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Wednesday June 1st we started our trip. We disagreed about how to get to the car rental agency, we got stuck on one-way streets and I zoomed past the first Rt 66 land-marks before Ivo could photograph them. It was noon and Chicagoans seemed serious about getting to lunch.
Today, June 16th, we ended our trip. we disagreed about how to get to the Santa Monica Pier, I zoomed along the harbor before Ivo could enjoy any sense of ceremony and we crawled along LA noon-day traffic, not basking in the glow of the trip but herrumphing about how it ended. The glow came later when traffic thinned and we approached LAX and before-hand as we had crawled through traffic from San Bernadino to LA all morning long.
Beginning and ending aside, our first road-trip has been a bit of a success, I think. Over the next few weeks we'll organize notes, do some more research and get to remember the good bits. Some parts will benefit the cyclists who might read a guide book: the big blue whale in Catoosa, the cute little unexpected sandwich shop in that town in North West Oklahoma, the crazy old guys who talk for an age about old stuff. Some parts will benefit our future selves and our future child: the emotional roller-coaster of our first screening call, the amount of compromise and communication required in getting across the country, the readiness for adventure together.
So now I'm back in San Francisco and practising some of the things I learned from the trip: the importance of relxation, the importance of hydration, the importance of not taking non-fried non-carnivorous food for granted and the importance of not taking Ivo's presence for granted.
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(NEW YORK)–Fruit Street Health, a digital health and telehealth startup focused on delivering the CDC's Diabetes Prevention Program and other chronic disease prevention programs, announced it has raised an additional $3 million since its last funding round a year ago on June 1st, 2016.
This additional equity raise now brings Fruit Street's total funding to $8.4 million, which brings the total number of physicians who have invested in Fruit Street to over 200. The lead investor was Dr. Jeremy Tucker who is a senior emergency medicine physician on the board of directors of Fruit Street.
Fruit Street's digital health platform enables healthcare providers such as physicians and registered dietitians to conduct HIPAA compliant video consultations with their patients and also monitor their health, diet, and lifestyle using medical devices, wearable devices, and the Fruit Street mobile application for dietary tracking. Devices such as wireless scales, Fitbit trackers, blood pressure cuffs, and glucometers are integrated into the platform. The Fruit Street "Instagram style" mobile app encourages patients to take photos of their food which are transmitted to their dietitians for feedback.
Fruit Street licenses its digital health platform to healthcare providers, but also uses its digital health platform to deliver the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) to commercial health plan members using its own staff of registered dietitians. The National DPP is an evidence-based lifestyle change program which has been demonstrated to delay or prevent the development of type 2 diabetes among people at high risk.
The DPP, conducted by the Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group, was a major multicenter clinical research study published in 2002 with 3,234 participants who were overweight and had prediabetes, aimed at discovering whether modest weight loss through dietary changes and increased physical activity or treatment with the oral diabetes drug metformin (Glucophase) was more effective at preventing or delaying type 2 diabetes. The DPP showed that people at risk for developing diabetes can prevent or delay the onset of diabetes by losing a modest amount of weight through diet and exercise. DPP participants in the lifestyle intervention group reduced their risk of developing diabetes by 58 percent during the study. Lifestyle changes worked particularly well for participants aged 60 and older, reducing their risk by 71 percent. Participants taking metformin reduced their risk of developing diabetes by 31 percent which was less dramatic than the lifestyle modification group. The researchers published their findings in the February 7, 2002, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine ("Reduction in the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes with Lifestyle Intervention or Metformin").
Fruit Street has raised this additional capital to fund additional software development through its joint venture agreement with VSee.com, and to hire more dietitians to deliver the diabetes prevention program to commercial health plans.
About Fruit Street
Fruit Street is a telemedicine software product that is licensed to healthcare professionals which allows them to conduct HIPAA compliant video consultations with their patients and monitor their patients' health, diet, and lifestyle using medical and wearable devices. http://www.fruitstreet.com

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System overview Sensor2Web / Sensor4Lab
RMONI has developed in-house a complete range of wireless temperature monitoring software and hardware. A system overview of sensor2web is depicted below. Sensor4lab is conceptually the same, but the server is not in the cloud but on the customers premises.
Wireless sensors
The wireless sensors are easily installed in any type of environment - trucks, labs, production facilities, storage - and allow maximum flexibility to renovate, reorganize, and expand.
- Fast and easy installation
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Rmoni offers a complete range of hardware to set up wireless systems in any type of environment; from the ultra sensitive clean-rooms in the pharmaceutical industry to the often rough and tumble circumstances of international transport.
- Up to four probe inlets per sensorbox, router or gateway
- Wide range of parameters: temperature, humidity, CO2, pressure, energy et cetera
- Industrial range of energy monitoring and management
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The web-based software not only means data is available anytime, anywhere, from any PC. It also means no worries about application management, back-ups, or software installation.
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Centralized software offers big advantages
All measurements are stored in a central SQL database, and consulted via a webserver. This is especially beneficial for stretched, multi-site organisations such as hospital groups, retail shops, quick service restaurants etc.
- A standard Internet browser is all you need to access your data. This enables you to follow up measurements and consult historical views anytime, anywhere, from any PC.
- Ready-to-use and configurable reports provide regulatory authorities, customers, or internal auditors with all of the information they may require.
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Children are an important part of our church family. We strive for the church experience for children to be more than just "diapers and toys." At these early impressionable ages children can learn basic Christian truths that will impact them all the days of their lives.
We have an infant room available for parents to take their babies for feeding and changing.
Our staffed nursery is available for children up to age 3 for the entire service, so parents can concentrate on worship.
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Under the leadership of our Living Out Loud Ministry team, they worship together with music and dance. We use the same format as the adult service, including offering and monthly communion.
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"Learning Real Christianity in a Real World" begins here as the children learn how to deal with every day situations such as peer pressure, bullying, and family issues – all taught from Biblical example.
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From Texas to Wisconsin, major voting rights cases are making headlines. Brennan Center Communications Manager Erik Opsal breaks down exactly why these legal battles are happening.
Cross-posted on OurTime.org [3]
Yesterday the US Supreme Court blocked a stringent Voter ID law in Wisconsin [4] and a Federal Judge in Texas blocked a similar law [5], claiming it was an "unconstitutional poll tax". Many other voting rights cases are in the news. To understand exactly why these legal battles are happening, we spoke to an expert, Erik Opsal, Communications Manager for the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.
Q: We've heard a lot about laws making it harder to vote in the past few years. What's happening?
Since the 2010 election, politicians have pushed a wave of laws [6] cutting back on voting rights. These restrictions range from new photo ID requirements to early voting limits to voter registration cutbacks. Overall, 22 states [7] have new laws that could make it harder to vote, and 14 of them will have new restrictions in place for the first time in a major election this year. That means voters in nearly half the country could find it harder to cast a ballot in 2014 than they did four years ago.
Q: What's the justification for making the voting process more restrictive?
These aren't reasonable election regulations. They are efforts by some politicians to manipulate the system for their own advantage. Instead, America should make its election system more free, fair, and accessible by modernizing registration [8] and bringing voting into the 21st century.
Q: Is this tightening of voting restrictions happening in every state or just some?
It's happened in about half the country. As mentioned, 22 states have new restrictions since 2010, and many of them are in the South and Midwest. Most restrictive laws passed through Republican-controlled legislatures and in states with increases in minority turnout [9]. To find out the rules in your state, check out the Brennan Center's comprehensive Student Voting Guide [10].
Q: What is being done to address this problem?
