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by Brian Joseph Johns
Episode 11: The Point of No Return
Discovery
Six years ago
Toronto South Research Facility
Tynan and Associates Medical
Alicia sat in the meeting room with the four other research leads, Alan (as indicated by the name tag on his lab coat), the Director of Research Operations seated at the head of the table.
Alan tapped the table with the pen from his tablet computer, which also sat on the table face up a few inches away as he listened to Gerald finish the last of his research update.
"...so what that means is that we've run into a few snags with the technology we developed to adapt the bacteriophages for our purposes, and it seems that its prematurely injecting the host DNA, with the protein data, meaning you have a block of genes intended as a protein recipe which the host cell instead chemically treats like RNA instructions, and we ended up with an inert RNA messenger which ceased our bacteriophage factory dead in the goop so to speak..." Gerald used a laser pointer from his seat to indicate where the problems had occurred by using a computer projected image that lay presented on the screen at the end of the room.
"So where does that leave us, in terms of a solution?" Alan asked Gerald, whose thinning hair could not hide the buildup of sweat he was feeling under the duress of stress.
"At this point, we have no active solution, or any idea of how we might fix this. On the other hand, the bacteriophages that we've managed to produce without engineering their reproduction are proving to be quite effective against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in tiny bacterial colonies, but without the engineered reproduction, we can't apply these gains at the scale of deployment we've targeted," Gerald continued delivering the facts as Alan rubbed his face with his hands in frustration.
"Are there any suggestions on how we can overcome this? Anyone?" Alan looked around at the faced lining the table.
"Another strain of phage? One much closer to the one we're trying to engineer?" Sylvia suggested.
"Good suggestion Doctor Uphadaya. Well?" Alan responded to her, then looking to Gerald once again.
"We're in the midst of using a distributed computing network, World Community Grid, to do a search against the known strains of phage, but that search hasn't yet turned up anything and it could still take months. We're talking comparing in excess of about six thousand gene pairs, distributed through three different points in the host DNA, against the billions of phage strains we've cataloged. Do the math," Gerald responded somewhat sarcastically and politely.
"What about large language models? I read recently in a peer reviewed paper that they were able to optimize a number of search algorithms that have stood for almost two centuries without contest. Maybe it might be worth looking into?" Alicia suggested from her place beside Sylvia.
"LLMs? They're still in their infancy, and by the time we devise a sufficient query and they're able to run it, we'll have found one with distributed computing, if one exists," Gerald replied, he himself somewhat frustrated at having to report his efforts in front of the other researchers.
"What about some external input? Maybe getting some outside expertise in on this?" Alicia continued with another suggestion, unwilling to give up.
"What about Katya Piotr and her husband Victor?" suggested Alex from beside Gerald.
"I tried contacting them in Russia about two years ago for this, when we were in early development. They were bound to another project at that time, and weren't available," Gerald replied, satisfied with his answer.
"I just read in Scientific Nature that they just finished a project in Vancouver, for U of V, which would mean that they're available," Alicia continued, raising her eyebrows in a manner that Gerald found to be condescending.
Alan looked to him sternly, as if backing up Alicia.
Gerald sat up in his chair and straightened his back.
"I'll give them a call as soon as we're done here..." Gerald quickly acted to get the pressure off of himself.
"Good. So we're not dead in the water on that. At least yet. So what's the status of the Series Y formula? Any responses from Health Canada yet on our approval for pharmacologically controlled distribution and human consumption so we have something to give the share holders?" asked Alan of Alicia and Sylvia.
"I received word yesterday that it has passed the first round of tests, with two more rounds to go. They've also approved the studies we coopted from Future Tangent, and will be approving their data soon. The next two phases will take another month before we have the approval that Mr. Norler is anxious to hear about," Sylvia responded to Alan's question.
"At which point we can setup for production using the new facility and everyone will make lots of money, the share holders will be happy, and we'll still have jobs... So what about you Alicia. You've been pretty quiet about your specialized applications of the Series Y. What's going on with that?" Alan turned to face Alicia, his gaze now as intimidating as it had been upon Gerald.
Gerald smiled slightly at having the pressure taken from him and its having found its way to the lab's favourite girl.
"I've been isolating what it would take to adapt the Series Y for the treatment of spinal problems, especially nerve damage, which has applications with other degenerative diseases such as Muscular Dystrophy and Multiple Sclerosis," Alicia was quick to offer him the context of her research work.
