Hello, in this presentation, we will work a worksheet together, which will record journal entries similar to those we have recorded in the past journal entries related to cash. So we will record the journal entry process a bit faster, but we are adding a new component this time. That's component being that we will post these journal entries rather than to a worksheet as we did in the past to a general ledger. So we're going to post these journal entries that we will record here now to this new item over here, the general ledger. This being the more traditional way of posting the transactions and a bit longer of a way. Obviously this worksheet is going to be a bit longer. We're going to have to maneuver around this worksheet a bit, which will help us with both understanding Excel and the larger worksheets. Note, as we go, this will not be too complicated as we go, hopefully if we take it one step by step.


Abstract photoacoustic computed tomography, PACT, is a hybrid imaging modality combining optical excitation and acoustic detection techniques. It provides high-resolution deep tissue images based on the deep penetration of light, the anisotropy of light absorption in objects, and the photoacoustic effect. This makes PACT a promising tool for biomedical sample imaging. Recent developments have seen PACT systems being used in a variety of applications, including preclinical animal imaging and human organ-slash-body-part imaging. These studies have demonstrated the potential of PACT as a powerful tool for biomedical imaging. Future developments should focus on improving the accuracy of PACT imaging by developing more sophisticated algorithms and exogenous contrast agents. This article was authored by Yin Rigu, Yuan Yuan Sun, Xiao Wang, and others.


Hey guys, Shabare 1000 here. This is what we got going on here. We've got this sitting out here in the shop, as you can see. We've had it out here for a while. It's turned on.  There's stuff in here moving around and it's kind of freaky. So I'll take you in here and we're going to hold you up by the receiver. So maybe you can hear what's going on too. So there's where we got the receiver. Wow, this is awesome. The low light. Come here and check this out. I mean, we got the TV on, but look. Look how awesome bright it is in the low light. Yeah. OK, so anyway. This is what we got going on here. Turn this up a little bit. OK, it's all the way up. Did you tell me how to voice? No, I didn't. But we did hear a voice on it. Freaking freaking me out. I made him go, lock all the doors. Well, they were locked, so. Oh, good thing. Huh? Yeah, good thing. That was freaky. OK, let's put you back up here. Let's listen again. That is with my mother and their both of us. There's Bruno. The cat's in the room. There's Bruno, monkey, Bruno's there. OK, the cat just walked out of mom's room. There she is. So we know it's not her.   There is no one in this house. Mom's asleep. She's been asleep for several hours. You saw Monkey and Bruno, and you saw the cat going out of mom's room. So we know it was none of them. Is anybody here right now? Well, I told, I said earlier, I told it to make a noise over here, and I'll be able to hear them. And I said, whisper or something in there. Because we started, just out of the blue, I thought, you know, what we should do. And she said, OK, let's try it. And we started hearing these strange noises, then we heard a voice. Excuse me, and that's when I came out here. Well, nothing just moved over here beside me. I don't know if you guys can see us, if the camera can pick that up. The hairs are standing up on my arms. Anyway, Monkey came out too. And that's when I said, you know, I said this little box over here. I said, if you come over here, I'll be able to hear you. And the noises, they were nowhere near that pronounced earlier.  But this, I mean, it was loud, you know. Check, check. Is this mic working? Doesn't look like, OK, maybe it is. I don't have my glasses on. The one's here.  I'm like, no, man. For them to get up there, I would have to hear them, you know, climb it up in there. As you can see, nothing's moving. OK, so let's go back in for a few more minutes. And then I'm going to upload this for you guys. So I had night vision on, so I wouldn't trip over that thing.  They're on the button. Now I'll show you the way the door is. In fact, you guys know there's nobody here. All right, I'm going to close this door all the way. The door is closed. There's no one here.  I hope you guys heard that. Monkey, did you hear that? No? I have to sleep.  Something just made a noise right here. Where's Snickers? OK, Snickers is on the chair. Mom's over there in bed. Her TV is not. OK, her TV is on, I think. OK, it's just I went to sleep. Something, we just come out of the garage.  You didn't hear it? No. Was she sleeping? No, no, she's not in there. Let's give it a couple more minutes. Burn it up early now. Right there it is.  Her face. Let's go out and check it out. I'll finish my cigarette. And I'll talk to you guys for a minute. You coming? No. No? Well, it's funny because. After that, boys? Uh-uh. No? Listen, I said, when I first turned in on it, I said, yeah, I said, watch, we'll hear something say, get out.  