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[Assistant] Good-humored looking on the whole, but implacable looking too. A man in short not desirable to be met, rushing down a narrow pass with a gulf on either side, for nothing would turn the man.


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[Assistant] He looked down the street as if waiting for a newcomer, turned back into the dark doorway of his place as the gaunt scarecrows sidled from puddle to mud into the ever darker shadows of the quarter.


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[Assistant] Madame Defarge being sensitive to cold was wrapped in fur and had a quantity of bright shawl twined about her head. Her knitting was before her.


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[Assistant] But she laid it down to pick her teeth with a toothpick, thus engaged.


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[Assistant] This man was servant to your father. It is your father. He will swear to it.


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[Assistant] Is he always alone then? Yes. Of his own desire?


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[Assistant] And showed themselves to be the three of one name from the wine shop below.


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[Assistant] Oh, come now. Let our good friend here assist you on that side. Friend Defarge, thank you. He will not harm you, miss. Business. Come now. Business.


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[Assistant] Could have slowly formed in anyone the ability to do any work requiring nicety in such obscurity.


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[Assistant] For with his back towards the door and his face towards the window where the keeper of the wine shop stood looking at him, a white haired man sat on a low bench stooping forward and very busy making shoes.


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[Assistant] So entirely has it lost the life and resonance of the human voice.


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[Assistant] That it affected the senses like a once beautiful color faded away into a poor weak stain.


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[Assistant] Would have remembered home and friends in such a tone before lying down to die.


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[Assistant] He and his old canvas frock and loose stockings and all his poor tatters of clothes.


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[Assistant] Had in a long seclusion from direct light and air.


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[Assistant] Faded down to such a dull uniformity of parchment yellow, that it would have been hard to say which was which. He put up a hand between his eyes and the light, and the very bones of it seemed transparent.


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[Assistant] Do you remember nothing of this man? Stand in the light, man. In the light, if you please.


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[Assistant] As darkness deepened and the good doctor's old servant Defarge made all ready for the journey, saw to travelling papers and horses, while I passed by Tillerson's bank and took money enough to pay our way, and then found meat and wine and bread. Together, we brought the old man down the stairs, his confusion calmed by his gentle daughter. He got into the coach, and then,


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[Assistant] Forever knitting? What is it she knits? Get in sir, and we'll be ready.


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[Assistant] They're a murdering mob, want nothing better than to take his head. Miss Pross. You think I don't see? You think Mr. Cruncher and I don't know?


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[Assistant] He goes from time to time. Mr. Cruncher goes to the square and watches. He comes back fuming angry.


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[Assistant] They say red wine for la guillotine. It's true.


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[Assistant] Oh, her father says nothing can happen to him without my knowledge. He believes it. And she tries to. She puts his book out every evening and the chair by the fire and a pipe and glass ready for him for, for when he comes out of the prison. Oh, she's cheating herself, Mr. Lorry. And I am afraid for her.


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[Assistant] Pray, pray be cautious. Yes, yes, I'll be cautious. I tell Mr. Cruncher here, you can look about any street here and in any shop and see them sup with the devil nightly. Midnight murder and mischief.


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[Assistant] May I ask a question, Dr. Manett, before I go?


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[Assistant] Is there any prospect yet of our getting out of this place?


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[Assistant] Now then, Mr. Cruncher, cheese, wine, bread? Oh, come along, sir.


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[Assistant] I have left your supper as you ordered, Monsieur Lamarcky.


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[Assistant] Monsieur, he is, if you will come this way.


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[Assistant] But just a reminder that the dots will all connect when looking back in hindsight. So you won't really know what's going on when you're in it, but just keep going, keep figuring things out, keep trying. And then later in the future, you'll realize that every random step that you took


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[Assistant] Makes sense looking backwards. It all leads you to where you're meant to go. So just have faith that it will all make sense in the future. Have faith that you are exactly where you're supposed to be right now. Even though it looks messy, it will make sense later on.


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[Assistant] Another habit that you want to cultivate is to see every experience as an opportunity to learn. There's always some knowledge that you can take from anywhere in life, no matter how random it may seem. There's always something you can learn from any stranger out there or any movie or just in society and culture in general.


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[Assistant] And you'll actually be led to somewhere that you could not have predicted. And it might be even better than what you imagined for yourself. So just have some faith, keep trying no matter what, and you will get somewhere beautiful.


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[Assistant] Lastly, something that I write about in my Artist of Life workbook is that there is a positive side effect to living your dream life because if you are creating the life that you want, you're going to be happier, you're going to be doing what you love, you're going to be shining your light because you're literally the best version of yourself if you are striving for that.


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[Assistant] The world that I want to live in is a world where everybody is lit up, shining bright, and doing what they love, being happy with their lives, and everybody is


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[Assistant] Supporting each other, empowering each other. That is the world that I want to live in. So that's what I'm trying to do with Lavendaire, is to share and give all the tools I possibly can to help empower you to be your best self, create your dream life so that you can in turn like


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[Assistant] Feel that, and I hope that you get that message from this whole Dream Life series. If you know anyone in your life that you think this could benefit, definitely send them a link to the series. Send them a link to your favorite video or your favorite exercise.


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[Assistant] This is like free information that I really want to share with everyone because I think it should be free and it's so important. So now I'm super excited to share some of your journeys going through the Dream Life series. I'd love to highlight three fellow artists of life. We have Kat, Nomi, and Natalie. Hi, my name's Kat and I'm from Great Britain.


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[Assistant] Thank you so much to Kat, Nomi, and Natalie for sharing your dream life journey with us. I loved seeing your responses. I loved seeing your exercises. And it's just really nice to put a face to some of you to see that.


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[Assistant] And if you want to share your journeys and your feedback as well, leave everything down in the comments below. I'll actually put some questions in the description, so if you want to answer them, feel free, because I'd love to hear your feedback, what you've learned, what you liked from the series. If you love the series and you feel like you want to connect with other people who are going through the Dream Life series as well, there are two places you can do that.


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[Assistant] One is our Lavendaire Lifestyle Community. It's an open Facebook group. Anyone can join. It's free. That's where you can meet other Lavie loves.


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[Assistant] Down below if you're interested. Okay, so now I'm gonna announce the winners from the Dream Life series hashtag posts. By the way, thank you so much for posting on that hashtag. It was so much fun to see your progress and your work. So the five winners are Nani, Anne, Brenna, Sarah,


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[Assistant] And Rose, so if you saw your post on the screen, then feel free to email Kara at Lavendaire.com with the title giveaway winner.


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[Assistant] The winners are gonna get a free year's subscription to Day One Premium, which is my favorite journaling app on my phone. Congratulations for winning and thank you everybody else for just posting. If you like the series and you want more content to help you create your dream life, definitely check out my Artist of Life workbook and my Artist of Life mastermind, which I'll link below. They're all on my website. And I'll have playlists linked down below


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[Assistant] Mr. Lorry, sir, this gentleman is no spy. And why should he demean himself to make himself one?


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[Assistant] I play my ace, Mr. Barsett, without any scruple, in a very few minutes.


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[Assistant] I assure you he is dead. I attended him in his last illness, um, buried at the Church of Old St. Pancras in the fields.


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[Assistant] I have here, as it happens in my pocketbook, a certificate of Clyes Beryl. No forgery. See? Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I'll stick to it. I have no option. Good night, Mr. Laurie.


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[Assistant] What they said of him in the city that night, that it was the peacefulest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime.


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[Assistant] You observed his face when the paper was read? I observed his face.


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[Assistant] I observed his face not to be the face of a true friend of the Republic. Let him take care of his face.


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[Assistant] I have observed his daughter. Yes, I have observed his daughter more times than one.


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[Assistant] I have observed her today and I have observed her other days. I have observed her in the court and I have observed her in the street by the prison. Let me but lift my finger.


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[Assistant] I have this grace of evermoaned a long time in my register.


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[Assistant] Doomed to destruction and extermination. Is that not so, husband? It is so. That night, when he brought home the paper from the Bastille.


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[Assistant] That sister of the dying boy upon the ground was my sister!


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[Assistant] That husband was my sister's husband, that unborn child, their child. That brother, my brother, that father, my father! Those dead are my dead!


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[Assistant] We know the wife made signals to the prisoner from the street outside the prison. We have a witness. I saw her there myself.


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[Assistant] And we know she will grieve when he is killed. Against the law. Against the law.


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[Assistant] Take my knitting little vengeance, I'll be there before it starts. Before the Tumrills arrive.


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[Assistant] What do you want with us? I thought I'd pay my compliments to everyone's wife. I wish to see her.


