Saturday morning Sunday Sunday or is it Monday Monday I don't know any Saturday songs it's going up on a Tuesday Monday Monday Sunday Sunday can't think of any Saturday songs my friends otherwise I would serenade you with my voice say eight days out for my powerlifting competition deadlift time last heavy day fatigue is a little bit high pulling 600 multiple times multiple times in a week in multiple weeks in a row doesn't feel the best doesn't feel worse so feeling okay ended up pulling 595 and 615 ish I threw some kilos on the end so I don't know what that is also the weight cut starts today having added carbs since 8 p.m. last night and before you guys go saying Mike you always talk about never doing a weight cut you told me not to wake up this is true but I've also been doing this 10 years so do as I say not as I do I'm my lowest body weight is 203 so I'm around there and I wanted I signed up to compete a 198 so we'll do just a little water cut I'll eat some like figs or something as a figs fig is it a fig anyways listen prune I'm gonna eat some prunes I'm gonna poop out whatever's in my intestines and weighing in 198 so real note is that I don't promote people to do water cuts unless they are on a very very high competitive level and I'm not at that high of a competitive level but for me I'm not actually gonna have to do a water cut I'm just gonna cut out a little bit of carbs this week for seven days drink a little bit of extra water try to flush out my system I'll probably be right there overall felt okay 595 moved real smooth 615 was a little heavy but that's kind of to be expected it's still moved smooth just a little bit slower than I probably like everyone's asking what I'm gonna pour what up my goals are my goals are to go in have a little bit of fun cheer on the homies whoever else is competing be back on the platform and see what the day brings me see if I can have my best pole ever at 198 let's see if I can have my best pole ever at 198 which I don't know what that's gonna be I think in a competition in a full power me my best pole is 650 and in a full sanctioned me I think my best poles also 650 so to be able to break that will be fine add a lower body weight otherwise we're chilling man so got to eat a little in and out because I'm cutting low carb one glass of water and one large diet coke please this is what I used to do I've talked about in another video about eating keto 8 keto for probably ages 22 to maybe 24 for a while liked it didn't perform very well but since I'm going a little bit low carb all up my fats just so I don't die this week so two protein style you know how we do it out here in and out so a sack town my boy Connor does all the filming stuff hopefully he's gonna move here here soon so I want to show him around a little bit just to get of the vibe here I grew up here obviously been here for 20 plus years and I love it and it gets really hot right now I'm outside in the backyard it's about 99 degrees and I kind of dig it there's not a ton to do here although there's more and more as the downtown starting to grow there's restaurants and parks and bars and things of that nature but growing up all there was was the river so all some of your playing video games you're hanging out with your friends inside going to a movie or going to the river ran to the bank hopped on the river there's just some families swimming kicking it a couple guys fishing fishing is not a past time I see myself getting after because I'm way too ADD but hopefully you guys enjoy some of the cool shots of the drone I Sacramento is way beautiful and you know just to echo everyone thinks of California and they think about like Los Angeles they think of cement and beaches which is fine a lot of people love that but it's not for me man northern California we're literally Sacramento called the city of trees beautiful trees beautiful landscapes you can get to the mountains in about an hour an hour and a half you get to San Francisco about an hour an hour and a half I just love it we're very central besides the steaming heat if you can hang out with the dry Sun everything else I love so it's cool to be on the river a little bit just be in nature nature and so we'll see what's happening at this meet you know I I've talked about a lot about my past competing why I do compete don't compete if I'm gonna hit what I want you know obviously my all-time bull within the next five years is to hit an all-time PR I think I have a lot more than 705 in me the goal was to do it at this meet when I started my prep but things don't always go as planned I don't know if I hit what I want again 615 or 625 whatever I pulled today was a little bit slower than I'd like yeah I do have a little bit of promise in myself and a little bit of confidence in myself come game day turn the lights on that is when I'm you know I like attention what could I say what do you think I put my face all over the internet praying people watch that's just not cocky not bragging it's just being self-aware I know I know what drives me what fuels me high energy eyes on me fueled me ever since I first played my first varsity basketball game in high school with a packed crowd it always drives me to work a little bit harder and perform my best so we'll do that we'll do my best don't know if we're gonna hit it but anything over 650 I'll be satisfied with anything over 705 I'll be happy with it looks like right now the opener is gonna be around anywhere from 594 to 611 we'll see I guess come the week we'll see how my energy feels after eating no carbs for a while body weight today I didn't even weigh myself but I imagine it's about 203 204 so we'll see how it goes here's a new style vlog for you guys we're gonna talk about the vlog after the vlogs happen it's kind of like interstellar meets inception meets voiceover workouts meets vlogs so we're gonna b-roll film our days and then we're gonna collapse it and encapsulated at the end 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But for a moment, out over the ocean, I felt very close to him.  He'd go racing down to the beach for a swim, no matter how late it was. And usually I'd be fool enough to go with him. If any husband of mine ever chased me into the ocean in the middle of the night, I'd shoot him. He did a lot of crazy things. Some of them bad. But I don't think I could ever love another man the way I love Paul. Chris, you've got to stop talking like this. You're getting morbid. Oh, it's not as bad as all that, Rat. It is bad, this dress. You can't wear black when you're going out on a date. Looks as if you were still... well... In the morning? Well, yes. I just happen to like black, that's all. I know, but just for tonight, it isn't exactly appropriate. Don't wear your wedding ring tonight either. Why not? It might make it awkward for Martin. Is Martin going to propose again tonight? Well, he might. He can't very well put an engagement ring on your finger if that's already there. By the way, what kind of a ring has Martin bought for me? An enormous diamond with... Oh, Chris, you will say yes tonight, won't you? I suppose I'd better. Otherwise he might sue you for breach of promise. Darling, I'm so excited, and I've got just the right dress all picked out for you. Will you wear it? Anything you say. I'd bring out my new ermine, will you?  But could you have a date for tonight, too? As a matter of fact, I have. All right, I'll wear the sequins, you wear the ermine. Well, if you insist. I like your hair like that. But you could do with a little more lipstick. And you could do with a little less. You know, Martin would never hawk a horn at a lady. It's probably your young man. By the way, which young man is it tonight? It's... you know, I've forgotten. Have a good time and come home early. Well, I can't do both. Then you come home early. You come home engaged. That's his favour, Mr. Rabbitman. Thank you, Emily, I'll take it here. Hello, Martin.  No, no, it's just that some idiotic client came into the office at the last minute, and I... Well, no, I know it's not serious, but I particularly didn't want to have anything interfere with tonight. Well, no, you see, I wanted to show you that I'm not always the lawyer with his mind on cases and affidavits.  