Hi, buddy, we're back. This is Dave Vellante with theCUBE. We're here talking storage at Amazon in Boston. Asa Kalevada is here. She's the general manager for hybrid and data transfer services. Let me give you a perspective of how these services come together. We have data sync, storage gateway, and transfer as a set of hybrid and data transfer services. So the problem that we are trying to address for customers is how to connect their on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. And we have customers at different stages of their journey to the cloud. Some are just starting out to use the cloud. Some are migrating and others have migrated, but they still need access to the cloud from on-prem. So the broad charter for these services is to enable customers to use AWS storage from on-premises. So for example, a storage gateway today is used by customers to get unlimited access to cloud storage from on-premises. And they can do that with low-latencies so they can run their on-prem workloads but still leverage storage in the cloud. In addition to that, we have data sync which we launched at Reinvent last year in 2018. And data sync essentially is designed to help customers move a lot of their on-premises storage to the cloud and back and forth for workloads that involve replication, migration, or ongoing data transfers. So together, gateway and data sync help solve the access and transfer problem for customers. Okay, let's double down on the benefits because you started this segment just describing the problem that you're solving, connecting on-prem to cloud, sort of helping create these hybrid environments. And so that's really the other benefit for customers, really simplifying that sort of hybrid approach, giving them high performance confidence that it actually worked. Right, exactly. Maybe talk a little bit more about that. Yeah, so with data sync, we see two broad use cases. There is a class of customers that have adopted data sync for migration. So we have customers like Autodesk who've migrated hundreds of terabytes from their on-premises storage to AWS. And that has allowed them to shut down their data center or retire their existing storage because they're in their journey to the cloud. The other class of use cases is customers that have ongoing data that they need to move to the cloud for a workload. So it could be data from video cameras or gene sequencers that they need to move to a data pipeline in the cloud and they can do further processing there. And in some cases, bring the results back. So that's the second continuous data transfer use case that data sync allows customers to address. Right. Okay, you're also talking today about storage gateway, high availability version of storage gateway, what's behind that? So, storage gateway today is used by customers to get access to data in the cloud from on-premises. So if we continue this migration story that I mentioned with data sync, now you have a customer that has moved a large amount of data to the cloud. They can now access that same data from on-premises for latency reasons or if they need to distribute data across organizations and so on. So that's where the gateway comes into play. So today we have tens of thousands of customers that are using gateway to do their backups, do archiving or in some cases use it as a target to replace their on-premises storage with cloud-back storage. So a lot of these customers are running business critical applications today. But then some of our customers have told us they want to do additional workloads that are uninterruptible. So they cannot tolerate downtime. So with that requirement in mind, we are launching this new capability around high availability. And we're quite excited because that's solving yet, allowing customers to do even more workloads on the gateway. And this announcement will allow customers to have a highly available gateway in a VMware environment. And with that, their workloads can continue running even if one of the gateways goes down if they have a hardware failure or networking event or software errors such as the file shares becoming unavailable, the gateway automatically restarts. So the workloads remain uninterrupted. So talk a little bit more about how it works just in terms of are there anything customers have to do, any prerequisites they have? How does it all fit? So customers essentially can use this in their VMware HA environment today. So they would deploy their gateway much like they do today. They can download the gateway from the AWS console. If they have an existing gateway, the software gets updated so they can take advantage of the high availability feature as well. And the gateway integrates into the VMware HA environment. It builds up a number of health checks. So we keep monitoring for the application uptime, network uptime, and so on. And if there is an event, the health check gets communicated back to VMware and the gateway gets restarted within in most typical cases under 60 seconds. So customers that are VMware customers can take advantage of this and to them it's very non-disruptive, it sounds like. That's right. That's one of the benefits. But maybe we talk about some of the other benefits. Yeah, so we saw that a large number of our on-premises customers, especially in enterprise environments, use VMware today. And they're using VMware HA for a number of their other applications. So we wanted to plug into that environment so the gateway is as well highly available. So all their applications just work in that same framework. And then along with high availability, we are also introducing two additional capabilities. One is real-time reports and visibility into the gateway's resource consumption. So customers can now see embedded cloud watch graphs on how is their storage being consumed? What's their cash utilization? What's the network utilization? And then the administrators can use that to in fairly real-time adapt the resources that they've allocated to the gateway. So with that, as their workloads change, they can continue to adapt their gateway resources so they're getting the maximum performance out of the gateway. So if they see a performance problem and it's a high priority, they can put more resources on it. They can put more storage, attach more storage to it or move it to a higher resource VM and they can continue to get the performance they need. So previously they could still do that but they had to have manual checks. Now this is all automated. We can get this in a single pane of control and they can use the AWS console today like they do for their in-cloud workloads. They can use that to look at performance of their on-premises gateways as well. So it's one pane of control. They can get cloud watch health reports on their infrastructure on-prem. And of course it's cloud, so I consume this as a service. I pay for it when I use it. I don't have to install any infrastructure, right? Yeah, so the gateway is again, consumption-based, much like all AWS services. You download the gateway, it doesn't cost you anything. And we charge one cent per gigabyte of data transferred through the gateway and it's capped at $125 a month. And you just pay for whatever storage is consumed by the gateway. Well, it's of course, when you talk to senior execs like Andy Jassy, he always says, well, we focus on the customers and sometimes people roll their eyes, but it's true. This is a hybrid world. Years ago, you didn't hear really much talk about hybrid. You talk to your customers and say, hey, we want to connect our on-prem to the public cloud. You're bringing services to do that. Asis, thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. Appreciate it. Thank you, thanks for your time. You're welcome. And thank you for watching everybody. This is Dave Vellante with theCUBE. Back right after this short break.