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[Assistant] Her tears will let good patriots know her for what she is. Tell her I wish to see her, do you hear me? You!


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[Assistant] There's no one here. No one. If they are not in the room you guard, there is no one. They shall be pursued and brought back.


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[Assistant] Lesson 63 Thank you, doctor.


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[Assistant] You look very well, Jimmy. You are better now. But you mustn't get up yet.


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[Assistant] You must stay in bed for another two days. The boy mustn't go to school yet Mrs. Williams, and he mustn't eat rich food.


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[Assistant] Yes, he must remain in bed for another two days.


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[Assistant] Lesson 63 Thank you, doctor.


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[Assistant] You look very well, Jimmy. You are better now. But you mustn't get up yet.


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[Assistant] You must stay in bed for another two days. The boy mustn't go to school yet, Mrs. Williams, and he mustn't eat rich food.


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[Assistant] Yes, he must remain in bed for another two days.


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[Assistant] Because we use too much Twitter. What?


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[Assistant] These eye twitches are generally mild and last for a very short length of time.


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[Assistant] Eye twitches are considered to be unpredictable. As in they do not follow any specific pattern of occurrence. Some of the common causes of eye twitching are. Eye irritation. Fatigue. Lack of sleep.


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[Assistant] Too much alcohol, caffeine, or tobacco. Allergies, etc.


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[Assistant] Maybe both. Oh, um, some. We usually rub our eyes due to lack of sleep. Or remove dust, irritants, etc.


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[Assistant] Now, sometimes rubbing our eyes for brief periods can be good because it activates the release of tears which lubricate our eyes. Rubbing even stimulates the vagus nerve which in turn slows down our heart rate.


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[Assistant] Helping Relief Stress. However, don't make it a habit.


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[Assistant] Now, our eyelids contain three glands called Gland of Zeiss, Gland of Mull, and Mybomian Gland. Gland of Zeiss secretes an oily substance to lubricate our eyelashes. Gland of Mull is a sweat gland.


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[Assistant] While, meibomian gland prevents the evaporation of our eye's tear film.


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[Assistant] Sometimes in the above glance, dead skin cells and bacteria get trapped.


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[Assistant] Also, as an internal stye presses against our eye, it proves to be more painful than an external stye.


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[Assistant] It is a sign indicating that we need to take a long holiday.


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[Assistant] No. One of the main reasons for eyebags is aging. As we age, various changes take place in our body. Yeah, dude. I get more attractive with age.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. Now listen. Our skin contains collagen and elastin. They keep our skin firm and elastic.


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[Assistant] In addition to this, we have fat tissue surrounding our eyes for cushioning.


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[Assistant] But as we age, our skin produces less collagen and elastin, causing our skin to become loose. Also, the muscles and ligaments that hold the fat tissue in place begin to get loose and the fat starts drooping down. This loose skin and fat make the area around our eyes appear swollen, giving us eye bags.


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[Assistant] Besides this, heredity, salt intake, smoking, etc., may also contribute to the formation of eyebags.


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[Assistant] They are worms. No. Eye floaters are tiny spots or thread like strands that drift in our field of vision. When we move our eyes and try to look at them directly, they seem to dart away. Yea dude, I think they try to hide. Nah. Huh?


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[Assistant] It is 99% water and 1% collagen fibers. These collagen fibers are spread evenly throughout the vitreous humor.


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[Assistant] But sometimes, these fibers tend to come together forming clumps or strands. When we look at a clear sky or a blank page. And the clumps or strands are very close to the retina, they cast a strong shadow on the retina.


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[Assistant] Making them easily detectable in the clear background and thus forming eye floaters.


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[Assistant] Oh, never Lucy, never. Jarvis Laurie has no sentiment. He's proud of it. No feelings, Jarvis.


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[Assistant] Yes. Uh, would you excuse me? I want to be quiet for a time. I'll see you before you leave, my friend.


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[Assistant] Yes, quite sure, child, just to sit quietly for a time. I know myself.


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[Assistant] The prisoner has gone back and forth from England to France. There has been secret correspondence of which the prisoner can give no honest account. Without a good patriot,


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[Assistant] Discovered in an auspicious and an evil hour is infamy.


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[Assistant] This unimpeachable witness will be presented to the gentleman of the jury forthwith will prove without dispute the infamy of the person in the dock.


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[Assistant] That the prisoner had been furnished with lists of his majesty's forces. Of their disposition and preparation. Both by land and sea.


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[Assistant] I will have silence in my court or clear it. Gentlemen of the jury, you are loyal men, I know. You are reasonable men as you know yourselves to be.


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[Assistant] Look, the law says we should be here, Lucy, so, I mean, we're in no position to say no, are we? Foreigners in a foreign land?


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[Assistant] You are a clerk in Telsons Bank? I am.


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[Assistant] He did. Were there any other passengers in the mail? Two. Mr. Lorry, look upon the prisoner. Was he one of those two passengers?


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[Assistant] Is there anything in his Balkan statue that rendered it unlikely he was one of them? No.


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[Assistant] Dead of night. Had you any companions? Two. A gentleman and a...


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[Assistant] Look upon the prison.


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[Assistant] Had any papers been handed about among them similar to these?


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[Assistant] Mmhm. Now, to the prisoner's conversation, Miss Manette.


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[Assistant] When he called it biologics in London some three years or three years and a half ago,


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[Assistant] Can you identify him as your fellow passenger? Sir, I cannot.


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[Assistant] Has it been your misfortune to undergo a long imprisonment without trial, without even accusation, in your native country, Dr. Manette? A long imprisonment.


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[Assistant] From some time when I employed myself in captivity making shoes, to the time when I found myself living in London with my dear daughter. I have no remembrance.


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[Assistant] Even of how she became familiar to me though she's my daughter. Thank you, Dr. Manette. Of course.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think so. Why do you ask? Well, I've tried the machine on many different things, and now I'm ready to try out my invention on living creatures.


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[Assistant] But Grubby, it's the only way. I think.


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[Assistant] Why do our eyes get dry? Not my eyes. They have a bath every day. Oh, um some.


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[Assistant] Most common causes of dry eyes are, firstly, decrease in the amount of tears produced by one's eyes.


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[Assistant] This may be caused due to aging, certain medications, inflammation of our tear glands, etc.


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[Assistant] Secondly, increase in the evaporation of tears from one's eyes. This may be caused due to dry air or wind.


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[Assistant] Lastly, our tears are mostly composed of water, oil, mucus, antibodies and special proteins. Imbalance in the composition of these may lead to dry eyes.


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[Assistant] Did you know that extremely tiny blood vessels are present on the surface of our eyes?


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[Assistant] Allergies triggered due to irritants such as pollen, dust, perfume, or smoke.


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[Assistant] An infection such as conjunctivitis. Sometimes conjunctivitis is also referred to as pink eye. Finally, eye redness can also be a result of trauma or injury to our eyes.


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[Assistant] Because we use too much Twitter. What?


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[Assistant] These eye twitches are generally mild and last for a very short length of time.


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[Assistant] Eye twitches are considered to be unpredictable. As in they do not follow any specific pattern of occurrence. Some of the common causes of eye twitching are. Eye irritation. Fatigue. Lack of sleep.


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[Assistant] Too much alcohol, caffeine, or tobacco. Allergies, etc.


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[Assistant] Oh, um, some. We usually rub our eyes due to lack of sleep or to remove dust, irritants, etc. Now, sometimes rubbing our eyes for brief periods can be good because it activates the release of tears which lubricate our eyes. Rubbing even stimulates the vagus nerve which in turn slows down our heartbeat.


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[Assistant] Helping Relief Stress. However, don't make it a habit.


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[Assistant] Firstly, continuous rubbing can cause the outer layer of our eyes called cornea to get thin, weak and conical in shape, causing a disease known as keratoconus.


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[Assistant] Now, our eyelids contain three glands called Gland of Zeiss, Gland of Mull, and Mybomian Gland. Gland of Zeiss secretes an oily substance to lubricate our eyelashes. Gland of Mull is a sweat gland.


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[Assistant] While, my Bohmian gland prevents the evaporation of our eye's tear film.


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[Assistant] Now, sometimes in the above glance, dead skin cells and bacteria get trapped.


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[Assistant] There must be easier ways to make a living. But they're not as much fun.


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[Assistant] I think I'll stay here and, uh, guard things.


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[Assistant] There's a crowd of people filling up this great big room, and it's getting very hard to breathe.


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[Assistant] Oh, yeaah, uh, that's mining too.


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[Assistant] Oh, uh, yeaah, it's some, uh, uh, grubby.