Voting advocates are fighting these laws across the country. They've challenged restrictive measures in court in seven states [11]. Many of those cases are still ongoing, and some may wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court. Advocates have also pushed laws to improve voting by modernizing the registration system and increasing early voting opportunities. Laws to expand access passed in 16 states [12] since 2012.
Q: What can I do about it? How can I make sure my vote is not blocked?
Register and vote! It's important to stand up for our rights and elect leaders who will lift up our country and our communities. See the Brennan Center's Student Voting Guide [10] to find out the rules in your state. It provides registration deadlines, residency requirements, identification policies, absentee voting rules, and early voting information. And use OurTime's online registration tool [13] to sign up today.
[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/expert/erik-opsal
[2] https://www.brennancenter.org/print/12550
[3] http://www.attn.com/stories/183/why-2014-voting-becoming-harder-instead-easier?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=voteridqa
[4] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/09/wisconsin-voter-id_n_5962698.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016
[5] https://twitter.com/BrennanCenter/status/520375095429054464
[6] http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/state-voting-2014
[7] http://www.brennancenter.org/new-voting-restrictions-2010-election
[8] http://www.brennancenter.org/issues/voter-registration-modernization
[9] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2013/12/17/states-with-higher-black-turnout-are-more-likely-to-restrict-voting/
[10] http://www.brennancenter.org/student-voting
[11] http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/major-voting-litigation-could-impact-2014
[12] http://www.brennancenter.org/states-expanded-voting-2013-and-2014
[13] http://www.ourtime.org/vote/
[14] https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/voting-rights-elections
[15] https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/voter-registration-modernization
[16] https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/restricting-vote


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Hit Z Road is the zombie road trip game by renowned designer Martin Wallace. Players race from Chicago to L.A. through an increasingly difficult deck of location cards, scavenging for gas, ammo, and rations as they go. Their biggest obstacle? The zombie hordes attacking them at nearly every turn. You can use three different types of resources to gain advantages against the zombies, or you can bid those resources at the beginning of each round to find safer passage. You don't always need to be faster than the zombies, you just need to be faster than your friends!


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Why DEA Enforcement Is Misguided
July 30, 2001
On June 4, 2001 Dr. Eric Chevlen wrote an article published in The
Weekly Standard that clearly spelled out the basic reasons why recent
efforts of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to radically control the
distribution of OxyContin is misguided. I've organized the basic
information from Dr. Chevlin's article into an organized briefing
Putting OxyContin Abuse Into
Let's start by putting the the problem of OxyContin abuse into
persective. Last year (the year 2000):
200 people died from the abuse of oxycodone, the active ingredient of
OxyContin in the year 2000.
Virtually all of these oxycodone deaths are due to purposeful abuse of the
There have been no documented deaths from the use of this drug as
Statistically the number of deaths (200 in one year) are incredibly small
considering the number of chronic pain patients using narcotic pain
medications (about 10 million).
Limiting patient access to OxyContin because of these rare tragedies is
like limiting access to rope because some people hang
16,000 Americans died from using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
such as Advil and Aleve for treating their arthritis.
Codeine is five times more likely to be mentioned by medical examiners as
contributing to death as oxycodone.
The misuse of acetaminophen (Tylenol) is over three times as likely to
result in an emergency room visit as is purposeful misuse of
oxycodone. (Source: Drug Abuse Warning Network)
An American is twice as likely to be struck by lightning as he or she is
to die from abusing OxyContin.
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
Mobilizes For Action
With terrible shortsightedness, federal bureaucrats at the Drug
Enforcement Agency (DEA) have chosen to take extremely punitive legal
action to address the problem of the 200 deaths related to
oxycodone. These legal actions are part of a high-profile campaign
against doctors and pharmacists "responsible" for the abuse of
OxyContin. They are also placing pressure on the drug manufacturer
to change how it packages and distributes the medication.
Under this punitive drug enforcement policy doctors who prescribe and pharmacists
who distribute OxyContin can be charged with drug trafficking if, in the
DEA's opinion, the prescription and distribution of the medication
represented prescription drug abuse. These threats of legal action
against doctors and pharmacists are creating an atmosphere of fear which
causing many doctors to provide inadequate or ineffective medication for
chronic pain patients who need and can benefit from the
The inevitable consequence of this campaign will
be less pain relief for those who need it, and possibly a higher death
toll from overuse of substitute painkillers.
This History of OxyContin
OxyContin was introduced in the United States in 1995 by Purdue
Pharma, a privately held pharmaceutical company based in Stamford,
Connecticut. Its active ingredient, oxycodone, had been in use for
over 60 years. But the innovative delivery system of this ingredient was
the key to the new drug's clinical success. For several decades, pain
specialists have recognized that opioids (the class of drugs that used to
be called narcotics) are safe and effective in relieving the severe pain
of cancer and other chronic conditions. The key to their successful use is
having a steady amount in the bloodstream. It seems obvious now, but it
was an insight then: If pain is present all the time, pain medication
should also be present in the bloodstream constantly. The drug should not
be taken just "as needed."
The problem that Purdue overcame is that morphine, oxycodone, and other
opioids relieve pain for only a few hours. A patient would have to take
his medication every four hours—even setting a clock to get up at night
for a dose. Purdue developed systems by which a medication tablet would
deliver its contents continuously (hence the name) over 12 hours. The
company's first such analgesic was MS-Contin. Although clinically
effective, the drug did not reach its full commercial potential in large
part because of the stigma associated with its active ingredient,
morphine. OxyContin, Purdue's second continuous-release opioid,
contained oxycodone, a drug whose pharmacologic effect is very similar to
that of morphine, but one that, at least in those days, did not carry the
negative associations of morphine. OxyContin proved to be a billion
dollar home run for Purdue. Its success was due to the confluence of
several factors.
Early in the promotion of the product, Purdue recognized that
physicians needed to know about about new advances in pain management and
about how to appropriately prescribe and manage pain medications.
Most doctors learn little or nothing about pain, chronic pain management,
and addiction in medical school. Purdue beefed up its existing
program of physician education. Their goal was to get doctors up to date,
not just about opioids, but about all aspects of pain management.
Doctors began to take the pain complaints of their patients seriously, and
to treat them effectively. The program was successful in all
areas. More doctors became aware of the legitimate needs of pain
patients for appropriate medication. Pain patients began getting the
treatment which provided the much needed relief from pain, and
Purdue added a best selling pain medication to their inventory.
First, the drug was recognized by the FDA recognized to be safe and
effective for the management of moderate to severe chronic pain.
It was introduced at a time when doctors were becoming more aware of the
scandalous under treatment of chronic pain, and learning that when
properly used, opioids carried little risk of addiction.
Purdue marketed the drug brilliantly.
The Drug Abuse Problems Associated
With OxyContin
With the success of OxyContin have come some predictable problems. As
OxyContin has achieved a larger share of the analgesic marketplace, its
share in the drug-abuse marketplace has also risen.
Narcotic Addicts were under pressure to find a substitute to
heroine. This was because the DEA had stepped up their efforts to
get heroine off the streets without providing any treatment
alternatives. narcotic addicts learned that by grinding OxyContin
tablets and snorting or injecting them, they could overcome the slow
delivery system that Purdue scientists had worked so hard to create. And
since OxyContin is a drug of known quality and purity, it has become
popular among addicts. Lurid stories in Time, Newsweek, and the New
York Times have only served to increase the interest of customers in the
illegal market.
The Practice of Medicine & Drug
Enforcement Collide
Purdue is thus in a difficult position. Its major profit center is a
drug whose distribution is strictly controlled by federal law. So while it
is arguable whether the DEA has the authority to disrupt the marketing of
a legal drug, Purdue is hardly in a position to criticize a wrongheaded
law-enforcement offensive.