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Hi, my name is Richard Walters, here we'll do a demonstration on master and sub projects. What master and sub projects is really looking at is program management, so managing lots of projects in one area. The way this works is you insert multiple projects into one, in effect, blank project. When the projects are then imported, we can then link them together, all of them We could choose certain projects to link, or we could even link tasks between different projects. And these are the areas that we'll now look at in this particular video. Master and sub projects requires a blank project and then individual projects which can then be inserted into the blank project. So here we've got four projects, car servicing is the blank project and then car one, car two and car three are all about servicing cars and these will be inserted into the blank project. So let's have a look at each of the projects. So car servicing first, as you can see it's a blank with nothing in it, just got a file name, close it down, look at car one. So this is an individual project about servicing a car and it's got three different stages, preparation, refitting and final work. Obviously the start date is September 2023 and all three of the car projects are identically the same. They've all got the same three stages and the start date is all the same. So I'll close car one down, now car two we'll have a look at, same idea, same three stages, September 23, close it down and the last one car three. There's your three stages, preparation, refitting and final work and again the start date is September 2023, close this one down. Now the master project is the blank project so we're going to open up car servicing and now we're going to insert the three individual projects. So I'm clicking the task name column, project tab, insert section of the ribbon towards the left and sub project. Need to find my files now which is on my desktop and we are creating a master and sub project and I'm going to insert car one. I always look at them when I've inserted them. So I'll click the little arrow next to car one. I can't see the blue bars, I can always bring them in via a feature called scroll to task. I'm just going to click on the preparation section, task tab, scroll to task in the editing section of the ribbon and there's the blue bars. Now you should always minimize the project when you've checked it because if you don't, what will happen? The second project will go inside of the first one. So I'm going to minimize car one, click below it, car two, have a look at it and there we go, same idea and now car three. Minimize it. Now if I wanted to see all three of these and all the information inside car one and car two, car three, I can highlight the top left just above the high ID one, so the top left hand corner. So that highlights the whole table. I can go to the view tab, data section of the ribbon, outline drop the narrow and show where it's got all subtasks and there we go, we've now got everything displayed, car one, car two and car three. What you might want to do right now is turn on the project summary task to show summary of the entire project. I can do this with the Gantt chart format tab, show hide section of the ribbon and there's a feature called project summary task which I'm going to now click on and turn it on and there we go, we've got the car servicing project, it's taking 27 days at present because all the cars happen to be individual durations of 27 days each and at present they're all starting at the same time. We're going to look at linking projects together within the master project, so the master project is going to be car servicing which is the blank project and we'll then bring in the three individual projects, car one, car two and car three, like was first demonstrated in the creating a master and sub project. So I'm going to go to the car servicing project and this is the master project, now I'm going to bring in the three individual projects, let's go one, I'm going to insert it, quickly look at it, there's the three stages we saw in the initial video for creating master and sub projects, now go to car two and again quickly look at it and car three, now go into show the project summary task, we'll just show the blue bars for all three projects so I'll highlight top left, new all subtasks and go to scroll the task, so there's the blue bars and blue bars which are the task bars for all three projects so we can see what's happening at present they're all starting on the same date. Now let's say that car three needs to start after car two, so we're going to link these two together now, so I'm going to start minimizing these projects, so I'm going to minimize one, two and three, now I'm going to highlight car two and three which is id two and id three and I'll link them together through the link chain which is the quickest way of getting a default finish to start link, now all what we can see is a 54 day project because now it's the 27 for car one and two plus the 27 for car three, so it's going to expand them all again, just have a look what's happening, so we can now see that car one starts on the 18th of September, so does car two, but car three now starts after car two on the 25th of October, now let's say in this example there's a problem with car two and the person who's controlling this individual car project needs to update the project for the mechanical task because there's a three day delay, so we're going to save the master project, so top right say yes to all and then look at car two, go to the mechanical, so I put constraint in it to delay it by three days so I'm going to go to start now earlier than and then three days from the 28th of September so I go to the 28th of September and work my way three days forward, so that's the third and I'm going to put a note in to say task delayed supply issue, okay and we can now see that the task has now got a constraint in note against it, I'm going to save this now and see what happened to the master project, so I'm going to go top right again, close it, save it yes, go look at the car servicing, go and see the tasks and see what happened, so come to car two and we can see there's the delay, the constraint has now followed through, now let's say also that maybe car three and two, the decision is that they can actually start at the same time, now this is where sometimes master sub-projects need to be updated individually, so in the first make the change, so now minimize all of the cars, I'm going to make the change so car three now needs to change to a start-to-start, so that's a start-to-start link and what you might notice is the duration hasn't changed because that should have gone back to 30 days, there's sometimes you've got to do a bit of work in the individual project which I'm about to do now, so first of all I'm going to expand all projects, I'll go top left then I'll expand them all, there you go, so I'm expecting the duration now when I finish this to show 30 days because they're all starting together but car two is the extra three days, so right now it's not correct, I'm going to save it, I'm going to close it first and save it, so yes to all, now I'm going to go to the car project which is now I need the link change to be updated which is car three and we can see it's still shown the 30th of the 10th, if I go to the start eight of this project it's correct because it's shown