She heard that voice. I said, go tell it. She's like, oh, I said, yeah, I want to hear you say it. And it was a male's voice. And we did, yeah. It was as plain as day. We just couldn't understand what it said. I mean, what happened so fast was like, was it my dad? Was it somebody else? No, not everything has to be your dad, I mean. But a lot of that stuff is like history. OK, but yeah, but I remember I have a lot of antique tools that came from God knows where. Yeah, I mean. You know, before I even got your dad's tools out here. Yeah. We just never heard anything because we're clearing here on the other side of the house. Yeah. Hmm, OK. Strange. Very strange. OK, so let's go in here. I'm going to finish my cigarette. Talk to you guys for a minute. Where's it damn to see if I'm not looking at the screen. Shut, see, more than a minute. Jeff might vision now. OK, so see, nothing is moved. Nothing. Nothing's moved at all. Let's get you up here on the pod. All right, guys, so like I said, I just thought, you know what the hell? I'd give it a shot, right?  We're just watching TV. We'll just put that up on the bed behind us and, you know, maybe we'll capture something. And it proved to be a very useful paranormal investigation tool in my book because I'm going to talk to you about. So it's kind of like a baby monitor. It might be an older style because it is a room monitor. So it's probably what it's for. I keep calling that other thing a transceiver. It's not a transceiver because it doesn't transmit. It just receives. So it's a receiver. This is the transmitter. Now, like certain things, you know, you might say, well, that works off FM radio waves. True. Noises like that do not come through radio waves. I mean, we know it was in here. That was not something from the radio or something from interference. That's an actual noise of something out here making a noise. Though nothing has moved, but you guys heard it. I know you had to hear it. Because, well, if the camera mic didn't pick it up, you're not even going to be watching this video. So if you're watching this video, the camera mic picked it up.  Like they just took their finger and just right down through there about that long on my back. So it was like, and Monkey was out here. Well, she was right just on the other side of the door there, and I felt it. And I mean, I just got goose chills everywhere. So that was very weird. That was after the first noise as we heard. Like I said, you could hear them. Hear the noise is fine, but those were loud, those ones you heard there, and those were the loudest ones so far. So there's going to be more of this. We're going to be using this a lot more. And I know you guys know it's just me, her, and her mom, the cat and the dog. And you've seen the cat was in the room. Bruno did come in, but when I let Bruno in, those noises after that, there was nobody here. I swear to you, no one is in this house but us.  You know, that's not a static, you know. Right before I turn my chair, my chairs. There was something over here just pecked on that door.  But, you know, it seems mostly to be in this garage so we don't know if it's one of the antique tools because we have some of her grandfather's tools in here too, that don't necessarily mean it's her dad. I've got a lot of other old tools here. We've got old stuff in this house. We've got stuff, we bought it at flea markets in yard sales, you know. And so, and it's not the doll. So, because the doll is in mom's room in the closet boxed up, she's not out here in this garage. Okay, I just heard something out in the kitchen. I could tap. I don't know if it was a monkey or I don't see anyone. So what we're gonna, I think what we're gonna have to do, we're gonna have to investigate this place and see what's going on and since we live here, it's no problem for us to do it over time. Maybe we can do a playlist on it and gather evidence see if you guys might capture something in our videos that maybe we didn't capture, you know, a lot of things will be able to be debunked. This can't be debunked. I mean, I can't debunk it. I'm an investigator, I've got another mind. I don't automatically hear a noise and go this place is haunted, but that's very compelling.  The camera moved on its own. A lot of stuff goes on in this garage.  Daytime, nighttime, it doesn't matter, which of course it shouldn't because, you know, spirits don't wear watches. They don't care what time it is.  They're gonna roam around. It don't matter to them when they do it. So it doesn't matter whether it's daytime or nighttime. Just nighttime, you know, things are more quieter. You got less traffic, you know, and people sleeping. You're not, you know, the neighbors aren't making a lot of noises. Tonight the neighbors, they're not playing any music. They're quiet tonight.  