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An opening provocation to the 'DIY Science: the challenges of quality' at the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra 16-5-15
Abstract from a draft paper submitted for review to M/C Journal - email me dan [AT] internetartizans.co.uk for a copy.
In this paper I explore the countercultural potential of citizen science. I identify counterculture by drawing on the ideas of Theodore Roszak, who saw the carnivalesque youth movements of the 1960s as mobilising a vital critique of technocratic society. I characterise the emergence of citizen science as diverse activities that, by contrast, are mainly seeking validation from orthodox science. However I give examples of citizen science projects that open up all parts of the scientific method to participation and have a commitment to social justice.
This is set alongside the historical example of countercultural science, in the form of Science for the People. This loose organisation sprang from opposition to the Vietnam War and infused their science with the ideas from the civil rights and feminist movements. They constructed early critiques of nuclear power and genetic determinism and embodied (in the words of one of the founders) a 'shit kicking' approach. I follow with the claim that citizen science can become more countercultural if it is prepared to question the hegemony of science.
I draw on various sources to look at the weaknesses of that hegemony in terms of scientific practices, culture and epistemology. I also look at examples which have tried to carry some kind of critique of science in to forms of practice. Isabelle Stengers characterised scientific truth as that which has the ability to disqualify and exclude other truth claims. Taking a lead from Deleuze & Guattari, I propose that citizen science become more of a nomadic science. By acknowledging provisional knowledges, citizen science has the opportunity to build a strong complement to orthodox science rather than experiencing its own experiential and reflective aspects as a source of anxiety.
I sum up by setting the proposed shift in citizen science alongside other social movement trends. As in the 1960s there are other social movements who are questioning the hegemony of hegemony and, like Science for the People, these other movements can be a source of support for a nomadic citizen science that shares their affinity for bottom-up and community-led processes. By adding empirical methods to grassroots social movements, a nomadic science could also contribute to a wider cultural change.
Abstract from a draft paper submitted for review to The Fibreculture Journal - email me dan [AT] internetartizans.co.uk for a copy.
In this paper I examine the entanglement of activism and the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things is one of several terms used to describe a world pervaded by embedded computational devices that are connected to the internet. I define the term and give examples of current Internet of Things devices, as well as the outlining the development of wearables (wearable computing devices). I consider activism to be forms of action aimed at making a direct social change as opposed to, for example, electoral politics. Drawing on Foucault I make the argument that activism and the Internet of Things are always already entangled at both a pragmatic and a philosophical level. From a surveillance point of view, it may be clear that some of this entanglement will inhibit activism. I frame further implications along those lines with regard to governmentality and algorithmic regulation. However, I also claim that the Internet of Things is an opportunity for activism as it as, and for additional forms of activism enabled by these technologies. The practice of an activist Internet of Things is mobilised through the philosophy of de Landa and the practical examples of hacktivism and hackerspaces. Beyond this, I suggest that the broader benefits of the Internet of Things to activism can come through a practical politics of infrastructures. I articulate this through the political philosophy of Gustav Landauer, in particular the notion of structural renewal. I conclude by connecting this structural renewal to the idea of the commons.
The Kosovo Science for Change project launched in June 2014 with a weekend co-design event at the Unicef Innovations Lab in Prishtina. Participants included young people from several parts of Kosova that are experiencing severe environmental issues, including Plementina (a community right under the polluting power stations), Prishtina (the capital city, downwind of the power stations and with heavy traffic pollution), Drenas (near the Ferronickel plant), Mitrovica (with the legacy of mining) and Hani Elezit (not far from the cement plant).
There were also participants from UN Habitat, KEPA (Kosova Environmental Protection Agency), KOSID (the collaboration of environmental NGOs) and the Municipality of Obilic, which includes Plementina and the power plants.
The core project team is made up of local partner, Unicef Innovations Lab (who also hosted the launch event), Transitions and Internet.Artizans.
The event began on Friday evening with an overview of citizen science and why citizen science has particular potential in Kosova. The Public Lab definition of 'civic science' http://www.publiclab.org/about was used to situate the Kosovo Science for Change project, and a series of examples and videos were shown to illustrate the potential, including the work of Mapping for Change and UCL's Extreme Citizen Science research group (ExCiteS) in London, grassroots balloon mapping, and the AirCasting project in New York. The work of Global Community Monitor and their bucket brigades was used to illustrate the role of citizen science in environmental justice.
It was emphasised that citizen science can be important even when there is statutory monitoring by the authorities, for example when the community knows about hotspots that would be missed by orthodox surveys. The Safecast project http://blog.safecast.org/ was given as an example of the potential scale of citizen sensing, and also to show the usefulness of having a local hackerspace.
The central role of mapping was highlighted with examples from Pennsylvania fracking map, the Louisville air map and the Arvin Bucket Brigade Map.
The latter two maps were also used to introduce the idea of using qualitative data and citizens' observations alongside numerical data. The Kosovo Science for Change project will ask participating communities to reflect on the collected data in order to establish what it means for them. This is related to ideas of post-normal science which suggests the need for local knowledge and soft (qualitatve) data as part of a process of 'extended peer review'.
The session concluded by looking at the ways open source software, open hardware, hackerspaces and sensor networks have lowered the barriers to citizen science and opened up new possibilities for bottom-up participation and DIY impact.
The introductory evening session also looked at the specific relevance of citizen science for Kosova, especially the overlap of serious environmental threats with a motivated and mobilised youth population.
The known health costs to Kosova from environmental issues, as documented in the World Bank's 2013 report "Kosovo - Country Environmental Analysis", come from air quality, lead exposure, water-borne infections and waste disposal.
The power plants produce PM10 particulates, SO2 (sulphur dioxide) and NOx (nitrous oxides). In the north near Mitrovice, research shows that lead exposure is affecting the IQ of young children. Nonpower SO2 emissions are mainly attributed to Ferronikeli, and Sharrcem cement factory is also an important NOx generator. However, the most recent KEPA report says that current data on these issues is either not of a good quality or is incomplete, and that there is a lack of capacity for environmental protection at a local level.
This contrasts with the importance placed on the environment in Kosova's consitution and laws (and also in everyday conversations with Kosovans). For example, the Law on air protection (no. 2004/30) assigns responsibility for setting air quality and emissions standards; identifies main air quality indicators; and sets obligations for protection of air quality. In the context of Kosova's aspirations to join the EU, it was also pointed out that the Aarhus convention mandates citizens' right of access to information about the environment and to participation in envirnmental decisions. This is mirrored in Kosovo's environmental protection law which identifies the principle of public access to information and participation; for example, Environmental Impact Assessments's are supposed to have citizen participation.
In contrast, the potential for making a difference with citizen science in Kosova is increased by being able to draw on motivated young people who have experience of participatory innovation (through the Innovations Lab) and a strong interest in digital technologies, especially via the recent series of Kosovo Social Innovation Camps and self-organised initiatives like FLOSSK (Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova). This opens up the potential for a citizen science project where the air monitoring can be low-fi, partly digital and participatory, in contrast to the €2,000,000 of EU funds it took to establish the semi-functioning government air quality monitoring network.
Saturday began with a session called 'hearing from the communities'. The participants were given a set of guiding questions and worked in small randomly assigned groups to generate the issues that most concerned them. Each person in the group had 5 minutes to talk through their responses to the questions while the other group members jotted down key ideas and terms on post-it notes. After 5 minutes the post-its were added to the main sheet and the next person had their say. After everyone was done, the group as a whole reflected on the issues that had come up and tried to group them in to themes for feedback. It was clearly a powerful experience for participants and a tremendous diversity of issues emerged from the discussions. Noise came up early as a problem from several sources, as did industrial concerns dumping in rivers. There were some direct observations about problems, such as being able to smell the bad air on certain days, and finding particulates like sand in the drinking water supplies.
