3, 2, 1, welcome to the Metal Voice. First time on the show, Guernica. Ooh, that's awesome. Mancini. Wow. For now, that's really nice. Wow. Guernica. It's important to get the name right. My real name is Dimitrios. But I just go Jimmy because it just makes life easier, right? Yeah. Dimitrios, that's not that hard though. It's a cool name. Yeah. Very cool name. But when you're like eight years old in elementary school, it's not as cool as you think. No. I mean, I feel like I guess I could relate to that. I have a lot of nicknames. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, it's a cool name. I think it's a cool name. I think we're in an age of cool names. That's where we want to, you know, we're tired of the Jimmy's. We're tired of the Johns and the Mary's, right? All right. So, okay, I'm going to start things off with this. Yeah. And we'll go back into your history. So here, this shirt means nothing now. It's a collector's edition.  No, I'm just mad. I mean, that's part of the band's history and that's beautiful. But yeah. It's a collector's edition, right? It is. Definitely. People from here on end will say, I'll give you a thousand dollars for that shirt. Oh my God. What an honor it would be. That was true.  So that's what she did. So, this was a positive. This was a positive. I'm just making a joke. No, no, I understand. I completely understand and tell your wife, thank you. We appreciate it. All right. The big news is three-fourths of the band disappeared from Thunder Mother, but we'll get to that. Okay. Well, let's go back in time a bit because for people who don't know you, they may want to get to know you, right? And at 14 years old, is this true?  Is that it? No. I think those numbers have been mixed up. But 14 years old, I, yeah. As a toddler, I went to pursue my rock and roll dreams. No. When I was 14, I started my first band. That's true. Then I moved to LA when I was 20. To go to college. Yeah. It's a big difference. Yeah.  But yeah, I moved to Los Angeles when I was 20.  This is a really big city, right? Yeah. And I moved from a town, I'm from Lund. It's a university town here in Sweden, and it's very small. And moving from Lund and not having any other experiences to Los Angeles was quite overwhelming. It took me about a year to get used to it all and, you know, get into the LA scene kind of thing. And I mean, you're okay. I know the Swedish, they're very, they're super bilingual, the Swedish people, you know, that English is taught in the school. So your English is pretty good. Like I wouldn't even know your Swedish. Thank you. Oh, thank you. I mean, I make, now my English is going to start getting worse and worse just because of that. No, but I do make an effort. I like talking. It's one of my favorite things to do. So knowing different languages or a little bit of hearing, you know, so you can communicate with a lot of people is, I think that's really important. Okay, but I'm just trying to say that you have a good command of the English language. Thank you. Yeah, I do. The thing is that growing up, I knew Spanish really well too. I was fluent in Spanish. I mean, being that my parents are from Uruguay, but I lost my Spanish more and more, like I understand it really well. But English is so much easier for me because I've, I've literally never lived in a Spanish-speaking country, but I, I, I mean, I lived in LA for four and a half years. So that, you know, yeah, definitely helped. So I need to move somewhere where I can speak Spanish and force myself to, yes, you know, learn it again. Spain. All right. So you're in LA or you're in California and you're trying to make your way there. And I guess you hook up with Jeff Young. Is that it? Or is that there's a little bit of a story before just quickly, just? Yeah, yeah, quickly. I'm going to make, we're not going to go through your whole history here, you know, when you lost your first two. My answers are always like, ah, so long. But yes, once I graduated from MI, I think Jeff found out about me somehow, like through common friends or something. And reached out and we did this like a thing project together that he called Souls on 11. And we did that for like over a year or so. I just think that that project didn't really have, like it wasn't going anywhere really. And then I had to move back to Sweden. And so that kind of like ended that, you know, collaboration. But that's your resume, right? You get something new, a new experience, right? And you take, and you learn from that. And he learns from that and whatever the case may be, right? Yeah, definitely, definitely. All right. So okay, so now you're with Jeff Young, you're back to Sweden. You're the dream, the Hollywood dream is over. Is that what you're thinking in your mind?  Is that how you felt? No. Yeah, I did. I mean, I was in LA for like, is that four and a half years from, basically from I was 20, I turned 25 in LA and then I had to move back. And a lot of things happened throughout those years, like you learn about yourself and you grow as a person and all these things. And then having to move back to Sweden and not being a successful musician or anything of the sort, it was kind of heartbreaking. But I mean, I never give up and I kept working. So I started a new band like within four months of being home. So yeah, I didn't let that stop me. And through that band, I then met Philippa. Alright, so okay, so you met Philippa? Is it Philippa or Philippa? Philippa. Philippa. Yeah. Alright, so you meet her and again, right, connection from connection and networking, right? And how big is Thunder Mother at this point in Sweden? I didn't know of them to be completely honest. I might the guitar player in my the band that I was in at the time, he told me about them. So then I looked them up on Facebook and Instagram and blah blah. And I saw that they were doing cool shows and it looked like a really cool band. And I love the idea of it being an all female band. I thought the whole concept was just amazing. And yeah, so that's kind of what I knew of them. But then yeah, I don't know where to go from there. But yeah, I didn't know I wasn't like a huge fan or anything because I didn't know of the band. But were they I guess my point is, were they that was there a buzz in Sweden about this band at the time? I think so. Yeah, I definitely I feel like they they had reached definitely a bus some sort of success. They had played some cool festivals and yeah, done some cool things already. So they had already done like when I joined the band, the band was already a few steps ahead of me career wise. So they had definitely done some things. Yeah, but that's about it. They weren't living off of music or anything. No, no, yeah, like most people. So okay, so you audition, right? You auditioned she she she hears you she loves you got a great voice. I mean, it's all of us, right? It's awesome. Thank you. So many people have told you this. You joined a band and I'm assuming, I mean, the company or the band name or the trademark, now it's Philippa's right, you're coming in as a session, right? Like a paid member or salaried? Like what is it? Nothing, no, no, none of that. We all the members that have been part of the band have always been told that they're part of a band. And that's the premise that you joined the band and you everyone has been told that you're an equal member as soon as you become like a you're in Thunder Mother, you're then equal member and with everything that that entails like all the work behind the scenes as well as on stage. And yeah, there's two things we have to separate here. There is we're a democracy, we're working together, we're writing music together, we're sharing social media together. And then there is like the registration of the name Thunder Mother, it's under whose name, right? Is it under a company name or is that under a Philippa's name? It's under Philippa's name. Okay, that's what I mean. Like there's a company. I'm not sure if there is a there's a company. I think you might start one now. That's, we were about to do one start one together before Christmas. And I think that was a catalyst to everything that has happened now. But I definitely think that she's doing that now. But no, it was registered in her night in her name. And it was registered 2019 we found out, like globally, which was strange finding out now retrospect, because me and Emily had been in the band for two years then. And when you joined the band, I guess the premise and I'm building up to, you know, to have an understanding, right? And feel free if you don't want to answer, you don't have to answer. I'm just gonna ask. You're joining the band and Philippa saying, listen, the other girls I was with, they kind of bailed, they quit, right? And was there any reasons why they bailed or they quit, you know, or not? I know now, but I didn't know then. At that time, I was so just all consumed in me getting this opportunity that I didn't think of it and more than, okay, they had problems, what band does problems, you know, and I didn't really go in depth with it. But now I definitely have a relationship with a lot of the girls from the previous lineups. And yeah, I've heard their stories, and they're very much similar to my story. So there's nothing unique happening at all. But you're saying, you know, okay, they laughed, here's my opportunity, whatever, right? Exactly. I mean, yeah, I definitely, plus I'm very, I'm very loyal and very like, trust. What's the word when you just trust thing person? That's okay. That's good to be like that. I don't think it is anymore, maybe because it's put me in a lot of weird situations, but I definitely believe what people tell me. And So do I, you know, yeah, but it's weird because you don't, yeah, I don't, yeah, like usually, you know, in your personal life, it's good to believe what people tell you because you're giving them the benefit of the doubt. And that's okay. In business life, I get what you're saying. In business life, you have to be a little more cautious. Yeah. And I haven't been and I had to learn that. That's a tough lesson that I've had to, you know, learn. But yeah. So you joined Thunder Mother. And on the premise that, you know, of course, now you're saying, okay, this is something else on my resume. Things are looking good. The band's not as big. It's just starting off, right? It's starting off. So it's obvious it's gonna have member changes because it's starting off. You joined the band. And on the premise, again, I'll say it like you're more or less a democracy and equal member. Are you writing together with Philippa or she already has the song? Well, we joined the band. It will mean Emily, who quit now. We both joined at the same time, 2017. And when we joined, Philippa already had material for the album Thunder Mother. So we weren't really able to, you know, have a much of a say in the creative part, which I also thought was really, at that time, nice, because then we can get the ball rolling quickly with the new members and the new sound or whatever. So I have like, like this much writing, you know, credits. Which is understandable. It's understandable. To me, I never questioned that. I didn't think it was anything weird. I just told her that for the next album, I really want to be part of the song writing because I enjoy writing music as well. And yeah, that was it. So I didn't think of it. I didn't take that as anything bad or negative. It was just like, I'm new here. I know I'm the new guy. I'm respecting my the position because I'm very I don't know why I'm maybe like that too. Any when you ever start a new company working somewhere, you want to be respectful of your environment? Yeah, like that's yeah, it's weird. I feel like it's like it's such a generational thing. Because I know like, just an example when I used to work in stores and like people that are like so much younger than me come in and they're very like entitled from the