So I don't know, man, I just don't know. So if you guys are future ghost hunters, I prefer to be called an investigator because I don't hunt for ghosts. I investigate what's causing paranormal occurrences. But if you're just start now, just remember that. It doesn't have to be dark time. It doesn't have to be 1 a.m. like it is right now. It could be 1 p.m. You just gotta remember it's gonna be a lot more variables that you have to deal with, like especially outside. Even at night, it could be an animal. You know, there's a lot of noises outside regardless of what time it is. But when you're in this garage, remember we're surrounded by concrete. You know, we got the door there. We got concrete, so this is, well, it's cinder block. This is cinder block. You know, both sides of that door is cinder block. That whole wall back there is cinder block except for the man door. Now this wall here, along here over here where the tool box and monitor and stuff is, now that wall is, it's that fire retardant stuff. It's like drywall in the same way with on the other side because this is a garage, you know, it's code, you have to have that. And it is also insulated. That whole wall is heavily insulated. So once you close this door, and of course it's a solid door because it's actually considered like an outside door because it goes into the garage, it's a solid door and it's pretty soundproof, you know. I mean, you might hear the air conditioner running now. I got the door open. When I close that door, they can't, like if I'm grinding, they can hear it, but it's not towards, it bugs them because when I close that door, it's pretty silent in here, you know, so, wow. Anyway guys, thanks for watching them. Heads up next Saturday, this Saturday night slash Sunday morning, next Saturday in this garage, live karaoke night. So we'll be set up right there. So that should be fun. But let me know in the comments below, what do you think? What do you think it is? Who do you think it might be? Could it be her father? Yes, it could be, but it could also be someone else too. Like, you know, I've had occurrences out here, you know, even before he passed away, but not as often. But then again, you know, we didn't have that thing set out here. That's the thing we did late night last night. That's the thing we fixed and got working.  And my shin is killing me. Pros and cons of everything. Watch where you're walking in the dark when you're ghost hunting. But yeah, just some weird stuff. A lot of weird things have been going on. So when we first got together, you know, I told her, yeah, stay here for a little bit. So I don't think it's haunted. I said, you know, I hear some things once in a while, but I don't think it's haunted. I thought maybe it was the land around us, but now it's, you know, it's more dedicated to the garage, you know, and one other room, but that's another story, which I'm not gonna tell, but I'll have someone tell you that story. But you know, like I said, it's mostly dedicated in this garage. Like a lot of times we'll be sitting, because, you know, we leave the garage door open like that far because that's where the kitty box is. So when Snickers has to come in and do what she's gotta do, and then, you know, so we leave the door cracked open for, sometimes we'll hear something and I'll come out and check it out. Or a lot of times, like when she's asleep, late at night, three o'clock, four o'clock in the morning, I'm still awake, I'll hear something.  Nothing, nothing's moved, nothing's changed. The cat's in mom's room, the dog's in with us, and you know, so I don't know, let me know what you think. Like I said, we do have a lot of antique tools here that belong to a bunch of people. So it's kind of hard, it's kind of hard if you think a place is haunted, it's kind of hard to put a name with it. You know what I mean? It's hard to prove that. But you know, like as far as this device we was just using, this room monitor, I'll trust that any day of the week over any kind of like the ovulus, I'll trust it over that, because think about it, someone has to program that, right? Same way with apps on your phone. They're fun, yes, but on a real investigation, I don't use any of that stuff. But like this monitor, I'll use it because I can pretty much tell if something, you know, is actually in that room, like I know something was in this garage, I heard it, I know it was in here, it wasn't interference, it wasn't a CB breaking through, it wasn't a plane flying overhead, I mean, that was a thump in this garage and it was loud. So you know, I mean, I trust that more because it's not programmed, it's radio waves. So, and I mean, you use that equipment and you know, like the ovulus, it has what they call a database, it has a dictionary in it pretty much, it has so many words programmed into it and the theory is that spirits will manipulate that to get words to come out.  You see what I mean? You know, something moved, you know, we heard it. Now, whether it actually moved or not or whether they're just taking sounds around them and making a sound like it, but that was an actual, hopefully you guys heard it. I mean, those were knocks and we're the only ones here, swear to God.   But again, can you use it as evidence? Not in my book. Like, if I was on a real investigation, pick something like that up. I know we've used it a couple of times, but it wasn't a true, you know, I wasn't investigating anything, we were just kind of fooling around with it.  You know, I mean, I've got cameras, I've got night vision, I've got voice recorders, which the best voice recorder to use, by the way, guys, you're just starting out, get you an old analog, you know, it takes the little tapes, those are the best recorders you can use. But as far as that goes, no. And if you just start now, just get your camera, it doesn't have to be night vision. You can use flashlights though.  