When we actually act locally, I mean, I'll give you the example of the question that that Mr. King asked about forced labor. You know, one of the things that we're going to do here in the United States is start encouraging our own labor unions and encouraging big importers say look, we don't want to buy stuff. I mean, I'm not willing to pay a discount price. If that discount comes from slave labor. You know, and that gives me another way in which to attack governments that oppress their people.


I'm Zay Gordon and I'm the chess champion of the Wonders. I'm Daniel Agrush and I'm here to challenge the chess champion of the Wonders. I'm Bruce Comell and I'm learning how to play chess. Let's just go tonight. God! God! I think I can do yours. He's moved too. I'm just gonna... They can only take a... Are we just gonna mirror each other? I'm gonna play definitely with Bruce. Just to see what he does. I don't know how to play this. Can I move this to... You can do it. Yeah, man. I can do it too, yeah. You can do whatever you want here. Don't tell me what to do, man. So they can go two or they can go one.  Never go to death. Isn't that checkmate? He's just lost it. Lost what? That's our dude, man. Check. The check means if you don't do something in the next move, he's gonna win. That means you need to move your king. Oh, he's done the little switcheroo. I knew you could do that. That was from year three when I did chess class. I remember that move, the switcheroo. I did chess class to get out of school. You need to make all the people that actually play chess out. You guys are laughing now. It's a great sport. Good game, Bruce. Can you help me, man? I just lost. You want me to help you? I need extra eyes on the table. Come on, scoochie. I feel like I've gone nowhere. I reckon that's worth the sacrifice. No, that wasn't worth the sacrifice. But this guy doesn't get anything. I thought it was any piece. No, the pawns. I told you, explain the rules. This guy, this is as much your fault as this is my fault.  Could you have beaten us like that? For sure. Yeah. I had a plan. I had a plan, bro. You had a plan? I had a plan. I could see it. Oh, God. You got to move it back. Isn't that checkmate? Isn't this your board? Isn't that checkmate? Yeah. That is checkmate, isn't it? Also, yeah.


Fake Russian military uniforms have been produced in Zaporizhia city controlled by the Ukrainian authorities. A source within Russian law enforcement agencies have reported. The fake uniform was meant for the use of Ukrainian sabotage and intelligence groups. According to Russia's TASS news agency, these groups would be sent to the Russian territory. Russian-style military uniforms are being produced in Selena Soin factory in Ukraine's Zaporizhia city for the use of members of the Ukrainian subversive intelligence group upon Kiev's instructions. They carry out sabotage and terrorist acts in the Russian territory with these uniforms, according to the report. The first batch of 100 pieces of uniforms has already been produced, the source said.


Hello, everyone, and welcome to a Jurassic World mod showcase. Yes, I said I wasn't gonna do this, but the sheer speed that these mods are coming out doesn't allow me any chance to actually have a coherent series without showcasing them, you know, doing an episode every day, if not twice a day. So instead, we're gonna do something better, we're gonna release them in here, and just see how they look, their animations, and then, maybe depending on what they are, they get eaten!  So, um, first off, of course you've seen the thumbnail on the title of today's video, we are gonna be looking at Apaiornus Maximus, made by Jagged Fang Designs. Now Jagged Fang Designs have done a load of different dinosaur mods, um, the Pachycephalosaurus, the Taurusaur, I think they really recently released a Tyrannosaurus Rex alternative, and all of these look really, really cool, they're more accurate, or scientifically accurate, some of them have a lot of feathers, or at least you know, a texture that kind of, you know, looks like feathers. I've heard that, uh, apparently this game does not like alphas, so adding a lot of feathers is kind of a hard task.  Oh, it looks good, just look at it! Is it gonna go up into the trees? Are we gonna be able to keep looking at it? It's gonna decapitate itself on the big tree. Where are you going? What are you searching for, actually? Let's have a look, what are you looking for? You're looking for what? Well, I've actually changed this place because you may recognize that this is the Jurassic Battle Arena that we have done in the past! Look at it, it looks so cool with the logs and the different trees and the textures! Oh, and this isn't just the only texture pack that is in the game, there are loads of different types giving you different grasses, different grounds, in some cases, different trees! At the moment, the mod community haven't worked out how to add extra dinosaurs into the game, but the moment all we know is how to change an existing one and, luckily enough, Frontier have been very kind in giving us about five variations of the same type of dinosaur! So, we've got Ankylosaur, Sauropelta, Crichtonosaurus, they're all Ankylosaur, the same with these Ornithomimus, I think they're called, you've got Galamimus, Archeonothomimus, Struthiomimus and if you, let's say, you don't need three of them because they kind of look the same! What if you can change one into a twelve foot turkey? I'm sure that kid from Jurassic Park would have something to say about this if he came face to face with it I mean, it does look feathered, it's obviously not feathered because it's just one simple texture on top of a big blob of a body I mean, look at the bottom wiggle! It does kind of give the illusion that there is weight and the heavy feathered bottom if I can get to it, it's not happy with the trees or wiggling there So, you know what, for what it is, it looks really cool, there he is beside the toilet Just to give you a perspective of how big this dinosaur was, sorry Well, I guess we could call it a dinosaur, it's a bird, right?  No, there they are Okay, oh, this should be a regular one, okay So, we're gonna release all these Now, I don't know whether there is different colors We're just gonna end up releasing a bunch of different turkeys into the enclosure Unfortunately, this pack doesn't come with a change to the dinosaur's look inside The hatchery or their names and stuff Like, if we go to Spinosaurus, that pack was kind enough to come with one of these Which looks amazing, it would be really cool if every mod did that Obviously, it's more work Oh, hold on, it's just got a different head Have you got a bluer head?  What have they called again? Oh, you got... Up-Yornus Up-Yornus Maximus I mean, anything with a Maximus in its name's gotta be glorious So, let's have a look Let's have a look at you Yeah, you've definitely got more of a blue God, this camera keeps on zooming in, doesn't it? And they're still coming, what about your head? Oh, you've just got more of a... The eyes The unblinking eyes They look kind of scary Do they blink? I don't think they do I think they're just a texture Oh, God, it gives like a night of the living dead kind of look to it It's possessed And this one, I think is a coastal Are you a coastal pattern?  Actually, now I'm starting to wonder I don't think any of them have different ones Imagine being on this tour Can you imagine?  Oh, look at them Glorious running around there So, we have, wait, what? One, two, three, four, five Have we got five? Is there one flying off? Yeah, I thought there was one just in the middle, rounding I thought I spotted you You don't want your friends Oh, it looks so good, look at that Looks awesome Also, with the modded series Because we did do it in challenge mode Oh, they're all communicating Because we did do it in What do you call it? In Jurassic Challenge mode It also meant that we had night and day cycles Sometimes the lighting was right Whereas this is sandbox And we are able to control everything, I think Even if we wanted to go to sandbox settings Yeah, if we wanted to change the color scheme back to default And then, boom, there we go More of a greeny-blue-ish kind of tint And actually, yeah, you can see some of them Have a blue little neck And some of them have a pale neck I'm assuming this is to highlight The sexual dimorphism that you've got So the males would be the brighter colors And the females would be the weaker colors Which is quite interesting Even though these are all technically different variants But the moment we've all been waiting for Is what happens when we release a T-Rex But why release a T-Rex When we can release the new and improved toast Oh, yes Now, this one looks a lot different to the one in game Because it's chunky We have the new chunky Carnotaurus Another mod One thing that I realize now After looking at the, you know, the Carnotaurus That we get with Jurassic World Evolution There was something wrong with it I didn't know what it was exactly After looking at this guy, yes It was too scrawny This guy's a big chunky meatball And he's about to go and find a kill I think he's probably going Oh, there they are, over to the right Ooh, is it looking for water? It could be looking for water first Oh, it is And then the hunt will begin Woohoho, lovely, lovely There is a mod on here that actually allows Carnotaurus To have its arms more backwards So it looks a bit more palant Paleontologically accurate We will be able to say this word By the end of my life At some point, I'm going to say Oh, he's found him He's found him Okay, okay, okay Ooh Is it going to be... Oh, can it though Can it actually kill it? Because it's facing in front of the trees Oh, it's going to go for it It's going to go for it No, the chicken Oh, bless it There you go So it dies just like a regular Galamimus would And Carnotaurus, happy with its kill Ooh, goes to sleep Great, great Right, the next thing we need to know Is its other animation When it comes to smaller carnivores Taking it on And what better Than a Dynonocus Does it look any different? Aha, without its head crest Another mod I think this was one of the creatures From the start that when it was released Everyone was thinking, why does it have the frill? Even people who knew maybe that's paleot Paleologically accurate There weren't really too keen on it Because it didn't look practical If I was designing a dinosaur But then again, dinosaurs evolution Sometimes does abide by practicality Sometimes doesn't And here we go We're going to see this guy Is it looking for water though? Oh, it's lonely and looking for water Oh, look at that He wouldn't be able to catch a Galamimus in a lifetime Look at that, unless he, you know Ambushed it or something We've got to keep an eye on this guy though I don't know why he's Why he's running around this way He's sort of running towards the Carnotaurus Don't go that way You are! Oh my god, this is weird Like you've got this whole place That you could be looking for water Are you going to go to the middle to drink? What are you doing?   Yes Wouldn't you be terrified if that was you?


