For mathematics education to be relevant in the 21st century, it must offer an integrated, comprehensive, and extensive view of the world. As an alternative to the fragmented systems nowadays, quantitative reasoning should enable learners to think broadly and across disciplines. Viewing math from a multiple perspective could help learners overcome their fear of what they may have wrongly perceived as a difficult and unnatural pursuit. From the mighty pen of our poet Francisco Balthasar, Flow the Lines, natarok ang laling ng filosofia, aking natupunan ang astrologia, na tantong malinis at katakataka ang mayamang dunong ng matematica. What is it in mathematics that appealed to the sense of wonder of this brilliant poet? Dr. Keith Devlin, in his book The Math Gene, argues that math is not just about numbers, it is about life, it is about the world in which you live, it is about ideas, and far from being dull and sterile, it is full of creativity, it is the science of patterns. Hmm, come to think about it. If you look at the famous branches of mathematics, logic is the study of patterns of reasoning. Arithmetic is the study of the patterns of numbers. In algebra, we investigate the patterns of finding unknown quantities. In geometry, we examine the patterns of size and shape. In trigonometry, we study the patterns of triangles and their parts. In calculus, we investigate the patterns of quantities that change. And in statistics, we study patterns of analyzing data. Now, let's look at some other areas, the non-quantitative areas, seemingly, that involve patterns. And we have invited some artist friends to help us unravel the math in the arts. It's hard to believe I'm going to discuss math and music with Mr. Garry Granada because I think I'm an ardent fan. I'm the number one fan. So Garry is a noted composer, lyricist, engineer, designer, mathematician in his own way, philosopher, storyteller. Good morning, Garry. Good morning. So tell us about the math inside music. Okay, my field is music in particular writing songs and the facilities of mathematics. I would say play an indispensable role in what I do in my field of work. For example, at its most basic, the fundamental idea of location, such as your three feet across the table to my left or to my right, is very basic in music. If I sing a song for example, I'll tell you after three. One, two, three. Without such a facility, it would be impossible to agree. And when and where does anyone come in to the equation as it were? In terms of time and at the same time, in the same way, in terms of notation. If you sing Angba, Yanco, it's a location from a higher place to a lower place. Angba, Yanco, Pilipinas. So there's movement. There's movement you need to locate all these things. At the same time, the idea of duration, how long does an event happen? Does it happen in two bars? In one second, in 14 seconds, is basically fundamental language in music. So when you say Angba, Yanco, it's the same length, duration. Pilip, and then when you come to the pinas, the duration changes. Pinas, it gets longer. So I'm a musical illiterate and precisely and especially because I'm a music, I can't read music. That's where the math comes in very handy. I can drive, I can ride in a bus and continue writing because I can just imagine numbers in my mind. This is the note. This is how it should sound. So it's that precise? It is quite precise. It's very, very precise. Not just the location and duration. Even the, shall we say, the expression itself. Whether it's loud or soft, there's a mathematical equivalence to it, like decibels. Like when you say, you know, one decibel. It's national ball. Oh, especially when you have softwares, freewares that everybody can use. And it's very good. Well, on one hand, it puts a lot of decisions out of job. But on the other hand, because of the digital. Yeah, because of the facility. But at the same time, on the other hand, it democratizes the facility of music. So you don't actually have to go to a music school to do music. You can just download and app. Oh, while I was talking about decibels, for example, when you say one decibel and you say relative to this point, ten decibels is ten times louder than one decibel. You can remember that. And because it's an exponential function, twenty decibels is actually one hundred times louder than one decibel. So if you're aware of that, then you can manipulate the facilities better. But of course in the end, you trust your ears. What is loud to you may be soft to me, what is soft to me may be loud to you. So it's relative. But where do the patterns come in? The patterns, I suspect that because our minds store up information. If you introduce patterns into the mix, it's easier for our consciousness to remember your patterns. That's precisely why we remember things that rhyme rather than things that don't. So when you write lyrics, I have nothing against free verse and all kinds of forms of expressions. But as far as song writing is concerned, it is very important that you rhyme the lines because that's how your brain remembers better the thing that you're saying. Because they sound the same. The associative properties, you associate this word with another word and that's why I remember it better. Not just the loudness and softness. Even the texture, the quality or what we call the equalization of frequencies. When you talk for example, you cover a range of frequencies. Human voice probably is between 0.5 to 1.5. That's interesting because they say that human beings are pattern-seeking creatures. And we see it even in our reading patterns in the indigenous textiles. They keep repeating the triangles, nested squares, circles in fractal formations. That's a political principle actually. When politicians lie all the time, you remember the righteous truth after a while. So it's important that you repeat things. Is that the reason why you have the refrain? And especially hooky refrain easier to remember. And easier to remember equals better chances of surviving. It's very evolutionary. The most charming melodies get to survive. The fittest of melodies get to survive. As opposed to just random sounds. And it's actually very true with trends. It doesn't happen in terms of a few months like we imagine it to be. What's the trend today? No, we still sing Hardly Herald Angels Sing. Which was written centuries ago. And it's because the melody is so compelling that it survived in an evolutionary manner through the ages. And that's why it's a little difficult to explain. I think that's one area where fuzzy logic comes in. But going back to the precision of describing expression. You can actually describe a sound through precise frequencies. If I say it's the same note, it's the same note. But it's a different sound because I'm the paper of the properties. My low frequencies. Or I can probably muffle the high frequencies. It's the same note. Probably the same duration. But that precise measurement of mathematical measurement of frequencies we use all the time. I cannot imagine a musician today or even then who has no appreciation for frequency distribution. When you assign for instance a voice, bass, alto, tenor, soprano, they are at its optimal use at certain ranges of notes. You can ask a soprano to sing bass and vice versa. It's possible but it's not optimal. Optimization is a very compelling mathematical principle. I'm glad you mentioned that because my field is in operational research. We deal with optimization. We have a journal in operations research. One of the most interesting articles or paper that I read is about OR, operations research and music. So what's the logic in all of this? Especially when you get into progression. It is also a very mathematical concept. You don't progress from one thing to another without a logic to it because you have to have something to step on before you. So when we do progressions, we define them in precise numbers too. Like we say C7, C6, D9, G13 or something. And those numbers have characteristics that help out in the progression of events so that the effect on the human consciousness, it sounds so pleasant or it sounds disturbing or it sounds sad or it sounds uplifting because precisely of the texture of those progressions. Sometimes you don't even have to understand how it happens but it affects people subconsciously perhaps. And it creates the same effect. When you stand up to sing Lupang Hinyirang, it creates even without words a certain sentiment that unifies people. That's one function that can also be mathematically expressed. I think of how many people get to relate. The concept of sets, subsets and all things. When we talk about who's your audience, I was thinking of talking to young people, the kind, the textures that you use, even the instruments that you put in there, the beat, the groove, which are very, very mathematical in terms of bass. Like the rhythm. You can use exactly the same song and I can sing Mangbayanko in reggae or in jazz or in pop or in standard song depending on the subset of the population that I'm trying to reach out to or communicate to. I have a naging suspicion that combinatorics is very much a part of the music, the county and the permutations. Like when you put the lyrics into it, the best words in the best order. So that's precisely combinatorics. We have on two accounts. We have a concept of the principle of counter points. You can chop it into two actually. It's a counter puntal. It's a dialectics of melodies which is a very mathematical concept as well. It comes in there. If there's a conversation between melodic concepts, the piece becomes more alive of course because there's a dialogue going on and it happens all the time. It's a dialogue between two counter puntal themes. So yeah, the combinatorics, the most basic of course would be the choral combinatorics soprano, alto, tenon bass, even more. Or the band and the singer. The objective is to optimize the impact of the combinations as I would imagine industrial engineers and operations researchers would do in their fields. Sometimes we just delete portions because it's unnecessary. This is to elaborate and the net effect is too small or even detrimental to the whole piece or add one or two small things in it that make it a little more effective. I would think that I would suppose combinatorics in that sense. I think that's the goal of optimization to make things more efficient, eliminate redundancies. But we do that all the time. And especially in the more commercial world like when you write jingles for example, you're given a small window of time, 30 seconds. You say everything in 30 seconds. So that's, oh you have to be ma... and it is not 29 seconds, it's not 28 seconds, it's 30 seconds. That's how precise a piece can get. So what advice would you give to learners or lifelong learners regarding the study of math and its connections with music? I think it happens in anything that you do. You deal with quantities all the time. So if you can, it's always better to talk in terms of verifiable quantities because you can understand each other better.   