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Our Panarchic Future
A theory that explains the evolution of ecosystems may apply to civilizations as well-and it says we're approaching a critical phase.
[Editor's note: The following article is adapted from The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, by Thomas Homer-Dixon (copyright © Resource & Conflict Analysis, Inc.) and printed by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. (www.islandpress.org).]
Buzz Holling, one of the world's great ecologists, is a kind and gracious man, with a shock of white hair and a warm smile. Born in Toronto and educated at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia, he worked for many years as a research scientist for the government of Canada, where he pioneered the study of budworm infestations in the great spruce forests of New Brunswick. Later, as an academic researcher and eventually as director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, he created powerful mathematical models to explain the ecological phenomena he saw in the field. Using these models, he achieved major breakthroughs in understanding what makes complex systems of all kinds-from ecosystems to economic markets-adaptive and resilient.
Since the early 1970s, Holling's research has attracted attention in disciplines ranging from anthropology to economics. His papers have been distributed like samizdat through the Internet, and Holling himself has become something of a guru for an astonishing number of very smart people studying complex adaptive systems. Some of these researchers have coalesced into an international scientific community called the Resilience Alliance, with over a dozen participating institutions around the world. Although Holling is now retired from his last academic position at the University of Florida, he's still terrifically vigorous and focused on furthering the Resilience Alliance's work.
Holling and his colleagues call their ideas "panarchy theory"-after Pan, the ancient Greek god of nature. Together with anthropologist and historian Joseph Tainter's ideas on complexity and social collapse, this theory helps us see our world's tectonic stresses as part of a long-term global process of change and adaptation. It also illustrates the way catastrophe caused by such stresses could produce a surge of creativity leading to the renewal of our global civilization.
Dangerous Efficiency
Panarchy theory had its origins in Holling's meticulous observation of the ecology of forests. He noticed that healthy forests all have an adaptive cycle of growth, collapse, regeneration, and again growth. During the early part of the cycle's growth phase, the number of species and of individual plants and animals quickly increases, as organisms arrive to exploit all available ecological niches. The total biomass of these plants and animals grows, as does their accumulated residue of decay-for instance, the forest's trees get bigger, and as these trees and other plants and animals die, they rot to form an ever-thickening layer of humus in the soil. Also, the flows of energy, materials, and genetic information between the forest's organisms become steadily more numerous and complex. If we think of the ecosystem as a network, both the number of nodes in the network and the density of links between the nodes rise.
During this early phase of growth, the forest ecosystem is steadily accumulating capital. As its total mass grows, so does its quantity of nutrients, along with the amount of information in the genes of its increasingly varied plants and animals. Its organisms are also accumulating mutations in their genes that could be beneficial at some point in the future. And all these changes represent what Holling calls greater "potential" for novel and unexpected developments in the forest's future.
As the forest's growth continues, its components become more linked together-the ecosystem's "connectedness" goes up-and as this happens it evolves more ways of regulating itself and maintaining its stability. The forest develops, for example, a larger number of organisms that "fix" nitrogen-converting the element from its inert form in the air to forms that plants and animals can use-in the specific amounts and in the specific places needed. It becomes home to more worms, beetles, and bacteria that break down the complex organic molecules of rotting plants into useful nutrients. And it produces more negative feedback loops among its various components that keep temperature, rainfall, and chemical concentrations within a range best suited to life in the forest.
Over time as the forest matures and passes into the late part of its growth phase, the mechanisms of self-regulation become highly diverse and finely tuned. Species and organisms are progressively more specialized and efficient in using the energy and nutrients available in their niche. Indeed, the whole forest becomes extremely efficient-in a sense, it effectively adapts to maximize the production of biomass from the flows of sunlight, water, and nutrients it gets from its environment. In the process, redundancies in the forest's ecological network-like multiple nitrogen fixers-are pruned away. New plants and animals find fewer niches to exploit, so the steady increase in diversity of species and organisms slows and may even decline.
This growth phase can't go on indefinitely. Holling implies-very much as Tainter argues in his theory-that the forest's ever-greater connectedness and efficiency eventually produce diminishing returns by reducing its capacity to cope with severe outside shocks. Essentially, the ecosystem becomes less resilient. The forest's interdependent trees, worms, beetles, and the like become so well adapted to a specific range of circumstances-and so well organized as an efficient and productive system-that when a shock pushes the forest far outside that range, it can't cope. Also, the forest's high connectedness helps any shock travel faster across the ecosystem. And finally, the forest's high efficiency makes it harder for it to realize its rising potential for novelty. For instance, the extra nutrients that the forest ecosystem has accumulated aren't easily available to new species and ecosystem processes because they're fully expropriated and controlled by existing plants and animals. Overall, then, the forest ecosystem becomes rigid and brittle. It becomes, as Holling says, "an accident waiting to happen."
So in the late part of the growth phase of any living system like a forest, three things are happening simultaneously: the system's potential for novelty is increasing, its connectedness and self-regulation are also increasing, but its overall resilience is falling. At this point in the life of a forest, a sudden event such as a windstorm, wildfire, insect outbreak, or drought can trigger the collapse of the whole ecosystem. The results, of course, can be dramatic-large tracts of beautiful forest can be obliterated. The ecosystem loses species and biomass and in the process much of its connectedness and self-regulation.
But the effects on the ecosystem's overall health may be very positive. A wildfire in a mature forest creates open spaces that allow new species to establish themselves and propagate; it destroys infestations of disease and insects; and it converts vegetation and accumulated debris into nutrients that can be used by plants and animals that reestablish themselves after the fire. The organisms that survive become much less dependent on specific, long-established relationships with each other. Most important, collapse also liberates the ecosystem's enormous potential for creativity and allows for novel and unpredictable recombination of its elements. It's as if somebody threw the forest's remaining plants, animals, nutrients, energy flows, and genetic information into a gigantic mixing bowl and stirred. Once-marginal species can now capture and exploit newly released nutrients, and genetic mutations that were a bane to survival can now be a boon.
And because the system is suddenly far less interconnected and rigid, it's far more resilient to sudden shock. This is a perfect setting for the forest's plants and animals to experiment with new behaviors and relationships-a pollinator species like a bee or wasp will try gathering nectar from a type of flower it hadn't previously visited, or a carnivore might try killing and eating a different kind of prey. If such experiments fail, the damage is less likely to cascade across the entire system.
In these ways the forest ecosystem reorganizes and regenerates itself, quite possibly in a very new form. Put simply, the catastrophe of collapse allows for the birth of something new. And this cycle of growth, collapse, reorganization, and rebirth allows the forest to adapt over the long term to a constantly changing environment. "The adaptive cycle," Holling writes, "embraces two opposites: growth and stability on one hand, change and variety on the other." It's at once conserving and creative-a characteristic of all highly adaptive systems.
Holling and his colleagues use a three-dimensional image to represent the relationship between a system's rising potential and connectedness and its declining resilience. The shape looks like a distorted figure eight or infinity symbol floating in space. In the foreground is the growth phase-a curve that moves upward as the system's potential and connectedness increase. At the same time, the curve moves forward in three-dimensional space-toward the observer-as the system's resilience declines. Holling and his colleagues call this part of the adaptive cycle the "front loop." It represents a process of incrementally rising complexity. At the top of this curve, the system collapses. Things then happen fast as the system descends into the "back loop," where it undergoes a rapid process of reorganization before beginning once more the slow process of growth.
