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[Assistant] With the correct pronunciation and with the correct words. Compliments are amazing, as I said. I think it's very important that we compliment people.


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[Assistant] If we're thinking something about someone and it's something great, something beautiful, something amazing, we should say it because people deserve to hear it. We deserve to make people happy. But we do have to understand that sometimes when people give us compliments or we give people compliments,


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[Assistant] They're quite difficult to respond to unless you're a really, really confident person. Now, most of the time, people who are studying English are not the most confident people in the world. The reason why is because


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[Assistant] You're studying English, you're using a different language and sometimes you don't have the right words or the right intonation to use. So don't worry, I understand. And if I gave you a compliment and you maybe gave me the wrong answer or said it in the wrong way, I'd know why. And most natives do.


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[Assistant] But let's try and convince them that we are the experts. So let's say somebody says to you,


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[Assistant] I love your haircut. Okay, that's a really nice compliment. Someone likes your haircut. Fantastic. How do you respond? Just say thank you.


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[Assistant] Now we are going to get into more detail and give you a few more options, but if you're ever worried, say thank you. But...


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[Assistant] 90% of my students have when they first join my course, because they don't realise how important it actually is for natives, particularly British natives, to use intonation.


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[Assistant] To create an effect and the create, the effects that we're trying to create here when somebody compliments us is a thankful, grateful, emotional tone.


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[Assistant] And this tone, the best tone I would say to use would be a rising tone which falls back down. A rise, fall or up, down tone you might want to call it. Call it whatever you want. But the sound essentially, let's say we're saying thank you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you.


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[Assistant] We're going up and then we're falling back down. The reason why we're doing this is because it's a tone which shows, uhm, effort.


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[Assistant] Is a tone which shows emotion, uh, we use it for good things, for bad things, to sound friendly, to sound approachable.


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[Assistant] So try and experiment with that tone when people are giving you compliments.


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[Assistant] It really, really does show that we are thankful. So please experiment with that tone and try and sing it in the right way. If you can't pronounce the sounds, well then you need to practice the sounds first. For example, the ah sound in thanks.


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[Assistant] I have so many students, again, who join my course and they pronounce the ah in thanks as eh and it becomes thanks or thanks like an American.


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[Assistant] This is simply because they're raising the tongue too high in the mouth and it's becoming an eh, like in Elliot. But we need to keep the tongue down and open it nice, the mouth nice and wide and it becomes an ah. Thanks. Thanks.


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[Assistant] You'd be surprised, it's one of the most common words, but it's actually really difficult for many non-natives to pronounce, as well as thinking about the intonation and things like that. Let's say, I love your t-shirt. Thanks!


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[Assistant] Thanks. What if we don't want to just always say the word thanks? Well, we know from my previous lessons we could say cheers. Again, same tone. Cheers. Cheers. And now we've said thank you in a more informal way. But what if we want to say more? What if we want to compliment the person back?


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[Assistant] Well my best advice, if you want to compliment someone back, is don't just return the favour. You know, if somebody says, I love your glasses, and let's say they're wearing glasses too, don't say, oh thanks, I like yours too. Now it is okay to do that, don't worry, it's fine, no one cares that much, but if you want to show like you've made more effort,


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[Assistant] Maybe just say, oh thanks, you're so kind, that's really nice of you, thanks. Or thanks, it means a lot. So what we're doing there is we're adding something on to the thanks, we're complimenting them back, complimenting their personality and saying,


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[Assistant] Something like that, it does help. Make sure you're using this up-down tone on the important words to add more emotion and more effect to the words you're saying. Now one more thing, let's say we want to start a conversation with this person. They've complimented us, and we're worried about what to say next, but we want to keep talking to them.


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[Assistant] Now is the time you could return the favour, but with a question. So for example, let's go with a t-shirt. Somebody says, oh hey, I love your t-shirt. You can respond and say, oh thanks.


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[Assistant] I like yours too. Where did you get it? Now in a more natural, everyday intonation.


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[Assistant] Thanks. I like yours too, actually. Where did you get it? Where did you get it?


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[Assistant] Now firstly, I'm using a falling tone on where did you get it? Because this is what we call an open question. Where did you get it? Now when we use a falling tone on a question, most of the time that's, that falling tone is to show that it's an open question, not a yes no question.


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[Assistant] But remember when I said, oh thanks, I did a rise full tone. So thanks. I like yours too. Too.


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[Assistant] Where did you get it? Use that intonation. And now what we've done is we've turned it into a question. So now we're building conversation. The easiest thing to do is get other people to talk about themselves. So turn it around back on them. Say, Oh, thanks. You're too kind.


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[Assistant] I like yours too. Where did you get it from? And now we're asking them to talk about themselves and we've started a conversation.


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[Assistant] Easy. It's a great way of keeping a conversation going. It's a great way of getting people to talk. It's just...


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[Assistant] Great, and it's British and it's what us British people do. Especially the awkward ones like me. Ask questions.


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[Assistant] And people can talk forever. You know, as I said, if, if you want to learn about intonation and how to pronounce all of these sounds in more detail, you're going to need, you know, some, some real professional help. And, uh, I'm here, I'm a teacher, I have an online course.


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[Assistant] Uh, you can also talk to me on WhatsApp whenever you want with voice messaging or WeChat if you're in China and uh, you can do that while you take the course. You can join with the link in the description box below and uh, hopefully I can help you with improving your British accent, your pronunciation and overall your English. So thank you very much for watching and also


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[Assistant] If you like podcasts, I have one. Uh, the link's also in the description below. Cheers again, guys. I will see you soon. Take care. Bye.


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[Assistant] Lesson 57 An Unusual Day


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[Assistant] Lesson 57 An Unusual Day


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[Assistant] Hi. I'm Gill from www.engvid.com, and today in this lesson,


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[Assistant] We're going to look at metaphors which are a different way of using language, really, but these metaphors are used a lot in everyday life.


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[Assistant] You could also call them idioms. They're a little bit like idioms.


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[Assistant] And there are a lot of them. But I just want to mention that there are metaphors and similes, and they're similar in a way, but different. So a metaphor


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[Assistant] Uhm, says one thing is another thing. So, for example, in my first sentence here, thanks for helping me. You're an angel.


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[Assistant] Okay, an angel is supposed to be a good person who helps people, but you're talking here to an ordinary human being and calling them an angel because they've helped you.


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[Assistant] Okay, so you're saying you are an angel. So, you equals angel.


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[Assistant] So in a metaphor, it's saying something is or somebody is something else. The other type of style of speaking


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[Assistant] It's called a simile, and we'll have another lesson on that, a separate lesson.


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[Assistant] But with the metaphor, you are an angel. So that's the difference between metaphors and similes. So...


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[Assistant] Right, so concentrating on metaphors. Thanks for helping me. You're an angel.


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[Assistant] Thank you, you're an angel. It's a nice compliment, a nice thing to say to somebody who's helped you. Second example, the people in that club are just a bunch of sheep. Okay?


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[Assistant] A bunch, that's a sort of casual, informal word. A bunch, it means a group. A group.


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[Assistant] You can have a bunch of flowers. That's the normal use for bunch. Bunch of flowers, several flowers held together. But this is people who are being called sheep.


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[Assistant] They're not literally sheep. People are not sheep. Sheep are animals. People are humans.


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[Assistant] But this is saying the people in that club are a bunch of sheep. They're behaving like sheep because what sheep do


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[Assistant] They all stick together. They all stay together and they all follow each other. They all do the same thing. So this happens with people sometimes. They don't have their own independence.


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[Assistant] Ideas, they just copy what everybody else does. So that's the meaning of this. This one. The people in that club are just a bunch of sheep. Okay.


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[Assistant] This one is probably more of a positive thing to say to somebody. You're such a busy bee. It maybe sounds a bit


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[Assistant] Patronising, perhaps, but if someone is really busy...


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[Assistant] You can say they're a busy bee, and the two bees is a sort of poetic thing again, but busy bee. The thing about bees is the bees that buzz around, they... They're always busy. They're collecting


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[Assistant] Is that they are also running around and doing things and being very busy and working a lot and never stopping. Okay.


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[Assistant] Here's another one. London is a melting pot of people and cultures. Okay? So London is a melting pot


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[Assistant] And cultures, the people and cultures aren't being thrown into a pot.


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[Assistant] The London, the city just contains.


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[Assistant] A lot of people from different cultures, different countries. Okay.


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[Assistant] Here's a good one from if you're working in an office or somewhere and you have some ideas and you tell them to your boss. I had some good ideas, but my boss shot them down.


