and a point there on the right, the second one from the top, delivers precise results within the parameters of its developmental stage because machine translation is very much a work in progress.  So from our client's point of view, many institutions that they work for may view English translation as some kind of optional extra, you know, something to be added on later. And they may not even allocate a budget for it. There might be no money for it. Or they may not really understand the importance of specialist translation services and specialist editing services. And that leaves, you know, researchers in a difficult position. And some researchers in this position may, shall we say, misunderstand machine translation or free online translation services that may misunderstand these as some kind of a solution to their problem because, you know, their speed for the low cost, indeed, zero cost in many cases. But with machine translation, unfortunately, the quality of the output is almost always too low. In academic terms, it's too low to satisfy a general review panel. Reviewers are going to look at it and reject it immediately. And indeed, most machine translated work will not even reach the review stage if it will be rejected before that. You know, people don't want to, editors don't want to annoy or effects their reviewers who work on paid for this. However, as machine translation becomes more and more sophisticated, machine translation post editing, the MTP has become an increasingly viable option. And MTP basically, you know, is you get a machine translated template. And on top of that, you layer bilingual language checker. And then on top of that, you may layer, you know, whatever specialist editing services you wish or are available. And excuse me. So this MTP approach, it offers much of the speed and the cost effectiveness of pure machine translation. But, you know, the quality is better. You have machine translation, but with enhanced quality. However, of course, the thing is that a machine translated template, once it's in your hands, it presents bilingual checkers and it presents later editors with all the same issues, all the same problems that we've discussed above, you know, of terminology, of consistency, of subject matter expertise. None of these things disappear just because you've put your text through a machine translation. And indeed, machine translation also presents the same issues that you find with human translations in terms of language pairs. So you're working from this language into that language, there'll be characteristic issues and problems arising from machine translation in a kind of similar way to human translation, actually. And, you know, machine translation quite generally gives us issues of clarity, subject matter expertise, consistency, loss of nuance, all of these things. So it's certainly not a magic bullet. And, you know, in terms of academic translation, we're a long way away from machine translation ever challenging human translation entirely. Okay. And so it's not, it's not a magic bullet at all. Okay. Now, let me return you to Karasha. Thanks very much. And the next slide. Thanks. So thank you so much, John, for this enlightening part of the session. So in recent years, researchers have witnessed dramatic changes in the science communications landscape. And since English is predominantly used as a knowledge dissemination language, by high impact academic journals, researchers from ESL regions, though add to the knowledge, but fail at adding to the literature. Hence, translation comes to their resort for sharing knowledge, information, and ideas across the world. As publishing in non English journals will restrict researchers from imprinting their identity on the global map. Moreover, publishing in languages other than English hampers the academic diversity. Furthermore, several peer reviewed non English scholarly journals are excluded from prestigious journal indexes. Translating academic literature goes above and beyond publication barriers and bridges cultural gaps amongst different regions and helps in preserving literature for advancing research in the future. Of academic translations, it can be broadly classified into four types. First being the literary, literary, second being professional, third being technical, and fourth being administrative. The literary type of translation deals with translations of poems, plays, etc. It involves comprehensive and clear translation of the context, sound and expressions of the source text. Next is professional translations, which includes translation of medical or legal documents and requires the translator to have subject matter expertise. Then is the technical translations, which includes translation of engineering documents, instruction manuals, etc. Along with subject expertise and technical knowledge, the translator must also be careful with the numeric data in terms of translating technical documents. Lastly, the administrative translations are also termed as the subtype of professional translations, which includes translation of management texts and documents. As we speak of the important role that translation plays in academia, we must understand the challenges faced during the process. There are eight most common challenges in academic translations as you all must be aware of. First being the failure of understanding the context, translating cultural specific expressions, lexical semantic problems, formal standard language, translating idioms, rhetorical questions, sarcasm, etc. Compound word translations, incorrect usage of keywords, and the most important one is grammar and punctuation errors. First challenge that we talk about today is faced by translation, which is not being able to comprehend the source text. This is the primary need to be able to translate any document. If you cannot understand what's written in the source text, you'll not be able to translate it to the target language. Hence comprehension of the source text and understanding it to the T is very important. Other challenge arises while translating cultural specific expressions as cultural diversity is often reflected in writings by ESL authors. Next challenge in academic translations is lexical semantic problems. This is when there's difficulty in understanding instructions or conversations with words that may have two different meanings such as homophones. Then comes the challenge of translating source text to English as the target language whilst maintaining the target languages standard linguistic rules. Coming to the other four set