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The title of this article is conjectural. Although it is based on canonical information, the actual name is conjecture and may be supplanted at any time by additional information released from canonical sources. If this occurs, please move this page to the appropriate title.
The two[1] children of Dudley Dursley and Mrs. Dursley were Muggles.[2] They would occasionally be visited by their magical cousins, the two sons and daughter of their father's cousin Harry Potter. While they played with James, Albus, and Lily, the children's fathers would sit silently together.[3] Their fathers, Dudley and Harry, were on "Christmas Card" terms; which is to say, reasonably cordial, and in the habit of exchanging seasonal pleasantries such as Christmas cards, but weren't really quite friends. It is unknown if Dudley's children were male or female or if they were as fat or spoiled as Dudley was in his childhood.
Behind the scenes
- Rowling once considered having Dudley show up at Platform 9 3/4 with a magical child in the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but later changed her mind, stating that "any latent wizarding genes would never survive contact with Uncle Vernon's DNA."[2]
- It is unknown whether Dudley's children know about magic. Harry Potter might have advised his children not to discuss magic around these Muggles and, if Dudley is anything like his father, he probably would never have mentioned the incidents where Harry used magic at 4 Privet Drive. Though, this can not be said for sure.
- J.K.Rowling Official Site (Mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ After "Harry Potter", J. K. Rowling's First Novel for Adults at The New Yorker
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Harry and Dudley: Future Hope?" on J.K. Rowling's Official Site
- ↑ 19 October 2007 J.K. Rowling at Carnegie Hall

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The smell of cedar is filling the state capitol tonight. That's because a Christmas tree is sitting in the entrance way to the governor's office.
The tree was donate by the Camacho family and presented by Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam. It's a red cedar grown in Florida.
Putnam says thousands of Florida trees are sold every holiday season. "About 14-thousand Florida Christmas trees will be sold. Millions more will be bought for homes across the country, but about 14-thousand of those will be Florida grown Christmas Trees."
Besides the tree, the capitol is also festooned with a Menorah in celebration of Hanukkah.
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Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary shall make grants and provide technical assistance to tribes for the development and operation of tribal departments or divisions of education for the purpose of planning and coordinating all educational programs of the tribe.
(b) Applications
For a tribe to be eligible to receive a grant under this section, the governing body of the tribe shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require.
(c) Diversity
The Secretary shall award grants under this section in a manner that fosters geographic and population diversity.
(d) Use
Tribes that receive grants under this section shall use the funds made available through the grants—
(1) to facilitate tribal control in all matters relating to the education of Indian children on reservations (and on former Indian reservations in Oklahoma);
(2) to provide for the development of coordinated educational programs (including all preschool, elementary, secondary, and higher or vocational educational programs funded by tribal, Federal, or other sources) on reservations (and on former Indian reservations in Oklahoma) by encouraging tribal administrative support of all Bureau-funded educational programs as well as encouraging tribal cooperation and coordination with entities carrying out all educational programs receiving financial support from other Federal agencies, State agencies, or private entities; and
(e) Priorities
In making grants under this section, the Secretary shall give priority to any application that—
(1) includes—
(2) includes assurances that all education programs for which funds are provided by such a contract or grant will be monitored and audited, by or through the tribal department of education, to ensure that the programs meet the requirements of law; and
(3) provides a plan and schedule that—
(A) provides for—
(i) the assumption, by the tribal department of education, of all assets and functions of the Bureau agency office associated with the tribe, to the extent the assets and functions relate to education; and
(B) provides that the assumption shall occur over the term of the grant made under this section, except that, when mutually agreeable to the tribal governing body and the Assistant Secretary, the period in which such assumption is to occur may be modified, reduced, or extended after the initial year of the grant.
(f) Time period of grant
Subject to the availability of appropriated funds, a grant provided under this section shall be provided for a period of 3 years. If the performance of the grant recipient is satisfactory to the Secretary, the grant may be renewed for additional 3-year terms.
(g) Terms, conditions, or requirements
A tribe that receives a grant under this section shall comply with regulations relating to grants made under section 450h (a) of this title that are in effect on the date that the tribal governing body submits the application for the grant under subsection (b) of this section. The Secretary shall not impose any terms, conditions, or requirements on the provision of grants under this section that are not specified in this section.
Source(Pub. L. 95–561, title XI, § 1140, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title X, § 1042,Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 2059.)
Prior Provisions
A prior section 2020,Pub. L. 95–561, title XI, § 1140, as added Pub. L. 103–382, title III, § 381,Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 4011, related to voluntary services, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 107–110. See section 2012 of this title.
Another prior section 2020,Pub. L. 95–561, title XI, § 1140, as added Pub. L. 98–511, title V, § 511,Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2397; amended Pub. L. 99–89, § 8,Aug. 15, 1985, 99 Stat. 383, related to voluntary services, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 103–382.
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I'm new here, as I posted on the member introduction forum!
I would love to offer payment for anyone who is willing to do this, unfortunately, it just isn't possible while being a full time student and only a part time employee, but, I am willing to set aside a few bucks at a time for a full on commission price later down the road.
This is just going to be a basic sketch. Originally, I was going for a full blown map, but, I'm not gonna ask for someone to devote that much time if I can't offer payment. I just want a decent looking sketch of the world, that offers basic info/details. Where mountain ranges are, kingdom/empire/tribal locations and so on.
Tentatively though, this is probably unpaid, though I listed it as "other" because I really don't want it to be, it's just the inability to pay at the moment.
Anyway, into the nitty gritty of the details.
As far as style goes, I'd love it to be more or less in the kind of art style as a Jon Robert's type of work - very earthen/realistic colors, where the greens and browns look natural, and the roads/rivers blend in, and don't stick out like a sore thumb.
This just needs to be a basic sketch though of the map, as I realize doing anything more definitely warrants a commission that I can't offer at the moment.
The tricky thing is, I am horrible at making the world map. I try and I try, and I'm never satisfied, because I know my skills are bad at this. I know where I'd love things to go, and I have the base lore down, so anyone willing to assist would be able to get most of the info that way, it's a matter of filling in the blanks, and putting it all down. It'd probably be a bit too much of an information dump to put it all here, but I will give some base descriptions:
- North East is the home of a bunch of city states (on the western part of the north east) and a single mercenary city state (on the eastern part)
- South of that area is the big Empire known as the Broans
- In the middle are the Barbarian Mountains, which curve over into a chain on the north west - below them are the icy tundra and the Northern Kingdoms
- Below the Northern Kingdoms are the Kogan Wastes, a nasty swamp land full of reptilian beasts
- East of the Wastes opens up into the vast grasslands of Arrus, one of the largest Kingdoms, that stretches all the way to the eastern coast
- Situated slightly north of Arrus is Silverford, a smaller kingdom
- South of all that is the El-Shahadii desert, and more expansion of the Arrus Kingdom
Those are some base details, and there are plenty more in a big word document.