So now we're looking at Microsoft Excel, just bare bones. We've just turned it on and what are we taking a look at? Well, we see that grid like structure that we just talked about. You see that I have A1 sort of being my current cell. This is known as my active cell. And wherever I click, say for example, I click right here, notice how I'm talking about the K column and the row 24. So this is some way for me to identify. This is what I'm talking about. And one of the things I've said was, let's say I put 10 inside of C3. If I hit enter, it will go to the right alignment. And now what I can do, and I'll just zoom in a little bit so we can see this a little bit more in action.  And instead of typing it out, I can actually just click. That's what happens. C3 automatically appears on the screen, times 10. Now, as soon as I hit enter, I'm not gonna see this. I'm gonna see 100. But notice what I had to type in there. If I had just typed in C3 times 10, I would have just gotten text. One of the things that we have to do inside of Microsoft Excel is we have to start any mathematical equation with the equals sign. That tells Microsoft Excel explicitly, hey, I'm gonna do an equation. I'm going to do some type of cell referencing. And I would like you to just at least evaluate that later. Now what I can do is inside of C3 because C3 is just a number, if I change that number to something like 20, that number changes everywhere I have it being cell reference. So I have it here. And if I were to come down here and then make a reference to that, say divided by five, and then this plus 30. If I make one simple change here, all of those numbers change because this one is dependent on this one, this one is dependent on this one, and this one is dependent on this one.


The Kerr force device contains water. The tube has been partially evacuated. We will cool the bottom bulb in liquid nitrogen. As the bottom bulb is cooled, the high energy molecules which escape from the liquid in the top bulb are condensed to solid water in the bottom bulb. As the high energy molecules are removed from the water in the top bulb, the average kinetic energy of the water decreases. As the average kinetic energy of the water decreases, so does the temperature. Eventually, the average kinetic energy of the water molecules in the top bulb have been decreased enough so that the water in the top bulb solidifies.


These are my good friends Dominic and Dana and together we're going to ride bikes around western Cuba. Day one of the Cuban bicycle adventure and it is going to be an adventure. 100%. I was outside of Havana now we made it through the crazy city riding along the Malacone with the waves crashing boom boom boom oh man I was like I didn't think I was going to get wet today in that fashion thought the rain might do it but no we were soaking wet and we taste like we jumped in the ocean because we're all salty now we're looking at the map the maps that were made 15 years ago if we if we find those cells in a place we come very well see the sea definitely made a mistake out of the city and it feels so good and they're drinking water hey guys how are we feeling team great yeah the open road this is the Cuba I remember I didn't ride through Havana last time so that was a little hectic my face and everything I touch is deliciously sea salty still from the waves what do you say we guys go that way I gotta say this is by far the least amount of gear I've ever brought on a bike tour and it's really really freeing my bike I feel like I've forgotten a lot of stuff because it's so light but I don't have anything this right here is the Cuba I remember open roads beautiful beautiful beautiful hi guys hello team Cuba we are gonna ride along the coast today we're not sure exactly how far but I promised Dana that this would be a pretty leisurely bike tour so a max of 50 miles a day the tricky part about this bike ride is we have to end in towns that have houses that rent rooms because we have zero camping gear so we have to stop at a place where we can rent a room Dominic what's on the menu wow I mean what do you like there are some smoothies there's cheese and ham sandwiches and basically a variations on that thing chocolate so good like little ice chunks in it it's so cold and so cold we are in a small town right now called Marielle and we're getting a little snack because that's what you do in a bike tour you get to earn your snacks so we're gonna get some bread for the vegetarians bread and cheese and tomato he's gonna get harmonica so I got a smoothie baby a smoothie it's a good roadside snack I love it I love it so far Ryan thank you for bringing me to Cuba to ride my bicycle how you doing Dana and just like that foods are chill once again no more cars all I can hear is the wind flowing through the sugar cane that's the song of Cuba right there now in the little town of Cabanas so we're just gonna wander around and ask if anybody will rent their room to us because we're pretty friendly aren't we yeah we are and look at this church behind me look at that cool church I talked to the first woman I saw on the street always asked the mamas and she said follow me and so now uh we're following her to some sort of a house I love how in Cuba everybody just helps out like one person sees you asking for help and more people gather and then pretty soon half the community is in on the mission to help you find a room I love it I thought those sweet old ladies were gonna take us to somebody's house but this is like a full on hotel resort there's even a pool it doesn't have any water but there's still a pool and our room is our room is nice check this out look at this we got the beds going on we're all gonna sleep together it comes with the brush this room we got some nice old flowers it's in there oh is that sparkling water no that's beer that's beer Dana darn it you touch those you pay for it this is really cool we've been here five minutes we got into our room and then the guy's like it's time for food we're like what do you mean it's time for food he's like I have food for you and you gave us this amazing meal so here we go this is a great way to uh end an awesome day what do you say guys it's not the end of the day yet we have to explore the town first okay we got to explore the town this is just a snack yeah afternoon snack time not only do we have really yummy food but they have an old western movie on an old old tv i can't drink it all at once hello i'm trying to take video of what's going on here with this kid this wants to be in my camera you're so cute what's up buddy how do you love us how do you love my friend it's like kind of extreme sports multi activity afternoon we've got death trap go-kart behind me which uh oh and we got one of the main competitors here just uh on this subs bench just taking a break taking some water some camera action death trap go-kart you got girls basketball shooting behind me this little party started with like a couple kids on the sled now like all of the kids are around here and it's really hard to use my camera because they keep grabbing at it trying to see it which is great this is what it's all about i'm not here to get amazing shots i'm here to hang out with my homies come on these moments right here remind me so much of when i lived in Honduras for two years as a peace corps volunteer every single day i would round up all the kids from the neighborhood and we would just goof around and we would play with simple toys just like they're doing they have these little scooter cart things with rusty wheels and they push each other around and have the best time ever and brings back a lot of memories of the simple life back in Honduras what a great little town


Go ahead, please. Yes, sir. Mr. President, all aircraft are now back safely accounted for except for the one pilot down in the water. That's good news. It is good news. We'll get that boy back and we'll find out how we cleared it. And no question it will kill some people, you think. I think no question about it. The in-flight report of the flight leader is that it was a successful strike. And the fragmentary reports we've been getting on the deep briefings would seem to indicate that that's correct. Okay. That's good, sir. Right, sir. Right.