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[Assistant] Oh no. Well, thank you, but I'm not too good at dancin'. You see, I have eight left feet.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and to think I didn't want to stay. Oh, you sure are pretty, Karen.


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[Assistant] Teddy! Gimmick! Wake up! Something's happened to Karen! Wh-what is it? I don't know. Come and see! Hurry, fellas!


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[Assistant] Thanks Teddy, but I think I'd rather stay here with Karen. Alright Grubby.


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[Assistant] Gee, I guess I do have to go home sooner or later.


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[Assistant] And I'd forgotten how small you are compared to us.


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[Assistant] Well, I suppose this is goodbye then. I'll never forget you, Karen. Not as long as I live.


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[Assistant] Ah, shucks. Love sure is flighty.


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[Assistant] Somebody's been here, and I think they were looking for something.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. What's so great about a bunch of rocks and sand and stuff?


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[Assistant] Oh boy, what a great way to end an adventure with a great big bowl of roasted root stew.


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[Assistant] But Grubby- Don't say a word. It's the least I could do after you guys saved me and all. It was nothing. You really needn't bother. It's my pleasure. Now eat hearty, me lads.


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[Assistant] Hello, I'm Teddy Ruxpin. Sheeey. Aren't you an aily op?


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[Assistant] Yes I am. I don't believe I've ever seen an Iliop before. This is my friend, Grubby. He's an octopede. Well, I know I've never seen an octopede before. It's a pleasure to shake your hand.


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[Assistant] I think my new invention might be very useful. Ah yes, here it is. I call it an airship.


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[Assistant] Alright crew, let's cast off the line! Aye aye gimmick!


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[Assistant] So, there is no such thing as a wood sprite.


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[Assistant] Don't you? Now see here, you little sprout. Err, sprite. There's nothing you can teach me about flying.


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[Assistant] Your aeronautic know-how would certainly come in handy up there in the treacherous mountains. Thanks.


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[Assistant] 1 o'clock, 5 past 2, 10 past 3, half past 7, 35 past 8, 40 past 9.


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[Assistant] One o'clock, five past two, ten past three, half past seven, thirty-five past eight, forty past nine.


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[Assistant] A quarter past four, twenty past five, half past five. A quarter to eleven, ten to twelve, five to one.


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[Assistant] A quarter past four, twenty past five, half past five. A quarter to eleven, ten to twelve, five to one.


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[Assistant] On Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.


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[Assistant] Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.


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[Assistant] Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.


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[Assistant] January, February, March, July, August, September.


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[Assistant] January, February, March, July, August, September.


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[Assistant] In 1992, 1993, 1994.


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[Assistant] In 1992, 1993, 1994.


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[Assistant] In 1995, 1996, 1997


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[Assistant] In 1995, 1996, 1997, on July 1, August 2,


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[Assistant] Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce our orchestra.


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[Assistant] drummer He is a drummer.


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[Assistant] Nothing could be easier. Heh. Well, uh, uh, that is, well, uh, I mean, we could, uh- Wait until dark, when they're all asleep, then nab it. What?


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[Assistant] Hello, we're on day 12 of our 30 day course. For the first of the four sections today,


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[Assistant] I want to go back to something that we talked about yesterday. We had a tongue twister section yesterday and I mentioned that it is an impediment to solid communication if there are certain words you say that are different from how most people say them. Yesterday we talked about how some people say the letter R sounding like a W.


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[Assistant] Also, any strong country accent or regional accent should really be toned down a little for general conversation, particularly with people you don't know.


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[Assistant] It all depends where you are. Maybe you grew up in the countryside and when you talk to people who have very similar accents, uff, no need to change, is there?


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[Assistant] However, in most countries, if you go to a big city, and if you're meeting up with new people at, say, a business conference or a big social event, you want to give a good impression. You do need to tone down your own accent to be more neutral, to fit in more, and to help to make communication more effective.


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[Assistant] For example, in the United Kingdom, where I'm based, if you're trying to make an impression in London, you don't really want to have a strong regional accent, unless you're of course representing that particular region in whatever capacity. You may totally disagree with me here, and


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[Assistant] Welcome to do that, but you must admit there are some nasty people who will make fun of you or make a judgement about you just on your accent, which may be different from most other people. So you need to learn how to click into a more neutral accent when you need to do that.


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[Assistant] How do you do that? How do you click into a neutral or toned down accent?


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[Assistant] The first thing to do, don't worry, the reason you have the accent you have is that you grew up surrounded by parents, other children and people in the town you grew up in, all speaking in that way with this accent and speech patterns and so that was the established norm for you. You've established a speech habit. Habits?


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[Assistant] Can be broken. Plus, just like you learning a new language, you can learn a new accent. It's quite easy. All you'll be doing is establishing a new speech pattern that will become a new habit that you'll be able to click into.


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[Assistant] Now you'll be fully in control, no brainwashing here, don't worry, you won't lose your original identity. It's all about fitting into society, and don't forget there are many people, particularly on the continent of Europe, who speak two or three languages and just flip between them all the time.


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[Assistant] Just like you wouldn't wear scruffy shorts to, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, funeral with flip-flops or whatever. You know, your voice also needs to conform in certain situations.


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[Assistant] Impressions are important and your voice is a huge part of your overall impression. Now there are some accents which tend to originate at the back of the throat or in nasal areas and there are certain exercises to correct these.


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[Assistant] Maybe you have an accent, uhm, where you draw out word endings in certain ways. Again, there are exercises to help you correct these.


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[Assistant] Plus of course there are some words said completely differently in different regions.


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[Assistant] For example, in the UK, people in London would immerse themselves in a bath.


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[Assistant] In the north of England, people may say bath. So all I'm saying, it's difficult for me to give you precise instructions. I don't know what your particular issue is, even if you have an issue.


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[Assistant] If you're really, really worried about it, you need to find a qualified speech therapist who will offer you one-to-one advice and specific exercises to help to neutralize any strong accent.


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[Assistant] And quite often it's the identifying certain ways you say certain words and you compile a list of these words that you actively pepper your conversation with and say them in a neutral way. So quite often your brain will then put your speech patterns completely in that manner. It's all very clever.


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[Assistant] For example, if you're in the United Kingdom, you wish to tone down a Northern accent. You write down a list of words that are obviously different from BBC Southern accent or receive pronunciation. So instead of after, you would say after and you would actively pepper your conversation with that word in the day.


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[Assistant] Grass, you'd say grass, and laugh, you'd say laugh, and so on. And you're not speaking in an effective way or partial, simply trying to speak in a way that is powerful with good articulation and is really clear.


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[Assistant] The other thing you can do is to identify someone who speaks in a neutral accent and someone that you admire. Simply play back a video of them talking. Listen to one specific sentence.


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[Assistant] And repeat it the way they say it. Record yourself if you like.


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[Assistant] Play it back. Repeat the same sentence again and again. Record it again and again.


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[Assistant] It doesn't work for everybody though. If you're an actor or have acting tendencies, this should be very easy. You should be able to click into it by simply pretending to be that person, by keeping their face and even gestures in your mind's eye. Good luck.


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[Assistant] Secondly today we're going to do more resonance exercises. Now by now you'll be an expert at humming, or you should be. Every day you should be humming low down that will help you to relax your voice and your body and your mind. So for this section I want you to pause the video into your favorite bit of humming.


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[Assistant] Point of watching these videos every day, as I get to remind you, of things that may have slipped behind.


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[Assistant] And you put your hand on your upper chest to feel the vibrations.


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[Assistant] Or you can combine a resonance exercise by taking a very deep breath and looking at the times you had.


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[Assistant] With the matchbox football game exercise. Remember that? Where we, you timed basically how many inches you could blow the matchbox with a straw in one breath. Alright?


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[Assistant] Using just one breath. Now I know it's not quite a fair comparison with the matchbox game, but just see if this exercise extends your time humming.


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[Assistant] Usually it will. You need to be able to control the air that you're exhaling and just like a car that tries to use the minimum amount of fuel to keep the engine going, you also need to use the minimum amount of exhalation to keep the humming sound solid without breaking up and sounding weird.


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[Assistant] This is a simple reminder about your hydration levels. Alert! Alert! Earlier in the course, on day four it was, I talked about how important it was to drink water. Not water mixed with fruit squash, water that's in tea or coffee, no.


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[Assistant] Definitely not in alcohol. Just normal tap water at normal room temperature, not cold, that'll freeze the mouth.


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[Assistant] This part three is just a reminder to ensure you haven't forgotten to drink a small glass of water every hour ideally. Your vocal folds need to be in tip-top condition.