Yeah, I thought it was a nice speech. I dreamed it up this afternoon in Thumbelina Court. It doesn't matter if we're a little late, Martin. The first act's no good anyway. I'll walk over along the beach to your house, then you won't have to waste the time driving over here. Oh, I wouldn't do that. But I want to walk over, Martin. I'll enjoy it. Oh, of course it's safe. Now, stop talking like an old maid. Goodbye. There's dark down there, ma'am. And you, Emily, stop talking like Martin Abbott. Lock the patio door after me, will you? Good night. See, I was wrong. Sometimes I am. You weren't mistaken. My husband died two years ago. And I felt I could not be wrong. I saw him dead. And his car in flames. I'm sorry. I don't understand how you know all this. I suppose people do talk. Do you live around here? No, I wish I did live on the ocean. Here is my name, where I live. Alexis, psychic consultant. Oh. I see you place me in the same category with fortune tellers, snake charmers, and magicians. Oh, well, many people do. But you must know who I am. How else would you know all these things? Perhaps because we are very much alike. Like the night, the mist of the ocean, the wind whispers to us and the sand feels cool under our feet. We're not like... I have his name now, like Martin. There's nothing wrong with Martin. Of course not. If only he would understand how little he understands. Well, Martin is very logical. Yes, that's why you should marry him. Even free spirits have to come in out of the night sometimes and put on their shoes, pay their bills, go to the dentist, and, of course, family dinners on Sunday. You really shouldn't be so irritated by his little mannerisms, like when he clears his throat, announcing that he's going to kiss you any minute, when he counts of all his plans and the tips of his fingers. I can't tell you how I know these things. But it hardly matters, does it, since we're not going to meet again. Christine? Oh, over here, Martin. You certainly had me scared. What kept you so long? Well, I was talking to this man. Well, he was here. Could I have imagined him? He was fantastic enough. Well, let's get going. Oh, I've torn my dress, Martin. I'll have to go back to the house. All right. We'll go to your house first. Skip the theater, directly to the Blue Angel. Nothing. It's just that it's so late, and I'm a little upset. Could we make it some other night?  When it concerns you, Christine, there's nothing I don't understand. Take this off my hands, or I'll have to wear it to the office tomorrow. Fix yourself a drink. I've got to change this torn dress. Right. I thought of this in the first place. This is much better than any nightclub. Yes, and just think. No head waiter, no smoke, no people. And at the end of the evening, no check. Oh, Martin, you're thinking such practical terms. I'm a very practical man. For instance, I just said that to make you pout. But better to do this. I've been trapped. Right. Now, if you'll just step over here to the sofa by the fire. Another trap? Definitely. Darling, what's the matter? That music. What's just the phonograph? But we don't have that record. Of course you do. It was right on top of the cabinet. What's the matter, Chris? I'm sorry, but that was Paul's favorite prelude. I've heard him played a hundred times right here in this room. Turn it off, will you? No, I won't.  Chris, I'm not saying this for my sake, but your whole life's ahead of you. You can't waste it probing into the past. If I can't make you forget Paul, we'll find someone else who can. You're right, Martin. I'm sorry I acted like a child. Would you get me a drink? Right here, ready for you. So you think I should go find somebody new? Only if it's absolutely necessary. But I've been so out of touch with people lately. Especially men. What do you expect me to do? Bring some around? Well, that would be very nice of you. Only you know how hard it is for me to meet new people. I can see I'll just have to propose to you. Oh, Martin, I talked you into it. You sure did. And very fortunately for you, I just happened to have an engagement ring on me. It wasn't a dream. The windows blew open. What's so unusual about a window blowing open? The ring was gone. The flowers were all with it. False picture. Just a bad dream? My wedding gown, there in the closet. It came toward me. I swear it did. It's just your bathrobe. You probably pull the door open like this. And it flung out like that. The wedding dress isn't there? How could it be, Chris? It's been locked in the trunk room for years. It wasn't a nightmare, I tell you. I saw those things. I think it was Paul and he doesn't want me to marry. You've got some feeling that it's not loyal to Paul if you marry again. It's on your conscience that it makes your dream. Why don't you talk it over with an analyst? He wouldn't understand. He'd think I was losing my mind. Nobody would understand. Except perhaps Alexis. Alexis? Just somebody I once met. Come on. Get to bed. Just three. You haven't got time for any more dreams tonight. Why are you up? Would you get me a glass of water? Janet, you're supposed to be the baby in the family. Here, give me that water. Move over, baby. I think the ocean and the fog were more effective. I agree. But in my work, I deal with many different kinds of minds. Generally speaking, I think you could say that three types of people come here to see me. The first, a fairly large group, come here to scoff. Sometimes a few of them remain to pray. The second, with childlike, credulous minds, they long to believe they're tired and sad and need comfort. All this helps them. It creates mood like music. And in it, they find a few brief moments of comfort which helps them to continue with their grey little lives. And so I do not think it is so childish after all. Do you? The third group is those of us who honestly explored the secrets of the outer world. I feel that you have come here today to join that group. Well, I did want to talk to you about something. I know. He was close to you last night. He's close to you now. Maybe I should repel him. Not bringing him closeness is so strong. It might be dangerous. How could Paul's presence possibly be dangerous to me? You want to get married and lead what is termed a normal life? But if Paul is trying to reach me, then I want to help him. Have you thought what people will think? What Martin will think? I'm not afraid to think as I choose. Then, Christine, if you have the courage and the will to explore, I will help you. Let your mind be free and receptive. Have a tendency to dramatize.  I tell you she's been going to see him for weeks. I'm talking about Paul as if he was still alive. He gives me the creeps. Let's go. Now what are we going to do? We're going to get a detective to see what he can find out about this spook shape. For 20 years I've been operating among these phony mediums as a private detective. And I've yet to find one concrete bit of evidence of communication with the dead. But my sister's absolutely convinced. He's told her things he couldn't know unless he were psychic. He's probably gone to a lot of trouble to investigate her past. That's our own clever. I can't understand, is Christine falling for such a dribble? You'd be amazed at the people who do. But there's a millionaire right in this town who wouldn't buy a bag of popcorn without consulting his medium. What's this one's name? Alexis. It's a new one on me. Doesn't they change their names often enough? There's a picture of him in this pamphlet he wrote. I used to be a magician. That's how I got into this racket. I was called to Chicago on a case once. No man named Maru.  That's Alexis. He certainly looked corny. That's Alexis. We've been reporting to the police. What charge? He served his stretch and that's that. At least Christine'll be through with him.  How can we identify him? Well, I could go out there and try to get his fingerprints. But I think the only time these fakes are really psychic is until you take them around. They look in their crystals and see you coming. Maybe we could send somebody who wouldn't know. Oh, no. I think that... Mrs. Charles G. Harper. Yes. I mean, no. I'll concentrate and soon your thoughts will merge with mine. Perhaps both hands would be better. So much better. I can feel your vibrations much more clearly now as your pulse is racing. Are you excited? Nervous? No. Oh, but of course, this problem is troubling you. But faintly, almost as though it were... false. Another question comes through with all the power and strength of love and truth.  A woman. Your sister. Is it your sister? No, but still you have a maternal protective feeling about her. In many ways, you were more mature than she. I'm glad somebody finally realized that. Of course, you didn't always feel that way. Once you were jealous of her. You envied her popularity in her pretty clothes and you used to try them on when she went out. And this suited you because there is an air of maturity and sophistication about you. In many ways, especially intellectually, you are much older than the many young men who admire you. You know, I'd notice that. Does this feel uncomfortable to you? I think I'll have a cigarette. Mrs. Harper. Mrs. Harper. Did you know why I wanted them? No. Nor do I need to. It is enough for me to know that you wanted them. Alexis, I hope that nothing you've done to help my sister will get you into trouble with the police. I mean, if they should investigate you or your past life, would they find anything that would make trouble for you? Well, there are many things in my life of which I'm ashamed. But, and this may sound strange, the memory that I cherish is a term in prison. There are many brave men who were imprisoned in their fight for science and truth. And I'm proud to be one of them. You may be able to understand this. No, but anyway, do with this as you think best. I trust you. Yeah, Mrs. Farrell, no, Mrs. Farrell. I think cigarette. And how is our client? She's hoped good. Good, she is. And, uh, must you feel that her beloved husband is close to her? It's a surprise she hasn't asked me to lay an extra place at the dinner table. It's a photograph of her parents. It was in the trunk where I found the wedding dress. Oh, Vivian, you've put things so crudely. I imagine that very soon Mrs. Faber is going to press money on me to continue my psychic research. Good.  