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Complex Systems
Brief history
As Science has begun to ask where the enduring features of nature come from and how they work, the answer seems to be "complex systems". Every kind of thing and event seems to require them. As the science has advanced, and as the modern problems of economies and environmental conflicts emerge, a new kind of science is emerging that requires being very openly exploratory, using all the tools and combining all the related perspectives of others, to develop complex knowledge systems matching the variety of the complex system problems they respond to.
Systems are storms or "like storms" in many respects, complex distributed phenomena that may be either unexpectedly eventful or highly predictable. There's still a rather wide range of opinion within science as to what complex systems are, even whether they are made of information or something physical that is beyond information, and how best to explain or investigate them. One reason for the range of opinion is that different branches of science developed systems thinking taking different paths, developing what seem to be three main and several minor branches. Like different "wise men" describing different parts of the same elephant they all tend to use conflicting 'paradigms' of explanation.
The more successful branches each built a different way to follow the success of classical physics as a model for describing nature with complex sets of equations following fixed rules. Those were principally the practical ecologists, economists, and the energy, information & control system physicists. Another group might be called the holistic system theorists, attracted the theoretical biologists, philosophers, designers, psychologists and teachers who saw the use of fixed rules inappropriate for a subject so full of subjects that appeared to learn and change on their own, and to not be deterministically well defined.
Theoretical ecology solidified in the 1920s significantly prompted by Alfred J. Lotka's representation of population dynamics in ecologies and selection in evolution as pressures of random motion using equations like for the physics of fluid flows[1]. A generalized theory of complex holistic systems was proposed by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy in 1928 to become "General Systems Theory"[2] [3] in the 1940's in later conjunction with contributions from a group of generalists. The physics group of systems theories represents systems as models of information theory and control. "Cybernetics"[4] was proposed by Norbert Wiener and was combined with information (control) theory using the physics of Quantum Mechanics as a theoretical basis. Each of the above three broad approaches attempt to be an encompassing theory containing each other, but find that controlled systems are unable to be wholes and whole systems unable to be deterministic, and real environments inexplicable by either. As well as the natural tendency of different views of "the elephant" seeming to describe different things, one could see this as a case of the general systems principle that each problem definition calls for a different mode of explanation. That is to the difference might not be in the part of the subject being looked at, but in the question the observers are looking with. One of the main common features all seem to concern are complexly connecting loops of relationships, though generally the ecology group interprets them as material, the general systems group as conceptual, and the control theory group as a sets of definitions and rules.
Over time each community developed somewhat separately, but informing each other as each needed to be "interdisciplinary" in nature. Fragments of each tended to be taken up and reinterpreted for use in literally every other field of study, by individuals from those disciplines, and then developed in a way that fit those disciplines. In the 1970's and 80's a growing number of universities established independent departments or professorships of systems theory, but no unifying theory emerged and methods particular to individual disciplines rather than a truly inter-disciplinary field is what developed. So this seems to be why there is no common approach, though "systems theory" has now become a foundation for most modern scientific disciplines, our methods of education, learning, business, financial and environmental management, as well as the basis of social policy as human ecology. Its success in all these areas is real and valued, but also seems as reliably unpredictable as the subject matter, still as hard to predict as the weather.
The basic idea
The problem is that many things in nature now appears to have exceedingly complex design. Science started with great success using simple rules, that still seem valid where they work, but don't seem to help with the issues of life that most interest and concern us. Perhaps the best representation of the dilemma is the simple diagram used by Robert Rosen (Figure 1). Our minds are organized as a complex system according to principles that we don't understand that are observably different from the principles of organization in nature's equally complex systems. The diagram shows an "observing system" with its own set of internal loops of effects (feedbacks) and the observed system in the physical world with its own separate loops of effects of different kinds. So the challenge is to get the "implications" in the "formal system" (our thoughts) to correspond to the "causality" of the "natural systems" of our world.
The 'complexity' comes in when both are found to be 'networks' of communicating parts of various different kinds, often of different scale and requiring different modes of description to understand... That's complicated by observing that whenever such systems seem to be following a 'track' they then unexpectedly 'go off track' and just keep going, as if having never been following the track we thought they were on at first. Human cultural systems are a primary interest, of course, but have a combination of natural and artificial features. For example, the 'formal systems' of our thoughts can be considered to be of "intentional design", but get their meaning from the larger discourse of ideas within our schools and communities or thought and the general culture, and so are part of natural systems too that are of "unintentional design". What we find is that nothing can be done or built that is entirely artificial and preconceived, and always relies heavily on the unintentional natural systems we ourselves are built out of and that our plans then interact with.
The kind of network that composes natural systems can be represented by one of Albert-Laszlo Barabasi's diagrams of the connectivity of links on the internet (Figure 2). The ideas to build a new kind of communication were intentional, but which paths would take hold and how they would evolve were quite a surprise, and can only be understood by discovery after the fact. The nature of the 'communication' relationships is often considered as an electrical circuit of 'governors' like complicated thermostats (Figure 3). Complex systems also consume resources and dissipate energy as part of a larger system ecology (Figure4), accumulate layers of progressive redesign as they develop (Figure 5) and tend to follow ordered histories of development and decay (Figure 6).