Indeed, Purdue is probably more eager than the DEA to curtail abuse and
diversion of its number one product. For the company, the misuse of
OxyContin is not a source of profit but a nightmare of the first order.
The abuse cases are relatively rare but have a huge and disproportionate
impact in deterring doctors from prescribing the medication for patients
who could truly benefit from it.
Purdue has thus rolled out its own 10-point plan to reduce prescription
drug abuse. Among other things, the company has modified its educational
programs to include more training for doctors and pharmacists in
distinguishing genuine pain patients from scam artists. At the same time,
in a meeting it sought with the DEA, Purdue and the agency agreed that
OxyContin should only be prescribed according to the FDA-approved
indication and should only be prescribed by physicians knowledgeable in
the use of opioids to treat pain.
On a formal level, this agreement is not unlike an agreement between
two countries in conflict that merely serves to paper over the stark
differences between them. And the differences are substantial.
Medical Regulation vs. Drug
A spokesperson for the DEA says the agency is not satisfied with this
agreement and has "suggested" that Purdue market the drug only
to pain specialists, and that it be distributed only by a limited number
of pharmacies.
Anyone who cares about the relief of suffering should hope that the
company resists that suggestion. The DEA stance is misconceived in several
OxyContin abuse cases — admittedly rising in number but still
relatively small — are clearly less of a social problem than those
associated with several other drugs.
Why OxyContin Has been Targeted
OxyContin has been targeted by the DEA for inordinate attention for
several reasons:
OxyContin is the most successful and prominent pain-control drug in the
legitimate market.
The success of OxyContin has has legitimized the concept of ongoing opioid
therapy for a larger class of patients — those with moderate to severe
chronic pain from non-malignant causes, not just cancer patients. This
idea still encounters resistance from some doctors and public officials.
DEA Opposition To Pain Medication
Unfortunately, despite DEA protestations to the contrary, sharply
limited access to pain relief is the completely predictable result of the
agency's plan. There are an estimated 30-50 million Americans who
live in chronic pain. Only one in four of them is now receiving
proper treatment. For many people in pain, opioids are the safest
and most effective (or only effective) form of relief.
There are only about 3,000 pain specialists in the country, and many
parts of the country have none at all. These few specialists could
no more take care of all the pain patients who need opioids than a few
thousand endocrinologists could take care of all the diabetics who need
While they may rely on occasional specialist consultation, primary care
physicians must treat pain patients or they simply will not be treated.
Similarly, reducing the number of pharmacies that stock OxyContin will do
little more than inconvenience patients whose ability to travel is already
restricted by their illness.
Even in the absence of DEA action, the OxyContin frisson has already
resulted in a diminished quality of life for pain patients. Consider
Purdue's May 11 decision to "temporarily suspend" shipment of
the 160 mg tablets. This is the strongest dose form of the drug, and
accounts for less than 1 percent of total sales. Many of the people taking
this high dose of opioid are end-stage cancer patients. Now their final
months will be burdened by having to swallow twice as many pills (the 80
mg tablets are still available). For many dying patients, the very act of
swallowing medication is painfully difficult.
Purdue acknowledges that there have been few reports of diversion of
the 160 mg tablets, and the DEA has no idea which dose form is most likely
to be abused. It is hard to see the benefit of such a policy. And
for some patients, the problem will be worse than inconvenience. In
many states, Medicaid rules limit the filling of opioid prescriptions to a
certain number of pills, not a certain total dose. So cancer pain
patients who can't afford to pay out of pocket for the expensive drugs
will find that they'll simply have to get by on a lower dose. In other
words, they'll just have to suffer.
Terrence Woodworth, deputy director of the DEA's office of Diversion
Control, was quoted in a New York Times report as saying that the agency
believes the drug has "been frequently prescribed by doctors who
could have recommended less powerful drugs before turning to
What drugs could the DEA have in mind? Could they mean the
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which are of limited benefit in
treating chronic pain, but add a significant risk of stomach bleeding and
kidney damage? Or perhaps they mean tablets such as Vicodin, which
combine the opioid hydrocodone with acetaminophen. These are less potent
in relieving pain than most strengths of OxyContin, and their
acetaminophen ingredient carries a risk of serious liver damage.
Even if the DEA sat in on every office visit of every patient receiving
a prescription for OxyContin, it would still not be able to say what
percentage of the prescriptions are medically necessary. The
DEA, fundamentally not a medical but a police agency, has no such
But power it does have. Even if it cannot usurp the FDA in controlling
how Purdue markets and distributes the drug, it can certainly affect the
prescribing of it. A few well-publicized intimidating visits to
doctors who prescribe OxyContin will have a profound chilling effect on
the willingness of most doctors to prescribe the drug. Indeed, the
media circus surrounding the drug, and the statements of the DEA, have
already had that effect.
The full adverse impact will not be limited to OxyContin and the
patients who use it. Intimidating doctors from prescribing one
opioid will limit their willingness to prescribe any. Moreover,
there are several new sustained-release opioids already or soon to be
submitted for FDA approval. There has never been, and likely never will
be, any opioid analgesic on the market that cannot be abused or diverted
by a motivated drug addict.
Dr. Cynthia McCormick, head of the FDA branch that approves opioid
analgesics, is reportedly embarrassed by the abuse now attributed to a
drug her agency approved. The bureaucratically safe solution to her
problem is to just say no, or to set the standard of approval
unrealistically high. The losers, as always, will be people in pain.
In light of this, many in the pain management field find it ominous
that Dr. McCormick recently scheduled a rare meeting of the Anesthetic and
Life Support Drugs Advisory Committee, only to abruptly cancel it after
many concerned clinicians got wind of it. The committee's agenda was
to include "concerns regarding the abuse potential, diversion, and
increasing incidence of addiction to opiate analgesics, especially to the
modified-release opiate analgesics." Nor is it very comforting
to realize that the members of the advisory committee are selected by the
FDA itself. Keen readers of the Federal Register will also note that
within a week of announcing the committee meeting, the FDA announced that
it is prepared to appoint five more committee members immediately, and
four more within the next year.
While abuse and diversion of OxyContin is clearly a problem that should
not be neglected, the response of the Drug Enforcement Administration is
both disproportionate and counterproductive. Similar action by the FDA to
limit legitimate use of this or other opioids puts at risk the
long-overdue progress that has recently been made in the management of
chronic pain. Perhaps we cannot avoid death and taxes, but must we live in
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London based singer-songwriter and pianist, Lily McKenzie will release her new single "Where I Belong" on 13th January 2014. The song blend features a blend of musical styles including Dubstep, UK Garage and Electronica; the latter of which Lily counts as big influences on her music. "Where I Belong" is taken from Lily's debut EP, Support Machine, which will be released in 2014.
UPDATE: You can download "Where I Belong" for free from soundcloud.com/LilyMckenzie.
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You HAVE To Watch This Adorable Otter Eating Her Food At The Dinner Table! (Yes, Really!)Ashley Maisano
Okay, now I've seen it ALL! An otter eating food at the dinner table?! Is this real life?! It most certainly is, even though this video seems too cute to be true! This adorable otter is sitting at the dinner table like a human, eating her food out of her bowl with her little hands! She looks just like a little toddler, since they eat their food with their hands as well.
She grabs the food, pops it in her mouth and looks up as she chews. It's sooo cute! But I think eventually she gets tired of being so polite. The best part is when she hops up onto the table and lies down as she's still chewing. Then she reaches over and brings the bowl closer to her and continues to eat while lying down! This otter is so sweet and silly!