And so that's why it doesn't sound as good all the time. But if you have a plan, I think that would be my first advice, make a plan. Always make a plan. You can't just come up with a piece in 20 minutes because you want to write and finish it now. It takes me six months, sometimes even years to finish a piece. And it requires planning. Discipline. Planning. How do I approach it? Maybe I invest this part in this. Well, if you're writing lyrics as well with this message, reading to this and to that. And by creating a plan, if you're working together, and it's even better, you can talk to your mates, you know, maybe we should. So it's most basic. I don't think society can prosper so I do mention that very because matematical programming in matematical programming means planning. It's not really computer programming. It's really planning, formulating a model. Our politics, for example, besides because it's not planned, you have a new president, you have a new set of implementers. Co-terminus we do every day. So there's really no long-term plan and you cannot accomplish anything without a long-term plan. So that's, I know there are geniuses everywhere but I seriously doubt that music can be created in a few minutes and good writing can be created. Maybe we can finish a piece in 20 minutes and probably it will be forgotten in the next 20 minutes too. Yeah, and in the same way that matematical thinking cannot be developed in one city. No, it took a while, a whole lifetime practically to figure out the Fermat theory. Yes, theory. So from special relativity to general relativity took Einstein 18 years I think to figure out. You cannot do even God took him seven days to create something as simple as the universe. So in matematical thinking you don't just do music. You have to do a lot of logical thinking. And of course, mathematics is synonym, and music is very, very mathematical in fact. Work together is a good principle. You cannot stand alone musically. Yeah, there are individual artists but most of us focus on a particular area writing, singing, playing. Those are very different disciplines. So you need to in order to optimize the potentials of everybody you need to work, learn to work together. You have a word of this day, collaboration. Collaboration. That's a very... That's 21st century skill for me.  So that's... You work together, learn to work together. That's probably why a lot of things in our society don't seem to function well because we have a tendency to be too contentious about too many things. Or if we try to try to work together. Yeah, but music will make us fall hard. I hope so. Thank you, Gary. We have moved from to music, to politics and operations research. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Okay, good morning, Jeremy. Good morning, Hazel. Good morning. Okay, I am privileged to be discussing math and dance with you. Hazel is a graduate of Philippine High School for the Arts. She trained in dance. Then she was given a scholarship from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Department of Foreign Affairs to pursue her Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts. Major in Speech Fall or from dancing to speech. And then she joined the teaching staff of the UP Rural High School. She is the advisor and the choreographer of the UP Rural High School til pinyan at dance. And then, of course, we have Jeremy here who finished his Bachelor of Arts in Theater Arts in UP Dilliman. And then he went into and he trained in Indonesia. Yes, ma'am. What's the Japanese for dance? But he also do the no Japanese dance. Jeremy has performed and choreographed more than 52 shows and counting. He is with the faculty of the Department of Humanities UP Los Daniels. Okay, let's come to the geometry of dance. Dance will lead geometry in motion. Yes, I think dance I always believe that as a dancer there's always relationship in dance with mathematics in relation for dance because dance has to communicate before you be able to understood and dance must follow its variables like it needs to follow this shape and then the most important variable for us dancers to be trained or to be taught is that we must understand the concept of the center. Center. Okay, because that is very important in math as well when we do the Cartesian plane we have to find the center when we do the circle the set of points distant from the center and all the other shapes like ellipses and hyperbolas, the cone shapes and how do you do that in dance for example how do you maintain or how do you find your center Alright, so Hazel will give us a demonstration on finding our center for people for us dancers to get our balance Hazel will demonstrate so in learning pop dance we usually start with the fundamental dance position so we start with the first position the second third fourth fifth and then you go back to first until the other side second third fourth fifth and then back to first you were not just counting you were exhibiting symmetry so when we do the equations like in math we have an equal sign and then you have the left hand side of the equation and the right hand side which sort of balances things everything you do on the right side you do to the others and that's what you do when you are performing addition property for equality movement are involved and that have their parallels in the world of math I think also the principle of the points in dance because in dance I believe that there are 8 points that we need to cover what are those 8 points I'll give a demonstration to pin point is for us it's one up and then down okay and then forward and then the back and then the diagonal here and then this point down again and then diagonal and up so in counting so we try to give the 8th direction so I demonstrate a while ago so this one, two, three, four you were covering the four quarters of the Cartesian plane journey were you aware of that so we set up a two dimensional coordinate system that's named after the French mathematician and you were trying to cover all of the four four quadrants for us to build the architecture because to be able to design the execution of dance we need to follow at the same time the different levels so we have the high middle and low can you show that to us we do na pangalain what we demonstrated earlier so you begin with your center the center of your body then for example middle and then maybe you go to the lower level high level and then can also jump at the movement the movement is somehow maintained in all the levels there is a similarity some sense of invariance because when we do graffing in math of a function we can either put it in the center or we can shift it upwards or we can move it downwards but there should always be a certain flow when you move it upwards it's still flowing and whether you put it downwards or you shift it downwards it's still flowing that's great what about the range in math we talk of functions we have the domains you work with the points and the lines so the movement is a function of those variables and then now we also talk of the function so how do you define the range in math so define the range in math and think we use the body to cover the space in a sweet travel around the space in a given time for example when we do the halalai two dancers through variables are situated in a different points orientation each dancer must have its own direction to cover its space but moving in a similar direction or they can also contrast it or differentiate their direction so for example you can move the circularity is the range and then not only expanding our range but we can also shrink it from expanding to contract so I think the terminology that we use in dance is fun so that makes you dancers flexible in a sense because if you are moving into a big theater you have to enlarge your range but if you are limited to this space then you have to contract so it's like that so it's like vectors being multiplied, passively or negatively so how about in an isolated hand movement for example how do you demonstrate range let's say in the kumintang kumintang is a basic movement in folk dance we use it in different dances may be from the Visayan region or from Luzon suppose ilok so we usually show the difference in the execution of kumintang when we have ilok ilokang dance you execute the kumintang this way we have the fingers in a closed space position very limited range does that describe the plurality? probably because culture is reflected in one group through their dances so probably because of ilok ilokang they are very creative but when you do it in the Visayas they are very they are described as people who are very happy always in celebration so there are bigger kumintang in bigger kumintang usually done when jumping the exuberance of the Visayas so that's just the movement you can see the difference kumintang that is small in range that is bigger that's what we do when we want a basic sign function is f of x equals sin x so it would range from minus 1 to 1 but if I multiply it the amplitude becomes 2 oh you said that nice what about the floor patterns or the space patterns like you do geometric shapes with your body yes floor patterns so actually we start from the movement of the food so it depends on the dance you are executing so for example in a modern concept of dance of course in a modern modern dance we have floor patterns in the circularity and then this one this feet when we move it at the back it leads you to another location, a direction so from here then here are you pivoting? are you doing pivoting? the other execution, pointing so the one that I did a while ago is circularity and then from point diagonal and then point again and then combination because in dance we need to exhibit true combinations of patterns so circularity point point and P1 floor patterns can also use other way not only the food but also dance so to give you more what's this? propulsion different but you don't just define movement with your body sometimes the props also do the thing to expand your range your range for example so if you have a manton