You don't need a full spectrum camera. In fact, if you just got a camera that flashes, you can use your cell phone if it's got a flash. Take still images, but always take more than one. If you can take two simultaneously, or not simultaneously, but back to back, two to three, always took two. Boom, boom, okay. That's real, you don't need to take like 100 pictures in a row. You might as well be taking videos if you do that. So then if you catch something, you can always stop that frame, you know, screenshot it or whatever, but always take at least two pictures. You don't need high expensive equipment.  It works off a static. So when I get the stuff for that, I'll build it, I'll show you how to build it. Fairly easy. If you know your way around the soldering iron, you're good to go. But yeah, I don't see anything that's out of place. I don't know. So anyway, guys, thanks for having a cigarette with me. I'm going to edit this video and put it up for you.  So if there's a long pause, please be patient. This is gonna be kind of like raw, unedited. The only thing I'm gonna do is I will turn the sound up. That's it. I'll do my intro and outro, but the video that you're watching is gonna be uncut. It's gonna be just like this. I will raise the volume up on it, but that's it. I'm not gonna enhance anything. I'm not gonna enhance the camera. Of course, really, this is audio really anyhow.   So, which is kind of what it's gonna be other than, like I said, my intro and outro. But yeah, I mean, you guys, hopefully you heard it. We heard it, we've been hearing it. So anyway, guys, thanks for watching. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and Shae Berry, the myth man legend, gone for now. We'll chat with you guys soon, all right? Thanks again, guys. Bye-bye and take care. Hopefully that was the TV.


Now, we talk about various factors which can affect the gas exchange. These factors are carbon dioxide, temperature, pH, carbon dioxide as we know when it is increased it actually decreases the saturation of it actually decreases the oxygen tension which result in the capacity of hemoglobin for oxygen or carrying oxygen is reduced. This result in release of oxygen molecules towards the blood. Second is temperature. Temperature if it is increased that is rise in temperature decreases the oxygen carrying capacity of the hemoglobin. So, if temperature is increased then oxygen carrying capacity of hemoglobin is decreased and hemoglobin will release oxygen and we know that the airways are sending a moist and warm air inside the lung. This warmth result in decrease in oxygen carrying capacity of hemoglobin and hemoglobin molecules releases oxygen which is then taken up by the capillaries. pH, if pH declines oxygen carrying capacity also declines. So, because actually what happened that hydrogen ions because when we know that when pH goes down actually hydrogen ions are released in solution these hydrogen ions actually bind to hemoglobin to some part of it to decrease its oxygen carrying capacity. So, if pH is decreased then oxygen carrying capacity will also the hemoglobin molecule will also decrease. Now, the lung capacity the human lungs while fully expanded have a capacity of about 5 letters, but actually when we are sleeping we are at rest lungs are only exchanging a half a liter of the air. So, very much less while exercising this capacity this exchange may increase up to 3.5 liters. It means that there is a 1.5 liter residual volume that cannot be expelled in any case. Inhalation as we know inhalation is 15 to 20 cycles per minute. If we are exercising this may increase up to 30 cycles and that is we breathe rather than 15 to 20 times per minute we breathe for 30 times per minute. So, when we are exercising then the lung then the capacity of lungs is differently utilized and in a more efficient way. So, this is about the lung capacities. Now, changes in the composition of the breathe air when we breathe air in and then this is expelled out what is the difference? This air actually we are talking about the difference of inhaled air and the exhaled air. So, that we can find out that what is the difference in the percent saturation air when it is entering inside the lungs is 21 percent saturated with oxygen when it goes out it is 16 percent saturated. So, there is a 4 percent decrease carbon dioxide is 0.04 percent saturated in the air, but when air goes out this is 4 percent saturated with carbon dioxide nitrogen as we know has nothing to do with the respiration when air comes in it is saturated by nitrogen by 79 percent and when it goes out that is exhaled air also have 79 percent saturation. The water vapors these are variable initially when they enter inside the lungs that is in inhaled air they are variable, but when they go out the air is saturated with the water vapors because we know that the whole all the surfaces which are present inside the respiratory tract they are almost. So, when air goes out it is saturated with water vapors. So, this was all about respiration respiration in plants in animals differences between cellular and organismic respiration and then a detail about the human respiratory system.