beginning where it's, I'm kind of grown up to be like, your respect, like the the boss and you try to like be the best employee you can be and be very like, just all on good and do whatever you can to, you know, have the best team or whatever. That's kind of the mentality that I joined the band in we're a democracy and we're going to do everything in our power to get to where we want to get but one little detail about like the beginning phases is that me and Emily joined and we brought in a lot of new energy. Like we my dream has always been to play arenas and do I still want to play rock and reo like there's a lot of things that I still am dreaming about accomplishing as a musician and preferably in a band that we brought in that energy whereas Philippa had already reached the level of success that she wanted when we joined the band like she was really and there's nothing wrong with that but we kind of like motivator on different levels basically you're saying you wanted this but she kind of wanted this yeah when we joined she was just completely satisfied with being at that level and there's and I just yet again because people keep misunderstanding everything I say I don't want to be clear with I don't think that there's anything wrong with that but that me and Emily were a humongous part because Philippa's even told us this of like pushing it towards what it actually became okay so you're hungry that's what you're saying you're more yeah very hungry and there's nothing wrong with Philippa if she wants to stay where she is or how she is there's nothing wrong with that that's all good I'm not going to bad mouth or either we're just saying it like it is right yeah and even without her being here we're just saying what happened your experience yeah all right so now if when you used to play gigs we used to play shows was it split equally the money like okay let's say you got you got a thousand dollars already got 250 you know it was always split equally right as far as I mean I haven't really seen any paperwork because I'm I'm an idiot so I never looked into whatever you know but as far as I believe we always shared everything equally the merchandise the you know I got royalties from that album that I played on like all these things so all that stuff has been completely normal and fair since day one okay so you've been paid it's not like those situations where musicians haven't been paid and where's my money we did do a huge thing like when we joined the band we actually paid off a huge debt of like 90 I think it was about 90 000 crowns I don't know how much that is like like nine thousand dollars uh to the previous management because we were that's like how loyal and you know solidary we are when we are we part if we're part of a band we didn't like think twice about taking care of the the baggage from before we just did that so I remember the Dead Daisy store I think we all made a thousand dollars from those two weeks you know of that first tour because and it wasn't from the show it was from like the merchandise so yeah was there any and I'm gonna help you here too was there any partnership like so in other words you've agreed to come on board you and the other girls in a form of a verbal partnership is what you're saying yeah there was no signed paperwork saying we're all part of this company no that was never that was every time that was brought up just so everyone would have like the security of that it was kind of brushed off and then something would happen and you wouldn't think about it anymore and then you would get bring it up again and it would just be something that you know but but I wouldn't blame Philippa either if she had the name and the company before because she's kind of work she was working it right for a few years already so yeah you couldn't you couldn't blame her for that right I do not blame her at all for that I yeah I don't just want to know how so you paid off a debt you've come into this verbal agreement of some sort of partnership yeah right was there a company registered that you know that that when you when you're booking shows it was with the company not the no we have we've had booking agencies that take that yeah yeah but I mean everyone has their own everyone in thunder mother has their own company so when it was time to you know get paid like either our management took all the money or there's there's never been a thunder mother company it's always been like I don't know what the name is the over there but like the individual companies yeah so you're you're you create your own sole proprietary proprietary proprietorship whatever they call it yeah something like that so you create your own little companies okay yeah gotcha all right so you're in thunder mother the six you're hungry for success you're building the success you could see that you're on top of tour buses playing during covid that was yeah we did that that was pretty uh you know so what the hell are they doing though because you Swedes you had no lockdown over there no we didn't have any lockdown but they did like there were no venue venues open so everything that had to do with culture was shut down but everything else was more or less pretty normal like always um so yeah we we got creative and did the the touring on like on top of the fire truck and stuff like that whose idea was that I think it was the it was actually our previous manager he he had that idea of doing the fire truck and then in Germany they had a ton of different creative ideas of you know keeping the music alive yeah yeah so okay so slowly you're getting successful you know you're getting more traction you know people are digging your voice to digging the music and to me it looks like a the whole band was really contributing to that sort of uh success at the time right I think oh too I think so too it was a complete it was a hundred percent team effort I don't think we would have reached the success that we have reached um if it wasn't for all four of us putting in the time and energy or I would say me Philippa and Emily because we've had I feel like we've had like a round door with the bass players they've been not it hasn't been the easiest thing for us to keep bass players around but us three have been solids for six years and yeah okay so now as you're of course it's obvious like brothers and sisters they argue and there's always the was there already signs of you know you guys aren't getting along you know two people two ladies against two ladies or three against one or you know that's what happens in any family right people start taking sides decisions about music I I mean I want to keep a light here but uh definitely me and Philippa have always had we're like opposite we we stand on different sides of things but we've always been able to find ways of working through it in a sense like obviously we were able to tour give me a small example of something like that like oh I don't like this song or leave that song on the album I don't like that song on the album or should we play in this country or not that was actually never me and Philippa never had those kind of issues it was more it I can give you an example of like our drummer and Philippa they always were um like butting heads in the studio about um drum beats to a particular song but it was like that's still like a normal thing to argue about you know drummer guitar player um I think I've been pretty chill when it comes to those things I so you're saying musically everything was cool like the regular the regular sort of inspiration or critique when creating songs which is a normal thing for bands right yeah yeah definitely yeah did all the band contribute in writing back then uh well yeah well they gave their own like the drummer say okay I want to contribute this and bassist this and that or like yeah definitely everybody contributed in some way or another to the songs and the albums yes I would yeah kind of yeah look there's always somebody with the main idea but everybody I mean we worked with uh we wrote songs with um so for example me and Philippa wrote driving in style uh and that was a normal session we were there brainstorming you know all of that normal and that's kind of how we did all the albums but not everyone was present all the time for the different sessions oh I think me and Philippa were but uh you know what I mean like it was just yeah everyone contributed with their different parts and yeah when did you find or did you feel like you know what something's not right here or maybe you didn't at what point like last year two years ago or it was always there or never there must have been a vibe like you're saying you know what something just doesn't feel right anymore it's a tough question to answer um we all get a sense of something's wrong right yeah um I I would say like this that um it's never been great for me and I'm and it's it's been tough six tough years uh but uh yeah 100 but uh regardless of that I I don't regret anything I've I've still had amazing experiences with the band and yeah I wouldn't take anything back because I've I've grown and I've become the singer that I am and there's so many positives to that so even though it's it has been a very bumpy ride I still think that it's been a beautiful ride and something that's nice I would I don't know because it does teach you a lot about yourself and you grow as a human so that's why I'm kind of like even you know when you when you go through something that's tough and hard for you you can either choose to learn from it and try to you know take some you know do something positive with it and that's kind of what I'm I'm I'm aiming to do for myself uh so you're saying you were I wouldn't say you were miserable but you're unhappy for like six years not 100 not happy it's been going up and it's been like this it could have been better you're saying it could have been better it definitely I've I've questioned how my my dream of doing music and everything that I love so much and you know hold so dear it had had to be so tough but then in my mind I've always thought that oh but it's probably the pay the price you pay for getting these experiences or you know whatever like but I I think that it doesn't necessarily have to be that but you know like anything in life nothing is going to be happy and roses all the time you you go through things just like you mentioned families and stuff like it's normal but yeah I definitely how old are you how old are you you don't mind me I just turned 36 wow I thought you're like 26 well thank you yeah young skin so no no there's definitely you know uh when you say that you worked in a store they're younger okay I get it okay I thought you're like 26 I wouldn't yeah thank you that's good that's good I always used to work as a salesperson like in different clothing stores and stuff like that you know while pursuing music 100 because that's just been my my my entire goal for life since I my entire adult life so I've always kind of just just got jobs to pay the bills or whatever but music has been my for sure okay so you're you're and this is when I saw you so now you've hooked up with the scorpions I'm assuming you know it was a management buy on I would assume I don't know like no I'm guessing so they it wasn't a buy on or of any sort no no it wasn't about out of nowhere this band comes in there they're on like this major tour right so that that's if that wasn't a buy on then that was a huge accomplishment we have the same booking agent still even people with the same booking agents they put bands next to big bands you know usually uh I mean it wasn't like we made a lot I'm like we we didn't make enough money I mean it kind of I it barely covered our the the nightliner but we yeah we didn't pay to get on there no okay so that's good actually that means a lot actually yeah it's a huge accomplishment and we are very proud of that like I don't think Thunder Mother Saban has ever done