An analysis afterwards of the post-it notes on the showed the following concerns;
air: Dust from power plant, rooftops turned white. Lead presence in air. Private operators filters not fully functional. No catalytic converters in cars. Acid rain.
water: Poor quality, undrinkable. Sand-like presence in tap water. Water losses due to old infrastructure. Water shortages (several hours a day/night).
sewage: Old infrastructure. Sewers overflow in rainfall. Poor improvement work being done by municipality. Infrastructure improvements for cable TV, KEK, roads, house construction etc., damage existing pipes and never repair them or repairs are done poorly.
rivers: Sewage end in the river. Trash thrown in the river by people Riverbeds ruined by private operators who dig out gravel for commercial purposes
No fish in our rivers anymore
land: Landfills. Trash thrown everywhere, contaminates soil quality. Lack of proper landfills, trash cans, containers in open spaces. Burning of trash is common. Lack of green spaces. Illegal, unregulated construction. Noise pollution. Traffic noise.
health related issues: Asthma. Respiratory diseases. Cancer incidence high. Lack of information. Inaccessible information. Lack of awareness of existing studies.
After coffee, there was an Environment & Health Q&A session with a panel made up of representatives from KEPA (Kosova Environmental Protection Agency), KOSID (the collaboration of environmental NGOs) and the Municipality of Obilic. The moderator's questions were intended to draw out both what the known environmental problems are and what actions have already be taken.
The panel member from KEPA reported on their monitoring of environmental issues, and on some successes, such as getting filters installed at the KEK power stations. However, she also acknowledged that there are still huge problems due to pollution as shown by the much higher incidence of respiritory diseases in the capital Pristhtina, near the power stations, compared to Prizren in the south. The KOSID representative criticised government plans to replace the Kosova A power plant with Kosova C without looking at the external costs of coal power and without looking at renewables or energy efficiency, and referred to the Berkley report on "Sustainable Energy Options for Kosovo". The environmental officer from the municipality gave an account of the difficulties of making a difference at a local level; despite some success in clearning up waste and garbage, other problems still required daily pressure to be applied to KEK with phone calls, meetings and so on.
During the discussion other issues were raised, such as companies illegally taking gravel from riverbeds near Rahovec (the main wine growing area) which had 'nearly killed' the life in the river. When the questioner asked about fines for this she was told that inspectors in the field had been threatened by companies taking the gravel.
The panel members engaged open to discussion with the audience of motivated and critically-minded young people, which is not the usual way that policy is debated in Kosova. Some explanations were offered by panel members for relatively slow progress on the environment, such as "we had a war, and the post-war focus was on social issues", and "economic development was a priority but now environment will be more of a priority". Overall there was a sense from participants that there has been lots of debate and relatively little concrete action: as one young questioner said "plans, plans it's always plans", with another saying "why are you not panicking?! why can't we do more, why are we waiting for others to solve our problems?". There was a general agreement that we should all ask ourselves questions about where the solutions could and should come from.
After lunch on Saturday there was an introduction & training sesssion on the use of the proposed non-digital methods, mainly diffusion tubes (to measure levels of SO2 and NO2) and so-called ghost wipes (which can detect the presence of heavy metal contaminants).
The session began with a look at the action research cycle, and examples of various methods were discussed, including diffusion tubes, ghost wipes, noise monitoring, logs and mapping. Overall, the idea of establishing and sticking to a protocol was emphasised, both as good scientific practice and also as one of the key pieces of advice the project had received from Global Community Monitor.
For diffusion tubes, the topics covered were how they work, where to put them, the concept of a chain of custody, where to record details of location, conditions etc and the technique of getting people to 'adopt a tube'. The possibility was raised of using rapid air monitors such as those from Gradko in situations where a snapshot reading is more important than a monthly average. This may be one of the actions triggered by digital readings from the Smart Citizen Kits.
For the ghost wipes, we briefly looked at how they work and the methods of using them, with the aid of the Dust Air Quality Toolkit from Mapping for Change. There was also a joke about these being 'the most expensive wet wipes you'll ever use' (the main cost, of course, being the analysis at the lab).
Noise measurements were not one of the original aims of the pilot project, but because they were mentioned several times during 'Hearing from the Communities' several examples were show, especially the Mapping for Change noise toolkit and the NoiseTube project http://scistarter.com/project/475-NoiseTube. This also opened up a discussion about qualitative measurements, as the Mapping for Change noise monitoring in Royal Docks is a good example of recording qualitative data alongside empirical data.
Following on, the idea of keeping logs was introduced. We looked in detail at an example of a pollution log from Global Community Monitor which included questions for observers about what they saw, heard, smelled, tasted and felt (e.g. "what kind of bad smell and when?"). We looked at map from Global Community Monitor's Louisiana Bucket Brigade to see how these qualitative measurements worked alongside sensor measurements, also re-emphasising the importance of mapping as a way to collate and make sense of the results of our work. The session also looked at example of kite mapping from the Public Lab online community which showed evidence of a company dumping coal in a river, as this was relevant to reports from the 'Hearing from the Communities' session of factories dumping in rivers in Kosova.
The second session on Saturday afternoon was led by Alexandre (Alex) Dubor of the Smart Citizen project, who produce the Arduino-based Smart Citizen Kit (SCK) which the Kosovo Science for Change project is using as it's digital sensor device. To put the SCK in context, Alex began with an introduction to Fablabs, their mission and principles, and a description of the way the SCK had been created in Barcelona Fablab. This also gave us an insight in to the nature of prototyping; as Alex said, it took only four days to rapidly prototype the original version of the Smart Citizen Kit but almost two years of refining it to bring it to a stage where it could be deployed in significant numbers in somewhere like Kosova.
Alex then gave a demonstration of the kit and also of the platform where the data will be livestreamed to the internet. This will be an important part of the Science for Change Kosova project.
A discussion followed of how to deploy the kit in practice. Some of the questions were related to the local context; for example, as Kosova still experiences power cuts it was useful to find out that the battery will keep the devices going for up to 24 hours and that sensor data is stored to RAM until the kit is back online and can upload it to the internet. Alex also shared practical tips about the best way to orient the kit and how to tape the usb cable so it doesn't put strain on the usb socket when the kit is hanging on the wall. The Science for Change project won't be using the designer 3D printed enclosures that feature on the Smart Citizen site so there's was a discussion about what kind of boxes would be good for enclosures, what air flow is needed, and so on. There was also a discussion about how best to co-locate the kits with the diffusion tubes, as this is part of the project's strategy for matching digital readings with well-calibrated laboratory readings.
The Kosovo Science for Change project is fortunate to have a volunteer technical support team made up of participants from FLOSSK (Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova) and the tech community who are established Prishtina Hackerspace.
The Sunday morning session set out to develop plans for advocacy & impact. It started with a presentation about the relationship between digital spaces like social media, activism and social change, drawing on global examples like the Arab Spring as well as local examples like recent campaign about the Rectorate at the University of Prishtina, and case studies like the agile Greenpeace campaign about palm oil (URLs).
Trying to answer the question 'what difference can citizen science make?' the group looked at the Pepys noise campaign, the Putney air quality measurements that followed (which highlighted the rat runs and enabled the community to be able to sit down and have a roundtable with council & tfl). The session also looked at the achievements of Global Community Monitor's bucket brigades, which has helped communities be relocated in in Norco, Louisiana, had a school moved and has had companies like the steel facility Claymont, Delaware spend large amounts of money to clean up (some details of which can be found in the REPORT). However, he also emphasised the advice from GCM to understand Science for Change Kosovo is a pilot project, so our expectations of immediate impact should be realistic, while also recognising the larger longer term potential.
It was also pointed out that science doesn't always have the kind of certainty about environmental impacts (or lack of impacts) that is portrayed in public, and that there are a lot of disagreements inside science and a lot of arguments about what data is valid and what isn't. Participants were introduced to Phil Tattersall's Community Based Auditing, a methodical process that doesn't try to disprove the science asserted by the institutions but simply points out the gaps and mismatches (what Phil calls the disconfirmation process). The impact is not only the change but the realisation of the participants that they are agents of change.