Nested Cycles
There's one more essential part to Holling's theory. He argues that no given adaptive cycle exists in isolation. Rather, it's usually sandwiched between higher and lower adaptive cycles. For instance, above the forest's cycle is the larger and slower-moving cycle of the regional ecosystem, and above that, in turn, is the even slower cycle of global biogeochemical processes, where planetary flows of materials and elements-like carbon-can be measured in time spans of years, decades, or even millennia. Below the forest's adaptive cycle, on the other hand, are the smaller and faster cycles of sub-ecosystems that encompass, for instance, particular hillsides or streams. In fact, adaptive cycles can be found all the way down to the level of bacteria in the soil, where the smallest and fastest cycles of all are found. Here things happen on a tiny scale of millimeters or even microns, and they can take place in minutes or even seconds. So the entire hierarchy of adaptive cycles-what Holling and his colleagues call a panarchy-spans a scale in space from soil bacteria to the entire planet and a scale in time from seconds to geologic epochs.
This brings us to the most important point of all for our purposes: the cycles operating above and below play an important role in the forest's own adaptive cycle. The higher and slower-moving cycles provide stability and resources that buffer the forest from shocks and help it recover from collapse. A forest may be hit by wildfire, for example, but as long as the climate pattern across the larger region that encompasses the forest remains constant and the rainfall adequate, the forest should regenerate. Meanwhile, the lower and faster-moving cycles are a source of novelty, experimentation, and information. Together, the higher and lower cycles help keep the forest's collapse, when it occurs, from being truly catastrophic. But for this healthy arrangement to work, these various adaptive cycles must be at different points along that figure-eight loop. In particular, they mustn't all peak at the top of their growth phases simultaneously. If they do-if they are "aligned at the same phase of vulnerability," to use Holling's phrase-they will together produce a much more devastating collapse, and recovery will take far longer, if it happens at all. Should a wildfire hit a forest at the same time as the regional climate cycle enters a drought phase, the forest might never regenerate.
Panarchy theory helps us understand how complex systems of all kinds, including social systems, evolve and adapt. Of course, it shares similarities with other theories of adaptation and change. Its core idea-that systems naturally grow, become more brittle, collapse, and then renew themselves in an endless cycle-recurs repeatedly in literature, philosophy, religion, and studies of human history, as well as in the natural and social sciences. But Holling has done much more than just restate this old idea. He has made it far more precise, powerful, and useful by distinguishing between potential, connectivity, and resilience; by identifying variations in the system's pace of change as it moves through its cycle; and by describing the roles of adjacent cycles in the grand hierarchy of cycles.
Holling embodies something truly rare: the kind of wisdom that comes when an enormously creative, perceptive, and courageous mind spends a half-century studying a phenomenon and distilling its essential patterns. In a conversation with him not long ago, I encouraged him to expand on many aspects of panarchy theory, filling gaps in my understanding and giving me nuance and perspective that only he could provide. As we came to the end of our conversation, I asked him a question that had been on my mind since our first meeting a year before, when he'd been adamant that humanity is at grave risk.
"Why do you feel the world is verging on some kind of systemic crisis?"
"There are three reasons," he answered. "First, over the years my understanding of the adaptive cycle has improved, and I've also come to better understand how multiple adaptive cycles can be nested together-from small to large-to create a panarchy. I now believe that this theory tells us something quite general about the way complex systems, not just ecological systems, change over time. And collapse is usually part of the story.
"Second, I think rapidly rising connectivity within global systems-both economic and technological-increases the risk of deep collapse. That's a collapse that cascades across adaptive cycles-a kind of pancaking implosion of the entire system as higher-level adaptive cycles collapse, which causes progressive collapse at lower levels."
"A bit like the implosion of the World Trade Center towers," I offered, "where the weight of the upper floors smashed through the lower floors like a pile driver."
"Yes, but in a highly connected panarchy, the collapse doesn't have to start at the top. It can be triggered at the microlevel or the macrolevel or somewhere in between. It's the tight interlinking of the adaptive cycles across the whole system-from the individual right up to the level of the global economy and even Earth's biosphere-that's particularly dangerous because it increases the likelihood that many of the cycles will become synchronized and peak together. And if this happens, they'll reinforce each other's collapse."
"The third reason," he continued, "is the rise of mega-terrorism-the increasing risk of attacks that will kill huge numbers of people and produce major disruptions in world systems. I'm not sure why megaterrorism has become more likely now. I suppose it's partly a result of technological changes and the rise of particularly virulent kinds of fundamentalism. But I do know that in a tightly connected world where vulnerabilities are aligned, such attacks could trigger deep collapse-and that's particularly worrisome.
"This is a moment of great volatility and instability in the world system. We need urgently to do what we can to avoid deep collapse. We also need to figure out how to exploit the opportunity provided by crisis and collapse when they occur, because some kind of systemic breakdown is now almost certain."
We can see the danger of the tectonic stresses in a new light if we think of humankind-including all our interactions with each other and with nature and all the flows of materials, energy, and information through our societies and technologies-as one immense social-ecological system. As this grand system we've created and live within moves up the growth phase of its adaptive cycle, it's accumulating potential in the form of people's skills and economic wealth. It's also becoming more connected, regulated, and efficient-and ultimately less resilient. And finally, it's becoming steadily more complex, which means it's moving further and further from thermodynamic equilibrium. We need ever-larger inputs of high-quality energy to maintain this complexity. In the meantime, internal tectonic stresses-including worsening scarcity of our best source of high-quality energy, conventional oil-are building slowly but steadily.
So we're overextending the growth phase of our global adaptive cycle. We'll reach the top of this cycle when we're no longer able to regulate or control the stresses building deep inside the global system. Then we'll get earthquakelike events that will cause the system's breakdown and simplification as it moves closer to thermodynamic equilibrium.
Panarchy theory also helps us better understand another critically important phenomenon: the denial that prevents us from seeing the dangers we face. Our explanations of the world around us-whether of Earth's place in the cosmos or of the workings of our economy-move through their own adaptive cycles. When a favorite explanation encounters contradictory evidence, we make an ad hoc adjustment to it to account for this evidence-just like Ptolemy added epicycles to his explanation of the planets' movements. In the process, our explanation moves through something akin to a growth phase: it becomes progressively more complex, cumbersome, and rigid; it loses resilience; and it's ripe for collapse should another, better, theory come along.
We often invest enormous mental energy to maintain a perspective on the world that's at variance with reality-that's far from intellectual equilibrium, so to speak. But today bits of anomalous evidence-from data on the melting of Greenland's ice cap to reports of steadily falling discovery of new oil fields-are piling up around us.
Lessons from Rome...
For over a millennium in Western culture, Rome's collapse has been an emblem of social catastrophe, one often used as a cudgel in political debate. When people don't approve of a particular social, political, or economic trend, they'll often assert that it caused Rome's demise. So explanations have proliferated. In 1984 the German historian Alexander Demandt listed more than 200 different explanations for Rome's fall that he found in the historical literature since 1600-from epidemics, plutocracy, and the absence of character to vainglory.
Perhaps it's rash, then, to add another one to the list. Still, recent work by archaeologists, economic historians, and complexity theorists gives fresh insight into what happened. And their story, which has immense relevance to our situation today, comes down to this.
Because energy is a society's master resource, when Rome exhausted its energy subsidies from its conquests-when it had to move, in other words, from high energy-return-on-investment (EROI) sources of energy to low-EROI sources-it faced a critical transition. And, at least in the Western part of the empire, it didn't make this transition successfully. It couldn't sustain the cost and complexity of its far-flung army, ballooning civil service, hungry and restless cities, elaborate information flows, and intricate irrigation systems. Not that it didn't try. Rome's prodigious effort to save itself by putting in place a system to aggressively manage its energy problem was simultaneously one of history's greatest triumphs and tragedies. It was a triumph because, for a while at least, the effort reversed what seemed like the empire's inexorable decline; but it was ultimately a tragedy because it didn't address the empire's underlying problem-complexity too great for a food-based energy system-and was thus bound to fail.