Right now this just needs to be a basic sketch of the world map, with locations noted on the map.
Size right now just needs to be a computer copy, but being printable is definitely a bonus.
I would love the full on access of this map, but, assuming I were to ever be successful in my undertaking, anyone who assists me in world building, in map building, etc. would get credit/compensation/etc.
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A protagonist is the main character of a story, and the main playable character in the Grand Theft Auto games.
Traditionally, a protagonist is the main figure of a piece of literature or drama and has the main part or role. Alternatively, the phrase denotes a primary advocate or proponent for a cause or movement. The main character can be a hero or a villain in a story - it is just the character with the lead role. In literature, the protagonist is characterized by his/her ability to change or evolve.
It should be pointed out that the protagonist is not always the hero of the story, as implied in the Grand Theft Auto games, where they are sometimes called as anti-hero. They may commit crimes of some sort, (which the protagonists of the GTA games certainly do) but he/she is still considered the lead character, and is known to help out his/her friends, allies or close associates.
The protagonists between Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto IV share similar qualities. Most protagonists are new to town, either returning after a long time gone (such as Carl Johnson and Toni Cipriani) or have never been to the city before (such as Claude, Tommy Vercetti, Victor Vance and Niko Bellic). The protagonists usually start with nothing, with minimal influence and reputation, having to do odd jobs around for various small-timers, gaining friends and allies (like Maria Latore, Asuka Kasen, Avery Carrington, Wu Zi Mu, and Little Jacob) before moving up the social and economical ladder, attempting to rise through the criminal underworld, although their motives for doing so vary in each game. They eventually start establishing a name for themselves in the town, doing real jobs, making bigger and more powerful friends and business partners, and cutting real deals as their prominence, respect, money, and reputation begins to grow, until they end the game on top of the city, or at least with some powerful business and/or friends. An abnormal protagonist would be Luis Fernando Lopez who has always lived in Liberty City and has already established a name, powerful friends, and is high up on the social and economical ladder at the start of the game. Protagonists (up to Grand Theft Auto V) have a consistent distaste of drugs, and while dealing and working with them, never intentionally use them. However, the three protagonists in the game can use drugs in their safehouses - Franklin and Michael smoking weed, while Trevor smokes meth.
- Main article: Antagonist
The opposite of a protagonist is an antagonist, which is the main enemy of the protagonist and works against the protagonist and his actions. Again, this can be a villain or a hero, though usually a villain.
The main antagonists of the Grand Theft Auto games are usually introduced very early in the story, usually as the protagonist's friend or acquaintance until a major, personal betrayal (like Catalina, Sonny Forelli, Big Smoke, Jerry Martinez and Dimitri Rascalov) these betrayals can be done by not just main antagonists but antagonists in general. They are usually seen, heard, or mentioned throughout the game, moving against the protagonists' plans or goals, while the protagonist continues his quest for vengeance, and will not appear after their betrayal until they are finally confronted in some big event by the protagonist at the end of the game and will be killed thus completing his problems and wraps up the main storyline mission. An abnormal antagonist is Massimo Torini; he makes the least amount of appearances than all the other antagonists in the other games (only 2 mission appearances).
List of protagonists
List of Ally Groups
Protagonist: Claude
Group: None
Group reason: While Claude does maintain a close friendship and working relationship with the Yakuza and the Leone Family over the course of the game, he always acts freelance and never makes a commitment to any gang. He also maintains relations with the Southside Hoods, who at the end of the game become one of the few gangs not hostile to Claude.
Protagonist: Tommy Vercetti
Group: Vercetti Gang
Group reason: Tommy founded the Vercetti gang after taking over Ricardo Diaz's empire in Vice City. The actual name "Vercetti Gang" spawned when Tommy bought Kaufman Cabs and Delores tells the employees that the "Vercetti Gang" owns it now, and then the name sticks. Tommy also maintains good relations with Umberto's Cuban Street gang and Mitch Baker's Vice City Bikers gang.
Protagonist: Carl Johnson
Group: Grove Street Families
Group reason: Carl's brother, Sweet, is a leader of the gang and therefore makes Carl second in command. Carl has friendly relationships with the Triad leader Wu Zi Mu, and Varrios Los Aztecas leader Cesar Vialpando.
Protagonist: Mike
Group: None
Group reason: Mike, like Claude, also maintains close friendships with some gangs yet has never made a commitment to one as he is first working for the Mafia yet is allies with Cisco, the leader of the Colombian Cartel.
Protagonist: Toni Cipriani
Group: Leone Family
Group reason: Toni's parents possibly were in the Leone Family (as hinted by his mother in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories), but it is never given how he joined the family. He is close friends with Don Salvatore Leone and is made Caporegime later in the game and keeps his position well into GTA III.
Protagonist: Victor Vance
Group: Vance Crime Family
Group reason: After leaving the Trailer Park Mafia, Vic and his brother Lance, who would become Vance Crime Family Underboss, started the gang to make money for their asthmatic brother Pete and rise up in the criminal enterprise. Victor begins to work for the Mendez' organization and Diaz' organization in order to increase his influence. Victor also maintains good relationship with Umberto Robina's gang. Victor was murdered by a group of hitmen, during a drug deal with Tommy Vercetti in the begining of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Protagonist: Niko Bellic
Group: None
Group reason: Like with Claude and Mike, Niko works freelance and even though he befriends several gang leaders he does not commit himself to only one. The Jamaican Posse and the McReary Mob have and will always be allied with Niko due to his friendships with Little Jacob and Packie McReary. Niko also has a sort of connection with and receives protection from the Gambetti Family after he forms a bond with their leader, Jon Gravelli shortly before his death. He can also have connections with the North Holland Hustlers, if the player chooses to kill Playboy X instead of Dwayne Forge.
Protagonist: Johnny Klebitz
Group: The Lost Brotherhood
Group reason: Johnny is the Vice President of The Lost biker gang, and is a full on member as well. He also was best friends with Billy Grey, the President of The Lost, until the latter was imprisoned and the presidential torch passed to Johnny. Johnny was murdered by Trevor Phillips, one of three protagonists in Grand Theft Auto V, for speaking unkindly to him.
Protagonist: Luis Fernando Lopez
Group: Northwood Dominican Drug Dealers
Group reason: Luis works for Anthony Prince, who isn't a part of any specific organization. He is also friends with the Northwood Dominican Drug Dealers' members Armando Torres and Henrique Bardas, and depending other the player, can spend time building up their drug empire.
Protagonist: Huang Lee
Group: Algonquin Triads
Group reason: Huang's father was head of the gang before he was killed for the Yu Jian Sword.
Protagonist: Michael De Santa
Group: None
Group reason: Although he is a friend of Franklin Clinton, which is a gang member, Michael is not part of any group.
Protagonist: Franklin Clinton
Group: The Families
Group reason: He owns a house in that gang's area and he was probably born there. He also operates with Lamar Davis, who is heavily involved with The Families.