I need a new row. Oh, I have a new assignment for you. Hmm. Straight from the obituary column. A lonely millionaire who wants to pay. Oh, here. Help me get these things out of the way. What do you pay for those chunks of glass these days? Three dollars a piece. Used to be a dollar ninety-five. You know, somebody ought to do something about this high cost of living. You should complain. Selling them for twenty-five bucks to your psychic students. I used to. But who am I to fight inflation? I'm charging fifty now. Expensive car. No brains and lots of money. So long as you're here, Vivian, you might as well check the car for me. There might be some papers or something in the glove compartment. Okay. I'll use a turban in case you find out something. Such a pleasure. I mean, I've heard... Tonight, Martin, really, I'm much too tired. Well, let's decide about Friday later. Call me tomorrow. Well, that's beyond Mrs. Faber. That's all, Emily. Thanks. Chris. Hmm?  If you're tired, we could go to a movie. Well, actually, I'm busy tonight, Janet. I have an appointment. Chris, don't see Alexis tonight. Don't see him ever again. Janet, I thought we agreed not to discuss this. I'm not attacking Alexis, Honest. I think he'd be very... for certain people. But not for me. Well, you see, when some people meet a fascinating personality, they're swept right off their feet. Like me? Yes. But other people can be more objective. Like me. It's true, Chris. In many ways, I'm more mature than you are. Janet, I have lived through most of your growing pains, and oftentimes you've been insufferable. But tonight... You see, you can't be objective. You're getting sore just because I'm trying to give you some good advice. Give me advice, Janet, please. It is good advice. Alexis agrees with me. Disagrees with you? You see, I've talked to him a few times about your problem. I went to his house. What did you find him? Fascinating. He has one of the most vibrant person. You came to this conclusion while discussing my problem? Well, we talked a little about me, too. Janet. I'll leave you alone with your objectivity. We reached the outer world tonight. We must leave behind us all thoughts that are hostile and on a low emotional level. This is your first seance. There must be some skepticism in your mind. Oh, no. Perhaps only in your subconscious mind. But nevertheless, we shall proceed under test conditions. If you would be good enough to hold this key for me, will you tie my wrists together securely? Oh, there's no need to do that, Alexis. I have every faith in you. Oh, but I insist. For my own sake. Yeah, Chris, you take the key. I'll tie his wrist. All right, Janet. Start with the right one. Tie one knot in the center. Tie my hands behind my back. Very tightly. Now lock the cabinet so that you know that I cannot possibly move from this chair. Christine, will you switch off the light? The switch is right in behind you. The room must be completely dark. Stay down on the table. Be between your palms. If you see anything at all, do not move around or cry out. You don't like to know what's going on in there. If he's staging a seance, it would be a good opportunity to prove he's a phony. Let's sneak around back. There may be a window we can look through. Well, climb through. What are you doing?  Where's the key? If you think he's still in here. Quick on his feet. I'll say that for him. How could he get out when I locked him in? He could show you if he wanted to. You're tired not like this. And then? More than this is dreadful. Yes, it is. I'm afraid I must insist you don't come here again. Insist? By what right do you insist? Well, we're engaged. Well, even if we were married, I'd think as I pleased. And I won't close my mind to truth just because you don't have to understand them. Truth, poppycock, be logical, Chris. Be logical. Pardon me, Mr. Abbott. Do you think you could possibly defer your discussion long enough to untie this rope? Oh, I'm sorry, Alexis. I'll do it. I happen to understand more about these things than you do. Do you realize that man has a criminal record? Alexis told us he was once in prison, if that's what you mean. Sometimes a prison record is something to be proud of. I'm terribly sorry about this interruption, Alexis. I saw him. I saw Paul. Oh, we will bring him back. Even if you could bring him back, she'd be better off if he stayed where he is, dead. She never meant anything to him but money. Martin. He'd been married and divorced before, each time with cash settlements. If he'd lived, he'd have made you miserable and ended up where he belongs, in jail.  Yes, it's in the records. When Martin disappeared, did you or did you not ask me to investigate? Yes. Well, in the course of my snooping, I found the second Mrs. Faber, divorced in Las Vegas just six months before he married you. I think he went over there to see her. I never could find her, though, and Paul was dead, so it seems very strange that if it were true, you didn't find it necessary to tell Mrs. Faber. Yes, I suppose it is strange. I'm very silly to try and protect the girl you love. She only runs as fast as she can to another phony like you.  I'm going so soon. I hope we might stay around a while. You should stay. We'd soon learn what amazing powers Alexis has. I'm always willing to learn. Perhaps you'd like to resume the seance. Yes, under real test conditions. And have you report me for conducting a sales? I should say not. He probably could report you now. But if you sit down here at this table and while we all hold hands like real good friends, if you can make any of your spirits walk or talk, I think Mr. Hoffman will let it ride this time. Show them, Alexis. Yes, Alexis. Do. I'm afraid in such hostile circumstances any contact with the spirit world will be practically impossible. Yeah, yeah, I've heard that pattern routine before. I know it's easier when you can run around the room in the dark. He doesn't run around in the dark. Go on, Alexis. Let them see for themselves what you can do. Okay, let's go. You really ought to have an assistant on the premises for tight spots like this. We checked, you see, to make sure you hadn't. You mean we'll frighten the ghosts? Always loved you. You know that. I'll take you home.  How do you get out of that rope thing? By manipulation. But how did you...  It isn't quite as simple as all that. There's a lot of psychology involved in research. Sounds dangerously like work. However, your bag of tricks can be useful to us in our present plans. We, um, have plans? I didn't help you out tonight just for fun of it, my friend. I can use you. You see, I need money. I don't understand. If you went back to Christine, you could have anything you want. You don't seem to have a very analytical mind. No, but Christine still loves you. She...you mean if you weren't dead, the police might want to know who it was they found burnt to death in your car? Exactly. If I've been using the wrong piece of music... What? Oh, no, no. You have the right one for Christine. I used this one for my first try. Is it her ashes they found in the car? It was me they found in the car. Don't forget it. Perhaps I should point out that I'm in a very curious position. Since I'm believed dead, I could even kill a man. Nobody think of looking for me. You're in a curious position, too, Alexis. You can't tell anybody I'm alive without exposing yourself. That's right. I can't. It is a very curious position. And a profitable one. I don't think it's too premature to congratulate you upon an extremely advantageous marriage. Marriage? Come, come, my friend.  