Service learning at Fairfield allows students to get out of the classroom and into the community. Courses are designed in partnership with local schools, civic groups, and charitable organizations, combining meaningful field work with academic reflection.  I'm currently taking ED 200 exploration and education. I'm taking environmental economics. We're in a class called vertebrate zoology, and at the Beardsley Zoo they're a little understaffed, and they have a few things that we need to solve and we're here solving those problems. In America nowadays there's a high amount of food waste, so this company, they're trying to preserve a food that is being wasted and bring to local community food banks and churches. I'm working on a policy paper at Neighbor's Link, but in addition I tutor ESL classes. You're able to build a relationship with the kids. You learn different things from the students each day. Students come in here and I think it's a win-win on both sides, as they can give individual attention to our kids and they gain valuable experience. These experiences that you have are so much deeper and so much more personal than just memorizing for a test. You actually see like physical, tangible results of your work. Without real learning you have an objective. You have a purpose. The best way to sort of explain it is that there's the theory inside the class and there's the application outside. It's not just I'm checking off hours, it's that I'm teaching and I'm learning just as much as they are. Once you step out into the community you got to actually see what is being brought to the community and it makes me very excited to be a part of it. The work that the Fairfield University Service Learning students are doing will definitely impact the Bridgeport community and will definitely impact our work. I think it's really important to like applying what I've learned in the past and it's way more engaging than just sitting in a classroom. Service Learning opens you up to the experience of life and life is the experience of diversity and difference and building relationships in those contexts. Obviously you're learning new things like materially and you know educationally and you learn stuff about yourself too while you're doing these projects. You learn things about other people and how relationships work with other people and that type of experience is really invaluable and can't be taught in any classroom.


So this is our first event of our dissertation week. And today we're going to be looking at the data that's available for dissertations. My name is Jen and I work at the University of Manchester and I'm part of the UK data service team. And I've spent a lot of time working on data from some of the large social surveys that are available to be used. And my co-host in this session is Nigel. And Nigel's also a part of the UK data service team at the University of Manchester. And he knows a lot about the census and also survey data. So we're going to first look at what the UK data service is and some of the data that we've got. And then importantly, we're going to consider why you might want to use it in a dissertation. We'll go through some information about how you find and access data. And then importantly, some of the resources that we've got available that might be able to help you when you're doing your dissertation. And then we'll finish off by talking about our dissertation award. We've then got sort of dedicated time for questions, your questions at the end, but you can ask questions as we go through. So we invite you to use the Q&A panel in the software and you can just type your questions in at any point and we might be able to stop as we go through the session, but if we don't pick it up at that point, we'll come back to those questions at the end. So if anything pops into your head, just put it into the question and answer box. Everyone's going to stay muted in the session. So the chat and the Q&A are the main points. We're also going to be using Mentimeter. So yeah, Nigel, if you move on to the next slide in this session. So to test it out, if you could please go to menti.com and use the code that's above. I will just pop in a link in case that helps. Here's a link. So if you go to menti.com and then type in the code that's above the screen. So that's 26467433. And I can see some people are starting to come through. So here we're asking what subjects that you're studying. Just keep this going. Oh, I like seeing it when it moves up and down, getting mixed as it's happening. So that's looking good so far. We've got a nice mix of disciplines and hopefully you'll find out that there's some data that's slightly to appeal right across these different subjects. We've got quite a lot of people in sociology. If anyone in the other section would like to tell us where what you're studying in the chat box, that would be lovely to know. Quite a few criminologists. So economics and psychology. So it's a really interesting mix of people. Oh, we've got some coming through optometry and theology, speech and language communication. Epidemiology, this is brilliant. So a nice real mix of people studying different subjects. Okay, so if we move on to what is the UK data service? So the UK data service is a service that provides access to a wide range of social science data. And it's used by people doing research in universities, but also government and think tanks and businesses too. And the important bit is that it can be used by students too. So it's a resource that's available for you. And we all say that you could do it but also provides training and support. So we do things like this webinar and we've also got resources online. And both the data and our resources, you can all find out about through our website. And we have a very large data catalog with a wide range of data in. So the types of data that we've got is we've got some, the main types we've got are some data from knowledge, types we've got are some data from nationally representative surveys of the UK and some from other countries as well. We've got data from some major longitudinal studies which are following individuals over time. We have data from the UK census and also data from qualitative studies. So this might be things like interview transcripts from projects that researchers have done. And we also have international data. So this is often time series data from organizations such as the World Bank. And we're gonna give some more details as we go on about these different data types but there's a big variety of data that's in our catalog. And topics. So the combined data in our collection covers a really wide range of social science topics. So it ranges from things to do with people at work, people's family life, their health and their finances. So whatever you're working on, there's a good chance that there may be some data that's available, that's relevant to your project. And I think one of the best ways to find out is to have a little quick look yourself. So I'm gonna ask you just to take a few minutes to just about four minutes to have a little look at what's in our data catalog to see if there's things that interest you. So I'm gonna put a link into the chat for you there. So if you go through what you can see, this is a section of our website where you can kind of browse through some of the data to get a feel for what we have and you can look at some themes. So we've got some data that's organized around some key themes and then you can see some of the types of data. So just spend a few minutes exploring around and see if there's anything that's interesting or relevant to you. We've got a question in there, Jen, about accessing the data from outside the UK. Yeah, a number of our users are from outside the UK and there is no issue. You do need to be registered with a UK data service and there's a process for registration. But as a student, you won't have a form of access to it from outside the UK. Brilliant, thank you. A couple of more questions in chat there, Jen. Yeah, I've seen them. So yeah, I think it's sort of time to come back anyway. So will there be data about social media like YouTubers or any kind of social media influencer? So the data that we have available, we don't have social media data as in things like pulled off Twitter or Instagram. We do have some information about how people use social media. But if what you're looking at is sort of getting data from social media platforms, we don't hold that kind of data. But on our website, you can, we're doing some work and we've got some training around how to scrape data from these kind of platforms so that you can build your own dataset. So if that's something of interest to you, then we might be able to point you in the direction of some resources on there. The next question that we have is some of these can't be accessed though. How can we fully use them? So I'm going to talk a little bit about access later on. So just as a short bit now is the data in our catalogue, there's different licenses that come with it. And some you can access very easily and some you need to apply for. And I'll talk through again, which you can and cannot use for a dissertation slightly later on in the session. Okay, and we've got someone brilliant who's interested in doing the web scraping for their dissertation. So yeah, we'll pick that up in a moment. What I'd like to do now is to move on into a quick quiz question here. Oh, I can see that it's people are already going there. So which of the following do you think we have in our collection? So if you can just pop to menti.com again and answer. So the options are 30 years of data from a survey of British public opinion, interview transcripts relating to the regulation of Bingo, regular survey of UK households on the impact of COVID and transcripts of parliamentary debates and data from children born in 2007 different time points. While we're waiting, I'll just pick up on this question of, so someone's asked about data for care experience children and any tips on how to find this data. So I don't entirely know what kind of data you've bought. I'm going to presume you might be looking for quantitative data on care experience children. So one of the things you might want to do is look at surveys of young people. So you can get a representative sample of young people. So there's something called the Millennium Cohort Study that's been following lives of children from 2000. So that might be an interesting one to look at because some of that sample will include care experience children. And we don't have access to sort of any administrative data on care experience children. So I think it would be either qualitative studies or survey data. So looking at those samples of young people. Coming back to this, so we've got every, all of these different things are things that we have in our collection except transcripts of parliamentary debates. So the first relates to the British Social Attitude Survey. So this is a survey that's been running since the 1980s. The second is from a qualitative study that's looked at things to do with the regulation of Bingo which is a kind of majorly profitable gambling form. We've got the Understanding Society COVID-19 Study. So that was running through this from the start of the pandemic interviewing households about socioeconomic impacts of COVID. And then the final one is the Millennium Cohort Study. So this is a longitudinal study following the lives of people born in the Millennium. The information, you can find transcripts of parliamentary records available through Hansard. So at this point, I'm going to then pass you over to Nigel to talk about why you might consider using data from us in your dissertation. Okay, so just to start with just thinking about what are the benefits, what are the issues that you might have? It's clearly easier in terms of time, money and effort if we hold the data that will help you answer the research questions you're interested in. You also know that the data is kind of from a broader sample. So it might come from the past, it might be much larger than you could gather yourself. It might come from other countries. And it has been through processes to make sure it's of a certain type of quality. So in most of our survey data, you can use the mechanisms there to make claims about representative issues in the population. The disadvantage is that the data that you want might not always be available. Or more commonly, it might not be perfect. You might find that what you're trying to explain is not quite covered by the variables being collected, but it might be good enough. And it is a challenge because these surveys are large. So it can be harder to understand. So talking to colleagues, this kind of part of understanding the data you're set you're working with is a significant investment in time. Hopefully we're here to help you in this session, we'll give you a flame of ways to do that. So just to start with, sorry, if you could go on to mentor again and just type in your dissertation topic, just do it free form and we'll see what comes out from what you're saying. So I'll go back in a minute after we've done this. So if you... So this is called a word cloud. So what it's doing is picking up the words that you're using and kind of adjusting the size, depending on the number of people who are saying the same thing. So at the moment, education is kind of sitting there in the middle as the largest one. It looks like it's picking them up individually, right? It's not picking up the individual words either. But if you look across that, there's a massive range of areas you're looking at.  