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[Assistant] Also, before you're about to give a speech or any kind of presentation, I recommend not just sipping water during the presentation, but before you give the talk, gargle with room temperature water.


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[Assistant] This gets any bits of food and other nasty bits and pieces. Gives you a nice clear voice.


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[Assistant] Finally today, in part four, we're going to do something else on volume. So much of what we're doing is identifying how our bodies work. The limitations of our voice? Understanding where it's good, where it could be improved.


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[Assistant] We've already done work on breathing, understanding how much breath we can actually take in and using it in the most effective way. So for this exercise, the emphasis is not on breathing, but in how we can adjust the volume control of our voice to maximum efficiency. Now I'm going to put a sentence on the screen.


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[Assistant] And end with the loudest possible voice, alright?


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[Assistant] As we've said before, the softest voice is not a whisper. A whisper can actually strain the voice.


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[Assistant] Funnily enough, people who have had throat operations who are told not to speak at all for a while, and definitely not to whisper, they think, well, whispering's alright, isn't it? But actually, it's really, really bad for you. When it comes to the loudest voice, again, I'm not asking you to shout.


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[Assistant] It's the loudest noise possible, but without breaking into a shout.


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[Assistant] So here's the sentence. It doesn't matter about when you're taking your breaths or even how you are saying it. Merely emphasis on the right words. Although it's good to think of this if you can. I want you to control that volume at the beginning, on the minimum, at the end, you're on maximum.


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[Assistant] And I don't want you to get to maximum before the last word.


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[Assistant] Speaking very softly, like the gossamer wings of a tiny butterfly.


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[Assistant] Have a go with this yourself. I'll leave the passage on the screen. The purpose of this again, let me remind you, is to ensure that you have full control of your volume. Don't worry too much about where you breathe and where you're putting emphasis on the understanding, alright? Just pause the video, have a go yourself.


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[Assistant] Soft to loud and you've got to end on the loudest, on the last word of the sentence.


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[Assistant] Okay, well, I hope you found that fun and you realize more about your own voice's capabilities. I look forward to seeing you for some more voice training tomorrow.


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[Assistant] A hand. A hand. Breakfast, lunch.


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[Assistant] Breakfast, lunch Tea, dinner


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[Assistant] A bass, a haircut. A bass, a haircut.


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[Assistant] Hello, this is Gill at engVid, and today we have a lesson on the pronunciation of words containing the letters o-w.


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[Assistant] Okay, so there are two different ways of pronouncing these words, and some are pronounced both ways and spelt the same, but they mean different things.


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[Assistant] There are other words which are only pronounced in one way and not the other, so let's just have a look at these examples, okay? So, uhm, ow in the word, uhm, it's either the vowel sound, ow, which I've spelt a-double-o, ow,


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[Assistant] Like when somebody hits you, you say, ow, ow that hurt, ow.


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[Assistant] Oh, at least in English we say it that way. Okay. Uhm, so, ow is one of the pronunciations, and oh, like when you're surprised, oh, oh.


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[Assistant] I didn't know that. Oh. So, oh is the other vowel sound. Okay.


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[Assistant] So, first of all, let's look at the three words where there are both. So, owl, you can have bow, and you can have bow.


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[Assistant] You sort of bend over politely. Thou, usually men do that. Thou.


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[Assistant] But there's also something called a bow.


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[Assistant] Which is, if you have a ribbon in your hair or something like that and you tie it in a bow,


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[Assistant] Is uhm, a lot of noise. Oh, there's a row going on out there. That's noisy. People are shouting. There's a row. It could be an argument between people. They're having a row.


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[Assistant] The neighbours next door, you can hear their voices, they're having a row, they're disagreeing about something, so that's row. But row is either, uhm,


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[Assistant] When things are in lines like that, that's a line or a row.


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[Assistant] Or you can also, if you're in a boat with oars like this, you row, you row the boat.


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[Assistant] You're doing this with the wooden oars to get through the water, to move through the water. That's also to row the boat, and it's a rowing boat. Okay.


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[Assistant] So, a sow is a female pig.


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[Assistant] That's pretty much the only meaning for it. A female pig is a sow. Okay. Uhm, to sew, s-o-w


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[Assistant] You can link so with grow if it helps you remember.


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[Assistant] Put the seeds in the soil, they will grow. Sow the seeds, they will grow.


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[Assistant] It's not the same as this spelling of sew, s-e-w, which is with a needle and thread. If I'm sewing on a button which has come off, that's sew with an e, so it's not that. But it's the same pronunciation. Okay.


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[Assistant] Right, so those are the three pairs which have both pronunciations.


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[Assistant] And then we have two lists of words which just have one. So, the owl vowel sound, we have brow, which is the same as your forehead is your brow.


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[Assistant] And you've got eyebrows, these are eyebrows, and this is your brow. Okay? Cow, the animal that you get milk from, cow. How, how do you do something? How or how are you? Now, at this moment, now.


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[Assistant] Uh, plough, uhm, this is the American spelling.


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[Assistant] The English spelling is slightly different, but it's the same pronunciation.


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[Assistant] We spell it in the UK, P-L-O-U-G-H, but the American spelling is plow, P-L-O-W. So, that's another one. To plow a field to churn up the soil.


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[Assistant] Again, maybe if you're sowing seeds.


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[Assistant] In agriculture, okay. So the plough is the equipment that you use to cut into the soil.


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[Assistant] Often pulled by horses or it may be, uhm, a tractor or something with an engine nowadays. Okay, plow. This word,


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[Assistant] Is, uh, sort of, uhm, like a comic book, pow, pow, when people hit each other, uhm, you get this, uhm,


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[Assistant] Pow, it sort of represents the sound of someone being hit or something exploding, that sort of thing. Okay. Uh, prowl is the front of a ship, the prow of a ship.


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[Assistant] And vowel is another word for a promise. To vow to do something is to promise to do something. Okay. So those are the owls there.


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[Assistant] And then the O list from here, uh, a crow is a bird, a big black bird, crow.


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[Assistant] Flow, flow, water flows, liquid flows, flow. Uh, glow is to do with light shining. We have a lot of lights here today which are glowing quite brightly, lighting us all up. So, that's glow.


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[Assistant] Or you can have a fire burning and it creates a kind of a red glow.


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[Assistant] So anything to do with light. Grow, when you put the seeds in the ground and they grow, okay. Know, to know something.


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[Assistant] Low is down here, the opposite of high. Low.


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[Assistant] Mow, another agricultural word or in your own garden. If you have grass.


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[Assistant] The grass grows, you have to cut it. So you mow the grass, you cut it to a low level to keep it tidy. So to mow the grass, mow the lawn, and you have a machine called a lawn mower. Okay? Slow, the opposite of quick, slow.


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[Assistant] And tow, t-o-w, is if a car has broken down...


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[Assistant] Somebody can tow it for you. They will tie a rope to it from their own vehicle and pull it behind.


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[Assistant] To take it to the garage where it can be repaired. So that's to tow a car.


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[Assistant] Okay, to pull it along with a rope because the engine isn't working or you've run out of petrol, something like that. Okay, so uhm, there we are, the two pronunciations, ow and o.


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[Assistant] And I hope also this has helped to expand your vocabulary. And so if you'd like to go to the website www.engvid.com, there's a quiz there for you to do connected with this lesson. And I hope to see you again soon. Okay. Bye for now.


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[Assistant] I can't believe the last plates ever to leave the Press Club kitchen are going to be from us.


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[Assistant] I'm so nervous I've been waiting for so long. There's so much riding on this cook.


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[Assistant] I'm going to put them in the fridge to rest before I bake them. And now I need to get started on my burnt honey ice cream.


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[Assistant] My dish is the last thing that these diners are gonna eat ever at the press club. Nicole!


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[Assistant] This is nuts. Not long now Nicole, yeah? I've got to do my candied walnuts. I've got to finish my mousse and segment my oranges. I'm leaving my three main elements to the last minute. My olive oil chocolate mousse, my ice cream, and my Coulombethy biscuits.


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[Assistant] Finally, it's time to plate up. I get my walnuts on the plate. I get my orange segments. Get my couldn't Bethys dusted with icing sugar.


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[Assistant] And finally, the moose is going to be scooped on by the waiters.


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[Assistant] The fact that he's trusting me in his restaurant, that he's closing is so special. Service please.


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[Assistant] So lovely of George to open up pretty much his home to us. It's been the most amazing experience. We're so lucky.


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[Assistant] Unit one. Name. Name. Nice. Nice. Two. Two.


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[Assistant] too, too. your, your.


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[Assistant] his, and, and, her, her, yes, yes, she, she,


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[Assistant] He. He. No. No. Not.


