It was great to see the difference make plays.  I think we did that today. But, I mean, it's still stuff we could clean up, still stuff that we could build on. But I think we went out there and put a complete team game together. It along those lines, just we all been able to protect the ball. Obviously, it has been a promise for these two games. How important was that today? Very important. Something that we talked about for the last two weeks. I mean, just something that we just want to be more aware about, just protecting the ball, not having it loose away from our body, and just going out there running hard and finishing our runs. And today, we were able to protect the ball, and we ran the ball pretty well.  How good does that feel now for you, then? It feels great. It felt good. I think the team, we definitely needed that. We needed to feel, you know, get us another win, and, you know, just try to build on it.


What's up you guys, Madonna welcome back to my channel. Thank you guys so much for joining me on this journey. If you have not already done so go take a look around my channel, if you like what you see, subscribe and follow me on Instagram at adanathepa. As you know like a lot of you are either going to have to take the GRE if you're trying to apply to PA schools or you've already taken it or you're planning on taking it and this is this video is for you all because I wanted to help you all understand how to prepare for the GRE and this has nothing to do with studying. This is all like the week before slash the day before the night before taking your test because it's important to make sure that you're well prepared so that it's one less thing that's on your plate that you have to worry about or stress about because you're about to take this really big test right. So I'm going to go from like start to finish on the things that you should be doing. First and foremost I think that it is absolutely important for you all to do a dry run okay. So with respect to the GRE there's taken at test sites so we're test centers and so it's important for you to know like how long is this trip from my house you know is there anything going on like is there like a detour and a perfect example of this is when I was graduating from PA school right. So the graduation was being held on main campus and I am never on main campus because our building is off campus so I was like well where are we supposed to be going where's this field because the school has like two different fields I didn't I wasn't sure which one it was and so we had to meet at this field and I was like all right babe well let's go try to see where this field is because I did not want to be late because I had that happen to me on my white coat ceremony I got lost I thought I knew where it was I put it in the GPS but we got lost so I was like I'm not letting that happen this time so we drove to the school to just kind of map out our path and see exactly where we were going and it was a lucky thing that we did that because when we were driving the actual main route to get to this particular field was blocked off because there was construction and had I have not gone through main campus to try to see exactly where I should be going I would have been lost or I would have been stopped there because hey there was a detour and I would have been late right and that is not what I want and that is not what you want so it is essential for you all to plan out your trip because and know exactly the route that you're taking because if you are late then you would not be able likely to take the test and that is something that they do say on the ETS website so first thing first plan out your trip do a dry run of the test center just to ensure that you're not late secondly don't be late right so um make sure that you arrive there 30 minutes beforehand um and again obviously in conjunction with understanding how long it takes you to get there that will tell you how long um how far ahead of time you actually need to prepare to make it to the test center 30 minutes beforehand and if you give yourself that buffer it allows you time for any incidentals you know like oh you got a flat tire or you know there's an accident on the road and now you do have to make a detour so what is going to happen um you have an extra maybe 15 minutes if you only live 15 minutes away uh to actually get to the test center on time and get checked in to take the test and number three you should be getting an absolutely beautiful restful night like if you have kids have the husband or the wife um whoever your partner is have them take care of the kids that night you know you can say you good night and then you get a good night rest um if you don't have kids like don't go out drinking don't go out partying the night before you know make sure that you are in your house do not study like just kind of like put that to the side and it's like all right you've done what you you came here to do you've studied these past you know four to eight weeks so however long you've been studying and now it's time for you to rest um so that you give yourself time to like have these things marinate in your head and you come to the test day and the test center refreshed the next thing that you should do is have a good well-rounded breakfast so make sure that you're eating something very good not like a donut so that you're like having this really high rush and then you're crashing you know halfway through your test you want to make sure that it's well balanced um you know kind of do like the basketball players you can have like some carbs and protein um making sure that you have like a little bit of sugar uh and and have yourself ready and prepared to take this test when you actually get to the test center there are some things that you should uh know with respect to what you can and cannot bring into the test center so jewelry is prohibited uh so your necklaces your earrings you should not be wearing them to the test center uh your wedding ring and your engagement ring are the only rings that they allow or the only jewelry that they allowed so everything else will have to be taken off so it's important that you just don't bring it um leave it in the car uh or leave it at home somewhere safe um also you know they don't want any smart watches as we're in this era of smart watch or any type of watch or anything on your hand uh so that's important to know if you do need like extra food or um because you're diabetic or you have to bring things into the center um into the actual room with you then it's important that you go to ETS's website because there are accommodations for that but you have to go through the steps for the accommodations also you can go to ETS website um and that website is www.ets.org there you'll find all of the information that you will need for the test day um so you can always go to that uh little tab it says GRE like test day um and it's going to be on the left hand side of the screen click that and that will have all of this this information as well um with respect to things that are prohibited and things that are not um make sure that you dress appropriately for the test center because some of these test centers are freezing um and so you want to ensure that you have like you know a little sweater or something like that that you can bring in there with you uh that you can just have button up and you can take off if needs be you will be searched you know they will like ensure that you there's nothing that you have that you could possibly cheat with so even your glasses might be inspected to make sure that there's not like little things etched in there so just be mindful of that because if you're going in and you're just thinking like in game mode I'm ready to take this test um and then all of a sudden like you have people saying hey I need you to do this that and the other and you you get flustered easily then um this is not for you in terms of like you need to make sure that you already have these things in mind so this is essential that you prepare it prior to taking your GRE and you know exactly what you're getting into so that when you come to the test day um there are no surprises you will be needing an id to get into your test as well so make sure that you have an id and that your name is exactly as it is on like your registered test form so uh hopefully this was helpful if you have any other questions for me leave them in the comment section below thank you guys so much for watching if you haven't already done so go ahead and like this video and subscribe and follow me on instagram at adana the pa I will talk to you guys next time bye


My beloved brothers and sisters, we begin by praising our Lord, our maker, our master, our owner, our creator, our designer, our provider, the one that we are returning to, the one who gives us everything, gives us every bite, keeps our heart beating, keeps our eyes working, gave us everything we ever received. We praise Him and our praise falls short, but we praise Him. And then we thank Him and we say thank you to our maker. We thank you abundantly and endlessly. We thank you, ya Allah, and we thank you for this moment, for this gift of Islam, for inviting us to this moment, inviting us to this banquet, inviting us to this house, inviting us to know His name, inviting us to bow to Him, to prostrate to Him, to praise Him. To know Him, to read His words. We thank Him that He gave us these words. We thank Him for bringing us from nothingness, from making us from nothingness. And then we remind ourselves that we're not made for this world, for this domain. We're not made for this domain. This is just a temporary place. We're all visitors here. We're temporary visitors. And in this visit, sometimes it's pleasant, sometimes it's unpleasant. Sometimes there are ups, sometimes there are downs. Sometimes we're grateful and sometimes we're patient. But in all of those moments, we have Him with us. And then we remind ourselves, we warn ourselves that we're returning to Him. Who are we returning to? To our own selves. We report to ourselves. No, we report to our maker. We report to our designer. We report to the one who controls heaven and hell, who controls our life in the grave. We warn ourselves that we're returning to a life in the grave after this temporary test. May Allah be gentle with us. My brothers and sisters, as we come on this Friday to reorient ourselves, to reorient our hearts, to our divine purpose, to align with the divine, to remind ourselves why we're here, what's our purpose, what is this all about. We remember that the messenger that God sent to us, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, our messenger, our leader, our guide, our prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he told us purity is half of faith. Purity is half of faith. And Alhamdulillah fills the scales. And Subhanallah and Alhamdulillah fills the cosmos, the heavens and the earth. And prayer is light. And charity is proof. And patience is illumination. And the Quran is either for us or against us.  