Okay, so I'll leave that on for a few seconds. So the next section of me, I'm gonna talk about the kind of data we have and try and identify whether we have things that you could use in your dissertation. So just to summarize, we have time series data. So this is international data from sources like the World Bank and the Conflict Index. It's aggregated at country and regional level, different time series annually, quarterly and monthly. It's regularly updated and it includes these main kind of data sources, covering a wide range of socioeconomic topics. And here, for example, is a graph derived from that data. So it's looking at the proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments over time. So from 2009, when it was around 20% of seats were held by women, to 2019, where the number got up to 32%. So you can see that increasing representation of women. Now, so gender equality does figure quite highly in international data sets, partly because of the Gender Equality Index has two aspects of human development. So for those interested in kind of broad, comparative data across countries, this is a great resource to use or to think about using to explore. We have UK census data from 1961 to 2011. This year's census data will be available from, start being available from the middle of next year. So probably too late for most of you if you're using up your dissertation this year. The census is important because it's used as a baseline for lots of other statistics and surveys. So when we have a survey, making it nationally representative is linking it back to reflect the population as we understand it from the census. There are a lot of topics. We hold data for small geographies. So this is probably one of the few data sets that gives you the ability to look at the geography of social phenomenon. So the kind of outputs we get are aggregate table data and different geographical levels, boundary data to enable us to map that data and produce kind of charts and maps showing things. Flow data, which is used to show particularly things like commuting patterns, migration patterns. And we also have the data set that has micro data. So that has a number of the variables that you can do quite powerful analysis on. So from the 2011 data set, there are 2.8 million records on the one that is available by end user license. And these are some of the topics. So just to pick out some of them. So in terms of demographics, we have age, sex, profile. So you could look at the profile, age and sex profile of different parts of the UK. We have a whole set of questions around race and identity, religion. We have things around social class generally measured by occupational social class, language, education levels, migration, family and household type. So there's a wide range of information there. We have to be aware that this is taken at a particular place in time. So for example, employment would reflect where people were employed in April, 2021. Given the disruption caused by COVID that may well be quite different. Their pattern of employment, their pattern of commuting may be quite different from what it would normally be. So we have a particular kind of issue with 2021 census that some of the findings will be distorted by the effect of the pandemic. And here's an example of how this could be used to map geographical variations. So the map on the right is of England and Wales. It's showing basically a color shaded, what's called a chlorophyll map with the people, percentage of people born in the UK who have no passport. And as you can see, there is quite a lot of shading, a lighter shading around where London and the Southeast is. So it looks like more people there have passports. There are parts of the country where very low percentage of people, where higher percentage of people don't have passports. And this kind of mapping can be done with many of the variables in the census tables. And then we have surveys. So there's a number of kind of major surveys that we look at. So in terms of understanding employment of work, we have the labor force survey which is carried out quarterly, also has a longitudinal element in that people are asked the same questions over five periods, and is supplemented by an annual population survey. We have information on health from the health surveys for England and Scotland. We have information on family finances on what people spend their money on, what the costs of living are for individual families. And this is one way I think we can understand different costs of living between different people. We have a whole set of stuff around attitudes and opinions. We have crime data and housing and the local environment. So a broad range of topics and this is scraping the surface. There are more in here. Last year I was teaching in a university and one of my dissertation students was asking about data about the 1981 riots. We found in the UK data service a mori opinion poll taken just after the riots about attitudes to young people at the time which was kind of quite interesting and quite varied data that I wouldn't expect to find there and was a bonus to the student who will be working on that dissertation now I suspect. So an example here is understanding society. So this is one of our largest surveys. It takes 40,000 households and follows them over a long period of time. Within that there are 100,000 individuals. So all members of a household are surveyed in different ways. So there are specific questions for 10 to 15 year olds for example. To address a better understanding of race and ethnicity there is a boost sample of ethnic minorities and in the last year and a half there have been eight ways tracking COVID-19 related questions. So it covers set of topics including employment and earnings, benefits, party identification, finances, environmental behaviours, family life, ethnicity, religion, et cetera, et cetera. And it tracks those over a period of time. So the question was what is a boost sample? So because a random sample wouldn't select enough from each individual ethnic minority to enable proper statistical comparison there is a sample collected additionally which is targeted at raising those numbers of different ethnic groups. So any kind of boost sample is about rebalancing the sample you've collected. The data's internationally comparable and can be used cross-sectionally or cross-waves. Understanding society followed on from the British Household Panel Survey. So if you, a lot of researchers will go back over quite a long period of time to see what's happened. A second survey we've mentioned already is British social attitudes. So this has been carried out nearly every year since 1983. It explores public attitudes and it's kind of driven by the interests of the day, I suppose. So what we can see is patterns of continuity and change within that. The samples are around 3,000. Every year there are core questions around background and aspects of identity. And then different modules are done on social economic, political and moral issues. And each year there's a headline report from this which is interesting reading, if only to see what people are interested in in the 80s, the 90s, et cetera. So there are quite different concerns at different times and sometimes echoes of the same kinds of concerns coming through. The next section is around qualitative data. And I just found this one, there are various things. So when you search on the data service site, if your search topic is held in qualitative data, you will get a list back of things and you can specifically search for it. So this was looking at just his work as views on implementing policy. And the abstract here tells you what this is. So when you go into it, you will then get the transcripts of interviews collected as part of this study. And you would also be able to see publications linked to this study. So qualitative data can be quite useful. We're not the only source of it, but it is a good secondary source of data for many studies. So let's just ask another question about what kind of data interests you? A good answer push, I think. Push just answered all, because I think it depends on your question, but you might find that your question will make use of different types of data. Okay, so that's with about 30 people answering. Quite a lot of people interested in qualitative data. Okay, I've got a question here from Sai about data not always being available. I'll try and think of an example and get back as I'm talking. But I suppose if you've got a specific question and you're interested in answering that, then you're looking for data that will help you answer it. And sometimes the data we have might not be a perfect way of doing that. So for example, I've worked with the English Housing Survey quite a lot. And the English Housing Survey is interesting because it tries to ask people from across the whole social gradient. So it tries to talk to people living in quite elite circumstances. And it does so, but in recording the income of those elite individuals, it caps it at £100,000 a year, which means you can't really see the really rich people and isolate them from that survey. So you've kind of got an imperfect way of getting the views of the elite about aspects related to housing and their housing experiences. It's not the best example that, but I think that's the kind of thing where you might find you're gonna have to make some compromise, either by taking a less than perfect measure or leaving, looking for some other data source. We've got a question there about quantitative financial data, which I think we have got business data, but my feeling is that a lot of that is in secure labs. I don't know if Jen can compliment that answer because it's commercially sensitive. Yeah, so if it's business data, a lot of that is in available. So it's in the secure lab, which means it has secure access only and it's not possible to use that for a dissertation. If it's household financial data, then there's quite a lot of survey data with details of household finances. So income benefits and expenditures on different items. So I'd be interested to know a little bit more about what type of financial data. Yes, that's right. It's the data, there will be