Fig 1. Rosen Observed System Diagram
Fig 2. Barabasi Network Map
Fig 3. Control Diagram
Fig 4. Resource diagram
Fig 5. Technology Succession Curves
Fig 6. Development Phases
Complex systems theory is used very differently by different people. The main divide is between the theories that involve very large complex computer programs with sophisticated mathematical programs, theoretical systems, and direct work with natural complex systems in the natural sciences, business, environmental protection or community relations. Computers are themselves complex systems, but are completely defined by their programs. Computer programs designed to adapt to their real or artificial environments are the basis of robot and free agent models. Natural systems that arise directly from real environments are quite different. Real systems and environments have numerous overlapping connections to others, for which there are no representations, and the rules each follows appear to continually change. So there's a mismatch between the approaches to systems of defined and undefined complexity. Each type and approach involves different methods that tend not to inform each other. In a few cases, as with climate change, the invariant rules of nature are enough, heat and fluid flow, that some very significant progress has been made in predicting current and future conditions from past conditions. The real system still behaves significantly differently from the models. That itself, of course, is very informative.
So, for most situations where people work directly with complex systems of their world they develop general experience with systems that they use as a mental model and compare it to what is actually happening to see how it is different from their experience. That gives them pointers to what local rules and changes are significant. The interesting thing is that this is precisely the general method a scientist uses doing fundamental research. A scientist starts by studying the world for how it does not fit the familiar pattern, to discover and then confirm a better way to see it. So, applied systems theory is revolutionary in this way. It's a study of naturally undocumented phenomena using tools for original scientific research that gives any observer with sufficient reason and patience a way to discover more about how their immediate world works. Partnerships between people and institutions with different views of social and environmental problems each couldn't solve alone build a common insight into common realities to find ways to address them cooperatively. They identify overlapping natural and social systems and discover how to connect the options. For businesses the challenge is for the organization as a whole to become effective in using everyone's insight and develop a rewarding culture of creative adaptation to change. That makes systems theory an evolving common language for a new kind of shared scientific research into the things of our world that most interest us, frequently using socially communicated learning tools.
The main open question is how complex systems can be so very unpredictable and still exist at all. There is no real theory for where most kinds of systems come from or why they would persist instead of deteriorate over time. There is a high level recognition that what is called 'punctuated equilibrium', 'revolutionary' , 'transformational' or 'emergent' change seems to be observed in every field and central to what systems are, both their quickly responsive and stubbornly immoveable complex designs. Few if any of the "hard systems" models of the natural and theoretical sciences that attract most of the effort are able to replicate the phenomenon. It's also not known what should be controlled to prevent disastrous economic collapses, for example, despite our centuries of painful experience with them and the clear visibility of every part involved. It's also not really known why equally creative systems like the weather and ecologies have persistently stable variety instead of tending toward unstable mono-cultures which erupt and collapse all the time, as might be expected. The usual 'atomistic' explanation that there must be some hidden explanation is usually the only one available still has to be relied on. Systems have so many scales and kinds of complex interconnecting parts and interlocking dynamic relationships it seems they could only work if designed from the inside, as if 'alive' in some sense. We also don't quite see anything that would cause them to be alive, though, even for the ones that really are alive.
We also don't yet understand their "eventfulness" in how simple phenomena like air currents or crystals emerge as physical changes of state, displaying "divergent" behavior ending in complex "emergent" new designs that often seem uniquely individual. We also don't see quite where the designs of systems are located, since they seem thoroughly connected to a whole world of other complexly changing things and so might possibly be boundless. We also have no form of representation adequate for recording the multi?featured changes that continually occur in complex systems, so that we not only can't predict them, but we can't even follow what they do accurately. Still, everything in life is dependent on them, and made "normal" by them, and the concept of systems resonates with the common observation that "things get connected" to become the dominant forces in our lives.
There are a great many fields and each have their own way of using systems theory, as well as a diverse variety of theoretical communities and 'boutique' versions of system theory to use, sometimes designed around a single application or the leadership of a single individual. They all reflect that a 'system' is somewhat of a world onto itself, and they are all somewhat structured as views of such whole worlds, intended to be useful.
General theory
Somewhat "under the radar" because no central discipline of systems theory ever formed, are the networks of high level discussion on the theoretical underpinnings about how to think about systems. They occur on the internet and through many kinds of journals involving people in diverse, theory, planning, management, government and community action fields, all working on the basic problem, how do nature's lively designs, and the rules we sometimes see in them, work and change?
Developmental change
The observation that things are formed by how they develop is at once the oldest and most common approach to complex system theory and design. The study of local developmental processes goes back to the ancient origins of agriculture, business planning and military strategy, etc., but have been hard to understand scientifically because the complex parts of real complex systems hard to define. Scientists have always favored studying their substitutes for the real thing, using abstract rules and definitions. The canonical sequence of system development from beginning to ending, (germination, growth, continuation, decline and termination; fig 6) corresponds to the mass-specific energy flow sequence though systems [5] and to the energy flow sequence for ecologies as studied by Odum, business development throughputs, and the history curves of developmental change generally. People who are experts in observing the sequences of development in their areas of interest use them as a guide. A simple example is measuring the weight of a newborn child as a diagnostic indicator of whether the newborn is thriving or tenuously clinging to life and in need of help. Business planners use indicators of their progress of their own development the same way, perhaps seeking fresh capital to intervene when the development a product is not reaching completion in time. That biological development, economic and business growth, the development of storms and fires, cultural and ecological shifts, etc. can all be studied from their patterns of development links a great many of the more scattered fields of systems theory and application.
