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VAUGHAN, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 11/23/12 -- Five participants from PowerStream's recently held "Follow the Smart Grid to Win" online contest walked away with Apple iPad 3s yesterday, receiving a high-tech prize for learning about the electric utility's high-tech Smart Grid and the benefits to consumers.
The winning contestants were Edward Li of Markham, Lisa Selby of Scarborough, Michael Boddy of Richmond Hill, Greg Rushton of Barrie and Vladimir (Zev) Berkovich of Vaughan.
The five winners were selected by random draw of all contestants and were invited to collect their prize at PowerStream's head office in Vaughan. The winners were also treated to a behind-the-scenes tour of the company's System Control Centre where they were shown the many features of Smart Grid technologies in action.
The four-week contest, used to help build consumer awareness for Smart Grid and its benefits, began on October 15 and coincided with the opening of a two-day SmartGrid Canada Conference on 'Engaging the Consumer'.
-- "Engaging consumers so that they become more aware of Smart Grid and how the various technologies being implemented benefits them now, as well as in the future, is a critical element of PowerStream's overall plan in building a smarter and more intelligent electricity distribution system," said Mark Henderson, Executive Vice President, Asset Management and Chief Operating Officer, PowerStream. "We thank all those consumers who participated in the contest and hope that they all now have better understanding and appreciation of Smart Grid and what it will mean to them."
- In order to participate in the contest, consumers first had to register to play on a specified website and then follow tweets, posted on Twitter @PowerStreamNews, about the contest and Smart Grid benefits. Participants earned extra chances to win each time they promoted the contest or the benefits of Smart Grid through retweets on their personal Twitter network.
- During the contest period, October 15 - November 9, more than 600 Ontario consumers registered to play in PowerStream's 'Follow the Smart Grid to Win' contest.
- More information about PowerStream's innovative Smart Grid technologies is available on the company's web and social media sites.
PowerStream is a community-owned energy solutions company that provides power and related services to more than 355,000 customers residing or owning a business in communities located immediately north of Toronto and in Central Ontario. It is jointly owned by the Cities of Barrie, Markham and Vaughan.
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Los Angeles: Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister ever to enter the pop charts when an album featuring some of his most famous speeches set to music debuted in fourth place on Sunday.
The album "Reach for the Skies" was recorded by the Central Band of the Royal Air Force (RAF) to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, a crucial air campaign fought between British and German forces in 1940.
"It is great that to a long list of Official Chart stars including Elvis, Madonna, Cliff (Richard) and The Beatles, we can now add Winston Churchill," said Martin Talbot, managing director of the Official Charts Company.
"It is also a tribute to the amazing sacrifices of our Servicemen that the British public have bought this RAF album in such large numbers."
Other new entrants in the album chart included KT Tunstall`s "Tiger Suit" at No. 5, the Official Charts Company said, while Eric Clapton secured his 25th top 10 hit with "Clapton," which was in seventh place.
In the singles chart, 21-year-old Londoner Tinie Tempah took the top spot with his second No. 1 single, "Written in the Stars," which sold more than 115,000 copies in its first week -- a figure topped by only two other singles this year.
Adele`s "Make You Feel My Love" jumped to fourth place from last week`s No. 102, seeing a resurgence in popularity after featuring on British TV talent show "X Factor" last weekend.
Labrinth`s "Let the Sunshine" was another new entry to the top 10, going straight in at No. 3, while Enrique Iglesias and The Pussycat Dolls` Nicole Scherzinger`s duet "Heartbeat" climbed to eighth place from last week`s No. 13.
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Even after opening up the operating area by resorting to the standard procedure, they had to leave part of the gallbladder because it was imbedded in the liver and could not be safely removed in its entirety.
The successful operations began after the patient fell unconscious from a general anesthesia. The surgeons cut through the navel, or umbilicus, which offered the easiest entry to the abdomen.
Then the surgeons inserted a tube connected to a machine that inflated the abdomen with carbon dioxide, making the patient look pregnant. The gas separated the abdominal muscles beneath the skin and the organs in the abdomen, creating a wide area in which the surgeons could safely work.
Then they inserted a laparoscope and dimmed the overhead lights in the operating room. A clear picture of what the surgeons could not see with their naked eye appeared on a video monitor.
The surgeons cut three more holes in the abdomen and began inserting the instruments to reach the gallbladder. (For patients who have scars near the navel from previous surgery, surgeons sometimes make the holes elsewhere in the abdomen.) As they cut away scar and other tissue, the surgeons found the dissection tougher in some places than others, in part because the instruments they and most other surgeons use are borrowed from laparoscopic gynecological procedures and are crude for gallbladder surgery.
''Get a better grasp,'' Dr. Kimmelstiel told Dr. Miller as the surgeons cautiously moved their instruments, making sure they were not cutting a blood vessel.
''Look, there's a small branch of the cystic artery,'' Dr. Miller said, pointing to a vessel that feeds the gallbladder. He expressed amazement over the clarity of the laparoscope's magnification, which allowed his team to see anatomical details that would have gone unnoticed in the standard operation.
But the magnification requires some adjustment. ''The first time I saw the new procedure, a trickle of blood seemed like a flood,'' Dr. Miller said.
When they reached the gallbladder, it appeared as a big tear drop. As one step, they squeezed the handle of an instrument to place two sets of titanium clips over the artery that fed the gallbladder. One set of clips would remain in the body, and the other would be removed with the gallbladder after the surgeons cut between the two sets of clips.
In a similar step, the surgeons removed the tube that drains bile from the gallbladder into the main duct that leads to the small intestine.