We either free it or we destroy it. Sadaqa Rasulullah. That's a hadith in the 40 hadith, Nawawe, one of the great compilations. And in this hadith, there's so many beautiful gems, right? Prayer is light. Prayer is a light. Nour. Right? And we ask ourselves, when we're feeling a little uncomfortable, when we're feeling a little down, when we're feeling a little off, something is missing. What do we do in that moment? Watch a movie, eat ice cream, call someone. In that moment, the invitation to all of us is to get some spiritual nourishment to feel better. In that moment, when we're feeling a little gross, when we're feeling a little off, go give a sadaqa. Open your bank account, open your credit card, open launch good, open something Islamic relief, and go give $20, $10, $50, $100, $500. And turn to Allah. Because when you turn to Allah, He turns to you. When you give victory to Allah, He gives victory to you. Take care of Allah and He'll take care of you. Take care of Allah and you'll find Him by your side. How do we take care of Allah? The Lord of the world, the majestic, the all-powerful, the one who's free of need, al-mughni, al-gani, free of need. How can we take care of Him by turning to Him, obeying Him, surrendering to Him, doing what He wants us to do? So we go and we give sadaqa in that moment. We go and we fall in that moment. We prostrate in that moment. And when we give charity in the other hadith, charity is a proof. A proof of what? A proof that you choose Allah, that you know Allah, is Haqq, is real. And that when you turn to Him and give to Him, that Allah will take care of you. And so in these moments of need, in these moments of desperation, when we're feeling a little low, because this is the ebbs and flows of this world, al-qabid, al-basit, the one who expands and contracts, al-khafid, al-rafiq, the one who lowers and hires, al-mu'iz, al-muthil, the one who hires, honors and humiliates, al-muhi, al-mumid, the one who gives life and takes life, al-nafiq, al-dhar, the one who benefits and the one who distresses. This is the nature of this abode. We're going to go up and down. And the invitation for us is when we go up, we see Allah. And when we go down, we see Allah. When we go up, we find Allah. When we go down, we find Allah. When we're enriched, we turn to Allah. When we're impoverished, we turn to Allah. Death and life. To test you, who of you is going to have the best actions? We're all going to go to our graves with three things. Our family, our money and our deeds, our family and money return. We don't take it with us. But our deeds, our actions, our character, we take it with us. Seek forgiveness from Allah. He is all hearing. He is all forgiving. He is near and he hears. And Allah forgives all sins. Bismillah. Alhamdulillah. As-salatu wa salamu ala Rasulillah. You know, all of us were designed, we're not angels, right? We're designed weak. We make mistakes. And that's okay. It's okay to make mistakes? Yes, it is. So long as we follow it with something beautiful, that's the takeaway from today, my beloved brothers and sisters. It's okay to make a mistake as long as we follow it with something beautiful, it erases it. It's okay if we do a mistake. So long as we follow it with something beautiful, it erases it. It's okay to do a bad deed as long as we follow it with a good deed, it erases it. In the other Hadith Nawawe, in the 40 Hadith Nawawe, اتَّقِلَّا حَيْتُ مَا كُنْتُ وَأَتْبِعَ الْسَيْئَةَ الْحَسْنَةَ تَمْحُوْهَا وَخَالِقِ الْنَاسْ بْخُلُقِ الْحَسْنَةَ This beautiful, beautiful principle, وَأَتْبِعَ الْسَيْئَةَ الْحَسْنَةَ تَمْحُوْهَا This is our paradigm in life. I will make mistakes with my wife. I will make mistakes with my son. I will make mistakes with my mother. I will make mistakes with my wife. I will follow it with something beautiful to erase it. I will make mistakes with my son. I'll follow it with something beautiful, it will erase it. I will make mistakes with my mother. I'll follow it with something beautiful, it will erase it. All of the children of Adam make mistakes, all of us make mistakes. And the best of those who make mistakes are those who repent, who turn to God. And there's three conditions for repentance. Number one, we stop the mistake. We stop the sin. Number two, we feel bad. And number three, we strategize and intend to not do it again. And they asked one of our historical scholars and saints, Hassan al-Basri, Rahimahullah, what do you say of a person, a Muslim, who does the same mistake 70 times in one day? And after each of the 70 times, he does tauba. Hassan al-Basri said, what is he other than a believer? He's connecting with God 70 times a day? Allah. He's feeling remorse 70 times a day? Allah. He's having a moment with his maker 70 times a day? Allah. And the best of those in the continuation of the hadith, the best of those, the best of the repenters are those who purify themselves. The purification is half of faith, outward and inward, different meanings. And so we come today to find Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to find the messenger of Allah, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, to tell Allah to declare, I submit to you, ya Allah, a sadaqatu burhan, charity is proof. And there's different kinds of charity. Helping your brother is charity, a good word is charity, smile is charity. Putting a bite of food in your wife's mouth is charity. Fixing a relationship between two people is charity. Planting a tree where someone gets shade is charity. Making someone's heart feel better is charity. It's proof that what, that we exist for God, not for being impressed with our own selves. And so the takeaway today, my beloved brothers and sisters, all of us in this journey to Allah, in this journey to get victory over our ego, in this journey to get victory over shaitan, in this journey to get the pleasure of the divine, in this journey to heaven, to paradise, to fulfill our deal with God that we made. Am I not your Lord? Yes, I'll obey you, I'll obey you. So that our invitation today is, I will make mistakes, but I'll follow it with something beautiful. I will follow it with something beautiful. I will make a mistake with my neighbor, I'll argue, I'll have loud noise, I'll have a big party and invitation. The next day, take him some fresh homemade biryani. Take him some fresh homemade cookies. It erases the heart. Maybe I cut someone off on the highway. Say thank you, smile at them. Most people will forgive you, right? Follow it with something beautiful, it erases it. I make a mistake with my mother. I neglected, it's so, I'll follow it with something beautiful, it'll erase it. I'll call her, start calling her once a day, I'll start sending her her favorite chocolate, I'll start sending her her favorite pistachios or nuts, I'll find it. Maybe she likes walnuts, maybe she likes almond, maybe she likes macadamia nuts. Find out what your mother likes and send it to her and make it automated so you don't have to do it because shaitan will come and make you forget. Make it automated delivery once a month, $20 a month, right? I'm going to make mistakes here and there and even in the workforce, we all know this. If we make a mistake, then they ask us, did you learn from this? In interviews they ask you, what mistake did you make and how did you learn from it and how did you correct it? We're all growing, we're all growing and so we have to acknowledge our weakness and instead of, the excuse is uglier than the mistake. The excuse is uglier than the mistake.  It's okay, it's okay, admit it and just follow it with something beautiful and it'll elevate you, it'll make you noble, it'll erase it. Instead of giving an excuse, oh well, it's your fault because you said this, oh well, I didn't know you should have told me that, you should have told me this. That's just, it's uglier, no need for that, diffuse it. And so all of us sitting here, imagine we go back to our relationships right now and we apply this method and we tell our spouses, we tell each other, I will make mistakes with you, I will make mistakes, we will make mistakes with each other but you know what, let's commit when we make mistakes with each other that we will follow it with something beautiful to erase it. That's our men hedge, that's our method, that's our humbleness that we go back into this world and so we can have this beauty that we bring wherever and finally there's another proverb that says, pay back someone who disobeys a law towards you by obeying a law towards them.   Masha'Allah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, may Allah forgive all of us insha'Allah, Allah send peace and blessings on humanity's teacher, our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Allahumma kfiril al muslimina wa al muslimat wa al mu'minina wa al mu'minaat al hayyai minhum wa al amwaat. We ask Allah to cure all the sick, to heal us inwardly and outwardly. We ask Allah to have mercy and forgive all of those who have passed away. And to forgive our dear mother and aunt Aqila Mujaddidi who just passed away, who just passed away today or yesterday, may Allah forgive her and elevate her and grant her heaven and grant her paradise and the Suhba and the companionship of our dear Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And may Allah give us victory over our own selves and may Allah give us the strength of silence. And may Allah give us the victory over our egos. And may Allah give us the wisdom to follow mistakes with something beautiful.  May Allah be gentle with us and be gentle with Benny Adam, gentle with Benny Adam, gentle with the children of Adam and Eve. I mean, may Allah protect our offspring until the last day. May Allah help us answer the three questions in the grave. May Allah illuminate our houses, a sabrudiyat, patience is illumination. May Allah give us gentle patience and fill our houses with light, fill our bodies with light, our eyes with light, our ears with light, our inner universe with light, our outer universe with light. May Allah help us live for Him instead of being so conceited. May Allah give us humbleness and not arrogance. May Allah give us a gentle life and bring us closer to Him gently with gifts and not through tests. May Allah honor our elders and give them good health. May Allah give victory to our teachers and our scholars. May Allah help some of us and all of us stand in the night calling His name for the Ummah. Ya Allah! May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept from us and grant us sincerity. May Allah help our children connect with the Qur'an and read the Qur'an and understand the Qur'an. And may Allah help us be gentle with our spouses and forgiving for our spouses. And may Allah always allow us to live this Muhammadan methodology, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, wa atba al sayyiat al hasana tamhuha, follow a mistake with something beautiful and it erases it. And may we not be people who give annoying, ugly excuses and give us the strength and humbleness to admit our mistakes, Amin. And we ask you Ya Allah for everything wonderful and beautiful that our Prophet, Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, asked you for Ya Allah! And we seek protection from every harm that he saw protection from and send peace and blessings on our Master, Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Subhanah Rabbika Rabbil Izzati, amma yasifoon wa salamun ale al mursaleen wal hamdu lillahi Rabbil Alameen. Inna Allahi ya'mur bil adli wal ihsani wa ita idha al qurba wa yanha anil fahshai wal munkari wal baghia adhikum la'allakum tadakkarun, remember Allah and He will remember you and thank Him and He will increase you and make the call to pray.