for example if this is a manton dance you can expand your range by manipulating the props so instead of just using my arms I use the prop as an extension of my body and the props also kind of defining some other shapes so to enhance the movement you also make use of angles because when I'm watching a dance performance what appeals to me would be the precision in the angles how important is that to you as a dancer the angles angles are very important for us dancers to really define the form of the body in a group or in a stage lit by lights it's important to use the angles to define the silhouette of the dancers it's the form of the dancers so it's very important for us to really focus not only focus but to work on the angles that's very precise and also when you're working with angles you also define different shapes not only angular shapes but circular shapes or different types of shapes that you all form through angles is that true also for other other cultures like in Indonesia are the angles very can you show us a typical Indonesian movement typical Indonesian movement so for example I will use my back if you can see there are some ready angular movements here shapes this is the first execution for the Indonesian dance Japanese so there's an angle here also it's not 90 degrees it's less than it's less than and then when the shape to other direction close the same level same angular shape and then when I do another movement it goes up it changes angular movement and then when I change my direction still my arms forms different angles and then when I use it in traveling the same angular shape that one and then this one it's the same with pangala but as you can see at my posi there's a still angle here pangala is more fluid is it? almost the same and then when I push it my feet are still in in-cut position with angles and then go back to another position angle and here execute the same time what's this? how do you call it? the isolation the isolation of the arms how do you perfect that? how do you perfect? through practice you know that's exactly the same thing with math you cannot do it without practice and it is also very important for dancers to practice with the full length mirror so that you can really see the angles the lines that's what they tell a declamation contestance also so it's a matter of communicating and then practicing in front of all the dancers okay, can you there's this because I'm a volunteer for international students I'm fascinated with this balinese dance about the candles rotating and then I said there's a similar dance in the Philippines where we do that we have to get the dancers out of that entanglement problem so can you demonstrate that to us call it binasuan, right? actually, binasuan is from Pangasinan it's supposed to be tuba yes let's just make do with the juice so you feel the drinking glass with tuba and then during their free time they balance the glasses and the top of their palms and for the girls for the girls they do this hand okay, so that's 360 plus another 360 you know, I used to think when I was a child that it's just 360 now that you're doing it I realize it's 720 can you do it again? 720 degrees to get back to the original skill dance the water the juice inside the glass must not spill that's the 360 another 360 that makes it 720 okay you know we have a property in math called the identity element so when you do it you have to go back to the original that's an exact illustration for me thank you Hazel so you think that we really have connections with math are you conscious of it when you're dancing when you're choreographing Jeremy are you conscious of it? my high school teacher is actually a math major really and what will he tell you? that there is always math in dance that we should always be precise in our movements because something might not go well in the formula if one element is not and you're telling a story while you're dancing right? yes yes and that's the same thing people don't realize that when we put up an equation we are actually telling a story so if it is a linear equation or a quadratic equation it tells us something so the quadratic equation for example is shaped like parabola it's opening downwards or upwards and that's how the corporations maximize their profit when they reach the highest point so can you tell us how do you do the jump and reach your highest point? jump jump so you're not just now defining the planar pattern but now you are conquering space and defining gravity somehow just like the ballet dance ok so just to give you a quick again simple demonstration of different jumps ok so we have the simple this is the jump simple jump and then if you want to execute it with more intense of hey feeling or execution in the dance ok first execution is you really need to is the most basic you need to bend to give you a more height give you height in your execution so this is the simple and then to give you a more complex so it goes there and then another one is here so then we turn and then it jumps so those are just simple execution for dance that I use with complex preparation ok or intense preparation with the use of the legs yeah I've seen I've watched the BANWA and you were the choreographer how did you train the dancers for such difficult routines so I did them just the regular scenario actually the simple dance and then you start with the simple one did the simple one and then they were more complex ah I do the same thing in math we do the simple exercises first and then we progress to the more difficult ones eventually you'll jump higher so you can now go to advanced calculus if you know your basic so you really enjoy dancing don't you you do but do you find it really hard I mean is it really hard work and you don't mind the hard work at all if your passion is dancing you will do everything in order to develop your your talent so it is hard work but if you're enjoying it there's nothing that you can do can you get paid for what you enjoy doing and you get to see things what is beauty about in dance and also as a practitioner is it's some like a gadget for us we use our body like sometimes a device that we download or different dances or applications the more that you have applications like in the cell phone that the more you have applications or training in dance the more that you can execute a lot of dances more versatility more versatility so how do you do the process of designing or designing dance yeah because in math they say that it's very abstract and we make the invisible visible so how do you do that in dance usually you start with an inspiration so this inspiration is probably tangible it's something that you can see just like math yes just like math it may be a feeling an emotion that you would want to convey to your audience might be a story that you would want to relate to your audience and from that you feel it from deep inside and you make movements that would relate to what you're trying to convey the emotion will it be slow in order to convey sad emotions when you're happy more movements with the hopping and jumping so it's about the inspiration the emotion yeah Hazel I've seen the Ramayana that you choreograph for UP Rural High School it was fantastic people in the audience they came from the Philippine High School for the arts because UP Rural High is very academic right orientation and now they are very getting into the intuitive side of themselves that was fantastic so it's like a form of stress reliever for the urban games when they're fed up with being academic the math and the science yeah okay but science, math and dance and arts were never really separated in the first place I don't know why we got to separate them so it's about time that we integrate everything so magbuhay kayo and keep on dancing hi vet long time no see I love a Lilly yeah long time no see I see that the guest book is filled big sabihin dami-dami mo na customers oh yeah it's a privilege to be working with vet on a very unique project in the arts and science fusion vet viatris ko owns this place and manages this beautiful place it's called Ginawa Arts Cafe thank you for lending the space to us you're welcome we're happy to have you here and she was trained as an interior designer in yukidiliman but now she's an entrepreneur an artistic entrepreneur okay so we would like to know how much math is involved in your visual arts and your sculpture and the management of business yeah art is involved when I teach when I teach kids because one of our products here is that we teach workshops to kids and adults so I find easier when I teach somebody who has a background on fractions because the way we teach how to sketch is that you learn to look at an object and see what's the proportion of the width and the height so there so that's how the conversation goes and for example you put up a pencil and then you say this is the width is one third of the height and so the person has to translate it to the paper in order to come up with a proportion that doesn't disappoint them when they when they draw and even the young the young children understand that concept yeah that challenge is making young children understand that concept there so when they're in grade school it's easy and they get it and they're excited with that concept but when they're a little younger we need to be more creative in making them understand arts for example like do you think this kitten is bigger than this human and it's how many times how many kittens do you need to make up one human wow that's really massive or the relationships and what else is involved is there pattern involved in in visual arts yes there's pattern desalations that in order to come up with tiles and another way is when we use the color wheel so let me show you this is the color wheel I have to take the details because I need to learn okay okay on our on the third session of basic workshops we start to teach them the color theory because as artists we think that making colors splashes on our canvas comes instinctively but actually it is there is a theory behind it and I think being exposed to you and how you see math in art there's you know there's a pattern and computation to this for example a complimentary which is divided into sectors yes it's divided into 12 parts with all roots from the primary colors red, blue and yellow so from these primary colors you can we always say ang anak nang dalorapulay because you have to find the very middle part which is 50% of this red and 50% of the other one and you are going to mix them? so when you mix them then you find out the