"And how's that going. You've been busy an awful lot. A few late nights too, from the security logs. Care to let us in on your progress?" Alan began tapping the pen on the table, and at that moment Alicia could empathize with Gerald's earlier predicament.
"Its been... remarkable. Quite an adventure so far, and lots of action for sure. Once the Series Y gets in there, it really just kicks ass..." Alicia said to Alan, doing her best to throw him off under the pressure and drawing a bit of laughter from the other researchers at the same time.
"Good. I'll be looking forward to a full report, no less than ten pages. A PDF file in my email no later than next week. Let's say Tuesday?" Alan said to her firmly.
"Yes sir. I'll have that for you before then..." Alicia's spirits seemed slightly diminished and she shrank in her chair ever so slightly.
"Alright. Lets get back to it. Gerald? Use the last half hour we have to get on contacting Katya and Victor Piotr right away! Are we all on the same page?" Alan looked to his researchers, who each nodded in turn.
...
Alicia stood by her desk and grabbed her purse. She quickly grabbed the zipper and opened it, checking it carefully for the three vials of the modified Series Y, the same formula that had turned her into a super-powered super-athletic guardian of the night. She then checked found the key to her desk, and unlocked the top drawer, finding within a small metal cabinet within which were the only other three vials of the modified Series Y.
"Can't lose these..." Alicia said to herself, as Sylvia snuck up behind her.
"Don't let him get to you. I know he can be intimidating, but that's why Tynan put him here, otherwise we'd have it far too easy. Sometimes, a little pressure can keep us at our best," Sylvia said to her in a comforting voice.
Alicia quickly closed the top drawer and deposited the key back in her purse.
"Thanks, but really, we're all grown-ups here. We don't need to be baby sat like that you know. We're motivated by this. Its our life!" Alicia replied to her.
"Yes, it is our life, but don't forget that we're playing with a lot of other people's money. We know our own scruples and what drives us. They don't. The only thing that speaks to them for us is the numbers, and honestly to do justice by them, we've got to produce. Alan is their inside man, and that's harsh reality for us. At least we still get to do what we love," Sylvia explained to Alicia.
At that moment, Alicia's phone rang. She quickly searched her desk for the source of the ringing and then answered it:
"Tynan Research. Alicia speaking," Alicia answered the phone in a professional and friendly voice as it was still jut before five in the evening.
"Doctor Westin? Hi. Its Walton Norler calling. I hope that I'm not taking you away from anything pressing?" he asked her politely.
"Uhhh... Mr. Norler? What a surprise? No. Not at all. I was just finishing my day as you called," Alicia responded, quickly letting Sylvia know with whom she was talking.
"Good taste Alicia! I'll see you tomorrow," Sylvia said as she smiled at Alicia, and headed for the parking lot exit.
"Look. Alicia, you wouldn't happen to have a little time for a coffee, would you? I was hoping to speak with you about a matter that could benefit from someone with your expertise," Norler said to her without revealing any details as to what that might entail.
"Sure... I could meet with you for a little bit. I was going to see a friend in the hospital..." Alicia informed him.
"Great. Meet me around back of the Coffee Club, over on Ellesmere Avenue. I'll be waiting for you. I'm sorry to hear about your friend," Norler offered her some compassion.
"So am I. I'll see you soon," Alicia responded and then hung up.
...
Alan watched as Alicia and the remaining researchers left the office, leaving most of the building empty except for himself and the on-site security staff.
When he was certain that there was nobody around, he stepped over to Alicia's desk and pulled out her chair from the desk and sat behind her computer.
"Now. Lets see what goldilocks has really been working on..." Alan said as he pulled a USB device from his pocket.
He plugged it in, and watched as the device unlocked her computer and files. From that point, he began going through them and examining them in detail, one at a time.
...
Alicia's car pulled into the Coffee Club parking lot, and she drove around to the back of the coffee shop chain store and found herself greeted by a black Audi A6. Norler sat in the driver's seat wearing a pair of Oakley Holbrook XL sunglasses. He gestured over to her and beckoned her to park her car and come over to the passenger seat of his.
She did as he requested, then getting out of her car and running quickly over to the passenger side door and getting in.
"You're looking good. How are you?" Norler looked to her and smiled.
"I'm good. You?" she asked him, already blushing.
"Same. So, lets go for a quick drive. Are you hungry?" he asked her.
"I think I could use a bite to eat," she responded politely.