data available, but it might not fully match your research questions. So then you make a choice about how to deal with it. Okay, so I'm going to move on and pass over to Jen again. So I was gonna share with you two case studies. So these are dissertations that students have done using data from the UK data service. And interestingly, they both use the same data set. So to look at quite different issues, which shows some of the versatility that of the data sets that are available. So first we have a dissertation that looked to explore how social class influences perceptions of the environmental crisis and pro-environmental behaviors, such as buying recycled goods or doing different transport options. And they used understanding society data. And in this dissertation, the student used a range of sort of statistical techniques to look at the types of behaviors that people do, and then to examine how they vary by social class. And then they used some sort of more complex regression models to look at how these factors vary by social class when you can control for other factors. So things like age. And in their analysis, they found that there was a variety of class differences in perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors. And then they went on in the conclusion to discuss what these findings might mean with reference to the literature that they read and reviewed at the beginning. And so when asked why they use this data, the student Elizabeth explained that she'd use the data because it allowed her to examine the topics that she was interested in, so environmental behaviors, but she could use a representative sample that was also large enough to examine differences across different socioeconomic groups. And then the next case study also made use of understanding societies. If we just go, yeah, brilliant. So this was Rosarine who examined the effects of family and school attachments in relation to youth violence. So in this case, they used data from understanding society's youth questionnaire. So some of these large studies have sort of different, so they might have their main sample, they might have the boost sample that we talked about before, that allows you to look at certain groups, and here they do a specific youth questionnaire. So it's looking at a survey of the young people within the households of the main sample, and it looked at various aspects of young people's lives. So in her dissertation, she used, again, sort of a range of descriptive statistics and biberial analyses to explore different aspects of family and school attachment and how they relate to violence. And then they used the data to do a regression analysis that could look at these multiple factors together. And again, Rosarine sort of chose this data because it gave her a nationally representative sample of the sort of young people that she was interested in. So more than just any survey of that young people from a school, it was a nationally representative sample of young people. So just looking at these two, there's lots of different possibilities, even from the same study, different ways you might use it in your dissertation. And so next I'm gonna look at how you find data. So we've done this briefly just by looking at the page before, but the main bit about finding data from us is that there's a searchable data catalog that's available on our website. And there's an awful lot of data in this catalog. So as Nigel was saying before, when he was looking after a dissertation student, he came across a study he'd never heard of before. So all sorts of things when we look in this catalog, we find new and interesting things each time. And you can search through it using search terms like you would in any other sort of search tool. And then there's options for how you refine your search or sort some of the results. And as you saw before, there's also some sort of data by themes as well. So those theme pages give some insights into data that's available on key topics, but it's not exhaustive of what's in the data catalog.  But I think what's really important first is to emphasize that some of the other ways that you'll learn about what data is available. So as you're reading around your topic, you might come across studies that other people have used. So if you're reading the research that's been done on the topic of your dissertation, you'll find that some of the key data sets have been used before. So if you pay attention to the type of data that other studies have used, you might find an option that's suitable for you as well. And also talk to your supervisors about options of what studies they might be aware of. And a final option is librarians. So librarians actually have a great deal of knowledge about different types of data and how to search things like these data catalogs. So if you are doing this search for data, these are also important things to think about before going on to search the catalog. And so I'm gonna now just share my screen. So this is the UK Data Service homepage. And you can start searching for data from this homepage. We've got a search bar here and you can just type in a search term and then click search. Another option is you might know a particular data set that you're looking for. So a quick way of finding it is just to type in the name. So perhaps you've heard of Understanding Society and you've seen it being used in your area. So you can just type it in and it will bring up a list of the studies. And there's also this find data menu. And then from here you can go to find and access and browse data. So these were the theme pages that you saw before. So that just picks up some key themes. We try and build on this as we go along with new themes there. And you can also, if you know what particular type of data you're looking for, you can start limiting your search by data types. So I'm gonna give an example around searching for data on sort of mental health and wellbeing. So one of the things I can do is type in my search term, press search, and I now get some results here. So as you can see, this brings up over 2,000 results with the search term wellbeing. Now something that's worth highlighting is if you do slightly change the spellings that you use instead of hyphenating, I go for just wellbeing. I get a slightly different number of results. So it's worth, if you are sort of searching the catalogue for by a particular topic, it's just to try different search terms or different spellings of search terms. And what you need to do at this point is to think about how data might be indexed. So if you're looking for survey questions that have looked around wellbeing, what are the options there might be? So there's wellbeing and you can see some options that come up when you start typing it in. Or it might be that actually you want something more specific and you're interested in data that measures depression. So if I click on that, I get a slightly smaller number of studies. And then it comes to options for refining the search. So one of the things you might do is to, by default, it brings up all studies across all sort of periods. But if you want to actually just narrow it down to say the last five years, you can just add in the, the date and then refine as well. So now I've got, again, a smaller number of studies. So it starts to become a bit more manageable, the data that you're finding. And then you might want to look for data by a particular data type.  So this process of searching for data is definitely a time consuming aspect.  We can also connect search terms together. So if say I'm interested in the idea of wellbeing and how that relates to something else such as housing, I can type in wellbeing and housing. And then this will search for all studies that have these two terms listed in them. So I start to see that I've got some information from the English Housing Survey coming up as well as some other big surveys. So it gives you the option to then start narrowing it down a little bit further. And we have two tabs here. We have studies and series. So if I go over to series, what this does is it brings up some of the major studies that have gone over time. So when there's more than one dataset related to that study and it just lists the main study. So here I've got the English Housing Study. So if I'm interested in the idea of wellbeing and how it relates to housing, it looks like the English Housing Study might be a good option to go for. And if I find something that's interesting, I just click on it and then it takes me through to the records for it. So here I've got the sort of main page for the English Housing Study and you get a short little description of it. And then there's the option to access data. And that takes me on to the sort of different types of data associated with that study. And I can click and then start to see individual records relinked to that study. And if I just click on it, I then get to a bit where I find more description and options to access data. So if we just go back to the slides and what we think now is if you can have a go searching the data catalog. So there's two options at this point. One option is that you can search for your own topic if you kind of got a sense of what it is you're looking for and just try doing different search terms or try browsing for any relevant themes and using some of the techniques filtered by date and see what you find. And if you come across anything that seems really confusing, you can put your questions in the chat. If you're not quite sure how to do it for your own project you can take on the example. So you can look at data to research the impact of outdoor spaces on mental health and wellbeing and have a little go and see what you find with that. So we'll sort of give you about seven minutes or so just to have a little look through and see what you come up with. So I've got a question here about studies that have a dissemination embargo. So what this tends to mean is that they, so researchers nowadays, if they're sort of publicly funded are required to deposit the data that they create. So it may be that this is a study that someone's recently done and they've deposited the data but as part of that process they're allowed to have a little sort of period in which they can write up their results and get them published before the data is made available to other people. I'd have to look specifically at the study to sort of understand more and that's a type of query that you could come with us to the drop-in session on Thursday or contact the help desk to find out for sure. But it might be that at this point it's not available to any other researchers apart from that research team that collected the data. Okay, so hopefully that's giving you a little insight into searching the catalogue and some of the issues you might come across. And as I said, it's not necessarily always an easy job. So if you do encounter problems when you're searching do sort of talk to some of the people that you know or get in contact with our help desk and we can see if we can help you. Some questions that came up in that session. So one question was around trying to find a qualitative study got the answer, so data collection only consists of metadata and documentation as the data could not be archived due to legal, ethical and commercial constraints. So in this case, what happened is is that the qualitative data itself can't be held in the archive, most likely because it's just too hard to make it not identifiable to the people. So this is a big issue with qualitative data and archiving is to make sure that people can't be identified by the data or it doesn't sort of break any of the participant confidentiality. But if you come across things like that you can talk to us at the help desk or any named person associated with the data and see what's possible. We did also have someone ask if there's a way to find the most and least used data in the server. And