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[Assistant] Okay, so to shoot something is like with a gun.


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[Assistant] All these good ideas that you've just produced and your boss doesn't like them. Or he doesn't like you, maybe.


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[Assistant] But he shoots down all your ideas, and they come falling to the floor. Not literally. Again, it's not literally true. Not literally.


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[Assistant] It's just a picture in your mind, like your boss with a gun shooting down your ideas. So he doesn't like any of your ideas, he just shoots them, uhm, destroys them. So you had some good ideas, but my boss shot them down. Okay? Another one. My head is so full of problems, it's spinning.


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[Assistant] To spin is to go round and round and round and round like that. To spin.


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[Assistant] Well, your head can't literally be going round and round and round and round and round because it would kill you, probably.


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[Assistant] If that happened after two or three turns, you'd be dead. So it can't be true, literally. It's just a picture.


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[Assistant] In your mind, of your head, all these problems inside your head, it's making it feel like that. Okay? So it's not literally true, it's just an image, a picture.


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[Assistant] Now, here's a slightly different one. Her dress has a very loud pattern. If you... Oh, I don't have a pattern on.


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[Assistant] This, oh, this scarf has a slight pattern.


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[Assistant] Stripes, it has stripes and some slightly different colours, but I wouldn't call that a loud pattern. If the pattern is loud, it's very strong. Lots of


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[Assistant] Different colours and shapes, something really strong.


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[Assistant] So, loud, it's not to do with the sound in this case, it's to do with how it looks. So, loud and soft for music, yes, but for a pattern, a loud pattern. So, next one. People are flocking


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[Assistant] To the pop concert. Now, the metaphor here is this word, flocking, and it goes back to sheep because


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[Assistant] The collective word for sheep is a flock of sheep. So,


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[Assistant] When you see sheep running across a field, they're all in a


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[Assistant] Bunch, like we said, bunch of sheep, but the proper name for that bunch is a flock. So if people are flocking to the pop concert, it's like they're sheep again. We're back to the sheep. So it's a little bit metaphorical, if you like.


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[Assistant] They're not just going, people are going to the pop concert, they're flocking in big groups, all going to the same place. Okay.


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[Assistant] Right, now this is about two people who were good friends, but, oh, at first...


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[Assistant] And you taste it, ugh, horrible. That sort of cheesy taste, not very nice at all.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and this has the same idea, really.


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[Assistant] Two people who are good friends to begin with at first, but then things turn sour.


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[Assistant] It goes wrong. Something goes wrong. They're not friends anymore.


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[Assistant] Maybe they had an argument, they disagreed, things turned sour. Okay.


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[Assistant] And let's end with quite a famous quotation from Shakespeare. I like quoting from Shakespeare. He's one of my favourite writers.


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[Assistant] And what he said in one of his plays, he said, all the worlds are stage. He's talking about the theatre because he wrote plays, he was a man of the theatre. So,


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[Assistant] He's saying all the world is a stage, wherever you go, not just in the theatre, but everywhere.


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[Assistant] Because people are acting in some way. And all the men and women


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[Assistant] Merely players. Merely, that means just. Just players. Just. And players is another word for actors. Okay.


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[Assistant] They're just actors, people. He's saying people just act their part.


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[Assistant] Even if they're not in the theatre, they're playing a part in some way. That's what... Well, it's not Shakespeare saying it. It's one of his characters in one of his plays is saying it, so it's a bit different.


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[Assistant] So it's just one person's opinion in the play. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.


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[Assistant] They have their exits, they go off, and their entrances, they come in, they come and go.


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[Assistant] And they come and go, and they do what they do, they say what they say, and this character thinks they're acting, just like in a theatre. So, this is what's called an extended metaphor. Okay?


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[Assistant] Because we've got a metaphor, and adding


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[Assistant] It's adding more and more ideas to it. All the world's a stage, that's a simple metaphor, but then...


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[Assistant] Saying more in the same way all the men and women are actors.


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[Assistant] They come in, they go out, they come in, so lots of different things that fit into that metaphor.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I hope I've helped you to understand metaphors, whether English is your first language and you're studying English literature at school, or whether you're studying English as a second language.


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[Assistant] Or as a foreign language, I hope this has been helpful and given you some more vocabulary as well.


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[Assistant] And do look for the other lesson, which is about similes.


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[Assistant] And with this one, the metaphors, we have a quiz for you on the website www.engvid.com.


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[Assistant] What I'd like to see in that basket would be like chilli, ginger, garlic, shallots, soy sauce, fish sauce, all the things that I love. But whatever it is, I'm up for it.


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[Assistant] Corn. Corn. More corn. Curry leaf. Curry leaf and corn.


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[Assistant] Alright, let me think. As an executive chef, I'm not used to having someone take over the kitchen. Alright, what do I do? Someone dictate what I need to cook and the amount of time I need to cook.


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[Assistant] There's all these different things you can do to it. You can do corn ice cream, you know, corn cake.


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[Assistant] My cousin's in in Bay Marie in the oven cooking so it's set in time. And then I'm gonna move on to the other components. My honey joy without honey. It's my corn joy. See if it works. Good job.


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[Assistant] Then I start with my corn risotto. I just want to make it nice and creamy and rich. What's Larissa up to? She, uh...


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[Assistant] And there's all just different textures and flavours as well, so.


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[Assistant] Some buttery, salty popcorn around on top of the corn risotto. Some curry leaves around it, just for a bit of aromatic flavour. And then I'll finish it with my corn honey joint.


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[Assistant] It was a really tough challenge for me. At the end of the day, I've put my heart on the plate and, uh, hopefully it's the best of the day.


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[Assistant] Today was great fun, being out of my comfort zone, going against Larissa, who has got lots and lots of talent.


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[Assistant] Alright, cool. We could do like a berry tart, so shortcrust pastry, berry compote. Ice cream's the other one? Yeah. We've got a lot of ideas bouncing around and we just can't decide on one thing. Okay, so we're gonna do a berry tart and then a crumble on top. Or if there's peaches, we could do that peach flower thing.


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[Assistant] We need to get into that pantry, have a look at the produce and then we'll decide on our final plan.


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[Assistant] The panna cotta mixture is finally cooling off, so I put them in the freezer. I'm pretty nervous that they're gonna set, but really hopeful.


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[Assistant] My first panic load didn't work, so I'm really riding on the second one to work perfectly.


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[Assistant] I flip out the second panna cotta and it's worked. Pretty relieved, but there's a lot more to go on this plate in very little time.


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[Assistant] Why do flamingos stand on one leg? To show off.


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[Assistant] So, flamingos pull one leg close to their body and stand on the other. To reduce heat loss and maintain body temperature.


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[Assistant] Second is for stability. When a scientist held the frozen cadaver of a dead flamingo by one leg,


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[Assistant] But same wasn't the case when held by both the legs.


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[Assistant] Indicating that the one legged posture keeps the bird stable. Third is to reduce muscular activity.


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[Assistant] This was proved by a research in which flamingos were made to stand on a force plate which was used to measure muscular activity.


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[Assistant] The readings showed that their muscular activity was very less when they stood on one leg. Thus indicating that flamingos can passively support their body weight on one leg.


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[Assistant] Oh. How do chameleons change color?


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[Assistant] Firstly, chameleons don't change color to camouflage.


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[Assistant] When chameleons are relaxed, the nanocrystals are close to each other. In this case, when light composed of various colors falls on the crystals, they reflect colors like blue, indigo, etc.


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[Assistant] This blue color along with the yellow color reflected by the pigments make chameleons appear green.


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[Assistant] However, when chameleons are excited, the spacing between the nanocrystals increases. In such a case, they reflect colors such as red, orange, etc. The red color combined with the yellow color reflected by the pigment make the chameleons appear orange.


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[Assistant] What causes dark circles? A black marker pen!


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[Assistant] Nah. There are a number of reasons which cause dark circles. Some of them are stress and lack of sleep. Under these conditions, our body produces a hormone called cortisol.


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[Assistant] Over time, cortisol constricts some blood vessels and dilates the others like the vessels around or under our eyes.


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[Assistant] Besides this, sleeping helps our brain to reorganize information and clear out unwanted memories. Moreover, while sleeping, we use very less energy. Thus, sleeping also helps us to conserve energy.


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[Assistant] It will become difficult to steal the ring from the prince. I must try something different. Go!


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[Assistant] Lesson 37 Making a bookcase. You're working hard, George. What are you doing? I'm making a bookcase.


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[Assistant] Here you are. Thanks, Dan.


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[Assistant] What are you going to do now, George? I'm going to paint it.