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The front of the kable kooker, note output sockets on the left, input sockets on the right. Speaker cables should be connected from left to center left, center right to right to form an electrical loop.
Here it is! My DIY version of a kable kooker.
First a declaration before I proceed with this article. I have never seen the actual Audio Dharma Cable Cooker before embarking on this project. I have, however seen some pictures available here on this blog and else where on the www.
The rear panel with IEC and fuse holder.
I just made an educated guess that it will sort of work this way, and along the way have the guiding hand of a senior DIYer. From the photos and pictures I've seen, the commercially available cable cooker works by supplying 12V A/C to the cables and applying the appropriate resistance to each intended cable to simulate the necessary load, like 8.2 ohms @ 50W for speakers cables, 75 ohms @ 2W for RCA and 100 ohms @ 2W for XLR interconnects.
The transfomer, note ratings.
To start with a 6V 0 6V @ 3 amps rated transformer is used to step down from our 240V wall supply via an IEC socket and ON/OFF switch with indicator, fused with 0.5 amp 30mm fuse, for safety purposes. From the step down voltage of 6V 0 6V, power is parallel supplied to the out put speaker connectors, RCA and XLR connectors. On the receiving end of connectors, are resistors attached, to simulate load on the cables when connected to form an electrical loop. See connection picture for a better idea.
The internals, note the load resistors on the right side.
Like the commercially available unit in use, the DIY kable kooker will need some adaptors to work. It will need a female - female RCA connector to cook a pair of RCA simultaneously. It will also need a speaker(spade/banana) connector - wall plug converter and an IEC - speaker(spade/banana) connector for cooking power cords, which I have yet to build, but can easily do so should the need arises.
Another look at the connections, from the back. Note that everything is reversed!
For XLR interconnect cooking, just connect the pair of XLR's output to input before routing them back to the kable kooker to form an electrical loop.
Kable Kooker in action, top is back panel, bottom is front panel. Abbey Road speaker cables and AQ Sky XLR cooked in pairs simultaneously.
It was a fun and easy project for me as it took about 2 hours to finalise component list, circuit and layout. Half a day at Jalan Pasar(Kuala Lumpur's electronics supply area) to pick up the parts and another one day to drill the necessary holes, fit all the plugs, sockets and connectors plus finally, wiring it all up.
Another cooking view from front panel.
The kable kooker project was born out of the necessity to cook the Abbey Road speaker cables reviewed earlier. Whilst at it, I also took the opportunity to cook my AQ Sky XLR pair of interconnect. I can in fact use the kable kooker to cook all 3 types of cables in pairs at one go! that's how versatile it is. Like the Audio Dharma unit, the DIY kable kooker runs rather warm when doing it's job. The RCA and XLR sockets should also run a little warm when cables are inserted for cooking.
I do not have the chance to A/B it's effectiveness against the "Real McCoy" but my own subjective post cooked cable experiences echoes those of the Audio Dharma users reported here earlier.
The usual DIY caveat applies should you decide to build one for yourself. I cannot be held responsible for any loss, damage equipment, shock hazard, injuries or death as a result of negligence from following my posting here. Please DIY at your own risk.


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These are words not often uttered in my house, which isn't to imply that he's some kind of cartoon dad like Modern Family's Phil Dunphy. It's just that we don't go around proclaiming ourselves to be Einsteins. There was that brief two week period when Bean kept saying "My father's a genius," but that was only because she was repeating dialogue from Beauty and the Beast. And then the Little Mermaid usurped Beauty and the Beast for most watched movie so I haven't really heard it since. Today, however, I will say emphatically that my husband is indeed a genius and I'll tell you why.
I dominate the Bean-side of things here. I stay home with her. I pick her activities, her pre-school, her friends. J is very involved, but when it comes down to sheer manpower hours with Bean, I just win out because of our arrangement. J makes the money and I stay home and try not to make our kid into a sociopath. As a result of this, I often get stuck drowning myself in the small minutia of crazy parenting. It's hard for me to step back sometimes and view Bean objectively because I've literally been in the trenches (that may or may not be covered in poop and pee) with a three-year old talking about King Triton all day long. You can get a bit crazy.
The last few weeks have been torture getting Bean to eat. I know it's a common theme for parenting. I also logically know that it's cyclical. However, knowing one thing and facing your child at the table with pursed lips refusing meals that she previously ravenously enjoyed is a special kind of torture for a former chef turned Mamma. And what's worse is the back and forth fighting between us. I would take away a book at bedtime or withhold grapes as punishment, but nothing worked. I let her bring toys to the table which just made everything worse because then all she wanted to do was play. I envisioned glorious family dinners together with us discussing the world, politics, art and here I was with my head on the table glaring at my stubborn toddler. And then Mother's Day happened which was shit show by all accounts. We went to the restaurant where I used to work and Bean, my lovely, sweet, adorable child spit chewed up cauliflower at my face across the table. Like a slow motion sports reel, I saw the small particles of wet mushy food fly into the air and slap me in the face as violently as if she had slugged me one. I sat there with look of dumbfounded stupidity on my face wanting to be anywhere in the world (except maybe Syria) than where I was at that moment. She'd never spit food at me before, not as a baby and certainly not in a restaurant.
The next day was another slew of bad meals. J walked in while we were crawling through another awful dinner. He sat down next to her and tried to coax something in her mouth and I just got up exasperated, proclaiming rather dramatically, that I was done. I went into the other room and basked in the quiet. I'm sure that part of my stress these last few weeks is due in a large part to the baby I'm about to birth and the expectation of now feeding two beings daily. J finished dinner and took Bean to bed and I ferociously cleaned. Nothing makes me feel better than furiously scrubbing down my kitchen (an obvious leftover effect from my restaurant days).
J came down and hugged me, did his best to console me while I whined about how difficult it's been feeding her lately. And this is where his genius comes in. He said why don't you just set a timer and when the timer goes off, eating time is over and she can go back to play. I should say two things about timers; we use them regularity to limit iPad time, computer and potty time and Bean loves pressing the off buttons. She's familiar with it and she understands the time limit when it's linked to a timer. Applying the timer to mealtime was revolutionary to me, and also pretty obvious but I guess when you are wallowing in the trenches of tantrums and hysteria, you can't always see clearly. Thankfully, J can see clearly because he's not affected by hormones and a constant stream of Ariel conversations. And, I needed to be ready to listen to him, which admittedly is difficult for me. He saw the answer so clearly when I was struggling and he propped me up when I needed it most.
The next day I explained the parameters of our new mealtimes.
1. No toys or books at the table.
2. Potty before meal, not during (a classic stall technique).
3. Set the timer (25 minutes for lunch, 30 for dinner).
4. Talk and have fun.
Here's the rub, looking back over these past few weeks, I might not have wanted to eat either if I was Bean. I was short-tempered, wild-haired with angry eyes trying to force food down my child's throat. What's fun about that? Would I want eat with that crazy spoon-wielding lady? Probably not. I might have pulled a Ghandi too.
Since I enacted our new rules, meals have generally been a breeze. I set the timer. She eats her food herself. I eat my food and we talk. Yes, we still talk a lot about the Little Mermaid but we also talk about our day, her school, her teachers, her friends and we make up stories. It's SOOOOOO much better, and it's all because my husband is a genius and because I was ready to listen to him.


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One debated topic in my hometown is whether motorized vehicles should be allowed on trials in the wilderness.
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Scientists have called for dolphins to be categorised as non-human persons on account of their intelligence levels. I want to think about this and try to journey into the implications of such a status.