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[Assistant] one two two


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[Assistant] Five Six Six Seven


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[Assistant] Friend China Middle School


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[Assistant] Middle school. Gina.


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[Assistant] brown, brown, allen, allen,


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[Assistant] Jack Mary Mary Miller


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[Assistant] Linda Jane Jane


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[Assistant] It's about attention to detail. The instructions in that recipe will lead you to the best balance at the end.


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[Assistant] It's about being neat and tidy and show your real craftsman skill.


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[Assistant] Above that we've got a chewy coconut dacquoise. In the centre is the liquid raspberry centre, encased in a dark chocolate ganache.


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[Assistant] And the white chocolate and rum mousse around the outside. And then on top, the chocolate ganache, raspberry food gel, and the coconut and rum gel, with a raspberry and lemon myrtle sorbet.


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[Assistant] So when we look at thicknesses of the biscuit, the dacquoise, the size of the liquid centre when you freeze it, you know, all these things play a part to making sure that everything fits within and you can have enough white chocolate mousse around the outside. Shall we taste?


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[Assistant] Will you do the honors? So good luck, and your time starts now.


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[Assistant] What do you reckon? Were you impressed? Absolutely, I think they did really, really well. So, uh, let's get the first one underway, shall we? Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's, uh, it's not straightforward. You know, it's, it is a puzzle, like we were saying, and uhm, you managed to do that in four hours. So that's amazing.


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[Assistant] It's very good. It's very good. It tastes amazing. She's actually got the texture of the biscuit just perfect. You know, it's just that lovely sort of light crunch. The right thickness. The balance is right.


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[Assistant] You know, it could possibly be, you know, a little bit too much chocolate when pouring it in around the raspberry center and it's kind of taken over the main flavor profile of the dish, right?


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[Assistant] Get out of here. Thanks. What do you reckon? That's a very good effort as well.


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[Assistant] Hello! Voice over Kristy here, just popping in to give an enormous thank you to the lovely sponsor of this video, Squarespace.


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[Assistant] To all of the wonderful textbooks, that's wonderful. So yes, I'm gonna go try and be speedy because I've worked really solidly and I don't know.


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[Assistant] Hey guys, I am all home now, please ignore the big red mark I have on my nose from my mask rubbing against my nose. I had a pretty good time researching at the library, I got four of the books, oh sorry, I got three of the books I wanted and then I also found this book on the history of Halloween and I was like...


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, I'm going to read about this. I'm going to borrow this book. This is really good. And it's one of my favorite things about like looking up a whole bunch of books and then going to the library and finding them because like you find all of the like interesting


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[Assistant] To find these books at the library. I went in with my sticky note. I don't know where it is. No, it's in my notebook. So yes, I had my sticky note and on here I had one, two, three, four.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I need to upload the video, like the wrap-up and review video for last month's book club, so we read the Lost Apothecary. Uhm, so that video is all edited, but I need to upload it for everyone. Uhm, and then I want to get some, uhm, work done on the illustration project, so I'm really, really excited for that.


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[Assistant] It is quite late at this point. I'm probably going to take off my makeup in a second and just sort of chill out and start reading. I was going to start reading American Gods because I'm really excited to like tuck into it and get started. However,


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[Assistant] A thousand books at the same time like I only took no three books I'm currently in the middle of only three books so I'm in the middle of this one.


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[Assistant] Um, 50 Sounds by Holly Barton and... uh, Circe by Madeline Miller. So that's the book I'm listening to on audiobook at the moment. So normally I have a book, like, a physical book, an ebook, and a audiobook going at the same time. I don't need to have two physical books going at the same time, although...


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[Assistant] I don't tend to ever be very negative in my book reviews. I've spoken about this a lot on Patreon. I try very, very hard to specifically pick books that I think I'm going to like, and uhm, if I'm not enjoying a book, I will DNF it straight away, like if I get the vibe that I'm not going to like a book.


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[Assistant] And if it's not going to be three stars or above, I'll just stop reading, cause...


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[Assistant] To me, like reading is just about having fun and enjoying what you're doing. I don't see the reason in pushing through a book you're not enjoying. Like if you're not enjoying something, DNF it. I think I got maybe like 10 minutes into listening to...


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[Assistant] There was a long discussion video on that one. And yeah, I've had an amazing month this month for reading. I think in August I've read... Now that I've finished The Witchy Book, let me pull up my spreadsheet.


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[Assistant] So this is the spot where I put in all of my little details. Uhm, I, like, I like using


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[Assistant] Two and a half books I read halfway through. Oh, that's the other book I'm halfway through.


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[Assistant] I am currently halfway through another book, so I'm in the middle of reading four books because during that vlog I was reading, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yeaah, it's been, it's been good. So yeaah, I'm probably gonna head off and go read this book now and get...


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[Assistant] Whoever's the first to harness fear and anxiety and turn it from your enemy to your ally, you're gonna be in the box seat.


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[Assistant] Alright. Good luck, Tessa. Thanks, Shannon. Go, Tessa.


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[Assistant] So that's the batter? Yup. Looks very runny. Yeah it is, they're really wet cakes.


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[Assistant] No, it hasn't even trimmed it yet. Yeah. Yeah, so with wagyu, my opinion should be in the oven, roasting now at a beautiful temperature, and then plenty of time to rest.


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[Assistant] So this is Suvis. I really don't see how that goes with bone marrow. It's about tasting right now.


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[Assistant] Good girl, Rissa. Alright, service, pick up, service.


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[Assistant] Okay, Jesse, we've got a bit of a problem, huh? We've gotta start sending.


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[Assistant] I quite like the idea of you just, uhm, you break it, you break a piece of sponge. Shut up, that's a good idea.


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[Assistant] My worst fears have just come true. I've never done a pressure test before, and they're called pressure tests for a reason, so I don't know if I'm prepared for it.


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[Assistant] Tess, faster. I think I'm moving a little bit slowly. Come on Tess. Come on Tess. And I feel like the pressure is already getting to me so I need to pick up the pace but still be super careful. Okay. Good job Tess.


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[Assistant] Larissa, Simon and Tim all have their white chocolate mousse in the blast chiller.


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[Assistant] I really need to move quickly to get everything done and I am just feeling this anxiety growing about the white chocolate mousse, but if I let the stress get to me, I'll start making mistakes.


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[Assistant] Right now, I need to make the prune jam. The prune jam is really rich and it's got a really nice sort of caramel-y flavour.


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[Assistant] Ah, my arm. Good job, Tessa. Do you reckon that's very soft peaks? Maybe a little bit more?


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[Assistant] The last few minutes of the cook and I have to make sure that I've got all of my elements ready for plating. I have my prune jam and my chocolate ganache and my white chocolate mousse and the ISI gun. I've got my Oloroso whip and my prune ice cream. I put my white chocolate mousse in the freezer.


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[Assistant] I'm still worried about it. The pressure really got to me at the start of this cook, but I've managed to dig deep and remember what I'm here for and what I'm capable of.


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[Assistant] I got my moose into the blast chiller a little bit late. I've been so disciplined this whole MasterChef journey. And now it comes down to that final element. This is it for me.


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[Assistant] I don't even know why I'm crying right now, I didn't even feel this coming. Seeing your face, Gary makes me cry.


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[Assistant] As I'm putting each of my elements in the bowls, I'm really happy with the color, flavor of each of them. They're all well balanced, and I think that they are all really similar to how Peter's were.


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[Assistant] I've worked so hard to get here and I'm so close to the finale and that's where I want to be.


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[Assistant] I'm feeling incredibly nervous today. One out of the five of us is definitely going to be going home.


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[Assistant] Ready to go. It's Nigella week this week. She's one of my idols and that just makes me want to prove myself even more. Feeling ready?


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[Assistant] 90 minutes probably seems like a long time, but to get a whole roast chicken, no jealous whole roast chicken done and two sides as well as a sauce is going to be quite hard.


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[Assistant] Absolutely fighting for my life today. Uhm, I'm excited about the cook. I do cook roast chicken and sides up a bit for my family. So yeaah, I'm excited.


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[Assistant] I like to think I'm pretty good at following a recipe, but I am worried about these side dishes as that's what I don't have a recipe for. So I run off to the pantry and I get some Dutch carrots, potato, miso, honey, and some garlic and shallots.


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[Assistant] Um, no, she parboils them first, then strains them in the colander, gives them big shakes so they all start to break and then puts them in the oven to roast with olive oil. So they're super yummy. She'll be proud if I can pull them off today. Well, we'll be thrilled too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think the potatoes will be fine. They're pretty well half-cooked at the moment. So while that's happening, I'm just getting on to my second side, which is the carrots.