the 18th of the ninth, so what's happened it's sort of got stuck in its own link and it's just reflected the 30th of the 10th from the link change but we can reset this by just doing nothing in effect because I can change the start date now and just pick another date, so I know it's going to be the 18th there's going to be the start date, so I'll just for example kick on 20 second and now go straight back to the 18th and just by doing this little change this will update everything now, so the dates will now up change in the car three, there they go, if I go back to the master project now so I'll save this I'll close it and say we go back to the master and there we go there's the 30 days and look at the tasks and there's all the blue bars and that is now correct and that's now changed the link to start to start and all projects been updated but this is the kind of way you could work if you need to link projects together within a master project and in this case this example we just linked two individual projects within a master project in this demonstration we're going to look at linking tasks together between projects inside of a master project, so in this example the master project is the car servicing project and the individual projects are the car one, car two and car three, so we'll open up the master first and there's nothing in it, it's a blank project, we'll now insert the three car individual projects, so project tab, sub project, I'm going to find your files now and it's linking tasks between projects and I'll insert the cars now, it's car one and I always check the one I do this kind of work and often good practice to bring in the taskbars so you can see what's happening and when you are inserting multiple projects always make sure you've got them in condensed mode, so in a condensed car one repeat the process, car two have a quick look at it, there we go and now car three, we're going to expand all projects and we'll also insert a project summary task, so tab, outline, all sub tasks, now we'll turn on the project summary task, okay so we can see what's happening here, we've got three projects all starting at the same time, all 27 days and what we're about to do here, we're about to link two tasks together between two projects, so for example car one has got a mechanical task and so has car two got a mechanical task, so we're about to link these together whereby the mechanical in car two can only start after the mechanical in car one finishes, so to do this kind of work you always highlight from the top task in the first project, so I'm going to go from the mechanical in car one, now I'm going to hold my control key down and now click on the mechanical in car two and now they both highlighted, now I'm going to go to the task tab and link chain and here is where it gets a little bit different in the predecessors column, we can now see there's a second link going in and if we investigate and see what's actually happened here, let's look at the mechanical task in car two and the predecessors, we can see there's two tasks, there was the original link for task six and there's a new link which is the link we just created and it shows you the path of where that link's coming from, so it's quite when you look at it and investigate it where it's coming from it shows you the whole path of where that's coming from, so that's the one we just linked, so that's an external project, now we've looked at the link, we're now going to see what it looks like in the individual projects, so I'm going to close this down, I'm just going to look at the the duration of the three projects together because what we can see now with the link change is that car two has actually changed to 32 days, so it's now starting after the car one, that's the one thing I wanted to demonstrate before we moved on and we can see that the duration has now changed to 32, so that's the extra five days that the finish to start link is now created, now we'll have a look at the car one and car two, so let's close it all down, now it's like yes to all, okay let's now look at car one and now you'll see a little gray task coming, now this is showing you that it's linked to a task in another project, so you can now see that the mechanical in car one is now linked to the mechanical in car two, now we're also going to check car two see what that looks like and now car two shows you the mechanical is now linked to the the gray bar above it, which is the task from the car one sub project, now saying we wanted to change the link and say we decided that car two decided they can now actually start at the same time, so car two can now make the change because that's where the link is coming from, we can see that in the predecessors column, so I'm going to double click on the mechanical task, I'm going to change the link and say now I can actually do this start to start, so for whatever reason now the mechanical can work at the same time, so start to start, so this now shows what's happening here, now what do you now do you save the the project which makes the change, so car two, but now you're going to look at car one to see what the changes, so car one, now here's the part we've got to look at is it was a finish to start and this is shown as fs, now we want that to become a start to start, you can see at the present that the graphic is not showing start to start because the gray bar is still after the mechanical in task seven, so we are now going to accept it, so press the accept button, I'm going to close it and now we can see it's a start to start, I'm going to close it down and save it, go back to the car servicing and that'd be expecting this to be 27 days, so that five days needs to change now and be removed, so it should be a 27 day project in car servicing, which it now is and if I look at the blue bars and the task bars we can now see that the mechanical in eight task eight in car two, it starts at the same time as the mechanical in car one, so this completes the demonstration of linking tasks together between projects in a master project, in this demonstration we're going to look at linking all the individual projects together inside of a master project, the master project in this example is the consolidated project and all the individual projects are the three listed below, so we're going to look at the master project which is the consolidated and which I'll open up now and this master the date is really important because we're going to now link all three of the sub-projects together so they have a consecutive date from project to project, now when you're doing this you need a milestone in the master project, so that's why I've got a milestone here with zero days and I'm going to set the start date which will then link to this milestone so I'm setting the start date for the 25th of September 2023, so I'm going to go forward a couple of years and there we go, that's all set so the milestone is now already we're quickly going to look at the other sub-projects but I'll leave the master project open so these projects are all old but we'll bring them up to date using the master project so I'll just look at one of them the job setup project consolidated, so this is a project that's all about hiring an employee and this is going back into 2012 so we're going to bring this up to date very quickly as well as all the other projects which are again in 2012 and we'll link them to the milestone in the master project so I'll