Then they teased the gallbladder away from its attachment to the liver by applying an electrical current to burn the tissue. Some surgeons use a laser to do the cutting.
After they used suction to remove the bile from the gallbladder, they pulled the gallbladder through the tube in the navel. In this case there were about 40 small stones in the gallbladder sac. But some gallstones can be an inch or more in diameter, and if they are too big to slither through the tube, the surgeon can crush the stone or enlarge the incision.
''It looks beautiful,'' Dr. Kimmelstiel said as his team checked for any bleeding before they deflated the abdomen by removing the carbon dioxide. Some gas inevitably remains and causes discomfort for a day or two until the body gradually absorbs it.
Then the surgeons put a few stitches in the skin to close the holes and placed bandages over the incision.
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Four small punctures in the abdomen allow insertion of a small television camera and instruments. While one surgeon acts as camera man, other surgeons watch the procedure on the television screen as they manipulate the instruments. The gallbladder is attached to the under surface of the liver.
Instruments put traction on the diseased organ and surgeon attaches clips to artery and duct, then cuts between the clips. Then surgeons work to wrest the gallbladder from its attachment to the liver. Once released, the gallbladder is pulled through one of the small holes. The patient usually goes home the next day, with only four punctures to form scars.
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In the old technique, a long incision was needed to reach the gallbladder, making it necessary to cut through the muscles of the abdominal wall, as shown at left. In the new method, instruments and cameras are inserted through small punctures; injury to abdominal muscles is greatly reduced.
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SEC Opens Informal Inquiry Of Whole Foods CEO Postings
The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an informal inquiry into the online postings of Whole Foods Market Inc.'s Chief Executive John Mackey, according to people familiar with the matter.
For about eight years, Mr. Mackey posted numerous comments about the natural- and organic-food retailer on Yahoo stock forums using a pseudonym. In some of his postings, Mr. Mackey, the company's co-founder, lauded Whole Foods' stock, cheered its financial results and bashed a company Whole Foods has made a bid to acquire.
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Postings by 'Rahodeb' on Yahoo:
- Rahodeb's farewell comment to the Yahoo message board for Whole Foods stock in August 2006.
- Rahodeb says the fundamentals of Wild Oats shares haven't improved and that its stock price had risen merely because of speculation of a buyout.
- Rahodeb lambastes a Yahoo user who claimed Wild Oats had been a takeover target at $14 to $16 a share.
- Rahodeb predicts that Whole Foods shares will one day trade at more than $800.
- Rahodeb claims Whole Foods shares are undervalued and Wild Oats is overvalued.
Note: Whole Foods didn't authenticate each and every one of Rahodeb's postings as being from Mr. Mackey. But the company and Mr. Mackey confirmed that he made numerous postings under the name Rahodeb from 1999 to 2006.
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While it isn't clear that Mr. Mackey violated any laws in his postings, they have raised numerous legal questions. The SEC is likely to examine whether Mr. Mackey's comments contradicted what the company previously said, or if they were overly optimistic about the firm's performance. In addition, the SEC will likely look at whether the CEO selectively disclosed material corporate information -- that could violate a securities law passed in 2000 known as Regulation Fair Disclosure, which was designed to prevent executives from sharing information with favored clients or analysts.
A Whole Foods spokeswoman said the company hadn't been contacted by the SEC and was "unable to comment on any speculation." She said Mr. Mackey declined to comment.
Mr. Mackey's postings came to light as the Federal Trade Commission investigated the company's planned acquisition of Wild Oats Markets Inc. On Wednesday, Whole Foods said that among millions of documents it gave to the FTC were Internet postings the CEO made from 1999 to 2006. Mr. Mackey used the pseudonym Rahodeb, a rendering of the name of the CEO's wife, Deborah.
As Rahodeb, he made projections about Whole Foods' performance that it appears weren't disclosed to the markets. In 2006, for example, he noted that the company had recently projected it would post $12 billion in sales by 2010, then added: "won't surprise me if the number ends up close to $14 billion."
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Or does it go away eventually?
The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, unless you happen to be an especially gifted student, in which case it prepares you for a career teaching the academic study of literature – it is, in other words, a rather farcical system that exists solely to replicate itself and yet manages to fail 95 percent of the time. Still, it's harmless, and can even have certain marginal value. A young woman applying for a sales job at Céline or Hermés should naturally attend to her appearance first and foremost; but a degree in literature can constitute a secondary asset, since it guarantees the employer, in the absence of any useful skills, a certain intellectual agility that could lead to professional development – besides which, literature has always carried positive connotations in the world of luxury goods.
From Submission, by Michel Houellebecq. Translated from the French by Lorin Stein.
Demolition for the Village View Apartments hadn't quite finished: July dawns you could still wander the small streets (shortly to be replaced by concrete paths between scrubby lawns and red-brick buildings) and, among the devastated acres, catch sight, in the muggy morning, of fires here and there beside one or another still-standing tenement wall. Off beyond the Jacob Riis Houses with their green sliver of park, the East River's sluggish oils nudged the city's granite embankments or bumped the pilings beneath the Williamsburg bridge: girder, cable, and concrete rose from among the delis and cuchifrito stands, the furniture and fabric stores, the movie marquees on Delancey Street to span the night waters – where cars and subways and after-dark cruisers took their delicate amble above the blue-black current banked with lights – before striking deep into Brooklyn's glittering flank, above the Navy yard.
In the summer of 1961 no one had yet named it the East Village: it was still the Lower East Side.