The western Roman empire couldn't make the transition from high-EROI to low-EROI sources of energy. Today, our societies are headed toward a similar transition as oil becomes harder to find. Sometime in the 1960s the United States crossed a critical threshold when its EROI for domestic petroleum extraction started to fall, and it's likely that since then just about every other oil-producing region in the world has crossed the same threshold (often it takes a while for data to show clearly that the threshold has been crossed). Very few people-certainly not our society's leaders-grasp the significance of this change, yet it's of epochal importance. It marks the beginning of a shift from our modern industrial civilization to some other kind of civilization.
We can't yet say what form this new civilization will take, but we can be fairly certain that compared with our experience over the century and a half since the industrial revolution, energy will become far more costly as nonconventional and renewable sources replace cheap oil. The price rise won't be steady and linear: we'll see sharp spikes and dips as the global economy tries to adjust. Even an average increase in real energy costs of just 2.5 percent each year-a rate we've consistently exceeded in recent years-will compound into a tenfold increase in a century.
Can we get through this transition wisely and safely? Not if we refuse to understand its implications and simply continue what we're doing now. In Buzz Holling's terms, we're busily extending the growth phase of the adaptive cycle of our planetary economic, ecological, and social system. In the process, this planetary system is becoming steadily more complex, connected, efficient, and regulated. Eventually it will become less resilient; it may, in fact, have already started to lose resilience.
A number of factors drive these changes. First, the desperate need of companies, economies, and societies to maximize performance and productivity forces them to steadily boost their organizational and technological complexity, their internal efficiency and regulation, and their speed of production and transport of materials, energy, and information. Also, as the world economy expands relative to the size of Earth's resource base and biosphere, we have to use resources and energy far more efficiently and manage our interactions with nature with ever greater care-and this means progressively more elaborate technologies, procedures, regulations, and institutions. Based on current trends, global output of goods and services will quadruple from US$60 to $240 trillion (in 2005 dollars) by 2050. If we're going to keep such a gargantuan economy humming-and if we're going to avoid simultaneously wrecking the planet's environment-we'll need everything from high-tech energy and water conservation programs to huge bureaucracies that find and punish the people and companies that emit too much carbon dioxide. And finally, as our EROI declines in coming decades, we'll need far more sophisticated technologies and organizations to scavenge small pockets of oil from all over the world and to pull together lower-quality energy from a myriad of solar, wind, and geothermal generating plants.
In short, in coming decades our resource and environmental problems will become progressively harder to solve; our companies, organizations, and societies will therefore have to become steadily more complex to produce good solutions; and the solutions they produce-whether technological or institutional-will have to be more complex too.
...and from Holland
Today's Holland gives us a hint of what this future might be like. One of the world's most crowded countries, Holland has a heavily industrialized, energy-intensive, high-consumption economy, and its people must constantly fight back the sea to survive on their small patch of territory-much of it indeed reclaimed from the sea. Over the centuries, the Dutch have responded by putting in place astonishingly complex systems of technology and social regulation. These have included block-by-block urban residential committees to prevent flooding, detailed laws to maximize efficient use of land, and of course an intricate system of dikes, canals, and pumping stations. As Holland has become progressively wealthier, more crowded, and more hemmed in by resource and environmental pressures, the regulations and technologies have become steadily more intricate and costly.
But if we end up with a global society and economy like Holland's, would that really be so bad? After all, the Dutch live very well. Sadly, even the enormous complexity of today's Holland won't be remotely adequate for the host of planetary challenges we're going to have to address soon, like climate change and worsening shortages of high-quality energy. We'll have to create a global society that I've come to call "Holland times 10," with vastly more sophisticated, pervasive, and expensive rules and regulatory institutions than anything the Dutch live with today. Do we really want such a future for ourselves and our children?
And even if we do, can we really create it? First of all, Holland is in some ways an inadequate example. It's a small, ethnically homogeneous society with relatively low economic inequality, a deeply rooted culture of collaboration, and a citizenry that's receptive to social policies intended to change people's behaviors. These are hardly features of our world as a whole. Also, today's Holland maintains its comfortable lifestyle by importing energy, food, and natural resources from far beyond its boundaries, and by expelling much of its wastes, such as its carbon dioxide, outside its boundaries too-Holland's carbon dioxide ends up traveling in the atmosphere around the planet. Humanity as a whole, though, can't get its resources or expel its pollution beyond Earth's boundaries.
More important, as our global social-ecological system moves through the growth phase of its adaptive cycle-toward a Holland-times-10 future-it's losing resilience. Capitalism's constant pressure on companies to maximize efficiency tightens links between producers and suppliers; reduces slack, buffering, and redundancy; and so makes cascading failures more likely and damaging. As well, capitalism's pressure on people to be more productive and efficient drives them to acquire hyperspecialized skills and knowledge, which means they become less autonomous, more dependent on other specialized people and technologies, and ultimately more vulnerable to shocks (remember how most Americans were so ill equipped to deal with the 2003 blackout). Meanwhile, worsening damage to the local and regional natural environment in many poor countries is fraying ecological networks and undermining economies and political stability. And finally pressure is increasing within both rich and poor societies too-from tectonic stresses like demographic imbalance, growth of megacities, and widening income gaps.
All these factors are creating an overload condition just at the moment when we're entering an epochal shift from high-EROI to low-EROI sources of energy. Because it takes energy to create and maintain complexity and order, and because energy will become steadily more expensive, we'll find it steadily harder to implement complex solutions to our complex problems.
Indeed, in a world of far higher energy costs, a Holland-times-10 global system is likely impossible. Even today's globalized economy won't be viable, because it takes too much energy to keep it running. As energy prices rise, we'll first see cutbacks on long-distance travel and trade. Instead of becoming increasingly "flat" as barriers to commerce and economic integration disappear-as some commentators, such as the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, suggest-the world will become more regionalized and even hierarchical because manufacturing, commerce, and political power will shift to countries with relatively good access to energy. Eventually those of us in rich countries will have to change many things in our societies and daily lives-not just the machines we use to produce and consume energy but also the work we do, our entertainment and leisure activities, how much we travel in cars and airplanes, our financial systems, the design of our cities, and the ways we produce our food (because our current agricultural practices consume a huge amount of energy).
The growth phase we're in may seem like a natural and permanent state of affairs-and our world's rising complexity, connectedness, efficiency, and regulation may seem relentless and unstoppable-but ultimately it isn't sustainable. Still, we find it impossible to get off this upward escalator because our chronic state of denial about the seriousness of our situation-aided and abetted by powerful special interests that benefit from the status quo-keeps us from really seeing what's happening or really considering other paths our world might follow. Radically different futures are beyond imagining. So we stay trapped on a path that takes us toward major breakdown.
The longer a system is "locked in" to its growth phase, says Buzz Holling, "the greater its vulnerability and the bigger and more dramatic its collapse will be." If the growth phase goes on for too long, "deep collapse"-something like synchronous failure-eventually occurs. Collapse in this case is so catastrophic and cascades across so many physical and social boundaries that the system's ability to regenerate itself is lost. [A] forest-fire shows how this happens: if too much tinder-dry debris has accumulated, the fire becomes too hot, which destroys the seeds that could be the source of the forest's rebirth.
Holling thinks the world is reaching "a stage of vulnerability that could trigger a rare and major 'pulse' of social transformation." Humankind has experienced only three or four such pulses during its entire evolution, including the transition from hunter-gatherer communities to agricultural settlement, the industrial revolution, and the recent global communications revolution. Today another pulse is about to begin. "The immense destruction that a new pulse signals is both frightening and creative," he writes. "The only way to approach such a period, in which uncertainty is very large and one cannot predict what the future holds, is not to predict, but to experiment and act inventively and exuberantly via diverse adventures in living."


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BOSTON — The Red Sox didn't waste anyone's time on Wednesday.