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[Assistant] This bookcase isn't for me. It's for my daughter, Susan. Pinks, her favorite color.


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[Assistant] Lesson 37. Making a bookcase. You're working hard George. What are you doing? I'm making a bookcase.


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[Assistant] What color are you going to paint it?


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[Assistant] This bookcase isn't for me. It's for my daughter, Susan. Pinks, her favorite color.


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[Assistant] Put yourself in the position of a human a hundred thousand years ago.


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[Assistant] If we were walking around and all of a sudden I see something that I think is a threat. And I went like this, and you saw me do that. You probably would not start charging over there.


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[Assistant] What that's doing for me is that it allows me to expand my chest. I can take in oxygen because my body is preparing to fight or flee.


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[Assistant] My eyes get a little larger so I can see more things.


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[Assistant] If we were walking around here a hundred thousand years ago and I happened to pick up something that I thought maybe we would want to have for dinner.


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[Assistant] And I picked that thing up and I put that in my mouth and I just went UGH!


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[Assistant] Like this, and I gave it to you, you probably wouldn't need it.


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[Assistant] The specific muscle configurations on our faces occur for a specific reason. The research has shown


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[Assistant] Once you have a thought, before it gets to the voice box, it has to go through the area of the brain that controls my hands. And this is neurologically true for everybody.


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[Assistant] Once I'm going to verbalize a thought, it makes me move my hands. So doing this is not just a communicative value. It's not just having signal value to you who are watching this. It's helping me think.


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[Assistant] The fact of the matter is our gestures are not just communicative. Because when you're on the phone, and I'm on the phone, we're also gesturing. Even though we know that the person can't see us.


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[Assistant] That's the way we are created. The body just expresses or embodies what's going on in our minds.


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[Assistant] Our brains tell us to fire a package of components. One set of components has to do with our physiology. One set of components has to do with our cognitions.


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[Assistant] Well, FACS is the acronym for the Facial Action Coding System.


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[Assistant] So whenever a person is moving their face, for whatever reason, a trained observer can learn how to identify which muscle is creating that appearance change.


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[Assistant] Let's say there's an expression of fear that occurs. I could break down this prototypic expression of fear as


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[Assistant] There's a very large expression of joy, that happiness.


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[Assistant] The happiness expression has the muscle around the eye that's innervated, it puffs out the cheeks, it gives a little shine. It's exactly the same muscles that are innervated right here, the prototypic expression of joy.


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[Assistant] So we did the same kind of study with the Paralympic Games that happened in Athens two weeks after the Cited Olympics. The blind athletes did exactly the same kinds of facial expressions that the Cited athletes did. Now why is this important? It's important because most of these blind athletes were blind from birth.


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[Assistant] There's no way they could possibly have learned to produce these expressions by seeing anybody else. That means that


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[Assistant] So micro-expressions are quick, extremely quick, leading facial expressions of emotion.


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[Assistant] When you're emotional, but you're in a situation where you're trying to control...


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[Assistant] Your expressions. If you can imagine there's a neural tug of war that's fighting for control over your face.


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[Assistant] Sometimes we are so overwhelmed with emotion that despite our best attempts to control them, they leak out.


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[Assistant] That's occurring because of this mural tug of war in situations where I'm emotional, but I'm trying to hide it.


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[Assistant] Most people are no better than flipping a coin in judging deception. When people are doing the shift the eyes thing.


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[Assistant] Uh, whether they're eyes up into the left or down into the right or whatever that is, they're lying. That's a big myth.


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[Assistant] I think that we've just scratched the surface for understanding the complexity.


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[Assistant] The reason why I'm going to be watching these videos for the next five years of these studies that we got is so that we can give that information to others so that somebody can improve our society for some reason. Keep us safer. Take the criminal off the street or do something that does us some good.


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[Assistant] Venus is the brightest planet in the sky.


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[Assistant] Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.


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[Assistant] The elements of the savoury are absolutely divine. The scallops are perfectly cooked. It has a wonderful crunch because it's been fried off nicely. And it goes really beautifully with that dew that Santi has poured on the side. It's a well-rounded, well-thought-out, beautiful dish.


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[Assistant] I'm really nervous. Christina's amazing and sweet and I love my savouries. So I think it's really anyone's chance.


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[Assistant] At the moment I'm working on getting my stock reduced down to demi glaze. Uh, the most challenging thing today will be just keeping calm and really working hard.


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[Assistant] I'm a little bit confused. It says to butterfly and then take the breast off the bone. But I'm really struggling to work out what that means. Should I take the backbone out then?


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[Assistant] We understand. I'm just wondering if it's taking out the full backbone or if it's another way that I don't know about. Let's start.


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[Assistant] The quail is the most important part of this dish. I've only got one shot at it.


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[Assistant] Simon, what's going on? There's just this thing, Butterfly the Quail's Breast and D-bone.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, I don't really understand who- Taking them off the breast?


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[Assistant] And then I quickly roll that into a balloting. And now I'm gonna move on to the quail eggs.


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[Assistant] I'm going to work first on my gold chocolate and banana mousse. This is the inside of the makis.


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[Assistant] What I remember of Santis is its consistency. It was this light, airy and beautiful mousse and I'm really excited to make it.


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[Assistant] I heat the milk and cream and then I add the blended bananas and bring that to a boil. Then I pour that into the gold chocolate and get that to melt.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna fold it through my cream and then we're ready to go. Once that's done, I then pipe the mousse in little silicon moulds.


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[Assistant] For the second part of the roasted cauliflower puree, I take it out of the bag and blend it until it's smooth.


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[Assistant] Santa's Espresso was beautiful and light with amazing flavours of chocolate. It just rounds a whole dish out.


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[Assistant] I chop 150 grams of dark chocolate. Once my milk mixture has come to a boil I pour that over the chocolate. I take that hot mixture and I put it into a blender.


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[Assistant] I also add a small amount of a spoon of powder and this will stabilise the mousse at the end.


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[Assistant] The tweedle is a really beautiful and intricate part of the dish. And I've completely ruined it. It needs to be thrown out and I need to start again.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, but I'm on it. What do you got left to do in your head? Quail, uhm, uh, scallops, and mushrooms as well.


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[Assistant] It's time to plate up my dessert, and I've realized that I've forgotten my tweed.


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[Assistant] There's so many steps to remake this twill and there's just not enough time. So I'm choosing to leave it off. Don't stop mate. I don't want to finish so close to finals week.


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[Assistant] I think I've progressed quite a lot in this competition as an individual cook. I learn more things every single day, so I'm not giving up.


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[Assistant] My desserts have never been to my strong point and I think that's probably quite similar today. Time just wasn't on my side for that. Have I done enough? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Although the fear was that nothing was gonna be there, I'm really happy with that.


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[Assistant] I wanted to get into food by joining the craziest cooking competition in the world. Like this is epic. As the months go...


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[Assistant] I'm learning more and more. And this next week is make or break. And I haven't broken yet. I'm close. Today really was close. But next week is where my brain needs to be. We'll toast. Thank you for having me.


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[Assistant] I'm really nervous taking this dessert up to the judges. I've left the tweedle off, a really crucial part to this dessert. I hope it doesn't cost me a place in finals week.


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[Assistant] This streamer is holding itself really well, which is fantastic. It's gonna be able to sit on the plate proudly. Cheers.


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[Assistant] Simon. It's so summery. That is really good. Draw-droppingly delicious. Nicole. That's enchanting. Unbelievably good. I just got a little shiver.


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[Assistant] Come on Jericho, or we'll never get there before sundown.


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[Assistant] This nature program is available on DVD for $19.99 plus shipping. To order call 1-800-336-1917.


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[Assistant] To learn more about what you've seen on this nature program, visit pbs.org.


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[Assistant] a hundred thousand


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[Assistant] Three hundred and fifty thousand.


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[Assistant] Five hundred thousand.


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[Assistant] Sleep tight, sweetheart, good night, baby.


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[Assistant] Sweet dreams, my sweetheart, my love. Good night, baby. Have magical dreams through the night.


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[Assistant] The stars and the moon will sing for you.


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[Assistant] Tonight, amidst the magic of Margaret River, a team challenge that could determine their fate.


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[Assistant] The boy went back home with empty hands. Now, I wonder what happened to the mother and baby Pisces.


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[Assistant] The two of them both tied their tails to a ribbon.


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[Assistant] Lesson 41. Penny's Bag. Is that bag heavy, Penny?


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[Assistant] Lesson 41 Penny's Bag Is that bag heavy, Penny?