Protagonist: Trevor Philips
Group: Trevor Philips Enterprises
Group reason: He lives in a trailer at Sandy Shores. He also operates with Ron Jakowski, and Oscar Guzman if the Mackenzie Field is purchased. Trevor deals weapons and drugs.
Protagonist: Online-Player
Group: Trevor Philips Enterprises
The Families
Group reason: New to the city, the Online-Player is attached to no specific group and does jobs for various types of people.
- Niko, Johnny, Luis and Huang have criminal records in the LCPD Database, and each have the crime "Grand Theft Auto" listed.
- GTA 1 and GTA Online are the only games into the series to feature the ability to play as a female protagonist.
- No GTA has had a character that is cannonically female.
- A graffiti design throughout the city in GTA IV suggests that all the protagonists from the GTA III era are deceased, with the names "Claude ", "Tommy", "Carl", "Toni" and "Vic" alongside remembrance graffiti. However, this is not necessarily saying they have died (although Victor Vance has been canonically killed), it is possibly just a way of saying that the GTA III era is over, and the characters will not be featured in the future.
- A man resembling CJ can be seen riding a BMX in the GTA V mission Hood Safari.
- Victor Vance and Johnny Klebitz are the only protagonists to have a confirmed death. Out of these two, Johnny is the only one to be killed by another protagonist, being killed by Trevor Philips.
- Also, Michael De Santa and Trevor Philips are the first protagonists whose fates can be decided by the player and both can be killed by the same character as well as a fellow protagonist, Franklin Clinton.
- The Online-Player is the first fully customizable protagonist in GTA history.
- Johnny Klebitz , Mike and Claude are the only protagonists who are not able to change their clothing.
- The protagonists of GTA V (Michael De Santa, Trevor Philips, Franklin Clinton, and the Online Player) seem to have a specific color that represents them in the game. Their colors can be seen when activating their special abilities and when switching to them as the screen will tint into their color.
- Michael's color is light blue.
- Trevor's color is orange.
- Franklin's color is green (possibly because of his affiliation with The Families, whose signature color is green).
- The Online Player's color is dark blue. Originally yellow as seen in the GTA Online Gameplay Trailer.
- Michael De Santa is the oldest playable protagonist in the series as he is 45-48 years old during the events of GTA V.
- Franklin Clinton, Luis Fernando Lopez, and Huang Lee are all the only protagonists to share the same age, at 25 years old. Although Huang may be 26 as GTA Chinatown Wars is set at some point in 2009.


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The next session of the teen book group will meet Thursday, February 14th, and February 28th at 4:00 in the library auditorium. Books to be discussed are from the Volunteer State Book Award Nominees 2012-2013 List. All teens are welcome to attend and join at any time.


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Creation to New Testament period
Note 12 August 2011: traditional Orthodox Christians will use the Byzantine calculation of the "Etos Kosmou" in conjunction with the "Anno Domini" year for dating. Since, the Byzantine Anno Mundi era was the official calendar of the Eastern Orthodox Church from c. AD 691 to 1728 in the Ecumenical Patriarchate yet much of the information can come from other sources, this article is in the process of requiring to convert and verify the dates into the accepted calendar used by the Orthodox Church. This note will be removed once these dates have been reconciled and can be verified/trusted. The computation is derived from the Septuagint [1] version of the Bible, and places the date of Creation at 5509 years before the Incarnation. Its year one, the supposed date of creation, is 1 September 5509 to 31 August 5508 BC. The Etos Kosmou ("Year of the Universe") is the corresponding concept in the Byzantine calendar.
Creation (1 AM) to the Great Flood
- 1 AM / 5509 BC: Creation of the World, including Adam and Eve.
- 230 AM / 5278 BC: Seth born, Son of Adam and Eve [Genesis 5:3].
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- Enosh born, son of Seth [Genesis 5:6]
- Kenan born, son of Enosh [Genesis 5:9]
- Mahalalel born, son of Kenan [Genesis 5:12]
- Jared born, son of Mahalalel [Genesis 5:15]
- Enoch born, son of Jared [Genesis 5:18]
- Methuselah born, son of Enoch [Genesis 5:21]
- Lamech born, son of Methusaleh [Genesis 5:25]
- 930 AM / 4578 BC: Death of Adam (Aged 930 yo) [Genesis 5:5]
- Enoch "walks with God" [Genesis 5:23-24]
- Seth dies at 912 [Genesis 5:8]
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- Enosh dies at 905 [Genesis 5:11]
- Kenan dies at 910 [Genesis 5:14]
- Mahalalel dies at 895 [Genesis 5:17]
- Jared dies at 962 [Genesis 5:20]
- Shem, Ham and Japheth born, sons of Noah [Genesis 5:32]
- Noah still 500 years old, nearly 501 years old. []
- Lamech dies at 777 [Genesis 5:31]
- Methusaleh dies at 969 [Genesis 5:27]
- On the seventeenth (Septuagint: 27th) day of the second month, the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened. [Genesis 7:4-11]
- On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, Noah's Ark lands on "mountains of Ararat" [Genesis 8:4]
- On the twenty-seventh day of the second month, Noah and his family exit the ark [Genesis 8:13-14]
- Arphaxad born, son of Shem [Genesis 11:10]
- Shem still 100 years old, 2 years after the flood began, nearly 101 years old. []
- 2262 AM The Great Flood (verify)
- Birth of Abraham (convert to Byzantine AM)
- c, Birth of Abraham in Mesopotamia
- 1948 AM: standard Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible
- 2247 AM: Samaritan version of the Torah
- 3312 AM: Greek Septuagint text
- Death of Sarah (Aged 127 yo), buried by Abraham in the Cave of the Patriarchs.
- c, death of Abraham (Aged 175 yo) in Canaan.
Great Flood to Abraham
- 2262 AM / 3247 BC: c, The Great Flood [Genesis 7 and 8].
- 2263 AM / 3246 BC: c, Adam and his family exit the Ark [Genesis 8:13-14].
- 2264 AM / 3245 BC: c, Arpachshad, son of Shem (100 yo), is born [Genesis 11:10].
Abraham to New Testament
- 1550 to 1200 BC
- 1391 BC: Birth of Moses, Egypt.
- 1312 BC: c, Likely commencement of Exodus.
- 1271 BC: Death of the glorious Prophet Moses, God-seer, September 4.
- xxxx BC: Joshua of Navi, September 1.
- temporary list of activity by biblical figures.
- 1146 BC: Samuel the Prophet, August 20.
- 1104 BC: Birth of Kish, father of Saul.
- 1079 BC: Birth of Saul
- 1049 BC: Saul anointed by the prophet Samuel, 1st King of the united Kingdom of Israel and reigned from Gibeah.
- 1029 BC: Death of Kish, father of Saul.
- 1007 BC: c, Saul (Aged 72), Battle of Mount Gilboa, Feast Date.
10th century BC (1000 BC to )
- 1000 BC: Menelik, son of Solomon and Queen of Sheba, visits Jerusalem and steals the Ark of the Covenant (Ethiopian tradition).