They didn't open the gates to get in some concession sales, and they didn't give away any of the Dustin Pedroia bobblehead dolls that every fan in attendance was supposed to receive. With rain not yet falling on Fenway Park but a nasty forecast on the horizon, they postponed Wednesday's game at 4 p.m., re-scheduling it as part of a day-night doubleheader on Thursday.
The first game will start at 1:05, when those bobbleheads will be doled out, and the second will start at 7:10.
Jake Peavy will oppose Chris Archer in the opener, and Felix Doubront, who was supposed to pitch Wednesday night, will face Cesar Ramos in the nightcap.
According to Red Sox manager John Farrell, the decision to push Doubront back to the second game was because of Peavy's reliability.
"Personal preference of maybe a little bit more known commodity as far as dependability of getting deeper into games, not to say it's always a guarantee but that's what you go by," said Farrell. "Knowing that you've got a guy that can hopefully keep a bullpen from getting overexposed early and look to have guys fresh for Game 2."
By rule, the Red Sox and Rays will each be allowed to add a 26th player to the roster for the second game, and Farrell acknowledged that Boston would likely add a pitcher.
While the Red Sox quickly announced the scheduling of the doubleheader, it wasn't without controversy.
Even after the matter seemed settled, Rays second baseman Ben Zobrist insisted that no final decision had been reached.
Farrell was asked about Wednesday's game being re-scheduled as part of a day-night doubleheader Thursday rather than on a mutual day off or part of a series later in the season.
If it was part of the series scheduled for May 30-June 1, he said, "We would then be in 38 games in 38 days, and logistically they're here (now), and we've got the ability to play two here tomorrow, and that's where we're at."
As for negotiation between the teams on the make-up date, he added, "I think there's a professional courtesy that goes on with scheduling and challenges that both teams face. You look at first common off days, and the next time they're in town, all those things go into it."
The Red Sox will avoid facing Tampa Bay ace David Price in their ongoing series with the Rays, and Alex Cobb is currently on the disabled list. Next time the teams meet at Fenway, if it were a four-game series rather than three games, assuming both are healthy Boston would be guaranteed of facing at least one.
Anniversary celebration
The Red Sox announced that they will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the team's 2004 World Series victory prior to their game May 28 against the Braves.
Among those scheduled to attend are Johnny Damon, Trot Nixon, Kevin Millar, Mike Timlin, Jason Varitek, Keith Foulke, Derek Lowe, Tim Wakefield, and Pedro Martinez.
"The 2004 season produced the most breathtaking, gut-wrenching moments that will forever be etched in our minds," Red Sox Chairman Tom Werner said in a press release. "We look forward to welcoming members of the 2004 team back to Fenway Park for the 10th anniversary celebration, and offering our respect and gratitude for one of the most thrilling comebacks in baseball history."
After the Rays leave town, the Red Sox will host A's in a three-game weekend series. Clay Buchholz, Jon Lester, and John Lackey are scheduled to start for Boston, with Dan Straily, Tommy Milone, and Sonny Gray going for Oakland. Gray currently leads the American League with a 1.76 earned run average and was 5-3 with a 2.67 ERA as a rookie last year.
Eric Avidon can be reached at 508-626-3809 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ericavidon.
Red Sox Notebook: Sox, Rays set for doubleheader
BOSTON — The Red Sox didn't waste anyone's time on Wednesday.

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The proposed new German law restricting the sale of ancient coins is disturbing. A lot of collectors are signing an online petition against this law. I signed. As I understand it, a seller would need to provide a lot of documentation when selling a coin. I assume this provenance is intended to help stop looting and stolen coins.
It makes me wonder about my own record keeping. I have kept most of my sales slips from sellers. This is to keep track of how much I paid, when and where I got the coin. Provenance is great for expensive coins bought from major auctions and for plate coins. But does it really matter to have provenance for inexpensive coins, the tens of thousands of common and low grade coins? For example, will a future buyer of my collection care that I got a coin on ebay in 2001 for $20, not from a well known dealer but from another collector?


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In FY 2004, OCR also resolved a complaint alleging that a school district did not meaningfully communicate school-related information to parents of national origin minority students with limited English proficiency in a language they could understand, as required by Title VI. The district agreed to develop a plan for communicating with LEP parents, establish methods for notifying LEP parents of school-related activities, translate school documents into languages spoken by LEP parents, and recruit and hire interpreters to serve LEP parents.


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I've made more mistakes than I know. Now they're a part of me and it's made who I am today. To make it all, we lived this life to the fullest so we will cherish all the memories. The place that we started will be where we end. We'll look back smiling because we took the chance and we'd do it again. We'll live until we're underground. These will be the days for opportunity. This is who I am, it's not over now. These will be the days that burn you to the core. I know you can feel it now. Oh, it's all for life so pick your warnings now. We did what we wanted and so we have no regrets. This is back where we started again. All decisions made were hopeful and we learn from our mistakes and we won't look back on the choices that we made. And we'd do it again; we'll live until we're underground.


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Together for Tomorrow
On October 15, the Department and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) recognized 24 organizations from across the nation as Together for Tomorrow (TFT) School Improvement Challenge winners for the 2012-13 school year. Also recognized were seven demonstration sites operating as part of the AmeriCorps VISTA program through CNCS. TFT, a joint initiative of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, the Department, and CNCS, highlights community-led partnerships to support struggling schools.
The Challenge was an opportunity for schools and school districts, institutions of higher education, and non-profit organizations to join with other partners in efforts to improve their neediest schools by raising key measurable outcomes in attendance, behavior, course performance, and college accessthe ABCs. Plans were submitted to give national recognition to new initiatives, as well as spotlight and expand exemplary existing initiatives to strengthen a community culture of educational success in struggling schools. The Challenge is not a grant program but, rather, an approach to better coordinate resources and efforts.
Ultimately, TFT aims to change the fundamental relationship between schools and community partners, so working toward positive results for lowest-performing schools is viewed as everyone's responsibility.
Higher Education Summit
On October 18, Secretary Duncan delivered remarks on the importance of accelerating attainment and achievement in higher education and then participated in a panel discussion at the TIME Summit on Higher Education in New York City. "I think we all agree that the future of higher education is vitally important to America's future," he said. "But, I would also suggest to you that higher education is approaching a crossroads, where leaders will be asked to choose between incremental and transformational change. At the heart of this choice is a paradox. In many ways, our system of higher education is still the envy of the world.... And yet, for all its success, our system of higher education has to get dramatically better. In the era of the knowledge-based, global economy, America has to rapidly accelerate college attainment and learning to prosper and maintain its global competitiveness."
The Carnegie Corporation of New Yorkin cooperation with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, TIME magazine, and Time Warnerconvened the TIME Higher Education Summit, bringing together more than 100 leaders of American colleges and universities, federal and state officials, and corporate and philanthropic leaders. Panels discussed critical challenges and opportunities facing higher education: access, cost, globalization, and technology. The summit coincided with the release of a special issue of TIME magazine on higher education.
While on the island of Manhattan, the Secretary also joined PENCIL's Principal for a Day event at P.S./I.S. 111, and Deputy Under Secretary of Education Georgia Yuan celebrated Lights On Afterschool! at Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School.
Postsecondary Data
A new "First Look" report from the Department's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) presents some preliminary findings from the spring 2012 data collection of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). For example:
- In fall 2011, institutions enrolled 18.6 million undergraduate and 2.9 million graduate students. Among the 18.6 million undergraduates, 57% were enrolled in four-year institutions, 41% in two-year institutions, and 2% in less-than-two-year institutions.
- Approximately 59% of first-time, full-time students at four-year institutions in 2005 who were seeking a bachelor's degree or equivalent completed a bachelor's degree or equivalent within six years at the institutions where they begin their studies.