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[Assistant] With the dome, Florence moves into an entirely different dimension. The dome becomes the hub of a new city, of a new world.


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[Assistant] This is so soaring, so daring, so confident, so absolute a structure. It's like a work of God.


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[Assistant] Are very creative people. They're also very competitive people. That means, among other things, they want to do what no one else has done.


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[Assistant] Brunelleschi may or may not have understood why he lost, but certainly, from that point, Filippo Brunelleschi must feel that he has to carve out a new niche for himself.


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[Assistant] With the dome, Florence moves into an entirely different dimension. The dome becomes the hub of a new city, of a new world. It is the expression of a self-confidence that no longer knows limits.


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[Assistant] People need works that can speak to them of their own capacity to dream. Brunelleschi's Dome is perhaps the biggest of those works in the history of world art.


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[Assistant] I've got castos, fourth day, three more days to go.


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[Assistant] I look around, I see that a lot of people are using the fish today, but I'm going to do something completely different.


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[Assistant] I'm really happy with the consistency of the ice cream, but I feel like the goat's cheese flavour really isn't strong enough.


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[Assistant] So I hope it's not too subtle and my dish tastes alright.


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[Assistant] At the moment for Surf and Turf, I've just got this piece of beef here and I've got some scallops.


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[Assistant] Seared beef and seared scallops with persimmons, three-ways, anokis and sunflower shoots.


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[Assistant] With the dome, Florence moves into an entirely different dimension. The dome becomes the hub of a new city, of a new world.


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[Assistant] This is so soaring, so daring, so confident, so absolute a structure. It's like a work of God.


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[Assistant] Florentines, uh, are very creative people. They're also very competitive people. That means, among other things, they want to do what no one else has done.


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[Assistant] This is the most important artistic competition for a public work that everyone will see that will immediately create fame and prestige. And he manages to become one of the finalists along with another, uh, beginning master, Lorenzo Ghiberti.


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[Assistant] Brunelleschi may or may not have understood why he lost, but certainly, from that point, Filippo Brunelleschi must feel that he has to carve out a new niche for himself.


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[Assistant] And he said, anyone who can keep this egg standing upright on the marble table top will understand how I'm going to build the dome.


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[Assistant] With the dome, Florence moves into an entirely different dimension. The dome becomes the hub of a new city, of a new world. It is the expression of a self-confidence that no longer knows limits.


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[Assistant] People need works that can speak to them of their own capacity to dream. Brunelleschi's Dome is perhaps the biggest of those works in the history of world art.


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[Assistant] You know, because if it was smaller than this, then it would be a little bit out of proportion with the rest of my body. But a little bigger, still out of proportion. But yeaah, it's just a good size.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, I was supposed to get boots as well. Size 12.


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[Assistant] Harrow, one of the most famous and influential public schools in the world. Over 400 years old. Steeped in history. Synonymous with wealth and privilege.


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[Assistant] But the real military operation is behind the scenes at Harrow, where the needs of 820 pupils are served by an army of 500 staff.


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[Assistant] The boys from upstairs get a taste of downstairs life Why does it smell so bad?


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[Assistant] It's early March, and a little after six o'clock in the morning at Westacre, one of Harrow School's twelve boarding houses.


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[Assistant] Housemaster Martin Smith is just one of the army of 500 staff whose job it is to look after the school's 820 boys.


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[Assistant] Martin's busy day starts well before any of Westacre's 66 boys are even awake.


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[Assistant] The next person to stir, over an hour later, is upper sixth former Ollie.


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[Assistant] On this chilly morning, Ollie must report to the school custodian, known as Kastos. It's a punishment given to him by one of his beaks, and he's not very happy about it.


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[Assistant] Custos is in the front line of a battalion of Harrow's support staff who keep the school running smoothly.


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[Assistant] A couple of hours later at morning break, Kastos heads out on uniform patrol.


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[Assistant] It isn't just Custard who has an army background. Harrow has a long association with the armed forces.


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[Assistant] A hundred years on from the First World War, Harrow still provides a regular supply of officers to the armed forces.


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[Assistant] And more than half the boys at the school choose to join Harrow's Combined Cadet Force, or CCF.


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[Assistant] As Hugh's squad prepare for battle, the enemy, led by his best friend and fellow West Acrean Tom, move out. Oh no, where have I gone?


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[Assistant] Those guns are of course loaded with blank cartridges.


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[Assistant] So the worst that can happen today is that someone catches a chill.


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[Assistant] But life in the CCF isn't all action and ambushes. There's also a lot of marching.


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[Assistant] In a few weeks time, Harrow's 12 houses will compete against each other in the annual Drill Squad competition.


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[Assistant] It's not an event Westacre has traditionally done well in.


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[Assistant] Westacre's entry will be led by Hugh, who's hoping to turn their fortunes around.


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[Assistant] So with just a few weeks to go until the competition, it looks like Hugh is going to have his work cut out.


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[Assistant] It's early on a chilly morning in March at Westacre, one of Harrow's twelve boarding houses.


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[Assistant] For housemaster Martin Smith, it's the start of another busy day.


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[Assistant] As well as looking after 66 teenage boys in the house, Martin is also expected to teach economics.


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[Assistant] One of Harrow's youngest beaks, 26-year-old James Poole, is an assistant housemaster and runs a host of extracurricular activities, as well as teaching history.


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[Assistant] It's early March at Harrow School, and this afternoon, upper sixth former Hugh is taking West Acres drill squad conscripts through their paces on the fiver side pitch behind the house.


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[Assistant] In just a couple of weeks time, Westacre will be competing against Harrow's other 11 boarding houses in the interhouse drill competition.


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[Assistant] This evening, after bill or registration, busy Hugh must measure the drill squad for their uniforms, with the help of matron Kate Bane.


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[Assistant] Keeping a boarding school the size of Harrow running is, by necessity, something of a military operation.


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[Assistant] Seven days a week during term time, the school kitchens produce breakfast, lunch and dinner for 820 boys plus support staff. Around 3,000 meals a day are served in the school's dining hall.


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[Assistant] This lunchtime, the boys have a choice between turkey escalops and tiger prawns. But preparation for this meal started more than 24 hours ago.


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[Assistant] In an average week, the school's 55 catering staff crack two and a half thousand eggs, chop up 420 kilos of onions, and peel a thousand kilos of potatoes.


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[Assistant] It's a Tuesday afternoon in March at Westacre Boarding House, and sixth former Hugh is rushing to get his squad in shape for the preliminary round of the interhouse drill competition.


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[Assistant] Undaunted by his squad's lack of basic motor skills, Hugh has taken delivery of the kit.


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[Assistant] Everyone, that is, except KC, who's gone to see Major Robson in the Armory in search of a beret big enough to fit him.


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[Assistant] It turns out that Casey's head is definitely a non-regulation size.


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[Assistant] For KC, this particular cloud could have a silver lining. Without a beret, he can't take part in the drill competition.


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[Assistant] At Westacre, Tuesday night is laundry night, and 66 boys generate a lot of dirty washing.


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[Assistant] This evening she's recruited cadets Rory and Giles to share in the smelly experience of sorting the dirty washing into the right bags.


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[Assistant] Earlier the next morning, before most of the boys are even awake, housemaster Martin Smith is helping to load 20 bags full of dirty washing into the laundry van.


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[Assistant] Maria Davis and her team of seven helpers run the school's own laundry.


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[Assistant] Almost 6,000 white shirts are laundered here each week, and every single one is ironed and folded by hand.


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[Assistant] Commander Hugh is putting in some last minute preparations for the preliminary round of the Drill Squad competition.


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[Assistant] An hour later on the way to the parade ground, there's just time for one last run-through.


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[Assistant] As KC is lacking the appropriate headgear, he's been demoted to the subsbench for the rest of the competition.


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[Assistant] For Hugh, getting through to the final is crucial for House Pride.


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[Assistant] If Westacre don't put on a decent performance today, then the unthinkable could happen. The house could be out of the competition.


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[Assistant] Who now has an agonizing wait to find out if they got something.


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[Assistant] After a disastrous showing in the qualifying round of the Interhouse Drill Competition, spirits at Westacre Boarding House are low.


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[Assistant] Especially for the squad's leader, Hugh, who is anxiously waiting for an email telling him whether or not they made it through to the next round.


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[Assistant] After a long week of practice, there's now only 24 hours to go until the competition.


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[Assistant] Housemaster Martin Smith is pleasantly surprised they made it through at all.


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[Assistant] Whilst Rory and Giles buff their boots, Hugh has decided to do a spot of ironing for the entire squad.