Certainly dolphins are very intelligent and display many human qualities, but what would it really mean if they were to have bestowed upon them such a special designation?
Let`s go straight in at the deep end, so to speak! For a start, in keeping with the honorary appellation "non-human person", killing dolphins would have to be re-termed murder. This would immediately render a previous act of killing, an act of murder and would thereby carry the guilt of a crime and possible implications for punishment.
Lets not forget that animals, being of lesser status than humans, are "killed", "slaughtered" or "culled" and the euphemism reflects their lesser standing.
So, why would the intelligence of an animal lead to the elevation of it`s comparative value? Well, we know that it is much harder to be cruel, to a person or animal, if we identify with it. Or, conversely, as we see in acts of genocide or persecution, people to be attacked are dehumanised, they become a faceless, hated or demonic enemy, and, thereby, it is immediately easier to chop them to pieces. We can example this when we consider how difficult it is to rear a sheep or pig, for example, as a pet, and then to send it to slaughter. This fact tells us that when the sheep becomes identifiable as "our sheep" and is imbued with our feelings, it becomes part of us and is then very difficult to re-categorise as food! When we have a bond with persons or animals they become "like ourselves" and as such become part of our group or clan and acquire a position of closeness deserving of protection.
The negative side of perceiving some groups as "other than like us" manifests as racism and demonisation. Where people of another race or creed are seen as outsiders, this very perception makes it easy to be abusive. In a sense, where we have seen racism against blacks, for example, being cruel to them keeps them at a distance and prevents us from seeing them as "like ourselves". So, as we have seen in witch hunts, keeping someone whom we deem to be an outsider, firmly trapped within that class, demands that we should continue being cruel to them. Cruelty helps us to justify our beliefs in the first place, but also keeps us at an emotional distance so that we cannot feel anything for the person we are abusing. If we look at the history of the abuse of black people, we can see that keeping them segregated, degrading them and maintaining their poverty, perpetuates their appearance as people who are "not like us".
When we offer compassion to others, conversely, we are drawing them in as "ones who are like us". The greater the degree of sensitivity we feel, the more humane we are likely to be towards others and the greater our sense of inclusivity. As we study dolphins and see many of our qualities in them, we want to include them as part of us..
We can see that other animals have human qualities too..and a consideration of the humanness of dolphins will naturally lead us to wonder which other animals might also be granted special privilege.( A case for apes and elephants springs to mind. ) Which animals should be deemed "humanlike" and which not? Would the distinction be based upon intelligence, however we should measure that, or upon characteristics that might denote compassion or loving?
But to ask these questions is to arrive at a juncture that spotlights the very reasons we judge or categorise each other, forming positive or negative regard for our fellow human beings. When we find ourselves trying to judge one animal over another, we display our biological tendency towards hierarchy, this time aimed at animals and not our fellows. We are caught in the glare of moral choice as the path of our considerations bifurcate ahead of us..
The consequence of our consciousness in perceiving difference, can lead to good or evil, as we choose. When we raise up one animal as special , against other animals who are not so intelligent and don`t manifest "human qualities", we are in affect, transferring our discriminatory nature onto the animal kingdom. Ultimately, just as we judge and condemn, approve and enhance, reward or demonise our fellows, we will do so with animals. Animals will be victims of racism or prejudice just as we ourselves can be. In the same way that our compassionate embrace will reach out to human beings we can feel to be like us, and our indifference and hostility will damn people whom we feel to be dissimilar, so will the same prejudicial impulse encompass the animal kingdom.
We can see how easy it is to judge, according to simplistic criteria, just who is suitable for inclusion and who is not (see my earlier blog "Compartmental Conscience") and thereby transfer these basic distinctions to a categorisation of animals. Of course, those animals who are characterised by manifest intelligence, lovingness and cuddliness, will be raised up, and those animals with disattributes, such as ugliness, non- human qualities and intelligence that we do not comprehend, may be diminished. It`s subjective. And subjectivity is a dangerous thing.
Which people will we esteem, the beautiful or the ugly? The intelligent or the stupid? I think we all know the frightening answer to this question. Dolphins display similarities to humans......and they are beautiful, smiling creatures, qualities to please us all. In the human world these attributes do very well. In our full breadth of compassion we try to marginalise discrimination against those who don`t have such favour in our eyes and I think, ultimately, we have to be mindful of this in regard to animals too.
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Saturday, 27 February 2010
Dolphins, Non-Human Persons.
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I hate crime scenes - the technicians' excited intensity, the clutches of jaded cops telling in-jokes in hushed voices, the gawkers pressing hungrily at the yellow cordon. Mostly, though, I hate the fact that I can't forget that the mess on the floor was once a human being.
This time the mess was the security guard at the MicroWet Production Lab #7. Pobre bastard. A shotgun blast in the mug at close quarters. As I stood in the entrance hall and glanced uneasily at the ruined face, a familiar voice, absurdly jovial, roared out: "Hey Rojo, looks like he really lost face, huh?" It was Lieutenant Winchell Kruller, a forty-something, once athletic guy, now the fattest cop on the force; "If you like him, you'll love what's in the lab."
He led me through the airlock into the lab; seven people were lying face down on the floor, still wearing lab coats, bullet holes in the backs of their heads, holes carved in their necks. The air was awash with the metallic smell of human blood - the floor slippery with it.
"Here's why they died," Kruller led me through a forest of chemical tubing and wires to an array of empty tanks, "the wetgates are all missing."
Wetgates are the half biological, half computer devices that allow humans to interface directly to the web, to WetNet. That is what they did at this lab; they manufactured, or grew, wetgates.
"Looks like another professional hit, Teniente. Your technicians have anyone in mind?"
"You tell me, that's why we hired you."
Guess I'd better introduce myself: Rufus Herrington, Rojo to most everyone; I'm an IfH, an Investigator for Hire. In the old days, before the term fell out of favour, I would have been called a "Private" Eye. Semi-private, anyway; today I'm on retainer with the San DiJuana police. They needed someone who specializes in webcrime, and I am one of the best. I've been at it since before the web went wet, back in 2020.
"Well,"drawled I drawled, as I picked gingerly around the room, careful not to disturb anything, "could be Jackoffs, but they're usually not this thorough. Jackoffs usually go for the quick grab; whoever did this took the time to cut the PDRs out of the victims' necks."
PDR: Personal Data Recorder. A biochip implanted at birth, it grows into the nervous system and monitors a person's experiences and life signs, and stores them in a 48-hour looping memory that can be read with a bio-scanner. Everything a person sees, hears, smells; their blood pressure, heart rate; a hundred different parameters, all there for the scanning. To mask, disable, or remove a PDR is a high privacy-crime. However, it also acted as the bio-I/O for a wetgate.
"I would have to say that this was a bLudd job. Or maybe Cryps. Too pro and too violent for Jackoffs."
"NO," Kruller said emphatically. The crime scene techs had moved into the lab, so he drew me aside and informed me in hushed and earnest tones that "Orders from on high is no wild goose chases. You concentrate on Jackoffs, claro?"
No, it wasn't clear, but I kept my mouth shut and let him continue.
"I want you to sniff around, Rojo. You'll know it when you smell it; not the usual small-time deal, there's somethin' big in the air. You look for the missing gates. You look for big money."
"We already have a contact for you, a snitch trying to plea-bargain down a nasty rap. He's ready to rat out his fellow Jackoffs. Nice little tipo. You'll like him". He fished in his pocket and produced a placa with a name and address. I took it and split.
Got into my car slipped the placa into the card-reader in the dash. The car mapped the most expeditious route to the address on the card, checked it for jams and accidents, and wheeled out into traffic.