Economic theory
Economics[6] is the oldest of the modern theories of environmental systems. It's most established form is as Neoclassical economic theory, but is primarily a theory of money, and does not directly deal with physical systems generally, or the physical aspects of economic systems. Economic thinking more consistent with modern complex systems science in other fields is represented by the work of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, and Ecological economics. They focus on the relation of natural systems and their limits to economic decision making, but have not succeeded in being integrated with traditional economic theory because of the number of undefined relationships they deal with, and the traditional economists prefer not to.
Ecological Systems: Ecosystem theory begins with considering all human and natural systems as processes using energy that, as systems, emerge interdependently within their own environments. Two modern scientists who contributed to making mathematical models applicable to environments were H.T.Odum[7] and C.S.Holling[8].
Mathematical complexity
Early contributors to the pure physics theory of complex systems were Ilya Prigogine for bifurcation, Mitchell Feigenbaum for chaos, and Bernard Mandelbrot for fractals. They work with dynamic equations for far from equilibrium relations, exhibiting bifurcating paths, chaotic attractors, fractal scales, often using non-linear dynamics, successive approximation and mathematical imitations of natural [[9]] as their guiding principle. One main goal is to create robots that can navigate real environments and computer models with "independent agents" that exhibit "artificial life". It's used for scenario building and to design "expert systems" that learn from their experience in complex environments such as oil fields and power utility management. It's used for designing adaptive software & controls for managing emergent network traffic patterns and to discover solutions to military as well as medical questions using exploratory methods for complex information environments.
The complex system modeling community has grown dramatically in scope and influence since the mid 1990s. There are various institutes around the world dedicated to advancing Complex Systems science to solve large-scale problems in healthcare, peacekeeping, military, systems engineering, and international development. Leading institutes include the New England Complex Systems institute, the Santa Fe Institute, the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at The University of Michigan, and the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University are established places for scientists to pursue Complex Systems research.
Complex Physical Systems
Because of the high value of predicting the weather and some of the most successful complex systems research has been done on tracking hurricanes and predicting climate change. The universe also seems to be a complex system. The general evidence is that the scales of natural structures are not distributed normally, but follow a power law, or "Pareto" distribution[10]. Network science has associated that with scale free networks[11] and how they evolve, indicating that the distributions of scales developed by a complex accumulative growth process.
Network science
Unlike the other mathematical complexity fields, network science studies the real geometry and topology of linkages in real emergent natural complex systems. It originated with studying communication patterns on the internet. Partly because of the great volume of easily obtained data showing how complex systems evolve dynamically that subject has been very fruitful for suggesting ideas for application to many other kinds of system networks. As discovered by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi[12], the connectivity of a natural network displays a "power law" statistical distribution that seems uniquely associated with the kinds of emergent systems we find so hard to explain. Networks seem to originate by growth, using diversification followed by selection, and that creates the power law distribution pattern. Some nodes of the system drop unneeded connections and others accumulate many more. It gives the network as a whole unusually high connectivity through central hubs at minimal cost. The approach allows pure mathematical physics to study the changing natural structures of complex systems in their natural context. Usually science has had a problem of having to dismantle living things to study them, or otherwise interfere in a way that distorts the data.
Management, partnerships & collaboration
Management science[13] has long studied how corporations work both internally and in relation to their environments, what makes a work group work, and the importance of community relations. The study of how groups of people and environmental systems work together arises partly from the socio-technical systems thinking of Eric Trist using the general systems theory of von Bertalanffy as a basis of systems sociology. One simple principle is that they all work like economies and ecologies, with each part connecting to others through what they do differently, providing each other complementary services. How such systems form, change and interact is an active field of study partly because of how economies are outgrowing the earth. Still, there is little consensus on whose choices affect what systems, either locally or globally, or why unintended conflicts arise, and many kinds of change seem quite opportunistic.
Government sponsored environmental management systems have developed global standards and various organizations develop sustainability standards. Responding to needs of socio-economic systems, though, is different for every part, and so the scientific understanding of local issues or interest is typically low, and most of the problems appear to come from unexpected consequences of our own solutions. "Social entrepreneurship", various local and regional "sustainability partnerships", "action learning" and the "sustainable design" approaches of the design and environmental professions are quite active. Each uses one or another model for how to steer various uncontrolled natural and social systems which are the problem. Partly because this also includes the learning process of the communities of problem solvers themselves, the efforts also amount to new approach to the classic subject-object problem[14].
The first task after identifying a problem that one group can't solve by itself, is to start building a network of stakeholder who could. Such groups need regular funding and a regular learning process for people having different perspectives on a common problem to work together. The study of the problem is to first identify the boundaries of the systems involved. System boundaries may be "circles of accumulation", "zones of influence", "markets & mediums of connection", "history curves" for their changes or other features. How the stakeholders can form a system with each other, designed to match the features of the natural system opportunities they find, is then studied for possible intervention. For example, corporate goodwill is critical to business health and involves community stewardship, working with diverse professional advisors, organized interest groups and government, perhaps.
Post Normal Science (PNS) represents this change-in-kind for the use of science in critical decision-making for the change-in-kind being found in public policy environments. PNS characterizes a developing practice for engaging complex knowledge communities, public and private authorities in responding to complexly interacting socio-physical systems and environments. It's related to the practices of Ecological economics for environmental intervention using applied complex systems theory, from the policy perspective.