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[Assistant] It's half past four in the afternoon. Nearly time for Westacre's drill squad to head down to the parade ground for the final.


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[Assistant] But getting twelve teenage boys dressed and ready for inspection is a major challenge.


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[Assistant] With the inspection over, it's time for Hugh to give West Acres drill squad their marching orders. And the entire house has turned up to lend their support.


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[Assistant] Hello everybody, this is Elliot from ETJ English. How are you all doing today? It's been a while, uh, I've been busy, uh, teaching a lot of Skype lessons. But anyway, today I wanted to record a quick video for you and I wanted to talk about two different things, really. One of them is to avoid being what we call blunt.


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[Assistant] Not only are you not giving yourself the chance to use your English and to speak more but you're also


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[Assistant] They might not want to ask you any other questions. We really hate awkward situations in England, in, in Western culture. We really don't like silence quite a lot.


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[Assistant] So what we try and do is fill the gaps, and if it gets silent and it gets too awkward, we don't want to have that conversation with that person anymore. It's not us being rude, it's just us feeling awkward.


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[Assistant] Or you could say, hiya, how you doing? You know, just respond with another question. Or you can say, yeah, I'm really good, thanks. Are you alright? Or you alright? Or how you doing?


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[Assistant] You know, so play with it. Play with the different ways of asking someone how they are. And don't be afraid to open up. Don't be scared to use your English.


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[Assistant] Then you could say, yeah, really good, thanks. Today I, you know, I just got back from the gym and, um, I'm seeing my girlfriend later, so it's a pretty good day today. So when someone asks you how you are, don't be afraid to talk about your day, how your day's been, and then respond with, what about you?


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[Assistant] But that's a really simple way of just getting a conversation going, okay? Don't be afraid to talk about what you've done today. Think about the things you've done. Think about what you have planned later. And talk about your mood a bit more. Why you're feeling that way.


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[Assistant] Probably the most common one that I do to most friends or other people, even my parents. I might, uhm, let's say I knock on the door, they answer the door, I could say, Hi, how you doing? Or, Hiya, how you doing? Hiya, how you doing? Hi.


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[Assistant] Notice that we drop the R, it becomes, how are you doing? How are you doing?


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[Assistant] The reason we do this is because I've told this before, native speakers are very lazy. We drop a lot of words to make things easier and things become more natural when we do this. So how you doing is just like saying,


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[Assistant] They can't understand what we're trying to say or what we're feeling or what we're thinking about them because we tend to be quite polite, maybe too polite sometimes. But really what we're trying to do is...


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[Assistant] But as long as you're not blunt and the other person isn't blunt and you just have a friendly conversation, everything should be fine. Okay. So like I said, a very basic lesson today, but you needed to know this. If you'd like to book a Skype lesson with me, become my student, learn with me on Skype, one-to-one private lessons.


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[Assistant] Just go in the description below and click on the link which says book a Skype lesson with me. Thank you very much for watching, guys. It's been a pleasure, as always.


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[Assistant] Hey everyone! Welcome back to Lavendaire. It's Aileen. Today I'm so excited to kick off our Dream Life series on this channel.


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[Assistant] Not knowing what to do with my life. I was very lost and frustrated about that for a while. And Lavendaire really just came out of that struggle and that pain of not knowing how to create that dream life that I wanted and figuring out how to make that happen. And I feel like now,


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[Assistant] Literally everything has changed. I mean, back then I was a shy person, very insecure, had little self confidence. I was also a big people pleaser. I felt like I lived my life


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[Assistant] For other people, I would listen to other people's opinions and I would do things to impress other people. And I felt like my definition of success was what society defined for me or my parents defined for me. And I really didn't feel like I thought


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[Assistant] And then I had this turning point towards the end of college when I started to think about what I should do with my life.


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[Assistant] Learning how to make my own decisions for myself and learning how to shape the life that I wanted for myself rather than what other people wanted for me. So that was my whole journey.


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[Assistant] The past five or six years has been me trying to figure out how to create that dream life that I always wanted. And I can proudly say now that


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[Assistant] I'm on the right track and so many of my goals and dreams in the past have really come true now, especially with my career, with my apartments, with everything that I have now. I just feel so much more confident and loving my life. I really do believe that you can change your life.


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[Assistant] So I hope you're excited for this series as much as I am. If you want to join in, there's a link you can click down below to join this series. So this series is going to be like a video plus email series. So I'll be posting the videos on my YouTube every Wednesday and Friday, but I'll also send out emails that go with each video. So the video will talk about the content, but the emails will have


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[Assistant] So if Brunelleschi had built, uh, the wall in the simple way you see here, you would have layers of brick and layers of mortar.


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[Assistant] And the layers of brick and layer of mortar are very simply separated by one another. And the layers of mortar represent planes of weakness through the wall. What we see here is that the wall is leaning in. Gravity is pulling it in towards me.


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[Assistant] And so a crack could form in one of the layers of mortar. The mortar is weaker than the brick and the whole thing could rotate and all of this brick could fall in.


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[Assistant] So we're here looking at the corner of Massimo's


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[Assistant] So this is the bedding of the masonry and as we go up we can see the bricks in the spinnepesque pattern. And if you watch carefully you can see that they start here and they wrap up around behind the corner and continue uninterrupted from one face of the dome to the other face of the dome.


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[Assistant] Say what you will about, uh, Mr. Trump. He certainly would bring some change to the White House. Let's see what we've got up there.


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[Assistant] As many of you have been briefed, we provided additional information today about the site of my birth.


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[Assistant] In Hawaii, August 4th, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital.


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[Assistant] We now have a clarification in the state of Arkansas.


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[Assistant] Welcome to the world according to Trump, the billionaire builder with a big bang approach who dared to autograph the Manhattan skyline.


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[Assistant] That was a wonderful instinct for the jugular. She felt that he lost it because he wasn't tough enough, wasn't strong enough.


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[Assistant] And she reached out to me because she felt that I would be stronger and tougher.


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[Assistant] And I came up with a code name Charlie. And, uh, I, uh, used that and from November 94 until April 95, uh, nobody knew I was there but Bill and Hillary.


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[Assistant] Because I said it was giving Bill a reputation for weakness where he might not be able to win re-election.


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[Assistant] Lesson 49 At The Butchers


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[Assistant] What about some steak? This is a nice piece.


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[Assistant] Do you want a chicken, Mrs Bird? They're very nice.


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[Assistant] To tell you the truth, Mrs. Bird, I don't like chicken either.


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[Assistant] Lesson 49 At The Butchers.


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[Assistant] Do you want a chicken, Mrs Bird? They're very nice.


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[Assistant] To tell you the truth, Mrs. Bird, I don't like chicken either.


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[Assistant] And I remember men walking home from work from the train station.


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[Assistant] With their cigarettes dangling and their Chicago American evening newspaper under their arm.


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[Assistant] I remember a class prophecy in the sixth grade that Hillary would be married to a U.S. Senator.


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[Assistant] Adam's apple is basically a protruding chunk of thyroid cartilage that surrounds our larynx or voice box. It is more prominent in men because during puberty, the larynx tends to grow more in males than it does in females. Causing the cartilage to project outwards, thus creating Adam's apple.


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[Assistant] Note that this increase in size of larynx is what makes the men's voice deeper.


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[Assistant] Blinking helps spread water, oil, mucus, etc. across our eyes and wipe out dust. However, this is not the only purpose of blinking.


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[Assistant] Experts notice that the exact moments when we blink are not random.


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[Assistant] While reading, we tend to blink at the end of sentences. While listening, we blink when speaker takes pauses.


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[Assistant] While the activity spiked in areas called Default Mode Network.


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[Assistant] No. Farting or flatulence is a natural process. It involves the release of intestinal gas through anus.


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[Assistant] An average person farts about 10 to 20 times a day and there are various reasons behind this.


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[Assistant] While eating food, we also swallow air. So, this air either comes out as burps or travels through the entire intestinal tract and escapes as a non-smelly fart. So, what makes some farts stink?


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[Assistant] High fiber foods like beans and broccoli have a sugar called raffinose. Humans lack the enzyme to digest raffinose.


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[Assistant] Not at all. When we experience any strong emotions such as extreme happiness or sorrow,


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[Assistant] It activates our brain's limbic system which helps control emotions.


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[Assistant] This system informs our lacrimal glands present below our eyebrows to produce tears, thus making us cry.


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[Assistant] Now, crying is more than just a physical response. It is observed that emotional tears contain natural painkillers like endorphins. That helps stabilize our mood.


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[Assistant] Some studies even show that tears produced during emotions contain stress hormones like ACTH and encephalon.