a buy on you know what now that you're telling me this I think it's massive what you guys did yeah it's pretty big I mean to go on a like I know Queens rake was opening for the scorpions I mean they're not a small potatoes band either right no they're so here you guys you guys are playing what did it feel like going on stage in front of like 10 to 15,000 people that's pretty big for me it was it was like um experience something I've been dreaming of so so long like it was so huge for me it was like yeah it's a dream come true really like I've always dreamt of being able to play big stages like that and for a big audience it's too and also feeling the love from the people you know like because unfortunately I feed off the energy of the crowds and the crowds were amazing and it was just yeah it was a highlight of the whole tour I mean obviously performing is always the highlight for me but um yeah I it was just overwhelming and I was really sad the last day of the tour because I was like I wonder for maybe I was having permanent issues I don't know but I was kind of feeling like I wonder if I'm ever going to be able to get to experience this again um which I hope I will um but yeah it was just amazing and I'm forever grateful to our booking agent Christalton at CAA and the Scorpions for taking a chance on us um yeah it was did you did you sit down and have coffee with Klaus no we didn't I didn't get a chance to do that really because when when we were gonna we were gonna have dinner with them they asked us to go for dinner uh we actually both me and Philippa were had colds so we called them up and like we're sick right now um can we reschedule and then there wasn't any more times on the tour to do it unfortunately and the idea was to get to do it now on the German tour but obviously uh I'm not gonna be on there so I'm hoping that Klaus still have heard through the grapevine how appreciative I am and how I'm forever like so you didn't really get even to chance to talk to them or no we did hello hello maybe no we did I don't know there's a really fun video they came in on the second day of the date of the tour and said hi to all of us and they were really lovely and then we had another a few weeks later we did a photo shoot type thing with them it's not like I had like conversations in depth I was just like hi like being super nerdy and not cool um it was tough you know because you you meet them so quickly and you're like holy shit this is Klaus you know or this is this is scorpions uh but yeah I've talked to Mickey D quite a lot a lot and he's super nice and awesome dude and um well actually I did talk to Matias too on the last I was in um his dressing room and talked to him and his wife after the show and they were telling me how much they really enjoyed having us on the tour and um how how much they really wanted us for the whole European tour as well which was such an honor and mind-blowing and huge so that's something I'm gonna take with me forever that they really respected us and enjoyed what we you know did which was really cool but I didn't get to talk so much to Klaus because Klaus is more he doesn't uh socialize you don't want to talk either right he wants to because he's got his voice right yeah exactly but we did share the stage on the last show and it was just really you sang a song together is that what we we were all brought up on a rocky like a hurricane when we played in Vegas yeah see I didn't know that and I had Klaus like um uh monitor sound in my ears and I was supposed to like sing with him and I was like I'm like the biggest nerd so for me it was like very awkward because we didn't really get much information and I also don't want to like step on his toes and be like right like go up and I'm just gonna like push him aside and just take the mic yeah no plus I mean I'm like stature like I'm just such a big person compared to him uh so I just tried to like back off and be like like he must be like five five or five four right Klaus yeah probably I'm five eight we're platforms I'm like probably like five ten on stage or five I don't know exactly we do centimeters here but um yeah I'm pretty I'm a bit bigger than him was there anything you want to you know any cool experience other than what you just mentioned about the scorpions that wow I never knew that I never knew that about the scorpions oh we did find out some fun stuff but I don't think I can share it well I mean shareable I'm not saying I don't want to know the color of his underwear or anything just joke no but uh all right I don't I don't know what to tell you it was just amazing it was just an amazing tour and we got to see so many cool venues and I mean I did have a in well it wasn't it might not be like the funnest story but I did right before the show in LA I had a little accent with my monitor so it was someone stepped on them so I did that whole show not hearing myself it's pretty impressive that's very impressive yeah I think so too I mean I managed to get through that so that was pretty cool but then it was really nice because Mika D told me that every time he plays in LA it's like a curse like something weird happens with the instruments or something because I playing the forum was huge for me I mean obviously I've seen Prince one of my favorite because you were there before you were there before in Los Angeles ago and then you left and you left exactly now you're coming back as a hero right and I get to play fucking this legendary venue and and my nerves were crazy and then I can't hear myself and I need to go up and just smack a smile on my face and be like yeah let's do this and then I did and it went well and then yeah it was a traumatic experience to me it sounds like whatever you know arguments you may or may not have the experience just overwhelmed anything else right so yeah that's that's how I that's at least that's how it's been for me like music comes first and taking care of the band and the brand I guess you could say has been so much more important than taking care of however I'm feeling or any like I've just been like on you know third fourth place I didn't really care I don't that's like the healthiest or the most mature way of dealing with things so that's on me something I need to learn but um yeah I would never like the band was my everything all right so here's the shocker of all shockers now right you're telling me all this amazing stuff and us as fans right we're going to see you guys and we're going oh my god and and it's new to a lot of people even my wife she didn't know thunder mother she was oh thunder mother what a fun name you know and she saw you guys she thought you're amazing and my friends of friends of friends everybody thought you guys are really you know this is a band coming out of nowhere just really you know with the energy the momentum yeah and then you're no longer in the band it's like what the heck is going on here it's like this shirt went from 20 to 30 dollars to 500 dollars because you're no longer in the band right everybody wants a copy one of these now what's going on what's going on what's going I mean the statement said it all really I know but you got an email a dismissal email is that it yeah your time is over all right now let's get into a let's get into a law here and I'm gonna where you want to be up front here I've been having a really really bad tough day today so I don't want to go into much yeah let me explain to you something don't don't be upset I'm gonna tell you because you brought the band to where it was thank you and I that's crazy to me and that that's a never saw it like you brought the band let me the first thing people always say is what the voice is like what is the singer like what is the energy from the singer okay you brought the band there so you should that's a huge accomplishment you brought the band to the scorpions not to say the other girls didn't play a role too I'm not diminishing no they're amazing they're really talented and I'm really proud to have had them as my bandmates all of them actually but you see for me it doesn't sit well because sorry if you went to work at a clothing store in Canada yeah and I'm assuming the same thing in Sweden you know first you get a warning right you get a verbal warning right then you get another verbal warning and then they go okay we've given you verbal warnings here's a written warning you're no longer working for us as a as a salary person I would to just get a dismissal email just like that and again I don't know the whole story without any warnings I don't know I mean I don't think anyone will ever hear the real story ever I mean unless I release like a biography in 10 years or something maybe maybe that's a good idea yeah I mean yeah I don't I I don't know what to tell you yeah it's I think it was shocking for all of us because I would have never can she do this legally that's what I'm asking you oh legally um yes because she owns the band no she owns that's what I was getting to before okay you're working in a clothing store they can't just you can't just walk into the clothing store and saying you're fired for no reason or you know unless you stalled or you did something serious right which I haven't done and what you haven't done you've only demonstrated that to me from a legal aspect from just the information that you're telling me I can't I don't know the whole story so I won't judge it no but it doesn't sound like it was actually a legal dismissal you might want to look into that yeah no I I don't think there's anything that we can do besides what we have done and uh if she called you back today would you go back to the band so it was all wrong I don't think I could know it hurt not no not not now I feel like just like Emily said in a previous interview like the betrayal is just beyond it's like I don't know I wouldn't have never taken it this far but you know that's just how people were you warned were you warned prior what were you saying listen if you don't do this you're out of the band or if you don't do this you're out of the band no because that's not something that you can say to someone when you're a democracy it's like you know you can you you can just no I don't know never never well I mean you're working in a clothing store I know but you can't you can't compare the two because it's like I mean I guess you could but at the same time it's impossible because it's like a band dynamic is so much more different and could be so much more infected and there's no protection for musicians or I guess like if anyone listening starting a band now be smart have contracts set up even though it feels silly initially like we're gonna do that now with the girls we love each other yeah we're really good friends but we've learned our lessons so we're gonna set up like a a band agreement like now day one of our beginning of this new band because it's like there's no point in in not having any type of security just so you know verbal is also is an agreement as well that verbal agreements with witnesses are you can listen there's a million interviews where we're all believing and saying yeah we're a democracy we decide everything together and I've even said in interviews like I would never be part of a band if I wasn't able to have you know my vote voting rights or my opinion mattered unless I'm a hired gun and that's a completely different ballgame and I would be completely fine with just stepping back and being you know even even a hired gun even a hired gun you couldn't get an email just to release somebody you know from a contract you would have to give a verbal warning you'd have to go through this you'd have to you know show but anyways I don't want I don't know her side so I'm not gonna assume anything here I'm just trying to tell you that there's certain procedures a band is an entity an entity is like a business so the same sort of rules apply that's how I've always seen it and that's that's