Hello, it's Sandy. I'm back from vacation, but before I proceed with this video, I want you to pause and type in the comment what your guess is as to what this shape is. So before I get into the random sharing in this video, I wanted to mention something that's coming up and it's an event that is free that you are welcome to join in on. Come to ArtVenture for our holiday party. It's gonna be a blast. We're gonna have it on Zoom. It's on Saturday the 17th, and you can find out more information about it. You don't have to bring anything. If you don't want to, you can wear your PJs.  All right, my vacation. I went to visit my family and when I got back, this was what ensued, this insanity. I left the dogs at the kennel for the day when I got back so that they could get baths before they came home and I put up my tree while I were gone. And this is what happened when they got home because they were just nuts. Vienna was so excited to be home and I was so excited to get both of my puppies back. I always miss them so much when I go, but I had gone to Maryland to go see family. These are my two sisters and we just had a blast. We did so much. We practically had Christmas week while we were there. It felt like we were there forever. We did shopping. We did games. We did like movies. We went out for dinner. We cooked dinner in. We did everything.  And there's my mom. I got to spend good quality time with mom, which was just fantastic. Haven't seen any of these folks since before COVID. So it was well overdue. And we just had a blast. I have not laughed that much with this family of mine in forever. And it was so good. And one of the other things we did was go to a Motown show. It was a Motown Christmas show. And some of these guys are, I guess, famous. Some of them were backup singers and stuff for different groups and that sort of thing. So I didn't know any of them, but they were quite talented. It was a lot of fun. And getting to watch my mom dance was super phenomenal. I was just thrilled with how happy she was and how happy it made her to have all her daughters in one place at the same time. And yeah, what a Christmas it was. So we had a great time there. And then my sisters and I took off to go visit cousins in Pennsylvania and massive numbers of cousins. This is only part of one side of the family. And we just had all kinds of fun. We had, they had parties. We went out for dinner repeatedly. We sat around and just told stories and shot the breeze. We just had so much fun. It was such a good trip. And I got to go see Uncle George. If you heard me talk about Aunt Lorraine and losing her earlier this year, this is her husband. And he has Alzheimer's and I was just blessed that he knew who Debbie and I were. And that was, that was like a Christmas gift all by itself. All right, now to jump into the silly. This is a little meme that I saw online. And I really liked number three. If someone comments on your weight, eat them. I thought that was really kind of funny, but number two didn't come to pass. So that's all good. But this that I wanted to show you. I remember I told you at the beginning to guess what this shape was. I hope you did that in the doobly-doo down below. I found this thing at Goodwill. And it was just over in the kitchen housewares type section. I was looking for things that I could use my pyrography kit on. If you've watched my channel for a while, you'll know I kind of went a little bananas with pyrography and all of my family got woodburned gifts of one kind in another. I had a whole video with those. I didn't have this one in it because I was looking for something specific for my niece. I wanted something especially for her and she's really into for one flowers. She did all the flower arrangements for her sister's wedding that I went to earlier this year. And so I wanted to do something with a flower and I was looking for some object to do it on, to create it on. And I found this cheese board and it was a funky shape. I wasn't really positive what it was. It kind of looked like a state, but there were no markings on it that said what it was. It was just a marking by, you know, I couldn't even read anymore by the company that made it that did the wood carving. The guy at Goodwill had absolutely no idea what it was. I asked him, is that a state? And he's like, oh no, there's no states with a flat side. Happened to know there are states with flat sides. And so I did go home and look it up. I wanted to see what the heck this thing was and it's Kentucky. So I made a Kentucky cheese board with a giant flower on it for my niece and she has no connection to Kentucky. I was a little nervous about giving her the gift because I thought if she said anything sassy about it being Kentucky, then I was going to have to, I don't know, maybe eat her like the little meme said a while ago. So I didn't have to do that because she was more tickled with her gift than anyone else was with the things that I spent hours working on for them. I don't know if anybody else has that kind of thing go on that you give people things that you have made from your heart and they just kind of go, that's nice. Well, she was super thrilled. This was like a grown up gift for her. And the fact that it came from Goodwill and it got it for like two bucks.  I got bonus auntie points for recycling something from Goodwill. That made her very, very happy. So that was good. All right. Last in this video is the virtual craft fair. This is part two. Part one was on Black Friday weekend. And enough of you said you missed out on getting something. So I've got more for you. But I was inspired by watching Rudolph. I got to watch this the night that I arrived at my sister's house. We all watched it together as a family for the first time since we were little kids. And I made some more ornaments using the characters. And these frames were made for me by a guy in Texas because I wanted hexagons for some of my ornaments that I was making. And these are all Copic colored. And then I have them all kind of assembled. Then we also have more of these hoops. I bought way too many of these embroidery hoops. They're small. The ones on the website that are called itty bitty are these massive numbers of small round ones. And then the others are called tiny because they are small. All the sizes are listed in the description if you want to kind of have an idea how big they are. But they took as long as a larger card size picture would be to color, believe it or not, even though they're tiny, it was crazy. Then there's some that are larger. These are, I think, three and a half by five and a half, something like that. And I would burn the frames as well. So you get the frame and the picture inside of it, Copic colored, lots of snow all over everything. And hopefully this gives you an idea of the size and scale of the small ornaments as well as these larger ones. So when you go to the virtual craft fair, you will see there's a coupon code there for 20% off anything. And if you buy some of my art, you know, drawings and paintings, then you will also get a Christmas card while supplies last because I made more Christmas cards than I need. So links to everything are in the doobly-doo. I'll see you guys later on. Have a great weekend. Go make something every day. I'll see you.


5-Minute English Vocabulary Builder Music One common error in English is confusing the words music and song. Music refers to the category in general and song refers to one specific piece of music. For example, I like pop music. That's pop music in general. Michael Jackson's music is famous throughout the world. Again, music refers to Michael Jackson's music in general. Billie Jean is a song by Michael Jackson. Thriller and Beat It are two more songs. In this case, we use song because it's a specific piece of music. Music is uncountable, so there's no plural. Song is countable. You can say, I like three songs on this CD. But it's incorrect to say, I like three musics on this CD. Because music cannot be plural. Now let's talk about instrumental music. Instrumental music is played by an orchestra, a group of musicians. The leader who controls the music is the conductor. There are three basic types of musical instruments. Percussion instruments, like drums, cymbals, tambourine, and triangle. Wind instruments, like the trumpet, flute, clarinet, and trombone. And string instruments, like the guitar, violin, harp, and cello. Some instruments play the melody, the main sound of the music. Other instruments play the harmony, the notes that complement the melody. The percussion instruments keep the beat. That means the rhythm. When an orchestra plays music in public, the event is called a concert. Now let's talk about singers and bands. When a singer or band plays music in public, it can be called a concert or a show. Musicians who are not yet very famous play gigs.  Bands also record albums, CDs. Each song on the album is called a track. Sometimes singers or bands release a single. That's a CD with just one song. When you buy a CD, you get a little booklet with the lyrics. Lyrics are the words to the songs. A CD with all the music used in a movie is called the movie Soundtrack. Finally, if a song becomes very popular and famous, it is called a hit. Let's review the vocabulary words in this lesson. Listen and repeat the pronunciation. Music, song, orchestra, conductor, percussion instruments, drums, cymbals, tambourine, triangle, wind instruments, trumpet, flute, clarinet, trombone, string instruments, guitar, violin, harp, cello, melody, harmony, beat, concert, show, gig, album, track, single, lyrics, soundtrack. Hit. Thanks for watching English Tips from Espresso English. If you liked this video, please share it.


