What's up everybody? Jason here for jasperyscasebreaks.com. We just sold out another wax party promo break And we're giving away a free box to limited with this 2021 limited football six box half-case break Pikachu is number two So again, you need you need two teams though guys if you want to get into the limited box giveaway But you only need one team to get into the promo randomizer. So At the end of the break We'll see who has two teams to get to the free box giveaway And then of course everybody's in for the wax party promo randomize them and we'll do two separate atomizer with the same dice We're at the end So actually sorry, this isn't a six box half-case. There's seven boxes is a half-case break But we're actually giving away a free box from this case So here's a sorry, this is not the right one. This is the right one right there Sorry about that There you go last Bob Mojo was Carl getting the jets and again Joe put X's all on these boxes And what he did is he counted one two three four five six seven from top to bottom And what we'll do is we'll get a little true random number generator to generate which box We'll be giving away for free here at the end of the break. So Go to random org true random number generator Right here Out of seven boxes, we're gonna give away box six So one two three four five six six will be the giveaway box and we'll give that away at the end of the break Just in time bro just in time man So here we go guys good luck Out of the hundred and fifty we've only done ten promo breaks that have been sold out So we're not even ten percent away We're almost there though once we sell a 15 will be ten percent. We just started this promo yesterday, so Probably be like a month-long promo. We've pretty much been averaging at least five promo breaks a day And that's not including of course all the other breaks that we sell that are on the website are not promo breaks, but You know like today we would have done six promo breaks a thing in total we did Like maybe 1213 Breaks in general so so there's still plenty of time for you to potentially win this Bob All right, Jimmy Garoppolo Chris Godwin the Andre Swift Kenny Galladay to 75 and Damian Harris relic Patriots when a car George Kittle Sean Wade Another one there for the Patriots 65 out of 75 and the RPA Chuba Hubbard to 149 37 out of 149 That's Carolina Panthers Brody On the board can't tell what's a score 103 106 Taylor Honeggita 49 and Deontay Johnson Baker Levi to 99 for the Detroit Lions Steve with that one Amonra St. Brown to 199 All right, did Joe pull anything like out of the ordinary in the first half for I Mean, we are doing a box giveaway So obviously there could still be some pretty big kids given away in those boxes, but we'll never know of course since we don't open it I'm wondering if Did we hit anything monsters? He will send me to 15 and Melvin board Trans RPA to 25 no booklet boogie bash him to 99 And I round it more as a rookie insert right there. Very nice Carnal's gonna Michael Elijah Moore to 149 All right halfway through guys three more boxes Najee Harris RPA there you go 69 out of 99 very nice Steelers that's going to Martin Joe Burrell And it looks like we got some points 600 points being given away. So what we'll do is a For the wax party promo randomizer Number one, of course gets the wax party promo spot number two would get the 600 points and any other points, of course so there we go, we'll Obviously also add to the list for two three and so on This must be a patch though, right Matt Ryan to 49 Kenneth Gainwall Unlimited patches one two three color patch That is uh out of 35 very nice patch Fly goes fly Michael Maddie ice More points coming up Out of 49 at tomorrow cooper And Najee or sorry not Najee Damian Harris Two-color patch to 25 Calvin really and 900 points. Wow. Actually, this is going to go to number two number three would get nine uh 600 points Oh some decent amount of points being given out here Another Najee Harris this time. It's a two color patch rpa two out of 35 Very nice. Damn Some repeats. All right last one here guys. Good luck I know man. I need some pits And Kyle Pitts is going to have such a monster year Uh with mariotas's quarterback Joe Burrow to 149 and Amir Smith Marsetti to 75 Marietta's favorite target's always been his tight ends man.  Good luck. Here we go last hit Terrace marshal jr. Three color patch on autograph. That's to 49 So who knows guys that last box could Have a booklet could have something crazy. I don't know. I'm just curious now because I mean trade lance is a nice rpa but I think there's usually at least one booklet in every every case At least from what I've seen so That booklet might be a that that box right here might be actually be a really really nice box So that'll be given away there. So again guys for the wax party promo randomizer This is what we'll do here. So This first randomizer we're gonna use the same dice roll, but this first randomizer here will be for the wax party promo right so This list everybody has a shot. Number one gets the wax party number two and three get points So number two gets 900 number three gets 600 And then the second randomizer will be for the box giveaway And we'll have to see who has two or more teams and then we'll do that giveaway as well So brody, there you go. You got the last hit right there of the break You got two brian kellin. I has two Carl has seven so only three Three entries But good luck man dusty has six. So that's three entries as well Jacob with one John Lafferty with one Martin with two Michael with two. So that's one each for you guys Peter Ang with two steve harrick with two So that's one each for you guys And steven and thomas that's one each for you guys as well So there you go out of the possible uh 16 We got 15. Yeah, that's everybody there And good luck guys. Here we go. Here's the dice roll Six and a five 11 times. So number one gets wax party promo spot one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 boom 11 six and a five 11 Just missing out with steve harrick. Sorry about it, buddy. I'll be down to peter But congrats to Steven flat. There you go. Boom. Congratulations, buddy Very nice So steven You're gonna get a wax party promo spot And it'll be limited number two Not paste that in there. It's been on my keyboard weird All right, there you go.  All right. Cool. Yeah Now let's do the box giveaway guys. So that was 11 times. Good luck Number one gets the free box one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 bow 11 11 Martin congratulations, man Free box coming yo way Again guys another fresh case of limited is in the store number three and four We're gonna run that back again for tomorrow with joe. Appreciate you guys. Jasby's case breaks.com


Chest of the teacher is asked to see things inside out, seeing our own eyes. He also teaches us to stand on our head. He says that sometimes we need to stand on our heads to see things afresh because when we see them from the normal angle, we don't see them at all. We become blind to them because they become too familiar. But standing on our head, we see them from that new surprising angle, seeing something upside down. And then sometimes when we're looking at something upside down, we realize we're seeing it properly, really, realistically for the first time. In other words, we've never seen it before. So upside down turns out to be the right side up. And if you like, that is a definition of conversion. So we see here these sort of apparent contradictions. At the heart of Chesterton is the joy of paradox. We don't understand Chesterton unless we understand paradox. And a paradox can be defined as an apparent contradiction that points to a deeper truth. So in order to understand that, let's look at some paradoxes, some general ones, some biblical ones and some Chestertonian ones. So for instance, it takes a big man to know how small he is. Or to reverse that pride is the mask that a small man wears because he thinks he's big. Or from the Bible, the greatest perhaps of all paradoxes, the first shall be last and the last shall be first. So we can see perhaps that paradox is the unity of wit and wisdom. It's humorous, it's clever, it makes us think on our feet, but it's also wise as a deep wisdom about it. And something that struck me when I first came to know Chesterton, I think strikes many people, is that Chesterton has more fun than the atheists. I think it was General Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, who said, why should the devil have all the best tunes? Well, Chesterton shows us that the devil does not have all the best jokes and certainly does have as much fun as the good, rambunctious Christian. Again, Chesterton's great friend Beloch famously said, wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, there's always laughter and good red wine. At least I've always found it so. Benedict Harmas Domino. So this joie de vivre, this jollity, this rambunctiousness, is at the heart of who Chesterton is and the faith that he has and conveys to us. Chesterton is happier than the atheists. He has the key to happiness. And again, as Aquinas shows us, that the key is this combination between gratitude and humility. Or if you like, gratitude being the fruit of humility. And it's that that allows us to have that happiness at the heart of things.