The introduction to advocacy & impact was followed by a group exercise, where each local action group was asked to create detailed personas for the individuals they were trying to influence, and to create imaginary strategies for how to do that with the kind of data and qualitative information that the Science for Change project is aiming to produce.
After lunch on Sunday, the local groups were tasked with producing a one side action plan, with a top level statement about what they wanted to monitor, what they wanted to achieve by doing this, who was going to be involved and what support they needed from the Science for Change project and the Innovations Lab.
It was explained that the core project team would look at all the plans alongside each other and would prioritise which ones could be started straight away and which would be part of a second phase of the project, based on constraints such as money, local support capacity and the currently available methods (which focus on air quality).
The project's closing remarks emphasised the amazing potential revealed by the weekend; the co-existence in Kosova of critical environmental issues alongside savvy youth who are motivated to become active participants in independently tackling these problems. After a group photo and the official closing of the weekend, some people returned to lab for a further working group sessions.
Later that evening, some participants gathered for a meal on a balcony which, coincidentally, overlooked one of the government's fixed air quality monitoring stations in Prishtina. The large LED indicator board above it, which used to display the ambient temperature and the air quality, was completely dark and apparently has been for some time...
(to be continued...)
'Science for Change' is a pilot citizen science project in Kosovo. It's now possible for people to make measurements of air quality and other forms of pollution in their own communities, and DIY digital measuring devices make it possible to map & share data in real time over the internet. In this project, the community is at the heart of the scientific inquiry; not just measuring data, but deciding what and where it is important to measure, and taking part in analysing the results. The participants will be able to use the data for advocacy to improve their situations, based on the enforcement of legal standards and environmental principles. In the process they will learn skills related to science & technology, increase their understanding of the impact of pollution on health and wellbeing, and feel in a stronger position to ask questions and take action.
smart citizen kit
While citizen science doesn't solve problems by itself, it is part of a process that is important for the whole of Kosovo, where air quality degradation is estimated by the World Bank to cost the country at least 100 million Euros each year due to deaths, illnesses and time off work{1}. It is also vital for the future to know what is in the environment, as studies have shown that children are the most affected (with lead contamination affecting IQ levels). It is not acceptable for governments and corporations to ignore the issues, either by not monitoring the pollution or by keeping the information secret. One of the first communities the project will work with are people living near the Kosovo A and B power plants.
The methods used to measure the air quality will be a mix of the Smart Citizen arduino-based digital sensor{2} and diffusion tubes which are analysed at the lab for measurements of nitrous oxides and sulphur dioxide{3}. There are also plans to test for heavy metal contamination (such as lead) and particulates - the small particles in the air (labelled PM2.5 and PM10) which are known to have serious health consequences. Data collection points will be decided by the communities, and measurements will be taken over four or five months. Data from the digital sensors will be live on the internet, and will be added to a map along with the lab measurements. The aim is to create open data and make it available online.
Pepys Estate noisemap
Different communities from around Kosovo will be invited to take part in the project launch, a weekend event where we will co-design the pilot project, learn how to use the tools and discuss the different ways to have an impact. The project partners include the Unicef Innovations Lab{4}, which has a track record of participatory work with young people in Kosovo, and the team that has delivered digital innovation by running a series of Social Innovation Camps. It has been advised and inspired by projects such as Excites at UCL{5}, Mapping for Change{6} and Global Community Monitor{7} and is following the model of 'civic science' set out by the innovative Public Lab{8}. If the pilot project is a success it can be extended to look at water quality and soil quality, as well as expanded with a range of techniques ranging from balloon mapping{9} to radiation {10}.
REVISED Abstract for a paper submitted to the European Journal of Cultural Studies
In this paper I argue that pervasive tracking and datamining is leading to a shift in governmentality that can be characterised as algorithmic states of exception. The apparatus that performs this change owes as much to everyday business models as it does to mass surveillance. I look at technical changes at the level of data structures, such as the move to NoSQL databases, and how this combines with datamining and machine learning to accelerate the use of prediction as a form of governance. The consequent confusion between correlation and causation leads, I assert, to the creation of states of exception. I set out what I mean by states of exception using the ideas of Giorgio Agamben, focusing on the aspects most relevant to algorithmic regulation such as force-of and topology. I argue that the effects of these state of exception escape legal constraints such as concepts of privacy. Having characterised this as a potentially totalising change and an erosion of civil liberties I ask in what way the states of exception can be opposed. I follow Agamben by drawing on Walter Benjamin's concept of pure means as a tactic that is itself outside the frame of law-producing or law-preserving activity. However, the urgent need to respond requires more than a philosophical stance, and I examine two examples of historical resistance that satisfy Benjamin's criteria. For each in turn I draw connections to contemporary cases of digital dissent that exhibit some of the same characteristics. I conclude that it is possible both theoretically and practically to resist the coming states of exception. I end by warning what is at stake if we do not.
If you would like to read a draft of the paper please drop me a line: dan AT internetartizans DOT co DOT uk
Original abstract
This paper follows the loose thread of the Snowden revelations back through the fog of big data to see what kind of apparatus emerges. Instead of Foucault's disciplinary model rooted in the specifics of relational databases, it finds that the operations of datamining produce a regime of predictions built on the substitution of correlation for causation, manifesting in the world as the emergence of algorithmic regulation. Abandoning relational databases for NoSQL has helped to open up a free field for preemptive prediction across the social field. The historical force of these developments is characterised through Giorgio Agamben's concept of the State of Exception; a state where law, rights and political meaning to life are suspended. The final part of the paper asks what can be done to contest an apparatus that produces algorithmic states of exception. Recognising that law & policy are a priori insufficient, it seeks guidance from historical social movements that have operated during earlier times of exception and their correlates in contemporary forms of digital disruption. It examines in detail the medieval Brethren of the Free Spirit and the contemporary antinomians of Anonymous, and also the moral economy of mid-eighteenth century English food riots and what that might teach us about initiatives like Cryptoparty. It concludes with a call to reverse the current mode of machine learning in order to start 'learning against the machine'.
The British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has announced that the UK is "developing a full-spectrum military cyber capability, including strike capability". In doing so, has become the first Western politician to publicly acknowledge offensive operations in cyberspace as a state priority, although a few months earlier the head of the NSA spoke of creating cyberwarfare divisions.
The context of the British revelation was a Dr. Strangelove style interview in a nuclear bunker beneath Whitehall. The narrative was of "clinical cyber strikes" and claimed that "in contrast with bloody, dangerous and inaccurate bombing raids, entire cities could be conquered without a single loss of life, helping Britain to avoid a military war – and a public relations battle".
The reality of cyberwar is likely to be dirty; more like a messy proxy-war than a disciplined confrontation between national armies. What is more, cyberwar arrives draped in the vestments of future war crimes. A closer reading of current evidence suggests it will generate activity across three areas that are definitely unethical and potentially illegal; namely funding dangerous militias, increasing the number of children enrolled in conflict, and poisoning public spaces.
Firstly, the threat of militias. Despite being a top-end engineering project, Stuxnet seems to have depended on shady private sector engagements. The zero day exploits used to deliver the payload were almost certainly a product of the growing black-market in vulnerabilities. Companies like French firm VUPEN are the Blackwaters of cyberwar, and even civilian law-enforcement agencies are willing to pay for exploits so they can slip spyware onto suspects' mobile phones according to Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union. As a case in point, the Syrian conflict has spawned several digital militias with dubious affiliations, from the established pro-regime Syrian Electronic Army to the spray of opposition splinter groups like the Jabhat Al Nusra Electronic Army. There's a murky nexus of mafia, malware and militias at the core of cyberwar which can only swell as the military ramps up it's budget for offensive capabilities. It's not hard to see what kind of mess can be created by mixing global demand with a militia and proxy wars; just look an the unending strife in Congo where various interests fight for, among other things, control of the mineral coltan which is used in mobile phones & laptops. Moreover, nothing about cyberwar can be separated from the surveillance systems exposed Edward Snowden. As Thomas Rid, Reader in War Studies at King's College London says in the FT; "Building cyber weapons requires attacking first. You can't build a cyber weapon without first knowing the target. This requires penetrating the target first, through aggressive probing for intelligence. The effect is escalation, not deterrence." Cyberwar needs Prism, Bullrun and the rest.