now close this project down so we're going to bring all three projects in so project tab sub-project bring it in so you're going to find the files are in the global linking folder and there we go we'll go for the job setup project consolidated insert it have a quick look so you can see that's back in 2012 next one of the training so you hire them then you train them as an employee that again is 2012 and we lastly place them so there's the three individual projects now we're going to link them all together to the start date which is the milestone when you're linking these sub-projects to a master project always have them in condensed notes so you can't see the tasks and the project head ends so we're going to highlight the top left to highlight all the projects as well as the milestone and now we're going to link them together so task tab link chain and that says link perspective tasks and you can see now all the dates and now in 2023 so very cleverly we can see the dates now are going from the 25th of September going right up until the fourth of the fourth 2024 and if we look at the tasks we can see them all in 2023 now and going into 2024 so all been updated we're now going to save this master project with all of the sub-projects in it so advise people when we do when you're doing this to expand the project because sometimes it doesn't save correctly if you don't expand them so I've got all my projects expanded I'm going to close down the entire master project the top right hand corner going to yes to all because I want to update all projects I'm now going to check the individual projects so I'll go to the job setup project consolidated if I show the blue bars the task tabs and there's the all the taskbars so we can now see they're all up to date in 2023 now I'm going to affect this project to delay it deliberately it to say an employee was not available and then we'll go back and see what happened in the master project but we will look at the master project first to see how how the project is set up and then we'll come back to this one after we've looked at the master so I'm going to build this one yes I'll save it consolidated right I'm going to turn on the project summary task and that now tells me 139 days and I can see by showing the taskbars that the first project is 60 days next one is 23 then we've got a 56 day project and all three of those divisions together add up to 139 so if I was to delay the the first task in the job setup project by say 10 working days that then in effect should follow through to this master project to show me what the delay is and to change the duration with an extra 10 days so that's what I'm expecting to happen so the the finished duration should say 149 days so we'll now close this one down so yes the work is a little change there go back to the job setup project consolidated now I'm going to delay it by 10 working days and I'm going to go to the 25th and 9th and just count forward 10 working days so that's the second or 9th of October so that's the 9th of October and I'm going to put a note in engineer manager and available okay to that so we can see the dates have now changed to the 9th or 10th and we've got a constraint as well as a note all the taskbars have moved on and I'm going to close and save this project and now review the master close it save it back to the consolidated and there's the 149 days so you can see by linking all the projects together you get a total duration of three projects in this example and when one was delayed in this example the jobs at a project we delayed it in the individual jobs at a project and then that followed through then to the consolidated project but this now completes the the demonstration on linking all projects together inside of a master project this now completes the video of master and sub projects covering program management I hope you found the video of use and enjoyable to watch see you in the next video


voice once again on this show, the man away Michel. How's it going from away from Voivod from away from Voivod. Yeah. And also from away because I just returned from Europe with Voivod and I'm still in two between two zones, but all good. It takes a little time to recover with the the time zones, right? It takes a little bit of time. Yes. It's just that it was a seven weeks long tour where we started with USA and then flew from Atlanta to Frankfurt and kept going for four weeks in Europe with Testament and big festivals and all that. So it's very intense. Probably close to 40 shows in seven weeks or I can't recall, but maybe 15 countries. I was really excited. I was excited for you guys. Have you ever played with Exodus or sorry Testament before? Yes, we did. We we played in Santa Monica in San Francisco in 89. We when we reformed in 2008, they invited us to play two nights in Tokyo, which was great. And we keep crossing paths at festivals as well as well. But this offer to tour with them across Europe was just like a dream come true. You know, it's the clubs were packed and sold tons of merch and yeah, great times. You guys, you know, you played with opeth, you open for opeth, right? Yeah, you played with Testament and Exodus was supposed to be there, but they weren't right. I mean, is Voivod, it seems like Voivod is getting bigger as time is going on? Yes, we are. We actually getting momentum and they are a few generations coming to the show. So we packed the clubs and we get invited to open for prestigious bands and very great venues also play big festivals like Hellfest and Walken. And so yeah, it's a great moment for us. And and also it's strange because we are playing. We went back to the intricate prog rock and we are winning Junos. So it's we just it's a it gives us confidence, you know, you know what I like about Voivod and I always loved about the band is you're always going this way where everybody else is going that way. And it's refreshing, you know, like all the other bands, it's the same sound, it's always the same sound. But you guys, it's always different. It's always experimental. And it's refreshing to see somebody doing something else. Yeah, we tried to since you know, well, first of all, Chewie is a great composer. He can also write charts for a brass quintet like at the Jazz Festival in Montreal or a string quartet like on the album The Wake. And so that's that's really a plus. So we can explore other avenues. And like I said earlier, people embrace it. And so it gives us the indication that we are on the right path with this fusion metal thing that we're doing these days. But of course, Snake and I being the old school originals, we will always keep the punk trash metal ingredients into the mix, I'm sure. Yeah, yeah. All right, good news. Voivod will celebrate 40 years of existence with a special anniversary studio album called Morgoth Tales. It's going to be released on July 21st on Century Media Records, July 21st being my birthday. That's nice. Condemned to the gallows, which was the demo back in the day that broke you guys or started things off, that will be re-recorded. So it's an album of re-recordings plus a new song, right? Yes. Tell me about a condemn to the gallows and how that tape found it's into the hands of Brian Slegel back in the day. It was through Wayne Archibald. No, Wayne. Yeah, good friends from Northern Quebec, where we grew up in Jean-Claire. He was a tape trader and introduced us to early demos of all the heavy metal bands you