- 970 BC: Death of the holy and righteous King David.
9th century BC (900 BC to end of 801 BC)
- The Holy Prophet Hosea (First of the Minor Prophets), tribe of Issachar, October 17.
8th century BC (800 BC to end of 701 BC)
- 778 BC: The prophetic service of Micah begins.
7th century BC (700 BC and ends 601 BC)
- The Holy Prophet Nahum (7th of the 12 Minor prophets) from the village of Elkosh, died 45 years old, December 1.
- 609 BC Death of King Josiah, d. June/July.
6th century BC (600 BC and ends 501 BC)
- 597 BC: Deportation of Jews (first). King Jeconiah.
- 586 BC: Babylonian captivity for the Jews begins. Jerusalem falls to the Babylonians, ending the Kingdom of Judah. The conquerors destroy the Temple of Jerusalem and exile the land's remaining inhabitants.
- 582 BC: Possible deportation of Jews (third).
- 538 BC: Forced exile.
- 536 BC: The holy prophet Daniel receives an angelic visitor.[2]
5th century BC (500 BC and ends 401 BC)
Note: During this period, both Ezra and Nehemiah, leaders of the Jews, return from Babylonian Exile.
- 458 BC: Ezra leads about 1,500 Judean exiles living in Babylon to their home city of Jerusalem, where he enforces observance of the Torah and cleanses the community of mixed marriages. Described in the Book of Ezra 8:2-14.
- 459 BC: Ezra leads the Jews from Babylon to Jerusalem (second lot).
- 413 BC: c, Death of Nehemiah.
4th century BC (400 BC and ends 301 BC)
- 332 BC: Alexander the Great enters Jerusalem.
3rd century BC (300 BC and ends 201 BC)
2nd century BC (200 BC and ends 101 BC)
Last century BC (100 BC and ends 1 BC)
- 44 BC: Julius Caesar murdered.
- 22 BC: c, 19 BC
- The Annunciation to Joachim and Anna [3], December 9.
- The Nativity of the Theotokos, September 8.
- 19 BC: c, 16 BC Presentation of the Theotokos, at the age of three.
- 16 BC: c, 9 BC According to Orthodox tradition Joachim and Anna retire to Wâdî Qilt located in the desert between Jerusalem and Jericho.
5509 AM Byzantine Calendar
The Byzantine Calendar is set on the basis that Jesus Christ was thought to have been born in the year 5509 Annus Mundi (AM) - the year since the creation of the world according to the Spetuagint dating.[5]
- c, Christ is born in Bethlehem, April 17;
- The Magi [6], appear in Matthew 2; The Nativity Sheperds [7], appear in Luke 2.
- Other events: Apostle Paul born in Tarsus; Herod the Great dies.
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Music of Central Asia vol. 2: Invisible Face of the Beloved: Classical Music of the Tajiks and Uzbeks (Academy of Maqam)
6 mins 29 secs (40MB)
Amid the mosques and minarets of Samarkand and Bukhara, generations of vocalists set the mystical, Sufi-inspired verse of Hafiz and other classical poets to lyrical melodies, creating a spiritual art music of great refinement and sublime beauty called Shashmaqâm, confirming its important place among the great art music traditions of Eurasia. 18 tracks. 70 minutes. 44-page booklet, photos, and bilingual lyrics; DVD contains series introduction, 24-minute film, interactive glossary, and map.
Music of Central Asia is a co-production of the Aga Khan Music Initiative, a program of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, and the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The aim of the series is to present leading exponents of Central Asia's rich and diverse musical heritage to listeners outside the region.
Year of Recording 2006
To order, please visit the Smithsonian Folkways website.
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text: Fresh lobster is one of the world's greatest culinary luxuries—and these wild-caught crustaceans are the best we've ever tasted. They're sustainably harvested from Cundy's Harbor, home to the oldest commercial lobster village in Maine, then shipped on the same day they are pulled from the pristine Atlantic waters. The succulent meat has a sweet, delicate flavor—a perfect partner for the creamy richness of melted butter.


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Friday Jun 17 2011
Weidel on Wheels: Volvo's S60 makes a welcomed return
By: Jeffrey Weidel
Contrary to its reputation that can be summed up in one word — stodgy — Volvo has actually produced a vehicle with some real personality, attractive looks, and sporty characteristics. The 2011 Volvo S60 is a mid-size luxury sport sedan. It debuted 10 years ago with a stylish appeal that made it standout in Volvo's conservative lineup of vehicles. However, over the years it became so "yesterday" that Volvo decided not to produce the S60 in 2010 and concentrated on this year's model. The makeover is a good one, once again providing Volvo with a bit of glamour in a mostly dull overall lineup of boxy vehicles. A low roof line and flowing lines make the S60 sleek and appealing to the eye. Based on the S80 platform, the S60 still remains on the small size despite the 2011 model being 2 inches wider, 1 inch longer, and 2.3 inches longer in the wheelbase. Even though the S60 is a star in the Volvo lineup, it faces some tough competition. There are some highly regarded sedans that will give car shoppers plenty of options. Among the S60's rivals are the BMW 3 Series, Infiniti G37, Audi A4, Cadillac CTS, and the Mercedes-Benz C-Class. Style points have never been a calling card for this Swedish automaker. Volvo has always been about safety and that characteristic certainly remains. The S60 has the typical abundance of Volvo safety features. And if car buyers are willing to pay extra for a feature not on the standard list, the Pedestrian Detection system could be tempting. This innovative system can detect pedestrians who are 31 inches or taller, and apply full braking power so a collision is avoided even when the driver fails to properly react. At speeds of 21 mph or less, the S60 will come to a full stop. At higher speeds, the vehicle slows down significantly to avoid a big impact. The driver also has the capability to steer clear of the trouble. Make no mistake, this Volvo can reach high speeds in a hurry. The all-wheel drive S60 has a turbocharged 3.0-liter, inline 6-cylinder engine (hence the T6 label) with 300 horsepower. When pushed, the S60 can get you there in a hurry, going 0 to 60 mph in 6.2 seconds. There are other luxury sport sedans with better driving capability, but don't shortchange the S60. It handles corners with great ease and the precise steering will leave any driver feeling confident and in control. The braking is very responsive and the ride is smooth and quiet. The interior is on the upscale side, featuring high-quality materials, rich brown leather seats, wood accents and good driver visibility. What's not so hot are the numerous small buttons that can be confusing at times. While the front seat offers excellent room and comfort, the backseat is tight for adults. The trunk space is below average as well. __________ 2011 Volvo S60 Price: $37,700 Power: 3.0-liter, turbo-charged inline 6-cylinder engine with 300 horsepower Mileage estimate: 18 mpg city; 26 mpg highway Standard features include: All-wheel drive; sport-tuned suspension; eight-way power driver seat with memory settings; leather upholstery; tilt-and-telescoping steering wheel; dual-zone automatic climate control; auto-dimming rearview mirror; eight-speaker audio system with single-CD player, satellite radio, HD radio, iPod/USB interface, auxiliary audio jack and Bluetooth; stability and traction control; whiplash-reducing front head restraints


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The Veined Tree Frog
Today's Belize Photo of the Day is the Veined Tree Frog or Pepper-Eyed Tree Frog and is scientifically known as Phrynohyas venulosa. The Veined Tree Frog can be found in areas ranging from Mexico, Central America, South America, and some Caribbean Islands. It is a very uncommon species at The Lodge at Chaa Creek and can be found at lower elevations throughout Belize.