The second disturbing trend is the focus on enrolling youth and children. The tabloid article interview with Hammond in which he revealed the switch to a cyber offensive stance also contained references to a new Cyber National Guard of part-time reservists which will be "open to computer whizzkids who cannot pass the current Territorial Army fitness tests, on the basis that press-ups do not aid computer skills. 'A TA for computer geniuses', as Mr Hammond called it". While this may be rhetorical chaff to divert attention from other cuts in the defence budget, cyberwar raises a substantive issue about age and conflict. Hackers start young, and some will be behind those exploits that fetch high prices in the global black markets. We can also ask what part of existing cyber militias consist of kids too young to take up a Kalashnikov. As for the state, what should we make of DARPA's enthusiasm for funding the 'maker' agenda in education (as Tim O'Reilly's tweet says "@make and @otherlab plan to bring making to education … with the help of a DARPA mentor grant" ). In the past, the UK has been criticised by Amnesty International for using 'child soldiers' ("The United Kingdom is the only country in Europe which routinely sends children under the age of 18 into armed conflict"). The government's welcome switch in schools' ICT learning curriculum to make coding a priority is now taking place in a state that considers offensive cyberwar as central to future war strategy. While no-one is suggesting the education agenda has been set by the military, there is some sense in which they are moving in step. At the very least, the expansion of the malware-industrial complex will proliferate job ads like those from Raytheon which boast of youth culture: "Surfboards, pirate flags, and DEFCON black badges decorate our offices, and our Nerf collection dwarfs that of most toy stores. Our research and development projects cover the spectrum of offensive and defensive security technologies."
A third strand of possible cyber war crimes is the nature of the weapons as indiscrimate rather than surgical. In this arms race, proliferation is baked in; techniques used by Stuxnet have surfaced in code used by regular cyber criminals ("The parallel is dropping the atomic bomb but also leaflets with the design of it" according to one think tank). The fact that Stuxnet itself was discovered by the outside world is attributed to a bug in the malware which led to it spreading beyond its intended target (the centrifuges in Iran's Natanz nuclear plant). A programming error introduced in an update led to the worm infecting an engineer's computer that had been connected to the centrifuges, and spreading further when the engineer returned home and connected his computer to the internet. In the past few months a couple of US-based engineers have exposed vulnerabilities in other SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems used to remotely monitor power stations and water utilities. "In the case of one vendor, Mr. Crain found that he could actually infiltrate a power station's control center from afar. An attacker could use that capability to insert malware to take over the system, like Stuxnet". This has led to a series of CERT (Cyber Emergency Response Team) advisories, such as: "The affected Triangle MicroWorks products are stand-alone or are third-party components, which communicate to outstation/slave devices using various transmission protocols. According to Triangle MicroWorks, the products are deployed across several sectors including electric utilities, transportation systems, water, and government facilities...The outstation can be sent into an infinite loop by sending a specially crafted TCP packet from the master station on an IP-based network. The device must be shut down and restarted to reset the loop state". Sujeet Shenoi of the Cyber Corps Program at the University of Tulsa 'fears the consequences of active strikes against infrastructure. "I think maybe the civilian courts ought to get together and bar these kinds of attacks," he says'. As the Internet of Things infuses every aspect of our lives well beyond our industrial infrastructure, the potential for attack becomes fractal. If a hobbyist can create a search engine Shodan for exposed devices including traffic lights, security cameras and home heating systems, as well as industrial infrastructure, what will a serious cyberwar agency or militia be able to do? And what will be the inevitable unintended consequences? Despite Hammond's claim that "entire cities could be conquered without a single loss of life" we know that so-called non-lethal weapons like tear gas frequently kill; when, for example, the gas is fired in to enclosed spaces where there are older people or children. Cyberwar will attack the atmospheres of our lives in ways that will unpredictably toxic.
When all this or something similar comes to pass and, too late, we agree that cyber war crimes have occurred – what then? Do we rely on an institutional human rights framework which has failed to adapt to the age of networks? What class of professionals will be qualified to prosecute? In the USA, legislators charged with overseeing surveillance programmes were persuaded that metadata is innocuous, and the judiciary legitimised blanket interception by defining massive data sets as 'targeted facilities'. Perhaps we will look to 'the new politics of the internet', a networked politics which takes the commons as a priority. "What these new political models hope to achieve is not just decentralization, but self-organization...The internet has given not only the tools but also the language and culture required for so many people to participate in self-organized systems at global scales". Perhaps the peace and anti-nuclear movement will be reinvigorated and combine Menwith Hill peace grannies with Tweets from the Streets. The politics that emerges from the internet also comes with the defence of the internet as a fundamental social good, whereas a notable characteristic shared by surveillance agencies, cyberwar programmes and, for that matter, the defenders of incumbent business models (think SOPA and ACTA) is a willingness to 'break' the internet in pursuit of their goals. The internet was imbued by its university origins with the academic ideals of free expression and the sharing of knowledge. As one of the leaders of Germany's Pirate Party once said "We don't offer a ready-made programme, but an entire operating system" and this could describe the internet itself, a space for global collaboration in the face of climate change and energy shocks. In this situation, waging war on the internet itself may at least constitute a crime against the commons.
Why are micro video blogging sites like Vine so popular? TechCrunch's DIY analysis back in March showed a trend in Vine's early growth that's still going strong, although the big media story right now is the battle between Vine and the newer Instagram video offering (fifteen seconds of video instead of six! Filters!!). Sure, social media trends can be as shallow as you like: but can a closer reading of Vine tell us anything more interesting about our times?
The BBC was off the blocks in January with a decent stab at listing 'six things people have learned about six-second video in a week'. Although all social media sites can seem superficial they are also cultural spaces; and people can participate in creating these cultures instead of choosing from cultural forms approved by mainstream taste-makers. Six seconds of video can be banal; but it can also be poetic or political. An aggregation of Vine videos recalls the the Mass Observation social research project of the 1930s. You're seeing the ordinary stuff of people's lives unfold in front of you: in this case, a few dizzying seconds at a time.
What's more, there's something meme-ish about the micro video format. As other people have pointed out, you can see the lineage to animated gifs. Vine videos can have that funny-or-disturbing payload that lends itself to sharing and adaptation. Memes are the DNA of online culture (complete with junk DNA) and they're way we share a common feeling or outlook about everything from cats to the overthrow of Mubarak.
Twitter was dismissed as trivial at the start, it's now a strategic component of politics, business and social uprisings. Imagine a six second looping video of Mohamed Bouazizi setting himself on fire. And if you think Vine and it's ilk are simply the waste pipe of public consciousness, you missed the significance of 4chan's /b/ board. The images there are like a teenager's toilet humour on Tourette steroids, but the shared grammar of jokes and memes was an important petri dish for the sub-culture that became Anonymous.
But of course, like the other spawn of Silicon Valley, the business model is the dark side of Vine and the other sites and may ironically be the source of their ultimate failure. It's no secret that the battle between Vine and Instagram video is a courtship of the advertisers as much as (more than) an appeal to the users. That's the ABC of the tech startup – grow a massive user base by being both cool and free, then sell to a bigger company who can monetise the metrics. You can almost taste the advertiser's saliva when they say "We would be interested in exploring the advertising capabilities, their analytics platform/offering and how granular they can go from a targeting perspective".
Targeting is the key here. The sinister thing about all the video blogging sites is that it's really you, the person making the video, who is being watched. The companies want to know who all your friends are and what kind of stuff you like so they can target advertising at you ("If the product is free, you are the product"). Thanks to Edward Snowden we also know that the intelligence agencies are hoovering up everything we do online. By making a form of stalking into the engine of social media, Silicon Valley has achieved a Taoist unity of business model and threat model. What will the wider impact of Vine be in the age of PRISM? Remember, it was a video that gave Wikileaks a big kick-off (the one of a helicopter gunship in Afghanistan casually killing a Reuters journalist and some children). Will the micro video sites simply be part of the strangling pondweed of surveillance or will we see some Vine-powered transparency? How about a six-second video from a drone control room in Lincolnshire?