At its core is the recognition that science needs to provide policy opinions even when uncertainties and consequences are great with scientific inputs having become "soft" in the context of the "hard" choices. Then uncertainties go beyond the systems, to include ethics as well. This situation is called post-normal, in contrast to the relatively tame world of normal research, in T.S. Kuhn's sense[15], in the partly controlled world of the professional consultant. The main practical conclusion is that an extended peer community, bringing their extended facts, are legitimate partners in any problem-solving activity, and needed for any inquiry in the realm of complex systems.
The originators of the term, S.O. Funtowicz and J.R. Ravetz[16][17], worked with leading members of the Ontario school of complexity theory, deriving from von Bertanlaffy and Henry Regier, through the late James Kay and David Waltner-Toews. This conception was reinforced by the work of Mario Giampietro on hierarchical systems. There are also affinities in PNS with work in the tradition of cultural theory created by Mary Douglas; there the leading concepts are wicked problems[18], uncomfortable knowledge and clumsy solutions, with Steve Rayner and Michael Thompson as the leading scholars.
Persistent critics
In studying complex systems, nearly all scientists have accepted the established scientific paradigm, but some have pointed out how that may itself be a source of the theoretical problems. The theoretical biologists using tools of "hard science" have tried to make sense of the observations of "soft science". Among the most respected and persistent of these are the three theorists, Walter Elsasser[19], Robert Rosen[20], and Stuart Kauffman[21]. Each of these scientists came to the same conclusion from somewhat different directions, that organization in nature is not a statistical property which can be modeled using the equations of mathematical physics. For Elsasser it was partly understanding that statistical physics could not predict the astronomically unlikely persistent heterogeneity of common complex things. For Rosen it was partly seeing that the mathematical language of science could not connect divergent progressions as seems central to natural processes and emergent designs. For Kauffman it was that these very persistent facts implied that every ordinary thing and event comes about through some unique creative processes, making it seem that the 'inert' appearance of things just marks our own profound lack of insight into what they are. Nearly everywhere you look in nature there is stable complex diversity, commonly distributed by locally emergent power laws, and the present interpretation of the laws of nature would not appear to produce that. So, at least the questions coming from successively improving methods of observation in every field seem to keep getting better, but still leave very large gaps.
- Thanks to Yaneer Bar-Yam, Stanley Salthe, Kurt Richardson, Charles Hall, Loet Leydesdorff, and Jerome Ravitz for helpful comments.
- ^ Robert P. McIntosh, 1985. The Background of Ecology: Concept and Theory,Cambridge Press. ISBN: 0521270871.
- ^ General systems theory was originally proposed by biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy in 1928. Since Descartes, the "scientific method" assumed a system could be broken down into its individual components so that each could be analyzed as an independent entity, added in a linear fashion to describe the totality. Von Bertalanffy proposed that both were wrong, seeing a system as the whole of its components and interactions and the nonlinearity of those interactions. In 1951, he extended systems theory to include biological systems and three years later, it was popularized by Lotfi Zadeh. A Society of General Systems Research was founded the early 1950's by Von Bertalanffy, Kenneth Boulding the systems economist and Anatol Rapoport the Russian mathematical psychologist.
- ^ Wikipedia. Systems theory.
- ^ Cybernetics, origin in control theory: In 1868 James Clerk Maxwell published an article on governors. In the 1940's the study of regulatory processes became a continuing research effort. Two key articles were published in 1943 -- "Behavior, Purpose and Teleology" by Arturo Rosenblueth, Norbert Wiener, and Julian Bigelow and "A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity" by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts. These articles were followed by a series of conferences between 1944 and 1953 on Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems, attended by Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, Heinz Von Foerster, John von Neumann, and others. In 1948 Norbert Wiener, a conference participant, published his book, Cybernetics. See the Origins of Cybernetics.
- ^ Stan Salthe, 1993 Development and Evolution: Complexity and Change in Biology, MIT Press.
- ^Erhun Kula. 2002. History of Environmental Economic Thought. CRC Press. 256 pages
- ^Howard T. Odum. 1971. Environment, power, and society. Wiley Interscience. 331 pages
- ^Lance Gunderson and C.S.Holling. 2002. Panarchy. Island Press.
- ^Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken. 2010. Pareto Distribution: Probability Distribution, Probability Density. 92 pages
- ^Guido Caldarelli. 2007. Scale-free networks: complex webs in nature and technology. 309 pages
- ^ Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, 2002. Linked
- ^Stafford Beer. 1968. Management science: the business use of operations research. 192 pages
- ^Charles B. Guignon. 1983. Heidegger and the problem of knowledge. 261 pages
- ^ Thomas Samuel Kuhn
- ^ Funtowicz, S. and Ravetz, J.R., 1994. The Worth of a Songbird: Ecological Economics as a Post-normal Science, Ecological Economics, 10(3):197-207.
- ^ Jerome R. Ravets, 2006 Post Normal Science and the complexity of transitions towards sustainability, Ecological Complexity 3/4, December 2006, 275-284
- ^ Wicked problem
- ^ Walter Elsasser, 1987. Reflections on a Theory of Organisms, 1966, Atom and Organism.