Cruising along the boulevard, past the bodmod parlours, drug clubs, prosthetutes, and the ubiquitous red-and-yellow striped taco joints, I pondered the job back at MicroWet. It would have taken a goodly amount of organization and sophistication to pull it off. It just didn't feel like Jackoffs to me. I had watched the crime scene techs canvass the place with their gene-sniffers, but I would have bet millón dólares that they would find nothing - that the ladróns had worn plastiskins. Whoever it was had also made off with the surveillance globes. Again: too pro for Jackoffs. But why did the police wave me off the bLudds and the Cryps? True, they are muy difficult to track down; some even say that they are just a cybermyth. But how else to explain all the robberies like the one at MicroWet, and the recent web attacks?
The bLudds and the Encrypted Ones (aka Cryps) are fanatical neo-Luddite cyber-terrorists, intent upon the corruption, if not the destruction, of WetNet. They are putatively responsible for the Kamakazinski attacks, Trojan-Whores and other sabotage and insurgency actions inside the web. Not officially acknowledged by the police, they are nonetheless under on-going informal investigation.
The car pulled up at an apartment bloque in an upscale barrio. This puto must be doing okay if he can afford an above-ground dwelling. I went to the address on the card and announced myself to the doorward. The doorward scanned me for weapons and viruses, then summoned the occupant, one Axon Jaxon. "Fuck you want?" he yelled through the door.
"It's Herrington - Kruller sent me." The door inched open cautiously. Axon was twenty-something, pale, underfed, eyes red and swollen. Probably wearing a fet pump. Probably on his way to going atro. He introduced himself as "Axon, but you can call me Ax", and extended a phthisic mano; I could see his gang logo branded into his forearm. I declined the invitation to shake. "Let's cut the niceties. Cops said you have some info on the recent spate of gate heists."
By the flash of annoyance on his face, it was obvious that he didn't care for such a plain statement of the situation, but I didn't feel like making nice. The crime scene was still on my mind: something about looking at dead people first thing in the morning puts me in a bad mood. "Yeah, I got información", he sneered, and motioned me to the couch; he sat opposite in a highback.
Jaxon is a Jackoff: a nanosurgeon who specializes in the unlawful alteration of the long-chain polypeptide serial code secreted by wetgates. With a modded gate, persons with reason to do so can enter and move about WetNet anonymously - highly illegal.
"So let's get down to it," I said, "what d'ya got for me?"
"This'll buy me out of my beef, right? I mean, this'll fix things for me with la policía, si?" I nodded assent. "Okay, then. I have a client, Amanita Pantera. Bitch is into fencing modded wetgates. She let slip that a couple of her contacts, Jackoffs name of Boone and Jocko, have a large shipment of hijacked gates in their possession. I can give you her ID, but that's all I can do. She says that these guys are trying to do a big deal with the bLudds. If the bLudds find out I'm pointin' the finger, well, I wouldn't want to be me, amigacho. He laughed nervously, but we both knew that it was no joke.
I said nothing. I made no sign. I just sat back and watched him. He soon started to squirm, glancing sidelong at his terminal. I knew what he wanted. He wanted to get back into WetNet.
"Look", he said, "you don't have to hang around or anything, right? I give you what you want…" He tossed a placa at me; I slipped it into my porta-reader and it came up with the name and address of Ms Pantera. La poli must really have his cojónes in the vise if he was ready to rat out one of his clients.
"What does Kruller have on you, anyway?"
"Got caught wearin' a collar." To avoid having their biochips scanned, people sometimes wear an aluminum foil collar, a privacy-crime with severe consequences. Ironic that the paranoids used to make aluminum foil hats in an attempt to shield their thoughts. Doubly ironic since paranoia itself is now a crime.
I saw myself out. I wasn't even out the door yet before Axon was logging back onto WetNet.
Time to head home before following up on Axon's lead. Wanted to get a bite to eat, and do a little on-line search.
I live down in le sur de San DiJuana, Old TJ, off Avenida Revolución, Cueva Central. I took the escalator down to my level, stopping first at the Grand Mall to pick up a little comidas rapida to munch on back at the pad.
At home, gulping down a truly foul tofu burrito, I told my computer to log me onto the net.
"Do you want me to read you your mail first? You have five unread letters."
"No", I replied, "just go to Records and look this up". I slipped the placa given me by Axon into the computer's card reader.
"Amanita Pantera," the computer stated in a matter-of-fact tone, "31, 5'8", 120 lbs. No outstanding wants or warrants; police record of minor traffic and privacy infractions, and one conviction for smuggling tobacco, sentence suspended. Geoaddress is 27 Ave de Magonistas, Cueva Oeste, level three, domicilio 32. Webaddress is DeathAngel. Works part-time at a MicroWet Distribution Facility…," as the computer droned on, I turned my attention to her picture gallery: que bonita.
The computer noticed that my attention was flagging, "Do you want me to continue reading her stats, or what?"
"No" I said as I slapped on my wetgate, "log me onto WetNet and take me to the DeathAngel webpage." Webpage is a term left over from the days before the web was wet. Not a "page", rather, it is a multi-dimensional piece of surrealestate, bounded only by the imagination of the Node to whom it belongs.
As I logged on, I was assailed by the usual spam and velveeta. First, a cheesy public service announcement known as velveeta: a dour government official appeared and gravely pronounced that "Privacy is a crime. The honest citizen has nothing to hide", pointing his finger at me, "Only you can prevent privacy." And then dissolved.
Next, a sincere woman with large wet eyes materialized, "Take care of yourself, Webster - don't go atro", she warned, and morphed into a scene of some feeble, atrophied bloke sitting at his computer. Her voice-over continued, "If you or someone you know is having problems with atro, go to the AtroCity website. Further assistance can be…"
But she was interrupted; a vigorous spam muscled its way through my filter, a skinny homeboy with a tattoo face and an expensive bodmod goatee of platinum wire. "Hey Loco, you know you don't want to miss a microsecond of action in WetNet. Come to me, Speedy Gonzales, the Manic Hispanic. Let me fix you up with the latest and greatest fet-pump. My staff of factory-trained surgeons will implant a drug pump, fill it with the amphetamine of your choice, and it will meter drug directly into your cerebrospinal fluid. First refill is free…" before he could go on any further, I shouldered my way out of his advert and added him to my reject filter.
I am going to have to get a better filter. My current one, Import-Tune, claimed: "Tired of inadvertently importing annoying spam and velveeta? Tune your filters to reject all unwanted files. Remember: don't be importuned, use Import-Tune!" - but it just doesn't seem up to the task lately.
The computer routed me to the DeathAngel website. I announced myself as TheDredPriest - that is how I am known in WetNet. It's an old college joke that stuck – a reference to my hairstyle and color, and to the fact that I dropped out of divinity school in UCWN. In retaliation, I had composed a reggae version of Juditha Triumphans.
Her doorward informed me that she was not online right now, but that I was welcome to tour the public area of her website. After a thorough scan, I was admitted to her foyer. It was a simple site, just some furniture, and a few animations on the walls. I sat down and picked up her scrapbook that was floating nearby. It told me that DeathAngel enjoyed reading, gaming, websports, blah, blah, blah…" the usual foyer drivel. I signed her guestbook and took my leave.
I considered going to a webmovie, but I was feeling pretty sleepy. I don't like falling asleep online. Karl Jung would have loved it, but I find dreaming strange enough without putting up with interactive dreams, one of the unforeseen consequences of WetNet. When a Node falls asleep online, his dreams become participants in the Net. But it became too bizarre and chaotic for the run-of-the-mill Webster to deal with. Now, when the Net senses a Node's delta rhythms reach dreaming threshold, according to the Node's preference, it either knocks him offline, or shunts him to a dreamroom to share dreams with other sleeping Nodes. It gets muy freaky in there, yo.