how I believe a band should be run as a business and having that mindset like even if people are not getting along you can always find like a professional ground where you can meet and you do the job and you can still enjoy the job and then go your separate way like that's just my mentality and that's just not the same for everyone okay and so okay so you're let go on an email yeah and that that seems to be has hurt you a great deal right extremely like someone ripped my heart out yeah yeah and and and I would be too I'd be like furious I'd be upset furious did you did you try to reach out they're saying why are you doing this no because I know her and there's no point okay and then your friends and solidarity they quit the band the two other ladies uh Mona and uh sorry what's her name Emily and Emily and Emily they quit the band to join you which you know which is is a must that must have made you feel great right that must feel a lot better it does make me feel but I also felt really guilty because um sorry no look no I I don't want to sorry um no okay but I know the opportunities that we had um worked up and created together and um I shouldn't be doing these interviews because I'm really mentally not ready to do these kind of things sorry I apologize but um okay I felt guilty no but let me just just wrap it up like I felt guilty because I knew the opportunities that they were letting there were giving up because of this but they had their own reasons and me being um you know like I had nothing to like they did this completely on their own and the the problems that we've had in the band they they're not just something that is between her and I it's like something that's been brewing and been there always and so when when this happened they also felt that it was very disrespectful towards them being that they believed that we were a democracy and that we had to say in these things when she came because she did more or less tell them I want to do this and I've already found a new singer and that's when Emily just said I I don't want to play with another singer and if you're going to go ahead and do this I'm going to leave the band and that's what she did so and Emily and Mona felt the same way well I think that's that that is a nice thing you know like out of for for two others to join you like that I think that's wonderful I think I love them and I'm forever grateful I you know I wouldn't expect it anything but I also feel like I'm so blessed and honestly I'm I'm I'm so incredibly grateful that they they are my new band and they are the two that I enjoy working with and I have so much fun with them and we already had two songwriting days and we had just so much fun and it was drama-free and it was just it was just a dream and it was just like this is what a band is supposed to be and I and I trust me we've been I've meant little yeah it's not I'm gonna we have dinner soon no but we've had our differences because that's how friends you know if you don't fight with your family and friends I mean that's kind of weird in itself and we have but we always we say sorry and we move past it and get and our relationships always grow stronger and stronger and stronger and that's I think the testament of a you know real solid like healthy relationship and that's how it is with them so I'm really grateful that we have something and that we get to continue playing together so you're gonna write some new music yes you're gonna try to get a new album out there yes you're gonna play try to do some shows together right oh yeah yeah yes all right so you're gonna kick some butt that's okay yeah that's all right I mean I'm I'm I'm you know I couldn't ask for better player like I have so much fun with them and they are so incredibly talented and you know both of them are really like high educated highly educated musicians like they both went to university you know like they're just like crazy good musicians and it's gonna be fun like it's really it's already so much fun like I'm already feeling like a stone has lifted like I'm excited for the future and I also think that whatever happened between me and Philippa whatever you know what I think it's for the better for both of us she gets to play with people that she enjoys to be with and be in a setting that she's gonna you know feel satisfied and happy and I get to do the same thing the only difference is that we need to you know find a bad name and you know build something father something with father in it I think rain father or yeah I think we're gonna avoid anything anything paternal maternal what are related I think we're gonna leave that to the girls there and then we are gonna have to start something fresh it is good you're doing interviews I'll tell you why because now you can use this as your platform to get labels you know to get you guys signed if you're not already signed to get management to get your name out there so use the opportunity well now look you have me like you have me sort of on your side so it's it's good thank you thank you and I like I said in the interviews that I've done so far I don't want people to pick a side you don't have to pick a side you don't have to enjoy two great bands yes they're gonna be killing it on their side and I'm hoping that we're gonna be killing it on our side and get to that level that we managed to get thunder mother you know I want to get there and beyond so I'm I'm excited for the future I'm excited too and you know what sees the day sees the opportunity I'm gonna show your inception that was your solo right inception I'm gonna put that up there and just quickly leave off with inception you want to tell people about that yeah but can I just say one last thing though yeah sure sure because people have been writing to me and been pretty negative like most I would say 99% have been really positive and supportive but some people feel that I by telling my truth that I am doing something wrong and uh you know bashing them which I just want to make it clear that that's like not my intention at all I just you're asking questions and I'm a very honest person and it's I can't not give you my truth but with that I don't have any intention of making it seem like they're bad people or I don't wish I wish I wish thunder mother all the success in the future I don't mean yeah any badness towards them either so people need to understand yeah yeah I agree and I said understand that but yes inception is my first single as a solo artist um it's I guess more commercial rock uh I wrote it with Emily the drummer in thunder or pre well my drummer now our drum we're I don't know how what is yeah Emily Johansson me and our friend Johan Johan Rondian wrote inception together and it's about the beginning so it kind of feels like a fitting song so it's just a single right now right it's just a single yeah I have my next single ready to go but I need to just set a date for it and yeah it's not conception is it no it's not I can give you the name of it go ahead um well I wrote this song before I got fired obviously and I didn't know this shit storm was gonna happen but I did write a song called MVP which is kind of hilarious right now um and it's about I mean you listen to the lyrics it's just about like I can be the best at my in my position and you can be the best like trying to it's just like a motivational pump you know happy song that you know we can all be the best kind of good good for you well listen congratulations a single is like some super powerful singing there thank you you know uh you know keep us posted on you know the latest developments on your bad name yes I'm curious to see what it's going to sound like I'm curious to see what the name is going to be no father mother sister brother in the name we know that no rain no weather related no weather related no no uh and also we're going to be playing the songs that we wrote so of course we already have like a lot of great material from the album black and gold for example so yeah I'm excited to to do that in our I guess and yeah play them again all right thank you very much for being a guest I'm gonna go eat now too yeah dinner time okay all right talk to you ludge bye bye all right have a lovely day


The study found that MIR-1207-3P is significantly under-expressed in prostate tumour tissues in MOAA when compared to normal prostate tissues. Furthermore, FNDC1, FN1, AR and MYC are also significantly over-expressed in prostate tumour tissues in MOAA when compared to normal prostate tissues. This article was authored by Dbash Kadas, Akintanti or Amui, Gabriel Olibi Algon and others.


at this open source summit. I'm not a native English speaker, so feel free to ask questions if there is something not very clear. And you could also send me an email with your ideas after this sharing and I will reply to you as soon as possible. I am an open source developer currently working at PINCAP with developer TIDB, an open source new circle database. Here are some of my personal open source projects. One of them is the C-Cortin library. Another one is about Pexo's algorithm. Today our topic is how the CFS algorithm could be used in Cortin scheduling. Let's start with some benchmarks. We're programmers and we all know benchmarks, right? At the very start, please allow me to introduce two terminologies. One is the event-intensive task. Most of the time in slide cycle is waiting for events just in a minute of CPU and only a very small part of the time is doing CPU computing. CPU intensive task. Most of, even all of these life cycle is doing CPU computing just in a minute on CPU and only a very small part of its time or has never been instead of waiting for events. Here is our first benchmark. F-data sync latency benchmark. First we open a log file and loop about intimes and write four kilobytes data to this file. F-data sync and then loop the content. Our test environment is on an hardcore Linux version motion with an exclusive NVMe SSD attached. Here is our first benchmark result. One is C version, another is a Go version. We could see the difference is very small. The result is not bad, right? Actually, the C version should be a little faster than the Go version because the Go version has this scheduled overhead in the go runtime. Here is our second benchmark. F-data sync with CPU intensive task and benchmark in Go. At first, we loop about intimes each create a go routine which is the CPU intensive task and then exactly the same as before. And the CPU intensive task is a infinite loop which contain a checksum of one megabytes by slice. Here is our second benchmark result. When the CPU intensive task amount is zero, the result is same as our first benchmark. But when the CPU intensive task amount grows, the F-data sync latency become worse and worse. This is not a very good result, right? Because for many Go applications, CPU intensive tasks is simply unavoidable. So this benchmark result tells us that for those applications, such latency penalty may already exist for a very long time. So what's going on here? Basically, the current go runtime scheduler use a run-robin scheduling strategy. Here is a simple demo. The demo below is not mean to work exactly like the go runtime scheduler. Go may evolve in the future. The purpose of this demo is to show that in some cases, run-robin is not a good choice. On the left of our demo figure is a go routine ridicule. On the right is the CPU.  