sala, I C Burke, J P Grime, D U Hooper, W K Lauenroth, A Lombard, H A Mooney, A R Mosier, S Naeem, S W Pacala, J Roy, W L Steffen, and D Tilman. Ecosystem consequences of changing biodiversity: experimental evidence and a research agenda for the future. BioScience, 48:45-52, 1998.
9. Shaopeng Wang and Michel Loreau. Ecosystem stability in space: , and variability. Ecology Letters, 17(8):891-901, 2014.


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When we talk about a corridor, we might think of a corridor in a school or an office building that connects classes or offices. Actually, the same definition applies to a transport corridor. Corridors are lines of concentrated socio-economic activity that connect two or more countries. Multi-national transport corridors are viewed in the context of agreements between states that facilitate trade through infrastructure investments and development of commercial services for moving freight.
One can argue that the most successful of all transport corridors is the TEN-T network of the European Union. TEN-T corridors are the pinnacle of transport corridors in the sense that they encourage trade, reduce transport costs, improve access to markets, and promote economic integration.
Within the OIC geography, there are a few transport corridors, such as INSTC (International North-South Transport Corridor) that connects Russia – Azerbaijan – Iran – India, TRACECA (Transport Corridor Europe – Caucasus – Asia), and NTTC (Northern Transit Transport Corridor) that connects Kenya – Uganda – Rwanda – Tanzania – Burundi. The main characteristic shared by the OIC transport corridors is a low degree of intra trade, which is on average less than 10%. This means that the corridor countries trade more with the rest of the world than among themselves. As a comparison, the intra-trade figure of the EU is 50-60%.
Facilitating intra trade is very important, especially in Asia and Africa, which contain many landlocked countries. Ideally, there is substantial trade between landlocked countries along a transport corridor due to the absence of ports. However, this is not the case in the OIC region because of several factors that hinder the trade facilitation. These factors include political tensions between corridor countries that result in border closings, trade restrictions, and even discrimination applied to particular countries. These all create barriers to efficient and smooth trade flows, increase transport costs, and decrease the competitiveness of the goods and the sustainability of the transport system.
A transport corridor has, of course, more than just political and institutional aspects. You can read about other aspects, along with extensive analyses, in the study's final report by following this link. Fimotions presented this study during the 10th Meeting of the COMCEC Transport and Communications Working Group on October 18th-19th 2017. If you are interested in our presentations or other presentations given at this meeting, please visit the website.


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Spending on pets will top $50 billion this year according to the American Pet Products Association. So that means many of you probably have Spot and Fido on your holiday list.If you want to get your dog something unique that is made in Wisconsin, 12 News' Portia Young shows one option in the heart of Waukesha.In a warehouse in Waukesha is a holiday gift idea for your best friend.Dave Baldus is the first guy to invent sweet potato dog treats. What started in farmers' markets caught on."And then distributors saw it, and they wanted it, and they're like, 'When can you supply 180 stores?' And I said, 'It's going to take a while.' I was literally cutting potatoes in my mom's garage in Wauwatosa," Baldus said. That was eight years ago when Baldus came up with the idea for an all-natural dog treat while staring at some leftovers.His sister, Jan Baldus, thought he was nuts."Yes, yes because I was hoping to do something with chocolate. And when he said sweet potatoes I said, 'Wow,'" Jan Baldus said. Dave Baldus hired her and waved goodbye to the corporate world and founded Front Porch Pets.Another sister does the artwork on all the packaging. Their cousin designed the industrial dehydrators that turn the potatoes into an all-natural rawhide.Everything is done by hand from quality control to sorting the potatoes by size, right down to shipping. It takes 30,000 pounds of North Carolina sweet potatoes to make the different varieties of all-natural dog treats that are now sold in holiday sets."I am proud of my brother. I am very proud of him," Jan Bladus said.Twenty-eight people work there and their jobs support countless other jobs that come from being entirely American-made: the farmers, the truck drivers and the pet-store owners."We have not experienced any effects of the recession. We're growing at a pretty good clip. We need another 5,000 square feet pretty soon," Dave Baldus said.And for Dave, there's meaning in the company name."We grew up in a time when people did sit on the front porch, people played cards. We believe in helping our neighbor, so if you buy local, you're helping your neighbor," Dave Baldus said.Front Porch Pets products are in 3,000 stores in every state in America and parts of Canada. They have a patent on their sweet potato design because the way the treats are cut has teeth-cleaning properties.The owner said he expects to almost double his employees next year.