It's time. It's time. For what? For what? Everybody, and Megan, could you hold up Jeanette? She's our chatty friend. George is our quiet friend. And Jeanette will find out who's who on the curious crew today. What's your name? Milo. Hi Milo. What's your name? Maeve. Hi Maeve. What's your name? Maddie. Hi Maddie. What's your name? Aurora. Hi Aurora. What's your name? Carla. Hi Carla. What's your name? Dona. Hi Dona. What's your name? Megan. Hi Megan. Hi Megan. What's your name? Dorothy. Hi Dorothy. Phillip. Hi Phillip. Okay, so now we're going to sing the curious giraffe song and find out what, learn a little more about Phillip. Let's find out. Here we go. Giraffe looked over at an eagle and said, Why was I born to walk? Why were you born to fly? Eagle just shrugged and gave a high five. Hey, we all share one big sky. Oh yeah, share one big sky, share one big sky. Give the world a big high five. We're different and we know but we all belong. Cause we can all share and we can all care. We're different but we all belong. Giraffe looked over at the visitor and said, I wonder how he's feeling. Would he like to be my friend? The visitor smiled and said, Let the fun begin underneath this one big sky. Oh yeah, share one big sky, share one big sky. Give the world a big high five. We're different and we know but we all belong. Cause we can all share and we can all care. We're different but we all belong. So this is my friend Phillip Alexander. I met him through a wonderful group called the Children's Music Network. So Phillip, you brought us some music and ideas today and we're happy to get to know you. Well Dorothy, thank you so much for inviting me to be here with this wonderful group of friends and speaking of friends, our first song is about friends because I know that we're doing a theme and our theme is the letter F. And the best, one of the best words with Faceful friends. That's right, friends is one of the best words that starts with F because we all know that when you are hanging out with friends you are probably having, what, starts with an F. Yes, probably having fun. So I'm just going to write that really big here because that is the most important, most important thing that we want to remember about friends is to be nice to our friends and have fun with them. Yeah, exactly. So let's sing a song about friendship and it's called the more we get together the happier we'll be. And we'll start with the sign language. Alright, I'll try it with you. Oh the more we get together together together oh the more we get together the happier we'll be because your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends and the more we get together the happier we'll be. Let's try it in this key here and I'll play the guitar and see if you can do the sign language. Ready? Oh the more we get together together together oh the more we get together the happier we'll be because your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends and the more we get together the happier we'll be. Do you think you can remember all the words and the signs? Let's find out. I'll play the harmonica while you sing it. One, two, three. I'd like to sing a song about one of the founding fathers. Those were the people who helped get our country started and organized. There is a founding father whose last name starts with F. Anyone know who it was? His first name was Ben. Benjamin. Franklin. Franklin. That's right. So let me just write his name in here. That was really good that you guessed that. A lot of people know George Washington. Not everyone knows that Franklin came from Boston. That's right. And when he was a kid his family was working really hard. He had to stop school and go to work in his father's candle factory when he was 10 years old. He didn't like it because it was really hot and stinky in the candle factory. That's why he quit and became a printer. And eventually he learned how to do so many things. It was amazing. He was an inventor, a writer, a leader. And that's what the song is all about. I'm going to give you three ways that you can be part of this song. The first thing is when I say he flew a kite with a key attached please put your kite up like that way up high as you can and put a key on the kite. And when I say lightning struck and he got zapped let's do it. That was pretty good but let's make it really loud. Excellent. And the second thing is when I say who your answer to that question is always Franklin of course. So let's try that. Who? Franklin of course. And the last one is when I say he wouldn't wear the wig I used to wear those funny white curly wigs when I say he wouldn't wear the wig when they did the silly dance we're all going to jump up and do a silly dance. Okay, that comes at the end. And here's your part you can sing. La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la printer, inventor, diplomat to so many things that Ben Franklin could do. Kites, he flew a kite with a key attached lightning struck and he got zapped La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la poor Richard Zalmanac printed the news with jokes and advice that a farmer could use the mail was delivered by a coach and horse the first postmaster was Franklin of course Who was it? La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la writer, statesman, scientist too so many things that Ben Franklin could do he flew a kite with a key attached lightning struck and he got zapped La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la he invented a wood stove to keep his house warm a rod to catch lightning kept it safe in a storm he signed the treaties that ended the wars we're talking about Ben Franklin of course Who did all that stuff? La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la Ben signed his name on that great declaration he helped write the laws that gave birth to our nation they liked him in England and they loved him in France but he would not wear the wig when they did the silly dance get ready it's turkey time irl. Shape in a haircut. Two bits. Great dancing. Oh, let me keep out of this ukulele because you might have noticed in the song that they liked him in England, they loved him in France. Ben Franklin was the ambassador to France. And France is a country that starts with what letter? It starts with F. And what is the capital city of France? Paris. And who knows what is the most famous building in all of Paris? The Eiffel Tower. That's right. So we're gonna sing a song about the Eiffel Tower. Oh, I forgot to tell you. This is a dancing song. Let's stand right up and we're gonna do a little dance. There's a part for you. When I say oolala, try that with me, say oolala. The Eiffel Tower. And when we say the Eiffel Tower, I want you to hold your hands up. Reach up and make an Eiffel Tower with somebody. Okay, or all together. Yes, make an Eiffel Tower. We can do it all together or with the partner.  All right.  Here we go. This is your shining hour. Here we go. Oolala, the Eiffel Tower. I have something in my musical picnic basket here that I'm gonna play. And you can pretend to play one of these. It's called a kazoo. Well, while we're traveling, I would like to take you to Mexico because it's one of my favorite places to travel. I love the... I have many friends from Mexico. I love the people. I love the culture. I love the food. I love the music. And the music. Well, we're gonna have a little bit of culture, food, and music right here with a song called Senorita Rita.  Do they have ice cream in Mexico? I think they do. Don't they call it elado, I think? Elado? Ice cream is your favorite food. I like the rainbow kind. Let's find out what your favorite foods are. What's your favorite food? Burritos. Burritos, good. Are we talking Mexican food or just food in general? Any kind of food, really. Salad. And cheese. Sandwiches and cheese. Sushi. I love sushi, too. Good taste. Fish. Fish? Very good. Cheese quesadillas. Cheese quesadillas. We've got a really healthy crew here. Chilato. Chilato, okay. Something we've got to feast. All right. It's so hard to pick. I think I'm going to pick one of my favorites, and that's clementines, when they're cold. I love those. Well, I'm gonna tell you my favorite food is tacos, especially fish tacos. But to make a taco or a quesadilla, someone mentioned quesadillas, we need to make a tortilla. And Senorita Rita makes them by hand, the old-fashioned one. So pretend you have a lump of cornmeal, and we're going to put this down for just a second to show you. We're going to be making a tortilla like this. Milo, can you help us make a tortilla, too? Like this? Okay. While we're making tortillas, please say this after me. Senorita Rita. Senorita Rita. She makes the corn tortillas. She makes the corn tortillas. She lives in a cabana. She lives in a cabana. In her yard, she grows bananas. In her yard, she grows bananas.  And bananas have enormous leaves, okay? So there is two more things you need to know. One is, Senor Juan Rivera loves to sing rancheras.  Those are called rancheras. And we're going to go to a fiesta a little bit later in the song. Anyone know what a fiesta is? A fiesta is a feast. It's a feast or a party. That's right. So we're going to go to a fiesta and we're going to dance. Let's do it. Here we go. Grab your lump of cornmeal. Show me how you make a corn tortilla. Kitchen. That's right. And to start us out, we're going to count to three in Spanish. Senorita Rita. She makes the corn tortillas. She lives in a cabana in her yard. She grows bananas and she sings all day. La le lo le. La le lo le lo le. That's right. Every verse, we're going to end with two claps, two claps, two claps, and then a little shimmy. That's right. Here we go. Otra vez. Senorita Rita. She makes the corn tortillas. She lives in a cabana in her yard. She grows bananas and she sings all day. La le lo le. La le lo le lo le. Get ready for senor Juan. Let's play our guitars. La guitar. Senor Juan Rivera. He loves to sing rancheras. By day he's selling cocoa. But at night he's dancing loco and he sings all day. La le lo le. La le lo le lo le. Ready for a fiesta? Let me hear you say fiesta. One night at a fiesta. Senorita Rita.  La le lo le. La le lo le lo le. Who's got some good dance moves they want to show? Good.  We're going to make a taqueria. Can you show me what that would look like? What's a taqueria? A taqueria is a restaurant. It's a restaurant where they serve tortillas. Uno, dos, tres. They built a taqueria where Rita makes tortillas. They laugh at their old photos. Now they're married with tres hijos. They sing all day. La le lo le. La le lo le lo. To go faster, because they're trying to serve tortillas in their restaurant. Gotta make a lot of them, but they're still trying to do it by hand. Can you make your tortilla faster? Yes. Uno, dos, tres. Senorita Rita. She makes the corn tortillas. She lives in a cabana in her yard. She grows bananas and she sings all day. La le lo le. La le lo le lo le lo le. I love it.  