We assume that the time slice is 20 milliseconds. Add T zero, time T zero. A is scheduled to run. And because A is event intensive, it only consumes very few CP time. We just neglect it in this demo. Then B is scheduled to run. While B is running, a finished is event vaching and become runnable again. And then at time T zero plus 20 milliseconds, B is suspended and C continues to run. Well, because our time slice is 20 milliseconds. At time T zero plus 40 milliseconds, it's time D to run. And then finally, we got A resumed to run at T zero plus 60 milliseconds. So that's why we got the worst F-data sync latency when it's running with CP intensive tasks. So how to solve this problem? We know that the scheduling strategy of the current implementation go is basically run-robin. But in practical application scenarios, priority relationships may need to exist between different types of tasks or even between tasks of the same type. For example, if you want to use Go to implement a storage engine, in general IO tasks should have higher priority than any other CPU intensive tasks. Because in this case, the CPU, the system bottleneck is more likely to be in this guy or not CPU, right? For another example, we may use Go to implement a network slice, which is required to ensure the latency of some certain lightweight tasks, even while other Go teams are quite CPU intensive. However, in the current implementation of Go runtime, if there are a certain number of CPU intensive tasks that need to run for a very long time, it will in invite body impact the scheduling latency. And because Go routine scheduling is quite like the thread scheduling, so let's test this scenario on Linux kernel and see what happens. We do this test on a wine called Linux version machine. As we could see, the current CPU load of this system is very low. And we could assume that all these processes are even intensive. On the left, the pin command is running, which has a destination address is our router of this line. The SH demo process is this SS session server, which is even intensive too. Now we create a CPU intensive task by simply using the best script. Edge top on the right tells us that the current system reached its maximum CPU load. After waiting a while, we could see the pin latency on the left still very stable and seems no big differences with the previous one. And our SSH session still feels very small. As we saw, the Linux kernel scheduler performed very well. Maybe we could compare the thread model provided by kernel with the goal team model provided by goal in addition to the inherent low cost and high concurrency advantages of goal team or threads. Some very useful mechanism in the kernel thread model cannot be found in the goal team model of goal at least not yet. For example, the dynamic modification of scheduling policy and priority mechanism including adaptive priority adjustment. The scheduler of the initial version of Linux kernel is quite primitive too, but with the continuous development of the kernel more and more applications how have higher and higher requirements for kernel schedule. And the kernel scheduler has been keeping in voicing until today's CFS scheduler. That should also apply to goal. A real commercial scheduler will make goal even greater. So let's introduce our CPU worker. CPU worker is a customized goal team scheduler over a good runtime. Basically, the idea of a CFS scheduling is to give every thread a logical clock which records the duration of threads on CPU time. Different priority settings of threads, different speed 10 passes of its logical clock and CFS scheduler would prefer to choose the thread which has the most behind logical clock to run. Because the scheduler sync is quite on fire to make such thread even more behind. After all the scheduler's name service stands for completely fair scheduler. So if one thread is event intensive then it would have a higher effectual priority. And if one thread is CPU intensive then it will have a lower effectual priority. That we could call it adaptive priority adjustment that is quite important feature which could ensure the scheduling latency of event intensive threads will not be very hard even a current system is on the high CPU load due to the existence of some CPU intensive threads. Assuming we are running on an ad core Linux box and the Go Max Prox has been set to add then we supplied this add P into two pieces. One has two P and another has all these left six P. The two P part is prepared for event intensive tasks. And the left six P part is roughly prepared for CPU intensive tasks. And to achieve that, we only need to ensure that the concurrency of the CPU intensive tasks is always no more than six. And pair are for two propositions that make the idea of customizing go-round time scheduler feasible. The first one, event intensive task has a very small on CPU time and they're always available P for event intensive tasks. Second, CPU worker, the scheduler itself is event intensive. The third, CPU intensive tasks completes these limited P resources, completes this limited P resources and which are managed by our customized go-round time scheduler. The fourth, go-round time scheduler supports work stealing. At this point, we have the ability to customize our own go-round time scheduler over go-round time. And because it's over go-round time, so we could implement any scheduling algorithm. We want not only CFS, there are three patterns of, three patterns of CPU worker submit. Parting one is a special case of parting two. Parting one is not friendly at all because it will occupy one P during it's how lifestyle, life cycle. So the best practice is this pattern should only be used by very short CPU intensive tasks. Parting two got a checkpoint FP in the import parameter and CPU intensive tasks should call this checkpoint FP from time to time. This is the point where the CPU worker scheduler suspend or resume the CPU intensive tasks. Parting two is a special case of parting three. Parting three, we name it a hybrid task which is a mix of CPU intensive and event intensive. In theory, parting two is probably enough, but in practical, there may be some tasks not so easy to slide into CPU intensive or event intensive, especially for those already existing go-projects. Here is a demo of parting three. Basically, we try to extract all the event intensive part of hybrid task and thus all its left parts are CPU intensive. The import of event core FP should be an event intensive task or Neo, which means a checkpoint, which is same as the checkpoint FP in this case. Here is the step transition of one task from the perspective of CPU worker scheduler. Step one, the newly created task has been just submitted to CPU worker and CPU worker scheduled its run. The step two, when performing the checkpoint FP check, the task finds that it has received the suspended interaction from the scheduler. So it puts itself into the run of a task prior to queue and waiting for the resume signal. At step three, the suspended task receives the resume signal from the scheduler and continues to run. At step four, the task returns P to the CPU worker scheduler and then executes the event intensive task. And step five completes the execution of the event intensive task. Then the task puts itself into the runable task prior to queue and waits for the resume signal. Step six, that is the end of this task's lifecycle. As a proof of concept, CPU worker currently only implements a part of this or a part of the service and could also be set a variant of service. Here are some more benchmarks. Here is our second benchmark we did at the very start. I've done something with CPU intensive tasks benchmark in Go. Here is the CPU intensive task definition and here is our third benchmark, which is the FDATSENG with CPU intensive tasks benchmark with CPU worker. Basically, it submits some amount of CPU intensive tasks to CPU worker at first and then do the actual FDATSENG DATSENG benchmark which means the CPU intensive tasks will be under the control of our own scheduler. Here is the definition of CPU intensive task with checkpoint, which have an actual input parameter named the checkpoint IP and in the infinite for loop and you will call it this function from time to time. Here is our benchmark result. We could see that the vanilla version of DATSENG latency becomes worse and worse as the amount of CPU intensive tasks grows while our CPU worker version FDATSENG latency is very stable. Keep around one millisecond to two milliseconds. As the amount of CPU intensive task grows, this is a very good result. Here is our last benchmark. The first function is the CPU intensive task and the second is the CPU intensive task with checkpoint. People got a HTTP handler named handle checksum without CPU worker. And the last function is the another HTTP handler named handle checksum with CPU worker and has checkpoint. Here is the last HTTP handler named handle delay one millisecond. It is an event intensive task. Here we do the HTTP handler setup and here is some laws we're going to test on our demo server. The common one is an event intensive task. The common two is the CPU intensive task but without our CPU worker which means the vanilla version. And the common three is the CPU intensive task which under the control of our CPU worker. Here is our last benchmark result. On the left is about throughput and the right is about a variance latency. The first row in the table is about delay one millisecond which means delay one millisecond is the only load in this row of 36. We could see that the throughput and average latency is very good. And the second row in this table delay one millisecond plus CPU intensive vanilla which means this load is the mix of delay one millisecond and the CPU intensive tasks without CPU worker. And we could see the performance drops dramatically. And the last row in this table delay one millisecond plus CPU intensive CPU worker which means this load is the mix of delay one millisecond and CPU intensive tasks with CPU worker. And we could see the performance becomes nice again. For more information you could refer to this link that to CPU workers get a repository. Thank you, that's all.


We take you back to the report where we told you that the crisis rocking the legal state chapter of the Labour Party LP is far from being over as the governorship primary election scheduled to hold today ended in a deadlock. There was a disagreement over the purported doctoring of delegates list in favour of one of the candidates. Our correspondent Lovie Cuckoo tells us more. Delegates of Labour Party in Lagos state seated waiting in anticipation to cast their vote in the primary election. Hope is finally dashed as the opportunity awaited is never to be. Shouts and echoes of disagreements rent the air. Pandemonium became the other of things. We catch up with two aspirants in the eye of the storm. Moshid Salvador and Gwadibor Rosweaver. They are claiming they made mistake. What type of mistake? Missing 26 name. Not just missing it and add it to another person. Nobody said anything was added to mind. It was a simple mistake that has been resolved now. Everybody has their own delegate list and they'll be accredited and it's fair. There's no issues here. Really there's no issues here. The deputy national chairman of the party, Bashiru Apapa, is optimistic that the primary will go on irrespective of the crisis. I'm surprised that it does a little error. I don't know because they brought the list. I signed the list and I called the two aspirants to check the list and see whether any of their names got missing. It was at that level they said, oh my name is not there. My name is okay. Go and correct it. I'm surprised that it has got to this level. It's not new. You can be pretty and there's an error. But the assurance did not hold what is. The venue soon becomes deserted as delegates all left one after the other. The exercise is not holding today again. It has been postponed to wednesday. And that's why what really happened was I told you initially that the other candidate has left. And when I asked him on phone, he said his delegates have left. And to be fair enough to everybody, we said we should postpone it wednesday. The deputy national chairman is still keeping hope alive. He's looking forward to the delegates and aspirants converging once again this week for the primary election. From Legas, live from Kukuku Uyidoku, plus TV news.