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[Assistant] I've got my carrots roasting in the oven. My potatoes are crisping up in the oven as well. It's time that I move on to my grate.


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[Assistant] After speaking to Nigella, I decide to add some tarragon into the gravy to hopefully boost some flavour.


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[Assistant] At this point I've got all eyes on my gravy, but I'm so aware that I've got so many things that need to get done before that clock runs out.


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[Assistant] By the looks of things, my chicken is done and I'm absolutely stoked. Oh, yeaah. And it's perfect.


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[Assistant] I feel like I've tasted it about 300 times now, but I'm just trying to get that balance perfect.


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[Assistant] First pressure test is over. I'm feeling relieved and proud that I've got this beautiful dish up, but I'm also feeling a bit worried because I know there's a few things that aren't quite right.


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[Assistant] This is a proud moment for me because my students will be so excited that I'm serving Nigella one of her dishes.


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[Assistant] There are a few things that are concerning me. I know that that gravy isn't quite perfect.


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[Assistant] At the end of the day, it's all about the chicken and I'm really thinking that I've done it.


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[Assistant] I'm feeling so proud of myself. I'm not really a roast chook kind of gal. I don't cook them very often.


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[Assistant] I'm hoping so. I've been in a bit of a rut for the first few weeks and I don't think I've had a chance to really show you what I'm about as a cook and what I love doing and what I'm good at doing. Uhm, so I'm hoping that I've got a chance to do that.


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[Assistant] Definitely the people that I've met. Awesome group of people. I've learnt so much from you guys, from these guys and just from being in this kitchen. So loved absolutely every second of it. Thank you so much for having me.


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[Assistant] Being a Master Chef, the one thing that I've really learnt is to always, always cook what you love and eat what you love.


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[Assistant] The MasterChef experience has been absolutely amazing. I've realised that I do love educating and teaching young children, but I'd love to do it in the side of food rather than in the classroom.


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[Assistant] We've become really close over this journey. We've become really


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[Assistant] Good mates, and it's hard to cook against your mates, but it's a competition. All that hard work all comes down to this one moment.


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[Assistant] I'm definitely going to be pushed for time today. This huge steak is going to take a while to cook and I've also got to do all the other elements as well.


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[Assistant] I'm definitely feeling the pressure now. If I mess up this state today, there's a good chance that I'll be going through to round two. It's a massive cut of meat. I'm confident that I can get it done.


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[Assistant] Everything is riding on this steak being cooked perfectly. The risk with cooking this steak on the hibachi is that it might cook unevenly.


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[Assistant] My steak needs to come off the grill. I need to get it resting.


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[Assistant] Time's running out, I have to get that steak on the board now. I just hope they love it.


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[Assistant] Looking at the sweet pantry, my eyes are automatically going to one thing, pears. Beautiful.


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[Assistant] Beautiful. Today I'm doing Earl Grey poached pears with an orange and carbon ice cream. It looks really nice on the plate with the single whole pear on there, so I'm excited.


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[Assistant] They need to be cooked long enough where they're nice and soft. If those pears are hard


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[Assistant] Thanks boys. Next I need to get my ice cream into the churner, so I start juicing the beautiful oranges, get my anglaise done. Yeah, I've had a bit of a success with the orange and cardamom slaver combo before, so just trying to recreate that today. Hopefully I'm onto a winner.


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[Assistant] Also on my dish I'm including an orange and pistachio biscuit. So I quickly get my biscuit mix made, which is sugar and butter, add some flour, pistachios and some orange zest.


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[Assistant] I get that in a piping bag and sit it aside. My biggest concern is getting these pears cooked. They're gonna take pretty much the whole cook time to become soft enough. You need to be able to eat them with a spoon. So if they're not cooked, there's no point in stuffing it because I'll be going home.


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[Assistant] My ice cream's in my churner. My biscuit's cooking. My pears are still cooking. If these pears aren't soft, I've really got nothing.


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[Assistant] The stress of just waiting, yeaah, it's making me pretty anxious. At this stage, there's not much I can do. I've gotta get everything else done.


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[Assistant] The main component on my dish is these poached pears. I've left it long enough, I need to get them out. I just hope there was enough time to get them soft.


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[Assistant] I filled the pears with the stuffing that I made. Good on ya, Timmy. Good work, mate. I strained the Earl Grey syrup. It's coming together, but it's definitely down to the wire. I'm using every last second that I've got.


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[Assistant] I just don't know if this is enough to get in the semi-final. Today could be the last time that I cook in this beautiful kitchen and I think I'm just gonna take a moment and look around and just soak it all in. It's been one hell of a journey and I don't want it to end.


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[Assistant] Hey Nigella, whose chicken's better? Was it yours or your mum's? Well, you know what?


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[Assistant] Alright, Nigella, what do you think? Great chicken. Great flavour.


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[Assistant] I like the carrots. Wonderful potatoes. They're really crispy. They're really crunchy and they're delicious.


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[Assistant] A couple of these were for uni. Actually, like, three of them were for uni. Uhm, I had one for the Dickens vs. Tulsa Book Club and then just some other spooky October reads and they were just ridiculously long. It was an extremely busy month for uni and for school and for everything like that and


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[Assistant] They are a book subscription box monthly. You go online, you pick one book out of their selection of five. You can also do some add-ons if you're feeling some extra books because they've been having a lot of really amazing picks recently. If you want to use my code EMMY, you can get your first box for $9.99 and they are all hardcover books, which is an amazing price. So their team goes through thousands of books each and every month and picks the top five in a variety of different genres that they think


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[Assistant] Beautiful. It's about a protagonist who is half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami. Ren has been collecting souls in the London streets for centuries. But she has driven out of London and fleeced to Japan in search of the acceptance she's never gotten from her fellow Reapers. I'm so excited for this one. I would love to pick this up ASAP. Then we have A Little Hope by Ethan Joella.


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[Assistant] It is about a couple where one of them is diagnosed with cancer and they have to contend with everything that life brings them after that.


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[Assistant] Very intriguing. So those are the picks for November. I will leave a link down below if you're interested to get a little bookish box present each and every month for yourself, but thank you so much for sponsoring and let's get into a rant that I just absolutely have to start this video off with.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because I would like to just get this out of my system and also potentially out of my library. This is The Maidens by Alex Michaelides. I did pick this up for October because


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[Assistant] I thought it was gonna be a really spooky, fun, dark academia time, perfect for the spooky season. I hated it. Let's just get that out of the way. It was a sloppy mess, all over the floor. I opened up the book, the plot, fell out.


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[Assistant] This is about Mariana, whose sole personality seems to be grieving for her lost husband, and when she gets a phone call from her niece Zoe, who is studying at Cambridge,


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[Assistant] Telling her that Zoe's friend has been murdered, she comes down to Cambridge from London where she is working as a group therapist in order to be with her niece and, you know, be a caregiver to her niece who's going through this traumatic time. However,


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[Assistant] Mariana takes it upon herself, with no training, no legal reason to become a detective in this case, and her prime suspect is the handsome, mysterious, American Greek tragedy professor named Edward Foska. She is obsessed with this man, she becomes just so


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[Assistant] Does anyone, does anyone remember Flat Stanley? Did anyone read Flat Stanley? If these people turn sideways, I would probably not be able to see them. It was so disheartening and so frustrating to read about characters who literally


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[Assistant] Everyone just opened up to her and suddenly there was this empire of opportunity to become a detective when she's literally just a group therapist. The mystery for me was incredibly lackluster. There was nothing thrilling, nothing suspenseful about this book. This is supposed to be like a psychological thriller kind of thing. I felt nothing. I was


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[Assistant] Endlessly and endlessly bored, just waiting for something to happen.


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[Assistant] In chapter three, and if you read this book, you know, you kind of know how, because Alex Michaelides does a really poor job of spreading your suspicions.


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[Assistant] Uh, equally, there are so many loose ends in this book that are never wrapped up, never make any sense. I couldn't even keep track of all the characters. They all just seemed like they were born from one big potato and then each character became a little baby fry, wherein they were all indistinguishable.


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[Assistant] By the same author earlier this year, I think it was really well done. It got me. I fell for it. And I think it delved into a really interesting discussion about grief and trauma paired with Greek mythology. But I think in this one, Alex Michaelides just tried to like tack


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[Assistant] The concept I enjoy the idea of, like, examining over a number of books, over a series, or whatnot, a whole bunch of therapists, inner psyche, what's going on with them. Things that therapists need to go to therapy for themselves, essentially. I think that's a great idea. It seemed like he just tried to tack on everything that he had kind of been praised for and achieved in the silent patient into another.