could think of, you know, and it was unbelievable what he could share with us. So he sent the early demos to various labels, including Metal Blade. He was a pen pal to everybody, and so that got us a deal to be part of Metal Massacre 5. So we recorded Condemned to the Gallows with no budget. So it was like one day I had to use the small drum kit they had there. But it had a great reaction on Metal Massacre 5. And by the time Metal Massacre 5 came out, we had done more demos and Brian Slegel was really into having us recording a first album. But the introducing card was Condemned to the Gallows and we really wanted to re-record it for this release, but we didn't have the lyrics. It was non-existent online. There were no lyrics sheet in the vinyl back then. And we tried to isolate vocals with AI and it sounded like an alien language. And then Snake phoned his sister and she went to his mother's place and found the lyrics written on a school paper 40 years later, where she found it unbelievable. She said it took two minutes. It was classified in a folder and great stuff. So the Snake sister sent us the cellphone photo of the lyrics and we were able to do it like a miracle. That's pretty funny, man. Morgoth, tell me about the the name significance of that so the people who don't know about it? It's what it's actually more than 40 years ago. The origin of that is when I was a teenager and I discovered the Heavy Metal Magazine comic book with Bilal, Philippe Drouillet, Moebius, all great artists. I wanted to imitate and so I created a world for my comics. That's what I wanted to do of the Voivode, some sort of vampire guarding a planet called Morgoth. So it both it was influenced by a Grand Stalker from Dracula, also Lord of the Rings, Tolkien. But as the 70s were moving towards the 80s, I became more aware of nuclear stockpiles around the planet and the Cold War. So the concept took a post-apocalyptic turn. And by the time in January 83, when we're trying to find a name for the band, and I mentioned Voivode, and the guys were intrigued. And they first asked me how I spelled it. And then I explained the concept behind it. And they really got into developing it with lyrics, visuals, music, and we did that all through the 80s. And so that's the origin of Morgoth, which represents Jean-Claire, where we grew up really. And for the Morgoth title, it's actually when we toured with Opeth in November and December, we had in Switzerland in Zurich the surprise visit of Tom Warrior. And we had a good four soundcheck and we had a great chat from when we were touring together in 86 in USA and all that crazy stuff. And we took a photo and Opeth published the photo online and somebody wrote under the photo, Morgoth tells a salute to Morbith, the famous EP from Celtic Frost. And I thought it was a great title. I was amazed. I didn't think about it. I can't recall who wrote that, but he deserves a salute. And I actually wrote to Tom to warn that we would call the new album Morgoth Tales. But it's sort of paying homage really. And also there's a song, the new song Morgoth Tales as well. Right. We really wanted the thing to be from 83 to 2023. And so we thought, let's write a song. And we wrote it during the tour in Opeth in November and December in Europe. It's really where we built the project where we picked the songs. And we went for the more obscure side of Boivad. Instead of the old hits, you know, that we play all the time. And it allowed us to refresh the set list for this year's 40th anniversary touring. So people are really happy to hear new age fractal pre ignition macro solutions. And when the album comes out, we will add more of that obscure stuff on the set list. Did you record like more than these songs? I'm assuming you recorded a lot more of the older stuff, re recorded a lot of the older material. And then you chose these songs? Or was it just?  And then we decided to add a bonus track for the CD. It's a cover of PIL called home. And we, we wanted to do a PIL cover. But it's really when we read the lyrics of that song that we understood it was the proper one, because it's really really relevant. It's like talking about what's going on right now. So, so anyhow, it's Johnny Rotten has always been a hero for sneak and eye in particular. We decided and we went to for a song from the album called album because Steve Vai is playing on this album and even like Tony Williams and Ginger Baker and you know, so it's actually my favorite PIL album. Okay, cool. Rebel robot. Now you have Jason Neustead. That was the album that was just simply entitled Voivod. That was the album that Jason Neustead played on. And it was released, I believe on his label. Was that is that correct? Yeah, yeah, chop house. Chop house. That's what it was. Yes. I mean, how did that work that Jason go look I'm joining the band, but I want you guys to also be part of my label. What happened back then? Well, what happened was we at this point had split the band at we'd say at the end of 2000 or so and then but a year maybe a little bit more than a year later, we began I got antsy and checked out with Snake if you wanted to join the band again and we had a meeting at Piggy's place where he showed up with the recording of his vocals for the pro bot project from Dave Grohl. So he immediately realized he still had a very good sense of melody and the voice was there. So and we thought let's phone Jason and I phone Jason because we had done so many recordings with him in the past as Tara T R R A T and he immediately got excited and ended up joining the band, you know, but the funny thing is when I found him to be a guest basis on the album, basically, he said, how do you know? How did you know? I said, what? He said, I just left Metallica. It was just very strange coincidence. And so he really got into it where he had the band to get a very good spotlight because at the same time, he joined the Aussie band. And, yeah, and Sharon asked Jason if Voiva could open for Aussie. So it was a pretty crazy year where he played two shows a day for like months. And at this point, Aussie wanted to beat Paul McCartney's record of more than three hours set list. So it's pretty insane. Jason is a warrior. He jumped on stage with us last month in Fort Lauderdale to play rebel robot and the song Voiva and Eric for us came on stage with us recently at Hellfest to sing rise. So happy family like Snake says. Oh, rebel robot. But it was on Chophouse, right? It was on it was that was the only also a label called surf dog, which was part of Jason's management as well. And we're looking into re-releasing. That's what I was getting into. That's what I was getting into. Yeah, we secured the rights. And it's just that this year, with the mortgage tells release, and also the 35th anniversary of dimension hat trust is a vinyl on noise coming out. And also, the auto limits on 3D vinyl with glasses for the 30th anniversary and all that. So we're always moving forward. And I think we'll save this reissue of the self titled album for next year. Yeah, yeah, I think that's great. Here's the Japanese version of outer limits right there. Yeah, and it's the 3D treatment was only done on CDs. And but it's the first time that it's going to come out on vinyl with the 3D treatment and the glasses and on listenable records, a label from France.  