Hello and welcome to Geosciences 10, the geology of the national parks. I'm Richard Alley and with Shridhara Nanda Krishnan, my very good colleague, we will be taking you on a tour of some of the most interesting ideas about how the world works and how it affects you and some of the most interesting and beautiful places on the planet. I think we'll have a lot of fun. I think we'll learn some very interesting things before we get done and I am looking forward to the tour. I'd like to start with a little bit of a look at our national parks, just so you know. National parks are an invention of the United States. The first national park was Yellowstone. You see the glorious lower falls of the Yellowstone River here, the coloration of the rocks giving rise to the name of the place. Of course, Yellowstone is famous for the geysers. There's a giant pot of hot rock down underneath there of melted rock that erupts occasionally and causes big trouble and in between it heats things and makes it wonderfully beautiful. This is a geology class, but don't worry too much. We take a fairly broad view of what constitutes geology. We will look at biodiversity. We will look at climate at living on the planet. Here you actually see the tracks of a mountain lion walking across the deposits of a hot spring in Yellowstone. Mountain lions often put one foot on top of the other and give interesting looking tracks so you can see them there. Here you see the tracks of the bison that are famous in Yellowstone and other places. Bison came very close to not making it. Yellowstone was important in their survival. Yellowstone was a little island in which no one could shoot them, no one could disrupt their habitat. The existence of these owes something to the foresight of the people who said, let us save this piece of the world for the public. These things are valuable. This is a picture of a hot spring mat that is sitting right below Old Faithful Geyser. People are prospecting in these looking for interesting chemicals that will help us. There are biotechnology industries that are founded on things that were discovered in Yellowstone, a bug that has learned to live and do things in really, really hot water has ways of doing things that are useful to us.  The Park Service has a very interesting difficulty.  Sometimes these sort of meet in interesting ways. Here you see a bison jam. If you go to Yellowstone, you will also see bear jams and elk jams and moose jams and coyote jams. It's the way the world works. The bison are beautiful. The Firehole River here behind the bison was described by the mountain men as flowing so fast it gets hot on the bottom. Well, no, there's hot springs under there, but it's a beautiful place. I am a geoscientist, a geologist, a glaciologist. I'm one of the luckier people in the world. I get to go to incredibly beautiful places, and people pay me to do things that matter. I'm a happily married person. I have two wonderful daughters, and you see us here in front of a glacier in Alaska, and the truth is we took with Penn State at one point. And I am trained in rocks first, and then in climate and ice and other sorts of things. I studied at Ohio State, and then I finished my studies at Wisconsin, and then I've moved to Penn State and been at Penn State since 1988. So I've been around a little bit now at this point. I have the usual sort of accouterments of someone who hangs around a place like Penn State for a while. I've got a good bicycle. I play a little soccer reasonably badly. I have, as I said, a wonderful family, nice gardens, an interesting collection of critters. Prancer there is about 22 pounds. He's quite a beast. But I do, I get to go to great places. These next few pictures are going to be from the world's largest national park. This is Northeastern Greenland. I study ice sheets, the history of climate that's contained in ice sheets, and whether the ice sheets will fall in the ocean and flood the coasts. And so we get to go to neat places to do this. And so here you can see Corridor and glacier in East Greenland flowing out from Milmilan towards you. The stripes are rocks that it carries along and dumps into the ocean. And I hope you get the vague idea that this thing might actually be moving. If you were to go out on that glacier and put markers out, you'd fall in a crevasse. So don't do that. But if you did and came back and surveyed them later, you actually would see that they are moving. If you do ever get to go to the world's largest national park, Kondra is beautiful in the fall. It's sort of an amazing place to go to. There are glaciers. There's a huge ice sheet in the middle of Greenland and then little glaciers on the side. Those glaciers are actually shrinking now, as is the big ice sheet. And if you see these little red lines, the big outer loop there is where the glacier was 100 years ago. And now you can see the glacier has backed up. It is slowly melting away. Why? We'll get there before we're done. This is the Tundra in the Fall, a little mushroom and some bear berries there looking at you. The colors do turn. They're very pretty. This is a full mar. It's sort of a little albatross. It can stay at sea. It doesn't need to come in for fresh water because it can drink seawater because it has that fancy gland and its nose to exclude the salt. And it's flying over the ocean and the ocean in cold places gets interesting. The marker there on the white, that's frozen ocean water. That's sea ice and the ocean really can freeze. And between that and the open water where that circle is, as you can see into the ocean through the sea ice, it gets warmer and the sea ice tends to melt. The ocean soaks up more heat and that makes it warmer still. So there's some interesting things we will get to chat about in a little bit. These are icebergs coming off of Greenland. A glorious fall day. A fog hanging around up above there and the sun breaking through. It's just such a great place. And this is a musk ox. A musk ox is sort of the same size and shape as a bison or a minivan. Either is fairly similar. It probably has a better acceleration and cornering than a minivan does. They're actually more related to mountain goats than they are to bison. But this is the northeast Greenland National Park equivalent of our buffalo or bison here. And a marker of goodwill. We will see some beautiful things. We will have some fun before we get out of here. My colleague, Sherida R. and I have had some wonderful opportunities in the way of putting together this course. And you will see some very interesting things that we did along with Eric Spielvogel from Penn State's the Education Institute and others. We had the opportunity to get a really wonderful group of advanced students and then go out and tour some of the national parks with the students carrying cameras. And so you will get to see pictures they took. You will get to see experiences they had as part of our cause adventure in the great west. Here's Sherida in Arches National Park. And these are some of the things that we got to do with the Arches people. We did indeed walk through Arches. Why are there Arches? We went to Canyon de Che. What happened to the ancestral Puebloans who lived there? We will get to see that before we're done. This is Eric Spielvogel who put a lot of this together. I'm getting a really good picture for you. And so we got a lot of nice things that came out of this. We took our crew to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. We hiked down. We had this glorious moonlet night. If you ever get the chance and light, so you're not going to fall over the cliff and fall into the river and the moon is out. What an opportunity to go with Stephanie and Dave and the rest of the crew and wander through the depths of the canyon and the glorious moonlight that we saw there. When you get in the morning and you're at the bottom of this mild deep hole and the flowers are blooming and the hummingbirds are humming by and there's a lot of geology. If you look into this picture and then you'll see them bend, why do they bend? This will come. We'll get to that. Again, we do sneak up on biodiversity whenever we get the chance and so it's not just most of the parks were built for geology but they're increasingly islands of biodiversity in a human controlled world and we really do rely on the parks to keep things alive for us. Some more of our happy campers on the way up out of the canyon. It is indeed somewhat slower coming out of the canyon than it is going in. A little hotter. We zipped by Glen Canyon. We looked at the lake. Behind Samir here you can see this huge white wall and then it turns orange at the top. That white was fairly recently flooded. The lake is really low. Why is the lake low? The climate has changed a little bit and humans are using more of the water. What does this mean for downstream? What does this mean for the things in the canyon? What does it mean for the Colorado? We will get there before we're finished. Here's our crew. We're rafting the Colorado below the dam. That dam changed everything on the river. What did it change? We will get to wander through that a little bit and see what it means. Again, you will see film clips, items, pictures, excitement that our crew generated for you. You'll get to meet them. You'll get to learn from them, from Amish and others here as we wander through. Here Amish is at Canyonlands filming something about the river before it gets to the dam. Here's a crew. Really excited? We were down on the slick rock in Canyonlands in the early morning here waiting for the sunrise to get off and see pretty things. Here's our crew up in Hidden Canyon in Zion. You walk up this cliff of the chain to get around the corners and that chain is wearing grooves in the rock. You will see a little film clip that they made for you when we get that far and some fun things coming there. Here are ancestral Puebloan sites. Wupaki up there with Dave Whitmer and Laney and Irene down in Mesa Verde and then Kim over there filming just outside of Bryce, actually. Stephanie has gone off to work in parks doing some very interesting things now here with Ranger Jan Stock at Bryce. Here we are looking at a geologic feature and fairly soon we will get to these. You look at the picture there above Dave Genesco and you see that one side is orange and the other side is black. The orange are rocks from a lake. The black is rocks from a volcano and that line where they meet is a giant earthquake fault.  Well, Dave has explained it to you and you will get to see this before we get finished. A couple more interesting people in glorious places. Very, very glorious places. These are the wild flowers outside of Kenya lands on the drive in. We could show pictures for the whole semester because it's so cool and so fun but we're not allowed to do that. The university actually believes that you're taking a science course and the university is typically much more interested that you know something about science than that you focus on a particular science such as my science because it's such as the stuff that I really care about. We do have to chat a little bit about science. We will actually throw up some facts before we get done and we will do so. I want you to hark back in your memory for a moment to say taking the SAT or the ACT or the PSAT and MSQT or the CAT or the ETC or whatever you took. Harking back, when I was a student low these many years ago they used to give us questions that involved lists and they'd be down to about question 243 and they'd say okay I'm going to give you a list of things. What would come next in the list? I think they sort of have gotten rid of these questions but you may have run into one that's something like this. Here's question 243 what would come next in this list? You got two, you got four well, what could come next there? You add two to get to four, maybe you add two and you get to six that would be a perfectly possible answer. But you know wait a minute maybe you multiply by two to go from two to four and if you multiply by two well you'd get eight. That would be a perfectly fine answer but maybe you'd multiply two by itself to get to four and you'd multiply four by itself and that would give you 16.  