You don't expect me to marry Christine. No, no, the little one, Janet. She's still young enough to be dazzled by you. From then on, getting that estate will be like taking candy away from a baby. I don't think Christine will allow it. I'll take care of Christine. A little rusty on this one. I'll have to practice. Have this piano tuned, will you? Are you hot milk? Yes, ma'am. I'll see that she drinks it, Emily. All right, I'll take it, but it won't do any good. You should really try and get more sleep, Christine. But I just can't. I'm never alone anymore, I voice now and seeing his face to comfort me, I suppose, but it's been frightening. Drink your milk while it's hot. It'll help. Alexis, do you suppose we've made a mistake? That first day when I came to your house, you said it might be better to repel Paul's spirit instead of bringing it closer. Perhaps you were right. Perhaps I was right. Then would it be better to try to break the contact now and not go too late? At this stage, I could never break the contact. We'll have to finish what we started. Well, let's begin the seance now. I think that before we start, you should relax. And I should be more familiar with the surroundings. It is very difficult for me in a strange house. Perhaps if I walked around the outside for a while... I'll show you. We can even go to the ocean. Now, I'm feeling rather tired. Well, it could be. Did you ever see a better spirit manifestation? It was an old-time record. We joined together someday in celestial companionship through all eternity. Yes, I'm sure. I think I'd make a good celestial companion and we'd love each other through all eternity. Oh, even longer. Start right here on the earth plane. She thought the house was haunted. And I can see what she means. I want to talk to Mrs. Faber. I don't think she wants to talk to you. Making herself ill with this morbid nonsense. Oh, it isn't bad. Chris had a fall last night on the cliff. She might have killed herself if Alexis hadn't caught her. What was she doing on the cliff? She thought she heard Paul calling. The doctor said. Chris wouldn't have a doctor. She had to be logical about this. She's not badly hurt. She's just bruised and shaken. In the first place, she's in a state of hysteria. In the second place, she shouldn't be in this house. Everything in it reminds her of Paul. And finally, she shouldn't be left alone for one second. There's no telling what she might do. But I'm with her all the time. I haven't lived... For you to stay here. You need rest and care. Perhaps in a hospital. You're trying to separate us. I won't go to a hospital. I won't leave this house. Only until you're better. No. You try to drive him away again. Now get out. Get out. Before I upset her anymore. I'll see you to door, Martin. Can you resume the treatment? If you hadn't tried to play the hero last night, all this wouldn't be necessary. I had to save Janet, didn't I? You're not falling in love with her, are you? Look, if I'm going to marry into this estate, there's got to be somebody for me to marry. Just by way of making a conversation, that wife of mine in Las Vegas, the one who tried to back out on me and wanted a cash settlement back, I settled with her. But not for cash. But now if you should back out on me, I wouldn't hesitate to settle with you either, Alexis. I know. Because you're in such a curious position. Till you just get rid... Lay, I'm dead and I'm going to stay that way. If you're alive, I won't be able to. It's too bad you came down here, Janet. You have been privileged to witness my best performance. You made one little mistake. I started with seven shells. I have one in the chamber. But now you must forget me. No, never. I don't need a crystal to see that your future is bright, Janet.  Alexis, I'm afraid for you... I'll be all right.


At Berkeley, we don't have a hospital or cancer patients. What's unique about what we're doing here is that we're really interested in understanding the basic mechanisms by how the body works. One of the interesting ideas that has emerged at Berkeley is that perhaps we can use what we've learned about how the immune system fights infections to help us better fight other diseases like cancer. One of the biggest breakthroughs that has happened here at Berkeley is work done by Jim Allison in the 1990s that there are molecules that put the brakes on the immune response and prevent it from functioning. So by removing those brakes, we can unleash the immune system to attack cancer. My lab is mainly interested in the problem of infectious disease. One of the things that we discovered is that it might also be possible to, instead of taking the brakes off, actually push on the accelerator. There are special molecules called cyclic dinucleotides, made naturally by bacteria that can supercharge the immune response. Other researchers and companies locally at Berkeley are taking these molecules and trying to apply them for the treatment of cancer. These molecules can be isolated and injected directly into tumors. They cause the tumors to melt away. Conversely, these molecules may also be useful for treating other kinds of diseases. Two billion people worldwide are infected with tuberculosis, and 1.5 million people die every year from this disease. We've taken some of these molecules that were really developed for cancer and have applied them to tuberculosis infection and have found that they're pretty good at eliciting immune responses that can be protective against tuberculosis infection. People have actually been doing research on tuberculosis since the 1800s. For 100 years, we really made very little progress. But now we're in a time where with these new sort of techniques for manipulating the immune response that have come out of other fields, it's really exciting to be able to apply these technologies in TB, and I think that they're really gonna enable us to make huge progress. What was really exciting for us is in the very first experiment we did, we saw that they were as effective as anything else that has been developed to date. When we began our studies, we had no thoughts at all about trying to treat cancer, and it's really been just one of those accidental discoveries that has been really exciting to be part of. My primary motivator is just the excitement of discovery and figuring out how things work. When you work on a disease like tuberculosis, you always have to also think about what do we need to learn in order to eliminate tuberculosis from the planet? Really, this has been one of the major breakthroughs in cancer therapy in the last decade. And it all started here at Berkeley.


Hello, it's Waylon Chow. This is the Law of Contract Formation, Module 2A, Part E. In this part, we will look at the second essential element of a valid contract, which is the intention to create legal relations. Okay, let's get back to our friends Daria and Jamal. So let's say Daria and Jamal are at the pub. Jamal says to Daria, you've got a sick laptop. I wish I had one like that. And Daria says, yeah, I love it. I would never sell it. Then Jamal says, okay, how about if I give you $10,000 for it? And Daria replies, I'll take that. So the next day, Daria asked Jamal to pay $10,000 for the laptop. Is Jamal obligated to buy Daria's laptop for $10,000? In other words, has an agreement been formed between Daria and Jamal for the sale of the laptop at $10,000? Of a valid contract, the parties must have intended to form a legally binding contract. So how do we go about ascertaining whether or not someone actually intended to form a legally binding contract? So what the courts have done, they've developed a two-step process to determine intention. The first step is to start with a presumption, or in other words, a starting assumption. And that presumption depends on the type of situation in which the agreement was made. If the agreement was made in a domestic or social context, then we presume that there was no intent on the part of the parties to form a legally binding contract. If the agreement, however, was made in a business or commercial context, we presume the opposite, that there was intent to form a legally binding contract. So this step one sets out our starting point. Step two, we ask, is that presumption rebutted by any of the facts or evidence of the particular case? So here we actually look at what happened in this case, and then we ask what a reasonable person think that the presumption was rebutted. So for example, if there was an agreement made between two family members, the presumption there would be that there was no intent to form a legally binding contract. So that would be step one. Step two, we actually look at what happened. So let's say the two family members put their agreement in writing and they both signed it. So a reasonable person would think that when people put something in writing and they sign it, that that is a clear intention to form a legally binding contract. So is Jamal obligated to buy Daria's laptop for $10,000? And we are assuming that neither Daria nor Jamal were intoxicated while they were at the pub when they made this agreement. The issue here is whether or not Jamal and Daria had an intention to create a legally binding contract. The first thing that we do is we determine our presumption. So firstly, we presume that there was no such intention since the agreement was made in a social context while Daria and Jamal were socializing at the pub. They were having a drink, they were talking to each other, they were joking around. So it was clearly a social situation. Secondly, that presumption is not rebutted by anything else that happened in that situation where that agreement was formed. In particular, the agreement for the sale of the laptop was not put into writing. If they had put it into writing, that would have been clear evidence that would have rebutted the presumption and we would have concluded that there was intention. But since there was no agreement in writing and there was nothing else to indicate that they were making a serious agreement, our conclusion should be that there was no intention to form a legally binding contract and therefore Jamal is not obligated to buy Daria's laptop for $10,000.