That was really good. What do you think they can go faster? All right. Uno, dos, tres. Senorita Rita. She makes the corn tortillas. She lives in a cabana in her yard. She grows bananas and she sings all day. La le lo le. La le lo le lo le. Let's shoot me down low and let's jump up as high as we can and yell ole on the count of three. Uno, dos, tres. I love it. Okay. Well, let's sit down and relax a bit because you've been dancing up a storm and I also feel like it would not be right to have a children's music show without at least one song about an animal. Oh, thank you. In fact, Senorita Rita was kind of a love story, right? She falls in love with Senor one. This story is, this song is also a love story. Only involves Mr, can you guess what animal? Starts with an F. Starts with an F. There's a fox. Good guess, but it's not Mr. Fox. Let me give you a clue. I'm going to reach into my musical picnic basket and play something here and maybe you'll be able to guess. Yes. All right girl. It looks like a frog and it sounds like a frog. It's a musical frog. And let's play a little game here called pass the frog. Okay. Let's just keep passing them around because I have enough for each of you to play a frog. Okay. So let's see. Some of them are big like that.  And once you get it, you can go ahead and start playing it to get used to how it works and how it sounds. Okay. Maddie, that one's for you to play the one in your hand right there. Okay. Oh my goodness. Oh, this one is really cute. This is a little tree frog right there. Okay. And yes, one more frog here. Okay. I'll tell you what, after a few verses, I'll tell you to trade and you can trade with somebody sitting next to you. Okay. Listen to all those frogs. Yeah. Oh, this song is called froggy went a courton. So let me write that in and Mr. Frog loves Miss Mouse. So here we go. Froggy went a courton and he did ride. And when I say mm-hmm, you can say mm-hmm. When I say ribbit, ribbit, you can say ribbit, ribbit, and so on. And you can keep playing the frogs all you want. Froggy went a courton and he did ride. Froggy went a courton and he did ride. Froggy went a courton and he did ride with a sword and a banjo by his side. Can you make a knocking sound with the stick? He rode right to Miss Mouse's door. Knock, knock, knock, knock. Road ride to Miss Mouse's door. Knock, knock, knock, knock. Road ride to Miss Mouse's door where he had been many times before. Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock. Let's trade frogs with someone. Trade frogs with one of your friends. And try to make a ribbit sound again. Ribbit sound with your new frog. Got right down on his bended knee. Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit. Got right down on his bended knee. Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit. Got right down on his bended knee. And he said, Miss Mouse, will you marry me? Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit. What do you think Miss Mouse said? Yes, we have some optimists here. Well, she didn't say yes, but she didn't say no either. Tell you what she said. Kind of like a maybe. Without my uncle, rat's consent. Without my uncle, rat's consent. Without my uncle, rat's consent. I would not marry the president. Uncle rat laughed till he shook his sides. Yes, yes, he said yes. Uncle rat laughed till he shook his sides. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Uncle rat laughed till he shook his sides. To think my niece is going to be a bride. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Well, they decided to get married in the morning and serve a wedding breakfast. But what will the wedding breakfast be? Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. What will the wedding breakfast be? I'd like to find out what you'd like for your wedding breakfast. I heard that Megan said she would like cake. Anybody else would like to tell what you'd like for your wedding breakfast? Sushi? All right, we got cake, we got sushi, we got ice cream, fruit, a lot of fruit, candles, watermelon, dinges, pears, pancakes. What would you like for your wedding breakfast? Okay, so we got sushi, waffles, pancakes, cake. Fruit is a good offer, that's right. Well, that all sounds really good to me, so please say yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Oh yeah, really good. What will the wedding breakfast be? Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, what will the wedding breakfast be? A fried mosquito and some moldy cheese. That sound good to you. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Let me hear that yuck, yuck again. With the yucky taste like that, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. But they did have a cake, but they didn't get to eat it. No. I'll tell you why.   And then he slithered over to Mr. Frog and Miss Mouse, and he opened his mouth really wide. Oh no, oh no, oh no. They figured it was time to leave on their honeymoon. Can you guess where they went? Oolala, that's your clue. Oolala. A place he's... Yes, they went to Paris, France on their honeymoon. They left right away on their honeymoon. Oolala. Oolala. On their honeymoon. Pants in a silver spoon. Oolala. Oolala. Oolala. Put this story back on the shelf. That's all. That's all. Let's put the story on the shelf. That's all. That's all. Let's put the story back on the shelf. If you want some more you'll have to sing it yourself. That's all. That's all. That's all. That's all. That's all. That's all. That's all. That's all. That's all. Thank you so much for playing the frogs with me and singing the froggy wintercourt and story. And having a fiesta with Senorita Rita making the corn tortillas. And traveling to France and climbing up the 1700 steps of the Eiffel Tower. It was also fun to learn and share a little bit about Benjamin Franklin with you. And you know what? I feel like in this last half an hour we've made friends. And I know I've had a lot of fun. So I hope that you have too. Dorothy, is it time for our closing song? Well, you told me about one other fun idea. That if we keep it to a short one we can fit in a freeze song. A freeze dance. F is for freeze a frog dance. Let's do that. And then the, oh yes. Shall we collect? A party freeze dance. That sounds like a great idea. Okay. But we keep it short and then we sing our goodbye song. Okay. Thank you. Thank you all. Let's do it. Thank you, Milo. Thank you, Benet. It's so I can play the guitar and the harmonica at the same time. All right. How about this? When I play, you know what you have to do. What do you have to do in freeze dance? When the music plays you. And when the music stops you. Free. Okay. Here we go. You can watch it. This time when you freeze, try to do a surprise freeze like that. Oh yeah. That's a good one. Here we go. That was so fun. I enjoyed doing that freeze, watching the freeze dance this time. All right. So Phillip, you can stand up with us. Okay. And Dona, would you like to be next to Phillip? We'll make a line this way. And make a, yeah, Phillip, you move right up there. Okay. Do I need to flip this over? Do we have any? Nope. Just stand right there and join the song. Excellent. We're going to keep singing, keep looking up. Okay. Here, make room for everybody. Here we go. Dona and Maddie can hold hands. Okay. How about Aurora? Will you hold Jeanette and your other hand? And she likes to keep singing the closing song too. Okay. Milo, you want to keep your hands to yourself this time? Fine. Okay. Ready? Keep singing, keep looking up, keep asking questions and never give up. Keep singing, keep looking up, keep asking questions and never give up. Oh my goodness. Thank you for watching. We'll see you next time. Bye-bye. Thank you for watching and thank you for having me on your show. Oh, we're glad you could come, Phillip Alexander from Boston. Thank you for coming.


There is a lot of talking going on in this room right now. Not between us, but between the cells in our bodies. They're talking with each other all the time, but differently from how we do it. Because as we use speech and gestures, they talk with each other using chemicals. So let's for example have a look at the liver in our body. If we zoom in, we see that the liver is actually made up of a lot of different types of cells. But for these cells to come together and appear as one organ, as one tissue, they have to act in a coherent manner. They have to collaborate. And for this, they absolutely must communicate with each other, just as is the case for humans. But now, what happens if the liver suffers an injury and some of these cells, they don't work properly any longer? Usually we would be given some sort of drug or maybe a transplant. But what if we instead could use something like a prosthetic for the cell? So something that looks a bit like a cell, acts a bit like a cell and supports it? Well, this is what we try to do using artificial cells. Artificial cells, they mimic these natural cells, but they are much, much simpler. And usually they perform just one or two of the functions that the natural cell can do. But this function could for example be that function that the liver now can't do because of the injury. Now, what I try to do in my project is figure out how do we make these artificial cells communicate with the natural cells, so that they also one day can collaborate with each other. And more specifically, I make artificial cells that can eavesdrop on liver cells. And how do I do it? Well, I start by making these tiny little cell sized gels to which I attach a molecule. And these ones are my artificial cells, so they really are very simple. Now what I do is that I cut off that molecule, which acts as the listening of the artificial cells. And what do they listen to? Well, they listen to whether or not a molecule is being produced by the liver cells, which correlates to how good are the liver at detoxifying different things, which is a very important job for a liver to do. So now what we have is a molecule produced by the liver cells. We have a molecule released by the artificial cells, and these two molecules can react together to create a new molecule. And this can in turn be detected by the artificial cells to produce light, which I as a researcher can now detect. So in this way, I hope that the artificial cells that I've designed can one day partake in this conversation in the room that we can't hear. Thank you.