Okay now suppose that they gave you something that was actually a somewhat better question. So you give you two, four, six, eight what comes next? That one looks very easy.  Okay when I was much younger I played Little League we were really serious about Little League and you can't believe it we had lawsuits over Little League but coaches yelling at each other anyway I played Little League it was very interesting undertaking and the coaches used to be really big on having us out there doing infield chatter. Now we were not out there chattering uplifting and morally relevant statements we weren't saying batter do your best for your team and country. We were out there saying hey batter your shoes untied. Hey batter you're ugly. Hey batter hey batter hey batter swing two four six eight batter's got a belly ache. Okay so it could have been ten we would never out there go two four six eight ten twelve in the Little League we were out there saying two four six eight batter's got a belly ache. Now this actually might be relevant to something. If you were sitting there saying two four six what comes next eight you get it right and you sit there two four six eight one comes next and you say ten you get it right you say I know what's going on but if you're you're out there playing Little League and you're saying two four six eight ten you've got it wrong. Your ability to see two four six and fill in eight doesn't prove that you know what's going on because if you thought you were taking the S-A-T and you're really playing Little League you got eight right but you got the next one wrong. Two four six eight ten twelve and the batter that might have worked actually the batter looks at you says what's wrong with you and the bench goes right by but that is not the way one does it. This does feedback into science. This is relevant to science and let's look at how this works. What is science? It's humans. It's humans doing human activity. There is no crank that you turn that says that spits out knowledge. Science is done by humans. They are humans who have foibles and failing. They are humans who have mistakes. They cheat and lie and steal. They have mating rituals. They're just like everybody else but science has a very loose set of rules that allows it to do better at some things than other human activities. It's very limited. It does certain things well and it doesn't do other things at all but the things that it does, it actually works on. So what is science? The first thing in science that you do is you find something interesting. You got to care about it. It has to matter people. You go out and look at things and you find something interesting. This is cool. I could learn about this. What you then do is ask, what do we know about this something? There are many people in the world. There have been many people in the world. Your ancestors were smart. Lots of people around the world in lots of places were smart. You will never in your life reinvent everything they did. So first of all you go and find out what they did. You could call this research. You could call this going to the library. You could go and talk to people.  They may have your answer for you already. So you find out what's known. Then you say okay, they were really bright people. They did really good things but they were human. They might not have put together everything. They might not have had the ideas that I have. I as a new human standing on their shoulders looking out may be able to improve things. So you take what you know and you say how can I move forward? How can I go beyond them? Where can I get a new idea? This is a fun stuff. No one has any idea where new ideas come from. It may come from dreams. It may come from traditional knowledge. It may come from brainstorming. I take hot baths. I get really good ideas while taking hot baths. I don't know why but it works. Okay, so you look for a new idea. You get a new idea and then you can't stop. If you just stop there are some other human activities. You got new idea. You write your novel and you're there. Okay, but in science you actually have to ask is my new idea really a step forward? Have I gotten somewhere that those people before me did not get? And so you actually have to go test your new idea and you have to test your new idea against nature, against the real world. You have to see if your new idea is better than what other people had done. And the way this is done, and this is a very, very strict rule in science, and this is what said science apart from other human activities, you have to find a situation in which you predict something and the old ideas predict something else. If you always agree, then you have just found a new way to restate the old idea. You actually have to find a place where you say tomorrow the sky will be purple and the other one says no it will be blue where you say if I do this that will happen and the other idea says no, if you do this the other thing will happen. You find a way that they differ. That you make different predictions and you have to predict that you're not allowed to just explain it. You have to predict what's going to happen. Then you set up the situation you see what happens. You can call this making hypotheses and doing experiments. There's lots of terms that you probably learned in fifth grade. It is listed terms of the scientific method. But this is really the scientific method. Get interested, learn, get a new idea, test it, but you have to test it by making predictions. And then you have to see what happens. If your idea repeatedly fails one time, yeah, nature might be fooling you, you know there's lots of things can go wrong in an experiment. Your new idea just keeps it fails it fails it fails throw it away you were wrong. Even if you loved it, even if you desperately thought it was a beautiful idea if it fails you gotta throw it away you're wrong. It succeeds. Okay? If it succeeds are you right? And this is the point where we go back a little league in two four six eight. If your idea succeeds you make the prediction correctly over and over and over again. It is possible that it is true. You have truth with the capital T you've nailed it it's there there's choir singing and everybody's giving you, you might have it right. Alright? You might have been close. Isaac Newton came up with rules of physics. Isaac Newton is really really accurate for a lot of things. Scientist started to say well Newton is truth we're done all we have to do is estimate things better Newton's got it nailed. We still teach Newton in physics because it's still very useful. But Newton if you go to really big things you go to really small things you go to really fast things Newton is wrong and you need Einstein and you need quantum and so on now really big is sort of a system or a galaxy and really small is an atom and really fast is 90% of the speed of light so Newton's really good for the world we live in today when people build buildings they don't actually worry too much about quantum they use Newton's laws but Newton is not right he's not true in any way shape or form he was just close he's useful. The other option of course is that you got it right but you were just lucky and this is where you're sitting there two four six what comes next eight and you say two four six eight what comes next ten and you're playing Little League you got eight right because you were lucky not because you knew what was going on and so there's three options if you make your predictions right you may be true you may be close you may be lucky no one ever actually tells you you are now playing Little League nor do they tell you you're now taking the SAT in the real world and so you never will know so science is not really about truth with a capital T in fact if there's one thing that we do know that comes very close to truth with a capital T it's that eventually as a professor the students always show us up the students learn something we don't know the students find some mistake that we have made and so the experience of every professor in history is to watch students go blazing by at full speed which in turn says that the professors did not know everything and was not truth with any capital T and so science is not really truth with a capital T what science is is building our ideas will be revised it's getting better it's getting closer to being really good to having it really like and keeping on doing this get a new idea test it if it's better than the old one keep it get a new idea test it if it's better than the old one keep it accumulate the knowledge accumulate the wisdom of the brightest people in the world over generation after generation always testing it against nature to make sure that it works and pull this together ok now we will occasionally trip over some questions that are very interesting to people there are people who say look the world is no older than written history I have a sacred book and the story in this goes back 6000 years and that's it and I know this this is revealed truth ok and the scientist said well no it doesn't look that way I have counted more tree rings than that no trees without annual layer so we will come to interesting questions like this we will come to questions of evolution and other sorts of things and when we do we should chat about them a little more these are things that matter to people there are things that matter in politics they stir up a lot of fervor and fever on many sides and it's not just both sides there's all sorts of interesting ideas floating around out there when we get there just remember what science is it's subject to revision it is not truth with a capital T what it is though and I think that everybody sort of knows this if we pretend that science is true we are successful I did not die in second grade of a really virulent fever because somebody had antibiotics that were generated by science I walked in this building and I did not worry that it is huge open space with these heavy things over my head that it was going to come crashing down on me and kill me I am speaking to you through the wonders of a cup of sand a cup of oil a little bit of red rock and an amazing amount of intelligence and science that turn them into computers and fiber optics and other sorts of things so that we can actually chat this way if you were to get lots of different groups of people around get the volleyball team and the knitting circle and the bridge club and whatever else get a whole bunch of different groups of people and give each group a cup of the right red rocks a cup of sand a cup of oil and say turn this into a computer communication system science and engineering have done this and I am reasonably confident that the volleyball team and the knitting circle will not succeed in doing so science works and it works really really really well it works it works it works there just isn't much doubt about this if you complate to engineers ok once you have the idea you got to turn it into reality you got to make it work and then you need business people to sell it and what have you but science really really does work it's one of the great things of humanity it's one of the things that allows us to get new ideas allows us to share information it allows us to communicate now I would like briefly to just tiptoe around some other ideas that you would probably get in different classes to a greater extent we're coming to you as a communication medium we're coming to you over the internet we're chatting about way things are the internet has changed a lot of things we can sit at home and we can google each other and we can find out what's going on and that's pretty fun it is sort of changed information if you go out and look on the web at the certain things that we will talk about in class evolution, climate change, age of the earth what have you you will find an incredible spectrum of views out there some of which are based on this vast pyramid of knowledge that's been put together by humans in the scientific method over thousands of years and some of which are based on somebody sitting down in front of a computer at a blog and typing what they think and you pull them up on the search engine and they all pull up as being equal they just show up there's no sorter in there and so why should