I'm Fran Borkwell. I'm chair of understanding animal research and I like to start by thanking our sponsors which is the British Pharmacological Society in the British Association for Psychopharmacology. Thank you for sponsoring this evening. Before we start on the formal business of the evening, I'd like to just say a few words because this is actually the last time I'm going to be chairing this evening because I will be stepping down having chaired UAR for the past six years. It seems like about two, but the past six years, it's about time to let somebody else take the reins of chairing council. First of all, I'd just like to thank the UAR staff, especially Wendy and all the team for the most fantastic job they've done over the past six years. It's just been so many good things have happened. The concordat obviously is the biggest thing, but there's many other very positive and proactive things that have been initiated in the past six years, and it's all down to them. Also, a really great council, a really great support, and a really good focus group that we have on council. It's been a great pleasure and honour to chair UAR in these exciting years. As an academic, I'm really thrilled that we brought back the Padgett Lecture as well because I think that was a very special thing, and so that's also very good to see you here tonight. I'd also like to announce that UAR council, led by the Governance Group, has appointed a new chair to take over from me at the AGM, and there was a strong list of six candidates I'm told. There was nothing to do with me, but there was one person who really fitted the bill so well, and we're absolutely delighted that he's agreed to do it, and that is Jeremy Pearson, who's sitting at the back because he's got a sore throat. Jeremy, thank you so much, and I know you'll be a fantastic chair, and we'll hear more about that at the next AGM. Having said that, I would just like to say it's been a really great year for UAR. Again, thanks to the team for hard work over the past 12 months. Their work behind the scenes meant that none of the main political parties included any mention of animal research in their election manifestos. Social media work has been very strong again this year. There's a new platform in Instagram and ever-increasing numbers of followers on Facebook and Twitter. Schools education programme continues to be a major part of UAR's work, and we've come here to celebrate some outstanding examples of openness. It's also important to remember that there's a small army out there of researchers and technicians who do superb work that we can't always reward as we would like to, but our schools volunteers, as many of you know, give up their time to go into classrooms all over the country to speak about animal research. That takes some courage as well as dedication, and it makes a huge impact. We know this on the young people they meet, so here are names of some of the volunteers. Those who have been doing the most heavy lifting over the last school term. I would like to thank them on behalf of UAR for their time and efforts, and I hope they will keep up their excellent work for a long time to come. Before we ask Colin Bacemawr to give the 79th, not the 97th, the 79th Stephen Padgett Memorial Lecture, we're going to spend a little while focusing on UAR's main project over the past few years, the Concordat on Openness in Animal Research in the UK. We are now at 97 signatures according to the programme. In fact, it's 98 because another one's been added since then, and so I think we're confident we'll reach 100 in early 2016. You will know that we publish the first annual report on the progress that the signatures have made in implementing the commitments. You will each have a copy of the report in your bags this evening, and thanks to the MRC who kindly printed them for us. The steering group of the Concordat were really impressed by the results of the signatures achieved in the first year, and the quality and number of entries we have for the Openness awards, and this really reflects just how far the sector has come since the Concordat was published. So last year we celebrated the individuals and organisations that paved the way for the Openness agenda and made the Concordat on Openness a possibility. This year we followed a more traditional format for an awards programme by inviting entries in four categories. So we're very grateful to our judging panel, and I think you're going to see their names up there next, who gave up their time to consider all the entries and decide on the winners in the four categories, as well as four highly commended entries. The judging panel would like to thank everyone who entered the awards, and we particularly like to thank individual researchers who sent in entries. We do hope that you'll continue to develop excellent new practices and enter these awards again in the future, because this is not the last ceremony. We've commended entries and winners in each category, and all of them will receive an animal print, and they're drawn by a member of UAR staff called Mia Rosenbaum, and the winners will also have one of these rather nice and not too heavy glass Openness awards. So now it's my job to hand over to the people who are going to present the awards, and first I'm going to hand over to Mark Prescott from the National Centre for the Three Rs, who's very kindly at the last minute come in to replace Vicki Robinson, who apologises but she's got the flu, so I can hand over to Mark. Well thank you very much and delighted to be here to present this award. Vicki's tucked up in bed, but she sends her best wishes.  So I'm presenting the awards in the category internal or sector engagement activity, and there are two awards that are highly commended and a winner. The highly commended award goes to the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology for a series of posters on the named persons under the act. The judges were really impressed with these posters which set out the roles and responsibilities of the people working within the animal facility to the whole unit, and it was particularly impressive in their opinion to see a poster on the establishment licence holder linking senior management with the animal care staff. The judges did comment that it would be nice to see a mechanism for raising concerns on these posters and hoped that they could be displayed in public areas as well as the animal facility, but they were really impressed with the idea and they'd like to see other establishments develop something similar, so please can the representatives of the MRC LMB come forward. So the winning award in this category goes to Agenda. The judges were very impressed with Agenda's support network for animal technicians who are the principal workers in this sector, and Agenda has contributed greatly to providing care for people who can quite easily find themselves isolated and unsupported in their work, so providing a mechanism to raise concerns in several ways is what Agenda has done, and they were really impressed with the got a concern process, so please could the representatives of Agenda come forward. Hello everyone. If I could first make sure that's what you're just say how pleasant it is to be invited here. Thank you very much, and it's so nice to see so many familiar faces. I want to just briefly say a word about how important I think this openness agenda is because as many of you will know I did work on it for some years, and we started from very small beginnings with very few people being prepared to be open or to speak out and very few institutions. I've just started a new post quite recently at the British Heart Foundation, and at the end of the recruitment interview the interviewer turned and said I've got to ask you a few standard questions, the first of which is are you comfortable with the fact that some of our research, some of the research we fund involves the use of animals. He looked up at me and he said I hardly need you to answer that because it was your work that was responsible for having that question in there, and since then I've actually done quite a lot of recruitment myself at the British Heart Foundation and we asked that question and nobody raises an eyelid. They say we've looked at your statement, it all makes perfect sense, and it's worth remembering that that's an organisation with 3,000 staff, they're all asked that question, as long as these amazing initiatives there's a drip, drip, drip going on there right across the country of good work on openness. So I'm delighted to be presenting the winners of the public engagement activity section and the highly commended award goes to the Baberham Institute. So this is for a new and innovative approach to enabling the public to see inside a facility which designed with the public in mind namely cameras and again I would just interject on the notes and say that this is such a step forward and I remember those early discussions a decade ago, could we ever get cameras in labs and everybody just thought no way that is never going to happen. The committee found this commitment to outreach and engagement very exciting and look forward to hearing about the resulting public engagement at the Baberham Institute. So could I invite the representative from the Baberham to come and receive the award please. And the winner of this category is University of Leicester. Again this has significance to me as I remember going to those very first meetings when the university had just been named as a target for a protest by the animal rights groups and was struck right from the beginning at the very deliberative and thoughtful manner in which they were thinking they would respond to this. I know they've won a number of awards along the way and I think that's very highly deserved for what was really very impressive work. So this piece of work and organisation was originally nominated in the category of internal engagement but the committee felt it was more appropriate to make the award in the public engagement category. The university have led an enormous culture change and have been truly open and were the first academic institution to in fact first institution to sign the Concordat. They consistently advocated the benefits of openness and have led the way and have not any one other awards but gone and spoke in other fora about the work they've done. They've been enormously helpful across the sector now offering support and advice from their own example to institutions that follow suit and the impact of what they've achieved has been enormous. So we're very pleased to make this award to University of Leicester in recognition of their great contribution to openness in the UK life sciences. And could we have the representative? Is Arthur isn't it? Yes. I'm handing over to Sir Colin Blaymore. Thank you. I have the task and the pleasure of the award for media engagement or media stories. The role of the media in the issue of public relations on the