new color so usually the kids find out the new color and they are happy about the discovery so for example here 50% of red 50% of yellow turns out orange and then so and then in the middle part 50% of orange and 50% of red is red orange so red orange is already two parts of red and one part of yellow and then in color harmony there's something we call color harmony is how you can come up with the right background for your object for your foreground for example one of Mang Turing's paintings is here it's an orange bouquet of flowers and then he chose aqua green as a background so if you look at the color wheel his his flower theme is here in orange and then aqua is here on the other side of orange that's because aqua will be the right color to bring out orange and if you look at why it's because there's an equal diet of yellow in orange and red and then there's blue here so it's the split complex it's the complimentary now you're exercising logic there because when you said that's because so it's like when you are doing a proof in geometry this is the step and then why it's because of the side angle side thing so I didn't realize you are exercising logic in your painting or in your composition so that's the way you do it based on the yes that's how we explain it to students because when they start the beginners class they feel that they're not an artist so it really helps to be able to break it down for them to see there's logic behind it it gives them a safe so there's hope for me and yeah that's my I really can't draw I really can't paint so maybe you are giving me a glimmer of hope based on that explanation and what else what about when you compose a theme so what goes on in your mind let's say when you did this it's a three that it's not XY alone there is a third dimension there and how did you apply proportion for instance it just has to look right so there's a lot of black around the red because black is a heavy color so we all know that black is a heavy color so there needs to be something that will contrast it and of course when you see a chicken when you want we want to express in this sabong painting that the chicken is fierce or it's lunging forward so the head needs to be outside the plane yun so I choose what things will be outside the plane yeah so whatever makes so much sense then yeah tells a story about the sabong oh great and event I really can't thank you enough for the opportunity of working with you when Glenda came and massacred all of the trees and then the trees are what acacia nara what else centennial acacia centena acacia nara and then I was looking for somebody who could do the giant sumka and you were really heaven sent right you know her from Adam and it has been a great journey after that because of the community art the community spirit that was generated you remember that time when we were doing the sumka and every passerby had a chance to do the wood carving and the kids were not afraid to make mistakes and then we got to know all of the paete artis artisans yeah and what other projects have you been doing aside from our sumka and the buy buying do you remember you didn't know buy buying then but now you suddenly put the buy buying and the circular table and it became a conversation piece everybody wanted to buy it and it's a very good way of promoting our ancient script yeah what about the the big artwork in Tanay? Tanay tell us about the big art in Tanay that was a project now the professors in forestry want used science and art and religion because there's this 400 year old tree in Tanay Rizal what kind of tree? it's a nakashatro so it's it died it's dying towards its 400 year and then the parish priest contacted forestry to try some surgery on the two trees surgery on the tree same way they do here new pea like they put cement in order to fix the cavities so the main goal was to make the two trees live but after six months of surveying one tree live it started to have leaves again but one tree started to show mushrooms and also it's dead it's proclaimed dead and then forestry contacted me because I was with mambogs up in forestry two years ago maybe the woodcarver we were making an eagle there and makeeling statues so the biology teacher contacted me to propose a design to the priest and they approved it so we how tall is it? it's 16 feet and then you did the proportions there ah, yeah so it's drawn on paper first for clients approval and then it's projected so we put up three scap foldings around the big tree and requested to cut off the branches so the remaining part we need to imagine what figure will fit that bar so what figure will fit and following also their theme who is their patron saint there so we I drew it and the 12 sculptors with me carved it on wood you used the word imagine event in our math classes we learned from Einstein that imagination is more important than than knowledge so because we have a lot of obstructions in math and now what you are imagining is being brought to reality so that was converted the dead the dead tree became alive again in the form of another of what was the image there it's a religious image right? yeah, it's something from the history pages yon it's something that you can find who is San Hidalponso in the stories San Hidalponso is a priest who had an apparition of the lady of Guadalupe and that inspired him writing his books so I just wanted to capture that page in the in the piece of big wood art so it's him with wood with a table with feathers and with a feather for writing books and the lady of Guadalupe with her trademark planes and then going around another story is there it's like printing the page on the wood so another story of him being veiled as a saint and how long did it take you to complete that project? that was three months three months of it when we collaborated with there were volunteer photographers right? yeah and who did that chainsaw? the chainsaw is by Ruel Ruel Lazaro and Frank Gapo so they're the two chief sculptors so Manggipay also helped out because his specialty is making cloth well in math we talk of transformations of course we use functions but in art I saw the power of transformation you remember when we tried to borrow that agila that with all of the snakes there in one piece from Danara and I thought six people would be able to carry that piece of art to work from forestry to our exhibit area but it took 12 of them to carry it and they were very very careful oh, yatan yatan so I said oh when it becomes a piece of art people are more careful because if it's up there in the air they keep shooting the eagle so I said oh this is what art does to transform the carry the men to be very caring about the piece of work and I think that also happened when we were doing the bai baiin neneng sa bai baiin and the people from syrica the researchers were very caring about the wood carving so thank you for introducing art to us and making us more caring you had twig art as well yeah we have twig art so when one of the trees needed to go like they didn't need it for something so there's a lot of twigs around so we asked for them and then created them into horses and giraffes and some structures and an oblation outside to fit into the environmental loving theme of UPLB because everybody is really that's their and I don't know core nature we see children taking pictures of toto toto toto is really a hit no? yes I mean I remember that was Dr. Padulina's idea you have to come up with a partner for neneng sa bai baiin and people you were carving out there yeah so you were carving open air and people are free to join to participate in the creating process right so can we do that again? here in Binawa can we ask for more of that kind where people can participate in the work that would be a great idea and people are now becoming interested in bai baiin I have a friend who once when she saw this place and the bai baiin she wants the names of her children written in bai baiin on the wall so I think we are making progress in promoting bai baiin in that sense right yeah and UP students are now beginning to realize that what is in their supply is an u and a pa and that's bai baiin okay did I tell you that bai baiin is based on the sign curve and the wave function yeah yes yes so can we do that all bai baiin characters yes and in fact the pangalai dance is really bai baiin in nature the wave movement so so thank you so much for for accommodating us and we look forward to having more conversations of math art here and you know I've been talking with other artists looks like the recurrent thing is math is really a science of patterns and if it is perceived that way you can see math everywhere in visual arts in dance in music and nowadays because the kids are into digital art I sat in an animation class and I found that there there's so much math in animation as well and the animator was telling us that we Filipinos are very good at it and I hope that you can help really hone those drawing talents in the kids because we are we hope to have to define Filipino animation in the future we are not just being outsourced that we can come up with our own animation project that's truly Filipino how about making the bye-bye move right through animation so thanks again and we hope our project gets approved to get the trees done


The all-nighters, demanding boss, and elusive sleep, have left you on edge. And your friends have noticed the change. I get it, and I want you to know you're not alone in this struggle. So let's dive in together and uncover how stress can affect your psychological attractiveness. While we've received great feedback on our love and attraction videos, we recognize that mental health matters too, and that's why we have something special for all you attraction enthusiasts today. We understand that you are a desire to maintain your allure, and we want to use that passion to shine a light on a crucial aspect of well-being, mental health. So here are eight ways stress can make you psychologically less attractive. Irritability Ever experienced moments when even the slightest noise seems like a banging gong? Unlike that time you were trying to focus, but the distant sound of traffic felt like it was right in your living room. 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I hear you're a bit of a car guy, so I wanted to know what your car collection looks like these days. Right now I have a S580, a Mercedes-Benz, a Rolls-Royce, I think it's Ghost. Ghost, yeah. And I also have a Koenigsegg, a Regera. I used to have an SVJ, but sold that one because that one was giving me headaches.