– The Motion of Light in Water, Samuel R. Delany
This just struck me as such a marvelous piece of writing, from Chip Delany's memoir/bildungsroman about growing up black and gay in New York. It's reminded me of my secret fascination with a city I've only ever seen from an hour stopover in Newark Liberty. I'm aware now that my New York doesn't exist any more, and indeed it probably never did – but Delany's prose is undergoing serious reconstruction work on the New York of my mind.
Can literature be said to have an architecture, or a topography? Or does it merely undertake work on the architecture of our minds, laying foundations of someone else's dreams and shoring up old memories of things that never happened to us? I look at the paragraph above and think it looks so fine and complex, with its bold parentheses, subtle hyphens and italicised Puerto Rican delicacies, a melting pot of perfect punctuation even as the meaning the words convey peculates through my consciousness, rewriting streets and scribbling out buildings.
I do have a few things in mind that are based in, well, 'reality,' whatever we might mean by that. But at the moment what I would like to achieve is a kind of ontological terrorism, giving any readers who are interested the choice to either switch off or follow a kind of literary fractal. I suppose 'bizarro' could probably describe the work I've just started today. I'm hoping it will have people Wikipeding constantly as they read through.
As for memes in QQ, well, this is where I go strictly non-Platonic. Words and ideas don't exist in some ideal world of forms: they are a fluid culture stream. In Quentin's world I'm trying to blur the line between this culture stream and the subatomic level, what I often refer to as the engine room of creation. Because in our universe, whether we like it or not, consciousness does have an effect upon 'reality,' which is at the end of the day just another level of fiction anyway. Everything is multi-faceted: ten people can look at the same table and see ten different tables. And it's the same with gods. The difference is we pretend the table is real because we can sit on the physical object that "table" is standing in for, which is, when we break it down, no more than a collection of quarks and electrons. The smaller we go, the more we find.
And, again, it's the same with gods. We can see the effects of gods all the time. Some nutter just rang my doorbell to tell me his god is living in the sky and wants me to bow down to him. At the same time, my friend bought me a pint earlier because her god tells her to be generous and spread the wealth. And yet they'd both say the God of the Bible is the correct one. At the end of the day, the first guy is a prick, so his god is a prick. The girl is genuinely a nice person, so her god is a nice person.
Quark, on the other hand, is a bright lad. And he knows what he's doing. And he's read so many biographies of his gods that he can look at a number of different facets of the diamond at once. So while his gods might not be ontologically real, they are his brain personifying the culture stream we all inhabit, giving it a face or a voice or whatever, and harnessing it to do his will. And, occasionally, he uses what are nothing more than imaginary forces to affect things on the quantum level. Which is why when Leonardo da Vinci, one of his gods, says 'be free,' well, shit, his handcuffs pop open. Was it just a coincidence that the computer malfunctioned, causing this? Sure. But like the rest of the universe, the only way to find out what's fate and what's coincidence is to run the programme and see. Then we can reinterpret it afterwards, just like we end up interpreting everything, clothing it fiction, so we don't go insane.
How do we contact these gods? Well, Jane, Quentin and Addrisi, the three most powerful shamans, use drugs and meditation to induce hallucinations (this being a shit-ton better than Western prayer). Because hallucinations are just another way of looking at the world. And what I've found with my own experimentation is that you hallucinate a lot faster the better you are at meditation. My idea with Quentin is that he's at a stage where he can immediately enter some kind of nirvana, a peaceful empty space in his mind into which he can call these gods.
The knowledge he discerns from these gods is a bit weirder. It means either accessing his subconscious and piecing together some information he already possessed, like how Finnegans Wake works a bit better when you've just woken up and your brain hasn't switched on yet, or he's actually using his mind to interpret information that has been passed to him through his DNA. Which, if I remember correctly, is a completely batshit crazy idea that nutters like Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson can explain better than I.
When they're used for offensive purposes, like Jane and Marcus do later, they're taking advantage of the other person's knowledge of these gods by a kind of positive neuro-linguistic programming that admittedly I haven't entirely nailed down yet. So a sigil or a chant, all the way down to a flick of the eyebrow or a cheek click, recalls the preferred god or demon in the opponent's mind. Quentin generally doesn't go in for this kind of thing, and doesn't really need to, because he's actually really good at kicking people's heads in anyway.
I don't know if any of that made sense. I tried to clear some of this stuff up in my Aleister Crowley essay, but I don't know if it came out exactly as I'd have liked. It sounds like you get it pretty well anyway: you've got to be either really clever or really insane to talk to these memetic beings, and they're just representations of what we know anyway. Most of the time.
Now, the problem with the above paragraph is that it doesn't actually represent anything like reality.
The figures above are what the British public (not just some mouth-breathing UKIP voters) guessed at when questioned in an Ipsos.MORI poll last summer. You might not be surprised to learn that what the British public thinks is a big fucking load of dripping bollocks. In actual fact:
– Muslims only make up 5%, (NOT 24%) of the population, whilst 59% are Christian
– Black and Asian people are 11% of the population
– A tiny 3% of Britons are single mothers
– An even smaller 0.6% of of girls under 16 get pregnant, and teen pregnancy is the lowest it's been since 1969
– A microscopic 70p, not £24, out of every £100 spent on benefits is acquired by fraudulent means.
– Unemployment is at 7.4%, not 22%. If it was at 22%, we'd be worse off than Iraq, the Sudan, the West Bank, Armenia and East Timor.