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The season is ending for a lot of young local
wrestlers, and their
dreams of Olympic fame may be ending, too.
Paula Wolfson, wtop.com
WASHINGTON – The season is ending for a lot of young local wrestlers, and their dreams of Olympic fame may be ending, too.
The executive board of the International Olympic Committee voted last week to drop wrestling starting with the 2020 summer games.
That decision isn't going down well with the thousands of kids in area wrestling clubs and teams, not to mention their coaches and parents.
"It kinda crushed my dreams because I wanted to be an Olympic wrestler," says 13- year-old Kemper Stearns of Kensington, one of hundreds of young athletes who competed on Sunday in the Montgomery Youth Wrestling League Tournament at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Md.
"I'm disappointed," he says. "It's not fair."
The vote to cut wrestling was made by secret ballot, and was a shock of Olympic proportions.
"It's sad to see it leave the biggest match, the biggest venue," says Blake Godsey of Gaithersburg, the head wrestling coach at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville.
Godsey, who also runs the Bad Karma wrestling club, is the father of two young wrestlers, ages 8 and 10.
He says it may be a while before the youngest wrestlers in the 7-13 county league understand what is happening, but "I think in the end the kids will see, oh wow, that was an opportunity that was lost."
His 10-year old son, Aden, shares his father's devotion to the sport. He says he doesn't understand why the Olympics would drop wrestling. And he says he really feels sorry for wrestlers now in high school and college.
"What about all those people who have made it to the top, are just now getting old enough to wrestle in the Olympics and now they take that away?" he asks.
John McHugh, the former wrestling coach at the University of Maryland, says college wrestlers are probably the ones hardest hit by the IOC executive board's decision.
"I think it shocked them more because that would be the next step after college," McHugh says, noting that most Olympic wrestlers are in their mid-20s.
Now retired, McHugh still helps out with a wrestling club near his Bethesda home. He says the sport is more popular than ever and adds "it is kind of amazing that at the original Olympics, wrestling was probably the premier sport, way back to the Romans and the Greeks. Wrestling and track and field were probably the two primary sports."
McHugh believes the Olympic committee will ultimately reverse the decision. A petition drive is underway, and the U.S. wrestling federation — USA Wrestling — has launched a Facebook page called "Keep Wrestling in the Olympics." Opponents of the decision have also launched a campaign on Twitter with the hashtag #SaveOlympicWrestling.
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text: TRIO Students Receive ScholarshipsVolunteer State Community College TRIO students, Tracy Jones of Adams and Brandy Parker of Hendersonville, recently were awarded 2013 Non-Traditional Scholarships in the amount of $2,000 each from the Women's Economic Council Foundation (WECF). WECF is a networking and educational organization. The students will be recognized at the 10th Annual Economic Summit for Women on October 28 in Nashville. TRIO is the federal Student Support Services program at Vol State. It provides academic assistance and mentoring for students who are the first to attend college in their family or who have challenges in college. For more information about TRIO at Vol State visit: www.volstate.edu/TRIO.


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Zero Dark Thirty
|Release Date: December 19, 2012
|Running Time: 157 mins.
|MPAA Rating: R
|Box Office: $95,720,716.00
|Genre: Action, Thriller
Jessica Chastain
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Joel Edgerton
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Summary:It's been more than a decade since the terror attacks of 2001, but terrorist Osama Bin Laden is still out there, somewhere. A single-minded CIA operative follows leads down a dangerous road that ends in Bin Laden's compound and a raid that will change history.


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MERCER COUNTY, Ohio (21Alive) -- A teen charged in a 2011 double homicide pleaded guilty this morning.
Trevin Sanders Roark is one of two men accused in connection to the murders of father and daughter, Robert and Colleen Grube.
In November 2011, the two were found bound by duct tape and fatally shot in their Fort Recovery, Ohio home.
Sanders Roark, who was 17 at the time, told police he smoked meth with co-defendant, Bryant Rhoades, before concocting a plan to break into the Grube's home because they believed there could be pills, money, electronics, and jewelry inside.
Sanders Roark admitted they agreed to approach the home with a made up story that their car broke down and they needed to use a phone.
Thursday's hearing was supposed to be a motion hearing, but when attorneys arrived, Sanders Roark changed his plea.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of murder with a firearm, two counts of aggravated robbery, and two counts of aggravated battery.
Despite the fact that Sanders Roark was tried in adult court, he cannot face the death penalty because he was a minor at the time of the murders.
His sentencing is set for April 15th.
If given the maximum by the judge, he could get life without the chance of parole for each murder, 6 years for the gun charges, and 44 years for the burglary and robbery charges.
According to court records, Rhoades does not have a set trail date.
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The Brain Chemistry of the Buddha
In 'The God Gene,' geneticist Dean Hamer says human spirituality may have an innate genetic component to it.Health, where he heads the Gene Structure and Regulation section at the National Cancer Institute. In his latest book, Hamer says certain brain chemicals affect higher consciousness and spirituality, and that the actions of these chemicals are linked to a gene his team has researched. He spoke to us recently about "The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes."
What is the God gene?
The God gene refers to the idea that human spirituality has an innate genetic component to it. It doesn't mean that there's one gene that makes people believe in God, but it refers to the fact that humans inherit a predisposition to be spiritual--to reach out and look for a higher being.
A big part of your research involved a "self-transcendence scale" to rate people's spirituality. What is this scale?
As you can imagine, it's not trivial to separate spirituality from more formal aspects of religion, but some psychologists like Robert Cloninger have tried to do that. They use a scale called "self-transcendence."
Overall, it tries to measure a sense of "at-oneness" with the universe independent of formal religious beliefs. More specifically, it actually looks at three different subscales. One of them is called self-forgetfulness: a measure of people's propensity to completely lose themselves in what they're doing, whether it's weeding the garden or meditating or whatever. People who are self-transcendent put less focus on themselves and more on everything outside of them. They see the connections to things.
A psychic component is called "transpersonal identification," a feeling of a sense of unity with everything else in the universe. Then there's a third scale called mysticism or spiritual acceptance which is more like, do you think mystical experiences have changed your life? Do you believe that science can't explain everything? Do you believe that there might be ESP, for example? Believing that there is more going on than meets the eye.
So you studied a certain gene to see how it related to this self-transcendence scale?