Okay, so it's the last point before closing the whole conference, which I'm very happy about and what we're coming to that and So we have two prizes to give away Last year it was poster prizes It's a blockchain for science prizes Well, they are technically they are tweets or announcing on the web page at the moment Maybe next year or a day after they have a physical implementation in the instantiation or maybe they are on chain somewhere and So one price is the serendipity price That is for a crazy project that is has big visions and there's really innovative and then there's a serious business Anybody knows the meme serious business in the internet. Yeah, so it's a serious business price I forgot all the memes and stuff. I promise if this continues, there will be more kiddies and stuff and Okay in the design and some okay, and since I don't want to do it anymore and we have to decentralize Actually, I delegated the price to at your James and Jens and Jens will not I don't know to prove it It was the price so it can be projects posters talks ideas. Okay. Yeah, thanks a lot Senke And all the committee members so that's James I think he had already to leave but he was heavily involved in the selection process Artium and myself so we sat down and evaluated a lot and It was actually tough Yeah, it was extremely tough because you're doing different things, you know Actually, there was no talk that was immediately disqualified Right. They were all good and so take it a little bit with a grain of salt But still acknowledge the ones we picked. I think that's probably the right strategy So we also wanted to have a little bit not only gender balance But also each balance and so on so we tried to bring that all together. It didn't fully work out, but Essentially you want to announce the so-called serendipity price so for a very blue sky kind of kind of adventurous project Serendipity price goes to And Okay, and we have a very serious business price, right and That was also very tough because we were delighted to see some really like commercially Viable things maybe not immediately but with a with a with a very serious business approach Again was very tough. They were extremely good stuff Some of the candidates were not eligible because they were somehow Related in one or the other way to the committee. So we didn't want to Nominate otherwise we would have won everything, you know, no, that's not true and So the one of the main impact things here that That that really impressed us all not saying the others weren't impressive was artifacts with Dave Colchenco Awardees nominees are all of us yeah but you picked the speakers right so it was a pre-selection good you judge the judge Devin you want to kind of be a little bit the gender balance here okay thank you very much thank you very much thank you very much and so okay now it's on me to thank you yeah and so I first of course I want to thank the speakers who like made this conference possible and I'm like totally happy and about the quality the level the way they are conducted they were conducted the slides and like really understanding and knowledge of the speakers and this was really cool really super okay I'm very happy with this and I want to thank Martin Ezwood who helped with the conference and with blockchain of science a lot besides us but he was sick and he couldn't make it and I want to thank other people other friends some of them are here very early supporters like for example Lombard Alex for the support and like all the others here that are here I want to thank the sponsors that you see on these slides here and then I want to thank of course my brother who's like I told him somehow oh yeah you want to come up and he's like really supported because if you're like in the stress of organizing the conference and you are the only one and everything rests on your back and like and he just called so I know it from last year I come okay and I was like poor it took so much of my back okay and well and I want to thank the beta host team and I'm very happy with the catering and everything and how everything worked out a lot and I want to thank Michael and Michael from the AV and I think I have feeling this is the videos will come out great on YouTube and I'm still looking for sponsors who want to have the product like placed on them but we can talk about this you can write me emails and what else do I have to do that's pretty much another that's like something important did I forget anything oh yeah of course of course how how do we continue with this yeah and I will take on the responsibility and I think the blockchain field is no longer a crazy field in science we have our obligation to communicate this to other people I like talked about in the introduction and I will talk with a lot of people and consider several ways how to like bring this forward it's sure that it's not going to happen this the same way again and some people already offered help and connection I would see it if you want to help or like have suggestions how to move forward you are I'm very happy to take your advice and support and it will not happen the same way it happened this time or last year yeah it has to change because the field also changes yeah we have to decentralize basically okay and with this I want to close and thank you very much and I'm happy now that I'm off the hook again