Another unforeseen by-product of WetNet is the Freebird phenomenon. Freebird is what happens to a Node when he dies while online. His consciousness still has virtual existence within the Net, even though his body has ceased to function. But without a homenode, the Freebird becomes increasingly diffuse, and after four or five days, evaporates. I have encountered Freebirds several times. Very pathetic. They are usually frantic, flitting about, trying to hang on. Sad. But what can ya do?
Outside Amanita's site, I told my computer to log me out. Back in my room, I did off my wetgate, put it in its mousehouse, and plugged a feeding tube into its umbilicus. I petted it for a minute; it rippled with pleasure under my hand, then it drifted off to sleep. 'bout time for me to catch some sueño, too. After half a bottle of mezcal, I did just that.
I rose early next morning, and after a breakfast of menudo and coffee, I went to pay a visit to Miss Pantera. I staked out her domocilio, and when she left, I tailed her. I could have just barged in on her, but I wanted to catch her off her home turf - safer that way. She took the metro over to the Caliente racetrack. Looks like she's a betting chica.
Amid the clamour of the track, I sidled up to her. "Buenos dias Señorita, my name is Herrington, Rufus Herrington. You may call me Rojo."
She looked up from her racing form, gave me the once over, a perfunctory "Mucho gusto", and went back to her form. Probably used to hombres trying to pick up on her.
A voice over the loudspeaker announced the beginning of the next race, and the starting gates flew open, releasing the greyhounds. Although Amanita seemed to be ignoring me, I went on. "We have a mutual friend, you and I. Well, to be truthful, I don't really think that Ax considers me a friend."
With that I had her total attention. She turned her back on the dog race and faced me, arms akimbo, "Hokay man, just what do you want?"
She was wearing a bouncy sundress, full of color, with a healthy display of cleavage. Her brown tresses spilled about her shoulders. A face a man could fall in love with. "Well, it's what you want, I should think. I mean, do you want your freedom, or do you want to take up residence in El Pueblito?" El Pueblito, or "Little Village", was the nickname for the notorious La Mesa Prison. Not a nice place. A wealthy prisionero could afford above ground accommodations, good food and drinking water, visitors, drugs and booze; even cigarettes. The less well off sank into the hell of the lower levels. The thought of what would happen to a pretty young girl like Amanita… But the threat was real. If she did not cooperate, Kruller would have no compunction against throwing her in there. I have known him many years; he can be single-mindedly ruthless when it comes to getting the job done.
I indicated that we should continue our conversation in a more private venue, and we quit the racetrack for a small cantina a few blocks away. I ordered a couple of tequilas. I tossed mine back, and as she sipped at hers and stared at the table, I began. "Look, I know what you are into. You can help us, or not - you've got that choice. But either way, your gate fencing days are over."
"What kind of help?" her sullen tone said that she knew she was had.
"Kruller is looking for a large shipment of gates. Not the usual small quantities the Jackoffs handle, this is something special. There should be some big ripples in the inframundo. He refuses to admit it, but I believe the bLudds or the Cryps may be involved." She winced at their mention. "I know that you have a line on a couple of gente del hampa named Boone and Jocko. I also know that there is intelligence that indicates that they may be involved in something big that's set to go down soon," I said, inflating my slim lead. "I want you to get me in with these guys. Introduce me as a high roller that wants to make a big purchase, and I'll take it from there. Then you can go and sin no more. I'll fix you with Kruller."
She agreed reluctantly, and we made an appointment to meet the next day, by which time she would have arranged a meet with the two Jackoffs.
Back at my crib, I poured myself a cerveza and logged into WetNet. I was in the mood for a little mindless entertainment.
Once inside, I went to one of the popular game rooms. This one was called "Hunter-Splatterer". I was in a jungle hunting other Nodes. My only weapon was a gamma-ray laser pulse rifle with infrared imaging, fore and aft firing capability, anticipatory targeting algorhythms, and a multiple independent warhead launcher. I blew away three Websters before I got caught in someone's sights and found myself on the dead bench. Good thing my avatar wasn't set to feel pain.
Well that was enough of that. I left, and as I wandered aimlessly about the net, I was approached by a couple of solemn looking youngsters. "The Beginning is Near", they intoned. Mutationists. Harmless, really. The Mutationists preach that WetNet is the next step in human evolution, and that all Websters must prepare themselves for the moment when the net becomes sentient: The Beginning. Kooks. I had heard it all before; I sidestepped them and continued on my way.
I noticed a throng of Nodes up ahead, watching something in a public cube. A group of ParaTroupers was at the focus of their attention. A ParaTroupe is a parallel processing team; a network of experts in a particular discipline who link their knowledge, expertise, and talent, along with the power of their computers, to work on a particular problem, to explore, experiment, create. The ParaTroupe before us now was a small amalgam of musicians and graphic artists who were materializing musical forms to the awe and delight of the assembled Nodes.
As the music soared and plunged, volutes of ever changing color and texture swept over the audience. Geometrical forms of ungraspable complexity blossomed in counterpoint to the main theme of the piece, to collapse and resolve into new structures of emotion and beauty.
I gazed, rapt, but a movement in the periphery of my vision caught my attention. Axon was hurrying past. He had apparently not seen me, so just for the hell of it I broke away and followed him.
He led me out of respectable neighbourhoods into the seamier areas of the net. I usually don't come down here, unless business leads me. Here there is purveyed such sexual and spiritual perversion that the ordinary Webster would recoil in disgust and horror. Why was Axon heading this way? Perhaps he had tastes of a "refined" unnature.
He stopped in front of a PUI, a PornoGraphical User Interface, and logged onto it. He manipulated it expertly, inserting various parts of his body into various parts of its. Soon, his contact materialized. It was Amanita. I listened from a discrete distance. "I hate it when you call me like this Jaxon," Amanita said, "you cabrón, why can't you just ring me on the telephono?"
"One must get one's pleasures while one may," Axon sniggered. "So did Kruller's errand boy find you yet?"
"Yeah, he found me, thanks to you. Muchísimas gracias for ratting me out."
"Sorry, chiquita, survival of the rattest. But as compensation I will give you a little piece of consejo: if you see Kruller coming, run the other way."
"What the hell does that..."
"Just a word to the wise," Jaxon broke in, "He may have more than an official interest in this matter. Looks like he wants to go into business for hisself. If you want to stay vivito y coleando, stay outa his way."
Jaxon abruptly terminated the call, so I quickly logged off WetNet to avoid his spotting me.
Back in my flat I lay in bed staring at the ceiling. Kruller. Is he dirty? Why would he be interested in a shitload of hijacked wetgates? He stands to make more in commission if he recovers them than if he were to try to market them. And the penalty if he were caught would be horrific.
As I drifted into sleep with these questions circling in my thoughts, Amanita's face appeared in my mind. With a sudden flash of realization I understood why I found her so attractive. Of course: she had no facial tattoos, no brands, no cicatrix, no ironmongery, no bodmods; none of the elective mutilation that passes for beauty these days. Oh well I guess I am just old fashioned…
Next day I left for my appointment with Amanita. We had arranged to meet in the Rio Tijuana District under the statue of Bill Gates, the patron saint of old TJ. Back in the old days, there was a company called MicroSoft. It was a highly successful software company. The government coveted the wealth of MicroSoft, and tried many times (unsuccessfully) to assimilate it through legal and quasi-legal means. Frustrated, the government finally sent in armed troops to storm the MicroSoft complex in Seattle, occupied it, and nationalized it.