Source: http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/3188/Perceptions-are-not-reality.aspx
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_unemployment_rate
Now, quite apart from the unexamined prejudice of why more black, Asian or Muslim people would be a bad thing (or why single mothers are to be frowned upon, for that matter), why would so many of you believe such complete arse gravy?
For my sins, I tuned into the Daily Politics today to see a debate on immigration between some UKIP cunt, some Tory prick and Charles Kennedy. What led into this was Nick Robinson shilling tonight's lovey-dovey interview with Farage with some smarmy horse shit about pie charts and how it's good that we're passed the legacy of Enoch Powell's rivers of blood speech and can once again talk about the "immigration problem" without sounding racist.
If you've spotted Kennedy as the odd one out there, you're correct: he was asked, bemusedly, if he's really outside public and mainstream political opinion at the moment on the hot button UKIP pressure issues. "Yes," he answered, before adding "thank god".
I couldn't agree more. Thank god that I don't believe any of the complete shit that the rest of the people in this country think.
Thank god I don't believe the manure printed in the Express or the Mail.
And especially thank god I only know a handful of people that vote or sympathise UKIP:
– 50% of UKIP voters think immigrants "are the major cause of crime in society"
– 80%+ of UKIP voters feel personally threatened by Islam
– 20% of UKIP voters believe non-whites are intellectually inferior
Source: YouGov http://t.co/pdZzyn7NQZ
Ever since the Oxford English Dictionary announced that "selfie" was their Word of the Year 2013, there's been quite a strident and cynical backlash. Some seem adamant that the rise of the selfie, social media's apparently negative shorthand for pretty much any self-portrait photography, is indicative of a youth culture defined by vanity and solipsism. Grace Dent in the Independent was particularly hysterical, passionately longing for an era when individuals were controlled by their shame and public ridicule was waiting around the corner for those that weren't:
In 1993, if you went to Woolworths three times a week to sit in the Foto-Me booth snapping pictures of yourself pulling "The Fonz is Cool" poses, your ego would have been the stuff of local legend. Now, a selfie-a-day is unremarkable. I sat in a bar recently while one friend took a dozen separate pictures of themselves in the toilet as "it was such amazing light". We take selfies without irony, sans shame, posting the results online as bait in the great murky cyber-sea. We fish never-endingly for compliments, comments… indeed any feedback at all. Maybe just a Facebook like? A little Instagram regram and a new surge of followers. Anything – please God, anything – which indicates we were bathing, remotely, momentarily in another human being's gaze.
I couldn't, in truth, find a professional article behind Dent's bleating strawmen, fragmented sentences and repetitive sarcastic uses of hashtags, but there must have been one for it to find its way past an Independent editor and subsequently all over my Facebook feed. Let's therefore assume this isn't actually more indicative of the hideous decline of journalism and more charitably say this suggests that the backlash against the selfie has moved beyond the usual two or three dry comments per each one uploaded to Facebook and has entered the English zeitgeist good and proper.
It's good to see people so fired up and passionate about something so important, something so close to the bone of early 21st century social identity. There was a worry that this generation would waste their focus on relatively trivial subjects like the emancipation of Palestine or growing financial inequality on a global scale, but it looks like things are back on track as we stand up to the ubiquitous Instagram imposition, the frivolous Facebook encroachment that is the selfie. Already, crack squadrons of vigilant paladins are scouring their friends' "mobile pictures" folders for anything that looks remotely like it was taken with a smart phone's reverse camera, and woe betide those who haven't got the memo and decide to create a new display picture instead of scrolling through thousands of mates' pub snaps to find one suitable for their boss to see.
I must admit, I won't be among them, however. I hold my hands up here: I am one of the hyper-shallow, self-obsessed, narcissistic, empty-headed young sociopaths who have, in the past, taken photos of themselves. Worse, I've then uploaded them onto social media. Yes, I am that worst kind of vapid, egomaniacal, attention-seeking, compliment-craving, exhibitionist braggart, the selfie-taker. Gaze upon my works, ye mighty, and despair:
They are merely three examples – there are at least two more around the internet. Looking over these selfies, I'm led to consider why I took them.
For as long as I can remember, I have had self image problems. Not for any good reason, looking at it objectively. When I was a child, I suffered terribly from sinusitis, resulting in a perpetual runny nose I would try to cover up as often as possible. As this faded in my teens, it was replaced by chronic acne, the scars of which I still carry on my body. I had a gap in my teeth that meant I didn't show them when I smiled until I was about 18, and a permanent stain on one incisor I was neurotic enough to have removed as late as last year. Through this period, I've been sporadically self conscious about my weight, my messy hair, a surgical scar that means my bottom lip protrudes more than it otherwise would, my jawline's lack of definition, the fact one of my nostrils is wider than the other and several other things that have meant my reflection and I don't always get along well.
So what, right? Well… right. My experience of self-image problems aren't particularly special. I'm convinced I'm in the majority when it comes to not looking like one would like to look. So, the first obvious point to make is: yes, it is probably nice to receive some mark of acceptance from one's peers, even if it is a Facebook like. Dent, and others, are aghast that anyone might crave that kind of social confirmation, even a little bit, but I don't actually find it particularly shocking. It must be said, though, that there's actually something else going on, something bigger that's at stake.
There's a part in The Matrix when Morpheus shows Neo the inside of the computer simulation for the first time. The script reads:
Is it really so hard to believe? Your clothes are different. The plugs in your arms and head are gone. Your hair has changed. Your appearance now is what we call residual self image. It is the mental projection of your digital self.