- During fiscal year 2011, public, four-year institutions and administrative offices received 19% of their revenues from tuition and fees, compared with 29% at private, non-profit institutions and 90% at private, for-profit institutions. Moreover, 29% of expenses at public, four-year institutions were for instruction, versus 42% at private, non-profit schools and 54% at public, less-than-two-year schools.
ESEA Flexibility
The Secretary recently announced that Idaho will receive flexibility from the burdensome mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). In exchange for this new flexibility, Idaho has agreed to raise academic standards, improve accountability, and undertake essential reforms to boost teacher effectiveness. This announcement brings the number of states with waivers to 34, plus the District of Columbia. Twelve other requests for Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) flexibility are still under review. Six states have not requested a waiver through this process.
In the interest of transparency and to help inform other states, the Department has posted here both initial and approved flexibility requests, highlights of each state's plan, and peer review notes, as well as the agency's letter regarding peer review feedback and the Secretary's approval letter.
Equal Futures Partnership
Last month, the Administration joined 12 international leaders for the launch of the Equal Futures Partnership, a new, multi-lateral initiative to break down barriers to women's political participation and economic opportunity. The U.S. contribution to Equal Futures includes a renewed commitment to opening more doors to high-quality education and career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for women and girls, who currently hold only one-quarter of all American jobs within these fields, despite making up nearly half of the total U.S. workforce. These efforts build upon the President's and First Lady's calls for an "all-hands-on-deck" effort to break down barriers to attracting girls and retaining women in STEM fields.
Among the steps that the White House announced in support of Equal Futures are improving data collection and dissemination on women in science and technology, bolstering the available pool of skilled STEM mentors, encouraging research-based STEM teaching, and helping to connect women to online and mobile skills training. Several leading businesses, academic institutions, and non-profit organizations have also made commitments to advance women and girls' economic and political empowerment at home and abroad. They are dedicating themselves to launching new and innovative programs to support women and girls in STEM fields, connecting women entrepreneurs to markets and supply chains, and supporting research to advance girls' leadership.
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Representatives from the [National Council of Young Leaders, a newly established organization with a diverse membership of young people, met with Secretary Duncan and Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education Deborah Delisle to share their recommendations for increasing opportunities for youth and decreasing poverty.
A new Federal Student Aid (FSA) blog entry spotlights five things to know about student loans.
The Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program provides K-16 educators with unique opportunities for overseas experience. The program is open to teachers and administrators with responsibilities for curriculum development in fields related to humanities, languages, and area studies. The topics and host countries vary annually, although all seminars are in non-western European countries. There is one seminar being offered next summer in China, with 14-16 positions, subject to the availability of funds. The deadline for applications is December 10.
On October 9, the Department announced the IDEAL Currency Identifier, a free application to assist individuals who are blind or visually impaired to denominate U.S. currency on some mobile devices. The application was developed through a grant from the agency's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).
The U.S. Census Bureau has released infographics representing the "Educational Path of Our Nation," which includes trends in student enrollment, costs, and educational outcomes.
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"When it comes to turning around low-performing schools, the Department's investments and the work of schools and districts are only part of the solution. Our schools need community engagement to support and sustain school improvement. The Together for Tomorrow Challenge winners recognized today have made model commitments to help foster partnerships, propel school improvement, and produce better outcomes for students. To sustain change over the long haul, nothing is more important."
|Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (10/15/12), announcing the 2012-13 school year's Together for Tomorrow School Improvement Challenge winners
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To cap Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is offering its third annual National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Workshop, October 30-November 1 at its Maryland campus. NICE is focused on enhancing the overall cybersecurity posture of the U.S. by accelerating the availability of education and training resources designed to improve the cyber-behavior, knowledge, and skills of every segment of the population. The workshop will feature four tracks focused on NICE's primary goals: Raising Awareness: Online Safety Starts with You!; Education, Professionalism, and Certifications; Training and Maintaining a Competitive Cybersecurity Workforce; and the Role of Cybersecurity in Competitions. Attendees will also observe students competing in a challenge.
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Colombini, Aldo - Amazing Self Working Card Magic (Howard Adams)
Performed by Aldo Colombini. All these routines are performed with NO sleight of hand.
CORSIQUIN: A person rips five cards in half and splits them in two packets after having a card selected. The two packets are dealt at the same time and only two halves match: The selected card!
TWO ROWDU: With a few coins you show that you made two (or three) predictions in this wonderful packet trick!
BOOK PAGE LINE: The name says all. A simple but very effective book test involving a book and eight cards!
SIMPLE TRIPLE MINDS: You will love the principle behind the routine. After a spectator deals three packets of cards, you will be able to do three very strong effects!
STRAITEGY: Here you use all the highest cards. Even though the selections of the spectators seem so fair, at the end, you show that all the 'flushes' have been separated (Ace to Ten repeated four times)!
SHORT THREE: Three stunning revelations. Six cards ripped in half and shuffled. Three spectators picks a half and you produce the other halves to make the whole matching cards!
HOPE I WIN: A very unusual poker demonstration where you, of course, win!
TRIDUPE: This is a fantastic card routine using half cards where at the end you have three matching pairs selected at random by the spectators!
ROYALEE: A three card revelation using the twelve face cards!
DEMO DUDU: You show two decks of cards; one red and one blue. Two blue cards find the matching red-backed cards!
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Remember Android 3.0 Honeycomb? Well, if you have an AT&T-branded Galaxy Tab 8.9 (SGH-i957) you're likely all too familiar with the software. Fortunately, AT&T and Samsung are ready to bring you an update to Ice Cream Sandwich today, which is long overdue even when compared to the other models of the Tab 8.9. AT&T's variant will sadly only be updated via Samsung's Kies desktop software, however. There's no indication at this point that an OTA is coming either.
A quick bit of warning for those updating, several different settings and apps will be reset in the update. Samsung's support documentation indicates that homescreen placements will be reset, contacts stored on the device may be erased and the music app's playlists and settings will also be reset to default.
We really wish that AT&T would just push these updates OTA. Most people won't have Kies installed or want to go through the trouble to install the update manually in this manor. We saw this same scenario with the recent Jelly Bean update for the Galaxy SIII (S3), and we just don't care for it.
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"I Wish I'd Asked"
This project explores love, loss, regret, and the unanswerable questions that are left behind when the people in our lives die. What do we do with the unfinished business? What about all those questions we meant to ask? Or the questions we never even realized we had? Those questions whose answers are forever lost to us?
You can see a neverending cycle of questions that other people wish they'd asked, or contribute your own.
Solo Show: "You Know I Love You, Right?"
Consisting of drawings, installation and a database-driven participative project, this body of work tackles issues concerning love, loss, regret, unanswerable questions and mortality. Read more...
// 05.06.10 - 06.05.10 // You Know I Love You Right? // Solo Show at Project_210
Consisting of drawings, installation and a database-driven participative project, this body of work tackles issues concerning love, loss, regret, unanswerable questions and mortality. Read more...
// Ongoing... // Contribute to "I Wish I'd Asked"
Contribute to the ongoing participative project "I Wish I'd Asked".
// Ongoing... // Contribute to "Real Love Stories"
Contribute to the ongoing interactive installation project "Real Love Stories".
// Ongoing... // Submit! 4 Letter Words!
Submit your favorite 4LW's to "Four Letter Words" project.
// Ongoing... // Participate: What Have You Noticed?
Contribute something you have noticed to my "Notice" project.
// 11.05.09 - 11.28.09 // The Artists' Alphabet #1: The Great Recession // Group Show and Book Launch @ Project_210//
I curated an art project and book, which explores the current recession through the framework of the alphabet. There was also a group show of the pieces that went into the book.