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[Assistant] Retelling of Greek tragedy and Greek myth. This one was way too on the nose. It was so trite, so cliche.


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[Assistant] The least subtle thing I've ever seen and it just really took out all of that authenticity, all of that like love for Greek tragedy that I felt in The Silent Patient. This just made me really mad. So that is The Maidens. I gave it two stars. I could talk for so much longer about this, but just incredibly disappointed. I thought this was just plain old.


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[Assistant] Bad. Okay, so then I'm gonna move on to some university works I had to study. So first up for my Literature of Crisis class, we read King Lear by Shakespeare.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I really enjoyed discussing King Lear in class, like I adored it immensely, what we talked about especially, most of which revolved around King Lear's identity and like his loss of identity.


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[Assistant] When he realizes that he's just playing a role, people are not believing in his role as king anymore.


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[Assistant] This is about Lear who decides at the very start of the play to split up his kingdom into three parts, give a piece each to his three daughters and their new husbands, which to a renaissance audience would just be incredibly crazy because the king and his kingdom are essentially one in the same body.


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[Assistant] And a man like that should never or would never kind of split that up and essentially dismember himself in the process. And so people are already like, you know, when the play begins, what is going on? Like, is this man losing his mind?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and from there you do follow him into a descent of madness of some sort. I think I would give this play- I would give this play four stars, but it's definitely one I enjoy less reading than discussing in class, and especially, you know, watching it, if you can like get your hands on a production of King Lear itself, I think is so much better.


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[Assistant] I just think, let me have surgeons, I am cut to the brains.


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[Assistant] It just gives me chills every time I read that line. I don't know. This is great, I don't really have very much else to say about it if you're going into Shakespeare for the first time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, or getting into him. This is not a play that I would want to read early on. It is one of his tragedies. I think it's probably one of the most tragic of his tragedies because of the way that it ends, but I did enjoy it. I don't think I'll be writing any essays on it if I can help it because we still need other things that I love so much more, but I did read King Lear in October as well.


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[Assistant] And then I had an audiobook come in for a book that I was a little bit hesitant to see if I actually wanted to get into in October. Uhm, and that is Nevernight by Jay Kristoff. This is the first book in a trilogy. It is a grimdark fantasy about a girl named Mia, and essentially she grows up, she has to watch her father, um, murdered at the hands of this government.


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[Assistant] Whose power really mirrors and mimics that of ancient Rome. I got this for Christmas a couple years ago, I think, from my grandma, so thank you so much, grandma. But wow, I was- I guess I kind of was expecting good things because I have adored the Illuminae files by Jay Kristoff and Amy Kaufman.


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[Assistant] And I've also read Aurora Rising by him and Amy Kaufman, which I loved as well. This, I think I gave this four and a half stars. I know this, I think it's a pretty polarizing, uh, grimdark fantasy because people


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[Assistant] Mia, once she grows up, she decides to go and be trained at the Red Church, which is a school for assassins because she now wants to direct her life's course.


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[Assistant] Uh, towards the purpose of getting revenge on those who destroyed her entire family. Mia is also darken, or someone who can kind of control and manipulate darkness and shadows, and she has this parasitic little shadow cat, uhm, who is a shadow, who's also a cat, who's maybe a bit of both, we don't really know, named Mr. Kindly, I just, this book, I don't know, I just,


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[Assistant] It just gave me everything I wanted. I thought the writing was amazing. I do really like Jay Kristoff's writing, like I can kind of see how people would fight for the point that it's very...


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's not like Neil Gaiman's writing where like I feel that about it and sometimes I don't enjoy it. I just really like what Jay Kristoff writes. I really, really, really got invested. I listened to this book so slowly. I savored this book.


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[Assistant] It was so entertaining. The pacing was amazing. The stakes were so high.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I just really felt like this was executed really, really well.


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[Assistant] I love the footnotes, they were inserted into the audiobook perfectly for me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think the footnotes were one of my favorite things ever because I love reading fantasy books and feeling like...


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[Assistant] I can like study the fantasy world and learn more about it kind of at my will and at my choosing if I so choose and like I just love reading


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[Assistant] Endless and needlessly complicated made up history, like I really really dig that and just the world that Kristoff has created in here.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I love Mia. I just love Mia so much and her cat. Uhm, so that is Nevernight. I am so happy. So happy I picked this one up. Okay, then we're gonna bounce back to a manga that I picked up because I tried out


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I still am in the middle of trying out a free trial of Kindle Unlimited.


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[Assistant] And I think someone had recommended this to me when I did a manga vlog, and that is LDK, or Living Dining Kitchen. Totally forget who this is by, but I read volume 1 on Kindle, and I flew through this. It's like so short, so easy to get through. I believe it is an older manga. I didn't love the art style, and if I'm honest,


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[Assistant] I didn't love this story either, it was just kind of this like, quick, meaningless story about two best friends, one of them is in love with like, you know, the prince of the high school, I guess you wanna call him, he's quite popular, bladda bladda blah.


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[Assistant] But what ends up happening is that the other best friend who are actually following and him both find out that they're living in the same apartment complex and when his apartment like floods or catches on fire


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[Assistant] This was my first time reading Angela Carter, and all I can say is please go read her. Like, if you want gothic, if you want dark, gruesome, gory, violent, sensual,


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[Assistant] This is the one for you. So the Bloody Chamber is a collection of Angela Carter's rewriting fairy tales, revitalizing them in the context of the gothic tradition and gothic genre. It covers things like Bluebeard, Puss in Boots,


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[Assistant] So good. The Bloody Chamber was definitely, uhm, my favorite story in this collection by far, but I also really, really loved the courtship of Mr. Lion as well as the Earl King.


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[Assistant] The language Angela Carter uses, I felt like it was just everything I've been waiting my whole entire life for to read in this book.


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[Assistant] It just, it's the kind that like comes out and punches you in the chest.


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[Assistant] And it just takes, like, your breath away. And you're like...


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[Assistant] I don't know. I don't know why, why am I crying talking about this book? I just thought it was so beautiful. It was like what I had been waiting to step into. Uhm.


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[Assistant] It's just language you wanna put in your oven, warm it up, and like spoon feed into your mouth endlessly.


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[Assistant] Violence in a gothic atmosphere, in a gothic container, and it was spectacular. Just absolutely incredible, like you could spend your whole life, I think, writing essays on this collection and never get bored, but...


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[Assistant] Uhm, wow, five stars. Unequivocally five stars. Uhm, I only have one other Angela Carter book on my shelf right here that I haven't read. And that is The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman. Uhm, but I am gonna keep my eyes open for everything else ever by her now because this was exquisite. That is The Bloody Chamber.


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[Assistant] Ooh, this next book I'm currently in the middle of writing an essay about. It's not really a book, it's a poem. Uhm, but October was just a crazy month for me as well in school because in both of my classes we started to look at two different epic poems, uh, two of the most, like, influential


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[Assistant] Things, really? And the first one is Paradise Lost, so I am in the middle of writing an essay on this, and then I'll get to the other one directly after that, but this is also for the Literature of Crisis class, because


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[Assistant] It concerns, of course, the first crisis. It follows the standard format of an epic having 12 books, and we were only supposed to read book 9 for class, as well as a little bit of book 1. So I did that, and then because I am in the middle of writing an essay, I of course ended up reading more than just that. So then I read all of book 4, I think. Most of book 5, 6.


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[Assistant] Uhm, eight and then nine as well, so. If you've never heard of Paradise Lost, this is John Milton's take on transforming just a few sentences in the book of Genesis and the Bible into one big epic poem.


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[Assistant] Uhm, justifying the ways of God to man. So it starts with the creation of the world, of course. We have Satan's fall from heaven, Satan and the other demons and fallen angels creating hell, and their little colony of hell falls in the second half mostly.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Adam and Eve getting set up in Eden, in Paradise, and then of course the fall of Adam and Eve from Paradise. This was a reread for me because I read, not all of it, not all of Paradise Lost, or have I? I don't know, I had to read this in first year.


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[Assistant] Uhm, a reflection in the pond and she's like, oh, who is that? Like she has no concept that that's her because Eve just wakes up in a bed of flowers. She just spawns into the garden and she's like, where the hell am I?


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[Assistant] Uhm, but then she sees Adam and her first reaction to Adam is literally telling him that he's out of her league. It is just, it's just such a funny scene. She sees him, fair indeed and tall.


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[Assistant] Anyway, the other epic I had to read, this is for my renaissance class. This is pretty much what we spent almost all of October on reading.