Welcome to ToffeeTV and it's the final word. The messy side, Derby. The pain is over. We can all relax now. We're joined by the newest member of the Everton fans forum, Jamie Yates. Congratulations, Jamie. We expect free ale. We need like a list of demands we can give to him. Crisp demands. Crisp to just... No, I think what? I think the big... We'll do a separate video on that after, but I think, you know, it's good that we've seen a little bit of evidence yesterday of that. But anyway, yeah. Back to... Happy. I'm happy it's bleeding over for six or seven months, yeah. I just... As I get older, I eat derby's more than one. I think, you know what it is, I think it's because we don't ever win. So, but, that being said, the last four Premier League derby's, we've lost one of them. And it was a fucking... Stupid, ridiculous bit of judgement goal. That's the only thing that's been used in the last four League derby's. We've only lost one derby in eight years, I could have said that apparently. The rest of them have been due to us. Something like that anyway. That's my name. That's the only one. That's the only one we've lost at all. We haven't won anyway, you know. You know what? I was happy... I was happy that we buckled the title thing, because we were rivals, so we put a dent in it. That's what exactly...  So I was happy with that. But I was more pleased with... I was more pleased for the manager, to be honest, that the players went out there and gave him everything. The crowd were incredible. And when you watched it like that yesterday, I thought it was what I said to you, Jay. I thought it was a proper derby yesterday as well, a good, good one, good, honest game. But I think when everything comes together, from an Everton perspective, the crowd were there, and the players gave that commitment. You felt good about your team, and you know what? Even if we'd have lost it, it would have been devastated, but I'd have gone, they've shown us something there, and the fans were brilliant. And when that's made together, it gives you like a little bit of... I think it gives you that little boost for going forward. That's my take anyway. Yeah, that's what I felt. I was in the... The industry concourse doing a bit of work for everything, the community for a couple of hours before the game, and it was absolutely packed from 45 minutes before kick-off. The young lads, the atmosphere group, I think the original... They were in there, right in the middle, just creating a havoc. All the songs were going... Good havoc! Good havoc! Good havoc, happy havoc.  It was just a joy to behold, you know. I mean, let's talk about the atmosphere first of all, because I think... I have to take this off. Listen, let's be bad German footballers again, Baz. But last week we experienced German football, and we've seen what we need to do, and what great is, you know, a week later, we sort of experienced something similar, good to some part, and it's good that you're here, actually, because I think yesterday was a small triumph for people who get themselves organised, fans, talking to the fans for them, and talking to the club, and that's what's going to happen in the future. It was a big game we all know, it's easy to get up for those big games. But you've seen it with what the manager said, you've seen it with... What fans have said, you've seen... I've been snarling, don't know if that's John Switter, look at Dean, James Coleman, Michael Gain. David Moyes was in the studio. Jamie Carrack has said it. You know, they all said, the atmosphere was amazing, and they said, you know, this is the first time the fans have been able to get up for a game, and I think that gives so much power to those lads, and to the fans for them to go to the club and say, we need more, we need more from you. We'll get it from us if you give us more.  But there's loads of other things like you just said, getting to the ground 45 minutes earlier than you normally would. We'll make that easier for people, drop the prices of the ale, right?  Get the prices of the ale, things like that, lowering the ground so that people feel like they can go even things like, I go in the church for a cup of tea right before the game, because it's relaxed and it's cheaper, it's water with a tea bag in it, right? And a dash of milk. Yeah, and a dash of milk, or if you're having a coffee. I'll have a bit more, because I have more milk. No, no, but the point being is what I'm saying is that if you get the people in the ground, you get them in the concourses, it's one of the players said, it was Pickford said, the fact that they were there before the game and you could feel the atmosphere. So get the, this is something we experienced last week in Germany, people in the ground are now before and I'm not expecting that, but if you get people in the ground early and you create the situation with an atmosphere, so the atmosphere can grow, and let's be honest, right, we're all adults here, alcohol is a brilliant fuel for atmosphere. It is, but we're all grown-ups we're allowed to drink, so I just can't, it's so easy. We were in Germany last week, we were at two separate games, so it wasn't just, we were at the Dortmund game, Dortmund had gone for the league, so obviously that was the barn to be up for, to be intense for that. But we were at Düsseldorf the night before, we were in mid-table, and yeah, we were in the ground two hours before the game, drinking, because it was like three and a half euros or something, which is like cheaper than, you know, they've got you somewhere, make the aisle cheaper, people were in, eating, and that atmosphere was building for a nothing gain. So if you don't have a good listen somehow, if it was more affordable, and people were like, you know what, let's just get in the ground and do our talking there, let's have a bit of a day, let it build, you can feel that coming through. So I think there is an onus, not on you, Jake, but there is an onus. I know about that. I'm looking at Tyson, I think. I've seen it, sorry here, I'm going to let you joke. I just want to say that. I've seen outside the ground, and I don't want to take any business away from David at the Winslow, but I've seen people outside singing, outside the Winslow, having a pint, it was pissing down and he was singing, and the problem with that is that you've done that and you get in the ground, and it evaporates, but normally by the time you get in the ground, because you just get in the ground and you might just run upstairs just in time for their cars and it's not day, if everything can get the people in and say, well come on, come and have a bevy in here as well, come and have a drink in here and get the atmosphere in the ground and honestly, we'll know, we'll notice the difference. But it is also things like having a tea and coffee, because I don't, I don't have a bevy. No, I don't. So, but I'll go in and stand and have a drink and then if you've got groups of people who are bouncing and ready, it gets you going, so you walk in going, everyone is up. The atmosphere, when that siren started yesterday, my little fella, you know, season ticker old, he could come out the ground and he was like, I didn't realise the crowd could be so loud. That's what he said in the season ticker old, because it's been that long since we made anywhere near that noise. And I just come out thinking, you know, if we could recreate that for the last few games, if we've got big games, no one can, we're not playing Fulham at all. Right, we've got big games where the teams will bring away Fulham and so on. If the lads of 1870s, 1870s can do more of that and the club can embrace it. We saw last week, the clubs, the two clubs we were at, embracing their group of the 1870s, they called the Ultersers and the everybody else, right? So it's having an Ulterser, whatever it is. If the club could work with them a little bit, and this is on, I suppose, the first forum to be the middle ground for the two clubs on one side and then we're like, it can really help. And who didn't walk out going? That was boss, the atmosphere was brilliant. It felt like you've been to a proper game again. Absolutely. Like I said, the two clubs, I challenge anyone. I certainly didn't see anyone around me. The whole crowd was stood up for the whole game. You know, obviously not allowed to do that, but they were. No one was going to stop it. Now, if someone can tweet or get in touch or whatever and say they had someone sitting next to them, things in there is not being part of it, I challenge you, because I didn't see it. The thing with this season, as it was always going to be, you know, season of transition, and it's another season that here we are in March, and it's a write-off already. So, you know, exactly like you say, I see this last run of, are they all on Sunday, the remaining home games? A lot of them are, yeah.  And just, let's just use it as a, you know, a trial for ourselves to see, can we keep this going? Well, because it doesn't, I mean, this season, the way I've seen it, this is my first season with a season ticket. I moved back to Liverpool in August, after 38 years away, we moved away when I was a baby. And this is my first season ticket, you know, so it's a big deal for me, and it's meant the world to me. Even though I have a bad week being, I don't care, I've said to people, I would happily sit in an empty goodness in part for 90 minutes once a week. I just love being there. Well, it's being like an empty for the rest of the time. The match, we've all said it, the match has got in the way of you having a nice time with your mates, a lot this season. So people do leave it later and later and later, like, oh, oh, it's 5-3, run in, get that out of the way and get out. You haven't wanted to feel part of it, and this is where the relationship, the club have to be proactive. But as yesterday showed, we have to be proactive. It maybe only takes a group of 100 people to start it, but then if everyone joins in, it's simple. That's a spot on. It doesn't need every single person. In the galaxy from the start or whatever, all the parts of the game. It just needs a small pocket and I'm glad people are getting this now. There's a small pocket of people to be organized, get themselves going. And it does help with it all in the same place and that's something that maybe we can move forward with as we go forward. But you've got to, you know, you start from a small icon. You've got to start and you're building, you're building, you're building to