- ^. Robert Rosen. "On The Limitations Of Scientific Knowledge" in On The Limits To Scientific Knowledge, John L. Casli ed., Santa Fe lnstitute.
- ^. Stewart Kauffman, 2008. Reinventing the Sacred.


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The Minnesota Timberwolves has new concessions items this season. A first-ever sampling party was held October 23 for "a mix of media and season-ticket members," including the MSR at the downtown Minneapolis arena. This reporter however did not taste any of the new food: a male worker seemingly didn't understand me when I asked if a simple hamburger was available — he instead pointed me to the new 1/3-pound Bar-B-Que Burger topped with pork, barbecue sauce and onion crisp. A Black female worker also couldn't convince me to try the new "Ball Hog," a 1/2-pound kielbasa. "The kielbasa is good," she insisted, but to no avail. Continue Reading →


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- "My mother... she's very young for her age. I think Phil makes her feel younger. At any rate, she's crazy about him."
- ―Bella Swan on Renée Dwyer and Phil.[src]
Phil Dwyer is Renée Dwyer's second husband and Bella Swan's stepfather, as well as the stepfather-in-law of Edward Cullen and the step-grandfather of Renesmee Cullen.
He is portrayed by Matt Bushell in the first movie adaptation and later by Ty Olsson.
Phil married Renée the same month Bella turned 17. They had planned to get married in Mexico, but that did not happen. Though Bella didn't like the fact that her mother remarried with someone younger than her, she found Phil quite decent and accepted him, and Phil adapted to Bella. However, because he is a minor league baseball player, he spends a majority of his time away from his new family. Renée stayed home with Bella, but she always missed him. Seeing how lonely her mom felt, Bella decided to move back to Forks and live with her biological father, Charlie, so Renée and Phil could travel together.
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- "Guys, c'mon. I love you both. We got a plane to catch."
- ―Phil's only line in the movies.[src]
In Twilight, Bella notes that Phil gave her a CD of his favorite band when she left, and she listens to it while in Forks. Eventually, Phil is able to get a contract signed with the Suns, a minor league baseball team set in Jacksonville, Florida, and he and Renée move there together.
At the beginning of the Twilight film, Phil is seen packing up the car in Phoenix to bring Bella to the airport, urging them to hurry, though his face isn't shown clearly.
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In Eclipse, Bella and Edward pay a visit to Renée and Phil in Florida, but due to his busy schedule, he is constantly absent. Before Bella's graduation, Phil attempted to demonstrate a slide and tangled up with the catcher and broke his thigh bone, causing him and Renée to be unable to attend Bella's graduation.[1]
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Phil's only appearance in the series is when he attends Bella and Edward's wedding. Like Renée, he has no knowledge of the existence of his step-granddaughter, Renesmee Cullen, or that Bella has become a vampire.
His face is more clearly seen for the first time in Breaking Dawn - Part 1, but doesn't speak at all. He mostly remains in the background, sitting next to Renée during the ceremony and the reception.
Physical appearance
Phil's physical description is never fully explored, but it is known that he is bald, has blue eyes and is around 6 feet tall.
From Bella's description, Phil seems to be a decent man and very accepting to Bella. Like Renée, he has an adventurous spirit and lives to travel with his job.
Film portrayal
Phil is portrayed by Matt Bushell in the Twilight movie and by Ty Olsson in Breaking Dawn - Part 1.[2]
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Elleni Ortega remembers being incredibly nervous before competing in high school for the first time.
"I remember my hands were in front of me, and they were shaking so much," recalled Ortega, now a senior at Magnolia High. "At the same time I was thinking, 'I've been practicing. He's at the same level I am, so I just can't let him win.'
"I'm very competitive. I don't like losing."
It was the first round of Magnolia High's now-defunct Anaheim Union High School Wrestling Tournament. Ortega, still a novice at her newfound craft, was pitted against a 113-pound male competitor from Cypress High.
What ensued paved the way for a prep career like very few before it.
"I couldn't believe that I was going against a guy," said Ortega. "Then I pinned him! I was shocked. He was shocked. After that first match, I knew that wrestling was what I wanted to do."
Ortega – one of the first female wrestlers in school history – went on to place second in her weight class.
"She wants to be the champion," Sentinels coach Ed Nelson said. "She wants to be No. 1. She wants to be the best.
"It's a challenge to her. ... We're up to nine girls on the team right now, and it's a direct result of Elleni. She's just phenomenal."
Two months prior to her first triumph, Ortega watched from the perimeter of Magnolia's wrestling room as her older brother, Luis, plodded through daily practices.
"I would come (to practices), and he wouldn't even be there sometimes," said Ortega, 17. "Coach Ed (Nelson) finally told me one day, 'You're here more often than your brother. Why don't you try it out?'"
Within days, Nelson bought Ortega – a 5-foot, 105-pound ninth-grader with pink bangs at the time – her first pair of wrestling shoes, a kids size 4.
"He told me that I was going to be on the team until my shoes wore out," she recalled.
A multisport athlete – soccer, basketball, flag football and swimming – Ortega's introduction to wrestling and the sport's four-hour practices challenged her resolve.
"I would come out dying," said Ortega. "I would throw up during practice, because my body wasn't used to it. ... Then I got used to it, and I thought maybe practice was getting easier, but it wasn't.
"Football players would come in, and they'd be throwing up, too."