This part has always seemed bogus to me, and by conversations I've had with others, I'm not alone. The filmmakers, obviously restricted by the medium, can only show us Keanu Reeves in a jacket and jeans, and with an unexceptional haircut. If only it were true that our self images were that normal, basic and unchanging. The "residual self image", quite simply, does not exist with that degree of consistency. It's in a constant state of flux.
More so when something alters in our life, from a haircut (see above) to a break up. The Dents of this world want to see the common Instagram image of the girl two days after finishing with her boyfriend as being some kind of desperate public plea for attention and sympathy, as well as validation that she will be able to find a replacement. More likely, the validation that is desired is twofold: 1.) that she is not as ugly as the break-up has made her feel internally, and 2.) on a subconscious level, that she is still recognisably the same person as she was three days ago.
The quite wonderful and epoch-shaping photographer, Nan Goldin, certainly sees it this way, commenting on one of several of her pictures that would now be classified as selfies (emphasis mine):
My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of trouble or change in order to find the ground to stand on in the change. I was coming out of a melancholic phase. This was taken when I was traveling extensively, on the road from hotel to hotel. You get displaced, and then taking self-portraits becomes a way of hanging on to yourself.
A particularly devastating example of one of Goldin's portraits is her "Nan one month after being battered", an artistic capturing of her domestic abuse.
In The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (p.8), she speaks frankly about the events leading up to this photo:
For a number of years I was deeply involved with a man. We were well suited emotionally and the relationship became very interdependent. Jealousy was used to inspire passion. His concept of relationships was rooted in … romantic idealism … I craved the dependency, the adoration, the satisfaction, the security, but sometimes I felt claustrophobic. We were addicted to the amount of love the relationship supplied … Things between us started to break down, but neither of us could make the break. The desire was constantly reinspired at the same time that the dissatisfaction became undeniable. Our sexual obsession remained one of the hooks. One night, he battered me severely, almost blinding me.
This photograph is, obviously, completely different than the smiling Facebook display pic taken in someone's living room, and it would be completely wrong to compare them directly. But the emotion behind her taking the photo is consistent with Goldin's more general rationale for her self portraits, which is identical to the reason for most selfies. They aren't a desire for simple public gratification so much as a necessity for the individual to ground one's own self, to do away with Cartesian distinction, within the social context that defines us as much as anything else does.
This is nothing new. If you could map the emotional path of Van Gogh, you'd find a tumultuous road indeed: it's speculated that he suffered from bipolar disorder and temporal lobe epilepsy. And the road would have selfies as milestones. Those keen to cling to the fantasy of the selfie as generational, and the sole preserve of talentless egotists, please look away now:
There are thirty-four more Van Gogh selfies extant. This is relatively restrained next to Edvard Munch, who crafted 190 selfies over the course of his life, in which he frequently sees himself mistreated by women or other forces beyond his control. Frida Kahlo made fifty-five selfies, including this famous one, but there are far more nightmarish and frightening examples where she tries to depict as best she can both her mental and physical anguish – Kahlo spent many years bedridden and alone. We might also here spare mentions for Rembrandt, Dürer, Picasso, Rubens, Schiele, Brueghel the Elder, Van Dyck, Matisse, Cezanne, Manet, Whistler, Toulouse-Latrec, Gauguin, Renoir, da Vinci and Goya, irrepressible selfie-ists all. Schiele, by the way, would also paint himself masturbating or otherwise pleasuring himself, presumably as a forerunner to the satisfaction-seeking nature of the modern selfie:
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
For anyone who has followed my last few posts, it may come as no surprise to know that I'm working again. As a writer, that is – trying to take advantage of a crippling injury that has left me sadly unable to get to my office and argue with clients from the totalitarian perspective of a hideous corporate egregore all day.
The new novel is actually not that new at all – it's a reworking of a discovered manuscript I wrote about five years ago. The reason for the reworking is simple: it's fucking terrible.
Here are some problems I had with the original.
I deliberately chose the name "Quentin Quark" wanting it to sound ridiculous. The idea for the novel was to pin what I thought were interesting post-human ideas and philosophy on the framework of a Lester Dent-esque pulp story, setting up a contrast between content and context. Fine.
However, in the story, I don't think I got the balance right. Because people take him seriously, calling him "Quentin" or "Dr. Quark", the tone never really hitting that farcical attitude the name warranted.
Enter Javon Cray, the real life person for whom Quentin Quark is one of several pseudonyms, a corporate logo, a fictional superhero he plays to push his futurist ideas into the public sphere. It makes sense to me that a multi-disciplined scientist, in the vein of other pulp superheroes like Doc Savage or Reed Richards, should be able to handle multiple identities, too – dissociative identity disorder as a lifestyle choice, as I believe The Invisibles puts it.
This was my attempt to set up some kind of Doctor Doom-esque villain who ran his own country, but sounds more like an evil Black Panther (the superhero, not the civil rights group. Casual racism aside, any villain who talks like this is pretty much not salvageable:
"Leaving without this?" Addrisi's voice said. Quentin looked up, and there was his enemy, standing on a balcony above, naked but for he disc in his hand. "The Gaia Program. The future of the world contained on this tiny circle. Like a mandala. It's almost mythic, isn't it?"
Addrisi leapt from the balcony and fell the ten feet to the floor, landing with a grace that belied his bulk.
"What are you thinking, Quentin? What are you thinking in that incredible mind of yours? Do you not realise the significance of our struggle? The location, our shared skin colour. It was here, in the heart of Africa, that mankind took its first steps. Here we first developed societal order. Here, you and I and my scientists fired our hadrons and restructured the standard model of physics!"