"I was thinking fast food. Something we can eat in the car. You have any preferences?" he asked her politely.
"How about a chicken burger?" she suggested.
"I'm fine with that. So over to Captain Wing Ding's then?" he confirmed with her.
"Sure. That'd do just nicely," she smiled as Norler put the car in drive and pulled out through back and onto Ellesmere Avenue.
"Alicia. The reason I contacted you is because I need you for a special job. Its related to research and you'll be doing this work in the exact same place that you work. Interested?" he asked her, as they pulled up to a traffic light.
"Go on..." she responded.
"There's just one thing. It could be a little bit risky, even dangerous, so I'm going to need you to be extra careful and extra discrete..." Norler advised her.
"I think I could muster that up," Alicia agreed.
"You'll have security, though you won't know who they are. There will be people watching your back. Let me explain. My colleagues and I recently discovered that one of our peers. I can't say who, for your protection, is playing an insider's investment game, and has been tampering with the companies we've been investing in. We had an incident recently at one of our facilities, and the evidence our investigators were able to uncover points to our peer, and we have reason to believe that there is going to be a tampering or sabotage of some kind that targets our Medical Research facility..." Norler explained to her carefully as the light turned green.
"Go on?" she beckoned him.
"I'm going to need you to keep an eye on things, and especially anything that might point to tampering or sabotage of Tynan projects. We don't know exactly what we're looking for, but we do know that vandalism and sabotage has been involved in ninety-seven percent of the cases involving this particular peer. Do you think you could do that for me?" he asked her, looking momentarily to her and admiring the subtle curve of her cheek and her blinking lashes from behind her sunglasses.
"I think I could accommodate you, but what's in it for us?" she asked him, looking to him with an ever so slightly seductive glance.
"Who?" he asked her.
"Medical research. What's in it for us? What can you do to help our research?" she asked him.
"Wow. I mean. Wow. I was going to offer you a bonus, and you're asking me for something that will benefit our company? Are you for real?" he asked her.
"Yes, but I tick a little differently than most. If you can do something for us in research, and maybe throw in a little bonus too, I'll do it," she replied.
"Alright. You come up with an idea of how we can improve the research department, and I'll see that it gets done. Fair?" he asked her.
"Fair. And what about my bonus?" she asked him.
"Well... How about the two of us have dinner together. Soon," Norler suggested to her, looking over to her as they continued along Ellesmere.
"How soon?" she blushed slightly, and returned his glance.
"Like next week soon. Thursday?" he confirmed with her.
"Seven o'clock," she smiled.
"I'll pick you up. I'll surprise you," Norler said as they pulled into the drive through of Captain Wing Ding's.
"I can only hope that I can return the favour," she smiled seductively once again, trying her best not to blush.
...
Alan popped the USB device from Alicia's computer, having copied numerous files related to a sub-project called Modified Y. He tucked the USB device into his pocket and then with gloved hands, began going through Alicia's drawers one at a time. When he got to the locked drawer, he pulled and found it to be open and unlocked.
"She must have forgot to lock it. Well... what do we have here...?" Alan said as he found the steel cabinet within the drawer.
He opened the lid and spied three vials, each filled with a bright green liquid. He took all three of them and pocketed them in with the USB device and then carefully closed the drawer, checking if the latch had caught. He pulled it twice as hard as he could and found that the drawer was now locked.
After having covered his trail, he returned to his office and sat behind his desk and dialed a number.
"Get me Mister Torman..." he asked the man on the other end.
The Garden and the Dragon
Alicia stepped into the hospital room, the nurse closing the door behind her. There on a bed with a nasogastric tube run into her right nostril lay Helayne, her cheeks pale and her eyes closed. A monitoring station was wired directly to the wall, and several nodes were attached to various points on Helayne's body.
Alicia examined the monitoring device and could easily see that Helayne was in stable condition, though she had little if any brain activity. Whatever there was that was left of her, was not enough for her to wake up and greet her visitors. She was at that point, being kept alive by the machines to which she was connected.
"Hi buddy. Its me. You remember our deal from high school. Well, it turns out that I've got a date coming up and its a special occasion and so I'm going to need another dress, which means that you haven't kept up your end of the deal..." Alicia wiped her eyes as she spoke to her nearly lifeless best friend.