WAUKESHA, Wis. —
Spending on pets will top $50 billion this year according to the American Pet Products Association. So that means many of you probably have Spot and Fido on your holiday list.
If you want to get your dog something unique that is made in Wisconsin, 12 News' Portia Young shows one option in the heart of Waukesha.
In a warehouse in Waukesha is a holiday gift idea for your best friend.
Dave Baldus is the first guy to invent sweet potato dog treats. What started in farmers' markets caught on.
"And then distributors saw it, and they wanted it, and they're like, 'When can you supply 180 stores?' And I said, 'It's going to take a while.' I was literally cutting potatoes in my mom's garage in Wauwatosa," Baldus said.
That was eight years ago when Baldus came up with the idea for an all-natural dog treat while staring at some leftovers.
His sister, Jan Baldus, thought he was nuts.
"Yes, yes because I was hoping to do something with chocolate. And when he said sweet potatoes I said, 'Wow,'" Jan Baldus said.
Dave Baldus hired her and waved goodbye to the corporate world and founded Front Porch Pets.
Another sister does the artwork on all the packaging. Their cousin designed the industrial dehydrators that turn the potatoes into an all-natural rawhide.
Everything is done by hand from quality control to sorting the potatoes by size, right down to shipping.
It takes 30,000 pounds of North Carolina sweet potatoes to make the different varieties of all-natural dog treats that are now sold in holiday sets.
"I am proud of my brother. I am very proud of him," Jan Bladus said.
Twenty-eight people work there and their jobs support countless other jobs that come from being entirely American-made: the farmers, the truck drivers and the pet-store owners.
"We have not experienced any effects of the recession. We're growing at a pretty good clip. We need another 5,000 square feet pretty soon," Dave Baldus said.
And for Dave, there's meaning in the company name.
"We grew up in a time when people did sit on the front porch, people played cards. We believe in helping our neighbor, so if you buy local, you're helping your neighbor," Dave Baldus said.
Front Porch Pets products are in 3,000 stores in every state in America and parts of Canada. They have a patent on their sweet potato design because the way the treats are cut has teeth-cleaning properties.
The owner said he expects to almost double his employees next year.


Create a table to dine for by using this excellent white 4 section dip bowl designed to hold savoury snacks. The bowl has been taken from the chunky white dining collection. Dimensions: 20cm x 20cm x 5cm.


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If you have any questions, I will answer them as best and quickly as I can. The item "RARE Snap On Tools SSDMRM103O Miniature Ratcheting ORANGE Mini Screwdriver Set" is in sale since Monday, March 11, 2019. This item is in the category "eBay Motors\Automotive Tools & Supplies\Hand Tools\Wrenches". The seller is "golfusmc" and is located in Fairmont, Minnesota. This item can be shipped worldwide.


Millions worldwide are affected by Leaky Gut Syndrome but unfortunately, many are unaware of the symptoms and treatment. In this article, we will go into detail about how to heal a leaky gut.
Fixing a leaky gut sounds like patching just one problem. But in fact when you heal a leaky gut you reduce the chances of several other health problems occurring.
The tricky part is that it can show up differently from person to person. So diagnosing is not always as direct as one might hope.
Sounds like an excessive list but think of a leaky gut as the start of a domino effect to a world of problems. The stomach lining and bacteria culture are central to so many functions in the body. From the immune system to the central nervous system. It is so crucial in fact that the science community as named it the SECOND BRAIN.