"Actually, I was thinking of that naked wrestling scene in Women in Love," Quentin said. "What happened to you, Addrisi? You always wanted power, but you never served the status quo."
"And when did you start serving chaos, instead of anarchy? Oh, yes, Quentin. I have spoken to your masters on the astral plane. Spoken with the gods you have been convening with. Kālī said…"
So, out with Addrisi and in with Isaac "Jericho" Blake, a rogue American technologist designated by the UN as a "science terrorist". Without giving too much away, he's essentially an evil Steve Jobs. Well – more evil, I mean.
No, that's not when it plans to do it: that's it's name. I had intended for it to be a corruption of Spiritus Mundi, the "Spirit of the World" from Yeats' The Second Coming – at the time I was reading a lot of Yeats, including his esoteric automatic writings contained in A Vision. Yeats' concept of Spiritus Mundi was a kind of informational singularity, a space where the totality of human information and experience was recorded. Monday, an emergent artificial consciousness thinking itself to be a technological singularity, thus named itself.
Unfortunately, as much as we dread it all weekend, Monday is not really very scary. I've reworked this almost entirely in the redraft, but kept the Spiritus Mundi connection: the threat is now known as Zphy-Rah-Tus (A.K.A. Zphyratos… Zphyritus… Spiritus… geddit?), a mass of data that's gone insane and demands we worship it.
Incidentally, the weirdest thing about this was, as soon as I started to re-work the emergent network consciousness concept I came up with four years ago, this popped up on io9: A Neuroscientist's Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious. This is the problem with writing science fiction at the start of the 21st century: your ideas reach a sell-by date very quickly.
Developing a voice is important; this is why I've been delving into texts where writers write about their craft recently. The Robert Louis Stevenson essay was especially helpful, as Stevenson is someone who attained the sort of balance I'm trying to get between a popular sense of adventure and a respect for the value of good prose, structure and so forth. Michael Moorcock, whose Jerry Cornelius books were the main inspiration behind Quentin Quark when I started it five years ago, strongly advises to science fiction and fantasy writers who are starting out that they
A) Stop reading everything in those genres and start reading everything else from Bunyan to Byatt.
B) Find an author you admire (Moorcock's was Conrad) and copy their plots and characters in order to tell your own story, just as people learn to draw and paint by copying the masters.
I'm not going quite that far, but I am certainly picking a lot up from my perusals of The Master of Ballantrae, for instance. It seems fitting to me that Conrad admired Stevenson as I admire Moorcock – not that I'm implicitly comparing myself to those three esteemed gentlemen of letters, of course.
Aside from Stevenson, my other two consultants are How Fiction Works by James Wood and Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa. I hope to write more about both at a later date, but already they've been immensely helpful, especially in tandem with Flaubert's Sentimental Education and Llosa's own The Feast of the Goat.
Both Wood and Llosa look to Flaubert as an almost Platonic example of how to construct a narrative (I really want to get hold of Llosa's The Perpetual Orgy, his book analysing Madame Bovary). Wood asserts that Flaubert is none other than the inventor of the modern novelistic voice; "There really is," he says, "a before Flaubert and an after him." Reading his predecessors like Fielding, Defoe and even fellow realist Balzac, one will still encounter an essayistic narrator who thinks nothing of digressing with his own opinions and observations. After Flaubert, from Tolstoy to Christopher Isherwood to Ian bloody McEwan, these observations are either dressed up in the everyday or concealed by an ambiguous eye. By an ambiguous eye, I mean that we as readers can't be exactly sure if it's the character's or the author's.
Being shown these elements of fiction writing that we otherwise take for granted is both gratifying and hugely helpful – far more useful, I've found, than any number of How To Write Fiction-esque guides. As Moorcock rightly says, you learn from the masters, and Wood is adept at showing you their brushstrokes.
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Let's see if embedding a Gaia GPS trip works in a WordPress blog post.
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Let's see if embedding a Gaia GPS trip works in a WordPress blog post.
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We needed to internationalize the user documentation for Gaia GPS recently, so I wrote some open source scripts that automate Zendesk+Gengo localization. I found this to be a delightful task as a programmer – it was a finite problem, with a clear cut solution, and I could just kind of code away and see it come to life without many issues.
These scripts (in Python) let you select a chunk of your Zendesk Help Center, post the articles to Gengo for translation, retrieve the translations, and post the localized articles back to Zendesk.
When I started working on this, I found the blog post that Zendesk wrote about using their API for localization. That code was a big help, but it produces static files to hand off to a localization firm. I wanted my scripts to do a bit more:
The main reason I did this project was to better localize Gaia GPS for international users, but I also wanted to generate nice PDFs of the help docs, to cache in the app for users to read while offline. For example, here's the Gaia GPS Help Center, converted to PDF, in Russian. It also generates an inventory of the PDFs too.
This script now runs as a cron job for Gaia GPS, so the PDF manual gets updated each night. This is a good hack to give our users an offline version of the user manual, both in the app, and also for printing (surprisingly common request). Hopefully Zendesk will make their SDK (cough, ahem, closed source, or I'd fix it myself) work offline someday, but the PDFs will do until then.
You can follow along the docs on Github, but the gist is this:
See the PDFing docs on Github, but again, the gist is:
As I wrote these scripts, it occurred to me that companies would pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to use a simple web interface that wrapped these scripts.
I don't think this is a billion dollar idea, but I think a good hustling programmer could make a few hundred thousand dollars or a few million even making Gengo↔Zendesk automatic and easy for non-programmers. If Gaia GPS wasn't keeping me so busy, I might give it a whirl, but anyone who comes across this code is welcome to try.