In this light it's an app like Snapchat that says more about our times than the enhanced video editing features of Vine's competitors. Although it shares a refreshingly minimalist approach to user interface, Snapchat is mainly interesting because of the promise to forget your images & videos – ten seconds and they're gone. Of course, Snapchat's pitch for privacy was technically fake and it shares pretty much nothing with proper privacy tools. But it's the idea that gave it life. We don't want everything to last forever, to haunt us at our job interviews or to sit in the digital filing cabinet of some spy agency. So maybe the next hot video app won't be a slicker version of Vine but some hybrid of Snapchat and Tor. People want to express themselves freely – and that's what the internet was originally good for.
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German ebook firm pushes cheapo ereaders into US drug stores
The txtr, sir? It's in the laxatives aisle
US book distributor ReaderLink will be pushing German firm txtr's impossibly cheap ereader into US grocery and drug stores, launching a new cloud platform which will also support the devices. The cheap ereaders cost a mere €10 on this side of the pond, but dollar pricing has not yet been announced.
Txtr's Beagle ereader was announced back in October and has been looking for commercial partners ever since. In America that partner will be ReaderLink, a company which already provides books to thousands of grocery and drug stores across America which have hitherto been excluded from the digital revolution.
The ReaderLink plan is to host a cloud locker for books, which can then be read on any device including the bargain-basement txtr Beagle or similar. The company supplies paper books to 24,000 stores and plans to push txtr's bookstore, and hardware, to those retailers.
Berlin-based txtr has been busy stocking the shelves of its virtual store, and now has more than half a million English titles, as well decent catalogues in several other languages. The English-language content is protected with Adobe's DRM (Digital Rights Management) which means electronic books can be viewed on just about any kind of ereader with the notable exception of Amazon's Kindle.
But it is txtr's hardware which has caught the eye - a five-inch ereader which depends on a smartphone to manage and render its content, but costs only €10. The device has a battery life of about a year.
The txtr Beagle achieves this by storing only images of the pages, not the text, which means one can't resize the font or search on the reader, and the device can only store a handful of books, but the outstanding battery life and low cost make those limitations acceptable if txtr can get the smartphone software sorted out.
Currently, for example, one can't delete books - not until the device is full - and with half a dozen PDFs on the device (copied using the Smartphone app), navigation becomes all but impossible as they all have the same name and icon. But epub files work perfectly, and while we never managed to get a (DRM-protected) library book transferred, we did manage to copy various epub titles from phone to reader.
Navigation is limited to four buttons: power, forward, back and enter, with the Bluetooth connection triggered by holding down the power button. Everything else is done using the smartphone app (Android or iOS). The reader is a joy to use, with the pair of AA batteries weighting down the bottom edge and the only significant power drain occurring when the smartphone app is managing the content - to the point where even after a month's intense use we're not able to measure the drain.
But that €10 price is dependent on some subsidy, though txtr won't say how much, and the company has been hawking the concept around mobile network operators for the last few months in the hope of getting one of them to stump up the cash in exchange for a cut of book sales. That's a work in progress, but in the US the company seems to have found a friend in ReaderLink - though today's agreement only covers the cloud store and a promise to sell "an affordable eReader" in rotating wire racks at some point. Nevertheless, it's a significant development for txtr and might convince a telco or two to take idea more seriously. ®
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Berkeley Earth is pleased to announce that we've merged an oceans temperature analysis to our existing land data, and have a new global data set: Land + Ocean
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Berkeley Earth was created to address potential biases in the land surface temperature record. We are now expanding scientific investigations, educating and communicating about climate change, and evaluating mitigation efforts in developing and developed economies.
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We continue to lower the barriers to entry into climate science by posting all our raw data and our analysis code online to provide an open platform for further analysis. We also post all our Berkeley Earth papers, memos, graphics and analysis code.
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Kept it all black with a neon ~POP~ today. God I hate the expression "colour pop", Excuse my extreme lame-o-ness! I love this ASOS top but it's ridiculously hard to wear as the sides are so low. Im tempted to leave it without a top on underneath so my bra's subtly showing but I still feel a touch trampy leaving the house like that! So we shall see how daring I feel! Not sure what drew me to the pumps though, Im not big on colour (if you couldn't tell by the ammount of black outfits I wear) but I do like wearing little bits of it, especially neons. I saw someone in the queue in H&M wearing with these and promptly asked where I could get them from. I just had to have them! I sacrificed my place in the really really long Oxford Street queue and ran to find them! Super comfy, although a bit wide for my narrow feet though ):
Tonight I'm off to see Funeral for a Friend with Zoe, and the realisation that Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation came out almost 10 years ago makes me want to weep. I remember when that actually came out, But I'm all for the emo nostalgia! In theory I should wear something suitably emo, but I don't think I could carry off the clothes I used to wear when I was 15. I've just taken those baby steps towards wearing skinny jeans again!


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Weather forces postponement of Blue Jays-Twins
Game rescheduled as night portion of split doubleheader to be played Thursday
MINNEAPOLIS -- The scheduled game between the Twins and Blue Jays on Wednesday at Target Field was postponed due to inclement weather, and it will be made up as the second game of a split doubleheader on Thursday.
With cold temperatures and snow in the forecast on Wednesday, the Twins announced the game would be postponed more than seven hours before first pitch. The game will be made up at 6:10 p.m. CT on Thursday, while Thursday's day game will be held as originally scheduled at 12:10 p.m. Gates will open for afternoon game at 11 a.m., and for Game 2 at 5 p.m.
Right-hander Mike Pelfrey, who was slated to start on Wednesday, will be pushed back a day to start Game 2 on Thursday night. Right-hander Kyle Gibson will start in the day game on Thursday as originally scheduled.
Fans holding tickets to the postponed game have two options, as they can use their tickets for the rescheduled game on Thursday or exchange them for a future Twins regular-season game in 2014. Unused tickets may be exchanged only at the Target Field Ticket Office located on Target Plaza off 7th Street.
Thursday marked the first time a game had been postponed due to weather at Target Field this season. It's also the ninth postponed game at Target Field since it opened in 2010.


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Ex-boyfriend of Houston's 'Enchilada Queen' pleads guilty in her shooting
The ex-boyfriend of chef and restaurateur Sylvia Casares, known by some as Houston's "Enchilada Queen," pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and now is awaiting his sentencing hearing.
In March 2012, police say Michael Warren, 60, assaulted and shot Casares in the stomach in her car outside her Fulshear home in Fort Bend County. Warren then stole money from her home and fled in Casares' truck to Louisiana while she was flown to Memorial Hermann Hospital before she was transported elsewhere and underwent surgery, police say. The following week, Warren returned to Fort Bend County with the help of a relative, and police found him in a Rosenberg motel thanks to an anonymous tip.
After the jury was selected on Tuesday, Warren pleaded guilty. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Aug. 29. In a brief statement on Wednesday, Casares said her reaction to the plea was "one of relief that this chapter in my life will soon be part of my past when he is sentenced."
"I forgave Mr. Warren a long time ago, and I am sure he will be sentenced to jail for the appropriate time frame equal to the amount of physical and emotional pain I suffered," Casares said. "I am at peace now, and completely free to focus my attention and energies on opening of my new restaurant on Eldridge this August."
Casares also thanked the support of family, friends and customers in her statement. She began her culinary career in 1995 when she opened a restaurant outside of Beltway 8 on Houston's west side. In 1998, she renamed her first restaurant Sylvia's Enchilada Kitchen to reflect her passion for enchiladas. She's been praised by television chef Rachael Ray and Texas Monthly.
Her ex-boyfriend, who was also her business partner, faces 10 years in prison, but he could get a minimum sentence of two years of probation. Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon normally has a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, but Warren's defense attorney, Emily Detoto, said the judge capped the sentence at 10 years.