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[Assistant] So, crying might be our body's way of getting rid of such stress hormones, helping us feel better.


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[Assistant] Why do my eyes glow red in photos? Because there is a devil hidden in you. Oh, stop bluffing!


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[Assistant] In bright light, the iris contracts making the pupil smaller, thus allowing less light to enter into our eyes.


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[Assistant] Some of this light gets reflected from the blood vessels onto the camera before our iris can contract, making our eyes glow red in photos. Topic, pressure.


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[Assistant] No. There are three things in a popcorn seed or kernel that work together to form a perfect popcorn.


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[Assistant] Those are an impermeable shell called pericarp, right water content and starch. When we heat popcorn kernels, the water inside them forms steam and starts to expand. While the starch turns into a gel-like substance.


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[Assistant] Next topic, human nose. Why does spicy food make your nose run?


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[Assistant] Because it is not that strong to make me run. Heh. Nah.


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[Assistant] Now, spicy food items like chili, mustard, horseradish and wasabi contain chemicals called capsaicin and allyl isothiocyanate.


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[Assistant] When we eat such food items, the capsaicin and allyl isothiocyanate travel through the pharynx and reach our nose. Here, the chemicals activate the heat sensing receptors, thus causing inflammation in our nose and irritation of the mucus. Hence, as a defense mechanism, more mucus is produced in our nose to get rid of these chemicals, thus making our nose run. Topic, ignition temperature.


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[Assistant] Why is it easier to burn dry leaves but not green leaves? Cause it is easier to spell dry than green.


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[Assistant] Nah. It is because of ignition temperature. Ignition temperature is the lowest temperature at which a combustible substance starts burning. Now, green leaves have moisture or water in them. Wow. So, I can use them as water balloons?


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[Assistant] Hence, when we try to burn green leaves, a large amount of heat is required to first evaporate the water and then to reach the ignition temperature of leaves, thus not allowing the leaves to catch fire easily.


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[Assistant] Nah. Sweating helps in thermoregulation.


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[Assistant] Thermoregulation is the process by which organisms maintain their internal body temperature.


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[Assistant] Now, the internal body temperature of a human is about 37 degrees Celsius or 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.


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[Assistant] Well, if you ask my opinion, chocolate syrup is very important for me. Hmm, just listen.


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[Assistant] On a sunny day or during exercise, when our body temperature increases, our sweat glands produce sweat. This sweat is about 99% water. Water is a very good heat absorbent. It absorbs much of our body heat and evaporates into the atmosphere. Helping us lose heat and thus maintaining our body temperature. Topic, forced vibrations. Why does a guitar have a hollow box?


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[Assistant] To keep clothes while traveling. Not at all. Wait, I'll explain.


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[Assistant] Whenever we strike an object, it vibrates. Sometimes these vibrations influence other objects to vibrate.


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[Assistant] Is this a type of forced vibration? Please concentrate. A guitar has a hollow box which holds quite a huge volume of air. Now when we strike its string, it starts to vibrate.


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[Assistant] My bandage. Nah. Bones are one of the most important parts of our body. They not only provide structural support but also produce red blood cells.


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[Assistant] What? Our bones produce red blood cells? Absolutely. Hence, when we crack or break a bone, it is very important to heal it.


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[Assistant] Then, special cells called osteoblasts create a hard bony callus using collagen and minerals like calcium and phosphorus. Thus forming our new bone. However, this new bone is irregular in shape.


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[Assistant] Hence, cells called osteoclasts start remodeling the bone. Resulting in the formation of bones similar to the original shape.


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[Assistant] Cuz they cannot crack a joke! Ha ha ha! No!


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[Assistant] This chemical is volatile. That is, it easily evaporates at normal temperature, forming a gas.


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[Assistant] When this gas reaches our eyes, it reacts with the substance that keeps our eyes lubricated and forms a mild sulfuric acid.


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[Assistant] What? An acid in my eyes? Absolutely. This sulfuric acid gives us a burning sensation. Now, in order to wash off this acid, our lacrimal glands produce a disinfecting liquid.


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[Assistant] Is distilled water safe to drink? How would I know? Am I a detective? Alright, alright. I'll answer it. Distilled water is obtained from distillation.


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[Assistant] Then this vapor is condensed by cooling, hence converting vapor back to liquid water.


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[Assistant] Now even though distilled water is pure, some doctors say that we should not drink it for a prolonged period of time.


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[Assistant] So can I take a bath with it? I haven't bathed since last Sunday.


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[Assistant] Oh, gross. You are just impossible. It is generally recommended to avoid drinking distilled water for a long period because along with the impurities, the minerals required for the proper growth of our body are left behind during distillation.


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[Assistant] Topic, caffeine. How does coffee keep you awake? By throwing an overnight party. Nah.


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[Assistant] When the adenosine binds to these receptors, it activates them. Causing to slow down the brain activity and thus making us feel sleepy.


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[Assistant] However, drinking coffee keeps us awake and we don't feel sleepy. This is because coffee contains a drug called caffeine, which after digestion reaches our brain.


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[Assistant] Caffeine is structurally similar to adenosine. Being similar, caffeine binds to the adenosine receptors and thus blocks the adenosine from binding. Hence, as adenosine does not bind, our receptors don't slow the brain activity. As a result, we remain awake.


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[Assistant] Susan has mumps, so we must call the doctor.


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[Assistant] Susan has mumps, so we must call the doctor.


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[Assistant] Donald Trump, as I say, is just 33 years old. He now has an apartment for sale in a new Trump building called the Trump Tower.


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[Assistant] One floor of it, 11 million dollars altogether.


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[Assistant] He works so hard and keeps such long hours and becomes involved in so many other people's lives and problems. I always tell them it's great.


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[Assistant] We really cherish the time we do have together and appreciate the fact each of us works hard.


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[Assistant] Once upon a time, there was a palace in a beautiful country.


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[Assistant] With her magic, the princess was trapped in the dark forest.


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[Assistant] Many knights tried to save the princess.


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[Assistant] One day, a prince from a neighboring country came to save her. Prince


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[Assistant] I'll save the princess said the prince. Suddenly a fairy showed up. Fairy. Fairy.


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[Assistant] The prince and princess got married and lived happily ever after.


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[Assistant] Once upon a time, there was a palace in a beautiful country.


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[Assistant] There lived a very handsome king and a beautiful queen. They had a pretty princess.


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[Assistant] Many knights tried to save the princess.


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[Assistant] I'll save the princess, said the prince.


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[Assistant] The prince and princess got married and lived happily ever after.


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[Assistant] It is, it is quite complicated especially because you've got to get all the timing perfect and you're sort of doing opposite actions with each side of your body.


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[Assistant] This is the Social Security Act passed in August of 1935.


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[Assistant] Mr. Rothman is considered by those in the industry to be a hair trigger and in my opinion somewhat unstable in his tone and manner of criticism.


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[Assistant] I am now planning to institute a major lawsuit against your firm unless Mr. Rothman makes a major public apology or is dismissed.


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[Assistant] When were they there? When were they there? On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.


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[Assistant] Station of Greengrocer hairdresser on Thursday, Friday, Saturday.


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[Assistant] On Thursday, Friday, Saturday, butcher grows her dairy. Butcher grows her dairy.


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[Assistant] April 24th, May 25th, June 26th, April 24th, May 25th, June 26th, in July, August, September, Australia, Australia, Canada.


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[Assistant] In July, August, September, Australia, Australia, Canada.


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[Assistant] In October, November, December, China, Denmark, Finland


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[Assistant] In 1985, 1987, 1990, India, Poland, Turkey. In 1985, 1987, 1990, India, Poland, Turkey. In 1994, 1996, Japan, Nigeria.


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[Assistant] In 1994-1996, Japan-Nigeria


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[Assistant] Here, it's ten o'clock, sir. It's ten o'clock!


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[Assistant] I'm used to wake up. What's the matter? It's ten o'clock, sir. What? It's ten o'clock, sir. At night? Yeah. Your armour told me to call you. Oh, yes.


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[Assistant] Not just the press, everybody. Because gosh almighty, who had ever had to be in that position before?


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[Assistant] To idle chatter. Oh, Bross, Bross, my love, come along. Mr. Stryver was only passing the time, and that pleasantly enough.


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[Assistant] I sometimes catch him watching, listening when we're all here. He says very little.


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[Assistant] Didn't Mr. Carton take Mr. Darnick from the clutches of the hangman?


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[Assistant] Come now, you know Mr. Laurie from Telson's Bank. He said as much.