Ang karunungan ay kapangyarihan. Now, let's put that power to the test. It's time for K-Track! Hello everyone, I am Jonelle Labor. Ako po, si Amy Sue Martinez and this is K-Track, the newest and smartest game show on Philippine television.  Titig na natin kung gaano katin de ang brain power nila. And in the final week of the competition, malalaman natin kung sino ang kauna-unahang tatang haling K-Track champion. Apat na contestants ang dadaan sa ating karunungan cheks sa araw na ito. Well is a sales executive who likes travel and public speaking. Alvin is studying economics at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines and he lists reading as his favorite hobby. Polly is a film student in an adventure soul who enjoys coffee, music, sports and human company. Gabi is a second year BS geology student at UP Dileman. He has spent 4,000 hours playing Dota 2. These four will be competing under the watchful eyes of today's K-Track panel of experts. Professor Wendel Kapili, College of Arts and Letters UP Dileman. Professor Rikin Nelyas of the Institute of Chemistry UP Dileman. And Professor Neil Santillian, Chairperson of the UP Dileman Department of History. And now contestants, papasok na tayo sa K-Track paramihan where each correct answer is worth 10 points. It is your chance to bank as many points as you can and take the all important early lead. Let's begin. Let's begin. Well, alpha and beta are the first two letters in what languages alphabet? Phonetic. Malik. Greek. Alvin, what number is a sum of 28 and 11? 29. K-check. Polly, which DC superhero is the arch enemy of the Joker and Catwoman? Batwan. K-check. Gabi, what hearing device invented by Renee Lyanec is used by doctors to listen to chest sounds? Cardiogram. Malik, stethoscope. Well, what number is 12 less than 24? Negative 12. Malik, 12. Alvin, Voldemort is the main villain of which film franchise? K-check. K-check. Polly, what botanical term can also describe a vehicle that runs on gasoline and electricity? Automobile. Malik, hybrid. Gabi, what number is half of 62? 31. K-check. Well, the traitorous felines car that's SCAR and his hainas are the bad guys in which Disney film? The Lion King. Alvin, what province is immediately to the east of Occidental Mindoro? Argental Mindoro. K-check. Polly, what number is eight more than 99? 107. K-check. Gabi, in what film franchise do villains Darth Vader and Kylo Ren appear? Star Wars. K-check. And that's it for round one for K-check. And that's it for our first round, the K-check Paramihan round. So Polly mentioned in her application that he likes human company. What does that mean? Polly, can you tell us about that? Well, I enjoy being with other people, with friends, but that doesn't mean I don't like animal company. Actually, my full name is Polly Birdie. So it means I really like birds as well. Oh, okay. Pinaglihika ba sa birdie, Polly? Yes. Polly Birdie. Okay. Great to know that. Okay, kaw naman, Alvin, sabi mo, reading. Ano yung pinakamahabang binasa mo sa buhay mo? Hindi ko akong mag-yagay. But why do you want to read? For yagang, happy ka. Happy, happy. Ako din happy ako magbabasa ako. Ikaw ba happy ka magbasa? Absolutely, reading makes Alvin happy. Kanyang-kanyang happiness yan. Correct. And so now, let's go back to the points that were garnered by our contestants. So on the lead, we have Alvin at 30 points, followed by Polly and Gabby at 20 points. And well, habol po tayo. Kayo, ilang tanong ang nasagot nyo? Ako, siguro mga tatlo lang din. Kailangan ko pang mas, makuho yung iba. Work harder. Parang si Well. At ready na ba kayong lahat for our pabilisan round? Next here on... K-check! Tuloy pa rin ang ating karunungan check. Magkakalungo tayo ng recap. Naunas, si Alvin with 30 points, sunod si Polly and Gabby with 20 points at habol si Well. Professor Wiggy, may tanong ka nao kay Well? Meronata. Well, mahilike daw sa travel. Yes, bro. Anong maisa suggest mo sa akin na area ang nakuatyan dito sa Pilipinas. Well, the last destination that I had this year was, I think that was in Barakay. That was last March. And that was my first time.  So, I think I would strongly recommend if you haven't tried Barakay. Nakakainergay sa Barakay. Napumunta ka na ba Barakay? Na-energize ka. Na-energize ka. Okay. Ako din energize. Co-proc Wendell, na-energize ka ba sa nangyayaling ang hapong ito? Very energetic ang ating mga contestants at sa tingin ko, ay silay didip-dibi nila ang susunod na round sa pagkat from the way they have been performing. Nakakita mo yung kanilang determination to respond to the questions and to be able to participate and to enjoy this whole experience. Kusabihin, fighting s'ya na narinig pala yung niwell. We're now going into K-check pabilisan. Buzz in first for the right to answer the question. Correct answers are worth 20 points pero sa round na ito, minus 10 points ang maling sagot. Kaya contestants, think before you press that buzzer. Let's begin! Let us now begin with the very first question for round two. Michael J. Fox stars as Marty and Christopher Lloyd play Stock Brown in what 1985 time travel movie? Gabby. Into the future. Maling. Polly. K-check! Next question. What general term refers to the study of the earth's physical structures, especially its crust and rocks? Geography. Maling. Polly. Geology. K-check! I was looking at Gabby. Question three. Standing about 6,000 meters tall, Clemenjaro is the highest mountain in what continent? Gabby. Africa. K-check! Next question. In K-pop, debuting at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, which 2020 BTS song became its first number one single in the United States? Polly. Butter. Marty. The correct answer is Dynamite. Alfredo Linguini and her rodent, Remy, are the main characters of what 2007? Ratatoli. Polly. Ratatoli. K-check! In statistics, what do you call the middle value in an arranged set of tata? Gaby. Midyan. K-check! Next question. In golf, what do you call the score for one stroke less than par in a hole? The correct answer is Birdie and I thought Polly will be able to answer this. Question eight. Which monster battled Kong in the 2021 blockbuster film that burned Godzilla? Yes, Gabby. K-check! Which city in Syria is known for being the world's oldest country capital? Polly. Damascus. K-check! Question ten. Which bands debut album included the hit singles Broken Sonnet and The Day You Said Good Night? Yes, Gabby? Hale. K-check! Question eleven. Last, almost. Next, the last question. Which Greek epic poem set during the Trojan War is attributed to Homer? Alvin. Ilyat. K-check! And the last question. Measuring about 50 centimeters in adults, what is the longest bone in the human body? Gabby. Femur. K-check! And that's it for round two. And of our K-check, Pabilisan Round. Krabiyong round na yun, ha? Imagine may 110 points tayo. Very high. Kaya mo yun. Kakaianin. Okay. Ikaw, sa tigin ma-proff nil, kakaianin do na mga sojante namin? Ang galing ng batch na ito. Napakatapang at may dunong. So congratulations, it's exciting next round. Pero may, pwede ba ko magtanong sa isa sa mga contestants? Kay Gabby. Gabby, ano bang saisay ng pagdodota sa buhay mo? Kasi gusto ko maintindihan, kasi gusto rin nakan ako ang pagdodota. It's a special lever lang po. Kapag pagod na-pagod na sa pag-aharal tas kailangan ng break, nagdodota ako para ma-refresh yung mind. So, nakikita ko baka future suma ng UP Dileman? I would like to. Kasi nimangan, nag-suma sa panahon ng remote learning, yun daw yung past time nila. I would like to break the norm. Hindi ako magsusuman. Akalo ko, inspirational di si Nabi ko. Thank you so much, Sir Neil and ikaw ba, magili ka magdodota. Try mo para, tisiba, sumakong louder ka din. In a few minutes, magkakaalaman na as we go into ultimate pagalingan, UP NEXT, here on K-Check! Welcome back. And these are the current scores of our contestants. On the lead, we have Gabby at 110 points, and then we have two people following Gabby, Alvin and Polly at 70 points. Well, habol! Mukhang magkakasubukan, we'll find out in our K-Check Ultimate Pagalingan where correct answers are worth 30 points, wrong answers get a 15 point deduction. At para mas madagdagan ang kaalaman ng ating mga contestants at viewers, sa round na ito sa mga professors ng ating panel of experts mang gagaling mga tanong. At the end of this round, malalaman na natin kung sino ang tatanghaling K-Check Daily Winner. Contestants, let's begin! Let's begin. Prof Wendell, question number one, please. Question number one, who is the country's first national artist? Polly! Fernando Armersolo. K-Check. And nice kung idag-dag na siya ang lolo ni Yula Valdez, award-winning actress. Yula Amorsolo Valdez. Thank you. Prof Riki. Dinoflagellates are a single-celled organism with two dissimilar flagellates. They are capable of producing bioluminescence. But in its success, can cause a natural phenomenon most commonly known as Alvin. Red tight. K-Check. Prof Neil. The Panangbega Festival is a major festival of what city up north? Gaby. Ikat din ni Tobi lang summer capital of the Philippines. Ang tamang sagot ay Bagyo. K-Check. Prof Wendell. Next question, which novelist became the first Japanese to win the Nobel Prize for Literature? Kaibigan Tony nasirang National Artist FC nilo. Jose Matalik na kaibigan. Si Kawabata or Kawabata Yosunari. Who is also the mentor of Yukio Mishima. Another famous novelist. Thank you, Prof Riki. What is the most likely mechanism for the movement of tectonic plates? Yung knowledge na ito ay ginagamit natin to explain volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, convection currents. Prof Neil, next question please. What is the legal basis in declaring Filipino as the country's national language? Nakasaad dito sa ating saligang batas. Ang talamang sagot ay 1987 Philippine