you believe my communication that's a scientific communication and not the blogs that you will find that say oh he's an evil liar he's trying to corrupt your poor minds and so I presume the great majority of you actually have a pretty good understanding of this but it's worth just a word or two to chat about that there are so many different sources of information you could go to an internet you can go to magazines you can go to books you can go to the scientific literature and you know where I'm going the scientific literature is the one I want you to sort of lodge in your brain for a little bit there is a great difference in some of these communications between a blog which may have nothing behind it but the informed or uninformed opinions of a scientific result that we're going to try to present here in class which has sitting behind it this pyramid of knowledge of testing against nature by thousands and thousands and thousands of people in all the countries of the world over all of recorded history that's very carefully put together to see if it works you go look and say okay in the internet side in the blogs there's some great stuff out there but there's a lot of garbage out there too there is just ducky knee deep or higher and as you go from sort of the internet through these other things what you find is you get to typically better quality information not always not everywhere but typically better quality internet the internet is so cheap it's so easy you don't have to be in it for the long haul there's a huge amount of it that is not carefully examined to see whether it's even vaguely true or not whereas if you get on the other end out there in the scientific literature we jump through incredible hoops to try to make sure that it is basically correct if I wanted to tell you that my new idea works I have to first of all get the new idea then I have to test it then I have to do all this stuff and see if it works and then I have to write it up I have to say that's what I did and you have to be able to know exactly what I did you have to be able to duplicate what I did put it out there tell the truth what I did what other people did and then I send it in and I say please please publish this through the world and they say well no not yet we're going to get a couple world experts and they're going to look at this really carefully and they're going to make sure that you're not lying or cheating or stealing that you have acknowledged the knowledge that you pulled in from other people that you've told us what you did that your results look good that you have run careful tests that your statistics are not cheating and they're going to run a whole bunch of different things and they'll get these world experts to look over it and only after the world experts have said yeah that makes sense and I allowed to put it out there and this still doesn't make it true don't for a minute think that it does but it means that a whole lot of the ducky is missing and if it matters the scientific literature is the place you go to look it may not be friendly it hasn't been distilled in this course we will try to distill the scientific literature into something that's useful but no world experts are actually vetting the last word I just said to make sure it was the right word it is slow it is careful it's not the fastest way to get there there are things that can't you get that out faster this is such a cool idea I really want to know we have to we have to be careful we have to follow the rules when people read the scientific literature they should know that it is standing on this this pyramid of knowledge that comes up from from the depths of antiquity and the care of all these people across the planet and so that's just a little bit of where we're going what we're doing we will get much more down to specifics we will talk about rocks and we'll talk about rivers and we'll talk about glaciers and all sorts of fun things but in the end keep in mind what it is it is humans doing really important things to keep humans happy help us in terrific fed and cured and clothed and housed and healthy and wealthy enough that we can actually worry about big questions of what we're doing here and what we should be doing here but it doesn't really tell us those but it does give us the wherewithal to address those and we are going to address those some subset of them how do we humans stay happy, healthy and terrific on the planet how do we keep from being killed by giant waves and volcanoes and earthquakes and what have you how do we find valuable things how do we track down keeping things alive by going to some of the really beautiful places on the planet with some really good people who worked hard to show it to you and having a lot of fun I personally look forward to the trap and I hope you do too, thank you


Hi, it's Bridget. Welcome to Above Life channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope. Today, I'm going to share with you something that you probably don't want me to share. And it's hard to talk about this. I am going to take a break from Above Life channel. And the reason why it's hard to talk about it is because I know you so love the weekly channeling videos. I'm gonna take a break from channeling, but I'm not gonna leave above life channel. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, not gonna leave above life channel. So I'm gonna take a hiatus. You know how TV shows do that and they kind of take like a month off that kind of thing? I'm gonna do that with above life channel, but you can still find me. You can still connect with me. I am going to share kind of a podcast, a weekly podcast kind of vibe here on above life channel. It'll probably take a couple of weeks before I'm actually able to post that, but I will do that here. So you'll see that. So it's not like I'm just not gonna be here. I just won't be doing celebrity channeling. And you can also find me on Fairy Grasshopper channel on YouTube. I actually have a channel where I vlog, I do card readings, I do pep talks, I channel other types of spirit guides there. So it's an interesting channel. So check me out on Fairy Grasshopper channel on YouTube as well. Now the reason why, there's a ton of reasons why that's going into this decision to take a little bit of time off from doing channeling. One is it's extremely overwhelming right now. And I have gotten so many requests, especially given the last few days with the recent celebrity deaths. And deaths of people in celebrity families. I've gotten a lot of requests to channel and this is like, these are tragic situations, sad situations, you know. Whether someone died of breast cancer or someone died of drowning or whatever it may be. It's too much right now for me to focus on channeling an afterlife celebrity. When I know that I could be doing a lot of good by inspiring your spirit by being bridge it.  I can use my psychic gifts, my intuitive connection, my understanding of energy management, my super positive inspiring attitude. And I can also help coach you through the videos and things that I share on fairy grasshopper channel and in my private sessions too. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to focus where I can do the greatest good and that is by being me. And so you can find me on social media on Bridget inspired. I'm on Instagram. I'm also Bridget inspired on Facebook. Now if you're trying to find me and you can't find me, look at the links below this video and you'll find it. My name is Bridget with an E-T-T-E. So bridge at really long spelling. So like I said, this is above life channel. I usually channel afterlife celebrity guests and I don't want to change the purpose of this channel, this YouTube channel, because I think it's been very helpful for people. But right now channeling celebrities in the grand scheme of things and what's going on right now in the world is just does not feel in alignment for me during these times. And so I'm going to take about a month off. It could be it could be longer. I don't know. But in the meantime, I'm still going to be sharing my positive inspired energy with you. I will share kind of a podcast style where I do a weekly talk and that'll probably start in a couple of weeks or so here on above life channel. So watch for that. So if you like me and you enjoy my style of connection, then hopefully you will enjoy my other channel fairy grasshopper channel as well during this time. I love that you're here. I love being able to communicate and connect with you and I love to read your comments and remember the playlists are all there so you can go binge watch your favorites and that kind of a thing. No, I'm not quitting. It's not done. I am just taking a break from the channeling piece so that I can focus on other stuff that's really inspiring me and that I know where I know I can make the most positive impact.  And there's so much more work that can be done right now that I am very capable of helping out and doing that. So that's what that's how it goes. So this video is being recorded in July of 2020 so hopefully at near the end of August or early September I will see you again in the channeling format and I will keep you up to date on things if you want to follow again fairy grasshopper. I have a vlog. I have card readings. I have channeling sessions there with DOTs. I have some I have tapping there EFT. I have a lot of resources and tools and things and there's a lot of videos there so go check it out.  So all right you guys I'll see you when I see you. Thanks for being here. And as always remember I hope that I can help be part of inspiring your spirit, filling you with hope because this is your life. It's your life. So live it. Just live it. Use all of the videos and all the information you've received up to this point here on this channel and live your life. Now get out there and practice that and I'll check in with you again in the future.


FNN, The Tiger, Financial News Network, Update. Good morning everyone, Basel Chapman here. This is the Tiger Financial News Network, Market Update at 10am, Eastern Time on this Monday 11th of March. Looking at the Dow down 113,000 at 38,609, we've been waiting and waiting and waiting for months and then weeks and then days to see what would happen with the nine-period exponential moving average, would it cross negative and low and behold, right as we speak, it's finally gone pink, but the day is young, it's a it's a daily chart, therefore you have to wait for the close today, but my suspicion is we're getting real close to seeing the Dow turn pink, it's down 119, the S&P, S&P got repelled from its up-channel resistance Chapman, we've inside tracked repellent zone, down 23 at 5,099 got quite a way to go to more and more or less the 5,060 area before this has gone back to our regular charts, all right here there's the S&P, let's just do that, there it is, sitting on the nine-period green nine-period moving average which is way above the 14-period moving average, the trendline up trendline support level right now is at 5,055, we'll see whether we get there over the next week, the QQQ and the X100 got repelled sharpies now underneath the 14-period moving average, made an all-time high on Friday, yeah we are at 435.90 minus 3.15, IWM, is that going to hold, well it's down to 85 at 2005, so we're watching all of these very closely, let's go to the gold, gold is holding fantastically, it's up one and a half points at 2187, it's almost like a single-leg A with just a brief peak A, and it's gone above the inside track repellent zone in the weekly chart, so the SOFA is excellent action there for the dollar you'd expect to be pulling back and lo and behold it is only up 7 ticks but it's pulled back quite sharply at 102.81, let's go to bonds because that's really important right now, bonds up 8.30 seconds at 121 and 24.30 seconds, yeah, yields are, well they're okay right now, crude oil, crude oil is pulling back sharply down 95 at 77.06, what a market and as I said a lot on Friday my suspicion is that we've made some kind of a short-term top, we've planned that, we're executing that and we'll see if that works out, here's the S&P, we'll look at it when we get back for the target technicians out, check out my daily news and have it.