Hi, welcome to Think Tech. We're raising public awareness on technology, energy, diversity, and globalization. This show is center stage. I'm your host Donna Blanchard, proud managing director of Kumukuhua Theater. And we are coming to you live from Pioneer Plaza in the heart of downtown Honolulu, very near Kumukuhua Theater. I am really excited to tell you that today my guest is Jessica Jacobs. She's the theater manager of Kennedy Theater here at the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus. Welcome, Jessica, without further ado. Thank you. You've got all kinds of other stuff in your resume that I'd like to talk about, but we'll just start there. What's going on at Kennedy Theater? What's going on right now? Yeah, let's just dive in. What have you got? Right now we're preparing for next season, which I think about as Kennedy Theater out of the box. The box being the four walls of Kennedy Theater. We're looking at getting some deferred maintenance taken care of during the next school year. That's some electrical upgrades, some soundproofing, a major wish list that's been out there forever for a building that is many years old now. It's time for a little internal facelift. But it's giving us the opportunity to look outside of our facility itself for unusual or different performance spaces. For example, Antigone, which is our first show of the season. It's our Theater for Young Audiences offering, directed by Mark Branner. It's literally going to be just outside the walls of Kennedy Theater in the beautiful lawn with the trees and the shaded area. It's a 45-minute post-apocalyptic, fast and furious Antigone that we're hoping will appeal to anybody from middle school on up. So that outdoor setting, very traditional for Greek theater, but modern day and post-modern day. It's those kind of opportunities we're looking for. That is really cool.  I love the idea of being forced to have Greek theater outdoors. You're taking a risk in Manoa, man. It rains a lot there. I know. I'm trying to be very clear with the director that it's a rain or shine show, but we have our glorious huge lower lanai that we can shift around the corner onto the lower lanai that has doorways and archways and a protected space big enough for many classrooms of students or a generous audience. I might suggest something to sit on like a pillow or something because it is a cement slab. You know, we have a backup plan in place. That's cool. And wouldn't the elements kind of add something to something like Antigone that's so emotionally charged and she's under so much stress? That get some wind, get some slight dewy rain, no major thunderstorms or flood. I was here for the flood in Manoa. Yeah, we don't want that. Now I did a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar Outside and we got this horrific downpour during the crucifixion scene. It was spot on. It was spot on. You never know when nature is going to want to give in. I hope it wasn't a mic'd show. Did you have body mics? The people who had body mics had to run and get rid of those. Yeah. But we kept going. We kept singing because it was perfect, right? I did a lot of contracting with Fairbanks Shakespeare which is a rain or shine theatre company in Fairbanks, Alaska.  So there's opportunities there. Yeah. Let me just, I want to hear about the rest of your season but let me ask, did you know about the possibility of not being in the building when the season was decided upon? All, we were talking about it all year last year. It wasn't in the realm, it wasn't a real possibility until about January because that's when the people who evaluate what the project's going to look like formalize it and then send it out to bid. But at that point you know you're on the road because they're asking real contractors for real estimates of what it's going to cost. You know, we're awaiting the final signatures for the actual start of work but that was originally anticipated to be July and it's been, it has been bumped to possibly up to three months after July. So now we're looking at maybe a September first start date for a seventh month project. We're looking at rehoming our shows for most of the season but we have tentative plans in place or plans in place depending on the show. Our second show of the season is A House Divided which is an immersive theater piece set in a gala and what better place than our Upper Linnae for a gala because other groups try to use it for their gala. So dressing that up for this formal event which involves, I don't want to give it all away but it's an exploration of some political themes but putting it in a framework that we in Hawaii care about. So some of the things that we care about and being immersed in a theatrical production that might feel real where someone with a lone wolf kind of extremist personality is amongst the other people who passionately care and how do you manage that person from the inside, from the outside as a spectator. So I think that would be a really unique experience and very contemporary with what's happening in other places in the world but relevant to us because it's in the setting of the issues that we care about here. Interesting, that sounds awesome. I don't know how the wind and the rain will fit into that one quite so much but UH Foundation, lots of different groups use our Upper Linnae for formal receptions and they have found a way. What's the name of that show again? A House Divided. House Divided. And that's in what time of year? That is in October. October. And it's directed by MFA candidate Kevin C.K. Berg who's actually directing Next to Normal for Shamanad's Collegiate Summer Theatre Festival right now. So that is his thesis. What an awesome experience for him to get to be that flexible with the space that he's doing. I went to high school in the theater that had theater in the round, exclusively. Nice. And yeah, it just gives you something. Act with your back. And you have to get into an immersive experience like that. Yeah, that's cool for your students, for the director. Okay, then what? Then moving on through the season, well we have Late Night Theatre which is a student run theater group that is housed by our department. So they vote for two different productions per semester usually. Their first production will be a 24 hour play festival. You're probably familiar with those where the clock starts and 24 hours later there's a written play with actors that have learned their lines you hope and production. So that will, the date hasn't been exactly set for that. Okay. But that will be in and amongst the early fall semester shows. And their second show will be a devised show which is, you know, a type of theater that is taking over the nation, at least in collegiate theater. Where you have, in our case, it's Nathaniel Neyemi and Aubrey Watkins are leading the devising of this piece called The Thin Man on the Ladder. And Nathaniel actually won the national award for directing from the Kennedy Center's American Collegiate Theater Festival this year. So he was number one recognized in our program. So we'll take advantage of that. And he and Aubrey will be creating that piece together with their cast. It's the nature of the devised piece. So those are part of our Late Night series which it's all student run, student chosen, student costumed, lit, every function. They're fairly autonomous in that and it's later at night. So our students are attracted to the Late Night theater hour and kind of that extra edgy experimental mood, I guess. That's cool. And they're also, are they going to also be able to decide where their shows are then? Yes. That's cool. That's a great reason. But there's so many theatrically designed classrooms on campus that I've been, I go to a room for a meeting or a class and I covet it because it's got a sound system and it's got great walls to project on. And sometimes ramps like the Hanamichi, we end up building. So the art building has great rooms. There's the campus center ballroom. There's little mini theaters around. And then there's these outdoor spaces. I've been outside of Kumukuhua theater and looked at your little green space there and I'm thinking of 12 different shows that would be so much fun. We're going to be using that this year. Excellent. Also we have our Dance and Technology concert coming in November. That is our main stage dance concert and it'll be directed by Amy Schiffner and Cara Miller. And Cara's specialty is dance plus technology. So that we're negotiating with a warehouse in the Kakaako area with our backup being the campus center ballroom. But thinking of taking this innovative work and putting it in an unusual space to add physically to the out of the boxness that's going on and creating surfaces that you can project on that are interactive with the dancers and the audience may be moving through spaces to experience that. The dance concert has all sorts of flavors. There's hula and Balinese and modern and jazz and you name it. They're all kind of woven into this theme of dance plus technology and there also they'll be showing as part of this concert film that is being created with the Academy for creative media on campus. I believe it will be its debut performance. I can't promise that. But Cara has set up some relationships between our university and other entities in other countries where they have dance happening kind of across the Internet together in coordination. Kind of the live streaming thing that is catching on everywhere. So I expect a lot of surprises in that and some interesting textures and mood and movement and relationships between space and people. So that's pretty cool. I have to say I've always enjoyed all of the shows that I've seen at Kennedy and you do. While we're talking Zuri is showing us some pictures of your really lavish productions and you have done an amazing job with.  So yes your students have an opportunity to be wonderfully spoiled. But now there's going to be they and the audiences are going to get to be spoiled in a different way and have to discover different things you know when you're dancing not on a stage. Yeah as a as a theater producer administrator I think this is a fantastic experience for our directors our designers and our performers to experience going into a space and putting up a show like a touring show does. You know any of these anyone who is using a commercial theater has experienced going in on a Sunday tacking on Monday dress Tuesday dress Wednesday open Thursday run and you load out Sunday night. I love that this is preparing them. For what they may experience in the real world. Oh yeah it's you know wonderful experience for them. Sometimes you're coming in on Friday and you're doing a show Friday night and then you're washing your costume in the sink. In your room. I'm just saying that's what I've been there but yeah I've been there. Okay let's we'll come back and finish up your season in just a moment we're going to take a break really quick. Please stay with us if you would like to ask Jessica any questions as we are talking you may do so if you tweet at think tech H I will see you in about a minute. 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We're talking with the Kennedy theater manager Jessica Jacob and we're right in the middle of your season. So to keep us on the edge of our seats any longer. What comes next we return from Christmas for 12th night. This is directed by Paul Mitri who recently directed Sunday in the park and before that blood spirit and many many others. He is a Shakespeare specialist which is fantastic and this production we expect. We don't have the signature but we expect it to be in the campus center ballroom which is perfect because he's setting 12th night in kind of as he puts it 12th night meets strictly ballroom. So Foxtrot and Tango and Big Band and Glitz and Shine and Sequins. So once again taking advantage of the true purpose of a space and using it for what it is instead of creating one on stage and then the audience is in that ballroom with them for this production. So that's in late January early February and then we have a very unique piece called smile your under surveillance that Marcus Vessendorf is putting together. It's a devised piece as well and it is featuring the experience of the whistleblower Edward Snowden. So it's kind of exploring what he experienced in a very innovative fashion. Marcus seems to specialize in the surveillance state and kind of political theater and that kind of thing. So I think that it'll be a very interesting room to be in during that production. Oh cool. Yeah I know I have my own image of what it's going to look like but I have no idea what it's really going to look like. But I think it will be memorable for sure. Okay it sounds interesting. I'm thinking like Pokemon Go. Well now that's part of our culture. Bam! So we are seriously under surveillance. Yeah everybody is. But we're here now. Yeah. Are you doing it anyway? No not yet. Not yet. I'm holding out. I've delayed gratification you know. It's all I can do to not check and see if there isn't one right here in the studio. Right here. Yes and then we end our main stage season with power and folly. A Japanese satire for the 21st century. It's a Kyogen style piece which is that medieval Japanese samurai nobility level theater. That was produced. They do a no play. The very meditative serene et cetera. No play. Dreamlike. And then a kyogen. And then a no. And then a kyogen. When they do a cycle of those plays. This is a kyogen. Kyogen. Kyogen. Kyogen. So their shorter plays. Comedic in nature. And the director Dr. Julietsi who's our Japanese theater specialist is selecting a suite of these plays that will cover everything from traditional Japanese theater to crossover