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[Assistant] Carton shrugged and turned the conversation. A modest man, you'll allow, Mr. Stryver.


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[Assistant] Fiddlesticks, are you deaf sir? Is Mr. Dano back from France?


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[Assistant] Can I in no way repair your confidence? I know this is a confidence. I know you would say this to no one else.


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[Assistant] Your fishing rod gets rather rusty, doesn't it, Father?


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[Assistant] They went together to a room in which a white-haired man had made shoes one time. No white-haired man, no, but three others.


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[Assistant] I'm a little tired. You are a little depressed too. And faint of heart, my dear.


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[Assistant] It does not take a long time to strike a man with lightning. It does not take a long time for an earthquake to swallow a town.


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[Assistant] In the meantime, it is always preparing, though it is not seen or heard. That is your consolation. Keep it.


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[Assistant] Look around and consider the lives, the faces of all the world we know. Consider the rage and discontent to which every comrade, every faction addresses itself with more and more certainty every hour. Can it last as it is? I mock you.


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[Assistant] We shall have helped it. Nothing we do is done in vain. I believe with all my soul we shall see it.


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[Assistant] Your weakness is that you need from time to time to see your victim. To see the opportunity.


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[Assistant] When the time comes, Defarge, let loose a tiger and a devil.


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[Assistant] But wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained. Not shown. Yet always ready.


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[Assistant] Let loose the tiger and the devil. Let loose extermination.


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[Assistant] It is possible that it may not come during our lives. We shall not see the triumph.


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[Assistant] Subjects without heads, dear me, and plentiful enough to bring the price down to paltry, and I'll do that in treating you to bear in mind what I say just now, in a good cause, when I might have kept it back.


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[Assistant] A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.


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[Assistant] Adapted by Nick McCarty in seven episodes. Episode five, The Storm Gathers.


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[Assistant] He's in bed, doctor. Can you see him, please? He has a bad cold, too.


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[Assistant] He's in bed, doctor. Can you see him, please? He has a bad cold, too.


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[Assistant] Promise me not to press a question on me if I beg you not to ask it.


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[Assistant] I believe poor Mr. Carton deserves more consideration than you have expressed for him tonight. Or at any time.


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[Assistant] That is what you are not to ask me. But I think... I know he does.


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[Assistant] Be generous with him. Lenient on his faults when he's not by. Believe he has a heart which he very, very seldom shows. I dare it. It is deeply wounded and bleeds. Bleeds, I have seen it.


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[Assistant] I'm sure he's capable of good things. Gentle things, magnanimous things even. So, remember how strong we are in our happiness. And how weak he must be in his misery.


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[Assistant] I assure you, Mr. Laurie, I have always felt doubts and hopes and... I feel footsteps echoing about me. Joy and mourning and...


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[Assistant] Mr. Cotton is busy, Lucy. He will come when he has time.


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[Assistant] He touches my heart, Mr. Lorry. I know he comes to visit us because he needs, needs love. He feeds off all of us here. And I pity him.


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[Assistant] I remember. You look tired then. Now, Mr. Laurie, you look even more tired.


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[Assistant] Yes, of course it does, Mr. Laurie, but we must hear it. Please, go on.


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[Assistant] Aren't I lucky to live here with birdsong and forest trees and wild flowers even blooming in the corner of our garden.


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[Assistant] Today this morning this afternoon this evening tonight. Today this morning this afternoon this evening tonight.


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[Assistant] Yesterday, yesterday, morning yesterday, afternoon yesterday, evening last night.


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[Assistant] Yesterday, yesterday, morning, yesterday, afternoon, yesterday, evening, last night, the day before yesterday, the day before yesterday, in the morning, the day before yesterday, in the afternoon, the day before yesterday, in the evening, the night before last,


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[Assistant] The day before yesterday. The day before yesterday. In the morning, the day before yesterday. In the afternoon, the day before yesterday. In the evening, the night before last.


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[Assistant] Air cleaned opened. Sharpened turned on.


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[Assistant] Shaved clamped telephone, shaved clamped telephone, called emptied, called emptied, called emptied.


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[Assistant] On the Calais packet, I asked him if he had need of a man, and he engaged me. Go on.


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[Assistant] Why, she's just a mean, wicked, nasty little troll. That's why I love her like I do.


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[Assistant] Help me, LB. Even with your simple mind, we know that we have three crystals and Marvel has one. That leaves two more. And they must be in the hands of that Iliop. Ugh. Teddy, what's his name?


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[Assistant] Now, if my calculations are correct, this red button should reverse the process.


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[Assistant] Come back to the airship with us, Grubby. There's nothing more we can do right now.


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[Assistant] I'm sure there's no call for alarm, Teddy. There must be a scientific explanation for this. I hope so, Gimmick. I hope so. Hmmmm.


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[Assistant] Grumpy's been sitting next to Karen's shelf for days, gimmick. Well, it's not surprising, really. What do you mean?


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[Assistant] Well, she is, after all, a beautiful bug.


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[Assistant] Isn't she beautiful? You can say that again. Isn't she- Gimmick, look! The butterflies are coming!


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[Assistant] Well, you could just fly over to that portable reducing machine there and press the green button. You mean this one? Yes, yes!


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[Assistant] So please join us as our next adventure takes us right into the very heart of Monster Headquarters. Right here on the adventures of Teddy Rockspin.


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[Assistant] Well, that makes sense. But for a minute I thought you were trying to follow fast, but-


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[Assistant] See that? Cheating never pays. Of course, neither do you, twink.


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[Assistant] We'll be safe now, my friends. Those mud blobs won't dare show their faces in the sunlight.


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[Assistant] Tweez, I didn't know you had this kind of streak in your...


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[Assistant] Heeheehee! With one well aimed shot, I'll take care of Gimmick's army and navy!


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[Assistant] That nincompoop LB never mixes the gunpowder right. I've got to do everything myself.


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[Assistant] Hey, you seem tough. You have been going at it non-stop.


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[Assistant] Review Conduct Conductor


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[Assistant] Awesome. Like, what is it, a boat or what?


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[Assistant] No man, no. I wiped out. There was only like one grunt ever born who could have ridden that wave. Elroy man.


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[Assistant] Like too bad you couldn't say the same thing about his wife.


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[Assistant] Nothing much man, like just sitting around in his bathrobe, yelling at some round red guy. Suits like up!


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[Assistant] Hi, I'm Gill from www.engvid.com, and oh dear, I've been working all day. I've got a terrible headache. I think I need to see the doctor.


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[Assistant] But later, I have to put you first, all of you watching.


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[Assistant] You're my priority. So let's have a look today. The subject of the lesson is


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[Assistant] Visiting the doctor. When you have a headache or a pain somewhere else, if you're feeling sick, all of those things. So, visiting the doctor.


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[Assistant] It just means that doctor deals with all kinds of different problems. People come in off the street when they have something wrong with them. So, visiting the doctor. First of all, you have to make an appointment. It's not called a meeting, it's an appointment.


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[Assistant] You can either phone, go in. Some doctors you can book online through their website.


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[Assistant] Making an appointment, then you go in to see the doctor or possibly a nurse. Some surgeries have nurses as well as doctors. You go in to see the doctor or to see the nurse. Okay? You have to describe your symptoms, like what is wrong.


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[Assistant] My headache or oh, feeling sick, that's a symptom. What you're feeling that is wrong. Why you are there. Describe the symptoms.


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[Assistant] And we will look at some specific symptoms in the second half of the lesson.


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[Assistant] Right. You may, depending on what the problem is, the doctor or the nurse may want to give you a physical examination.


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[Assistant] They want to sort of feel things and have a look, and so sometimes,


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[Assistant] Whichever you prefer. If it's a bit embarrassing, you may want to see a doctor who is the same gender as you. So that's okay.


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[Assistant] Right? When you see the doctor and the doctor decides what kind of medication you need or medicine, medication, the doctor gives you a piece of paper which is called a prescription, which is for medicine,


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[Assistant] Either pills, another word for pills is tablets, little things you take out of a bottle and swallow.


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[Assistant] Or liquid, if you need, uhm, something like, uhm, to drink, some kind of tonic.


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[Assistant] There may be a liquid in a bottle that you have to drink. Okay?


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[Assistant] You've got your prescription piece of paper, you have to go and get the medicine because the doctor at the surgery does not usually give you the medication. You have to go, you have to take your prescription to a pharmacy.


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[Assistant] The other name for pharmacy is chemist or chemist shop where they have a place where they keep lots of pills.