"Things kind of have a way of working themselves out once a jury is being selected - for both sides," Detoto said. "During jury selection on a break, the parties had a conversation, and after extensive conversation we reached an agreement that we all felt comfortable with."
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FAYETTE CROSS COUNTRY: Fayette finished the BBC cross country season with top male and female runners in the conference, but neither team found it's way to first place.
Senior Darrell Randall finished as the top male runner, ahead of Hilltop's Travis Burwell and Stryker's Conner Frey. Fayette's Trevor Cox tied for fourth best.
Fayette sophomore Melani Seiler finished on top of the girls standing, edging out Pettisville's Tanner Hostetler and Edon's Levi Cvikle. Alexa Kessler finished as the ninth best runner.
Hilltop placed first in the boys team standings, followed by Stryker and Pettisville. Pettisville took the girls title, followed by Fayette and Stryker.
Randall turned in a 16:29 Thursday at Stryker for the final BBC Jamboree, easily defeating second-place Burwell at 16:41.
Other Fayette placers were Cox (6th, 17:28); Tim Stoltzfus (16th, 18:25); Tyler Keefer (26th, 19:01); Dalton Goeltzenleuchter (28th, 19:16); Dusty Lantz (29th, 19:17); Ian Schrock (33rd, 19:39); Clay Burkholder (34th, 19:41); Dylan Ashemeier (42nd, 20:00); Tyler Cox (43rd, 20:21); Hunter Colegrove (44th, 20:33); Nathan Seiler (49th, 21:02); Jonathan Boesger (59th, 23:23); and Alec Hylander (62nd, 26:26).
Hilltop was first with 32 points, followed by Stryker with 53 and Fayette with 75.
Seiler claimed a decisive win against Hostetler, winning at 20:29 against the second-place time of 20:40.
Kessler came through in 11th at 22:51, followed by Ashtyn Baker (24th, 24:30); Sarah Kovar (27th, 25:04); and Sydney Brown (28th, 25:17).
Fayette's junior high teams both claimed league championships after both finished first in each of the three league outings.
Skylar Lantz led the boys in first place at Stryker at 12:18. He was followed by Dylan Stannard (3rd, 12:24); Jared Wagner (4th, 12:56); Casen Burkholder (6th, 13:10); Mark Maginn (8th, 13:19); Joel Smith (18th, 14:37); and Jerad Seiler (21st, 15:00).
Liz Maginn took second on the girls race at 13:48, followed by Alexis Fruchey (5th, 15:02); Taylor Griffiths (9th, 15:35); Miranda Minzey (15th, 16:06); and Adrianna Hylander (19th, 17:14).
FAYETTE JV VOLLEYBALL: Fayette's JV volleyball team closed the season with a pair of league losses, but improvements came throughout the season.
Hilltop claimed an easy victory, winning 25-14 and 25-12, and Stryker won 25-21 and 25-14.
"Over the course of the season the girls did show some improvement," said coach Alissa Stockburger. "Their serving became more consistent and they were showing more confidence in their passing skills."
"I look forward to seeing many of the same girls again next year."
MORENCI CROSS COUNTRY: Everyone below 20 minutes, two below 18 minutes—it was Morenci's best showing for of the season Saturday at the county cross country meet.
Tyler Guelde led the way for the Bulldogs, placing 13th at 17:27, but Luke Spaulding was close behind in 15th place at 17:35.
Jake Spaulding came across the line at 18:27 for 33rd place, followed by Micah Gillen (44th, 18:56) and Reagan Stowell) 59th, 19:40).
Adrian Ricky Perez was tops in the county at 16:15 and Tecumseh took the team title.
The event was run at Gerber Park near Blissfield.
Mariah Gillen came in below 22 minutes in the girls run, taking 17th at 21:54.
She was followed by Kortney Cousino (61st, 24:32), Barbara Hollstein (71st, 25:44), Taylor Baugh (80th, 26:52) and Mary Margaret Holstein (94th, 29:09).
Onsted's Heidi Wobrock was the individual champion at 19:56 and Blissfield's girls won the team trophy.
MORENCI FOOTBALL: There are some things more important than football, said Morenci coach Tom Saylor.
"Maybe this was the first time in 45 years of coaching football that the outcome of the game didn't weigh on my mind, knowing what those kids were going through," he said.
The Bulldogs traveled silently to Clinton Friday night following the accidental hunting death of student Collin Fletcher and they ended on the short end of the 50-38 final score.
"Many of the kids were very attached to the Fletcher boy and some of them had been up all night helping with the search," Saylor said. "They played their hearts out."
The game was a real shoot-out, Saylor said, and the Bulldogs nearly kept pace. Morenci (3-3, 3-5) got on the scoreboard five times, but it was the fateful second quarter that gave the Redskins (5-1, 5-3) the edge.
Morenci took a narrow 8-7 lead into the second quarter after quarterback Brett Bovee capped a drive with a one-yard run. He followed with a conversion run.
Clinton scored two consecutive touchdowns in the second quarter before Max Gautz ran back the kickoff. Jay Howard took the conversion in to cut the lead to 22-16, but the Redskins added one more before intermission.
Saylor disputes a call by a referee that nullified a Morenci touchdown when Bovee was called out of bounds.
Each team scored once in the third quarter—Morenci on a four-yard run by Gautz—and each scored twice more in the fourth.
Howard capped a drive with a four-yard run and Bovee ran the conversion. Later, Simon Jeffers brought in a pass from Bovee for a 13-yard play and Jordan Bach ran the conversion.
"We kept battling and battling," Coach Saylor said. "We don't have the ability to rest kids due to the size of the team. I was really proud of the kids."
Coaches often speak of the desire for athletics to transcend the playing field and offer life lessons. Saylor thinks some of that came across for his squad.
"They learned they aren't invincible and that they're there to help their friends," he said. "They were emotionally drained, but they played through the adversity."
• Lessons in adversity continue this week. Only 10 kids showed up for practice on Monday and practices were canceled for Tuesday.
That will leave the Bulldogs with two days to prepare for a visit from Whiteford (4-2, 5-3). In addition, Saylor will have two players missing due to ineligibility.
The Bobcats will be fighting for entry into the playoffs with a sixth win here Friday. The Bulldogs will just be fighting for a good close to the season.
"The kids won't run from it," Saylor said. "They'll be ready to battle them."
MORENCI JV FOOTBALL: Morenci JV football coach Ryan Love is looking forward to an 8-1 season Thursday night, now that the undefeated year has fallen by the wayside.
Clinton broke open a close contest here last week to post a 50-28 victory to hand the Bulldogs their first defeat of the season.
"We like to run the ball and Clinton crowded the line," Love said. "They got us out of our comfort zone."
The Bulldogs have posted big wins on big plays this season and simply wore their opponents down, Love said, but that didn't happen against the Redskins.
Although the game ended with 11 touchdowns scored, neither team got on the scoreboard during the first quarter.
Clinton took advantage of a Morenci fumble to score its first touchdown, and the Bulldogs also scored following a fumble. Kendrick Taylor caused the fumble on a tackle. Cody Powell scored from three yards out for a 6-6 tie.
The Redskins scored again, but Morenci took the lead after Colin Smith capped a long drive and Powell ran for two.
The Bulldogs opened the second half with a 24-yard touchdown pass from Smith to John Michael Martinez and a 20-12 lead.
"I thought we had them where we wanted them after that drive," Coach Love said, but the situation soon deteriorated.
Clinton needed only three plays to score, and then added two more touchdowns that quarter. Morenci lost Clay Harvey with a head injury and Smith left the game for a few minutes with a leg injury.
When the third quarter ended, Clinton was on top 36-20, and then added two more touchdowns before KC Clegg ended a drive with a score late in the fourth quarter. Powell ran for two points and the final 50-28 score.
Powell tallied 233 yards on 42 carries. Clegg ran for 117 on 20 carries. They both finished with six tackles to lead the defensive effort.
Love was impressed with Clinton's freshman quarterback—an accurate passer and capable runner.