Artists participating in the group show include Cathy Akers, Nancy Haselbacher, myself, Michele Jaquis, Louisa Van Leer, Juanita Meneses, and Jeremy Quinn. Artists contributing to the book include Cathy Akers, Nancy Haselbacher, myself, Michele Jaquis, Louisa Van Leer, Juanita Meneses, Miller Updegraf and Jeremy Quinn.
The group show took place at Project_210, a wonderful gallery in Pasadena run by the artists Quinton Bemiller and Chuck Feesago.
// 10.11.09 // A Day in LA: Washington Boulevard Art Concert//
I participated this fantastic event, curated by Stephen Van Dyck that takes place all along the entire 47 miles of Washington Boulevard. Artists are setting up installations, performing, you name it. Not to be missed! My interactive/participatory project "RECESS!", was located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Fairfax and Washington. Pictures to be posted soon!
// 10.03.09 // Soundwalk//
I participated in this year's Soundwalk. My interactive/participatory project "All Ears", was located at 426 E. 1st Street, Long Beach, in front of Victorious Barber Shop. Pictures to be posted soon!
// 01.31.09 - 02.27.09 // Solo Show "Said Too Much But Not Enough" @ LAAA //
My solo show "Said Too Much But Not Enough" included installation, video, and watercolors.
See photos, and get more information.
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// 11.29.08 - 12.07.08 // Group Show "Your Title Here: Your Name Here: A Solo Show" @ Sea and Space //
My video "I'm Losing You and It's Effortless" was part of this group show of solo shows.
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// 11.02.08 // Conventions and Attitudes [Part of Habeas Lounge] @ CUNY in NYC //
My piece "3 Questions For This Particular Moment" was included in "Conventions and Attitudes", a projection project of images from over 100 artist participants, curated by Karen Atkinson.
New York Location: HabeasLounge @CUNY, 10/29 through 11/06
Habeas Lounge website
// 11.04.08 // Conventions and Attitudes [Part of Exchange Rate 2008] @ Remy's in LA //
My piece "3 Questions For This Particular Moment" was included in "Conventions and Attitudes", a projection project of images from over 100 artist participants, curated by Karen Atkinson. Exchange Rate 2008 is an international art project, which creates conversation and performances about the 2008 US presidential election. Organized by Los Angeles-based artist Elana Mann, the project set in motion a series of international performance exchanges between thirty-eight artists in sixteen countries, culminating in an event at Remy's on election night.
Los Angeles Location: Remy's on Temple, 2126 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA 90026 | map
Exchange Rate 2008 website
// 09.13.08 // Radio Interview on KUSC for Soundwalk 2008//
I am one of several artists interviewed for radio program "Arts Alive" on KUSC which aired Saturday 9/13 at 8AM and 5PM. You can listen to the archived broadcast online.
// 09.20.08 // Soundwalk 2008 @ Long Beach Arts District//
My project "Overheard" was included in this year's Soundwalk. My project is a multi-channel sound installation featuring conversations overheard on public transportation. The project was installed at a bus stop at the corner of Linden and 1st.
Event info | Press Release | Map of Event
// 09.11.08 - 9.14.08 // Conflux @ Center for Architecture, New York City
My project "The Name Behind the Sign" was in this year's Conflux. The project is a series of interactive walks that explore businesses that are named after people's first names.
More info about the project on the Conflux website.
The project's Flickr pool.
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Annual Report 2005
A Record Year
The campaign for Colonial Williamsburg reached $471 million of its $500 million goal in 2005. Supporters made gifts, grants, and pledges totaling $70.9 million, and 109,000 individuals contributed $13.4 million to the annual fund—an increase of $1 million, or 7.6 percent, more than in 2004. It was the fourth consecutive year of participation by more than 100,000 people.
Some of the generous and extraordinary gifts included: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Batten Sr. of Virginia Beach provided $3 million for a citizenship website. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Lasser of White Plains, New York, pledged their collection of Massachusetts silver coins and early American medals. Mrs. Ann Lee Saunders Brown of Richmond created a $2 million endowment for Governor's Palace gardens. Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Miller Jr. of Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, established a $1 million gift to endow the Courthouse. The Grainger Foundation of Lake Forest, Illinois, gave $1.5 million for apprenticeships in cabinetmaking and blacksmithing.
A $1 million gift from the Steven Miller family of Houston provided a $750,000 endowment for Hay's Cabinetmaking Shop; $100,000 to endow the Nation Builders interpretive program; $100,000 to underwrite A Day in the Life, a set of instructional videos and teaching resources CD, and a Children's Guide to Colonial Williamsburg; and a $50,000 endowment for interpretive training and enrichment.
Harry H. Coon of Glenview, Illinois, committed his Virginia plantation, Seven Springs, to Colonial Williamsburg through a bequest. Penelope P. Proserpi of Reading, Pennsylvania, donated her residence subject to a life estate. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Coleman of Greenbrae, California, committed $2 million to endow the George Wythe House.


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The iconic Tourist Trophy jacket is updated for the serious biker, with removable D30 T5 EVO X Range elbow and shoulder protection that meets European CE safety standards. In navy blue Signature 10oz. waxed cotton, this jacket is both luxurious and highly durable, with a seam-sealed Miporex membrane between the shell and the lining. Choose this classic four-pocket design, with slanted left chest pocket for easy access when on the bike, and feel the authenticity of Belstaff's moto heritage alongside expertly integrated safety measures, as well as considered design in the form of under-arm metal vents and an embroidered logo buckle cover.
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Everything in this world has a history, including dating, no matter how surprising this may seem. If you're using an online dating app in India, or in any other country, you may be interested to find out how dating appeared. What made people create this social ritual in order for them to meet and court each other, with the purpose of starting a relationship and even a family? Moira Weigel is a writer that decided to find out everything she could about dating and how it became a part of our lives and culture. She even wrote a book called Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating where she published her findings. Still, let us take a look at some of the most surprising details about the history of dating, which may make the use of an online dating service in India even more interesting.
How did dating look in its beginnings?
The word dating was used for the first time somewhere in the 1890s, this particular activity appearing rather suspicious to many people, who didn't know what to make of it. In fact, there was a generalized rumor that dating was a form of prostitution, as people couldn't figure out what two people, who weren't married, are doing all by themselves. Women were even arrested for going on dates, so it had a rather rough start, like everything else. If we are to compare ancient dating with modern dating, these two do have something in common. Dating back then was as difficult as it is today. Anxiety was very present, as people were constantly afraid that their date won't like them, and parents were always worried that their children are not doing it right or meeting the right people. All these aspects did not change over years.
Society and the role of marriage have changed, but dating remained the same
The appearance of dating apps did not change dating, only the means that help you reach a date. Society, on the other hand, changed, so you won't get arrested these days for going on a date, blaming at the same time the wide use of technology when it comes to human relationships and interactions. The role of marriage changed as well, as women don't have to chase men in order to get married and have children as soon as possible, marriage today being more a form of collaboration between two people that decided that they are better off together, rather than apart. But, no matter how easy everything looks when using the best dating app in India, everything happens in the same manner as it used to centuries ago when it comes to real life dating. People are afraid of saying or doing something stupid, they are nervous about how things will evolve during the date, and avoid expressing their feelings because they are scared not to make a fool out of themselves. There is also a generalized idea that men want to have sex while women are looking for affection and romantic connections and there is pressure from media when it comes to singles or stories that create a pessimistic aura around love.
If you really wish to find the ideal partner, just be yourself, do things the way you feel and at your own pace, don't panic if you're still single even if you in your 30s, and don't be afraid to express your feelings, because this will help you know whether your date is the right person or not.


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Game Title: God of War III
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About: March 16th Kratos will charge forward in his unrelenting crusade against all of Olympus on his quest to destroy the mighty Zeus. However, there was a time, long ago, when Kratos was a mortal, and captain of the Spartan Army.