I mean, they're just what an album. So you have Jason, who said you have eForce. Tell me about, you know, a rise from Eric, Eric Forrest, his his contribution on the album. Yeah, I mean, at first, you know, we thought, okay, maybe we can do a song from every album. But it's crazy. We have too many. And then, once we decided to shrink it to a vinyl, we thought, at least let's play all the periods of boivard. And, and it was during the November, December Opeth tour again, that I got in touch with Jason and Eric, they both got really excited. And we had to do it separately in respective studios, of course. But the result is really great. And I mean, the whole album, you can really see the progression, because we did it in chronological order. And, and plus, we again, wrote a song on tour for this album to show what we are now. And so in January, when we came into the studio, it was such a thrill, but a huge challenge for me. I remember on a bus between Montreal and Victoria, going to the studio, Radicar Studio, and being very nervous, because some of the songs are really challenging. And we wanted to wing these in a complete take, not necessarily take one, but at least a full take. So the vibe is all there. But when you have to sort of relearn macro solutions to make a problem or pre ignition, it's going to challenge. But it went, it went super smoothly, I must say. What about re-releasing a Fobos and Negatron, the E4 Sierra? Is that, is there plans for that? Well, it's, I think there was talk about that a long time ago. Well, it's, it's, it's available on CD. And they also made a double vinyl with Negatron and Fobos, but they had to skip songs. So some fans are not too happy about it. So I'm sure, like a full on vinyl of both albums will be a great, a great addition to people's connection. But also, if we were to do a box set, it would be really great as well. Because there is a last album that we have demos for that I could include in there. What about the documentary? What stage are you at now? Oh, we, it's near completion, really, just a few editing there and there. And I'm sure it's going to be out next year sometime and same with the book by Jeff Wagner. And the problem, the problem we ran into is there were a lot of into face to face interviews to be done. And they were really slowed down during the pandemic. And all the interviews are done for both the book and the movie. And yeah, I think next year, I'm pretty sure both will come out. You got a lot of stuff going on. A lot of things going. It's crazy. Any given time, you know, working, we're working on Voiva Daily. And, and also we have a crazy touring schedule for this album, where, you know, we went in UK in April and ended up in London opening for Hawk when imagine that was amazing. And also across USA in May across Europe in June, then we have also in July shows in the province of Quebec, but also in August, we returned to festivals in Europe and Scandinavian shows. And then September, more festivals in Quebec and a festival in Brazil. But I think in October, November, December and January, we might be able to write a new album, hopefully. Have you written any ideas down? Are you assembling? Yeah, it's fun, because when we did the Synchronarchy album, we all learned to sync with Logic Pro. And of course, I have to program the drums for the demos. But so we started on the last tour we just did on the road, writing some ideas on our computers. Okay, cool. What did Rocky and Chewie bring to the old songs that, you know, on this new album, this new studio album with re-recorded songs? What did they bring that maybe brought the songs up a level, you know, just a little bit higher? Well, I'm not sure. It's hard to say. It's, it's sometimes it's risky to say, oh, it's better, higher. What I can say is the sound we have now is very tech metal surgical. And so that's a bit different from the rawness and urgency of the early material, of course. And but I think the main difference is the sound. And we've found a way with Francis Perron at Radicard to get the sound that we really want, where everything is clear. And you can hear every single time hit and picking and, you know, and also try to have great layers of music that makes it the psychedelic metal that we want to play, you know. And so in terms of, it's a great sounding album, Margot tells, but you know, the, the, the challenge is not to recapture the youthful energy and all that, it's just to do, give the people our impression of these songs now. And again, like I was saying earlier, it's really allowed me to see the progression of the band through the years, when I had to record these songs. And it's almost like when the compilation came out, the noise years, and it's 86 to 88. And from the first song of raw to the last song of dimension had trust within two years, I was impressed of how we progressed. And so, yeah, it's, well, actually, it's always a work in progress. And it's not like ACDZ every song, as I said. How has okay, so I see that the world is finally caught up to Voivod because AI is now in music, right? Everybody's connected. Well, I mean, you know, it's again, it's technology, I will always try to use it as much as I can. I've been for my visuals and all that. And like AI videos, it's, I'm jealous because it would take me 3000 years to do it frame by frame. And so but one I'm most afraid of really is AI controlling high tech weaponry. That's, you know, my main fear. And it's funny, because in the 70s, as a kid, I saw a movie called Colossus about that, about a giant supercomputer in USA teaming up with a giant supercomputer in Russia, they take control of the nuclear weapons and enslave humanity. And so, like you said, sci fi has caught up with Voivod full time, you know, well, I mean, what's happening now is they're going to start using AI for weaponry, like you said, yeah, so they'll they'll launch the AI will launch the missile, just to be as quick to catch up to the other countries launch of the missile, right? So that's where things get scary, you know, who knows what's gonna happen might as well enjoy it right now. And it but you know, with the man, it's funny because when I came back to Montreal in the smog of the forest fires, it's because of climate changes and all that. So it's like a recurring nightmare where back in the 80s, we talked about ozone layer. And now we talk about global warming and, you know, and the same with, you know, at one point, we were talking on kinectology, we're talking about Chernobyl, but all of a sudden it's Fukushima and now it's Zaporizhya in Ukraine, you know, so it's always the same nightmare. But I can only be a happy fellow and create and do art and music and travel the world before it's too late. And we're just happy.  Oh, yeah, yeah, problems. There are too many ideas these days. And I know what you mean. And you don't even have to like on Syncruararchy. We didn't even have to try to predict 20 years down the road like we did in the 80s. We just picked what was going on while we were writing the album with the pandemic and all that. And so now we just the projects are coming at you know, another 10 albums right there. You're good. Yeah. Is there anything you want to plug before I let you go?  