Hey guys, welcome back to come again. I'm Shannon and today on another pop review. We're gonna be taking a look at Funko pop games the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt number 151 Eridan vinyl figures, so stay tuned All right guys, as I said welcome back to come again. We're all geek culture collides I'm Shannon and again. We're taking a look at the Funko pop games the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt number 151 Eridan vinyl figure now. I'm not too familiar with the Witcher series I came across this guy in GameStop is on sale. He looked really cool. So I figured I'd add him to my pop collection So if you guys know anything about the Witcher series Leave a comment below and let me know about this guy Like to learn a little bit more about him So here we have Eridan here very nice Peaking up there pop games Display side and then the back we've got pop games 151 the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Jeralt is number 149 Siri is 150 Eridan is 151 Yennefer is 152 and Triss is 153 So let's go ahead and open the box up and take a look at the Eridan inside. All right, so It is a standard clamshell packaging like most pops However, it does not have the little clips Like some of the newer pops do But that's not bad So here we have Eridan Nice little skull helmet the body really resembles Lord Zed from Power Rangers Very nice. Look the head kind of reminds me of Shao Kahn from Mortal Kombat Very nice sculpt the head does move turn around all the way as with most pops Got a nice little sword here. It's got like a serrated edge Little knuckle guard got his shoulder pad armored glove Very nice I'm not sure if that's if the red is his skin or if it's part of his armor or what but That is a really cool design and the helmet just it looks awesome. It's a skull They could have maybe I Don't know maybe Separated the colors a little bit better Because here it looks like back here might be a skin But it's the same color of his arm as his armor. So they could have maybe used different shades of Red or maroon But it's still really nice figure Really like it I Wouldn't go so far as to put it with my grails But it's still a nice looking figure nonetheless Like I said, I don't really know much about the witch or suit game series So if you guys do leave a comment below tell me a little bit about Eridan Really cool looking figure It's a little Crown helmet horned helmet whatever you want to call it Very nice. I wouldn't recommend this figure for kids though The sword looks like it could easily be broken it's kind of a flimsy plastic but Still it's probably pretty brittle right around here where it's joined The horns are made out of a Similar plastic kind of rubbery gummy plastic But I'm sure those would be pretty easy to snap off as well My neighbors just started up their truck out there But very nice detail on the armor very nice I'm not sure what more I can say about this guy considering. I know absolutely nothing about this series It looks like he's got some battle damage on his Helmet here kind of a symbol or something right there Very nice. They could have maybe used a little bit of silver or metallic black for the rivets But not bad So there you have it guys For this week's pop review. This was the Funko Pop Games the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt number 151 Eridan vinyl figure I'll see you again next Tuesday for another Funko Pop review. Take care guys Hey guys, if you liked this video, make sure you smash that subscribe button and click on the little bell to receive notifications on all our upcoming videos Hit the like button make sure and leave us a comment so we know how you felt about this video And don't forget to share with your family and friends until next time. I'm Shannon come again. We're all geek culture collides


I completed a TEFL course, why do you need a TEFL course, if you already know how to teach a foreign language? This is a question I've asked myself. I'm looking at it from the point of view of an established foreign language teacher. For years, I've been thinking about learning to teach English as a foreign language. I've wanted to teach more than just French, so I could find more work, and because TEFL appealed to me. As a French teacher, which is a foreign language, of course, my thought was that I already knew how to teach a foreign language. At times I was even thinking, why do I need a course? Shouldn't I just be able to jump into teaching ESL without additional schooling? I tried not to be naive in thinking I could just take all the French teaching and do it in English. Well, after actually completing a TEFL course, now I know why anyone wanting to teach English as a foreign language really should take a course. Even if you've already taught a foreign language, you should do it. How well do you know English? To begin with, you're now dealing with your own native language, not the foreign language you've been teaching. And you can't just translate back. So, how well do you know English?  But do you know if well enough to be able to explain it clearly to a non-native speaker? Well enough to discuss all of the different ways we use the language? Well enough to answer a student's question about the difference between I ate and I have eaten in English? Yes, you've taught language, but how much English grammar did you have to explain to your native English-speaking students, beyond the basics, nouns, adjectives, verbs? Being a native speaker isn't always enough.  