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MOSCOW—Russia's point man on Syria and on its relations with the U.S. on Tuesday turned his attention toward a subject close to Russian hearts — alleged vote theft at the Eurovision Song Contest.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was meeting with his counterpart from Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic that is investigating why the country's announced votes did not give any points to Russia.
Azerbaijan's foreign minister, Elmar Mammadyarov, said the country's mobile phone operators reported that Russia's Dina Garipova came second in the local vote, which would have given her 10 points. However, when the announcement was made on live television, there were no points for Russia.
Lavrov called it an "outrageous incident" and said the points were stolen from Garipova.
Garipova finished fifth overall on Saturday, 17 points behind fourth-placed Norway, so 10 points would not have made a difference in the ranking. But Russians have been passionate about the pan-European song contest for more than a decade. Dima Bilan's win in 2008 was treated as a major national triumph.
In Eurovision, votes compiled by national phone operators go to a television broadcaster in each country, which presents the tally via a live video link with the country hosting the competition.
Denmark's Emmelie de Forrest won this year's contest with the song "Only Teardrops."
Azerbaijani television earlier lamented the "loss of the votes" but could not explain what actually happened. Mammadyarov said Tuesday that officials are investigating the incident and are now seeking access to the results of the vote. It was unclear where any mistake or vote manipulation might have occurred.
Azerbaijan's ambassador to Moscow, renowned Soviet-era crooner Polad Bulbuloglu, told Russian television that it's "impossible" that Garipova did not score any points in his country. In its own voting, Russia gave the Azerbaijani entry the maximum 12 points.
Jarmo Siim, spokesman for the European Broadcasting Union which holds the competition, said the final tally for each country is a 50/50 combination of the telephone votes and the votes of a national jury. A country that received a good result in the telephone vote could still be left with no points in the overall tally if the jury gave its highest points to other contestants, he said.
Siim said the EBU contracted the German company Digame to register the votes. He said Digame has partnerships with several telecommunication operators in all countries, but that those companies are only responsible for the technical part of registering the calls. All the votes then get checked and verified by an auditing firm.
The EBU said it has no plans to start any investigation since it has no indications that anything went wrong. It promised to reveal how the public and the jury voted in a couple of weeks, but Siim said the EBU will only provide an overall European figure. Local broadcasters may choose to reveal the vote split for their countries, he said.
Malin Rising contributed to this report from Stockholm, Sweden.


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|Data Source: 2017 Updated Dataset (released April 2019)
|See Note
|Reported Disposal or Other Releases and Other Waste Management Activities (in pounds)
Reporting year (RY) 2017 is the most recent TRI data year available. Facilities reporting to TRI were required to submit their data to EPA by July 1 for the previous calendar year's activities. TRI Explorer is using an updated 2017 data set (released to the public in April 2019). This dataset includes revisions for the years 1988 to 2017 processed by EPA, Revisions submitted to EPA after this time are not reflected in TRI Explorer reports. TRI data may also be obtained through EPA Envirofacts.
Users of TRI information should be aware that TRI data reflect releases and other waste management activities of chemicals, not whether (or to what degree) the public has been exposed to those chemicals. Release estimates alone are not sufficient to determine exposure or to calculate potential adverse effects on human health and the environment. TRI data, in conjunction with other information, can be used as a starting point in evaluating exposures that may result from releases and other waste management activities which involve toxic chemicals. The determination of potential risk depends upon many factors, including the toxicity of the chemical, the fate of the chemical, and the amount and duration of human or other exposure to the chemical after it is released.
On-site Disposal or Other Releases include Underground Injection to Class I Wells (Section 5.4.1), RCRA Subtitle C Landfills (5.5.1A), Other Landfills (5.5.1B), Fugitive or Non-point Air Emissions (5.1), Stack or Point Air Emissions (5.2), Surface Water Discharges (5.3), Class II-V Wells (5.4.2), Land Treatment/Application Farming (5.5.2), Surface Impoundments (5.5.3) and Other Land Disposal (5.5.4). Off-site Disposal or Other Releases include from Section 6.2 Underground Injection (M71), RCRA Subtitle C Landfills (M65), Other Landfills (M64, M72), Storage Only (M10), Solidification/Stabilization - Metals and Metal Compounds only (M41 or M40), Wastewater Treatment (excluding POTWs) - Metals and Metal Compounds only (M62 or M61), Surface Impoundments (M63), Land Treatment (M73), Other Land Disposal (M79), Other Off-site Management (M90), Transfers to Waste Broker - Disposal (M94, M91), and Unknown (M99) and, from Section 6.1 Transfers to POTWs (metals and metal compounds only).
Off-site disposal or other releases show only net off-site disposal or other releases, that is, off-site disposal or other releases transferred to other TRI facilities reporting such transfers as on-site disposal or other releases are not included to avoid double counting.
Transfers to Recycling are Section 6.2, sum of Solvents/Organics Recovery (M20), Metals Recovery (M24), Other Reuse or Recovery (M26), Acid Regeneration (M28) and Transfer to Waste Broker - Recycling (M93)).
Transfers to Energy Recovery are Section 6.2, sum of Energy Recovery (M56) and Transfer to Waste Broker - Energy Recovery (M92)). Transfers to Treatment are Section 6.2, sum of Solidification/Stabilization (M40,
except for metals and metal compounds), Incineration/Thermal Treatment (M50), Incineration/Insignificant Fuel Value (M54), Wastewater Treatment (excluding POTWs) (M61, except for metals and metal compounds),
Other Waste Treatment (M69) and Transfer to Waste Broker - Waste Treatment (M95)). Transfers to POTWs (non-metals) are Section 6.1 (except metals and metal compounds). Transfers to POTWs (metals and metal compounds) are Section 6.1 (metals and metal compounds only).
Other off-site transfers are Section 6.2 sum of amounts with no code or invalid code.
A choropleth map is a map which colors regions or areas according to the value of data defined for that area. The choropleth maps presented here color states, or counties, according to aggregations of TRI data reported by facilities in that area. Coloring an area with one color is not meant to imply that the TRI amounts are uniformly distributed throughout that area; instead it should be interpreted as a color representing, for example, the total amounts reported by facilities in that area. Choropleth maps are one of the most commonly used means of displaying areal data.
Population for states and Puerto Rico from http://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2010-2018/national/totals/nst-est2018-01.xlsx?#
Total Facilities is the number of facilities located within the jurisdiction that submitted at least one TRI Form during the selected reporting year (RY). Total Forms is the number of TRI Forms submitted from facilities located within the jurisdiction for the RY. Form As is the number of TRI Form As submitted by facilities located within the jurisdiction for the RY.
On- and Off-site Waste Management from Section 8, Column B (Recycled On-site (8.4), Recycled Off-site (8.5), Energy Recovery (8.2), Energy Recovery (8.3), Treated On-site (8.6), Treated Off-site (8.7) and Quantity Disposed of or Otherwise Released On- and Off-site (8.1)). Non-production-related waste managed from Section 8.8.


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HERCULES — The City Council unanimously approved a ban this week on inflatable play structures — or "bounce houses" — at the city's parks and facilities in an effort to eliminate injury lawsuits and liability.
The council during Tuesday's meeting also directed city staff to begin working on an ordinance that would allow the city to attach monetary fines and penalties against violators.
The concern over bounce house liability has been plaguing Hercules for years, Parks and Recreation Director Pedro Jimenez said Tuesday.
The issue was first discussed in 2004, he said, and the city agreed to require permits for inflatable jumpers in the park — and restricted the number to two per park at a time. Then in 2008, Hercules stopped issuing the permits altogether because the city's insurance agency does not provide liability coverage for the inflatable jumpers.