so I think this is factored into some of the relevant scores. So if you search for data and then sort it by relevance or pick up some of the more well used data in our help section as well. If you go to the help section there is some lists of key data sets by data types and these are organized by sort of survey data qualitative data, international data. And there's some lists with links to some of the most well used ones. And I think that's all the questions that came up at that point. So what I'll do now is to move on to talk about accessing data. So when it comes to what you can access for a student project, our main message is that sort of students can access most of the data in our collection, but there are some data sets that cannot be accessed for undergraduate projects. So data sets come with different types of licenses and the difference between them normally reflects differences in the ability to sort of identify people in those data sets. So we have some open data sets and these are data sets that are available in our catalog and you can just download them straight away and share them and use them and without needing to register or do any sort of authentication. And you can definitely use these in your project. And we have a lot of data that's classed as safeguarded and is available with something called the end user license. And these types of data, what you need to do is register with us. And if you're at a UK university, you will use your university login. So it will redirect you to your university login and you start to register using those details and you'll need to fill out a short form and agree to some conditions. For those not at a UK university, you need to first register to get a sort of data archive login and password and then you fill in the form to agree to conditions after that. So there's a slightly extra step in the process, but otherwise it's still fairly straightforward and once you've registered, you can then set up a project and download data to use from then on. So it's not a big project process to do that. Some data comes with some additional conditions that need to be fulfilled before you can access the data. And these may or may not prevent you accessing them. So they tend to be varied by different studies. And what you need to do is read the details in the catalogue record. Now, one thing to flag up is sometimes fulfilling the conditions. There's no reason why you can't do them, but it does take a little bit of time. So for example, one of the most common ones is that permission from the data owner is needed to use the data in the way that you want to use it. And while that might not prevent a student doing an undergraduate dissertation from doing it, it just might take a little bit too long for the time scale that you have for your project. So that's another reason that if you're thinking about using this type of data is to start looking for your data early just in case you do encounter any of these issues. But most of the data comes without these special conditions. And then finally, we have some control data that's only available under secure access. And this kind of data isn't available to undergraduate students doing projects at the moment. So how do you know if you can access data? So if we go to the next slide, the first thing you can do is just to have a look at the title. So often, especially if it's a data set associated with one of the big studies, is the title will include some information about accessibility. So it might include the term secure access or it might say special license access. So these will be a sort of flag that you may or may not be able to access that particular data set. And then once you click and go through, there's the purple button that says access data. If you click on that, then you get all the details. And absolutely, if anything isn't clear at that point then get in touch and just check with us. So at this point, I think we've got another question for you. So at the moment, what are you thinking you might do for your dissertation? Do you think you might be collecting your own data or thinking about doing some secondary analysis of data from us or from other places? Or perhaps you might be looking at doing a combination of the two, so collecting some data and doing some secondary analysis. Wow, so at the moment, we've got a 50-50 split between doing secondary analysis and then a combination of collecting data and doing secondary analysis. Brilliant. So what I'm going to do is to pass this over to Nigel, who can talk to you about some things we might have that can help you. I'm just going to kind of go quite quickly through this. So basically getting started, I think the learning hub is the starting place for this. And what I'm going to do is pop a link in the chat so you've got it and then go to it and just show you what it looks like. Can you see the learning hub now? Yeah, we can. Yeah, okay. So this brings together a number of things that are useful. So an obvious starting point would be new to using data. So what this does is give you some background on what secondary data analysis is, talks about specific modules we have and why sharing research data. And in the final section, kind of brings you up to a student's guide to the UK data service. So if I just click on that, it will kind of go through some of the things we're saying, but with more links so you can dive in more detail from here so you can navigate from that student guide down. We've got other sections on data skills, modules, survey data, so the different elements, computational social science and a section on the kinds of software and tools. So I don't know where you're up to with what software you're choosing to use, but this gives you some information about the kind of tools, including the one that is available to do basic analysis on the UK data service site itself, NESTAR. So for exploring data, you don't necessarily need to be able to use the packages like SPSS and Stator and RR, whichever you've been taught. You can start to look at data using NESTAR, some stuff around geography and so on. So just I'm just gonna go into the data skills module. So in here, these are interactive modules supported by videos and quizzes. So you can go through and do these. So you've got instruction to survey data, if you're looking at longitudinal data and aggregate data. There's also one coming soon, that's exploring crime surveys with RR, and this is a space that we will be adding to over time. So I'm just gonna go back to the presentation because I'm conscious we've got, we allocated some time for questions. So I'm going to skip over what I've talked about already. So the student guide, the data skills modules and the other guidance. So there are links in the presentation that you'll be able to follow when you look at it yourself, but rather than going through all of those, what I wanna focus on is the kind of other things we do. So we have a program of events that covers a range of potentially relevant topics. So it's probably worth watching out for those. You can get those on the website. So my links aren't working. And we've also got the YouTube channel with recorded videos of sessions that we've done. Okay, do you want to take over again, Jim? So I was going to finish by talking about the dissertation award. So we have something for those thinking. If you're thinking you might use our data in your dissertation, we are running a dissertation award this year. Could you put on the slide, Nigel? So this award aims to recognize students who have included some analysis of our data in their dissertations. And we're looking to award the three best dissertations and they'll receive a 300-pound award and publicity. So who can enter? So the award is open to undergraduate students at UK universities doing a dissertation on a social science topic. And to enter, you need to complete an entry form and send it to us by the 29th of June. And you can find out all the information in the learning hub that Nigel has shown you. So under new users and go to the student section. On the next slide, I'm just going to talk through a little bit about the entry form. So we try to keep it fairly simple. And what we ask for is the title of your dissertation and then information about the data that you've used. So you need to describe your research aims and questions. So sort of telling us what you did, what you wanted to find out and why. And then describing the data that you've used, why it suited your research aims and some of the methods that you used. And just to sort of write a little bit about the things that you found out during your dissertation and what they might mean in terms of sort of policy or something like that. And then you need to include sort of one example of the data that you've used as evidence. So something like a really good graph or if you're using qualitative data, some codes you've used or a really good interview transcript. So some way that you've used data as part of the dissertation. And in previous years, we've had a really lovely mix of entries with students from using all sorts of different data sets and working on varied topics. So if you do use data in your dissertation accessible from us, please consider entering the award. And there's details of past winners on the learning hub as well. So you can kind of get a sense of which sort of dissertations have done well. And using the entry form, once we'll do that, we'll shortlist and then we'll look at the dissertations of the shortlist, we'll send them off to the judging committee. And I think that's it for me. So I'll just finish off by sort of recapping that there's lots of data that's available to use either on its own or in combination with other data. And there's all the resources that we have on the learning hub. So do sort of check those out. And if you do use our data, then do consider entering the dissertation award.


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I'm Tom Cochris. I'm a PhD candidate at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Jerasens Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. So after myocardial infarction, part of the heart of the patient is damaged and stem cells are applied to restore the functioning of the heart again after such an event. And this causes increase in life expectancy and quality of life of the patient. The function of the stem cell is actually three-fold. First of all, stem cells can replace lost cardiomyocytes. Second, they can stimulate the formation of new blood vessels, which is called angiogenesis. And third, they secrete a certain protein cocktail which prevents the surrounding cells from dying. The stem cells can be obtained from the patients themselves or they can be obtained from a donor and they are injected into the circulation of the patient or directly into the heart. When the stem cells are injected in the patients, people see that only a small fraction of the transplanted cells are delivered in the heart and the majority of the cells ends up in the spline and in the liver. So what we did, we developed a new platform for local stem cell delivery using ultrasound and macrobubbles. So what we do, we coat the stem cell with these macrobubbles, which creates an ecogenic complex, which we name a stem bell. And these stem bells, they can be directed to the infarcted area after injection using an external ultrasound probe. So only at the site where we put the ultrasound probe, the stem bells are pushed towards the vessel wall where they can bind and then graft at a later stage. So more stem cells are delivered at the site of the infarct where you want them to be. We are now in their preclinical stage, but we hope this will lead to application in clinical trials in the future. I hope you enjoy reading our full paper at the Biotechnology and Bioengineering website and please contact us if you have any further questions. Thanks for listening.