theater to a Hawaiian, a Hawaii island based theater, satirizing the monorail experience. Oh my goodness. So we can look forward to a playful teasing or more about some of the issues that face us today on the island. And not just that, but other things that hopefully will elicit a chuckle from the audience when they're addressed. Yeah. Well, and so that definitely sounds like theater you're not going to get anywhere else. Absolutely not. I love it. Absolutely not. And all of these offerings are, as I was saying, outside of the box, but intellectually, physically, geographically, they're all over the place. They are all over the place. Okay, so the program that, forgive my ignorance here. Every year at the school, there is a show that I believe the students are immersed in in classes for up to a year to prepare for those. Yes. Like the... Like the Wang Listric this year, or Chinese Jinju, or Kabuki. Yes. Yeah, that is the Kyogen this year is our Asian theater offering. Yeah. And the master teachers fly in from Japan and work one-on-one or one-on-three depending on the scene with the current students. And I actually, I know some of these teachers because I flew over to Kyoto and did their program a couple of times in Japan. And it's a once in a lifetime, other than if you go, a once in a lifetime experience to have the Arnold Schwarzenegger of Japan coming in and teaching you one-on-one, or maybe the De Nero, through a translator or not, and shadowing and finding the physical movements with them. And Kyogen is so much about finding the correct kind of... Oh, what do you call it? Roller coaster of vocal quality. Oh, yeah. Because it's a very big vocal piece. So... Those are so exciting to see. Yeah. The program is exciting. It's, for me, thrilling to know that we offer that program here. I mean, I went to a wonderful school. It was ranked very high in the nation for undergraduate acting training at the time. We didn't have that sort of immersion and that sort of opportunity to have a year of study to get ready to do a Beijing opera. Yeah. This is the place. When I went to graduate school here, it was the only, I think, post-baccalaureate program in Asian theater in the world for a master PhD level. I don't know if that's still true, but it's certainly the most established and respected. So I think our position in the Pacific is an absolutely critical and wonderful way to have that merging of East and West and coming together to create amazing pieces of art. And the school's taking advantage of it. Mm-hmm. That's cool. So just really quickly, if people want to learn about the season or get a subscription right away, where should they go? They can go to our website, which is manoa.hawaii.edu. Live on stage. All one word. Live on stage. Live on stage. It's up to you. And navigating within there, you can find out about schools, school shows, about public shows, about subscriptions. Our subscription discount is up to 35 percent if you order before September 2. So that certainly helps out. Nice. And if you are able to come along with us wherever we go in our locations, you can subscribe today. So I hope that, you know, you have a really good subscription base, subscriber base.  And I would hope that there are new people are going to say, I want to get on board with that. That's new and different. And as I said, in Chicago, you go see shows in garages. And a friend of mine went to the New Yorker conference and saw shows in, like, a hallway. And you're, you know, moving around the bowels of a building, watching little vignettes here and there.  But then, for the rest of the year, let's get out and do something completely different that you will never experience again. So I hope it helps your subscription sales. Me too.  Yeah. We are, we're aware of that. There's, you know, our, our, we are pretty much a self-sustaining program in some ways, our ticket revenue pays for our sets. And we get support from the student fee board. Thank you, student fee board. The Asian theater program gets support from the chancellor. And our directors are very good about going out and finding grants. However, within that, you know, the grants, the support plus our ticket sales, that's how we pay for our season. So there's no actual re-homing budget that's coming from anywhere else. So if any of these venues who so far have negotiated wonderfully with us, the cost of that will need to come from ticket sales or other support that we're getting. There's no kind of re-homing budget. Yeah. Got you. Built into the system. Okay. Yeah. Well, if you need a, our little grassy area. Don't say that. I have a lot of ideas. Let me know. That's cool. So let's talk about you just a little bit. Okay. And I'm, I'm sorry for your, your season is so exciting. So you came to us directly from Alaska? Yeah. Alaska Children's Theater? Alaska Theater of Youth. Okay. Yeah. How did you end up there? Well, I actually went up to Alaska for the summer in 1994. Oops. Like many people, you go up for the summer and 20 years go by. I actually, I moved out of Alaska three times and ended up back there, including coming here for graduate school from 03 to 06 saying anywhere but Alaska, boom, back in Alaska. But they have an extremely rich artistic community. Like the talent there is incredible. The talent pool is incredible. The level of performance is so surprising. And I think it's because it's dark and cold. So there's very little competition for going outside and playing unless you're a skier in the winter. So we see a lot of movies. We eat a lot of food and we watch a lot of theater. Is it a community that embraces theater that will come out and see shows and fill seats? I, I sure think so. I mean, we have very good Broadway series presenters. They bring in all the big shows. They do very well. Our Alaska Center for the Performing Arts is state-of-the-art, gorgeous 2100-seat house and 800-seat house and a 350-seat house all in one building. And my youth theater had the privilege of performing in the 350-seat house in, you know, the finest production facility in the state, which was incredible for the kids because it's, you know, state-of-the-art lighting systems, state-of-the-art control boards, passing in the halls, the Broadway cast of Shrek or the Broadway cast of any given show. Oh, wow. At one point, and this was several years ago when I was performing on that stage with a community group, Gregory Hines came onto our stage and tap-danced for us. Oh, my God.  They can talk to you, but you can't talk to them. You know, we're doing Little Mermaid and we got a report that The Eel was talking to one of the, you know, people from Mama Mia or whatever show was happening at the time. But, let me ask about the demographics of the people who are coming to see your shows and the people who saw the shows, both. I'm wondering about both theaters. And I can tell you, at Kumu, we get about 30% of our audience is Caucasian. They look like us. And that is definitely the majority. The rest of the various cultures that we see are, you know, plentiful, but no one with about a 30% demographic. What did you have in Alaska? Well, Alaska is heavily Caucasian, although we have the most languages spoken in any grade school, middle school or high school. Some of these schools have 200 languages spoken. Part of that, I believe, is the military presence, because there's a couple of bases right there. And Alaska is still very much an open portal for immigration, because come on up. We got lots of room. We got lots of jobs. Come on. So it's a very welcoming position there. And so we had excellent diversity in our casts, which was awesome, because this theater program pulled from every school in the bowl. So 300,000 people, it was kind of an opportunity for kids who would never encounter each other to build new peer groups, which was awesome for kids that weren't succeeding socially in their own schools. They could come and create their own social group within this cast, which is built to support each other. That's wonderful. So them and their families. Okay, good. I'm sorry, we have to wrap up. Okay. About the same for Kennedy. Kennedy? It depends on the show. Oh, okay. People follow their interests. So the demographic changes wildly from show to show. Gotcha. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you. Really appreciate it. My pleasure. Thank you for watching the show. There's a few other people that I'd like to thank here in the studio. Our interns, Diamond and Emily, thank you very much. We lost one. Our floor manager, Rich, Pravis, thank you very much for your help, Rich. And our studio overlord, Zuri Bender, who is in my ear. Thank you, Zuri. I'd also like to thank Jay Fidel, who somehow manages to put all of this together. Thank you. And we will see you next week, two o'clock on Wednesdays for Center Stage. Bye.


The hardest part about running an oyster business is the lack of availability of oysters. Because if you don't have oysters, you can't sell them. My family got into the oyster business in Virginia when I was a child. They left in the mid-90s. There was a couple of different diseases that killed most of the oysters in the Chesapeake Bay. And they saw an opportunity here and took a chance and moved. When I first came to work here, there were several processing businesses. Katrina put a lot of people out of business. The oil spill in 2010 was probably one of the toughest times. It really damaged the reputation of the oyster business. People did not really believe that our seafood was safe. So the industry got together and we did work to get that reputation back again. We've had multiple incidents where the spillways have opened in a lot of freshwater events and that's killed the oysters. The oyster industry throughout South Mississippi used to be a way of life. We have a whole cultural heritage built on the seafood community and it's just going away.


Time for our weekly League of Ireland Premier Division discussion and joining us this week is a man Of course who features quite regular on the program and indeed harps commentaries as well, Mr Declan Boyle former fun harps player former sligo rovers player Declan you're welcome again Thank you very much Washington. Good to be back Yeah, Declan sligo rovers will start with them top of the table They are of course coming to fun park on on Friday nights. You're this leg under 19 manager I'm sure you've had training between Monday and one we're talking now I would say there's a there's a great atmosphere and feeling around the club with both the sites leading the way now in the premier division Yeah, absolutely Big result for them beating shamrock rovers over there and it's funny The shamrock rovers went 33 games on beaten and then lost two than a very short space of time So big result obviously won't know up in Tala first leg And that keeps them a point above shamrock rovers and it keeps it very exciting But it's yeah, it's good to be probably involved with sligo rovers. They might have to go in very well There's only one loss for the whole season. So the forums being good They're coming to fun park obviously follow conference But perhaps it's a difficult place to come as we all know and perhaps will be One and ready to take three points often if the performances isn't good enough Yeah, and I suppose from a sligo point of view It's it's evidence how much they've come since the break for COVID last year where they were lingering in The bottom of the table and now they find themselves sitting at the other end Leading the pack and you have to give Liam Buckley and and those involved there a lot of credit because it's been a fantastic Transformation so it is. Yeah, it's some turnaround hasn't it been like you're right I mean before COVID there they were sitting bottom and then they came back from COVID and went on a run at games And ended up getting into Europe and probably they probably got in more players and better quality players Buckley did in the offseason because of the fact that they're going to Europe and you know There's probably funding coming their way from the European adventure. So yeah, that's not that's added Then obviously if they've added in the quality and if they've jailed together very well and said early only last one game So far into five draws in the restaurant one So the performances have been very good the good quality in the top end of the pitch and can cause your problems And that's where they've kind of let out both and they start off very well very consistent not exceeding too many goals And I suppose the key is no injuries as such I mean Buckley chatted about it afterwards in the match in channel growers if we can keep his team together Squad wouldn't be the biggest problem not the strongest in the league compared to the dark and channel growers But if he can mature a season where he's very little injuries He'll be up around the top three or two or even one of the if he gets the lucky needs Yeah, obviously he's going to keep them grounded They're not going to get too carried away with this and and they'll know what the next challenge is Is going to be like because fun park as you said earlier. It's a difficult place to come and harps will be looking to put it up to them There's no doubt about that. I mean, I'm an absolute return them and many occasions in fun part And I'm expecting a big performance from perhaps on Friday night disappointingly draw to score last month one or Last week and then obviously bounce back for tripping performance and an excellent result down in Waterford One and two one after conceding as well And that's a big thing coming from behind one null away from home and dig in a really big performance And probably should have wanted more comfortably on the night and the farmers