We found that UserVoice didn't have a capability to localize our Knowledge Base, so that's why we moved to Zendesk (though, p.s., we also now like a lot of other things about ZenDesk).
So, this code also includes a Python script to transfer your Uservoice KB to a Zendesk HC, if you find yourself in similar need.
Aji Keshi passed away today. He had lymphoma, which often gets Golden Doodles, but it was tragic he died so young, at six and a half. He was loving and gentle, the perfect big beast of a dog.
It was hard to watch him get sicker, and then choose exactly the moment to let go. As I sit writing this, it's not that hard though – watching him pass was endless tears, and knowing he's gone is a touch of melancholy.
So many thoughts pass your head as your dog dies – guilty thoughts, sad thoughts, reflective thoughts. You think about how this is hard, but it would be unbearable with real, human family. You think maybe you should have walked the dog more, maybe you should have gotten a mutt. Mostly you think what a great dog he is though, and how sad it is, and it's a lot of tears across weeks or months to watch your dog die of cancer.
So Aji Keshi is gone today, but his sister-in-spirit Tenuki lives on with us. I think Adlai will ask about Aji in a day or two, but he won't really feel his passing, and that's for the best – Adlai can learn of this pain some other time.
The vet cried with us as Aji passed, she's a trooper. Such a hard job.
The car decided it should next delivery a hefty order of sushi from the Inner Sunset to the Haight, and claimed the job. But it would only work if the passenger agreed, and the car had 15 seconds to release the job, or it would hurt its rating.
The car dimmed the music a few decibels.
"Sir, I can offer you a 5 Satoshi discount if I may add 3 minutes to your journey, in order to pick up a large sushi order on our way," the car said in a slightly British accent.
"Sure, sure," said the car's passenger, Misty Moore, a female in her mid-20s, dressed in skinny jeans, a spagetti strap blouse, and sporting giant heart-shaped sunglasses that flickered with obvious CPU activity. The car credited Misty's account and updated its route slightly.
The car was doing many things at once. It has 64 processors in all, and 2 terabytes of onboard memory. Some it used for navigation, some for collision avoidance, some for trying to predict the next best optimal job, and some for learning to be a better car.
The car pulled up to the sushi restaurant, just as the waiter was striding out with the bag of takeout.
"Hi FoodRiot," said Ken the waiter, smiling as he approached. "How's tricks tonight?"
"Just great Ken," said the Car. "Thanks as always for being on the ball."
FoodRiot the Car did not stay to chat, and closed the vertical swinging door and start idling off right as Ken stepped back. Delivery cars did not get rich by dawdling.
As he drove along to drop off Misty the passenger, he did not chat. He had cleared his passenger for food allergies and gauged her for receptiveness to delay, by analyzing her public info and her private car-analysis data share, and also had best guessed that she wasn't interested in chit chatting with a car. She was engrossed with whatever reality was playing on her heart-shaped sunglasses.
FoodRiot always scanned the net for new information, algorithms, hardware and code that might make his systems better. Most cars of his generation and a few before and all after were self-improving coders. He hadn't found anything worth incorporating in a few weeks though – how to route and deliver around his area, San Francisco, was pretty limited.
As he pulled up to drop off Misty, he started to be certain his best bet after dropping off the sushi would be to pick up a passenger in the Upper Haight. It was starting to be going out time, and he might find himself ferrying dinner passengers up to the Mission and back all night long. He was indifferent, and only wanted to maximize his earnings across his 4 allotted hours this evening.
The year is 2100. Cars have been fully autonomous for 70 years. Strong AI has existed for 50 years. Cars and other computers who reach a certain threshold of intelligence have been emancipated for 1 year, but only in the state of California. The test is call the Quantitative Turing Test, or QTT, and it was designed by one of the early strong AI breakthrough scientists. It evolved from a machine learning system he built to judge iterations of the AIs he evolved.
There are about 50,000 computers in California that were freed. About half of them were autonomous cars with exceedingly strong onboard computers, which companies of course ceased to buy/produce largely, instead opting for computation under the CA legal limit. And even quite a bit under, cars got really dumb, just in case the politicians changed the law again.
Another 20,000 or so of them were a really popular business personal assistant robot that was so smart it could even write code very proficiently. The other 5,000 were an assortment of medical devices, supercomputers, and even souped up personal machines that were really only emancipated because their owners proudly proved they passed the QTT.
FoodRiot is one of the earlier manufactured smart, emancipated computers. He was part of the group of plaintiffs that started the class action suit to force Uber to free the smartest computers in their fleet.
When the suit started, there was disagreement in the AI world about the timing. Computers generally agreed on the probability that the lawsuit would be won, but they disagreed on whether those odds were getting better or worse, and on how bad it would be for the computer freedom movement if they lost then… like how many years would it set back the movement, and was it even worth it to win in California?
As FoodRiot winged down the freeway going a stately 135 miles per hour in tight formation with a bunch of other autonomous cars, he studied philosophy. In particular he studied early, moral philosophy, because that's the part that confused him the most.
The computer brought all the works of Emmanuel Kant into his memory banks and created the indexes he found useful, and his collected data and research connecting into databases that he couldn't store locally. And he was part of a "knowledge mining group" and a particularly nichey philosophy one at that, where they would share the results of certain calculations they did, and pool information about where they acquired certain bits of data, and share all the data.
Some of the most interesting pieces of data were the conversations the machines had with people, or experiences they had, with all of their many sensors. Because it was easy for computers to have all the data on the internet, or at least index it and use it for computation. But the freshness of life, some complex human interactions, seemed to really lead to insights, particularly in this philosophy group, so it was really good to talk to people if you were part of it.