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[Assistant] Is The Fairy Queen. Like, this month just absolutely killed me. I'm exhausted. And I'm also in the middle of writing two essays, one on Paradise Lost and one on The Fairy Queen, so help me. Uh, The Fairy Queen by Edmund Spenser. Once again, we did not read this whole entire thing. Thank goodness we only read


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[Assistant] Uhm, kind of the strange medieval dreamlike England going on their quest usually with different companions, fighting different monsters, all to attain the virtue of their knighthood. So for example, book one.


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[Assistant] Uhm, demanding of the poet, so he has to kind of reach back for, you know, older words, words from different languages that have slipped into English and all that stuff. Like the language in The Fairy Queen is something to contend with in and of itself, but I started to read it, I definitely came at it like a chore.


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[Assistant] It is so long, it was very dense for me to get through, but once I got just a little bit into it, like you start to just get into the flow and the swing of the fairy queen, it became so much easier and


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[Assistant] You know, stances that had previously taken me like, laborious minutes to anguish over. I was just getting through, so it is very much just a question of I think just like getting used to it, getting into the style of the fairy queen, and after that, I actually did start to enjoy myself, especially when I started to pick out


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[Assistant] That is currently keeping her parents and her kingdom captive, like there's this dragon that is terrorizing their kingdom. And so she comes to him with armor and says, can you please help me? And he says yes.


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[Assistant] Waylaid and doing things he shouldn't be doing and in general just being a complete idiot and stuff like that. It is plagued and riddled with monsters and weird side quests. It's like a very strange medieval video game honestly.


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[Assistant] That is the fairy queen. Then to balance out my school reading because I really wanted just a break, something I could literally just turn my mind off and just read and have it be mind numbing, I picked up a couple fantasy romance. The first one again was from Kindle Unlimited. I just saw this one browsing and it is called


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[Assistant] And I really do not remember who this is by. I don't want to call this a retelling because it's really not, but it is about Captain Hook and Wendy. It's set in an alternative, contemporary world where


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[Assistant] I don't really know what Hook does. His name is James. Hook's name in this one is James and he is either like a mafia man or a- I don't think he's a ma- I don't think he's in the mafia.


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[Assistant] Prominent other cutthroat businessman who is Peter. Peter Pan. He's not even called Peter Pan.


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[Assistant] Also in October, I decided to continue on with A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas. This is the second book in the Court of Florence and Roses series. I read the first book in 2019. I really did not like the first book. I did not think it was very well done and I was honestly just bored.


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[Assistant] I really liked A Court of Mist and Fury better than the first one.


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[Assistant] And to be fair, a lot did happen, but I felt like it was just a lot of needlessly boring sidebars to the main plot. So in the series, we have Feyre, who is a mortal girl.


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[Assistant] Loved it, like if I had to think right now of a fantasy place I would want to go, other than like Harry Potter or something, I think it would be like this snow-capped, wonderful, cute little place, like this town just nestled in the mountains where like they have the most glorious


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[Assistant] Star heavenly features in the sky. On the whole, it was honestly what I was expecting, and it was another nice one to listen to to just...


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[Assistant] Relax between classes and essays and blah blah blah. So I do not have the third book in the series, but I honestly don't know if I am in a super big rush to continue on with it, so we shall see. Okay, and finally that brings us to our last book of the month, and it is another big one. I don't know how I did this.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I am really glad that I did have the audiobook for this as well. I ended up giving this three and a half stars. I started off Nicholas Nickleby, and as you can see, I was enamored. Like, I was loving it.


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[Assistant] Nicholas, his sister Kate, and their mother, their father dies, leaving them very poor.


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[Assistant] Awful. Like the conditions are awful. It definitely is very reminiscent of Oliver Twist and The Workhouse.


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[Assistant] At a counting house and it was just really cool to like really get the ins and outs of these Victorian places. That's one thing that I just absolutely love with Dickens, like it is such a well-


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[Assistant] What everyone is wearing, what everyone is saying, what their accents are like, what architecture is like, what jobs are like, what a day in


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[Assistant] London in 1830s or 40s looks like and it's just so nice every single time because he provides you with so much detail. That is kind of where I want to drop off saying amazing things about this book because I feel like


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[Assistant] Kind of at the point where my annotations stop, uhm, which is a little over halfway through, I think this book could 100% have terminated just


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[Assistant] He just kept going and kept going and I just kind of lost my way. Definitely fell off with my level of interest and all of that stuff because I felt like the plot could have been wrapped up.


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[Assistant] Hundreds of pages earlier, honestly, but in the end I still did really like it. Like the beginning of this book is filled with quotes that just absolutely melts your heart and soul. There's also like very cool gothic elements in this house. We have a lot of villainous characters and the abodes that they come from and that they inhabit and that like


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[Assistant] They both kind of influence each other in their villainy and evilness and evil intentions kind of seep into the walls and into the flesh of like, you know, the person who lives there and the house who keeps the person living there.


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[Assistant] That was really cool. I will have a whole vlog coming about my experience reading Nicholas Nickleby if you're interested, and as well the live show for this. For this round, the Dickens vs. Tolstoy will be on my channel.


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[Assistant] And yeah, oh my gosh, I'm just very proud of my- I'm very proud of myself for getting through all those big boys, but uhm, not really done reading the two biggest ones because I'm still in the middle of hacking away at the essays, so.


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[Assistant] That's literally what I'm gonna go do now, is work on my essays, so until next time, that is when I shall see you!


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[Assistant] Welcome back to Judges Auditions. Your last chance to get your hands on one of those elusive white aprons. Your ticket into the MasterChef competition.


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[Assistant] Now you know what it takes. So if you're gonna bring your A game, now's the time to do it.


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[Assistant] These three have each chosen a pantry jam-packed full of ingredients that they cook with every day.


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[Assistant] I reckon that's maybe 15 minutes off from being absolutely perfect.


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[Assistant] It's very rare we get locked out of our own kitchen and hand the keys over to three other judges, but how did that happen?


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[Assistant] So no crazy antics, uh, Po. They weren't going out of their comfort zone doing...


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[Assistant] So, let's get this underway. Remember we're taking these blinds so we've got no idea who's cooked which dish. First dish please, mentors.


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[Assistant] Uuuh, shortbread on the bottom. That's a nice idea.


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[Assistant] Today was a little look at what the real experience of MasterChef is all about, cooking under pressure and cooking with a time limit.


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[Assistant] And for us also, look at how you really cook versus practicing a signature dish and getting yourself into the competition.


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[Assistant] We told you to make it hard for us, and we can confidently say you did just that.


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[Assistant] Christina, beautiful texture, lovely flavour of chocolate, and a little fun too. So congratulations.


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[Assistant] Who cooked the lemons? Leah? Right curd, right crumble.


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[Assistant] And the dishes as a whole evoked different childhood memories for each of us. Congratulations!


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[Assistant] And for the rest of you, all we can say is thank you. We know how tough this competition is. Try again.


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[Assistant] It's a game changer, it's a life changer, as our mentors would testify to. But now, it's time to say goodbye.


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[Assistant] How good is this guys? Three incredible mentors each week. One of these guys is going to turn up to guide you through an immunity challenge. You won't know which one it will be until they walk through the doors.


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[Assistant] Who cooked the spring onion pancake and pork?


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[Assistant] Larissa, delicious spring onion pancake. Pork, perfectly cooked. Absolutely delicious dish, worthy of one of those white aprons. Congratulations.


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[Assistant] And the next couple of months is no doubt going to change your lives.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone. Do you like my book stack?


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[Assistant] Next topic, paper cut. Why do paper cuts hurt so much? It is because paper hates us.


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[Assistant] Hence, they have more number of nose deceptors than any other parts of our body.


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[Assistant] Now, the edges of the paper are not smooth but are rough or jagged. Oh. They are like a saw. Absolutely.


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[Assistant] Hence, sometimes when we rub our hands or especially fingertips against the edges, it cuts them like a saw, activating the nociceptors.


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[Assistant] Now, as there are more nose deceptors on our hands, we feel more pain.


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[Assistant] In addition to this, the paper cut might also have fragments of paper containing chemicals. Which may irritate the skin and thus increase the pain.


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[Assistant] Fried chicken! Yes, I love fried chicken. I'm so stoked. I eat so much fried chicken, so this is exactly what I want.


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[Assistant] So today I'm going American. I'm going to do buffalo wings with a blue cheese sauce. I need to make sure that the chicken is nice and crispy when it's cooked and the sauces are all balanced. I've cooked with fried chicken before, but it's all different in the master chef kitchen. So got to make sure I get it all done in time. That's it, Tessa, get your brain going. Now I get onto my hot and spicy buffalo sauce.