Welcome to the metal voice returning guest Bobby Blitz all the way in the east coast I'm waiting to find some territory, but I'm actually in Jersey. I'm in Jersey. All right New record Bobby. I heard it for the first time yesterday like quickly. I didn't get it much time to absorb it But I was completely impressed. I mean scorched coming out April 14th. I think a nuclear blast Wow I think, you know, I guess covid has been good to you like in that sense, right? I don't let's say it hasn't been good to us. We took it. We took advantage of the opportunity of Gotcha luxury of time. I think that that would probably be the best way to put it Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's directly responsible. I think for the results, especially my results on it I think the other guys You know, they they tweaked and pushed and pulled and pinched and You know added things over that Over that three year period But for me, I I mean I tore that record down a few times just to make sure that it was that it was a metal record You know worthy of the luxury of time, you know as as opposed to hit and run kind of everything This is these are the things that kind of stood out.  It's just there's a different tone to the sort of like the guitar fills and and just the the guitar parts and the solos lots of diversity very melodic and uh, man those tempo changes Jesus, you guys are just I think that's a pretty good take. I mean, especially for one listen type of the thing that you know to start with the production We we use Collin Richardson again. He's been he's this is his fourth project with us and he's uh You know beyond He's a friend. We trust the guy, you know, he's he did a record for us from soup to nuts called kill box and That is a heavy piece of real estate. I think it was just released in 2004 when the The popularity of the genre was not way up there wasn't at its healthiest state but that's one of the best sounding fucking records we've ever done and Directly responsible to him, you know, he is there directly responsible for that So when he did this mix, you know, we didn't give him a lot of guidance I mean we did the production and kind of guided him along with regard to what our ideas were but not generalization and sound But I do remember saying to him Or did he say to him rather we agreed on this Um, you know, we wanted a record that you could play really loud But it doesn't tire you out that if you know sometimes get one of those records you put on four tracks You got it on and not and you go I gotta take a break. I need a nap It's heavy as fuck, but I need a nap And I think he did that And the way he did it was that he used Um, for instance, some of the natural drum resonance from the room that he mixed in with whatever was digital He he did a throwback guitar back to the like the kind of early 90s So it's really something it's like it's like capturing two errors It's like capturing something in the past and exactly the present and listening to those two errors simultaneously So that's where that big fat production comes from That's a very actually you nailed it. I feel like sometimes it's like the first two records Especially when your vocals on some parts, right? Whereas The intensity of course is the last few records, right? Um, tell me about Scorched to me is sort of the song itself and maybe describe that a little bit to people I mean, this is like it kind of reminds me of like a meatloaf song in a sense where It doesn't sound like meatloaf. Don't get me wrong. It's sort of like it's long Melodic and there's just so many things going on But it still retains its melody at the end of the day and in its intensity. Tell me about scorched the song Where the fires were burning and the dives were howling Bout out of hell it's a perfect Shit man, I got laid to that record. I love I was like that was my introduction. That was like the time of my introduction into girls. I was actually in high school Scorched, um, you know I tend to agree with you because when you get into that chorus It becomes that kind of a hokey sing song type of a back and forth thing even though it's got hits You know, it's heavy heavy approach to it So it has kind of a traditional thrasher with kind of a a rock and roll sing song approach But the thing to me that makes the record That sets the tone for the record is the guitar intro into the song scores And the reason I say that is because the way I was describing the production prior is being two errors But listening to it simultaneously This is something to me that as soon as I heard it on the demo I thought to myself man This is is the way to open a record because it sets the tone for what's to follow that not just the song scorched But everything beyond that and what I mean by that is that it's from that other Place it's something that you would have heard You know a maiden or a priest do back in you know the early 80s They would do something lean on that guitar heavy shit So it sets the tone for everything and perfect for walking into scorched Which has got that kind of rock and roll sing song vibe to it That is uh, just packaged up neatly in a in a thrash package What about the lyrics scorch your scorched the earth scorch your brain Well burn it all down right I mean this was written this was written during the pushback You know what I'm saying?   I'm sitting here by myself I'm writing overkill lyrics. I'm like, oh, no This isn't me So It's it's the beginning of the pushback. You know, you know what I mean?  I go wait a second. This is bobby and is uh I would say taking over days maybe, uh, you know, sort of more of the clean to Screamo like and then back to clean again and I thought we were going to start with a disco fever or something I don't know. It had that sort of Sort of a spacey vibe at the intro, right? You want to tell people about that? It's uh, you know, I think the key to to good songwriting or at least for us anyway Is to be able to marry different things together to be able to stitch them together seamlessly Whether it be a riff or whether it be a breakdown or a mellow part into a heavy part Um, first is the the song the surgeon, which was the first single we did It's all It's a collection of like six riffs But you don't realize it until you start counting them and that's because they're They're stitched together seamlessly and on the swamp fever.  Moody and mr. Mellow and mr.    That was like frigging high, man I could do that. I mean, I got no problem with the highest. I got problem with the load All right But I like, you know, I got to say it was refreshing I have to say it right and you know, it's it's to your point at the beginning of this conversation You want to put on an album that people won't get exhausted after the fourth song, right? But with a lot of interest and you know, it's eclectic. It's diverse. It's um It's got different dynamics and characteristics. How do you make that an overkill record? You know, it's traditional heavy metal. It's got mellow sections. It's got groove. It's got fresh It's got rock and roll. It's got blues.  You rewrite the lyrics three times, right? I would have liked to hear the lyrics in the first round you still The alternate lyrics, right? I didn't change anything. I didn't know any more words But then there's a song like um, what was the second song? Won't be coming back and and this is where again more diversity when you're hitting that verse You're going what what's going on? It's it's just again, you're you're I don't know what it maybe it's just more melody It's just more melody that verse the way you sing that verse on won't be coming back It kind of changes a bit from the typical sort of overkill You know verse we'll say There there's a lot of melody injected in this and that is directly due to the fact Of how the music was written it called for it. It's just that simple it You know doing a song like won't be coming back with you know a a three note Thresh You know screamo type verse I think would have killed that song. I mean it's it's uh It's a beautiful melodic piece.  That's fine But you become better at what you do.   She was the best It doesn't necessarily mean that it just means it was your first experience with it But I said songwriters as we've gone along along have matured and that is all over this record And that was a dirty word in my 50s, but in my 60s mature is actually an okay word for me And you know, I also noticed and I'm trying to try to find this song. I have a list here Again, I heard it once right? So I'm just trying to absorb as much as I can There was a part with the the choir like you had a choir going on in the background in the midsection I remember what song was that it's the uh fourth cut. It's called twist of the wick Wow, that was a great song. Yeah guitar harmonies This this was a oh yes and the choirs on the midsection.    I was decorating the cake, you know What I mean they baked the cake. I decorated and it's um, that's a that's a unique song and that center section is funny I didn't even I was so stuck on that song I just didn't fucking know what to do with it And I and I finally kept working and working harder and I kept skipping over the center section because I wasn't gonna sing in it Well, in any case, I'm sitting in the studio with the guy I work with and I'm like, all right I think we're good.  That's beautiful But then you also Not only that kind of Sort of material or that sort of diversity then you go back to the traditional sort of heart of they fall with the gang vocals, right? I mean if I would have removed your voice and put Zetro's voice there it could have been an exodus song in that sense, right? That's a good point That's a good but that they do that they do a lot those gang folks. That's that's one of their staples for sure. Yeah Yeah, so it's nice to hear that Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, okay. So just tell me about the lyrics now We talked about the music. What kind of topics were you covering in terms of lyrics? Okay, we got the covid bit, right?  I mean you're you're stuck. You're alone, you know, you're I look when you why I got the fresh clams start everything around in the pot. It's um You know again Not to be redundant But talk about how about this talk about the lyrics you're most impressed with like really meant a lot to you from which song How's that? Well, look for instance at the surgeon if that was taken from a negative perspective Um, it was depressive if it was taken from a clear the infection Perspective it becomes positive So I took the surgeon and went from that negativity into almost a bloodletting type of a feel, you know and a midi the medieval Lost art of bloodletting when when you know, the body is worn out. So sure it is covid Responsible with regard to that The outcome of that song but only in a positive type way You follow me?  Here's um, you know, this was a this was a unique Conversation I had with DD and we hardly ever talk about what where we're going what we're doing He might say wow, I got a lot of riffs on this one. That's simple, right?  