Morgan's album. We have a couple of videos coming also as well. Michelle, would you have when you were 20 years old, would you have predicted you'd be still in Voivod playing music and playing around the world? No, I celebrated my 60th birthday in Lyon. When we opened for Testament, and they brought me a cake on stage with this with the candles and everything. And I was thinking, man, who would have known? I, you know, it's when Warren Payne came out that I had the famous supper where I told my parents I want to quit university science for my heavy metal band. But I, the Warren Payne album had a pretty good impact in what was going to become trash metal. So I was confident with, I could have a musical career. Yep. And I'm really proud of this album. And, but I had no idea that 40 years down the road, we would play in front of many generations of people into Voivod. And, and it's what always brings me back to music is the travels, playing Voivod music around the globe and meeting my old friends and new friends. And it's just amazing. It's very addictive. And that's why I like to draw my day after every show to remember after that, it's like a journal and after that, I can see the drawing and remember the sculptures I saw during the day and what happened. And so this is 40 years of amazing travels. And it's not over, you know, because we are in demand right now and getting already getting offers for next year. So great times. Do you do like, are you amazed, like you're in some place in the world that's so remote? And you're like, my God, they're listening to my music here. These people are listening to our music is, is it shocking? Oh, yeah, it's, it's surprising. And I know that we there are places where we need to go like India, you know, where there are, there are a lot of Voivod fans there and Indonesia. And so we still need to explore. And but it's like when I first was able to go in Eastern Europe and realize there were tons of Voivod fans in Czech Republic and Poland and everywhere, you know, Hungary. And so I'm still amazed when we play a very remote place. And there are a lot of people in the club yelling Voivod, you know, it's great. I think the loudest I've heard was in Moscow, where they really know how to yell Voivod there. They probably know the lyrics to condemn to the gallows where you guys had problems remembering the lyrics. Yeah, they were able to decipher it. And, and, and they started about 20 minutes before going on stage, we were backstage, like kind of getting nervous. They're gonna be a riot or pretty cool stuff. Well, I'm happy for you guys. Voivod, the new album, Morgoth Tales to be released on July 21, my birthday on Century Media Records. And always a pleasure to have you away on the show. You know, I look forward to a see you guys play live. Thanks for having me and see you soon on the road somewhere.


What's up with the Small Workshop Guy YouTube channel? Hola woodworkers, Paul Carlson here, a Small Workshop Guy. My paper is my notes all over, so I'm gonna have to stop the video and pick up my notes and put them back in order. I thought I would give you an update on my plans for the next couple of years for my YouTube channel. To do that, I'm gonna put in a numerical order for you. Number one, I will continue to produce the What the Heck is series of videos. Those will come out every Saturday morning at 6 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. No, I don't get up that early. YouTube has a way for me to tell it when to release it. That will continue to be for beginning woodworkers, short one item at a time normally, and just something that would be helpful to beginners as far as vocabulary and tools and various concepts and so forth. Number two, I will be doing some build videos. Those are obviously gonna be somewhat longer. They're gonna be more detailed. There'll be more instruction involved. And again, they're generally designed for beginning to intermediate woodworkers. Some of the things I'm gonna do there is I have an empty drawer in a cabinet that I redesigned, a workshop cabinet, so my next video will probably be a building a drawer using the quarter, quarter, quarter method. I did a video earlier over viewing that method. This time I'll show the actual steps and the actual build from beginning to end. In addition to that, I'm gonna do a small workshop cabinet. Gonna be kind of a simple one. But I'm gonna do a face frames first build and then show the quarter, quarter, quarter drawer system again, and then also talk about how I put on the face fronts and how I finish off workshop cabinets with both just some wood wax as well as lacquer. In addition, I'm gonna be doing a deck box. That's a box to store things out on the back deck. Mine's starting to fall apart, so I'm gonna replace it. I'm gonna use what are called castle joints. I just like the way those look and I wanted to build something with them and so that'll be the perfect project for that. And then finally I'm gonna do a planter trellis with a planter box on the bottom and then a trellis designed to kind of shelter the deck from the prying eyes of neighbors and stuff and also support IV and things like that growing up. So those are the build videos coming up that I know of right now. I'm gonna be doing a comprehensive shop tour, kind of an update for that as soon as I finish a couple of cabinets. And in that I'll be doing a multi-part. Part one will be just layout concepts and the principles of organizing a one-car garage workshop. Part two will be a discussion of the big toys, the big boy toys, the girl toys, whatever you want to call them. Which ones I have and what I think about them? Part three will be kind of different, I haven't seen it before, it'll be more of a discussion of the small toys, the hand tools, the various small toys, the drill drivers and things of that nature that a beginning woodworker might want to start acquiring for their shop. And I'll talk about some of the mistakes I've made as far as spending money for things that I really don't use that much. We're gonna talk about in part four, jigs, the various table saw jigs, band saw jigs, drill press jigs, things of that nature. A lot of them are utilized, the match fit dovetail clamps and so they have match fit dovetail grooves in them and that's a very, very useful concept for building workshop jigs. So I'll cover some of those. I think I have eight or nine different jigs incorporating the match fit dovetail clamps. And then finally I'm going to talk about workshop maintenance. The way I'm going to do this though, I will put in the description a timeline and so you will be able to go to the part that you're interested in and not have to go through the whole thing to get there, all right? So we're going to do a comprehensive shop tour. I'm going to be doing some virtual shop tours. We've done some of those before. We did one at Don Bean shop. We did one of Mike Newitt shop. We did one of Gary Padger over in Australia. People like those. Those are doing well. So I'm going to do more of those since the emphasis of my channel is small workshop, one car garage workshops. I'll be looking for smaller ones than those three and talking about organizational ideas with those workshop owners and introducing you to the characters that inhabit some of those workshops. Number five, I'm going to be doing in shop live tours. In other words, I'm going to go to workshops. Number six, I'm going to start a new playlist on my YouTube channel and it's going to be related material, loosely related. What I'm going to do, I already told you in number five is I'm going to visit real workshops throughout the US and maybe lower Canada. And in doing that, I'm going to film those and publish it. Well, how am I going to get there? I'm going to go out on the road and what I call the old Coots RV adventures and that it should be adventuresome. So at age 80, I'm going to go out on the road. I've already bought a Ford F-150 with some towing capacity and I'm going to get a little airstream. I've already bought a little gimbal camera so that I can take nice walks and walks and talks and those kinds of things and document things and interview people. And I have bought a DJI drone, the little one called Mini 2. What I did find out about the drone, which I wanted to have in order to make things very interesting as I do visits and scenic tours and show my adventures. I just think that makes it much more interesting.  