Ortega regularly traded sweat with lettermen.
"At first they were shy about it, but Coach told them that they had to wrestle me like any other wrestler,"she said.
By finishing eighth in the CIF-Southern Section 108-weight class her sophomore year, mostly against boys, Ortega was one of 12 qualifiers from the Southern Section to reach the inaugural Girls Wrestling State Invitational – a tournament implemented in 2011 by the CIF State Office.
As a junior she qualified for the state tournament once again, but a broken bone in her hand kept her sidelined.
"I was clueless," Ortega said of that first season at the state invitational. "I just showed up and didn't know what to do, where to go, but I got through it."
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[♫ Music ♫] [Education] [Adobe & Education] [Why is creativity important in education?] [A Conversation with Sir Ken Robinson] [Sir Ken Robinson, Author, Creativity Expert] There's an assumption that's often made, which is simply not true, when people think about education. And the assumption is that life is linear, that you can anticipate and foresee and predict the lives that people will have. And that assumption shows itself in the way that the school curriculum is managed, how it's narrowed to certain disciplines that are thought to be more useful. It shows itself in the obsession with standardized testing, for example, where all the emphasis is on conformity. When you talk to politicians about why schools are like this currently, often they'll say it's in the interest of the economy. This strikes me as very ironic, because if you speak to business leaders, they say they want people who are creative, who can innovate, who can think differently, who can work in teams and who can communicate. All the things which are not now being taught in schools that have to submit to these rather standardized programs and policies. So the economic imperative for creativity is absolutely clear. There was a report published by IBM, which was based on a survey of 3,000 CEOs around the world. And they were asked what their priorities are as they face the future. What are the things that wake them up at night? The thing that came at top was creativity. They said, how do we run businesses systematically with creative thinking and creative achievement and innovation? Of course, they're now being faced with a generation of students coming through from schools who haven't been encouraged to develop these abilities at all. So the economic imperative for teaching creativity systematically in schools, I think, has never been greater. And that requires a transformation in the way that schools work, because they weren't designed to do it, so they have to be redesigned if they are to do it. But there's a big cultural imperative here, too, because the world is getting more complicated. It's getting more connected; it's becoming more challenging. And many of the challenges that we face, collectively as a species, are cultural as much as they are environmental. Finding ways to live together in a world that's become more nuanced, more interdependent, more dynamic, more connected, is really a task for education. The third big reason, I think, to promote creativity in the schools is personal. In the end, it's about people finding fulfillment in their own lives, lives that add up to something that have purpose and have meaning, and that people feel are helping them find their own course in life, one that matters to them and to other people. For all these reasons, creativity, to me, is not an option. It's an absolute necessity. [Adobe®]
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- "Corin is able to make anyone feel content in his or her circumstances. There is a druglike side effect to her skill, however. A person can become addicted to the feeling she produces, and be unable to feel well without it."
- ―Entry on Corin's gift[src]
Addictive contentment is Corin's power to make a person feel content about his or her situation.
Anyone who gets exposed to this power will feel content, and even happy, with his or her situation; however, those who are exposed to this gift for a long period of time may begin to feel uneasy without it.
Corin uses this ability to keep the Volturi wives, Sulpicia and Athenodora, happy while being trapped in their castle tower. Aro also makes her use this gift on Chelsea to prevent her from leaving the Volturi. Though Marcus has refused to let Corin relieve his pain of Didyme's loss, Caius frequently uses her gift to mitigate his boredom between battles and punishing expeditions.
Similar abilities
- Didyme's ability to induce happiness worked wonders to those around her since her power made someone truly happy. Also, her power did not have an addictive effect like Corin's.
- Jasper Hale's ability to control emotions is quite similar to hers, though he can influence them in any way he pleases. Though his power is useful, it only lasts for as long as he is around his targets.


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INDIANAPOLIS — The waiting game is now underway. Minnesota (20-12) is .500 (1-1) thus far this post season. The women's basketball team will know this Monday whether or not their proverbial "body of work" has earned them their first NCAA at-large berth since 2009. Nearly everyone who the MSR talked to here in Indianapolis last week thinks they have:
"I think Minnesota deserves to be in the NCAA Tournament," says Nebraska Coach Connie Yori, whose league tourney champion Huskers twice defeated the Gophers this season, including a 13-point win in the Big Ten quarterfinals March 7. "With the strength of our league and their RPI (38), I think they need to be in the NCAA Tournament."
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Today marks the launch date of Opening Ceremony's latest capsule collection, a collaboration with icon Yoko Ono, called "Fashion for Men: 1969-2012." The collection includes clothing, shoes, accessories, art, and a book, and is based on Ono's own drawings, a series she titled, simply, "Fashions for Men," which she presented to John Lennon on their wedding day, in 1969.
"I was inspired to create 'Fashions for Men,' amazed at how my man was looking so great. I felt it was a pity if we could not make clothes emphasizing his very sexy bod. So, I made this whole series with love for his hot bod," says Ono in a press release. "You can IMAGINE how he went wild and fell in love with me even more! My sophisticated, tasteful and sensible friends across the world all scream, 'We love it!'"
The collection is available exclusively at Opening Ceremony, and includes mostly mens, but some unisex apparel, like the "lightbulb bra" and the "Ring For Your Mommy Piece," made up of clear perspex, black leather, and silver chrome bells.