Gates and his inner circle, who had had advance word of the invasion, fled to Mexico, and regrouped in Tijuana. There they founded a new company, MicroWet, based on new wetware technology that Gates and his engineers had been able to take with them before they were raided. MicroWet grew at an astonishing rate, and to the impotent rage of the US government, Gates' fortune grew to incalculable proportions. He bought TJ from Mexico and rebuilt it, constructing homes, revamping the community infrastructure, improving public transportation. He built several factories for the production of wetgates, and offered jobs to all that wanted them.
TJ flourished, and its people prospered. However, envious politicians en el Estados Unidos leveled accusations that Bill was a slavemaster, an evil Patrón, the people of TJ his personal esclavo labor force. So in a surprise move, Bill gifted TJ to the state of California, which appended it to the city of San Diego. What did he care? With his fabulous personal wealth he could buy it back if he chose. Besides, he knew that it would be a white elephant for the US; that they wouldn't be able to support TJ in the style to which it was accustomed. It was just his way of thumbing his nose at the forces of governmental greed. As it turned out, Bill passed away not too long afterwards. All of old TJ shut down and mourned him for a solid month, in the way that only Mexicanos can mourn.
As a kimchee vendor trundled her cart under the shadow of Señor Bill, Amanita appeared. "Hola", she said, "let's get this over with. I will take you to the house of Jocko. He and his partner are expecting you. I have told them that you are a buyer for a big-time Jackoff en el norte. They believe this because they trust me. This could get me fucken killed."
"Do not fear", I assured her, "Kruller will fix you up with a new ID, a new life." Feeling a little sorry for her, and perhaps a little in love with her, I added, "I will take a personal hand in seeing to it that you are well taken care of." What am I thinking? Am I thinking? I am old enough to be her padre, for Christos sake.
We took the trolley up to Balboa Park, and took the elevator down to a palatial domocilio under the bell tower. Amanita made the introductions "Boone, Jocko, this is Rufus, the tipo I was telling you about."
"Call me Rojo", I said as I shook hands with the two Jackoffs, "So you have some gates you want to move. I've got money to spend. Let's do some business."
They produced a tray with twenty or so gates submerged in a nutrient bath. Hardly the big score that Kruller had led me to expect.
"Is this all? I thought you guys were supposed to be big time..."
Just then the doorward started screaming, "Unauthorized Entry –Unauthorized Entry – Unauthor…", and a muffled explosion blew the door off its hinges. It hurled it into the room, smashing into the hapless Jocko, killing him instantly. In through the smoke, his boots crunching in the rubble, strode Kruller. He was brandishing a nasty looking machine pistol. With it he motioned us into the corner, then put a slug into Jocko, just to make sure.
"Good work Rufus, but I'll take over from here", Kruller said. Putting the gun up to Boone's forehead, he growled"where's the gates?"
"Sorry, Kruller, they've only got one tray full", I laughed bitterly, "hardly worth all this. " A pistol butt to the side of my head shut me up.
"You know what I'm talking about, Boone; not the gates, THE Gates. Where is it?"
"In there", Boone nodded towards the back room.
Kruller herded us through the door into the next room. There, sitting at a computer, logged onto WetNet was an odd looking creature. His face was round and bland, with blank, protuberant eyes, giving him a somewhat frog-like appearance. His cranium sloped away severely towards the back of his head.
"Mierda", whispered Amanita.
"Who the hell is that?" I gasped.
"What the hell is that, you shouldask," said Kruller. That thing is a NoBrainer - a specially bred anencephalic lump of meat - a body purposely engineered to have no brain. Oh, it has a cerebellum and certain mid-brain structures - just enough stuff to support life: respiration, body temp, that kinda stuff, but no higher brain functions.
Amanita approached it and gingerly placed her hand on its arm. The thing appeared totally insensate.
"Turns out that when Bill Gates died, he was online at the time. He went Freebird. His cronies at MicroWet realized what had happened, and combed hospitals looking for brain-dead patients. When they found one, they bought it and hooked it up to Bill's personal wetgate. Since there was no one at home in the body, Gates was able to use it as his Homenode, and was able to forestall evaporating as a Freebird"
With a shudder, Amanita backed away from the abomination, put her arms around me, and buried her face in my chest.
"Over the years, several replacements had to be procured because the bodies are hard to keep alive. So now MicroWet grows their own. They have a short shelf life, so they just keep growing new ones, and replacing them as necessary. If they keep this up, Bill could live forever. As a matter of fact, anyone who can afford a NoBrainer subscription could."
"So what is Bill's NoBrainer doing here?" I asked.
"A rogue MicroWet employee took exception to the company's plan to begin marketing NoBrainers, so she contacted the bLudds and told them where they could find Gates. He was being warehoused in the wetgate factory where I met with you the other day."
"The bLudds contracted with Boone and the late Jocko to steal him. They wanted to use him as a bargaining chip with which to blackmail MicroWet. I figured that I could grab Gates myself; I am certain that MicroWet will want to express to me in substantive terms their gratitude for his return.
I'm sure that Kruller would like to have explained further, but just then his head exploded, making that rather difficult. Behind him stood a pissed-off looking guy with a smoking gun.
"Si", he hissed, the bLudds wanted Gates, and now we got him." Several bLudd soldados walked into the room behind him and stationed themselves strategically. "Saludo", he said with a sarcastic tone, "allow me to introduce myself: Ezekiel Hyall, a sus órdenes", he bowed in mock courtesy. "Well Boone, looks like you and your associate have managed fuck this up pretty good. Why don' you join him…", and put one between his eyes.
Amanita started sobbing, so he belted her in the jaw. I saw red, and heedless of the consequences, launched myself at his face. I got in a few quick licks, and tore out his bodmod implant (a horn growing out of his forehead), before a rifle butt knocked me sprawling.
I woke up tied to a chair, sitting next to Gates' NoBrainer and to Amanita, who was also bound. The bLudd commandos were applying wetgates to our necks.
The bLudd leader stood over me, his face still bloody from my attack. "My friends and I are arranging a little thank you for interfering in our plans. We are going to log you and the girl into WetNet, Freebird you, and route you into our online hideout where you will be infected with mind-viruses, and tortured until you evaporate. Gates, too. I've lost interest in him."
The bLudds connected our wetgates into the computer terminal, and put us online. I then watched in horror as a bLudd soldier cut the throat of Gates' NoBrainer, then my beautiful Amanita.
"Alto", commanded Hyall, "give to me the knife. This I will do myself."
He stood behind me, and I felt with shock the pain of the knife cutting through my throat, the life rushing out of my body, and terror as my consciousness fled into WetNet.
I was a Freebird – a mind without a body, adrift within WetNet. In a panic, I looked around. There I found Gates and Amanita, frantic, lost.
The bLudds' computer grabbed us and started routing us down into their chamber of torture, but as we picked up speed, a strange light broke upon us. I looked up and saw a moving river of golden light. It was beautiful. It seemed to pull us out of the computer's grip, and we drifted up into it. As my mind joined with it, I felt a quiet joy washing away the terror of my murder. I reached out and found Amanita's hand, and we melded with the molten river of living thought. Well it looks like the Mutationists were right: WetNet was waking up, becoming sentient.
Humanity had taken the next step in evolution.
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Genesis claimed the deal effectively doubles Genesis' annual revenues to around £70 million, and makes it the UK's largest independent mobile virtual service provider with 23,000 business customers.
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