Kind of hard to imagine that gurgling source in your belly as being the brain, but it is so true. In fact, there is a major nerve that runs from the stomach lining to the brain called the VEGUS NERVE. No, not vegas. That's a whole other kit and caboodle.
The vegus nerve connects not only the brain but a multitude of other crucial organs. In very real terms if you set fire to the gut via poor eating habits, you set fire to the brain. Another way to look at this is that your gut health has a very real impact on your mental health.
If you have an inflamed gut you will thus have an inflamed brain. Let me explain how that flows.
Imagine for a moment your gut was making you drunk. Not in a fun, let's tie one off for the weekend kind of thing, but the next day when you are crawling through a bag of Cheetos thinking about your poor life choices drunk.
This is what can happen with the overgrowth of candida (yeast) we mentioned above.
The glucose in your system is meant to be turned into lactic acid to be used as water and energy. When you factor in a candida overgrowth, which is a byproduct of a leaky gut, that glucose goes through a fermentation process instead which converts it into acetaldehyde.
Acetaldehyde is what causes the hangover effect from alcohol. So when you have a leaky gut, you are having all the effects of a hangover without the fun of having been drunk.
Causes of a Leaky Gut.
Foods like Aspartame, canned foods, GMO's, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Processed Foods, Sugar, Trans Fats. Start an elimination diet. You can't expect to win all at once. It's like that old saying if something doesn't add up, start subtracting. This is where you should start. Sugar alone can cause a leaky gut, but it may not be the only irritant. You can start a food journal, cut out alcohol and sugars, take a look at any medications and ask yourself if they are doing more harm than good. A simple method is to consider this; if it has a label its a product and you better know what's in it, if not its food.
One effective method is using the GAPS diet to correct the situation. So many of us rush to pills and replacement shakes because we are so rushed in life that we cannot be bothered with consuming whole foods. Stop it, just stop it. Your health matters more than anything else on your mind, and to keep healthy you have to make time to eat whole foods. Keep in mind that as your body heals you need to remove all that toxic build up so make sure you get lots of fiber to flush out those toxins.
I suggest adding digestive enzymes as they will give your digestion system a jump start. This is going to help in a huge way for you to break down nutrients and give your body the fuel it needs to function properly. It's one thing to eat the right things it's another to be able to break it down properly to absorb them. I also recommend Glutamine which will repair all that damage to the stomach lining. This will heal that gut in such a powerful way.
Now that you have a healthy got let's regrow the population of bacteria that was lost initially. This is the good bacteria that will improve your metabolism, immune system and assist in the absorption of minerals and vitamins. You can do this by eating probiotic yogurt or supplements, or you can eat fermented foods.
Now that you have all that down, just work on one more thing as you go forward. Be mindful of the things you eat. Don't eat something just because it pleases your palate. Eat mindfully, know what your body needs and meet that need.


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Takiyah Nur Amin, Ph.D.
"As an educator, I use dance as an entry point to encourage students to think critically about issues of history, society and culture. My commitment in any course I teach, is to foster in my students a desire for lifelong learning, creative exploration and the development of a critical perspective that is grounded and well-informed..."
"Learning is a place where paradise can be created." - bell hooks
Dr. Amin's primary teaching interests are dance history,
black aesthetics and popular culture, dance research methods and global dance traditions. She is Assistant Professor of World Dance at UNC Charlotte where she teaches courses in dance history and theory in the liberal studies curriculum, Department of Dance and College of Art and Architecture Honors Program.
Dr. Amin is not teaching during the Fall 2014 semester.
For bookings and speaking engagements, click here.
@UNC Charlotte
DANC 3222 - Dance History II
This 3 - credit course focuses on various major historical and cultural influences affecting the development of concert dance in the 20th century. The course focuses primarily on concert dance as it emerged as a part of the western theatrical dance tradition in the United States though attention will be given to the development of performance traditions in other parts of the world as well. Socio-political issues evidenced in choreography will be engaged through lectures, discussions, film and video.