Although the drawings that inspired the clothing are from the 1960s and the lyrics in the accompanying book are from Ono's "Anatano Te (Your Hands)," written in 1973, the sentiment of Ono's and Lennon's relationship is certainly timeless. Ono herself, through her writing and her art, grows with the times while keeping a steady eye on her past, which shows in this retro-inspired yet downtown-current line.


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OMFG i'm just reading the beginning of HBP and i happened to read the end of this article that spoils the death of Dumbledore.
So I added the spoiler-warning... The following unsigned comment was made by 126.96.36.199
If you are not aware... Tonks's death date is not mentioned, but it mentions her death later in the article. is she dead in real life
- I'm not sure who asked the question but the actor, Nathalia Tena, isn't dead. The character Nymphadora Tonks died in the final Battle of Hogwarts. Mafalda Hopkirk 09:20, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- I HATE IT!! tonks and remus dead in the end of the deathly hallows! :(
About the mother of Tonks: Wasn't it stated that Slytherin got all of the Blacks except Sirius? So, as a Black, Andromeda would most probably have been Slytherin.
matt--126.96.36.199 01:54, 24 December 2007 (UTC)--220.127.116.11 01:54, 24 December 2007 (UTC)== were do you live
- You are probably right about Andromeda. Mafalda Hopkirk 09:20, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Yes Andromeda did end up in Slytherin but chose to go against her pro-pure blood ways and married a Muggle born. This further backs up the statement that Dumbledore says to Harry about "how are choices shape who we really are."
Long live Nymphadora Tonks Lupin!!!!!!!--HallieryElizabeth 20:01, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
How do we know that she actually changed her last name after marrying Remus? 22.214.171.124 17:23, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Well some women don't change their surnames after marriage? Gato1985 14:13, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Tonks uses her surname instead of her first name, so she's probably quite attached to it and might not have changed it. And anyway, I think it's wrong to assume that all the female characters changed their names, as it's not stated anywhere in the books. I would like to hear what JK Rowling has to say on that. When she says they did change their surnames, fine, but until then, I think we should restrain ourselves from such changes. Shin'setsu 17:41, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
- Is she ever referred to as Mrs. Lupin or as a "Lupin" or Nymphadora Lupin, etc.? -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 18:01, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
- I don't think so... -- Freakatone Talk 18:08, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
- Then I'll remove it. If there is proof it can be added back. -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 18:53, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
- It's been over a year, I came here to point out the same thing (it's unlikely she'd change her preferred moniker from "Tonks" to "Lupin", and she didn't like "Nymphadora"), and I can't see any reason to think she'd take Remus' last name when she used her own as she did. Changed unless someone reverts me. Steve and Jock 17:27, December 5, 2009 (UTC)
- Then I'll remove it. If there is proof it can be added back. -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 18:53, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
- I don't think so... -- Freakatone Talk 18:08, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
- In addition, the Policy page says "An article's title should contain the last name used through out the Harry Potter series, regardless of marriage." I realize it's not the title you're arbitrarily changing, it's just the headings, but I think the same policy could well apply in spirit. Especially for "Tonks" who was *never* referred to as "Lupin". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Steve and Jock (talk • contribs).
- Your edits were reverted for 1.) Last discussion on this was a year ago - no one's changed it so they must be okay with. 2.) Same reasoning applied to this article is also present in Hermione's, Luna's, and several other articles. I believe there was a community discussion regarding married names in articles, and this was the result. If you want to change it, propose a change in the forums, as it will affect more than this article. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 20:03, December 5, 2009 (UTC)
Ekhm.. the same goes for other characters, I think. Shin'setsu 04:03, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
- Depends on the character. A lot of them are referred to by their married names -- there really aren't that many characters married during canon events so they pretty much all have a name they use. Anyway there's a discussion going on about it current at Forum talk:Middle names. Also, anyone can edit if you feel they shouldn't be there you can change it. Just be prepared for users to revert your edits if they disagree. What articles in particular need to be changed? -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 04:16, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Geat!That's made me and the gender gang really happy ;). Gato1985 06:20, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
I don't want to wage a battle on other users, Gato and me just wanted to raise a point ;) I hope we get an answer from JK some day and everything will be clear :] Shin'setsu 02:50, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
- I understand and if you do feel a character shouldn't say it then feel free to bring it up on that article's talk page. -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 03:47, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
No battle ment here, I'm just kidding around. Gato1985 07:40, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Note: Not only is she never called Lupin after her marriage, Remus still calls her Tonks after their marriage ("Tonks is going to have a baby"). -- Noneofyourbusiness 01:24, April 9, 2010 (UTC)
- Actually, Lupin just calls her "Dora", never "Tonks" after their marriage. That was actually Hermione ("Tonks had the baby!"). Hermione just said that because she is used to calling her "Tonks". There is no evidence to support that Tonks never Lupin's name, hence the nee being there.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 01:44, April 9, 2010 (UTC)
- He only actually calls her "Dora" after Teddy is born when he visits Shell Cottage with the news and the rest of the time he does call her "Tonks," but he is always addressing someone who would call her "Tonks" (Harry/Ron/Hermione or his fellow Order members). The impression I get is that he calls her "Dora" at home, but being Lupin adjusts what he calls her depending on who he's talking to. At Shell Cottage, he was giddy and excited about his son's birth and just called her "Dora" without thinking about it. He's described as seeming "dazed in his own happiness" and hugs half the room when he'd previously only ever hugged Tonks. - NothingProfound
- Even though she married R. Lupin I think that she should just be called 'Tonks'.