use of animals is of course absolutely crucial and personally I think that one of the really key steps in the process that we many of you in this room experienced maybe 15 years ago of the dramatic change in public opinion, the attitude of the government and the increased willingness of researchers to participate in this agenda of communication. I think a key step was the change in the style and behaviour of the media. It wasn't necessarily primary. I think it depended a lot on the recognition of the media that researchers involved in animal research and institutions involved in animal research were becoming more willing to talk about the issue. I mean you could hardly be blamed for running stories based almost entirely on whatever copy they obtained from the critics of animal research if there was no response from the other side. But the change in styles of media is almost impossible to remember what media coverage was like 10 or 15 years ago and it simply doesn't happen now. So it's been a very, very important development. So the highly commended award goes to BBC Panorama. Can you cure my cancer? The research involved was fitted into a patient story of course as is so often the case in media coverage but in a way that made the research both engaging and highly relevant to the clinical issues. The honesty behind this piece of broadcasting, the willingness of the staff at the institute to work with the media and to be filmed was impressive particularly as they had no previous experience of engaging in this way. We hope that it will pave the way for more stories in this format. Pleas to present this award to the Institute for Cancer Research for an excellent piece of research. I'm not sure who's receiving the award. Yes indeed, you're holding. Would you like one as well? Thanks very much. Thank you. And the winner in this category is in the context of the visit by the Mirror to Marmazet Facilities at King's College London. This piece of work was sparked by a press release from Animal Aid calling for charities to stop funding animal research. In that context it was a very brave piece of work as shown by some of our language used in the article. The Mirror usually hostile to animal research or had certainly been in the past but tabloid readers are a vital audience if we're to reach people without extensive knowledge on the subject of animal use so this was a really important step. The work in the article is strictly translational and the harms to the animals as well as the potential benefits were made very clear. The award winner then is King's College London. Now we have photographs of the non-shire member of King's College. Are you not going to come and join us for the other two awards? There are two more to give away and that is all. Thank you. Thanks very much. I'm sorry now I had over two. I'll leave my computer there. Well I have to say it's bad luck for the runners up for this one because Colin gave the price of the last one. It's just been restored. So I always have a sort of slightly surreal sense of deja vu when I come back into this building but you know your history here when they search you before you can get in. So I was very pleased to be able to write the foreword to the original Concordat on openness in animal research which was launched in May last year and I must say absolutely delighted to see this annual report which is a substantial piece of work and so congratulations to everyone who was involved in it. The Concordat was I think unprecedented because it really did bring together an extraordinary coming together of academia, of industry, of the medical research charities and really many others behind what has turned into a very coherent and tangible program to talk about an issue that's all too often been poorly understood or misrepresented or people have frankly been unwilling to talk about it and so people are sometimes critical they say I concordat well it's just a sort of talking document but actually this is a concordat that really has turned into action and so I'm delighted to be able to be here this evening and help to present some of the prices. So I congratulate really all of the winners tonight and everyone in the hall for the commitment and time that's been invested in this and there will be a lot more to do. So the breadth and the variety of initiatives that have been highlighted this evening shows what a difference everyone is making to finding new and creative ways of explaining why and how animals are used in research as well as the parallel great efforts for the three hours to replace to refine and to reduce their use. So this award is about the use of online and other new media communications which is obviously hugely important because it provides quick regular and easily accessible information materials to anyone who's got an interest and negates the need to always have to work through the media to take advantage of the good offices of Fiona Fox and her colleagues who put on splendid media briefings but that can't be the only way that people have access to information and of course that is the power of the internet and the web. So all of the nominees in tonight's final category have demonstrated great originality and creativity in developing new ways of increasing openness and inviting the scrutiny of animal research online and I really would urge you to look at their websites when you can. So moving to what are the final two awards of the evening then. First of all it gives me great pleasure to invite Imperial College to accept the highly commended award in the category of website and use of new media. So this award recognises the comprehensive and innovative set of web pages that the college has developed in the past year which describe the huge progress made on the management of animal research to Imperial and provide new tools for inviting scrutiny. So who is going to come forward from Imperial College. Finally I'd like to invite the University of Cambridge to accept the winning award in this category and this award is made particularly in recognition of a creative and groundbreaking video posted by the university on YouTube which gives viewers an honest and open insight into the use and care of mice in developing new cancer treatments. So let's congratulate University of Cambridge. Thank you and congratulations to the award winners and that wasn't actually the last award you might have noticed that there is still two things there. And so we'd like to make a special award as well. The Concordat and the current work towards openness in the UK has come about as Simon said through many years of hard work to key people who really have tirelessly campaigned for transparency around animal research and we'd like to recognise one of those people tonight and during the nomination process there were four people who separately contacted UAR and said please will you we really want you to give an award to this person so um so this year and and this is somebody who really has given drive passion and determination and led us to a place where we can talk about our work more freely. So this year we are very pleased to present award to Fiona Fox in recognition for all her work over the years on this issue. Fiona.


Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday. My friend and mentor Bill Ott died last week. Bill was the publisher of Booklist Magazine for more than 30 years. He was my first boss. He was a brilliant writer and editor and a wonderful friend. And also, as readers of the Anthropocene Reviewed may know, he kind of saved my life one time. I know some of y'all have heard that story, but I want to tell it again in Bill's memory. So in late 2001, I had a mental health crisis, and my depression got so bad that in consultation with my parents, it was decided that I needed to quit my job and move home to Florida to get full-time care. And so one morning I went into Bill's office. Now he was the publisher of the magazine. He was my boss's boss's boss. There were proof pages of the magazine spread out all over his desk. I've worked there less than two years. Like any normal boss would have been like, it's so great to have worked with you, I'm sorry you're going through this and I really wish you well. But instead, he said, ah, kid. And then he paused. Bill had serious speech challenges as a kid, and as an adaptation, he developed these masterful pauses so that you were always just leaning forward when he delivered the punchline or some brilliant observation. And so after that long pause, he said, ah, why don't you just take some time off and let us know how you're feeling in a few weeks. Later, when I was packing up my stuff to leave book list, I found that Bill had left a note on my computer. I still have that note. It ends now more than ever. Watch Harvey, which was this movie he loved that he wanted me to see. And it turned out that he wanted me to see it for a reason because it is about somebody living with serious mental illness who nonetheless is valuable and important and worthy. I got better. I went back to work. I was able to review hundreds more books and then eventually wrote my own book under the guidance of Bill's wife, the great children's book author Eileen Cooper. That book, Looking for Alaska, went on to win the Prince Award, and when I accepted that award with a speech, Bill was there. And he came up to me afterwards and he was like, I really liked your speech, kid, except for that stuff about morality. That was really our only long-standing disagreement over whether stories had some kind of moral or ethical responsibility to their readers.  And I just loved having those big conversations with Bill because he was so much older and wiser than me, but he still took me seriously and because he seemed to have read everything. He taught me to love mystery novels and old movies, and he taught me about precision in writing, how the second best word simply won't suffice. But here's the biggest thing I learned from Bill. He loved his work and he was passionate about it, but the love of his life was not book list or even books. It was people. He loved his wife Eileen, with whom he shared the most profound connection and the most uproarious humor. He loved his daughter so much and he loved his grandson. Like when I picture Bill, I don't think of him reading or editing. I think of the way his face lit up when he had a story to tell me about his kid.  If you've benefited from my work in any way, you've also benefited from Bill's work and I know many writers who would say the same. I mean, there's a good chance that if you love a book, Bill wrote or edited one of the early reviews that helped that book get to more people. For me, that's both the heartbreak and the hope of human life. Everything goes, everything, except for the love we pour into others and into the world. I'm so grateful for the love Bill shared with me and I hope he knew how much I admired him and how desperately I will miss him. Hank, I'll see you on Friday.