Constitution. Prof Wendell. Who became the first Filipino singer to make it to the Australian pop charts with the hit song Come Closer to Me. She is also the first woman to score a number one hit in the Australian pop charts. Who is she? Ang clue, since wala naman nakasagot, merong street named after her at siyari ng unang Pilipino na nanalo sa isang international song festival, sa Tokyo Music Festival, she's Pilita Corales. May street sa Melbourne sa Australia named after her, ganun siya kasi cat ng late 50s, 30s, 60s. Thank you, Prof Ricky. What is the enzyme responsible for DNA replication through synthesizing a new DNA strand from an original DNA strand? Ang main function ito ay maintenance ng genetic information at pagpasapasa ng mga information atto through generation. The correct answer is DNA polymerase. Prof Neil. Who has the most wins of the FIFA World Cups by any player? Ang tamang sagot ay Pele. Prof Wendell. What is considered the highest film honor in France, the French equivalent to the Oscars? Kung ang Britain may BAFTA, ano naman meron sa France? Algin. Kan. Malik. Ang correct answer ito ay Cesar Award at ang isa sa pinakamalaming best na nanalo ito ay ang international French actress da si Catherine Deneuve. Prof Ricky. Which strong acid is the main component of the stomach acid? This acid is important for full digestion hydrochloric acid. Prof Neil. Guru Nanak founded which religion in the late 15th century. Ito ay isang religion na pinagsama ang mga tradisong Hindu at Muslim.  And that's it for K-check Ultimate Pagalingan. That's it for K-check Ultimate Pagalingan. Congratulations to Gaby, our K-check daily winner with a final score of 140 points. We'll see Gaby again on Friday when he competes with our other daily winners for a spot in our semifinals. Thanks to Well, Alvin and Polly for joining and to the members of our panel of experts. Professor Wendell, Professor Ricky and Professor Neil. This is Aimi Sue Martinez. And I am Jonella Bore. Join us again tomorrow for another K-check.


As a leader, I think you have to figure out, like a football club, whether you are the owner, the manager, or the coach. Each of those three individuals are all leaders to say the sports team. But as any of you know that know anything about sport, they're three very different people with very different hats on, three very different approaches to people and jobs to do. Of course the owner is all about profitability and the owner is all about productivity. But he's very much aware of the bottom line if the team lose the bottom line financially. Because the owners are normally the finances and the big backers financially of the football club in terms of that analogy. The manager then is managing the team and he's much more hands on and he is between the owner and the players. And I know leaders like that, especially in the church, but in the secular world that hands on manager that's not really bothered about the big picture of the profitability like the owner would be. But he's very committed to winning, of course winning reflects on his own record and his own position very often. But the manager is managing, he's not owning, he's not got that hat on. He's managing, he's shaping that team to be a winning team and he works very close as you know with the coach. The coach is on the pitch kicking the ball around with the players. He is keeping their fitness strong, he's very involved in their lives. He's very involved in tactics and strategy for how to play the team and the best positions on the field. And I have known, I think when we struggle in leadership is when the owner tries to be the coach and there's a huge gap in his style and his language and his presentation of himself to the people in the trenches on the pitch. And I've been in too many settings where the leader gets on the stage and he's like a manager or an owner and there's nobody in the trenches with the people. The language is too far removed, it's not practical enough. It lacks sensitivity to how this lands in people's worlds and every church and every leadership team, every organization needs all these three individuals. But I think when it comes to the local church and many of you in that world like me, we have to make sure that we're strong on the coaching element of what we do. That you may be a leader that is very much a manager which is great but it's still too far removed just to have that hat on to inspire and motivate people to play their hearts out for you. So you need the coach that's in the trenches with the people making very practical and very real and very user friendly often managers don't do, that coaches do. What it is that we're trying to get the team to buy into and to perform to that level. So figure out which of those you are and then settle into being the best you can at being that. But don't try to cross over because that's where it gets messy and confusing for people who are following us. Find out your primary strength. Are you the owner, leader? Are you the manager leader? Are you the coach leader? And just be whichever of those you are best at being. Others can be those other things that you're not. You may not have the others in place and you may feel we're weak in the owner category, we're weak in the manager category. So you try to be that but you'll never be a good one of those if God didn't wire you that way. So be the best you can at what you are and others will emerge to become those other roles around you. So figure out which you are and be the best you can at those.


Hi everyone. Chris here from IELTS Advantage with a brand new mini course. What we're going to look at today is IELTS Band 7 or above and we're going to specifically, if I can talk, specifically talk a look at reading and we're going to have a mini course this week. So we're going to have three lessons in this mini course. Lesson number one, real reasons why you struggle. So we're going to, it's really important to look at the things that most students do and the reasons why they are not going to help you so you can stop doing those things. We're also going to look in this lesson at how important vocabulary is and how to strategically improve your vocabulary and we're also going to give you a free ebook and show you how you can download that and that ebook is going to help you improve your vocabulary. So I'll give that to you at the end. Lesson two, which is going to be on Wednesday, we're going to look at improving your reading skills. So we're going to look at things like skimming, scanning, close reading, what these actually mean, how to use them in the test so that you can obviously how to improve your reading skills. And then on Friday, lesson three, we're going to look at a strategic approach for improving your IELTS reading scores. So lesson three, a strategic approach for improving that. And these are the times and dates and everything for what's happening this week. So lesson one is going to is obviously you're watching it now at 1pm today. 1pm on Wednesday, exactly the same time 1pm UK time, you can figure that out whatever that is in your own time zone. And this Wednesday, we're going to have lesson two, lesson three is going to be on Friday at a slightly different time 11am UK time. So you can join us live here on Facebook, and you can interact with us, I'll be answering questions and everything at the end. So why do most people struggle with the IELTS reading test? I'd say most people don't have a real problem with listening. In the comments below you'll probably tell me that you do have a big problem with listening. But when it comes to the difference between listening and reading, I'd say most people are like half a band or a band in my experience higher, and they struggle a little bit with the reading test. So we need to think about what most students do. Most students who fail the reading test don't get the score that they need. What are they doing? And I'm going to show you using this pyramid why that is. So at the top of this pyramid, if you look at my inbox, if you look at my email inbox, and you just search for reading, and I'd say each day, how many emails would we get each day? A thousand? But a thousand emails a day. Let's say a hundred of those are about reading. And if you scan those emails that are just asking for help with reading, the majority of them ask for one thing in some way, shape or form. And that is they ask for tips. All right. So they say things like, can you give me some tips to help me improve my reading? Can you help me with some reading hacks or reading shortcuts or reading cheats or just some little tricks to help me improve my reading score? The thing that we always say is no, because they do not work. So what I'd say, you know, 90% of students are looking for something that doesn't actually help them. So if you are doing something and looking for something and using something that doesn't help you, are you going to improve? No. And there are four other factors that are far more important. And these are things that students completely ignore. And these are things that are actually going to help you. So let's look at these things and we'll be discussing them throughout this mini course this week. So the first thing is something that we will talk about throughout the whole course. We'll touch upon it in every single lesson this week. And because it's the most important thing. So this is the most important, then this one, then this one, then this one, this one, not really that important. First one is mindset. How you think about the test, what your attitude is to the test, what your attitude is to your preparation, what your attitude is to test day will determine your score more than anything else. And we'll talk about this throughout the course and it will