the point where the group that are out there, if they're fully responsible, which I don't know they are, I'm just surmising with the fans for them. Listen to what the manager said and listen to what the player said. That gives them loads of power now. That gives them loads of power. And also the evidence of what you showed. The evidence on the pitch. That gives them the power to go. And it is on these, these lads now. And I know I've been speaking to them today and we're going to get them in on the show. It's on them now to keep that going. But I think what they've got to say to everyone else is, well, we'll get it going but you've got to respond to it. And we've got now, we've got Arsenal, Chelsea, Man United and the last home game, which is always a nuisance you want everyone, because everyone's always on the tail. Barely, I think that's a bad end, isn't it? It's a home game. So every game can be a big atmosphere if they want it to be. But I think it might be, it might have the that little extra bit of spice. That's not the edge of the derby, will it, but. But go with the game and enjoy yourselves because I think everyone went yesterday and enjoyed themselves. Yeah. And like you said, anyone who's in the Gladys Street, listen, if you're in the Gladys Street, you should know what you're going to win. That's the way it should be. It's the Gladys Street. That's what it should be. Yeah. That's why people moved out of the Gladys Street because they didn't want to stand up all day going the safe buttons. That's why I chose it. You know, that's why. Don't ask people who shot by me yesterday. I was up. I was trying to hear my voice last night. I was up. Every decision, every refereeing decision, every time, or phallussing and go, kick the ball straight out or... I was up and then the and what happened was like we saw last week, right? We were at Dortmund, Dortmund's the best atmosphere in the world. That's what it's proclaimed as and it is. Right? Dortmund is orchestrated atmosphere, the brilliant area and the great what they do. But for a lot of the game, it's just the ulcers singing and then it kicks up and then occasionally everyone else changing. Which is exactly what happened yesterday and the same thing that the the noise when Pickford safe and Salah and then Garner and Keane threw themselves in the way and this and she off was like evidence God that's how the ground either did and the same it Michael Keane's tackle It was like evidence score the goal when that noise is definite.  Yeah, the cloud, you know, which maybe should have been given. Oh, you know, the whole crowd Yeah, he and it starts crying out terrified, but then It lifts, you know, it is proven look through history look at the buy the buy a Munich game You know the best team in Europe versus the best team in Europe as we we were becoming and we battered them It gives adrenaline the Michael Keane of last year.  Yeah, and then it's it's infectious because if the fella sitting next to you screaming is Yeah, you don't mind screaming. Yeah, it's not just like, you know And we've heard all the stories of people saying are when I stand up and sing the person next to me Well, if ever if the person sitting down is the one Who looks stupid because you've done the network because everyone else And I'm not interested that I asked about if everyone stands up and it's no against the rules Yeah, which we're trying to change the rules. Yeah, we're trying to change it So we do have safe standing and that's what most of the people want and if you don't want it You don't be in that area. That's the whole thing wouldn't be anyway But yeah That's it. That's what you should expect when you go to matches. That's what you we've lost. We've lost that through the way Yeah, and let's just keep it going. That's all we can say I just look at the last few games and I think I think yesterday like I said before made up for the manatee Yeah, all right, but I'm also made up for everything and forever Tony and that they've shown That manatee it they've shown our manatee what we can be like Yeah, and I think this is why I think there's a disconnect with some of the players with athletes as well When you think back to Tim Kale and people like on the light of the crowd are amazing and art setter that night the noise I have these players in recent times experienced anything like this. So where is that? Why would you be asked? Okay, you're the professional and you're getting a lot of money, right? But what draws you into a club is the support. That's what it should be. So you know what that's why Tim I was tweeting from America come on boys because he did experience moments, right? And yesterday I was made up for the likes of Luca Dean. Yeah, people like that to go me. Yeah, this place when it's rockin It's unbelievable and Marco Silva was you could see what he was like He was invigorated by the whole thing because he was because he's probably thought You know this is this is what he talked about when they say Goddison can be a letter because it was and I heard a couple of people Saying can't do that on a normal games can't do that against this team can't do that against this Why why can't we can if we want we can if be if if we if if people create the Circumstances we can do that every game. Okay. It might be mine be sustained like that But yeah, but it might be like that for the whole time and it might enough that just a little bit of exit Yeah, but we can we can make it our thing.  Listen, I'm not advocating We get some fella with a drum never won any drums. Yeah, but why can't we make it our thing? Why can't we make it our thing? Yeah, why can't we make our thing that we all go to maximum? We're all looking forward to we go. Oh, let's get in the ground daily lads. Let's get in there Let's get it get it going. Let's enjoy like you said before enjoy going the match And if that means that it starts with us and then it ends up on the pitch and like buzz is just briefly said they Make the players go. Yeah, I want to fight for these lads. Yeah, they start loving us We start loving them so you don't go and we've said it loads of times about humanizing people Yeah, it's about finding that thing that you go. I love it I mean you're good footballer, but you know and we've always loved those plays. Yeah. Yeah, I've got good football Yeah, but somewhere down the line. We've lost that connection. Oh, yeah, because there's a lack of passion on both sides Yeah, yeah, no thank you just as guilty. Yeah, just as guilty this crowd. No, obviously I cheer every game and I'm wonderful, but We are we are you make your own luck We talk about the team and we mind about are they're not showing they're not doing this another exactly like you said Why some of those players have not seen what we are demanding. They don't understand because they haven't seen it yesterday They saw it. We're in it this together. That's how I always say you've got to be proactive You've got to make your own luck. I think we've made our own bad people love away years now We started we are a lot of our fans of I was saying this to you before a Lot of our fans I compared to the lads You knew at school who got bullied so much that if you tried to make friends with them He wouldn't be friends with him because he didn't trust you because you don't want to make a fool out of them So some of our fans don't I believe this. Some of our fans are scared to support our team the way they really want Too cool for school But it's also it's the fear of being laughing It's the fear of being let up. We've been it that many times What can be worse This is what I say about babies. Yeah, I wish can it be Then getting beat it. I'm feel bad Last time but at Wembley Being one they're off completely in control and getting beat to one by by one of the way seems ever I've always said since that I'll never I'll never feel that low. We can't you know, yeah All of these things are really these moments. You can't it can't be worse. I just do it I've not scored more last minute winnings against anyone. Yeah, or doesn't ever it's like the most Time winners against them. Yeah, the thing so you have to just go but for us as a fan base day You're right make it our thing.  Let's see what the team does What what was good about David Moyes just said Like you knew they were going to give you everything most weeks, right? And he went the greatest team because he didn't have the money to make them the great But we all had a connection with them. They mean you knew in the big games We fancy making my better team. You'd go, you know what fancy or see But I was just yeah, yeah Moyes yesterday on the tv we We because he feels part of it because it's the only club he's been to where he feels part of the club Yeah, because of what he's gone through. Yeah, and that's the same with kyle and that'll be the same with I imagine all those players They love going to the clubs and they'll have had good experiences, but it's all just It is just all sort of part of The cycle was when when they were at us. He was something a little bit different Why do you think I mean I hate to like bring them up? But why do you think loads of their ex players Or like so like they just love Liverpool because They fans do that kind of thing and they don't all right with them.  