- Lupin himself says repeatedly that he is "married to Nymphadora Tonks" when identifying himself in Deathly Hallows.
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Someone has made recent edits that say that after bill and fleur's wedding, Tinks and remus split up, remus believing their son would be a were wolf. this is not true. the books almost always show where harry is, so when would they have shown this stuff about Tonks and Remus? It was never even mentioned, so don't add it back.
- It is mentioned, when Remus shows up at Grimmauld Place, when HRH are hiding there. --Cubs Fan2007 (Talk) 15:47, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
- It has been reverted. I wrote the article, and researched it exhaustively. None of it is fancruft, and is supported by the books themselves. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 18:24, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Hufflepuff, not Slytherin
On J.K. Rowling.com [1], it says that she is a Hufflepuff. The article even uses that link as a reference, but says the is a Slytherin? —C Teng 14:31, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
- Fixed it. -- Seth Cooper Owl Post 14:34, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
So she is in Hufflepuff? --Lupin & Kingsley 01:44, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Yes.ShirleyA 11:20, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
She is in Hufflepuff she mentions it in orderofthe pheonix and she seems like oneArgionember 19:59, August 12, 2010 (UTC)
What was Tonk's Patronus before it became a werewolf? -- CocoaZen 06:16, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Good question, I would like to know too.Still Learning 17:54, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Hair in Half Blood Prince
Is it my eyes, or does Nymphadora's hair have a dark pink tint in the Half Blood Prince movie. You have to look closely, it's sort of a lilac shade. That, along with the fact they cut her hair, means the film makers were making Tena more Tonks-y, and should definently be stated in the article.Xnaminex 22:50, October 27, 2009 (UTC)
Tonks Picture
Who changed her main picture? This looks nothing like the Tonks I know and love!
yes i agree(plz put a signature)Nishant77 06:21, September 26, 2010 (UTC)
This infobox picture really doesn't do her justice, and she looks a lot... manlier... than usual. Would it be possible to change it, or has this picture been voted in? --Emmy (★) 15:11, October 26, 2010 (UTC)
- I agree aswell. It think it should be changed. -- Bee T. Are50px(Call me!!) 11:03, April 30, 2011 (UTC)
- I Think her picture shoul be one from Deathly Hallows: Part 2 instead of Part 1
Sirius Black
Shouldn't there be I whole bit on Sirius not just part of family and Tonks and Sirius were quite close. CattyLuna 11:57, May 3, 2011 (UTC)CattyLuna
Poopmachine deleted all the text from this article! What are we gonna do? Dement0r 19:30, July 1, 2011 (UTC)
- It has been fixed and the user warned. - Nick O'Demus 20:35, July 1, 2011 (UTC)
Year of Birth
How do we know what year Tonks was born? Pack Alpha of Europe 02:05, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
- Tonks tells Harry that she has only been out of Auror training for a year in Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 3, and Harry learns that Auror training takes three years in Chapter 29 of the same book. Since Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 3 is set in August 1995, Tonks would've graduated from Hogwarts four years earlier in June 1991 (along with Charlie Weasley), placing her birth in 1972 or 1973. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 03:42, September 5, 2011 (UTC)
- This is on the assumption that she started Auror training right away... Pack Alpha of Europe 04:28, September 5, 2011 (UTC)
- Another factor to take into consideration is that Andromeda must have been born between late 1951 and early 1955 based on the birth years listed for her sisters on the Black family tree. Even assuming the earliest possible scenario, with Bellatrix born in January/February 1951 and Andromeda born in November/December 1951, Andromeda would've started at Hogwarts in 1963 and left in June 1970. Tonks' earliest possible birthday would thus be early 1971 unless Andromeda got pregnant and/or gave birth while she was still in Hogwarts (not impossible, but unlikely). Andromeda's age in combination with the timeline of Tonks' Auror training suggests a birth year of 1972 or 1973. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 05:32, September 5, 2011 (UTC)
In the DH novel, Tonks and Lupin announce their marriage on July 27 before the Battle over Little Whinging, and Lupin tells the Trio that Tonks is pregnant when he finds them at Grimmauld Place on August 4.
In the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, however, the couple's marriage is apparently already common knowledge by July 27, and Tonks tries to announce the pregnancy before the battle instead:
- LUPIN: Just remember, Fleur, once you're married: Bill takes his steaks on the raw side now.
- TONKS: My husband, the joker. By the way, wait until you hear the news! Remus and I are --
It's mentioned in Harry Potter Page to Screen that Jany Temime designed "wizard maternity wear" for Tonks to wear in Deathly Hallows and she considered it one of her "most interesting challenges."
Tonks appears to be "showing" in this promotional photo of her in the dress she wore to Bill and Fleur's wedding. Of course, since Teddy was born in April 1998, Tonks could've only been at most a month along on the day of the wedding (August 1, 1997), which is too early for a pregnancy "show" in most cases.
Not sure how to reconcile the timing disparity when it comes to captioning images in this and other articles. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 09:26, October 27, 2011 (UTC)


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I enjoy watching him play. Nothing against Percy but I'm a Booker guy. He needs to watch his shot selection but otherwise I'm a fan.
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