We are all going to live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Population trends, like the aging of society, declining birth rates, and the global population of more than 9 billion 25 years from now, are going to stretch our resources and create challenges for our health and the welfare systems around the world. But there is hope. We are in a period of great transformation. Leaders of all kinds must work together to blend the vision of tomorrow that inspires our people and provides inclusion for all levels of society. The current mainstream technology using small molecule drugs has hit a wall, while the newer technologies using biotech, nucleic acid, and regenerative medicines are not yet fully matured. With technologies progressing so fast, it is impossible for one institution to cover all the ground. Because of this, we collaborate more with external stakeholders than ever before, and we are embracing new models like open innovation and collaborating with other industries like the ICT and nanotech industries. Innovation for an organization is that X factor that Charles Darwin found in the Galapagos Island. As Darwin's evolution theory suggests, it is not necessarily the strongest that survive but the most adaptable. For organizations to be successful over the long term, innovation must be part of organizations' DNA and culture, and it needs to happen in every market and workplace. With extreme diversity, as Darwin told us, the best able to adapt will prevail. For those of us in the pharma industry, the thing we care about most every day is improving people's quality of life through our products. As you know, we don't work alone. We are part of a team that includes patients, healthcare professionals, and the providers. As our industry transforms, we share more information, collaborate on finding more new treatments, and work more in creative public-private partnerships, sometimes contributing directly to treating diseases, and sometimes contributing to health systems strengthening. The Darwin's Annual Meeting is the most important international forum of the year and inspires action by world leaders for the year to come. In particular, I have fond memories of speaking on a panel with Muhammad Yunus in 2010 as we passionately discussed rethinking values in the post-crisis world. I also clearly remember David Cameron making a prophetic speech at Davos 2011, emphasizing the need to pay down debt and lower government deficit and ensuring that we continue to innovate and establish new businesses and jobs. We cannot forget such a message today.


Hello and welcome back to The Craft Box. My name is Brenton. Today we are on episode 259 of the Wizard of Wunna on Death Walkthrough. I had to check that up. I just forgot what number we are. It's too many numbers. Last time we managed to become Battle Beasts Scion and today we are going to quickly change our badge, whoopsie daisy, which is Polaris and the hero of Bastille, sure. And we are talking to Merrill, the Scion. I always knew you were special, but to be Battle Beasts Scion, oh, I couldn't be more proud. Alas, there's no time to revel in the moment with Battle Beasts on the mend. Did he offer any insight into repairing the rift between Raven and Spider Orph? What's to be done about Mallory? Battle Beasts says Mallory's consciousness is lost in the river, oh, that's the plane where thoughts and memories coexist, but how do we retrieve her?  Mandala? Of course! That's the island where the life and death paradox chain is moored. An Imperia. Ah, of course it's an Imperia. At least Spark and the Captain are already there. But how in the blue blazes do we get into this reverie place? I have heard legends tell of the reverie. I am certain it is akin to the other side. It will take a bit of research, but I can get you there. When the time comes, I will find you. It's going to take a bit to get Mallory's life support apparatus prepped for travel.  Wizard, we'll catch up with you on Ariel. My, oh my. This all has my head spinning.  Yay, okay. There we go, EXP. Gotta love that EXP. Also, they fixed Diego, which is really, really good. He was a bit broken last time. He's no longer T-Posing everywhere, which is great. Let's head over to Imperia. First time hitting into Imperia in a while. It's been too long, way too long, but we are back finally. Look at it. We don't even have the new loading screen, damn it. I want to see the new loading screen. The new loading screen looks so good, by the way. It's so cool. Wizard. Oh, finally. I'm so tired of being Spark's lab assistant. Please, please tell me we have marching orders from the Arcanum. Are they broken? Not quite broken. Kinda broke there. We're to escort Mallory's dying body to an island called Mandelala. Okay. Mandelala. Where are beans of Mallory? Oh, here we are. How do you stop this thing? Ah. Okay. Here we are. Mallory's vitals remain stable during transit, but she's still on a downward trajectory. Beans.  Be careful, man. That's about as precious a cargo. As precious cargo comes. Darn it, James. I'm a doctor, not a delivery man. Where's Spark? We need to get a move on. It takes a surprising amount of core strength to keep this contraption parked. Beans, my muscleless medical officer. You're right. So, the thing with our science officer is... Spock is obsessed with the network of sensors he's dreamed up. And I've had to assist him. He keeps yammering on about fascinating results. As we speak, Spock's out in the jungle, investigating the sensor in the northwest quadrant. That's mysteriously gone offline. I offered to do it, but he told me to wait here to verify a signal or push a button or something. I can never follow what that kid is saying. You should go check on Spock and Jungle Wizard. I'll stay here and make sure beams and lackluster of Domino Muscles don't ruin the mission. Okay, I'll be back. Actually, wait, no, we need to go over to Spock. I forgot. We do need to fight something after this. But we need to get there first. We need to go to Spock and then I'll skip the fight because we're only doing bosses. We ain't about those mob fights. Not about that today. Not about that life. But yeah, welcome back. It's been a while. These walkthroughs aren't going to be posting as much as they used to be, which was nearly every day. They're going to be kind of slow because I don't want to rush through this. There's no real need for me to be max level anytime soon, so we're just chilling. We're going at our own pace. So yeah, we won't be rushing through. There'll probably be like two episodes a week, one episode a week. Maybe it kind of depends, but yeah, there'll be... We're still coming out. We're just at kind of a slow rate. Salutations, wizard. I trust librarian Fitzhume delivered my note. Excellent. Then you are aware of the work Captain Pork and I have been doing. As for the subject the note posited to you, what is the status of young Mallory? So there is much work yet to be done. However, it would not be prudent for me to abandon my current project so close to its completion. The sensors we've installed throughout Imperia have yielded fascinating results. I believe we're on the cusp of a communications breakthrough. However, this sensor has been damaged, compromising the integrity of the entire network. Thankfully, I've identified the cause of the problem. Lightning bugs have looted the dynamos from this sensor. I theorize the intense electricity the dynamos generate is comforting to them. The network is vital to our efforts here in Imperia and must be repaired. Can you please retrieve the pilfered dynamos from the lightning bugs? Sure thing. I'll be back once I've collected the three of these. Okay, I am back. Finally got it, took us a wee while with that. We talking to Spark, hi. Ah, good. You have retrieved the dynamos. I will replace them and recalibrate the sensor now. Done. With the network back online, I should now be able to remotely hail Captain Pork at base camp via my communicator badge. Spark to Pork. Come in, Captain Pork. Captain Pork, do you read me? Oh, wait, Spark, was