And that involves about 20, 25 hours of classroom work. Not real classroom, but online classroom. And a two hour exam at an FAA Federal Aviation Administration Sanction Office in order to get a license. And that's good because if I'm going to do that, I want to know what I'm supposed to do and how I'm not going to bring down some 747 somewhere full of people. Well it should be a very, very interesting adventure. I'm probably going to basically prove or disprove whether or not an 80 year old, old coot can go out on the road by himself and survive. I'm sure I will have a lot of things to display and a lot of mistakes that I will make and a lot of situations where I will get into trouble and I'll try to grab my little camera and document those for the R being world. Maybe I can encourage some other people to not just sit in their study at age 80, 85, whatever. Who knows how long I'll be able to do this. I kind of see a motto here of the old coot rages on. The old coot rages on against the grim reaper. I kind of got a visual image of the grim reaper chasing me down the street and I'm trying to outrun him. And so far I'm doing okay, staying ahead of him, but who knows when he'll finally decide to catch up. Old coot rages against grief.  The old coot rages against anonymity. Say that five times fast, anonymity. That means when I do finally keep the bucket, I would like some people to say, hey I knew him. He was pretty cool old coot. I liked him too bad I won't be able to see any more of his mistakes in woodworking. Well anyway, that's my motto. The old coot rages on. And probably what will happen is my two adult sons at some point will come out on the road, get me and somewhere in the outback of Wyoming and they'll say, dad, it's time to come home. We've been watching your videos and this is not something that you should continue doing. So that's probably the way it'll end. That's what I'm planning on doing. I'm going to have a lot of fun. Hopefully you'll come along for the ride. So please subscribe if you want to see some of that nonsense that I do and give me a like and a comment for this video if you would and always remember you can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf.


Greetings, everyone. I'm Tom Costabel, ASME's Executive Director and CEO. On behalf of all of us at ASME and Engineering for Change, I would like to welcome you to the fifth annual Impact Engineering event, the celebration of innovation and the organizations and people who are improving the quality of life for those who need it most. Thank you again for joining us virtually from wherever you may be today. The event today is truly a celebration of world-class innovation. The Impact Engineer 2021 organizing team has put together informative speeches, interactive experiences to provide, an inside look at what's trending in the world of engineering for the good. For those of you who are new to ASME, we are a nonprofit membership organization established in 1880 to enable collaboration, knowledge sharing, and skill development across all engineering disciplines. Currently, ASME has about 100,000 members in over 140 countries. As many of you know, ASME's mission is to advance engineering for the benefit of humanity. I can't think of a better way than to do this and to continue our critical work and support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. With ASME's global network of engineers, we have an opportunity to solve the humankind's biggest challenges and truly build a better future. Simultaneously, technical and social in nature, the SDGs require high impact solutions, a technical talent pipeline, prepared to engage effectively, as well as infrastructure and public leadership to drive the implementation at scale. We now are less than one decade away from the deadline set for achieving the UN SDGs. ASME has been dedicated to these issues for over a decade and launched engineering for global development to build the pipeline and capacity of technical talent globally to solve urgent challenges and deliver sustainable solutions. 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We would love for you to have to be part of it. And to find out more, please reach out to any member of the Impact Engineer Organizing Team. Again, thanks for joining us today. Enjoy the event. And now it's my pleasure to turn this over to Yonah Arana, ASME's Director of Global Engineering Development. Yonah, good morning. Good morning, Tom. It's a pleasure to be here and thank you so much for kicking us off and for your encouraging words. Colleagues, it's a pleasure to connect with you today and take a moment to reflect on the progress we've made and the work that remains to be done. I have the honor of leading an incredible team that has been dedicated to advancing sustainable development through engineering since 2010. The world has changed dramatically since then and looking back at this year and last, it feels like that change is accelerating. From the visible and growing impacts of climate change to COVID-19 and its collateral consequences, the challenges we face collectively cross borders and are well beyond the scope of any individual, company, industry, sector, or government. In parallel, the potential for solutions seems greater than ever. We are seeing tremendous leaps forward in communications technology, clean energy, mobile health, distributed workforce, and much more. It's an unprecedented convergence. Addressing the wicked problems of our time and developing meaningful solutions requires not only a system's perspective and technological competency, but must be combined with a human-centered approach. This is a skill set unique to the engineers that work in sustainable development. It's becoming increasingly obvious to those both within and outside our profession that engineers are vital to achieving the SDGs. 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Juvenile dermatomyositis, JDM, is a heterogeneous autoimmune inflammatory myositis with symmetrical proximal muscle weakness and a characteristic rash characterized by variable presentation and phenotypes. Detection of myositis autoantibodies is useful in improving JDM diagnosis and predicting the prognosis. This literature review analyzes clinical and autoantibody phenotypes of JDM in four patients hospitalized in one regional center in Ukraine during the last three years, including three who presented during the COVID-19 pandemic. The review shows that anti-synthetase syndrome is common in JDM patients, with anti-PL7 autoantibodies being a significant factor. Further study with more patients and detection of other myositis specific autoantibodies is needed to identify or refute regional features. This article was authored by Oxana Boyerchuk, Anna Kukka, and Irina Yurik.