As far as the grammar is concerned, you'll learn parts of speech, how to form them, how to use them and possible problems, along with levels of language and how different types of learners learn, young, old, beginner, potential problems and more. You can't always get all of that from just looking at grammar books. Even if you know English grammar rather well, do you know how to teach it to non-native speakers? There again, the course will help with that. Get professional guidance Next, why should you take a TEFL course if you've already learned how to teach a foreign language? Even after you've done it for years? You'll get professional guidance. You'll learn from professionals in the field who will help get you ready to step into the TEFL classroom. They've been there, and they can prepare you for it. You'll be more successful with getting your students ready to speak in English. So you know a lot about teaching a foreign language, yes, and even about working with students. But how does it differ from teaching your own language to students who may or may not have had any exposure to it? And what if you don't know their native language, how do you teach English to non-native speakers when you can't ever fall back on their native language? Are there different ways to conduct the class given the different nature of the course? A TEFL course will help you use what you know to figure out what you still need to know, and then you'll learn it. Covering methodology, for example, will help you look at what you've done before and how to adapt it to fit the EFL classroom. It's possible that you haven't done enough of what the ESA method calls the engage phase, and now that you've read about it in the TEFL course, you'll be more successful with getting your students ready to speak in English. Or, perhaps you haven't done the 3x3 method with oral drilling, and you know that you've read about it you see how that can really help you. Being a native speaker is not enough. And finally, you should know that most potential employers would prefer to see TEFL slash TESOL credentials. You may have already noticed this from looking for jobs. Yes, you may have taught French for years and gotten pretty good at French grammar. But, you haven't taken any TEFL courses, so how much do you really know about the field, except that it's treating English as a foreign language? Once again, being a native speaker may not be enough. Potential employers would rather see that you've had some schooling in TEFL methodology, and can't handle different types of class dynamics. They'd like to know you've been prepared to take good care of their students. Your credentials say a lot about you. Another point regarding credentials is that students and parents like to know that their teachers know what they're doing. Your credentials can say a lot about you. How confident would you be in your biology teacher if you found out he just had a degree in sociology and no biology background? It's understandable that foreign language teachers don't want to feel like their experience isn't enough. I've been there myself. But the reality is that teaching English as a foreign language is just different enough that the additional schooling is very important. You can't rely on national talent alone. And just try to convince a potential employer that you didn't take any courses, but you feel like you'd be good at it. Taking a TEFL course will prepare you for teaching English to non-native speakers by helping you learn how to teach your own languages grammar. It will give you professionally designed lessons covering methodology, teaching to different types of learners, classroom management, and much more, as well. A TEFL course will also give you the credentials you need to find good work and get into the classroom. Are you ready to take a TEFL course? Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us tollfree at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


Cambridge Audio was early in discovering the importance of good filtering in digital players. I once had an Azure 840c CD player that used Anagrams Q5 upsampling and sounded very good for the beginning of this millennium. They still use Anagrams technology in the shape of a second generation ATF2 upsampling to 24 bit 384 kHz in this CXN version 2 streamer DAC and preamp. Let's see what this brings. The CXN V2 is the update of the original CXN and if you want to know whether updating to the V2 is advisable, I can't tell you since I haven't reviewed the original version. It has a stylish brushed aluminium front available in silver and black that measures 430 x 305 x 85 mm. On the front left the standby button, a USB socket for storage devices and four transport buttons. Play pause, skip back and forward and stop. The 4.3 inch display shows menus or info on the track playing including cover art. Right of the display the infrared sensor and four buttons for menu navigation. Info that shows the tracks info, home to return to the previous menu and more to show extra options. On the right a rotary encoder that lets you scroll through menus. To select you push it up. On the left the ISC power socket, the Wi-Fi antenna, a second USB socket for storage devices, the network socket, two digital inputs, one on Toslink and one on RCA and one digital output on both Toslink and RCA. The USB input for audio in with a ground lift switch and two stereo analog outputs, one on XLR and one on RCA. For system integration there are two control bus RCA's and an input for an external infrared sensor. A few remarks here. The USB for mass storage, both on the rear and on the front, are not suited for iOS devices like an iPod. That's no problem though since the CXN supports AirPlay and with an optional dongle also Bluetooth, A2DP and APTX. The USB input for audio supports both Profile 1 and Profile 2. The default setting is Profile 1 which is limited to 96 kHz but works on all computers without extra drivers. In the audio menu this can be changed to Profile 2 so it will support 192 kHz and DSD64 II. For the use with Windows computers the supply driver must then be installed. All other inputs support all sampling rates up to 192 kHz but DSD is only supported over USB. Gapless playback is supported too. For internet radio the most efficient streaming MPEG Dash and HLS compatibility is present. On opening the cabinet I noticed it was very cleverly constructed. It felt very sturdy when closed and only after removing many screws I got access to the