that you? Hello, Spark, did you take her with my crew badge again? The communicators are indeed working, and believe it or not, we have the severing of the fire and ice paradox chain to thank for it. You see, my sensors have serendipitously collected data which shows a dramatic reduction in the aether in the air, most notably around Athenor. The decrease in atmospheric animositrons confirms the aether is the physical residue of the ancient clash between raven and spider. The paradox chains appear to attract the aether and even bolster its volatile, violent nature. The negative energy is what keeps raven and spider away from imperia. Ergo, breaking the paradox chains is bad in that respect. Didn't realize that one just went first. Firstly, the diminished aether has greatly simplified travel and as you just witnessed, created fascinating communications capabilities I've programmed our crew badges to function as communicators. I took the liberty of fashioning you one as well. You are most welcome. Now, there are a few security updates I must make to this sensor. If you need me, you know how to find me. Please brief pork on my status. Okay, let's head back to pork. Let's get moving. Let's go to new places. I think we're going to be going to... here's the new loading screen. Look at that, so cute. So cute. I don't know if we're going to get into any new places today. We'll see. I can't quite remember how it goes. What? And death magic. Hopefully they can help us get Mallory to the right spot.  Good work. You three should get to some. Zara, immediately. Come on, I'll help you push Mallory to the pod bay before I head to Xanadu. Okay, that was pretty... Actually, we are going to be going into new places today, which is great. Mandala-la-la-la-la-la-la is where we're going. Where we need to go. I honestly cannot remember any more of the story from here because I didn't actually listen to any more of it. It's all new to me, which is really cool. Really, really cool. The one thing that I really love about this game is going to new places. I think I've seen this a couple times. Okay, we are Russian. We are Russian. Mandala-la-la-la-la, let's go. But yeah, I love going to new places. It's honestly so good. Yes, I am. Are you okay? We need to get Mallory to this Samsara place. It's not going to be easy to find though. The jungle is so thick it could be right in front of us and we'd never see it. That looks like a path over there. Go see where it leads. I'll watch over Mallory here. Be quick about it. My abs are killing me. Okay, let's quickly do this. So, we're in Mandala-la-la-la-la, which is like a wee little ringy thing. It's kind of cool. There's the life and death chain right there. If you can see, obviously, this is where we are. Let's just head in. Stop messing about and let's just do it. Let's do it. Basically, this is copy-paste of the jungle in the first bit as well. So, yeah, that's fun. But it's okay. We forgive them for that. We forgive them. I really like how there's two different loading screens. It's really cool. What are we loading in? Oh, the giant ants. I'll be back once I've defeated these guys. Okay, I am back. Hopefully, just killing these guys, we had to do another one before this. There's like two ant fights. They're disgusting. Don't like them. But hopefully we're done. Hopefully we're killed. They also need to fix the catch of the day spell. It's still broken. I thought someone would have reported that as a bug in the test room, but still broken, unfortunately. So, that's fun. It takes just forever now. It's ridiculous. But yeah, please don't be another bug. Damn it, there's more bugs. Look out! Oh, he actually has dialogue. Wow, let's defeat the horned frogs and I'll be back in just a sec. Okay, I'm back.  I have to say the combat music here is really, really good. Just sitting and listening to the combat music is so good. The best part, the best part of this place is honestly the combat music. It's just so good. But um, yeah, they're dead. Hopefully, they should be good. Easy. So this is a bummer. Let's get back to a safe clearing and I'll explain. Not if. D. Good job. Um, let's head back. Let's head back to Marum, who is... we saved. Who was we saved? We saved really good and now we can be free. He can be free at least, which is great. Um, so let's head back to him, which is all the way over here so big. So long. I really like this area. I don't know why, but like just the whole concept of it being a complete ring is pretty cool to me. I think that is so cool. Um, I honestly forgot, uh, this area. So, I mean... Does that jungle path lead anywhere? Well, why don't you find out? We've got to get to some sorrow. Okay. The jungle's vibrations are calm here. We can talk. I know it looked like those frogs were gonna hurt me, but they totally weren't. You're strangers. I get it. You don't know how we do things. Life and death energy constantly shifts and swirls through the jungle. It's really amazing. I was preparing the grove for a death influxy. Ah, now I have to start over. The fight totally harsh the vibes there. No worries. I can do it.  How did, how did it, um, how did it totally harsh the vibes I am in death was obviously you were prepared for death influx because that's me. Sorry for the confusion, but we're in a hurry. We need to get this girl to samsara and get her medical attention. Samsara? It's close, but you'll never get there on foot. We live above the jungle. In the sky you'll have to fly. Take my sky boat. When you get there, find my man Cole. He'll welcome you. You'll love it there. Okay, let's head over to samsara. All of us will fit. Barely. Let's go wizard. Let's head over to samsara and we will probably then finish off the episode there. These episodes I don't want them to be way too long. Well, really long at all. I just want them to be kind of around like 10, 15 minutes. Come a long way to get here, haven't you? Welcome to samsara. To our limited perceptions time is a line from the past to the future. Life and death. They look like two different things, but they're not. From outside a mortal vantage point existence is a flattened circle. A wheel. Raven made the ring of mandala to remind us of that forever. This is samsara. The center of my people's great work. I sense something very important brought you here. How can we calamar help? This girl is dying. She needs your help. The chain is why we're here. We need to fill her with the chain's life magic to keep her alive. Why do you want to do that? Death is just a part of this cycle. You have to free your minds. Go talk to our elder. She'll help you. Okay, we'll just head over to the elder just because I like this place and we need to see it a bit more before we go. Here's the map by the way. Looks pretty cool. We are kind of just floating up here by the chain apparently. This chain right there is the chain which is quite cool. Let's...where is the elder? I forget. I forget it. I forget it where the elder is. He this way. He be over here probably. Yes, in the heart? No, just out here. Okay, here he is. Found him. She, sorry. You have come to prevent a death. You do not understand. Life and death are not opposites. They are different segments of the great wheel. So why not let this girl die? It is the way. The wheel spins. The matter of her body will nourish new life. This is not to be feared. You don't understand. This isn't just any girl. If she dies, it could be the end of everything. What do you mean? Let me look into the girl's aura and see if I can see what concerns you so much. This is the Raven child. If she dies light will be lost forever and the cycle itself will break. That's what we're trying to tell you. Oh my god. I understand now. You must take her to the cave of Quickening where the chain focuses the power of life magic. Wizard, I want to consult with the Elder a little more.  I'll catch up. Okay, we're going to leave off here for today. Next time we will talk to Cole, we'll head into the thing, we'll save Malory maybe. Who knows? 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