They went through some stuff and that's again going back to you know, Duncan There's a big range of fan come down here got that connection all of a sudden. He's like, this is my club and yeah You know when you can do it And when we can play our part as fans like we did yesterday You walk out that ground and go, you know what? I give Everything today for that team and that team devastated back to me. Yeah The appreciation you see our players this celebrate the draw thing Look at our players at the final which look disappointed. Yeah. They look disappointed to me. Yeah They look like yeah, we could have beat them. Yeah, so then that spills onto the next game We're gonna win this one and they try harder and so, you know, maybe maybe the next game Where we were we're at Newcastle the next time game, you know, yeah, we should we can be we're good enough to be Chelsea game as a little bit of spice because I You know It's gonna be There's a little bit of needle but show Ross Barley body's missing. Yeah, whether you like him or you don't But show that make it make it about supporting the team again behind the team And drowning out people. You know, there were a couple of little moments yesterday where there was just a little Well, and you know, I think we've run out of songs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I think there was moments where we just run out of songs or and that's again That's what that's where like, you know, if you go to a weigh game, you hear loads of different songs And that's where people have got it like It sounds like I've got to get the words out. I've got to get it going. Yeah, but you know You know, we'll sit on our Twitter and like get the words on there Let's get bloody, you know, learn the songs do it, you know Just get the right people singing the song You know when you say and like you can't and this will be said, of course But you say like you can't do it for all of the games But in some of those other games it might only need us to start it And then the players might take over the go bang bang 2-0 And then the crowd are up again and then there's lulls, but there's still those moments where it's loud I think you've got to make the you've got to make the grand like Um So this just it's a weird thing to explain, but you know when there's just noise like a weird ambient noise. It's just like It's just it's not quiet. It's not quiet, but it's not people singing There's just almost like the noise is just filtered around and it's it's it's it's not It's hard to put your finger on what it is at times It's just that it's just a general excitement a buzz. Yeah, and I think that's what we've just got it You're a character yesterday on that clip that put out and he's exactly right. He said You've got to make good us and he's speaking from a fan and then being opposition player playing for a bit of his rivals You've got to come to good us and go I hate it. It's horrible. The crowd are horrible. It's horrible But too easy. There's been too many games this year with the opposition I've just been allowed to stroll around the pitch doing what he wants And because we're not seeing what we want to see we haven't got up for it for a bit and we know that Well, that's it the groans But you know yesterday a couple of times Ghana gave a ball away and Salah went through But everyone just went You know, it wasn't it was just like let's press the reset button Go again, and I think that's why the players knew nobody was on the back yesterday Nobody and it helped them grow now. Okay We've got to get better players because then if you mix that together then it becomes dangerous to the opposition Because you've got a good shot and be a great crowd. Yeah, you know, we all know when good is an expansion That there isn't anywhere better. We know that You know, I defy anyone to argue with the fact Half that atmosphere that we had yesterday against Huddersfield, Newcastle, Woffers West Ham Woffers, yeah You know the West Ham game that I was trying to remember there was In the during the West Ham game there was a moment where that game turned and they just ran away and won it If we'd have just taken a chance or something we would have gone in front I can't remember what it was But with the crowd behind them against teams that against teams and players who Don't have the the mental strength and the plus the footballing strength that a top top player has You're flying them and and that's easy three points You get the momentum I looked at some of their plays yesterday and I thought I thought at times they looked very nervous because of the whole thing. I thought second half I thought alexander some Looked very He looked very nervous Yeah, the kid on the other side. Yeah best left back in the world. He looked he was very far in And there's just a little moment on this and Clash rises to the top. I didn't see where they better play his way But it's just those little moments and like you've just said if you're playing against teams Where you rate like, you know, you really are Getting on top of them.  They can't even hear.  There's some goalie shouts We can hear them. We can hear them.  You know what was that? Because everything's too loud I think the fingers well is that the energy that the players feed off when you've played 14 is like a bit of a crowd. The energy kicks you on. So if you've got 36,000, 37,000, there's millions roaring you on Don't make it. Just get energy when you feel tired And you bounce out of the ground You bounce out of the ground again Yeah, I mean manager made a couple of changes but to my back which is probably fair Jack's have done well but the pace Liverpool have got It's okay. He's this week after Anna T again Yeah, obviously he brought a challenge That's about as well which is the right decision I mean if it was a flip of a coin, he's really like, I don't think so Well, yeah, yeah, yeah I'm not a fanat. Fanat's got to play it Fanat has a stand in it I've never seen If we're here, then we're here Organised, we looked more organised than we would be looking We'd snide on playing and just saying well You're gonna have to break us down, you know rather than being I think what silver did was he was very pragmatic He was very pragmatic yesterday He looked at the two sides and thought well even If we have an extra attacking in there being Gomez, then There's more chances you're gonna score from that than we're gonna score from that So he's very pragmatic and I was fine with that because At the end of the day, we were playing the team that were trying to get back top of the league and Good side A good side, very good on the break and it was all about being a little bit more defensively sure And also, you know I think what we've seen in the last couple of games is silver reactor, the criticism, set pieces When Morgan Snidlin is You know, he's a big lad, I don't know Gomez is as well But look at someone like Tom Davis, Tom Davis hasn't been in the side the last couple of games Little decisions like that one, well, let's let's put an end to the soft Because I don't yesterday was very much like the city game It's very much like the Wofford game Very much like a few games I see which on paper are just nil nils And then for some reason we we can give You know, we can inspire to give a goal all the way through a set piece or a stupid set piece And Yesterday we we we just had enough about us not to do that Didn't look like it was gonna happen. You didn't feel maybe was so distracted with the last thing that cheering But I didn't get the feeling you get a physical feeling Tony You know, they got a couple of free kicks out wide We still made some of the mistakes that we've made because we're we're trying to become something we're we're still very close to being the side that struggled for months and We we kind of I didn't feel that nervousness Yesterday, you know You know, I think you're right with the noise. Yeah, right because I think In the past when it's quiet and then they get a free kick. Yeah, you start you're happy with going off There's no normal and all yeah, yeah, there was none of that yesterday and he defended I thought we defended most things very well You know what you were saying before basically you have to When it comes to a stage like we did this season, you have to make the best of what you've got You have to play the right players in the right positions. The whole snadling thing to you is that what it's done is It'll get you some results which buys the manatees. Yeah, give up a losing that edge because we weren't playing well And you know shame is calling come out again yesterday and just said Fans have got to stop putting it just at the manatees or it's us as players and We get away with made it and it's wrong because managers keep getting sacked because So that's fine saying this other players do have that responsibility. So what silver's got to do and I think what he's done Is he's getting some results of buy himself time so we can all get to the summer and go right Right, what do we need now? We've seen some of the good stuff We've had a terrible period in the middle if we now finish on a little bit of an upward curve People start getting a bit more excited for the next season and you go write something coming Can we get a b and c can we ship a dozen of these players out and bring these four or five in which then goes You go up again because let's be honest and be frank about it after the top six everyone else is much even much And I I still look at the likes of Chelsea and think He ain't great and Arsenal And great. He played well at the weekend against space, but they're not great. We're not miles behind them But what they have Is those players in the final third particularly ask not to strike as you put the ball in the back of the net You've got a class, haven't you? Yeah, that's the difference. They've got class. We haven't got class in the front. We just haven't yeah, and we have to try and Resolve that which is It's gonna take You know, I hate all the language really a modern football It's gonna take a few windows, you know, we can't keep shopping and changing the manager What's the point? You know, you've got to give this guy A few years really if Well, there's there's there's no point having in there same thing with the team It's got to evolve and if you look at look at like say like so where Liverpool came from When they brought club in and you know and people say well, he's been there this long and he hasn't won anything Well, yeah, but as you say, he's slot in the police pieces in there and they're a good team You look at where we've come from, you know The the mess that martinez here ended up in and the fact, I mean, I should love Jags and Bains They're still here now for me six years after my blessing, but we're coming from a lower level And you can't buy a team to be fair. They're not even the problem They aren't the problem. They're not at all And exactly the martinez and the Ashley Williams Yeah, exactly when we bought whole teams of players you can't do that You have to build a team over time and and I hope the lights are Davis and Cavaliere in long term can be good players for us, you know, but it's that's going to take time We've got to build a team and a squad that we can they trust each other Know the football them and they're being told to play and and we as a crowd trust them and that's I mean, there's something that's going to be huge and you know what it could just be two players Yeah, exactly plays it could just be a massive Center forward, you know, who knows how to put the bomb back in it or hit the target at least It's got a bit of pace like And and and Address into my field or centre back. Yeah, who's a truly that bit of a spine? Yeah, grab everyone else and organize and it could just be those two players I don't think we're gonna have a match on and I think it's only I think they're gonna be looking for quality quality Especially if they just can't get those players out the door. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's going to be quality. Yeah, and um That's what we should all be looking for or aspiring for because It's great to hear improve. It's great to hear every year. You got my behind this player my behind that player my behind that player But it doesn't it's it's proved. It's not it's not us. It's not us No, that wasn't spares as well as you know, it's the other example Aren't they takes time you can't you can't make those wholesale changes You know, which is like they're changing the manager who then will make wholesale changes because they're not his players None of that you we've just got to make the right decisions Stop we have to learn from our mistakes and like at the beginning of this I said about you know this season being a right of well, it doesn't actually have to be We could we could have a great last few games Go into the summer thinking ancon. Yeah You know, I think what we've got what we've got to do now is win the games we should win. Yeah. Yeah You know, you know Newcastle Newcastle Burnley. Yeah full. Yeah Which pistol palace west arm they the games we should be trying to win and hopefully get one of those Get a win on a Chelsea man United Arsenal and be like, yeah, we did beat one of the big boys. We did have a good day And yeah, and hopefully that's what happens and we finish, you know around 50 points Yeah, I mean, yeah, I know four more wins at least would be fantastic. I don't know what's achievable, but Just I'm for it. That's it. Use it build the team build the team You know if we play like we did yesterday and have a little bit of quality in the final third take a bit of care Yeah, we can win the majority of our games, I think That's what it's about. That's what you have to aim for.  Good. You know all the best, but we you have to aspire Yeah, so there is that whole thing you have to just less than one the league by they tried every week to win And they won the league right now That you know, it doesn't always work like that. I know everyone come in the league every season But surely that has to be the bottom line and just foster that team spirit Like I say, maybe there are a couple of these young Lads who can come in and have a have a couple of little cameos or sub, you know Like back in the days where we dropped jeffers or someone in money was 16 or 17 Why not and just have some stuff to look forward to and you know, they just enjoy it together Why not? Why not the weather's going to start getting brighter. Let's come on. Are you making me feel great about life? The same as There you go. Anyway, big thanks for jamie's coming in bright You've got any suggestions for the fans for I'm getting such a jamie as well.  I will DMs are always open. Let us know your thoughts in the comments and remember lads remember gales and boys Doesn't matter how bad life life is or life gets Will never be as big a knob heads as the on feel wrap just remember that. See you later


Elon Musk's Hyperloop tunneling machine is like a mechanical engineer's fantasy made real. It's such a beautiful piece of machinery, it kind of makes me want to cry. Talk about being bored to tears. Think back to the last time you were bored.   The degree to which being bored sucks is actually a large part of what has made it interesting to study. For example, in one study, test subjects performed some bogus experiment which involved painful electric shocks as negative feedback, which they could and often did pay real money to avoid. They were then left alone in the testing room for 15 minutes while the researcher went to fetch something, and asked to sit quietly. No cell phones, no pens or paper, nothing but four blank walls for 15 long minutes. During that time, about half the research participants deliberately triggered the shock device. That seems crazy at first. People were willing to pay money to avoid getting shocked, yet many of them would rather zap themselves than sit and be bored.  Culturally, boredom is often painted as a symptom of weakness of character. After all, a properly industrious person should always be able to find some productive pursuit with which to occupy themselves. Harunth. But it's hard to argue that mind-numbingly tedious situations don't exist, or that it's possible to stay focused and alert regardless of circumstance. There's tons of compelling evidence that a reasonably stimulating environment is absolutely essential for mental development and well-being. There have been numerous studies tying lack of interesting stimulus to developmental problems with cognition. For example, children raised in an impoverished environment, given few or no opportunities for creativity or play, underperform in many cognitive tests, and elderly adults who are similarly deprived of such opportunities in nursing homes suffer from accelerated cognitive decline. On the extreme end of the spectrum, a horrifying form of sensory deprivation known as white torture has been used by several governments to extract information from prisoners of war. Even hardened military veterans with training in resisting torture techniques have been deeply traumatized by the experience of being simply locked in a quiet, featureless room with nothing interesting to do or look at. Draw your own conclusions about the pervasive practice of solitary confinement in prisons. So this isn't just a case of short attention spans or weakness of will. Long-term boredom can be a serious problem for brain function. Of course, that doesn't imply that occasional boredom is a bad thing that should be avoided at all costs, even though it feels that way. It's a helpful emotional signal to move on from the current activity and try something new, and it may be implicated in more complex mental processes. Many artists and other creative people cite boredom as a useful tool for generation of new ideas. You never really work on a problem harder than you do when you're desperate for anything to escape mindless tedium. But it's clear that some people are better at coping with dull situations than others. I'm not talking attention disorders, although that's certainly relevant here, but there's a range of individual capability to make it through to the end of that highlighter meeting without chewing a leg off. In 1986, researchers Farmer and Sundberg published a paper containing a new psychological metric, the boredom-proneness scale. It was a simple set of true-false questions designed to capture just how easily someone became painfully disinterested in whatever they were doing if it wasn't attention grabbing, and researchers have found some pretty crazy stuff associated with it. People who tested as being easily bored on the BPS were more likely to become addicted to drugs, alcohol, smoking, and gambling. They tend to drive less safely and have more auto accidents. They tend to have anger issues, social issues, and work performance issues. They perform around 25% worse on average in school, about as much as if they suffered an IQ drop of 15 points, and are at a significantly higher risk of anxiety, unprotected sex, eating disorders, and depression. That's a lot of bad news, but it kind of makes sense if you think about it. It's not hard to see why someone who gets bored easily might reach for their phone every couple of minutes. Combine that impulse with a 30-minute commute to and from work every day, no wonder they're more likely to get into accidents. And if a normal group of people are willing to shock themselves to avoid being bored, what would someone who's prone to boredom do if they're regularly bored in class, or at work, or with life in general?  You can take the test yourself to find out if you're prone to boredom. There's a link in the description. But let's just say you have some concerns.  Unlike some other personality traits, boredom-proneness is shaped a great deal by factors which are totally within your control, and a lot of them are things that you really should be doing anyways. First, regular exercise is correlated with a low BPS score. It may be causally related in the other direction too, of course. People who get bored easily probably won't stick with jogging for a half hour every day. But considering all the other established cognitive benefits of exercise, it's certainly feasible that a solid workout regimen can help you stay focused in potentially boring situations. And, of course, there's also the whole keeps you from dying for a while thing. Second, thinking about the part of a situation that's keeping you from fleeing out the nearest window has shown to be effective at refocusing people's attention and allowing them to stay engaged. Whether it's I need to make it safely home, or I need to stay on the boss's good side to get that promotion, remembering your motivation for doing what you're doing can keep you from succumbing to ennui. Self-awareness also turns out to be pretty key at staving off boredom. Not being embarrassed, but rather being conscious of your internal emotional state. Recognizing when you're becoming bored and being proactive about dealing with it effectively before it's a problem is a great way to develop good habits and keep yourself engaged with the task at hand. To that end, meditation has been shown to cultivate both self-awareness and mindfulness, the ability to be psychologically present in one's immediate environment, which is also demonstrably helpful. Finally, one of the strongest negative correlates for boredom-proneness is need for cognition, a measure of an individual's propensity to think deeply about things. Wanting to think carefully and relishing challenging intellectual pursuits is like kryptonite for boredom-proneness, and it seems to lead to all sorts of other cognitive and behavioral benefits. Grinding away at puzzles until you defeat them, learning new things with others, and feeding your curiosity might well be great ways to develop a healthy tolerance for boring meetings. Hmm. Feeding your curiosity about stuff that requires intense and challenging thought. Where have I heard that before? Are you also worried about your proneness to boredom? Please leave a comment below and let me know what you think. Thank you very much for watching. Don't forget to blah blah subscribe, blah share, and don't stop thunking.