was excellent They're home for farmers have been very good as well as she and I'm expecting the same sort of performance so You know, we know we're going to get from fun perhaps and they know they're very dog It's defensively very good. Don't give much away and it's going to be difficult place for them to come and get three points Yeah, but you're not want to go one-nil down against the league leaders. Will you Declan on Friday night? No, listen, there's no doubt about it. Like you're right There's not too many games where you go one down in the Premier League so far this season where teams are turned around Obviously last week or down in Waterford was an exception to that one But majority times when you concede first to put you on the weaver pressure And also what it means as well that all he has to change the strategy we've been regards to likes to play We've been more defensive and if they can go go up They can dig in a wee bit deeper in that had teams in the counter attack But when you have to start chasing games and you're pushing men forward to create opportunities that obviously Spaces and flag rovers will exploit those spaces because our top three are very Very dynamic really really quick and like to get in behind teams and can cause your problems I wonder left one view once If harps are gonna sort of trouble and if harps are gonna come with a breakthrough here And and if they are gonna do damage to slag one Friday, where do you think it's gonna come from Declan? Yeah, listen when tundy or lobbies come on and don't have an excellent performance They're down in Waterford and create their problems obviously got a penalty in the second half very McNamee's been to the forward Everything has been very positive Biden he can play higher up the pitch and stay close to Adam Foley Who's obviously in six goals and joint top score with Georgie Kelly and so far So, you know, that's that's you're looking at Carlos Evans very industrial down the right-hand side You know quality of ball needs we weave better at times But it does cause problems in the counter attack and he's got that pace as well So you're looking at the mixture of them It'll be interesting to see what the starting lineup will be with what tundy make the start in 11 He's been coming on and substitution rolls started obviously down in Waterford and made an impact and I was having involved for a lot of the key moments of Attacks and obviously got a penalty to sit earlier and then buy in McNamee stuck that away And I'm fully the answer for an excellent goal down the right-hand side just a minute later and quit funny So, you know, you're looking at those public key players Defensively, we're gonna have to be very good against like a Roberts. We've done live commentary as you know up in showgrounds And it's very little between both teams Just to just a point and mistake that on the night by marketing again They cost us three points. I would think you know, so that's that's probably key one For you know, so it's important. We probably keep a clean sheet and we keep a clean sheet We've got opportunity of getting something out of the game. Yeah Just moving on from from the last time they met our slaggle a better team than what they were that night now Yeah No, I don't mean that performance wasn't bad slaggle on the night You know when they want to go up and we had to go after the game Then they started the spaces are left behind they do have really good players in the top end the pitches really mentioned and they will Cause your problems from Romeo parts up there Obviously Jordan Gibson is probably been up there with player the year so far There's were a lot of key goals and for them as a real threat on the right-hand side So they have players that can hurt you like they've been very consistent to say it But no, I don't see them they haven't improved me I don't say they've improved a lot since the last time I think they've just been very consistent You get an eight out of ten of them every single week to go out in the pitch. It's very Unlikely you'll get it in below that sort of performance So they've been very good instead of no injuries as well and not any inspections as such So they've been looking outside, but listen lame walk the nose. This is difficult matches. It's not easy come the fun part There's no easy games in the Premier League and especially going to fun parts not easy and Harps are an excellent form as well So it's going to be an exciting one. It's just such a putty I shouldn't that the fans can't be there because with Sligo rose all the top of the table and harps going really well They've been massive crowd and that's a disappointing aspect for me that fans can't quite both slag go on fun harps can fans can't come out And once again, what would be deemed a good result in your mind for harps and freddie? I Think it's important that they keep keep putting points on the board. I should ask the kids for me So that's a point or three, you know dependent before when she you know Some days you can say listen a draw would be good result now obviously and you're talking slag rovers on how well they're going But on the night you could print a really good performance You could create chances chances and you could miss those chances or afterwards just thinking geez we let three go there So yeah, listen interesting one. I don't know. It's gonna be a difficult game to count You know to find out what's ways gonna go. I think it'll be tight. It'll be cagey. Will there be a lot of goals I don't think there will be unless unless like a rovers can score earlier something like that And then hearts will have to come out and try to get something out of the game But yeah, I think a draw would be a big result for for fun harps Slaver probably coming up in the three points because they're gonna be on their pressure from Shamrock rovers who've long for At the weekend and they'll up to the off to get three points there Yeah Do you sell do you still see Shamrock rovers as as the title winners come the end of the season deck than I know They've had a blip so they have but you can't take away the quality that they have either like and they're still favorites for it The favors for me At the start of the season, we're very unsure what what's gonna happen between Dundalk and Shamrock rovers Who's gonna want it but mean Dundalk has just For one reason or another just haven't performed to the level and to the quality that they have at their disposal I mean a 29 senior players at the squad and they've definitely Govers is it earlier 33 on beaten and then they go To defeats on the bounce within three or four days, which is incredible But yeah, this for me Shamrock rovers are the best team the league I don't think there's as potent and they don't have as much penetration as they had last year not scorn as many goals Scorn a lot of late goals. The performances have been good. They're defensively a lot better Sean Horst come on there and Brian Gallin's come on as well from From Shandong and they've all tightened up. We've not conceding too many goals, but they're not scoring as pretty as there were Jack Bourne was there last year and was involved in 41 1% of all goals scored and you did that out of your team. It's very difficult to replace that Chris Cannes command but hasn't hasn't had that same impact as Jack Bourne would have but yeah, listen Still for me the best team in the league best squad of players I learned on top, but they're playing the playing well at spells without scoring a lot of goals But they're getting over the line Pats, of course are looking to challenge as well They played on dock on Friday night and given current form you and anything Pat should be walking out the door with the full three points against on dock in this game But the the Richmond Parkside the intro core club have had bluffs along the way in recent weeks, too So they have Declan. Yeah, they have and that's you just don't know what's gonna happen I came to you because both teams you just you know Don't talk. We just don't know what's gonna happen. They turned over obviously Shamar of Overs and Oriel Last weekend and then obviously they went up and the last the last next game the end to Bose 51 count to be beaten by Bose and George E. Kelly scoring a hat-trick on the night for him But yeah, so you don't know what's gonna get them done doc. They help the players when they head for them. They're really good Some parts have been far more consistent. I haven't conceded too many goals I've got a few lead goals as well and go over the line a few of those ones But Steven and Donald's come in and done an excellent job in there. They've been consistent They've obviously had a players that have helped them and Robbie Benson come in and scored a penalty Obviously last week as well to one the game and two one So how do you know I would see potentially a draw there on that and that one Conduct kind of doctor and beat them they can they seem to play better against the bigger teams So that could be performance With a lot of other X players obviously parents and parts as well. So that'll be an interesting one But some parts have been very consistent. They're up there obviously, but just don't know how that games gonna go Yeah, the other game and Friday night Darius city are on the road Again, straw to United draw how to sitting above harps forehead of the off the Balboff a say and draw I've been like harps one of the surprise packages is fair to say deck on the premier division But from a dairy city point of view since Rory Higgins took charge They haven't had a one under him at the brandy well, but that's been flipped on its head with the waveforms Don't be surprised if dairy city can take a positive result and on the pole points against draw on Friday night It wouldn't shock you would it? No, it's absolutely wouldn't the funny I don't know how that is like why that the performances have been so good away from home And then that home probably there's more pressure for them to take control of the game and drive forward and try to create opportunities Where potentially I would say when they're at a way from home They're sitting a little bit deeper and they're harder to break down and also very good in the counter attack Jerry rely heavily on set plays. I even took over the last day was was the first one was obviously a set play and Ronan Boy scored from a scrappy goal in the back post and on top of that as well This Joe Thompson score from a strike from a free kick to the second phase and they got a good strike into the net So there I have him they haven't scored too many goals from open plays. So they're heavenly and set plays Yeah, so interesting draw down really good form. Obviously, we you know, we've lost them last weekend with last minute Free kick wonder goal by by Massey, but I mean it's just one of those ones were and then up to they went and comfy beat Langford Up in draw hot as so I mean draws forms very good. They're playing very well for very free They score a lot of goals And they have they have scored so many goals this season and they're very Open they like to play attacking football and so the biennial can see but you're absolutely right I expect that to be a very tight affair I think Daria could get out of that In a draw to draw with a one no vector Yeah, which would be a huge result for them and have done dock where we're to slip up and even if bows were to slip up They could of course be moving a couple of places up the table. We've already mentioned shamrock rovers They're at Longford town You expect rovers to bounce back after their their two back-to-back defeats And then we've got Bohemians against Waterford also on Saturday as well The interest to see with Georgie Kelly is going to step up with at the weekend Very capable of grabbing another couple of goals particularly in a match against a struggle in Waterford side Yeah, that's so I don't know if you've seen the heartbreak was a wonderful hat-trick. It had everything on it Goal scored some action goals against undock and Georgie got a wonderful wonderful hat-trick And I had her included in that as well So he's obviously been a major hit your spine and undock defense scoring a big hat-trick Yeah started off probably reasonably slow But now it's starting to come and said earlier he's in six goals to the season So you expect him to to answer that tally and he brings players into the game We know he's a big strong lab, but he's also quick as well And when he gets the opportunities in front of goalie, he normally works the keeper He gets it entirely or he scores a goal. So yeah, listen, he's a wee bit of conference Waterford obviously aren't going so well new manager involved and you know, they're conceding a lot of goals as well So you expect both what the quality they have in the top end that puts it to cause problems and Georgia Kelly To definitely add one or two to his six are ready for the season. Yeah, just finally then back to the harps Stegarovers game. What are you predicting on Friday and that one in Bob of a deck? I think that could be a one-one draw That's what I'm thinking. I think they'll be tight and cagey If harps can score first, I think they'll either get a point or three points out of it So yeah, if slag will go on to score first, I'll be pushing towards slag. We're getting three points. Okay, Declan as always Thanks for joining us. Talk to you soon. Thank you


Hi, my name is Anne O'Kleif and I'm going to be doing a plenary at the ELT Ireland Conference in February. It's going to be on my research about competencies of learners of English in terms of their grammar and I'm going to be talking about advanced learners and what they know about grammar. I'm really looking forward to it and I hope you can come along too.