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News from industry food companies.
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4. Less is more. Select fewer products, and stock them deeper than usual.
The organic food industry should be on alert for five fraudulent organic certificates circulating in the market, according to the USDA's National Organic Program (NOP). The certificates falsely represent a slew of products from producers in various countries, including blueberries, cranberries and other berries from Russia; green coffee, green tea and hot chocolate from China; bell peppers and tomatoes from the Dominican Republic; several products including honey, teas, seeds and spices from Kuwait; and various other vegetables from another Chinese company.
Orlando, FL—Vitamin C is necessary for everyone, although one study presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2011 suggests daily intake is even more important for those with existing heart conditions.
Fukuoka, Japan—Researchers from Japan's Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences at Kyushu University and Daiichi Sangyo Co., Ltd., have discovered a possible anti-cancer agent in brown seaweed.
Washington, D.C.—The 15th Annual Natural Products Day (hosted by the Natural Products Association [NPA]) is slated to be held on Tuesday, March 27.
Arlington Heights, IL—Carlson Laboratories is offering free red aprons to retailers to help raise awareness about women's heart health.
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Reed Garrett
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|Minor Character: New York
|Reed Garrett
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| Claire Conrad Taylor (Mother;deceased)
Mac Taylor (Step-Father)
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|Modus Operandi
|No. of Victims
|Portrayed By
|Kyle Gallner
|First Appearance
Reed Garrett is the son of Claire Conrad Taylor, Mac's late wife.
Early Life
Claire had given birth to Reed when she was very young, and had put him up for adoption long before she met Mac. At first, Reed had mistakenly believed that Stella Bonasera was Claire, having observed the close friendship between Mac and Stella. After he learned the truth, Reed was reluctant to connect with Mac, because Mac was not his biological father, though Mac has since become a de facto stepfather for him.
Season Three
Reed is first seen, wearing a yellow hooded jacket, eavesdropping on Danny Messer and Stella's conversation before Stella spotted him, causing Reed to run as Danny and Stella soon chase after him, but he escapes them by catching a bus. Reed later eavesdrops on Mac and Stella's conversation before being spotted by Stella again and is caught by Mac. He asks Stella if he was Claire Conrad, which Mac realizes is his dead wife's name. (Consequences")
Mac visited Reed at his home for Thanksgiving, and gave him photos of Claire. (Sweet Sixteen)
Later Reed and Mac bonded further, when Reed's friend at college was murdered and Reed himself assaulted. (Some Buried Bones) Reed also learned that the body of his mother has, to date, never been recovered from the World Trade Center site.
Season Four
Reed is shown to have become interested in journalism, putting him at odds with Mac while trying to follow a case where a serial killer goes on the loose killing victims in a taxicab. He unknowingly entered the killer's cab, but the driver doesn't kill him and instead gives him information on the "cabbie killer" to post on his blog. (Personal Foul)
Reed reported on his blog confidential information regarding the cabbie killer case, provided by a secret source who turned out to be the serial killer himself. (Taxi) He inadvertently caused the murder of an innocent New Jersey cop who was moonlighting as a cabbie.
After the Cabbie Killer realized the reach of Reed's blog, he kidnapped Reed to help him get his 'message' out to the public. When Mac discovered Reed's location, cops were sent immediately.
Later, Mac left the hospital with Reed; Mac called for a taxi.
Season Six
Reed's final appearance is when he asks Mac to meet him at Mac's favorite deli, where they talk about the victim, who was also Reed's friend and that the victim's partner called him for help. They later meet him and when he sees Mac, he runs away, which Reed tells Mac that the killer was a cop. Later, when the case was closed, Reed showed Mac the friend's blog, congratulating the NYPD on helping the gold scam. Reed later offers Mac a drink and chat, but Mac asks for a raincheck. Reed later runs into the elevator before it closes. ("Pot of Gold")
- Season Three: Sweet Sixteen, Some Buried Bones
- Season Four: Personal Foul, Taxi
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I LOVE ELEMENTS. When I get a new kit I always check out all of the elements and then look at the papers.
Not to see the beautiful paper or to pick out which one I'll use in my layout but to see what other elements are hidden in the papers.
Often I can pull another 1-2 elements out of the papers that most people overlook.
If you have extracted parts of the paper for elements, post your example here.Here is an example.
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See the corner pieces on the right top and bottom of the page.
They are from one of the pieces of paper that came with the kit.
I just extracted where the swirl stopped, added some of the brads in the kit, and I got this cute ribbon holder.
And if you want to learn how to do extractions and many other fabulous techniques, check out the GDS classes.
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Wall Street Watch: Hollywood's Bean Counters Are Smiling Again
After several weeks of lackluster showings, theaters were busy last weekend. Sony's Hotel Transylvania rang up $43 million in ticket sales, making it the largest September opening -- ever. The industry hopes to keep it going this weekend, relying on familiar franchises.


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He's not just your boy, he's your boy wonder. Give him the Robin Teen Titan Boy's Costume to wear on Halloween. It comes with a jumpsuit, cape, belt, and eye mask. The suit is classic Robin and features green pants and sleeves and a red and yellow top. There's a yellow "R" inside a black circle on the chest. The belt is yellow with black details and is extra wide on the sides. The long cape is yellow and black. There's also a silver and black eye mask. Superhero boots are available separately. Robin, who is usually Batman's sidekick, is also the leader of the superhero team called the Teen Titans. They are a small group of sidekicks who fight evil and crime. The Robin Teen Titan Boy's Costume is every kid's dream outfit.
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Johnny R./ GGDs did a surprise drop by to play a couple of tunes in our Lounge! I LOVE MY JOB! The Goo Goo Dolls have a new album coming out May 7th called 'Magnetic'. The first single 'Rebel Beat'. He played it for us, and then he got in some classic Goo w/ Broadway. Check them out! Johnny is such a cool HOTTIE!!
(Unofficially sponsored by 'DROID'.. you'll catch it around 1 minute mark during the new tune 'Rebel Beat'. Love finding out new things about my new phone in use. Now to find that annoying setting and get it hushed up! Interrupting Johnny... GGGRRR!)


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Tidy up. This do-it-all Sink Caddy keeps all of your dishwashing tools nicely organized in one simple space. Store bottles and brushes in the main compartment, hang dishcloths on the rail and lay sponges on the draining plate.
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"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." Eleanor Roosevelt
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I can confirm 30+ less sales for Scotland vs Italy at Workington, after this afternoons test purchase for the Tonga match, £7.50 is extremely reasonable, however a £2.50 'delivery' fee for a walk in purchase is beyond taking the mickey, good luck with that, it's cheaper on the telly.
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fair campaign and good marketing by the leigh club. I hope it works well for em. They've recruited well so a great opportunity to push this cmpaign on the back of that recruitment!
Leigh Centurions news release
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Great! Maybe they'll launch WHY BIN CCGF aimed at all the SL fans who don't ever support the Championship Grand Finals day.