inside. There are three main PCBs, one holding the linear power supply, digital analog audio and one directly behind the front to hold the display and buttons. A number of smaller boards are used for interfacing and for instance holding the rotary encoder. The most remarkable print is this one, which in fact is the streamer and is called Black Merlin after the faster swimming fish there is. According to the press release a faster processor with extra memory should make the V2 faster than the original. Let's look at the audio side. Local stabilization, Walssen WM8740 DAC chips, N5532 op-amps and firm mute relays. Also note the screws that almost certainly must prevent vibrations in the PCB at this critical point. Not strange the measurements show very clean figures. This all is neatly laid out. As with most DLNA streamers, ripping must be done by a computer. That music then must be shared by a DLNA server, software that indexes the metadata and sends that info and the music to devices like the CXN. It is the server software that defines how the metadata is presented to you. If you, for instance like having Composer's Indexed, you have to use DLNA server software that does that or can be said to do that. The DLNA player only shows what is sent to it by the server. This also means that browsing speed depends largely on the DLNA server, again that is not specific for the CXN. I have several DLNA servers operating in the network primarily for video. For audio I like to use dedicated audio-only DLNA server software called MinimServer, running on an iMac that has an Intel i5 running at 3.3 GHz. With around 10.000 albums in my library, this worked quick and responsive. There are also versions for Windows, Linux and even for the Raspberry Pi and several NASs. I don't know what happens if you use a clearly slower NAS or Raspberry Pi, but then again if you have considerably less albums, it will probably work fine. A clear advantage is that DLNA doesn't know limitations on the number of tracks it can index and of course that it is up to you what DLNA server software to use and what fields are indexed. There are several ways to operate the CXN V2. Using the controls on the front or the supplied infrared remote, together with display on the front, or use an app on a tablet or smartphone. There are versions for Android and iOS and they come for free. When you choose for library the CXN shows the DLNA server or servers in your network. As you can see I have several running, but that is only for testing. Normally you will see only the one that you have installed on your computer or NAS. From here it is simple browsing and selecting like many streamer apps. On the right the playlist is shown and along the bottom the player info and control. Tap this area and you get a full player screen. If you go to the input you can choose between USB, D1, the optical input, D2, the RCA input and Spotify that effectively starts the Spotify app. Select internet radio and you find extensive search options and an option to store your favorites. The player menu option lets you select the player you want to control. This is also where you can couple more players. The settings menu lets you switch between the grid and list display, audio settings, limited to balance here, control bus settings and a possibility to use the iTunes library. All in all what you expect from a good app and as said the same can be controlled using the controls on the front or on the remote control. This is where the CXN really surprised me. This is a very musical player that given its price sounds remarkably good. It sounds rounded without sounding dull, is very open and has a stereo image that I didn't expect in this price category. The lows go deep and offer true tonality. It really is in the upper range of my setup 2 and is absolutely tolerable in my setup 1. A real achievement for a streamer, DAC and digital preamp for just over a grand. Let's start with the things you might need to know to decide whether this is your choice. First the price, 1099 Euros, 799 British Pounds or 999 US Dollars according to the web. Please bear in mind that European prices are including VAT, the sales tax, while the US price is excluding sales tax. Then you have to realize only Spotify is supported while this player deserves title or Cobas high-res streaming. There is no MQA decoding. Then there is a choice for DnLay that might be somewhat less easier to set up depending on the DnLay service software you choose. Do realize this is a complete digital preamp if you choose so. Just add a power amp or active speakers, connect your TV and CD player and even your smartphone over here play or at lower quality and using the optional dongle, bluetooth and use set. Rather have your computer connected directly, possible too. The sound quality is far above that of Sonos and clearly above that of Bluesound and also wins from the Elac Discovery that also has less functionality but does offer the unique Rune Essential software. Next month the Cocktail Audio X45 will be released that offers about the same functionality plus a hard disk option so no need for a computer but will be more expensive. If you want to know when this video comes online, subscribe to this channel or follow me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+. See the show notes for the links. If you like this video, please consider supporting this channel through Patreon or PayPal. Just one dollar a month will do. The links are in the show notes, just test the links to the description of my three setups. Help me to even help more people with their stereos by telling your friends on the web about this channel. I am Hans Weikhuizen, thank you for watching and see you in the next show or on theHBproject.com. And whatever you do, enjoy the music.