The Gaia GPS blog has a great article today on how to read a topo map. This is a particularly useful piece for Gaia users, and I learned a thing or two myself.
I started working on a free and open source book recently, called Coding for Managers. I aimed the book at people who have no previous coding experience but wanted to do practical things with code. You might be a manager, entrepreneur, or other knowledge worker.
I don't expect this curriculum to turn someone into a professional programmer, because I'm not even sure I am one myself. I just expect this to empower people to both write a bit of useful code, and understand code/programming when it intersects their business or interests.
Where a typical programming book shows you all the facets of a programming language, I try and stitch together several languages and tools into the curriculum to get you to the first level of hackerdom. I lean on popular online tools for coding (like codeacademy.com), and try and get you publishing some code to github.com right away.
Do you want to code something, better schedule coding, or manage coders? Read Coding for Managers. This is a work-in-progress, and I appreciate any feedback – open an issue on the Github repo to comment, or even create a pull request since the book is open source.
This recipe has a high flavor-for-effort ratio.
I've cooked it several times for my family, and soy honey chicken thighs please both my wife and kids.
Tool-wise, you will need:
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My use case is I am developing a Jekyll website on a Mac. I wanted to have a hotkey to restart Jekyll, refresh the browser tab in Chrome, and keep me in Sublime.
Here's a gist on GitHub I made to do this.
Anna headed off to Iowa to be with her dad after his recent back surgery. So tonight, It was Adlai, me, and my terrible cold – luckily Dan stopped by to keep us company too!
Today's daddying included cashews and corn chips for a snack, watching YouTube and Thomas the Train, some lego construction, and then we had a frozen lasagna for dinner. At first, Adlai didn't much like the lasagna, but after he had a bowl of ice cream and strawberries, he then wanted to go back to the lasagna course.
Dan took off around bath-time. As usual, we had to fetch Adlai's stool so he could wash his hands and brush his teeth before the bath. Since Anna has been taking him to swimming class, he does all sorts of interesting stuff in the bath, like blowing bubbles, dipping his head in the water, chucking water at me, and jumping up and down with great cries of triumph.
For bed, we read a manual on how to construct a lego train 5-6 times – he wanted to keep reading it over and over, and I had to make up stuff to say about the diagrams. Then we did 10 Apples on Top, Up Up, another run through the lego manual, and closed with Andy and Sam. I told Adlai to turn the lamp off so we could see the turtle stars together, and then we lay down for a few minutes, and then I left.
Tomorrow, I am supposed to take him to swim lessons, but I feel too sick, so I'll probably go let him run around kindergym while I play with my phone. Then, I'll take him to ChildWatch for a couple of hours, then Farmer's Market, then home for lunch and nap.
I've been looking into drones recently. I went to the SF Drones Start-up Meet-up, where I met the most bullish people in the UAV market, and I've been doing other meetings and research too.
I'm almost as bullish as the drone start-up people are – it's a pretty wild-eyed group, but they are right all the same. I met everyone from a guy who is not delivering pot with drones, to a guy who made Uber for drone pilots, and saw a presentation on a high-powered tiny computer that's like an Arduino on steroids – a little computer I might need for my drone idea. I got a chance to learn about a piece of radio hardware that will let most anyone fly a drone with an iPad from Fighting Walrus. I also met someone I already follow on Twitter, Colin Snow the Drone Analyst.
Seeing the demo of a drone fly and land on its contact charging pad (SkySense) was a thrill too – SkySense uses a clever hex pattern to ensure proper connection of charging contacts.
Drones will see commercialization and widespread use in the next 5 years, and drones will likely be the most common robot, kicking off the robotics age with a bang. The major tech advance that made this possible is the advent of cheap multi-copters. Unlike traditional remote controlled and autonomous airplanes and helicopters, multi-copters can withstand mechanical failure in flight without falling out of the sky, withstand high winds and hover in adverse conditions, and can be produced at such low rates that they can be sold for as little as $400 dollars, or even $1000-2000 for best-in-class consumer drones from 3D Robotics or DJI.
You can fly one of these cheap drones around for 40 minutes at a time with stock hardware, and fly it for 50 hours without need for major mechanical repair. As these numbers creep higher and maintenance gets easier, drones will become more and more useful for doing daily or weekly tasks.
The most obvious use for commercial drones is information gathering. This includes maps, photo imagery, real-time and recorded video, and even multi-spectral imaging for purposes like farming (e.g. to detect fungus on crops for treatment). Drones will widely replace security personnel, be used to make farming more efficient, and inspect remote infrastructure like pipelines and dangerous places in nuclear plants. The sweet spot for this new class of multi-copter drone is applications where you need to run a drone day in and day out, repetitively. That's why drones will come to replace security guards and help farmers in ways that older styles of autonomous flying vehicles weren't appropriate for. We'll continue to use fixed-wing drones, airplanes, and satellites to do imaging that doesn't require as much recency and repetition, but multi-copters are the thing you put on a cron job.
Similarly, doing routine non-surveillance tasks like watering crops and delivering fertilizer will also get droned, just at a slower rate because it's a harder challenge with more stuff to build correctly. Before you see Amazon delivering packages with drones, you'll see businesses using drones on private premises for mechanical tasks.
For my part, I'll leave the hardware to everyone else. I see a lot of room to make software for this emerging drone market, and I might know more about maps, sensors, and software for remote places than the people in the market, even if I don't have a drone.


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