make a lot of sense. So if you're typing in the comments, what do you mean by mindset? By the end of this three day mini course, it's going to make a lot of sense to you. So the other factor that is very, very important is vocabulary. Basically, the reading test is not only a reading test, it is also a vocabulary test. If your vocabulary is not at the level that it needs to be, it doesn't matter how many tips you look at, it doesn't matter how many hacks you look at, it doesn't matter how many shortcuts you use, you're not going to convince IELTS that your reading skills are at a certain level if your vocabulary is not also at a certain level. So look at this today in a lot more detail and we'll give you a free ebook at the end to help you strategically improve your vocabulary. All right, the thing that is next on the list, skills. So obviously it is a reading test, it is testing your reading skills, but the problem with reading skills is they are very much misunderstood by most students. Most students take a very simplistic view of this. They think that all I have to do is just skim and then scan and then find the answer and that's a job done. It's a little bit more complicated than that. So on day two on Wednesday we're going to look at how to improve this and how to understand what these skills are and how they will help you improve your score. And the next thing is strategy. So you should have a step-by-step strategy for each of the different types of questions. Why do you need that? Because the different types of questions are all testing different reading skills and reading subskills and require a completely different approach. So if you're going into the test and just applying the same strategy to every different type of question, it would be like a football team applying the same strategy to every single team that they play. You need to adjust it depending on who you're playing. You need to adjust your strategy depending on which question is coming up. So it's about understanding the different types of questions and applying a step-by-step strategy for each of them and thinking very strategically about your whole approach to your preparation. And that's what we're going to look at this week. But today we're going to focus on mindset and we're going to focus on vocabulary. Okay so is vocabulary important? Many of you watching this will think like it's a reading test, it really depends on my reading skills. It's testing my reading. Vocabulary isn't that important. I would argue that it's probably in terms of systems and skills, it's the most important thing when it comes to the reading test. So number one, if you have a wide-ranging vocabulary, it's going to help you understand the text. If you do not understand multiple words within each paragraph or within each sentence, it's kind of like if I took a pen and deleted multiple words from each paragraph. Just rub them out or cover them up. If you don't understand that, it doesn't matter how good your reading skills are. If you don't understand the sentence, if you don't understand the paragraph, if you don't understand it, then it's going to make it very very very difficult for you. So the wider your vocabulary, the easier it will be for you to navigate your way through the passage to understand it and to answer the question. Number two, having a wide-ranging vocabulary helps you locate the place, the location of the correct answer. So when you are looking at the questions, it might say one word but the place, when you're scanning the paragraph that you're looking for, the part of the text you're looking for, doesn't say that word, it says a synonym of that word. So unless you understand that word means the same as that and they're both synonyms of each other, then you're not going to be able to find the correct answer. If you can't find the correct answer or find the correct location, you're going to be floundering, you're going to be taking a very very long time to find the location because that is part of doing the reading test. You can't immediately look at the question and then find the correct answer, you have to find the location first. So helping, improving your vocabulary is going to help with that tremendously. Number three, helps you decide correct answers. So you might, for example, in a multiple-choice question, get three different answers and the words in it have three slightly different meanings. So that's just one example of one question type with three slightly different meanings, but you need to understand the different meanings of those words. That's just one example out of many many many many others where knowing the vocabulary and knowing the meaning of the words and the difference between the meaning of the words is going to help you find the correct answer. So it's going to help you understand the whole text, find the location of the correct answer and decide the correct answer. So it's absolutely crucial that you work on your vocabulary and that's why we'll be giving you the free ebook at the end. So you need to improve your vocabulary. Hopefully I've proved that to you that if you want to improve your reading scores first you need to improve your vocabulary. So how do you improve your vocabulary? So let's look at how not to improve your vocabulary first. The worst thing you can do is look at lists. All right, lists are not going to help you. I see this all the time. Sometimes students will send me a link to some school or Facebook page that deals with IELTS and it'll say things like, you know, learn these lists of golden words or diamond words or power words or whatever it is and it's going to help you improve your vocabulary. They're not. Let's look at why that is. So number one, for reading it's impossible to predict which words are going to come up in the text. The English language is so broad, it's so massive that you would have to literally look at the dictionary and nobody has time to do that to like start at A and go all the way to Z. You're just not going to be able to do that. So it's a really silly way to try and learn vocabulary for the reading test by looking at a very limited list of words because these word lists could be anything from, like, you know, 100 words to a thousand words. That's not going to cover it. So it's a complete waste of time and lists are not going to teach you the word 100%. You're going to have to understand, of course, the meaning, but most word lists only give you like the meaning and a translation, which is useless. You're not going to understand collocations. You're not going to understand synonyms, antonyms, how it's used in a sentence. You need to understand how the word operates in a sentence. You need to understand the word 100%. If you're not doing that, it's a waste of time. And looking at a list of words doesn't help you improve your reading skills. And so there's a much better way of doing that. And I'll show you this in the ebook that we will share with you. And all you have to do is just add your email and then you can we'll email it directly to you. So the best way to improve your vocabulary is to read. If you look at any study done on the best way for someone to improve their vocabulary, reading is the number one way. However, just reading is not the answer. I can't go and just grab any book off the shelf and just start reading it. And magically, my vocabulary is going to improve. My vocabulary will improve a little bit, but you have to take a more strategic approach to it. So as I said, you need to be a little bit more strategic. So what we're going to do now is share the ebook with you. So let me show you how you can find it. So it's on our website. So if you go to our website, so type into Google IELTS Advantage and go to the homepage. So if you scroll down right to the bottom of our homepage, you'll see here we've put a little box in for you, free IELTS Vocabulary ebook. And it tells you step by step exactly what to do, exactly what to read, how to read, how to record your new vocabulary, how to review it, how to make sure that it sticks in here and you can use it on exam day. So all you have to do is just go to the main homepage. So just type in IELTS Advantage, go to the homepage, stick your email in there, and that's it. Simple as. Let's talk a little bit about mindset. So as we mentioned, tips are not going to help. So why is it that tips don't help? Well, you've got the wrong mindset. You're looking for a shortcut, you're looking for an easy way out. You're not going to be able to do that. Related to this, once you download the ebook, two things are very, very important. One, it tells you to read a lot. So many of you will have the wrong mindset about this because you'll be thinking, I don't have time. I don't have time to do this. Well, that's exactly the same as looking for a shortcut. All right, there's no short way of doing this. Think about anything else that you're trying to improve. You can't, let's say you want to lose weight. You can't really, really quickly lose weight. Or you want to get stronger. You can't, there's no shortcut of doing that. It takes years and years and years of working out. Or you want to become a marathon runner. You want to run a marathon. You can't immediately go from someone who doesn't run at all to immediately running a marathon. Exactly the same here. You need to have the mindset that yes, you will do it, but it's going to take daily practice. It's going to take daily work. You're going to have to do it over a long period of time.  