So, in the last lecture we have developed transmission loss curves for a wall which is impinged upon by normal incident sound energy and what we have seen is that in the mass control region and in the stiffness control region, we have a positive slope and also a negative slope straight line and the slope of these two straight lines is essentially 6 decibels per decade. Also in theory at the point of resonance, there is no transmission loss. So, all the sound which is incident on the wall it passes through the wall, but in reality there is some loss through the wall because of damping effects because of damping properties of the system. Now all this discussion was in context of you know normal incident sound. So, the question is that what happens if we have random incidents of sound. So, once again I have a wall and instead of sound is striking normally, sound may strike it in all sorts of directions and then the question is what kind of PT do we experience.  So, once again we are going to break this problem into two components one corresponds to a stiffness control region and the other one corresponds to the mass control region. So, what we are going to start with is the stiffness control region. Now the attenuation if I have oblique incidence. So, if this is my angle of incidence which is theta, then the attenuation is defined and I am not going to do a proof of this term, but using existing knowledge I am just going to just replicate the relation. So, attenuation if there is oblique incidence when the angle of incidence is theta, then attenuation has been found out to be something like this. And what you see here is that this relation is more or less very similar to the relation which we developed for normal incidence, except for the fact that I have this cos theta term all other terms are same. Now if this theta becomes 0 I have normal incidence and this relation for attenuation becomes same as that for normal incidence. Now I know that this is the relation for now you know oblique incidence where angle of incidence is theta, but theta can range from 0 to pi over 2 degrees pi over 2 radians. So, this is my equation 1 and then again using some well proven relations I can write that if this wall is getting impinged upon by all sorts of radiations by all sorts of sound waves with of equivalent density in all directions, then my average attenuation is nothing, but it is going to be some sort of an integral and this is how this integral looks like. So, A tn attenuation specific to a particular value of angle times cosine theta times sin theta times d theta. So, if I am able to integrate this from theta equals 0 to pi over 2 radians, then I get the average incident average attenuation offered by the wall which is being hit by sound coming from all directions. So, now what I have to do is I have to integrate this relation where the value of attenuation for angle theta is defined by equation 1 and if I do the math correctly, then average attenuation is nothing, but this number k s square times natural log of 1 plus 1 over k s square where k s is basically this term 2 omega z naught c. And now I know that 1 plus k 1 over k s square from an earlier relation from this relation, this is basically attenuation for 90 degrees incident angle and this term in parenthesis in the denominator is k s. So, this is same as this term. So, I can rewrite this relation as k s square times 1 over attenuation. So, moving on what I can further write, then the transmission loss average, average implying that energy is hitting the wall from all directions. So, if I take some sort of an average of that, then average transmission loss is equal to 10 log of 10 times 1 over attenuation average. And now in this parenthesis, I plug in this number. So, what I get is now what I am going to do is I am going to resolve this. So, what I get is because this is to the power of negative 1. So, k s square comes in the denominator and then the second component of this log is 10 log, 10 of natural log and because once again I have the power is negative 1. So, instead of plus, I have put a negative sign here. So, that takes care of the negative 1 on the power term, powers thing. So, this is 1 over 1 plus k s square. So, let us call this relation a. Now, so remember we are talking about the stiffness control region only. Now, for the stiffness control region, we know that if angle of incidence is you know 0 degrees, then it is normal incidence. So, T l normal and we had calculated the relation for this earlier and this is nothing but 10 log of 10 over 1 over attenuation and this is 10 log of 10 1 over 1 plus k s square. So, this I can rewrite this as 10 log of 10 and what I am going to do is I am going to rewrite this term, I will take in an exponential format. So, I have an exponential of natural log of k s square and this. So, this term exactly same term, but I have just taken a natural log of it and then I have raised it to an exponent. So, it is the same thing. So, this is, so now I take a rewrite it further. So, what I get is 10 log of 10 of E times natural log of 1 plus 1 over k s square and this number comes out to be 4.343 and then from here I get natural log of 1 plus 1 over k s square. So, this is T l normal. So, now I move this on this side.  So, this is my equation B and what I am going to do is put equation B into equation A. So, I am going to replace this with this term and what I get is finally, T l. So, what I am interested in finding out is the average transmission loss. So, T l average is nothing but 10 log 10 of 1 over k s square minus 10 log 10 of 0.23026 T l normal and if I want to remove this square term from this thing then what I get is 20 log 10 of 1 over k s minus 10 log 10 of 0.23 T l normal. So, that is my relation. So, this is my average transmission loss across a wall as long as I am in the stiffness control region. So, likewise now what I am going to do is going to figure out what is you know transmission loss if I am in the mass control region. So, for mass control region we know that T l normal is we have developed this relation is basically 10 log 10 of 1 over attenuation and this number this relationship we had earlier proven is same as 10 log 10 times 1 plus m omega over 2 z naught whole thing squared. Now I want to convert this into T l average for random incidence. So, we have found people have found using numerous experiments that if a wall is being hit by sound waves and the frequencies of these sound waves are such that they are coming from all directions and these frequencies are way in excess of the natural resonance of the system. Then T l average is approximately equal to T l normal minus 5 d. So, this is based on experimental data will be done experimental data. So, now I have my two resonances two conditions. So, for random incidence this is the summary if in stiffness control region then my transmission loss for random incidence equals 20 log 10 over 1 over k s minus 10 log 10 of 0.23026 T l n corresponding to normal where T l normal is 10 log 10 of 1 plus 1 over 2 z naught c omega whole thing square. Second thing is if in mass controlled region then T l average equal to T l normal minus 5 decibels and this is based on experimental data. So, it is an empirical relation and here T l n is nothing but 10 log 10 of 1 plus m omega over 2 z naught c oh excuse me they should be a c here 2 z naught square. If I am mass controlled region this is what I should use if I am in stiffness controlled region this is what I should use to understand how much transmission loss is going to happen across the wall. So, then a natural question would be how do I know whether I am in mass controlled or stiffness controlled region. So, there are some. So, one way is that you can actually control figure out the natural resonance of the system by doing some finite element analysis of the wall or the panel which we are talking about or we can find or we can use some standard text books which have listings of you know relationships for these natural frequencies of the system and we can use that to figure out whether we are in mass controlled region or we are in stiffness controlled region. So, now there is one final question. So, till so far what we have seen is that even this relationship what it says is that T l average also it increases at something like 6 decibels per octave 6 decibels per octave if I am in stiffness controlled region. So, if I am going to reduce my frequency by a factor of 2 I will have an improvement in transmission loss even for random incidence by 6 decibels. Similarly, if I am in mass controlled region if I increase my frequency by a factor of 2 I get an improvement in transmission loss again by 6 decibels. So, my curve transmission loss curve will still look something like this it will still look something like this. Now, the question is will this line just keep on going forever or after some point of time some other things may start happening. So, in that context I wanted to talk to you about term called critical frequency. So, what happens is that in the mass controlled region as my frequency is going up. So, in M controlled region as omega goes up wavelength of the sound it goes down wavelength starts shrinking also these sounds they try to excite some bending waves in the plate or the wall which we are talking about. So, if I have a plate and it is being hit by sound. So, there may be some bending waves in the in the plate. Now, these bending waves also have specific frequencies and wavelengths and typically at lower frequencies if I hit it let us say at 10 hertz the wavelength of the sound. So, at low frequencies lambda of sound is larger than lambda of wave, but as I keep on increasing my frequency this starts coming down and at some specific frequency at some specific frequency lambda of sound equals lambda of bending wave. So, this should be bending wave. So, these two start equaling and when that happens that particular frequency is called coincidence or critical frequency. So, frequency at which lambda of sound equals lambda of bending waves is called coincidence frequency. And an interesting thing about this is that mathematics tells us and it is also seen through numerous experiments that at coincidence frequency that is if I am hitting a wall with a particular frequency whose wavelength is identical to that of the bending wave in the wall or the plate then these two waves start reinforcing each other. And as a consequence transmission loss at this particular frequency at coincidence frequency it all of a sudden it suddenly drops. Now, if there was absolutely no damping then there would not be any transmission loss in the system, but because there is damping in the system. So, at this coincidence frequency the transmission loss drops to a certain extent and the extent of that drop is once again governed by damping in the system. And then again after I move beyond the coincidence frequency I start going I start again having more transmission loss. So, what I am trying to emphasize is that at the frequency of coincidence or coincidence frequency the incident sound wave starts reinforcing the bending waves in the plate or the wall which are elastic waves and this causes a significant drop in transmission loss at those specific frequencies.  