In other news, the RFL have launched their new campaign WHY BIN WC 2013, aimed at lapsed Championship fans planning to boycott the World Cup.
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/234196
- Title
- Fabrication of Ti14Nb4Sn alloys for bone tissue engineering applications
- Author(s)
- Mediaswanti, Kun; Truong, Vi Khanh; Hasan, Jafar; Li, Yuncang; Wen, Cuie; Ivanova, Elena P.; Berndt, C. C.; Malherbe, Francois; Wang, James
- Abstract
- In this paper, porous Ti14Nb4Sn alloys were fabricated using a space holder sintering method, resulting in a porosity of ~70%. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analyses revealed a combination of both macropore and micropore structures. The fabricated titanium alloy scaffolds exhibited a similar structure to that of natural bone, which is expected to improve bone implant longevity. Bacterial cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 9027 were employed for the in vitro test.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Industrial Research Institute Swinburne
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- Key Engineering Materials: Powder Metallurgy of Titanium: selected papers from the Symposium on Powder Processing and Metallurgy of Titanium, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 07-11 December 2011 / Ma Qian (ed.), Vol. 520 (2012), pp. 214-219
- Publication year
- 2012
- Keyword(s)
- Bacterial attachment; Niobium; Porous titanium alloys; Space-holder sintering; Tin
- Publisher
- Trans Tech Publications
- 1662-9795 (series ISSN)
- 9783037854686, 3037854685
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- Copyright © (2012) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.
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Nice! This is something that I actually has considered doing myself. I am happy that you do it, since I don't have any time to do it right now, and I really like to see this generator in action.
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Climax community
Climax Rakiura Island temperate forest, Ulva Island, New Zealand. @ C.Michael Hogan
In ecology, a climax community is a biological association of flora and fauna which has attained an equilibrium condition. Such a circumstance comes about because the climax community is composed of species best adapted to conditions in that specific locale, and as an association this assembly of organisms has out-competed predecessory ecosystems in this microclimate and soils niche; in reality, there are numerous abiotic factors that comprise the set of niche parameters, including soil pH, nutrients available and topography. The attainment of a climax community arises through a process of ecological succession, e.g. the development of vegetation and fauna in an area over time; in fact, properly speaking the community includes lower lifeforms such as bacteria, algae and archaea. The climax designation is sometimes also applied in soil temporal development.
Origin of the concept
Frederic Clements (1874-1945)
The idea of a single climax ecological state, which is alternatively called climatic climax community, originated with Frederic Clements in the early twentieth century. The first analysis of succession as leading to a climax phenomenon was actually articulated by Henry Cowles in 1899, but it was Clements who used the term climax to describe the idealized endpoint of ecological succession.
Clements described the successional development of an ecological communities as comparable to the ontogenetic development of individual organisms. Clements suggested only comparisons to very simple organisms. Later ecologists developed the concept that the ecological community is a superorganism, and some scientists even posited that communities could be homologous to complex organisms.
Clements's formalisms sought to define a single climax-type community for each geographic area. Arthur Tansley embellished this theory with the concept of polyclimax -- multiple steady-state end-points, determined by edaphic factors, in a given climatic zone. Clements had termed these end-points by other appellations, not climaxes, deeming them unstable, because by definition climax vegetation is intrinsically that plant community optimally-adapted to the climate of a given locale. Henry Gleason's early challenges to the Clements organism simile, and other of his strategies for describing vegetation, were largely disregarded for several decades until substantially vindicated by research in the 1950s and 1960s. Meanwhile, climax theory was deeply incorporated in both ntheoretical ecology and in vegetation management. Clements's terms such as '''pre-climax''', '''post-climax''', 'plagioclimax and '''disclimax''' continued to be used to describe the many communities which persist in states that diverge from the climax ideal for a particular area.
Clements did not assert that climax communities necessarily occur in any given area, or that the dominant cause of vegetation is climate, or that the component species in an ecological community are closely physiologically integrated, or that plant associations are delimited by crisp boundaries in time or space. In contrast, Clements employed the idea of a climax community--of the form of plantlife best adapted to some idealized set of environmental conditions--as entry portal for describing flora in a given area. There are good reasons to believe that the species best adapted to some conditions might appear there, when those conditions occur.
A considerable fraction of Clements's work was directed at characterizing outcomes for situations where such idealized conditions do not occur. In those cases, flora communities other than the ideal climax may occur. But such different vegetative assemblies can then be described as deviations from the climax ideal. Therefore Clements developed a very large vocabulary of theoretical terms describing the various possible causes of vegetation, and various non-climax states vegetation adopts as a consequence. His method of dealing with ecological complexity was to define an ideal form of vegetation--the climax community--and describe other forms of vegetation as deviations from that ideal.
Examples of climax community
Some examples of generally recognized climax community, which have achieved stability or equilibrium over a period of hundreds of thousands of years, and in some cases millions of years:
- Sonoran Desert, USA and northern Mexico
- Daintree Rainforest, Queensland, Australia
- Namib Desert, Namibia and southwestern Angola
- Mixed podocarp/broadleaf forest, Rakiura Island Ttemperate forests, Ulva Island, New Zealand
Counter to the concept
Support among ecologists for the climax theory declined, because some found the theory with its complex terminology difficult to apply, and because some scientists were dissatisfied how the theory compared to observations of individual organisms within the total community.
Although Clements recognized that vegetation follows abiotic gradients rather than being tightly bound, his rhetorical comparisons of ecological communities to organisms fostered the impression that communities, including the climax, have distinct boundary limits in space and time. However, Whittaker's work showed that plant species distribute themselves along nutrient and other abiotic gradients. Many ecologists saw this as a major reason to desist from employing the concept of climax community.
More recent palynological studies showed that modern species assemblages are ephemeral; vegetation in eastern North America since the last glacial maximum has consisted of several different species assemblages, many of which have no analogues in modern climax communities. That would mean, at least, that the climax types for those areas could not be stable to the degree Clements believed they were.
Ultimately, even if succession tends towards a steady state, the time required to achieve this state is quite long relative to time scales of external intrusion (e.g. in-migration of new or alien species) or disturbance regimes (volcanic eruptions, tsunamis) changing the landscape; in most cases, external disturbances and environmental change occur so frequently that the realization of a climax community is unlikely, and therefore it has come to be regarded as a less useful concept. Long-term vegetation dynamics are now more often characterized as resulting from the action of stochastic factors.
Continuing usage of climax
Despite partial abandonment of climax theory, during the 1990s use of climax concepts again became more popular among some theoretical ecologists such as Roughgarden. Many authors and wildlife observers continue to use the term climax in a diluted form to refer to what might otherwise be called mature or old-growth communities. The term "climax" has also been adopted as description for a late successional stage for marine macroinvertebrate communities.
- Frederic E.Clements,. 1916. Plant Succession: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation. Washington D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington.
- James E.Cook. 1996. Implications of Modern Successional Theory for Habitat Typing: A Review. Forest Science 42(1): 67–75.