MORENCI VOLLEYBALL: By DAVID GREEN
Morenci's showing Saturday at the county volleyball tournament wasn't the best that Morenci's ever done at the event, but it's the best in a long, long time.
The Bulldogs advanced out of pool play with a 5-1 record and finished fifth among the 12 teams entered. The field included three top-10 ranked teams.
Tecumseh, ranked sixth in Class B, topped Madison—seventh in Class C—to win the county title.
"It was a very positive day," Bulldog coach Dennis Owens said. "It was by far Morenci's best showing in ages."
The Bulldogs were missing one player for the entire day and another for half of the day. In addition to that, Coach Owens said, the girls were saddened by the death of Collin Fletcher and they created special wrist bands in his honor.
After splitting with Clinton and losing to Clinton earlier in the season, Morenci opened the tournament with a 25-20, 25-19 victory. They earned a split with Madison (14-25, 25-23) before downing Hudson, 25-17 and 25-19.
The Bulldogs were given a bye in the first round of bracket play, then faced Blissfield and lost two of three. Morenci took the opener, 25-17, then dropped the next one 16-25. In the deciding game, the Bulldogs came from behind to tie the game at 11-11, but the Royals scored the final four points to win.
A good day, Coach Owens said, but with a bittersweet ending.
SETTING: Tess Ramsey, 31 assists; Mercedez McCaskey, 19 assists.
PASSING: Phoenix Duncan, 34 digs; Tia Tompkins, 27 digs; Meghan Smith, 27 digs.
HITTING: Tompkins, 24 kills, one block; Duncan, 19 kills, eight blocks; Smith, 17 kills, one block; Brooke Bovee, 13 kills, one block; Chelsea Phillips, 10 kills, six blocks.
SERVING: Smith, 37/38, four aces, 23 points; Ramsey, 26/27, one ace, 13 points; Duncan, 22/23, two aces, 10 points; Phillips, 36/40, seven aces, 24 points.
HUDSON—Coach Owens was pleased to see his squad bounce back after the opening loss to Hudson at home Thursday, but he would have appreciated a stronger effort all along.
After Hudson won the first game, 25-19, Morenci came back with three wins to take the non-league contest: 25-17, 25-21 and 25-14.
Tompkins finished with a dozen kills and one block. Duncan scored nine kills and made three blocks. Smith notched eight kills and one block.
At the serving line, Matea Garcia went 20/20 with seven aces and 12 points. Ramsey went 21/22 with three aces and 16 points.
Duncan made 17 digs, Tompkins made 16 and Garcia made 14. Ramsey gave 15 assists and McCaskey gave 10.
MADISON—Morenci claimed one game at home Oct. 12 against Madison and played close in two others, but everything else belonged to the top-10 ranked Trojans as they swept a double-header.
Madison was strong in the opener, winning 25-10, 25-14 and 25-21. In the second match, the Bulldogs played closely in the first game, losing 22-25, then winning the next one, 25-23. The Trojans then got down to business to win the match 25-10 and 25-16.
"We obviously started very slowly," said coach Dennis Owens, "then realized we could play with them and played for a stretch."
Ramsey was perfect from the serving line (22/22) and scored nine service points. Duncan also served 100 percent (20/20) and scored 10 points.
Garcia missed one (24/25), scoring two aces and 11 points. Tompkins went 18/21 and scored two aces and nine points.
Duncan was the offensive leader with 12 kills, followed by Tompkins with 11, Smith and Phillips with nine and Bovee with eight. Tompkins made three blocks, while Duncan, Smith, Phillips and Bovee made one each.
Ramsey gave 15 assists and McCaskey gave 12. Duncan made 28 digs, Garcia made 22 and Naomi Hoffman made 15.
JV VOLLEYBALL: Morenci's junior varsity volleyball squad overcame a slow start to post a non-league win Thursday against Hudson.
The Tigers took the opener, 25-16, but the Bulldogs came back to win 25-23 and 15-10.
Hannah Jeffers led at the net with seven kills and at the line with four ace serves, with an 11 of 12 serving rate.
Emma Binegar gave seven assists and served 13 for 13. Jeffers made 17 digs and Jessica Storrs made nine.
MADISON—Morenci's JVs won one of five games last week when Madison visited.
Madison won the first match 25-17, 26-28 and 15-11. In the second match, the Trojans came out on top 25-21 and 25-19.
Storrs went 25/25 in serves and scored one ace. Ashley VanBrandt scored a pair of aces and missed only one of 20 attempts. Jeffers (11/14) finished with three aces and Binegar (13/16) had one.
Jeffers led at the net with eight kills and VanBrandt scored four. Jeffers finished with 17 digs and Chloe Molitierno had 13. Binegar led in sets with six assists and Erin Vanderpool gave four.


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Child Health USA 2012
This Web site has been produced as an online version of the data book, Child Health USA 2012, published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration in January 2013.
Child Health USA is an annual report on the health status and service needs of America's children. It provides graphical and textual summaries of secondary data on over 50 health-related indicators.
The information in this publication:
- Reflects the increasingly diverse population of children and families
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Year of the Dog
The ancient lunisolar calendar – which is governed by both the moon phase and the time of the solar year – has been used by many cultures for centuries. Holidays in the lunisolar calendar are marked by astronomical phenomena and often vary in the exact date each year. Chinese New Year, for example, occurs in congruence with the start of the new moon, which falls between late January and late February. Many other East Asian countries that follow a lunisolar calendar celebrate the New Year on the same day. These celebrations are rooted in cultural tradition, each with its own character and customs that are still widely observed today. In fact, communities across the world – San Diego included! – celebrate the lunisolar New Year with major festivals, parades, music, fireworks, food, and traditional decorations. Check out one of these local events for a wonderfully festive New Year's experience!
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Lunar New Year Tết Festival
Feb. 9 – 11
SDCCU Stadium, 9449 Friars Rd.
Feb. 9: 5 – 10 p.m.
Feb. 10: 11 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Feb. 11: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Lunar New Year at SeaWorld
Feb. 10 – 25
13th Annual San Diego Tết Festival
Feb. 16 – 18
Mira Mesa Community Park
Feb. 16: 5 – 10 p.m.
Feb. 17: 11 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Feb. 18: 11 a.m. – 9 p.m.
36th Annual San Diego Chinese New Year Fair
Feb. 24 – 25
Downtown San Diego, 3rd Ave. and J St.
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Closer to Home
Chinese New Year Celebration
Feb. 6
Rancho Peñasquitos Branch Library
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Lunar New Year Celebration
Feb. 13
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Monday, November 05, 2007
Walk of Life
[It's another testament to the universality of rock and roll that the lyrics of the title-referenced song make mention of a "song about a knife." And may I add that when presenting my biology honors thesis in college, the subject of which was intra-allelic recombination in the Ruby Eye locus of D. Melanogaster, the results of my inquiry into which were sorta surprising, I made another musical reference. "The fact," I said, "that Ray Charles, when he sang 'They say, Ruby you're like a dream, not always what you seem,' predicted the very results I am about to reveal says much not only about Mr. Charles in particular but about popular music in general." So we have a pattern here. And I'll just assume that everyone recognizes the picture.]
During the planning stages of the surgery center in the creation of which I was a proud participant, it came to be revealed that we'd be having the patients walk into the OR under their own power. No gurneys, no wheelchairs. You walk, we'll carry the IV bag (or wait till you're in there to start it.) Being well into my career by that time, and having worked in a few previous surgery centers -- not to mention oodles of ORs of the olden ouvre -- I was surprised. Weirded out, even. Likewise, I figured, our prospective patients. On several levels, I was wrong. It is, after all, ambulatory surgery.
Outpatient surgery is all about the "out." To wake up quickly, and to be clear-headed when doing so, the less extraneous drugs the better. Sedation of the pre-op variety can add to time in the recovery room. If you're marching, you're not medicated. There's more to it, though. Walking to the OR sends a homey message: it's like coming into someone's house. Hi there, welcome. I'm Cindy, and this is Jane. It's unthreatening; there's some retention of control, of doing instead of being done to. And best of all, it gives those veins in the legs a final squeeze at the best time: right before lying motionless for a while and going all thrombogenic.