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[Assistant] All sorts of drugs and things. Legal drugs, I hasten to add. When you say drugs, people sometimes think, Oh, illegal. But no, these are drugs. Medicine is drugs. Okay? So you go to get your prescription, you get your medication,


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[Assistant] How much to take? Maybe two pills per day, four pills per day, one pill after each meal, that kind of thing. That's the dosage.


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[Assistant] Or the dose and how often the frequency, once a day, twice a day, so on.


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[Assistant] Hopefully, with one set of medication, you will be better within a few days. But if there is still a problem after a few days and you've taken all your pills or whatever,


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[Assistant] You may have to make a return visit to the doctor, so another appointment.


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[Assistant] You may need a repeat prescription which is more


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[Assistant] More drugs because the first drugs haven't worked a repeat prescription for the same thing. If the doctor decides to try different drugs, then it will be a different prescription, not a repeat prescription.


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[Assistant] And we will now move on and have a look at the symptoms and how to describe what is wrong. Okay.


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[Assistant] Okay, so here we have the various symptoms that you may have to describe to the doctor or to the nurse. First of all, the word ache is pronounced like K,


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[Assistant] It looks like H, but it's pronounced ache with a K sound. Uhm, you can have a back ache. Oh, back is aching.


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[Assistant] You can say, I have an ache in my stomach. I have an ache.


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[Assistant] In my shoulder, anything like that. Okay? Uhm, hurt is a useful word. My


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[Assistant] My head is hurting. My arm is hurting. Any part of the body you can say is hurting. Or my head hurts. My arm hurts. My knee hurts.


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[Assistant] I've hurt my shoulder. Anything like that. Okay. With the word pain, I have a pain in my


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[Assistant] Head, pain in my shoulder, pain in my stomach, anything like that. Pain in my foot, any part of the body.


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[Assistant] Okay, so if you have a high temperature, if you've put a thermometer in your mouth and waited a few minutes, then you look and you see it's too high, and you're also feeling very hot. You say you have a fever,


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[Assistant] Cough. If you just have a little cough, it's probably nothing, but if it continues for several days or weeks, then it's important to see the doctor. So, you can say, I have a cough, or I have a bad cough,


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[Assistant] Or, I can't stop coughing, especially if it's been going on for some time. I can't stop coughing. Okay?


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[Assistant] To use the negative of well, I don't feel well, or I haven't been feeling well is another way of saying that. Okay? So, moving on.


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[Assistant] A little bit like hurt is injured. That's if you've actually had an accident of some sort. I have injured my


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[Assistant] Hand, maybe it got bent. Perhaps you fell on the floor and your hand was bent. I have injured my hand. I have injured my knee. Anything like that. Uh, saw is sometimes if you


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[Assistant] Scratch yourself, or maybe it's your throat, that can be sore. If you're going to get a cold or the flu, you get a sore throat first because of the bacteria in your throat. Anyway, with sore, you can say, I have a sore hand,


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[Assistant] I have a sore throat, or my, my arm is sore. It comes like that. My knee is sore. Okay?


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[Assistant] Tired, we often get tired if we've been working really hard, but if you're ill, you can feel tired, more tired than normal. I'm feeling tired or even more strong.


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[Assistant] I'm feeling exhausted. Exhausted is just, ah, you can't do anything. You feel so tired. Okay.


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[Assistant] Three things that happen, sort of accidents, again. Burn... You can burn yourself, you can scold yourself, you can cut yourself, or it happens by accident.


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[Assistant] To burn is a sort of a dry burn. If you have boiling water which accidentally maybe splashes your hand, that is a scold when it's a wet heat. Okay? So that's dry heat, burn. Wet heat is a scold.


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[Assistant] And you feel you could fall over. You're just... You're balance.


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[Assistant] Is going. You could just fall over, you just feel dizzy. If you go round and round in circles and then stop, you can feel dizzy. That can happen sometimes. But if you haven't been going round and round in circles and making yourself dizzy, but you're feeling dizzy and you don't know why,


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[Assistant] Then it's probably a good idea to see the doctor and say, I'm feeling dizzy, or I've been feeling dizzy.


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[Assistant] And it's been going on for some time now. The last few days, I've been feeling dizzy.


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[Assistant] Okay, so these are a lot of the symptoms you can have and how to describe them. So I hope you found that useful.


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[Assistant] Practical lesson. If you'd like to answer a quiz on this subject, go to www.engvid.com. And if you'd like to subscribe to my YouTube channel, that would be great. Thank you. And looking forward to seeing you again very soon. Okay. Bye for now.


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[Assistant] Okay, maybe we are overreacting. Not all cats eat mice, right? Maybe this cat is a vegetarian. Maybe she eats grass.


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[Assistant] An airplane goes whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.


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[Assistant] A bicycle goes ring, ring, ring.


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[Assistant] A bus goes beep, beep, beep.


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[Assistant] A car goes vroom, vroom, vroom.


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[Assistant] A firetruck goes, neenar, neenar, neenar.


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[Assistant] A helicopter goes wop wop wop.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Yeah. I've got an added bit of pressure. There's no excuse to fail today.


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[Assistant] Yep. And you need to hurry up. Yeah mate, George is in the kitchen with us today. Keep wiping down! Yeah mate, that is absolutely amazing and terrifying at the same time.


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[Assistant] I've got my crème fraîche sorbet chilling in the fridge and now it's time to get onto my lemon granita. My dish is all about that lemon. God, it's hard in my hands. Come on. I've gotta make sure I've got a lot of this granita.


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[Assistant] Behind you guys, my dish is a lemon granita with a crème fraîche sorbet, a cucumber and ouzo tea, deep fried ketaifi pastry.


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[Assistant] I'm loving this flavour combination. This dish could mean that I could either go straight through to semi-finals or straight through to elimination and I definitely want to make it to semi-finals.


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[Assistant] I'm having fun, this is my first time using it, so it's kinda cool. I feel like I'm in a science lab. Woah, woah, woah, woah!


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[Assistant] I wanna add some fresh cucumber to my dish, so I dice up those cucumbers and submerge that into some of that cucumber and ouzo tea that I've made earlier. And now it's time to plate up.


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[Assistant] I'm putting the cucumbers at the base of the dish, a quenelle of that beautiful crème fraîche sorbet on top of that.


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[Assistant] You know, to do a dish that is worthy enough to be served at the press club is amazing. Service please. I didn't think I'd be capable of doing that.


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[Assistant] Hello, welcome to day 10 of the course. Can you believe we're a third of the way through the course? I really hope you are learning loads and every day you're adding more skills to your vocal range and also your quality of voice. Now, because we're a third of the way through,


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[Assistant] It may seem to you that we're going at different voice and communication skills subjects almost randomly. Well, let me just explain again why we're doing this. You see, every one of us is different. Every one of us has things we need to improve.


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[Assistant] However, there may be some aspects of voice that you may be perfectly happy with, and these aspects don't need that much improvement. And that's why every day there are four sections, not one, just in case it's one you're not really interested in. And hopefully there's something for everyone in the course by dividing it into four sections.


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[Assistant] I know when I'm doing a training course on video I skip sections I know about and actively hunt for things I do want training on and then repeat play them if required. I'm sure you're doing exactly the same. That's fine. You may be even watching these videos out of order and that's fine as well if it works for you.


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[Assistant] One thing that's very important is to get a cast iron routine of watching a video a day, doing something on these videos at least once a day. If you're a professional actor or voice artist like myself, you get yourself into a daily routine.


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[Assistant] When using your voice as your job, that daily routine is your warm up, which is 5 to 10 minutes of highly compressed, relaxation, stretching and vocal exercises we've discussed before.


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[Assistant] But for every actor and voice artist, that specific routine is completely different. So in this first section, I'd like to review what you've done so far over the last 10 days. Write down the areas where you have learnt the most.


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[Assistant] And thus identify the areas you need to work on to make sure you can solidify your learning. Now this list will be different for everyone.


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[Assistant] I can't give you a list of what would be best for you. I know some people who are fine with, say, being relaxed first thing in the morning but have terrible clarity issues. Some people need to work on low humming and relaxation exercises to get into their optimal voice.


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[Assistant] You can either pause the video, have a think about that now, or at some point today, sit down today, go through your notes, go through the list of what we're doing every day.


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[Assistant] Determine what would be a good daily routine for you to improve upon. What you've learnt so far in your voice improvement and what you can do in the future. And this daily thing is something you're going to be doing


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[Assistant] When the course is finished, after the 30 days, you're not going to stop there. You will get a daily routine, just like I do, like actors do, like professional voice artists do. Honestly, it is the way to keep those skills and to keep that voice sounding fantastic. Okay, here is section two.