The instant solution just does not exist in this context. The other thing to do with mindset is when you download that ebook, it's going to tell you exactly what to do. Like a blueprint of how to improve your vocabulary. But 90% of you will read the ebook and think, this is great. And then do nothing with it. 10% of you or maybe even less will read the ebook and actually do the things that it says to do. And that only takes, like you can do this in 15 minutes a day or 20 minutes a day or 30 minutes a day. But it's all just about scheduling that time and actually doing the work and actually putting in the work. And that is why I put mindset as the most important thing, because it doesn't matter what your teachers are like. It doesn't matter what your materials are like. It doesn't matter if you don't want to do any work, you don't do any work, or you have a really unrealistic attitude about, and you're just looking for shortcuts and cheats and hacks and things like that. So I'm not saying that to complain or saying that to be negative. I'm saying that because I want you to improve your scores. And that's the best way to do it. And that's why we've included this at the top of the chart here. So that's it for lesson one, lesson two, we're going to look at reading skills. So we're going to look at skimming, scanning, and close reading. So we're going to look at exactly what this is, exactly what this is, exactly what this is, how to use them and what combination and how to improve them. And that's what we're going to look at on Wednesday. So join me at the same time on Wednesday. And we'll take a few questions. I have about 10 minutes. So let me see if there are any questions. Yeah, so one one thing. Okay, one thing a lot of people have missed. A lot of you are commenting with your email. This is an online form, you put your email in there. Alright, I cannot go and copy and paste 100 emails. Alright, and then put them in here. Put your own email in there. And it's a lovely system. It just emails it to you directly. So please do that instead of entering your email. That's not a very efficient process. Let me see if you have any questions. Hello to everybody saying hello and thank you to all the people saying thank you. Rowena says where are you located in Northern Ireland in the UK. Everybody's adding their email address. Yeah, maybe I wasn't that clear. Put your email address in there. Okay, so go to the website, the homepage. Step one, step two, go to the bottom. Step three, enter email. Simple. Stick it in. That's it. Someone says don't use foul language, please. Two things. Number one, I didn't use foul language. And number two, it's my channel. I'll use foul language if I want. Feel free to log off and not look at it if you want. Maybe you were talking about people in the comments, if so, I apologize. Yeah, there just seems to be mass confusion about what to do. So that's probably my fault and I apologize if I wasn't clear. Good question from Yassaman. Is IDP changing its attitude about listening and reading? Because it's so difficult in comparison to the Cambridge test. So let me explain how it works. IDP, the British Council in Cambridge, those three bodies, they co-own the IELTS test. IDP and the British Council, they provide the test. So they provide the test centers and they mark your tests and everything. Cambridge create the tests. So IDP and the British Council do not create the tests. Cambridge do that and then they send them to IDP and the British Council. So your question is, are IDP tests more difficult than Cambridge? It's not the right way to think about it because Cambridge are the only people that produce them. Normally when somebody says, oh, that particular test was really, really difficult, it's probably because you were stressed out and you were under exam conditions or it could be normally something to do with human performance, not anything to do with the test. So it could be as simple as the breakfast that you had that morning or how much sleep you got the night before. These things happen all the time. Good question. Shahid, how much does translation help in improving vocabulary? Do not use translation at all. I know that that's a really difficult thing to accept. It's the reason why if you go to a really, really good school, if you go to a really good English school, the great teachers there, once you get to a certain level, like pre-intermediate basically, or even below that, they will not allow any translation devices or you to translate anything or any translation whatsoever because it is stopping you from using the language. Because what you're doing is you're putting a step in between you processing the language and using it because what you're doing is instead of you just looking at a word and thinking about it and using it in English, what you're doing is you're thinking about a word, translating it into your own language, translating back, then thinking about it in your own language and then thinking about it in English. And it's just using parts of your brain that you don't really need to use. And the problem often is that no two languages exactly match up with each other. So for example, I had this in my house yesterday. My wife is Vietnamese. She speaks English brilliantly, but one thing that she said was we were talking about food and she said, oh, it's good for health. And I said, it's not good for health. It's healthy. It's healthy. She said, oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. She says I was translating from Vietnamese. So from in Vietnamese, it's good for health. But if you use that translation, you're making a grammar mistake. And it's not just about grammar. It's also about different meaning and context and everything. So just like my students used to hate me because I would never allow any translation translation whatsoever. I had some students who would leave my class and say I want a different teacher. But the students who stayed really thanked me when they were able to actually use the English language. A very good question. How can I practice to improve vocabulary? In the vocabulary improvement plan, the ebook, it shows you how to do that. Let me see if I have time. A few more minutes. A lot of you are asking about how to improve my vocabulary, how to use vocabulary, what's the best way to learn vocabulary. Everything is included in that. I don't want to repeat myself over and over and over again. But download that, read it, and use it, and it'll answer all of those questions. A lot of you are asking about my VIP course. It's currently closed, but you can email me and ask some questions about it and maybe get put on the waiting list. My email address is chris at aislesadvantage.com. It should come up here. Here's my email address if you have any further questions or you want to work with us, you can send me an email. Can't guarantee that I'll be able to accept all of you or any of you, but you can email us if you want. This is very controversial now by translation. A lot of you are saying, but if I don't have any translation, how am I going to understand the word? Let's say, for example, you're reading a text. Let me put this up. Let's say you have, where did I put the pen? There we go. Imagine this is a paragraph, but 50 words or something like that. There's a word here. It's one word out of the whole paragraph. Let's say 50 words. And there's one word here which you see and you don't know. Okay. So what most students will do is they will, thank you, what most students will do is they will simply look at word up and put it into like Google translate or some sort of translation thing or look at it up in a dictionary that translates your language to that. So what happens is you read that, you look at the translation, it goes in here and out here and you will never remember it. It's very difficult to remember it. You're definitely not going to be able to use it in, let's say, you're doing the writing and the speaking test. You're never going to be able to use it. What you would do instead, if you weren't using translation, what you would do is you would look at the context, which is all these words around it and try and guess the meaning based on the words around it. Then what you would do is look at an English dictionary, so just an English, and then you would look up the meaning and you can compare what you thought was the meaning with the actual meaning. And that is going to help you do two things. Number one, it's going to help you become very, very good at guessing the meaning from context. You are especially in the reading test, but not only the reading test, but if you move to a different country, an English speaking country, every single day, multiple times a day, you're going to see new words you don't understand. So you're developing the skill of guessing the meaning by doing this. Also, the second thing is you're going to remember it, all right, because what you're going to do also is after you've guessed the meaning from context is to note that down in a special notebook or an app or something like that, record all the information you need there and review it regularly. That's much better than looking up the translation and completely forgetting about it. So join us on Wednesday. On Wednesday at 1 p.m., we'll be looking at reading skills, and then on Friday at 11 a.m., we'll be looking at taking a strategic step-by-step approach to all of the different types of reading questions. Thank you very much for all your comments. One last time, if you want the e-book, go to the main website, IELTS Advantage, go to the bottom, oops, enter your email, and you'll be able to get that. In the comments, let me know what you think of the e-book. If you have any questions after you've seen the e-book, have a look there and ask any questions that you have. I hope that you've enjoyed that. It's a free lesson, so all we ask is that you like and share it or just say thanks in the comments, and I'll see you again on Wednesday. Thank you very much. Bye-bye.