- Henry Chandler Cowles. 1899. The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan. Botanical Gazette 27(2): 95-117; 27(3): 167-202; 27(4): 281-308; 27(5): 361-391.
- Christopher Eliot. Christopher. 2000. Method and Metaphysics in Clements's and Gleason's Ecological Explanations. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 38(1): 85–109.
- Joel B.Hagen. 1992. An Entangled Bank: The Origins of Ecosystem Ecology. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
- R.Rosenberg, S.Agrenius, B.Hellman, H.C.Nilsson and K.Norling. 2002. Recovery of marine benthic habitats and fauna in a Swedish fjord following improved oxygen conditions. Marine Ecology Progress Series 234: 43-53.
- Jonathan Roughgarden, Robert M.May and Simon A.Levin, editors. 1989. Perspectives in Ecological Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Ronald C.Tobey. 1981. Saving the prairies: the life cycle of the founding school of American plant ecology, 1895–1955. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Robert H.Whittaker. 1953. A consideration of climax theory: the climax as a population and pattern. Ecological Monographs 23: 41–78.


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AMESBURY, Mass. (RNS) When the Anglican Church in North America launched last year, founders were clear on what they didn't want to be: the Episcopal Church.
But as the ACNA marks its first anniversary with a meeting here this week, members are finding that carving out a new identity requires a good dose of patience, and more money than they have on hand.
The ACNA knows what it wants to be: a church-planting, soul-saving province officially recognized by other churches and leaders in the 77-million-member Anglican Communion.
Leaders reported some progress on those goals this week, but fiscal hurdles remain.
Archbishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh, who leads the ACNA, said Tuesday (June 8) that membership grew from 703 congregations to 811 during the last year, a step toward fulfilling his mission to plant 1,000 new churches within the first five years.
Meeting those goals, however, will mean surmounting financial challenges. The church's $1.36 million budget, approved by the ACNA's Provincial Council Tuesday, counts on a new initiative to raise $500,000 within the next six months. If the fundraising comes up short, projects central to establishing the young church's identity may stall.
"The vision for `Anglican 1000′ is contingent on us being able to raise $500,000," said treasurer Bill Roemer, referring to the church-planting plans.
Delegates to the ACNA's meeting here said these early years are critical for establishing it as a dynamic alternative to the Episcopal Church, which has been wracked by internal disputes and losing members for decades.
"The fear is that if we don't push forward with a mission effort, we're going to fall back to the old settled denominational pattern, which didn't serve the Episcopal Church well and won't serve us well, either," said the Rev. Tom Finnie, Rector of Christ Church in Midland, Texas.
Many parts of the ACNA, which is composed of a number of conservative Anglican bodies, split from the Episcopal Church in recent years after long battles over homosexuality and theological issues.
Some Anglican critics worry it threatens church unity to have overlapping jurisdictions for competing forms of Anglicanism in a single geographic area.
But the ACNA, which says it hasn't yet petitioned for official standing in the Anglican Communion, enjoys significant support in Africa and other developing regions.
At an April meeting in Singapore, delegates from 20 of the communion's 38 provinces affirmed the ACNA as "a faithful expression of Anglicanism" in a region they said is in need of one.
The new church would need official approval from two-thirds of the world's nearly 40 Anglican primates and the imprimatur of a key Anglican committee before it could be granted membership in the communion.
Even within the ACNA, hot-button issues aren't entirely settled.
Some ACNA dioceses ordain women as priests, while others regard the practice as un-biblical. A closed-door panel during the College of Bishops meeting Friday will feature arguments for and against ordaining women.
"The ordination of women to the (priesthood) remains a matter that divides us," Duncan said in his state-of-the-church address. "Despite the deep theological and ecclesiological divide we have remained committed to each other, and have honored each other as our Constitution envisions."
Still recovering from emotionally bruising fights within the Episcopal Church, members of ACNA congregations seem to have little appetite left for pushing one another to conform. The council voted, for instance, to waive its size requirements for dioceses and accept new ones from the Great Lakes region and the South.
But on highly charged issues, observers say, time will tell how much diversity the church can tolerate within its ranks.
"On matters of women, polity and the role of the bishop, they may have different views — and they're going to have to work it out," said David Holmes, a professor of American religious history at the College of William and Mary and author of "A Brief History of the Episcopal Church."
"I don't see why an Anglican schismatic group would be doomed to fail, (but) I would be surprised if they didn't encounter such problems that some groups split off."
For now, the ACNA is focused on laying foundations. Task forces on topics from liturgy to prayer book and ecumenism reported to the council this week.
Chief Operating Officer Brad Root, a former entrepreneur, likens the organization to "a start up" in the business world; it aims to grow rapidly and all administrative systems need to be built from square one.
Delegates raised some concerns during discussion of the budget.
"It's said that staff expands to consume the money available, and this has been a problem in the Episcopal Church," said John Whelchel, a delegate from Atlanta.
Others put a finer point on how to be distinct from the church they left.
"The longest report we have is about money, and the most time is spent on money," said the Rev. Mary Maggard Hays of Pittsburgh. "The concern is that we not repeat the mistakes of the past."
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Sounds cool! Google Satellite maps gives a good top-down view of these ruins.
It's been a year since I've mapped. I've been going through some withdrawals, mapping is one of the only things I enjoy and is unique about me. I will enter this months comp. I found an interesting actual site of ruins in the middle of the Syrian Desert called Tadmur (aka Palmyra). Looks very interesting, and some good landscape & structure to map that's out of my comfort zone. I'll post some WIP's as I get started.
Sounds cool! Google Satellite maps gives a good top-down view of these ruins.
My Battlemaps Gallery http://www.cartographersguild.com/al...p?albumid=3407
This is really a very good one....
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."-Confucius
Old map and Historic map
Started on this - got a nice arabic desert feel to it. The hard part to come (and the fun part) - actually mapping the ruins!
Nice! Can you realy read arabic language?
no. translated online. It's a summary paragraph that I plan on also having under the title. And that Arabic part will most likely be smaller.
Very nice. I look forward to seeing what you do with this one!
Looking really nice so far.
Beautiful design.
How is that 'Tadmor' font called?
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This is following upon Ann's earlier post about the depth and diversity of our film and television collection. I'd also like to point to the marvelous array of foreign language movies and in particular those that have been released by the Criterion Collection. There is no better way to introduce yourself to the rich body of world cinema then to explore Criterion's growing pool of cult films, many of which have never found a broad audience here in the United States. I'm referring to Larisa Shepitko's heartbreaking The Ascent (Russian), François Truffaut's memorable new wave coming of age story The 400 Blows (French), Hong Kong action hits like John Woo's The Killers (Cantonese), the highly influential masterpiece Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa (Japanese), and Steven Soderbergh's provoking narrative about drug trafficking Traffic (Spanish/English).
Posted by Ryan Gage at 03/03/2010 02:32:51 PM