LBST 1101 - Arts & Society: Dance
This 3 - credit course provides an introduction to dance in the context of the arts and society. We will explore the similarities among selected dance traditions from around the world in terms of their functionality and we will examine how 20th and 21st century American concert dance, social dance and popular entertainment dance reflect those traditions. We will also study socio-political issues evidenced in choreography through lectures, discussion, film video and live dance performance.
LBST 1101H - Comparative World Dance (Honors)
This course provides an introduction to dance in the context of the arts and society. We will explore the similarities among selected dance traditions from around the world in terms of their functionality and we will examine how 20th and 21st century American concert dance, social dance and popular entertainment dance reflect those traditions. We will also study socio-political issues evidenced in choreography through lectures, discussion, film/ video and live dance performance. The course will be writing intensive and engage students around issues of performance, migration, colonialism, post-colonialism and notions of "diaspora" while encouraging them to connect class concepts to their own experiences
@Colorado College
Social History of Dance: African, Asian, South American & European Dance Traditions
This course will explore contemporary and traditional dances from African, Asian, South American and European Dance traditions through observation (primarily on film) and practice. We will explore cultural codes expressed in dance that both reflect and affect social and political change. We will investigate dances in the social, religious and political context of each tradition including the influence of immigration, trade routes, the institution of slavery and travel in the development of new dances from across the globe.
Topics in Dance: Black Aesthetics in American Dance
This course will examine the development of The Black Aesthetic from its genesis in cultural nationalist discourses of the Black Power/Black Arts Movement of the 1960's and 1970's in the U.S. and its subsequent impact on concert dance. Students will examine primary source documents and choreography from the selected period in order to identify Black performance aesthetics and understand dance as a mechanism through which culture, politics and identity may be ascertained. In so doing, students will be equipped to analyze the creative work of non-White dance artists within an appropriate and applicable socio-cultural context that is both relevant and critical. Moreover, it should be understood that the course, in looking at the work of Black dance artists posits the notion that such artists exist simultaneously within, outside of and in conversation with a Western societal context. The course illuminates the work of these artists who have been marginalized within mainstream discourses in an effort to shift the existing paradigms and challenge assumptions about dance making and the relationship(s) between dance and cultural politics.
@Temple University
Dance Postmodernism in America: 1950s to Present
This course explores the philosophies and choreographic work of Sokolow, Pomare, Ailey, Beatty, Cunningham, Hawkins, Taylor, Nikolais, Pilobolus, Brown, Childs, Rainer, Tharp, Paxton, Jones, Fagan, Morris and others vis-a-vis cultural, social, and historical developments in the second half of the 20th century in America. The class will explore cultural forces such as jazz dance, tap dance, social dancing, and the American ballet, as well as figures from the related arts, such as filmmakers, painters, media artists, and composers who worked with post-modern dancers. The emphasis will be on contextual and critical modes of historical inquiry.
Dance in Human Society
The course offers students an opportunity to explore the many ways that dance can function as both a social and cultural mode of expression amongst various groups across the globe. Through video observation, readings, and dancing, students will be exposed to the many faces of dance as an expression of identity and cultural ethos-- dance as art, religion, social custom, and political action will be examined as evidenced across human societies. The course will look at dance in various cultural groups in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. Students will explore the cultural and social significance of dance from an anthropological perspective, threading common themes and exploring the many contrasts.
Foundations of Cultural Studies
This course examines performance structures, social paradigms, and dominant themes. The course is taught from a comprehensive, comparative perspective of intersecting identities, including race, gender, class, and sexuality by examining and discussing major theorists in the field and analyzing performances based on those theorists. This course also traces the intellectual heritage of cultural studies vis-a-vis scholars, artists, educators, activists, workers, and community members. The lectures, readings, video viewings, discussions, and movement experiences attempt to examine the diversity and similarities in cultures.
@Virginia Tech
Black Aesthetics (Dance)
A definition of those qualities of black American arts which distinguish it from traditional U.S. arts through an analysis of theme, form, and technique as they appear in a representative sample of works by black creative artists.
Introduction to Afro-American History
The Afro-American experience in the United States from 1619 to 1877.