"So... if you could just find it in yourself to get up and finish what you started, then we could all get on with our lives... and continue being friends... and find our soul mates and get married so that us girls can have our girls night every once in a while... Get all funny and giggly on a bottle of a wine and talk about old times..." Alicia said to Helayne, who still remained motionless, a slow and steady breath cycling within her lungs.
Alicia grabbed hold of Helayne's hand and held on tight. For a minute. For ten. For thirty.
And then the hospital room door opened.
"Hey! That's my friend! What are you doing to her!" a woman with a slight French accent stepped into the room, and Alicia recognized her from the warehouse where Helayne had been shot.
"I'm her best friend..." Alicia said to the French lady.
"Oh no you're not! I'm her best friend!" the French lady responded.
"From high school. Helayne and I went to school together," Alicia explained to the lady.
"Are you Alicia by chance?" asked the lady of Alicia.
"That's me. One and the same," Alicia nodded affirmatively.
"Helayne mentioned you. I'm Monique. Monique Defleur," Monique introduced herself.
"Alicia. Alicia Westin," Alicia offered her hand and they shook.
"Don't take this the wrong way, but I feel like we've met..." Monique said to Alicia, looking closely at her and unable to recall where she'd seen her before.
"Well that couldn't be, because I've never met you, and I'd remember that and all, especially with the wild colours in your hair..." Alicia replied.
"I'm a model. A fashion model. Or at least I was going to be, thanks to our best friend..." Monique explained to Alicia.
"You'll still be a fashion model. Doctors are good at what they do. Soon, maybe not today, but soon, she's going to wake up and get up and leave, and resume her life from where she left off. She'll give us a call and we'll all go out together. Who knows? Maybe, another Doctor might have given her some very strong medicine... but it might take a while to work... We'll just have to wait and see..." Alicia said to Monique.
"She's still breathing, and anyone who can do that after what she's been through has to have a strong force in her soul..." Monique said quietly in response to Alicia's inspiring words.
"...a soul like a dragon..." Alicia added, the two of them stood there quietly watching Helayne as she lay lifelessly, a slate, now blank, whose story had been lost.
More to come...
Written by Brian Joseph Johns
Credits and attribution:
Artwork: Amy Wong, Wendy Pusey, Ghastly, Birdman, Brian Joseph Johns, Daz3D, Unreal Engine...
Tools: Daz3D, Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop, Lightwave 3D, Blender, Stable Diffusion (Easy Diffusion distribution), InstantID, Sadtalker, Google Colaboratory, Microsoft Copilot (Windows 11), Hitfilm, PhotoPea (a great web based Photoshop stand-in if you're on a low budget or in a pinch), Borderline Obsession...
DeepSeek AI for suggestions on exercises to improve aspects of describing scene and settings with a more sensory focused grammar.
InstantID by: Wang, Qixun and Bai, Xu and Wang, Haofan and Qin, Zekui and Chen, Anthony. Research Paper Title: InstantID - Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds.
Sadtalker by: Zhang, Wenxuan and Cun, Xiaodong and Wang, Xuan and Zhang, Yong and Shen, Xi and Guo, Yu and Shan, Ying and Wang, Fei.
Research Paper Title: SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation.
Gratitude: Our Mentors, Senseis, Sifus, Sebomnims, lifetime inspirations, family, friends, the Nomads (ask Stanton about that one), the Music, the Movies, the Theatre, the Arts, ASMR, (both YouTube and Bilibili and the many other creators on those platforms), the Gaming and Developer communities and of course, the audience.
Martial Arts (in the words of real experts and at least one comedian): https://brucelee.com (home of the real Dragon and an entire family of inspirations), http://iwco.online International Wing Chun Organization (International presence of a very scalable intensity martial art, protected and developed by Shaolin Nun Ng Mui) and the alma mater of Jinn Hua's own specialized variation thereof, https://iogkf.com International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karatedo Federation (even Hanshi had his teachers), https://itftkd.sport International Taekwondo Federation (Here there be Taegers), https://tangsoodoworld.com Tang Soo Do World (the path of Grandmaster Chuck Norris), https://www.aikido-international.org International Aikido Federation (how else would Navy Chef Steven Seagal liberate a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier from a team of hijackers?), https://www.stqitoronto.com Shaolin Temple Quanfa Institute (The City Of Toronto's own Shaolin Temple), https://www.enterthedojoshow.com Master Ken's Ameri-Te-Do presence (If we can't laugh at ourselves, then we can at least laugh the loudest at others, and other Zen)
Magic (performance, illusion and perhaps the real thing): Magic Week Archive (I'm currently growing this section so stay tuned)
Special thanks to Aitrepreneur, Mickmumpitz, Hugging Face and the YouTube educational content producers, including those catering to the AI content production pipeline and of course AlphaSignal.