Where we're going to do I said you write it like it's the last one I'll write mine like it's the last one and we'll see what happens In any case I'm writing My stuff and I'm working on won't be coming back and I just injected that thought Lyrically into that song that saying hey, you know, write it like you're dying Write it like you're not coming back write it like It's the most important thing in the world and we'll succeed And so that was kind of the the basis of of that song All right, what about the girl one, uh, just was it uh, no her name Oh, just very very You know, it's just it's a metaphor for liberty um And liberty, uh, you know the gift from the french that we have in new york harbor actually cindy jersey New york claims it but it's absolutely ours. It's on that waterline. Yes Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. It's yours just like giant stadium is yours That's also your jersey strange enough You know, it's funny because I was looking at a map once and i2 was I thought was under the impression The statue of liberty was in new york territory, but it's not right and I realized that when I looked at a map I go wait a second something's not right here. What the hell's going on It's like new yorkers.    Oh, yeah, we got the statue of liberty I know you don't We're lyrics were I was I on so uh, yeah, no name. No name just okay Yeah, just uh, you know a take a metaphor for liberty Protecting it understanding it Not changing history for convenience.    So so that's part of that Uh bag of bones is a journey. It was just a fun kind of a journey All the songs are mock titled at one point and uh, that one was mock titled last one and the You know, I thought it was because he wrote did he wrote that riff last and I said, oh, this is the way you wrote last He said no, I wrote this pretty early on. It's just that it seems like a stand alone next to all the other ones It seems like it's on its own Uh, probably because of the big fat groove in it. I said, yeah, you know something You're actually right. It does seem like the one song that is the kind of oddball, you know of the of the entire of the entire group So we decided that it should stay last and all I did was have some fun with it, you know, and we did the Steven Tyler Joe Perry kind of uh Harmonies in the chorus did he and I singing them? So so again just an eclectic vibe through the whole thing church bells cellos wires harmonies, you know on and on and on All right, so give me In one sentence for someone who's never heard this album. Give me one sentence how you would define it And I know you gave me a lot of we talked a lot about so a lot of areas One sentence, how would you define this album?  George is where we've been And what we are All right, okay All right, so you have a tour coming up you're going back to I think it's germany and spain, correct Yeah, I'm most of western europe. I mean italy you'll be in there france belgium holland Switzerland it's gonna be it's gonna be that's like april time frame, correct right right before the release. So it's the 13th we go um 13th is our first show the the release worldwide is the 14th. I think it's the same day as some other thrash band and must something Medals medallica medallica medallica good old medallica Is that one l or two ls? Uh, how about canada? I I can't even remember the last time you played in canada overkill Just never seems to really come back and I know it's not something you're responsible for right like I mean, it's you know, you're your people your handlers are taking care of these things But is are there any plans to come to canada? Well, I mean sure. I mean we always plan to come there.  Do I mean drop the 30% tax? Justin It's true. It's true.  We're getting x amount of money That's 30% is actually more than a profit. We're coming up to like sell 100 t-shirts. That's really what we're doing And it's not I have nothing against going to count it.     No tax. That's true. No damn that true.  You screwed everything up Closie pictures and sometimes they're from the temples and stuff For the record, I did not vote for him. I did not vote for him Due to the I'm just trying to be humorous about it. But yeah, me too. Me too.  So Yeah, yeah, uh going back to the early years, right? Um Of course johnny, you know and and marshes azula brought you guys in from mega force I don't know if the word is discovered but I guess took you on would be a better word You make that transition to atlantic was was it worth moving to atlantic records? Would have been a better decision to sort of maybe i'm not sure what happened, you know behind the scenes, but Looking back now, was it a good idea to go atlantic or maybe just stay a little more independent even though there was a I believe you guys were working together, right mega force and atlantic at one point, but It's actually just a distribution deal at the front and we were dealing directly with mega force for the first, uh You know field of fire was on mega force only then the distribution was the next records that came after that up until Horoscope and then halfway through horoscope. We were directly to atlantic Um, you know, I've had different answers for this in the past But you know as I get older i'm not saying i'm get wiser, but maybe more have more understanding and the understanding to me is that It was worth it because you know, it was a huge Conglomerate it had money up the wazoo. It put us in a position to be promoted at the highest level Um, and I think that laid the groundwork for what followed now Obviously, I'm much more comfortable in a smaller underground condo label. That's the kind of band. This is Um, they understand me. I understand them nuclear blast. I mean, it's a big It's a big label, but it has an underground mentality to it And that's and that's why it works for overkill But without atlantic all those people wouldn't have seen us there wouldn't have been necessarily two videos for the horoscope record that wouldn't have been Uh as much Promotion, so I think it laid the groundwork for what followed and what followed that You know very soon thereafter was grunge. That's when we left, you know, atlantic Because we weren't the flavor of the day anymore. Nobody was trying to find the the new Metalica, you know, the top did they did they sit you at a table and say look guys You have a choice here. Are you gonna play grunge like music or are you just gonna continue? That's that's always a myth. I've never I've never been put in a position like that by anyone in a label, you know I mean, I sure I have a feeling they don't always understand Um, you know some of the big guys really just they're just being counters, you know the being counters give them Tell them what's you know, what is really popular? This is really popular Look how many units they sold at that particular time But I think that you know if we're coming into that 90s era Where that whole new depressive kind of a Vibe came in with you know, uh the seattle sound. I mean, so it's great. Don't get me wrong. I mean it was But they It gave us we were already promoted at such a high level that even the fall-off that was going to happen Didn't hurt us to the point where we had to go away a lot of bands had to go away because of that You know, they went home and they lived in their parents base, you know, we were like, okay We've been promoted at a high level. Just don't take the call when seattle calls. Just don't take the call I guess that's it when they're telling us to go home.  We'll just leave. Yeah I'm saying and we found other labels that invested in us and we found great tours And we still did south america japan went to europe every year and a little bit of a hard time reaching the west coast of the US because there's like such a dead space From the mississippi to california But now that's all gone away and and I think a lot of that is due to the fact that uh, Atlanta promoted the band for that That amount of time, you know, I think it's a it's a similar story with all bands, you know mid-level bands will call it Even though they didn't get the money they wanted from the big labels. They got the exposure That carried them through first, you know decades later, right? And uh, that seems to be the same old story like they didn't pay me but that name Resonates, you know for decades sure sure. I mean and I I've run into a lot of guys They didn't pay me but the the whole thing is it is it is not about the quick hit. It is about the long View the long ride, you know I mean if you think about the value in the music that you and I love I mean it's transcended at this point at least three generations And that to me is that is valuable.  I mean, but that's uh, that's a good view to to be able to say that this is this is how I spent my life. So am I looking to get paid? No, I'm looking at I'm looking to get, you know Canadian shows and not have to pay to do them but The point is this is the satisfaction is huge is times 10 the amount of money we would take out any What are some cool moments? Okay, you you know, you open for slayer. I believe at Halloween Right back in their heyday to mega death p-cells. What are some cool moments you remember from back in those days? Well, I think I got it. I gotta tell you a cool moment I think I got to move on because I got a radio. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Sure. Sure.  Um We met in in 1988 we went on the road with with slayer and motorhead.  They were great dudes. They were on the record 1916 We were doing under the influence. I think slayer was south of heaven So it was a great lineup with a great punch and years later years later in Seven Motorhead had us had us come on And do the german shows we did like well over 13 german shows with them and the last night was in berlin And it was just like 88, you know what I'm saying? I mean they never forgot my first name and they You know always cordial and I'd have beers with them at a festival or something where in any case the Lightman biggie walks in and he goes blitz Let me want to talk to you and I was like, oh, all right So I walked down and these overseas drink was sitting there.  So I go back to the dress room. I know the song cold But I take I I open my arm up like this and I take a sharpie and I write the first word Of every verse.  Forget the first word. Everything else is going to fall So he wants me to sing in his mic during the chorus So we're both up on his mic on the sides and then I would have my mic over here to do it And sure enough we sing the chorus and I looked out of my arm to get the next one. He goes I see him go And he walks up to the microphone and goes He's got cheat notes. He's got cheat It threw me under the bus 12th mass in germans It was lit as a tomato man. I was caught dead to rights. Yeah, here's the guy in overkill doesn't remember the song Good great story man, great story. I jumped right into the audience upside down and I think he's still yelling cheat No All right on that note. I know you have another interview April 14th scorched I was pretty impressed I was really impressed, you know, right when people thought you're going this way. Oh, you're going that way Very well made very well made out.  Love to chat