Even if inflatable company owners offer insurance, the coverage may not be enough, and if someone gets hurt at a city park and then sues the city, the city would be financially liable, he said.
Signs will advise park visitors of the ban, and Parks and Recreation personnel will patrol the parks for violators. City workers will also advise local businesses that rent the inflatables of the new restrictions.
If violators refuse to dismantle the bounce houses at parks, city workers will summon police officials to provide additional motivation. But until the resolution becomes an ordinance, no financial "bite" or penalties can be attached to the removal requests.
Vice Mayor Sherry McCoy expressed concerns about how the city would monitor and enforce the resolution because it currently has no financial component.
Most people do comply with the restrictions when told, said Jimenez. Remaining violators tend to comply when police are called in, he said.
But the city is still financially liable as long as the inflatables are on city property, said City Attorney Patrick Tang.
Also, during Tuesday's council meeting, one of the developers of the city's Sycamore North project told the council that he and his partners are prepared to close escrow on time by Jan. 31 and said the developers will pay $700,000 for the property — a 65 percent increase over the initial $425,000 price.
"The winds of progress are blowing hard, and we have our sails up," Mark Conroe said as he described his excitement about the project.
Conroe didn't elaborate on whether issues overshadowing the project had been cleared, including a ruling on whether the project developers will have to pay union wages to complete the project.
The ruling from the Department of Industrial Relations in Sacramento could add an additional $6 million to the total project cost if it's decided that union wages must be paid. A second issue was an eminent domain lawsuit that the city has filed against the Bayside Homeowners Association over an alley behind the residential/commercial property that the developer needs to complete the project. City officials discussed the issue in closed session Tuesday night but did not provide public notice of any action on the lawsuit.
Sycamore North started out as a city project but stalled in 2011 when Hercules ran out of money, with more than $35 million spent and an estimated $30 million needed to finish. The initial plan had been for 96 apartments, 74 of them affordable, over as much as 40,000 square feet of retail space.
The current plan is for Presidio Development Partners to finish the project, since renamed Town Centrale, as an upscale, market-rate apartment complex with about 140 units over 10,000 square feet of ground-floor restaurants and stores.


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Ben Peacock is the first port of call when his mates want to know whether a lingering malaise or a newfound lump on their body should be ignored or greeted with alarm.
It's not because the marketing agency founder also moonlights in the medical industry, in between juggling creative gigs for the likes of Vodafone, Sony and Ikea – all clients of his Sydney firm, Republic of Everyone.
It's because Peacock is also a survivor who is now six years in the clear after being diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2006, at the age of 33.
Two major operations and four rounds of chemotherapy over six months is a pedigree of suffering that has made him the go-to guy and agony aunt for other males who are worried about their health and chary about seeing a doctor in case their worst fears are confirmed.
Getting men to talk about their health and take better care of their bodies is the focus of a new Cancer Council NSW campaign to reduce the number of Aussie blokes who are felled by the Big C.
Men are 84 per cent more likely than women to die of preventable cancers that are common to both sexes, according to the Council.
Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show they accounted for 24,552 of the country's 43,298 cancer deaths in 2010, compared with women's 18,746; a pattern which has remained consistent for the past decade.
Launching on Wednesday with a video takeoff of the YouTube hit ShitGirlsSay, the campaign's theme is "Shit Men Don't Say".
It's endorsed by a clutch of well known Aussies whose lives have been touched by the disease. They include celebrity builder Scott Cam, Choirboys lead singer Mark Gable, Sydney Swans footballer Jude Bolton and Vashti Whitfield, the widow of Andy, the star of TV show Spartacus, who died of non-Hodgkins's lymphoma in 2011.
The campaign will encourage men to reduce their risk of developing cancer by improving their general health, and raise their odds of a successful cure by heading to the GP as soon as they notice something is amiss.
Far too many don't, says Associate Professor David Smith, an epidemiologist and researcher at the Cancer Council.
"We're programmed not to be keepers of health," Smith says. "Not going to the doctor is a lifelong pattern. Men don't go to the doctor as much when they're sick and they don't have as many check-ups."
Other high-profile executives to have faced and beaten the Big C include the managing partner of McKinsey and Company, Michael Rennie, who was diagnosed with advanced Hodgkin's lymphoma 25 years ago, and Asciano non-executive chairman Malcolm Broomhead.
Experts say a healthy lifestyle can prevent a third of cancers but when it comes to the unhealthy stuff, men are at the forefront. They drink more alcohol, have poorer diets, spend longer in the sun, exercise less and carry more excess weight than women.
The campaign has men aged 30 to 50 in its sights. It's a demographic where cancer is relatively uncommon and the optimum window in which to make lifestyle changes to reduce the risk of it developing, Smith says.
Asia Pacific director of the IT security firm Sophos, Rob Forsyth, was at the upper end of this bracket back in 2000.
A trim, rugby-playing 50-year-old with a high profile role on the organising committee for the Sydney Olympics, he regarded himself as fighting fit until a fast-growing lump on his neck was diagnosed as throat cancer.
A gruelling trifecta of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation saw his weight drop from 85kg to 58kg over the subsequent two months.
Since pronounced as cured, Forsyth says the experience threw his mortality into sharp focus and altered his notion of courage.
"Guys traditionally have wanted to be seen as brave," he says.
"Yet I think there's a lot of my peer group who don't show bravery, they show cowardice in not having tests done … Australian men have a strange mindset where it's braver not to know.
"As a bunch we need to talk more about it. It's really simple, being healthy – you don't have to give up everything. And occasionally go to the doctor – be brave."
Top 5 Tips for cutting cancer risk:
1. Don't smoke.
2. Become more physically active. Take the dog for a walk, say no to the golf buggy or throw on some lycra and hit the bike path.
3. Know your own body and go to the doctor if you notice changes.
4. Minimise sun exposure by covering up and avoiding the harshest rays in the middle of the day.
5. Eat better and drink less. This means less red meat, white bread and salt, more vegetables and knocking back the second or third beer or wine.
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Home > Blogs > Book review: Microsoft System Center Enterprise Suite Unleashed
I know, I know – what's a database guy doing reading a book on System Center? Well, I need it from time to time. System Center is actually a collection of about 7 different products that you can use to manage and monitor your software and hardware, from drive space through Microsoft Office, UNIX systems, and yes, SQL Server. It's that last part I care about the most, and so I've dealt with Data Protection Manager and System Center Operations Manager (I call it SCOM) in SQL Server. But I wasn't familiar with the rest of the suite nor was I as familiar as I needed to be with the "Essentials" release – a separate product that groups together the main features of System Center into a single offering for smaller organizations. These companies usually run with a smaller IT shop, so they sometimes opt for this product to help them monitor everything, including SQL Server.
So I picked up "Microsoft System Center Enterprise Suite Unleashed" by Chris Amaris and a cast of others. I don't normally like to get a technical book by multiple authors – I just find that most of the time it's quite jarring to switch from author to author, but I think this group did pretty well here. The first chapter on introducing System Center has helped me talk with others about what the product does, and which pieces fit well together with SQL Server.
The writing is well done, and I didn't find a jump from author to author as I went along. The information is sequential, meaning that they lead you from install to configuration and then use. It's very much a concepts-and-how-to book, and a big one at that – over 950 pages of learning! It was a pretty quick read, though, since I skipped the installation parts and there are lots of screenshots. While I'm not sure you'd be an expert on the product when you finish reading this book, but I would say you're more than halfway there. I would say it suits someone that learns through examples the best, since they have a lot of step-by-step examples
I do recommend that you take a look if you have to interact with this product, or even if you are a smaller shop and you're the primary IT resource. The last few chapters deal with System Center Essentials, and honestly it was the best part of the book for me.
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