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Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life
Jesse Enkamp: Karate Nerd
Jesse, a reknowned Sensei who runs his own dojo, explores the world of Martial Arts, traveling to many exotic locations to meet practitioners of a variety of different arts
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Something to give you perspective: The very first teacher had no formal education, didn't graduate and was self taught, but only because they had no other choice. We do.
Tools: Daz3D, Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop, Lightwave 3D, Blender, Stable Diffusion (Easy Diffusion distribution), InstantID, Sadtalker, Google Colaboratory, Microsoft Copilot (Windows 11), Hitfilm, PhotoPea (a great web based Photoshop stand-in if you're on a low budget or in a pinch), Borderline Obsession...
DeepSeek AI for suggestions on exercises to improve aspects of describing scene and settings with a more sensory focused grammar.
InstantID by: Wang, Qixun and Bai, Xu and Wang, Haofan and Qin, Zekui and Chen, Anthony. Research Paper Title: InstantID - Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds.
Sadtalker by: Zhang, Wenxuan and Cun, Xiaodong and Wang, Xuan and Zhang, Yong and Shen, Xi and Guo, Yu and Shan, Ying and Wang, Fei.
Research Paper Title: SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation.
Gratitude: Our Mentors, Senseis, Sifus, Sebomnims, lifetime inspirations, family, friends, the Nomads (ask Stanton about that one), the Music, the Movies, the Theatre, the Arts, ASMR, (both YouTube and Bilibili and the many other creators on those platforms), the Gaming and Developer communities and of course, the audience.
Martial Arts (in the words of real experts and at least one comedian): https://brucelee.com (home of the real Dragon and an entire family of inspirations), http://iwco.online International Wing Chun Organization (International presence of a very scalable intensity martial art, protected and developed by Shaolin Nun Ng Mui) and the alma mater of Jinn Hua's own specialized variation thereof, https://iogkf.com International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karatedo Federation (even Hanshi had his teachers), https://itftkd.sport International Taekwondo Federation (Here there be Taegers), https://tangsoodoworld.com Tang Soo Do World (the path of Grandmaster Chuck Norris), https://www.aikido-international.org International Aikido Federation (how else would Navy Chef Steven Seagal liberate a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier from a team of hijackers?), https://www.stqitoronto.com Shaolin Temple Quanfa Institute (The City Of Toronto's own Shaolin Temple), https://www.enterthedojoshow.com Master Ken's Ameri-Te-Do presence (If we can't laugh at ourselves, then we can at least laugh the loudest at others, and other Zen)
Magic (performance, illusion and perhaps the real thing): Magic Week Archive (I'm currently growing this section so stay tuned)
Special thanks to Aitrepreneur, Mickmumpitz, Hugging Face and the YouTube educational content producers, including those catering to the AI content production pipeline and of course AlphaSignal.
Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life
Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life
Jesse Enkamp: Karate Nerd
Jesse, a reknowned Sensei who runs his own dojo, explores the world of Martial Arts, traveling to many exotic locations to meet practitioners of a variety of different arts
Jesse, a reknowned Sensei who runs his own dojo, explores the world of Martial Arts, traveling to many exotic locations to meet practitioners of a variety of different arts
Sensei Rokas: Martial Arts Journey
A reknowned Sensei of Aikido who in seeking to understand the roots of Aikido and its applications, seeks to stress test its effectiveness in a number of real world situations while studying its history
A reknowned Sensei of Aikido who in seeking to understand the roots of Aikido and its applications, seeks to stress test its effectiveness in a number of real world situations while studying its history
Iaido: Train For Katana Mastery Like Samurai
The original weapons focused curriculum under which Samurai became masters of their art
The original weapons focused curriculum under which Samurai became masters of their art
Extensive courses for calisthenics and body strength, stamina and flexibility
Special thanks to Captain Crunch and his wonderful sister!
Special thanks to Bandcamp for giving indie music artists a home under one roof
Something to give you perspective: The very first teacher had no formal education, didn't graduate and was self taught, but only because they had no other choice. We do.
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This content is entirely produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701 under the Shhhh! Digital Media banner.