So, f c is equal to coincidence frequency and this is for a plate and there is a mathematical relation for this and this is. So, remember this is lower case c, c is velocity of sound in air. So, it is square root of 3 times c square divided by pi times c l a constant times h where h. So, c l is again a constant and it is the velocity of bending wave. So, you have two velocities one is velocity of sound in air and then the other one is velocity of bending wave in the solid or the plate. So, c l is velocity of bending wave in a plate and that is equal to e which is the Young's modulus divided by rho of plate times 1 minus square of Poisson's ratio and then I take the whole thing and I take its square root. So, c l is again velocity of bending wave and finally, h is equal to plate thickness. So, using this relation you can figure out what will be the coincidence frequency for a plate. So, once I know the coincidence frequency then I can calculate the transmission loss of the wall or the plate for a region when I am even exceeding the critical frequency. So, for f exceeding f l excuse me f c where f c is critical frequency transmission loss and this is a empirical relation transmission loss for random incidence. So, it is going to be average and it is given by this transmission loss normal at f c. So, this is not a multiple transmission loss normal for incident wave when it is normal to the plate at critical frequency plus 10 log of 10 of a constant eta and we will define eta later plus 33.2 times log of 10 f over f c minus 5.7. So, I will just explain t l n f c is equal to t l n when f is equal to f c. So, I will calculate this using the relation which I had shown earlier eta equals damping in material and this is a dimensionless number. So, you can use values like tan delta for this thing and I will just give you some perspective on this. So, for aluminum eta is 0.001 for steel regular carbon steel it is a little more, but not a whole lot more. You look at wood it is 0.02 to 0.008 brick it is 0.015. So, a lot of these metals they are really low damping properties. So, I will also expand on this term. So, t l n at f c equals using the relation which we had seen earlier it is nothing, but 10 log of 10 1 plus m f c pi over excuse me. So, it is m f c m f c times pi divided by z naught the whole thing square. So, this is t l n. So, using this empirical relation we can figure out what happens after we have crossed you know the first coincident frequency. One thing it is important to note here is that if I am exceeding the coincident frequency then in that range if I double my this particular range then t l is proportional. So, this is t l average is proportional to 33.2 log 10 of f. So, if frequency doubles then t l goes up by 10 dB because if I have 2 f here log of 2 is 0.3 multiplied by 33.2 I get 10. So, if my frequency doubles above and beyond coincidents frequency then I get a 10 dB extra of damping. So, I will now finally, draw this chart once again. So, I am plotting t l average and this is in decibels on the horizontal axis I have frequency in hertz and once again there is a so, I will do couple of curves here and I will explain what these mean. So, this is my stiffness control region and the slope here is negative 6 decibels per decade per octave I am sorry. This is this is resonance frequency and this equals 1 over 2 pi times square root of 1 over C m where C is the specific compliance of the system and m is specific mass of the system. Then up to this range this is mass control region and here this is 6 decibels per octave the slope is once again 6 decibels, but it is a positive slope. Then this is my first coincidence frequency first coincidence frequency and the value of coincidence frequency has been defined here. This is my first coincidence at first coincidence frequency all of a sudden transmission loss drops and the extent of that drop will depend on eta which is the damping in the system. So, the lower damping the higher the drop the more this is the damping less is drop. So, these three curves above and beyond red, green and blue they are for different values of damping. So, let us say my damping here is eta 1, eta 2, eta 3. So, it is in such a way eta 1 is the least. So, I have maximum reduction in transmission loss then eta 2 is more than eta 1 and then this is eta 3. So, I have lesser drops and then in this region this is called damping control region. This is damping control region and here as we saw that the slope of this transmission loss curve is 10 decibels per octave. So, the slope these three lines red line green line and blue line beyond f c they are all parallel to each other and their slope is 10 dB per octave. So, this is the overall picture. So, what I have explained in last two lectures will hopefully enable you to use this information that suppose tomorrow you have to work on a design where you have to develop wall and you expect certain amount of transmission loss across it because you want to kill sound. So, that to a certain extent then the material which has been covered in last two lectures will hopefully give you sufficient information. So, that you can start developing these kind of structures and you can analyze these walls and panels. Thank you very much for your patience and we will meet you once again in our next lecture. Thank you.


I'm into the Julia Colotta show. I'm Joe Ambo. Join now with Julia Colotta head coach and softball team. Coach, it seems like the hitting is coming around. You guys are starting to get more hits. Saturday, you guys had a lot of hits and unable to get the runs across the board. What was the difference between Saturday's games and Sunday's games where you guys did score a lot? Yeah, we definitely have been hitting much better. On Saturday, we got runners on, and we moved them to second or third, but we didn't cash. We weren't very clutch. But we stepped up on Sunday and as well as yesterday, mostly for the second game, but we hit the ball well both games. And cashing those runs when the runner is on third with one, two, outs. Talking about yesterday's games, especially the second game, getting five runs in the first inning on two long balls, how important were those to get the team back into momentum and knowing that, hey, we can do this? Yeah, we've definitely started to hit the ball with more authority, driving gap to gap in the home runs. And as a team, when we get out to a quick lead, it gives us a lot of confidence, especially for our pitching, and we were able to hold for the entire game. And that confidence, as you said, where you were able to hold no errors in that second game, how important was that as you guys go into this week-long stretch of not playing, how important was that for you guys? Really important. The first game, we had 14 hits, but we lost. We gave up a home run and we lost. We gave the other team a little bit more opportunity with some errors. The second game, we cleaned it up. Didn't hit as well in terms of total hits, but we were able to get the win. And we do have a week off. We come back with a conference game next Wednesday, which is the president's game. And we just have to have a good two practice days, enjoy our Easter break, and come back with the same focus. And pitching was pretty solid, especially on Sunday, where you're giving up very few hits. Yeah, we really pounded the strike zone. We got ahead of batters, which always makes it a lot easier. I think Jazzy in the five-inning win only through 38 pitches and Brooke gave us a great performance as well. Yeah, I love those five-inning wins. Hopefully, we get a couple more of those this year. For sure. Coach, good luck this week and enjoy your week off. Thank you. Don't get so learning. Thank you. You too. She's Julia Colotta. I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Julia Colotta Show.


If you are building a website or web app using JavaScript, you should take a few basic steps to make sure your content is discoverable via search. Let's look at a few SEO techniques to help users find your content. All of your pages should have a descriptive and helpful title that describes what the page is about in very short terms. For example, on recipe pages, avoid using a generic title such as Barbara's Baking Block. Instead, each page should have the name of the recipe in the title so it's clear what the page is about. You also should provide a description of what the page will contain specifically. For example, what makes this recipe special? Or what are its main characteristics? So people have something helping them identify the best page to fulfill their intended goal. Both of this can be done by adding a title and meta tags in your markup. You can check your pages for those tags by using the right click Inspect and then search for double slash title and double slash meta to find them. If you do not see all of your content in the markup, you are probably using JavaScript to render your page in the browser. This is called client-side rendering and is not a problem per se. Rendering is the process of populating templates with data from APIs or databases. This can happen either on the server side or on the client side. When it does happen on the server, crawlers as well as your users get all the content as HTML markup immediately. In single page apps, the server often sends the templates and JavaScript to the client and the JavaScript then fetches the data from the backend, populating the templates as the data arrives. As explained in the first episode, the indexing for JavaScript sites happens in two waves. Content that requires JavaScript to be fetched will only be indexed in the second wave, which might take some time. In later episodes, we will cover how to overcome this and often also improve the user experience and loading performance by using techniques such as dynamic rendering, hybrid rendering or server-side rendering for single page apps. Another important detail is to allow Googlebot to crawl pages from your website by linking between your pages properly. Make sure to include useful link anchor text and use the HTML anchor tag with the destination URL of the link in the href attribute. Do not rely on other HTML elements such as div or span or use JavaScript event handlers for this. Not only crawlers will have a trouble finding and following these pseudo links, they also cause issues with assistive technology. Links are an essential feature of the web and help search engines and users find and understand the relationship between pages. If you are using JavaScript to enhance the transition between individual pages, use the History API with normal URLs instead of the hash-based routing technique. Using hashes, also called fragment identifiers, to distinguish between different pages is a hack that crawlers do ignore. Using the JavaScript History API on the other hand with normal URLs provides a clean solution for the same purpose. Remember to test your pages and server configuration when using JavaScript to do the routing on the client side. Googlebot will be visiting your pages individually so neither a service worker nor the JavaScript using History API can be used to navigate between pages. Test what a user would see by opening URLs in a new incognito window. The page should load with an HTTP 200 status code and all the expected content should be visible. Using semantic HTML marker properly helps users better understand your content as well as navigate it quicker. Assistive technologies like screen readers and crawlers also rely on the semantics of your content. Use headings, sections and paragraphs to outline the structure of your content. Using HTML image and video tags with captions and alt tags to add visuals you help crawlers and assistive technology to find this content and surface it to your users. In contrast, if you use JavaScript to generate your marker dynamically, make sure you aren't accidentally blocking Googlebot in your initial markup. As explained in the previous episode, the first round of indexing does not execute JavaScript. Having markup, such as a no-index meta tag in the initial payload can prevent Googlebot from running the second stage with JavaScript. Following these steps will help Googlebot understand your content better and make your content more discoverable in Google search. Hi Googlebot! Hi Googlebot! Did you see the new Webmasters video series? No I did not! What? You missed out on so much stuff! Really? Yes! Oh no! How could we have prevented that? Well, subscribe and follow our videos.


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