Hi everyone, Sean with jaspyscasebrakes.com here doing 2020 permitting select football three box hobby break pick your team number 11 where all card ship and the XRCs are randomized to the entire break. So the more teams you have, the more chance you get getting the XRCs. So here is our list of customers and respective teams from Alex Velasacos and the Cardinals down to Spiro Velasacos and the Washington football team. If you see the names with these little rooftops next to them, that just means they won those spots in a team random that we did for pick your team number 10 and 11 for a team filler. So congrats no matter how you guys got in on this break. Thank you very much and good luck. We've got six boxes left from this case. So pick your team 11 and pick your team 12 are both from this case. Here's that final list. Now we got to figure out which three boxes we're going to do. So one, two, three on the dice for the box on the left, four, five, six on the dice for the box on the right. Good luck. So one. So boxes on the left. These three boxes over here will be for pick your team 12 which is in the store now and in single digits. We can do that tonight. Finish it off. I just did my first three box break and it's really nice. So we did really well on that. See if we can double it up here. I don't know what was pulled in pick your team number nine which was the first three boxes from this case. As far as if we hit a zebra or anything like that but we didn't hit any zebra or anything like that in pick your team number 10. So if anybody knows if we did or did not hit one in nine, pay attention if we hit one here. If we don't, we didn't hit one in nine in the first one then maybe it's in 12. Okay. What about, do you remember if the zebra was pulled it off? It was not pulled in nine. Okay. So it wasn't pulled in nine, it was not pulled in 10. We'll see if we pull it here in 11 but if we don't, it can only mean one thing. I think he was trying to say it was not. I think you guys are agreeing that it was not hit. All good. Roundabout way of getting to the same thing. So I'd pay attention to see if it's hit now, here or not. I'll check it out, Jerome. I'll see what's up. Jaylen Rago or for the Eagles and Eric Ainge, Leviska Chanel Jr. for the Jaguars, Adam Schwarzman and three out of five, look at the patch on that. Kyler Murray. Nice. Cardinals, Alex Valasacos, Chase Claypool, Rookie Silver for the Steelers, Michael Gallucci, Leviska Chanel again for the Jaguars, Adam Schwarzman, Antonio Gandhi-Golden for Washington's Firo Valasacos, TJ Watt to 199 for the Steelers, Michael Gallucci, Aaron Rodgers Silver for the Packers, Josh Melton, Jonathan Taylor for the Colts, Sean Maddock, Justin Jefferson for the Vikings, Mike McCarthy, Nice Jordan Love Silver for the Packers, Josh Melton, Cam Akers for the Rams, David Baker, LeMichael Pirine to 175 for the Jets, Patrick Davis, Khalil Mack for the Bears, Zach Nguyen, Cole Comet for the Bears and Zach Nguyen, Chase Claypool for the Steelers, Michael Gallucci, Nick Chubb for the Browns, and Wayne Stock, Josh Allen Silver for the Bills, Mark Miller, DeAndre Swift for the Lions, Peter Lu, Jaylen Hertz Silver for the Eagles, Eric Ainge and, nice. I don't know William, I'll check on that after this break. Zach Moss for the Bills, Mark Miller, Tua for the Dolphins, David Nadler, Tom Brady Silver, very nice. Field level, yep. For the Patriots, Wayne Stock, Devin DuVernay for the Ravens, Aaron Billingsley, Clyde Didergillere for the Chiefs, James Reyes, LeVisca Chanel Jr., Silver for the Jaguars, Adam Schwarzman, Damon Arnett for the Raiders, Roy DiPietro, Dalton Keane for the Patriots to 199, Ota 99, Wayne Stock and Antonio Gibson, Jersey and Otto for Washington and Spiro Valacacos, that is number five out of 49, Michael Pittman Jr. for the Colts, Sean Maddock, Gabriel Davis for the Bills, Mark Miller, Troy Aikman for the Cowboys, Nick Stober, KJ Hamler for the Broncos, Eric Ainge, James Morgan to 75 for the Jets, Patrick Davis, Denzel Mims for the Jets and Patrick Davis as well, Cole Comet for the Bears, Zach Nguyen, Zach Moss, Field Level to 75 for the Bills and Mark Miller and Gold, 3 out of 10, Dicut Auto, Darrington Evans for the Titans and Ari Kevner and Joe Burrow to finish off the box for the Bangles and Brian Plants. I told you, it is Adam, it is. That's what I'm saying though, if we don't hit the Zebra in this, it's got to be in the next one, right? But Omar, I agree man, I think the big difference too is they're not trying to, they're not trying to baby him, they're not trying to no hitting on the day before you pitch, you know what I mean? They're letting him hit before, like on the day before he pitches, they're letting him hit the day that he pitches. It's crazy. That was the second Dicut out of 10? Take it, I'll take it. And he's obviously showing them I can handle it. You know what's funny is apparently like they were gonna not let him hit on Saturday because he pitched us on Sunday and he was like on Friday night or whatever, he was like no I want to hit and they were like okay. Michael Pittman Jr. for the Colts, Sean Matik, Colt Comet Orange to 49 for the Bears, Zach Gwynn, Jacob Eason Field Level Silver for the Colts, Sean Matik, J.K. Dobbins for the Bravens, Aaron Billingsley, Denzel Mim for the Jets, Patrick Davis, nice Joe Burrow, another tie-dyed burrow, 22 out of 25, this one's premier level, Bengals, Brian Plant, crush in this case. Last time it was a field level. Jacob Eason Silver for the Colts, Sean Matik, J.L.N. Régor Silver for the Eagles, Eric Ainge, Cam Acres for the Rams, David Baker, Lovicka Chanel Jr. for the Jaguars, Adam Schwartzman, J.L.N. Hertz for the Eagles, Eric Ainge, T. Higgins to 199 for the Bengals, Brian Plant, Mackay Bekton Silver for the Jets, Patrick Davis, Mountain Bekton, Colt Comet for the Bears, Zach Gwynn, Julio Jones, Silver for the Falcons, Wayne Stock, Todd Gurley, Silver for the Falcons and Wayne Stock, Chase Claypool for the Steelers, Michael Gallucci, James Robinson for the Jaguars, Adam Schwartzman and Colt Comet for the Bears, Zach Gwynn, Ezekiel Elliott for the Cowboys, Nick Stober and Joe Burrow again for the Bengals, Brian Plant, Dwayne Haskins to 175, looks like he got caught in the crimper down on the bottom, you can see that. That's for Washington and Spiro Valesacos, Anthony McFarland Jr., White Auto for the Steelers, Michael Gallucci, that is numbered 8 out of 35, very nice. Deandre Swift for the Lions, Peter Lu, Devin Duvernay for the Ravens, Aaron Billingsley, Tom Brady Silver, Buckeneers, Wayne Stock, Brandon Ayuk for the 49ers, Brian Choi, Aaron Rodgers to 75 for the Packers, Josh Melton, Michael Pittman Jr., Silver, Rookie, Jersey and Auto for the Colts, Sean Maddock, KJ Hamler for the Broncos, Eric Ainge, Henry Ruggs for the Raiders, Roy Di Pietro, Josh Allen Silver for the Bills, Mark Miller, Aaron Donald Silver for the Rams, David Baker, Qichon Vaughn, Buckeneers, Wayne Stock, Antonio Gandhi-Golden for Washington and Spiro Valesacos, Gabriel Davis for the Bills, Mark Miller and Randy Moss, 49 out of 99, Jersey for the Vikings, Mike McCarthy, AJ Brown Silver for the Titans and Arik Hevner finishes off box number two. Let me set these over here, sleeve those up right after the break. You guys will go into the tub. And box number three, Michael Vick, Jets edition, Patrick Davis, I love that, Thomas Davis Sr. for Washington, Spiro Valesacos, that's number to 99, Drew Brees for the Saints, Josh Thurow, Jake Fromm for the Bills, Mark Miller, Patrick Queen to 175 for the Ravens, Aaron Billingsley and Zach Moss, Jersey and Auto to 199 for the Bills, Mark Miller, 164 out of 199, AJ Dillon for the Packers, Josh Melton, Van Jefferson for the Rams and David Baker, Bo Jackson for the Raiders, Roy D. Pietro, Brandon Ayuk, 49ers, Brian Choi and Justin Herbert, Chargers, Jesse Garcia, Brandon Ayuk for the 49ers, Brian Choi, Tua Silver for the Dolphins, David Nadler, Justin Jefferson for the Vikings and Mike McCarthy and Zach Moss for the Bills, Mark Miller, good for him. Juju Smith Schuster, Red to 99 for the Steelers, Michael Gallucci, Anthony McFarlane Jr. Silver for the Steelers, Michael Gallucci, Jaylen Hertz for the Eagles, Eric Ainge, Derek Brown to 149 for the Panthers and Arik Hevner and Antonio Gibson, Rookie Auto Red, Washington, Spiro Valesacos, Brandon Ayuk for the 49ers, Brian Choi, JJ Watt for the Texans, Arik Hevner, Jerry Judy for the Broncos, Eric Ainge, J.K. Dobbins for the Ravens, Aaron Billingsley, Odell Beckham Jr. for the Browns and Wayne Stock, C.D. Lamb for the Cowboys, Nick Stover, Anthony McFarlane Jr., Steelers, Michael Gallucci and Denzel Mims for the Jets, 7 out of 10, Patrick Davis, Andrew Thomas for the Giants, Mark Neubauer, Jonathan Taylor for the Colts, Sean Maddock and out of 75, Ronald Jones, Super Bowl Champion, Time for the Buccaneers, Wayne Stock, Antonio Gibson, Washington, Spiro Valesacos, another one for you, Spiro, Clyde Edward Gilaire for the Chiefs, James Reyes and XRC, our first one of the break and it's defense number three. So that'll be to the number one on the randomizer at the end of the break, Jeff Okuda, Silver for the Lions, Peter Liu and that finishes it up for us guys, no zebra, pick your team 12, zebra. Okay, so let's do this. So let's pop over here to the randomizer, top name, defense number three for the XRC, Prism Redemption from Alex Valesacos and the Cardinals on top, down to Spiro and the Washington football team on the bottom, dice roll, name on top after six out of three, nine times, gets that defense number three, ninth and final time, right, nine times, eight, ninth and final time, Sean Maddock with the XRC Redemption, nine times on the randomizer, Sean Maddock on top, so there you go Sean and there you go guys, that will do it, that was pick your team number 11, select three box, break, there you go Sean, thank you very much man, there you go guys, that'll do it for us, pick your team 12, sounds like somebody said it is sold out, so that'll be coming up a little bit later on, like I said that was 2020 Padini select football three box, hobby break, pick your team number 11 from jaspyscasebreaks.com, I'm Sean, jaspyscasebreaks.com, thanks for hanging out, we'll see you next time.