In medicine, involving, as it does, humans, nothing is 100%. The stroll is not for everyone. Some people, medically or emotionally, need that sedation going in. And to make it a tolerable trek, you need to attend to certain potential gaps in coverage. Still, I rapidly came around to liking everything about walking to the room. And with a nice robe, a few smiles on arrival, and a quick and comfortable exit, it's my perception that the patients did, too. I can't count how many times I heard from patients on their post-op visit, within a couple of words of verbatim, "I never thought I'd say this about having surgery, but that was a wonderful experience." A great facility and a superb staff had, of course, much to do with it (as did receiving a perfect operation!) But the walk, I think, played a part. And the rose petals we strewed along the path.
9 comments:
- Patrick Bageant said...
You freaked me out Dr. Schwab. For I saw the picture and the title immediately concluded Mark Knopfler had died!
- Bongi said...
we are nowhere near this. i think most people would frown on going-home-the-same-day surgery here.
one day.
I had surgery a couple years ago, and I was rolled into the room without any sedation because we had to get a final bit of information from the surgeon for the documents I had to sign. I have to tell you, I was absolutely terrified once I looked around and saw all the lights and instruments and the things my arms would be strapped to. It was a very unpleasant experience. Even just seeing these people (nurses and anesthesiologist) I had never met before wearing their masks kind of made it like a horror movie. What looks like everyday equipment to medical professionals looks pretty scary to patients. If I ever have surgery again (and I hope I don't, of course) I hope I can do it with sedation before. I still get a little freaked out thinking about it.
- Jessica said...
Last year when I had just a nerve block I had to be wheeled on a gurney to the room, it was weird not being able to walk since I was perfectly able to walk! I like the idea of walking in.
- Dr. Rob said...
I proudly say that I recognized the Knopfler reference. Cool dude and good guitar player.
Yikes!! Hey, that may be good for some people, but in neither of my experiences was I in any condition to be walking into the OR. The second time (which was recent enough that I actually remember), I was wigged out enough without being fully conscious. I was still aware enough when I got there to get a general look around, which I thought was rather cool, but I was definitely relieved when the sedation kicked in before my surgeon showed up. It was kind of freaky to realize that some of the stereotypes people have of surgery and its general milieu are actually true. I was just wishing I was on the OTHER side of that narrow table...I would have been much happier as the surgeon than as the patient!
- Greg P said...
In these days of so many medical dramas on TV, there would be I think little unfamiliar to most people about what ORs look like. Walking in would give them that familiar camera perspective they see all the time, plus the opportunity for the various staff to introduce themselves with everyone in the upright position.
Sounds cool.
I got some curious introductions as a result of a scheduling glitch wherein I spent some time in the holding area...and quite the interesting discussion with the anesthesiologist the night before.
I also got quite an intro a couple of months later when I finally got back to work and had a customer announce that he recognized me because he had been at my surgery. That was truly intriguing.
As for familiarity...not everyone is a medical show junkie like me. They do seem to be somewhat ubiquitous, however. I'd suggest it's good for patients in general that some of the mystery is gone.
- SeaSpray said...
Enjoyed the post.
You know my thoughts on pre-anesthesia...concerns about being too breezy with the mouth. Walking in without the drugs sounds good. :)
I have never been afraid of the OR or staff...or hospitals for that matter.
Yes, I have been concerned or even afraid of the surgery and outcome but never the actual staff or OR. Sometimes people equate hospital settings with death and doom but I always see them as help and rescue...your going to feel better. The only time I was freaky about it was when I was being advised to have the high risk surgery that I ended up not needing after all.


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The representative of His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, His Grace George, Bishop of Canada, arrived for a visit to the Church-school congregation of Saint Sava in Johannesburg, on Wednesday, October 18, 2012, on the occasion of the church Slava of Saint Thomas the Apostle.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 45 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a small start up in New Zealand which is aiming to provide web based software for pilots and aviation schools around New Zealand, Australia initially.
We require a modern looking website!
Our target audience is professionals, the aviation industry aims for a high level of professionalism and safety, it's paramount that the design instills confidence in the visitor/user of the website.
We require:
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- simple tabbed menus
- simple but nice looking rounded buttons
- the pages will need to fit into a 1024x768 screen centered (eg: http://www.xero.com/accounting-software/ but with the top blue band expanding to 100%)
- The logo must have an aircraft.
- The main color must be bluish
- Fonts must be clear and sized correctly for readability
- We like rounded corners and rounded buttons (eg: login button in https://login.xero.com/?bhcp=1
- We also like the look of each product listed at http://www.ebus.tv/products it would be great to have a rounded box around them
Our current products are
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Example logos we like
https://99designs.com/logo-design/store/12285 and http://www.downunderpilotshop.com/
Please provide the layered PSDs
- Top header and bottom footer to remain consistent between all pages
Home page
- see http://www.xero.com/ there is a main header with a placeholder for an image/video then there is a section below it broken into 4 pieces (better banking, online accounting...etc) we'd like somehting similar but with the look of http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-nz/bb188199.aspx
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- simple top menu, logo below the top menu with tagline
- login screen similar to the above and centered on screen
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http://gc.flightlab.co - this is a prototype of the site, it's neutral at the moment, up to you about the design
http://www.xero.com - as explained above
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-nz/default.aspx - we like the concept of people having the ability to select which software they run, in this example there are 4 boxes (desktop, web, cloud, phone), we also like the simple tab navigation


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The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union holds this event every year on Public Sector Lobby Day. Missouri union members said they have tried to lobby legislators every day since the legislative session started this January, and will continue until the session ends in May.
Bradley Harmon, the director of CWA local division, said all demonstrators took the day off and traveled to Jefferson City to rally in front of the capitol. Harmon said this year was the largest rally, with participants from the Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
"The state employees in Missouri are the 50th worst-paid employees in the entire country. We got a two percent pay raise last year, but that was the first pay raise we had since 2008. Since that time, almost 8,000 state jobs have been cut. We've been doing more for less, " said Harmon.


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Casey Thompson Speaks Out About Top Chef
Casey speaks! And she doesn't sound happy, folks. I asked her to comment on last night's episode, and here's what she had to say:
Carla was not prepared and in over her head. The show did not talk about how the first course (crab) took her half of the friggin' cooking time that day, I was left to work the rest of HER dishes.
She also did not have a plan. The ONLY thing she had in mind was a cheese course! I would NEVER do a cheese course. And where in the hell did french come from!? She is not even classically trained! It (the show) didn't talk about how I worked on a sauce for 2 days and Carla forgot to put it on the plate… It didn't show how the 2nd course (fish) was MINE. It didn't show how she took the sous vide idea and decided to GRILL it last minute causing it to be tough… And it didn't show how she WANTED to do the souffles which she does not even know how to make! That was HER food, because it certainly was me asking her how she wanted to do this and that while she was busy picking crab the entire time and making a souffle that didn't rise!
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Thomas Shelton brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 209 Designs von 46 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
30Goulding is a mobile design house and we develop mobile applications with a minimalist approach. Striving for the simplest application that will work right now allows us to deliver products quickly and inexpensively.
Our logo should reflect these qualities -- minimalism, speed -- while conveying a fun, flip-flop, life on the beach attitude.
Our target audience is generally local businesses in the Atlanta area and individuals looking for a very specific application to suit their lifestyle. Most clients are shocked when they learn how fast and inexpensively we can create the application they need.
30Goulding (no spaces) you could possibly work in a tag line of "a mobile design house" ... not entirely tied to it one way or the other.
Don't have many requirements ... I want the logo to be clean and fun -- the 99 Designs logo is very nice. It will be referenced on two other existing products something along the lines of .... a 30Goulding Design ...
I like bold colors when they are done with style ...
thats about all I've got ... let's see what you've got :-)
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