of challenges faced in academic translations, another challenge is of translating region specific idioms, expressions, sarcastic statements, or rhetorical questions from source text to English. Such expressions must be translated carefully without changing their intent or meaning. Following this is the translation challenge of translating compound words. For example, the word fireman is made up of two words fire and man which have different meanings individually and have a completely different meaning as a compound word. Another major challenge while translating is usage of incorrect keywords as we know the keywords volume may differ in each region. Therefore word-for-word translation may not deliver exact keywords intensity or volume to effectively work on the global platform. Finally, another crucial aspect is the difficulty in abiding by grammar and punctuation rules of the English language whilst conveying contextual meaning of the original language. So as now we've acknowledged the challenges faced in academic translations, we must know how to avoid them to create error-free translated documents and manuscripts. Here I shall be discussing a few tips and tricks to use in order to overcome these challenges. The first challenge is the accurate comprehension of source text. To deal with the challenge of failing to understand the source text, a translator must firstly gain proficiency in the source text language. Furthermore, they must ensure factual correctness of the source text by referring the bibliography to avoid misinterpretation and consequently avoid mistranslation. In addition, the translator must analyze the source text and alter it by adding, deleting or rearranging words and ideas to effectively communicate in the English language. Lastly, clarify your doubts if you have any and do not translate in your case of assumption in terms of gray areas. To overcome the challenge of translating culture-specific expressions, a translator must firstly display a complete command over both the source and the target language in terms of phrasing the sentences clearly, understanding the syntax, that is how words and morphemes which are smaller sentences combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences and the etymology, that is the origin of certain words. Secondly, the translator must avoid word-for-word translations of region-specific ideas or expressions and finally they must use local terms to accurately adapt the translated text to targeted culture. Now, coming to the other problem is dealing with lexical semantic problems. While dealing with lexical semantic problems, a translator must begin with referring to dictionaries, glossaries, subject experts, etc. to get a clear understanding of used words. Furthermore, exact meaning of sentences must be decoded to avoid using words in wrong content. Use descriptive words wherever applicable. More importantly, build a semantic map between words so that there is an interconnection and you are aware of the interconnection between the words that are related to specific themes and concepts. Here comes the major challenge which is faced in academic translation, is of maintaining the formal standards of the target language. The challenges faced here are related to translating in either British or English language, that is the American English language, and other issues such as capitalization, spacing, contractions, typographical errors, etc. While translating from source text to English language, a translator must also be careful whether the text is to be translated in British English or American English. For instance, as we can see on the slide today, the use of serial commas in the British sentence is not incorporated while it is in the American sentence in the statement, absorbance spectra<PHONE_NUMBER>11, 2918 and 3226 centimeters inverse. However, in the American sentences, we see that there is an incorporation of a serial comma between the digit 2918 and the term and 3226 centimeters inverse. Likewise, there is another difference is between the spellings used by British English and the American English. In the example given on our slide, the typical thermal decomposition behavior and the one given in the American sentence style, the typical thermal decomposition behavior, we can see that the spelling of behavior rather both correct are different in both ways. Hence, we must understand that terms that are used in both the languages in both the terms are similar yet not different from what the standards apply. In addition, maintaining capitalization rules, for instance, laparoscopic versus open hepatotomy approach for regional hepatolithiasis. However, in the correct sentence, you would see that the term regional hepatolithiasis is not written in capital into the next problem is maintaining spacing issues. The first example that you may see is when the frequencies are mentioned, that is, the frequency of electric power is 50 by 60 hertz. And in the correct sentence, you may see that there is a difference between a unit of frequency and the quantity that is given. Likewise, we need to understand that such spacing issues are also not carried forward. Another challenge is of maintaining contractions. As you can see in the incorrect sentence, as we have given in the example here, however, the findings weren't consistent with previous findings. Here, we understand that in academic writing, it is always better to be as unambiguous as we can. Therefore, we write the correct sentence as, however, the findings were not consistent with previous findings. Going forward, I would also like to mention the typographical errors mentioned here. Typographical errors are not just common in translation, but also while writing or creating new content. Thus, as you can see on the screen, both the examples of incorrect and correct sentences, I would like to take up the second example, that is, the conedia resting in the alveoli begin to grow and germinate, where germinate does not make any sense. However, the correct formation is the conedia resting in the alveoli begin to grow and germinate. Going forward, another major challenge is deciphering regional idioms, sarcastic statements, expressions or rhetorical questions, which cannot be translated by the literal definitions of the words. Hence, a translator must find an equivalent idiom or expression in English language without hampering the meaning or intent of the source text. If this is not possible, as a resort, a translator must write an idiom in the target language with different words or sentences structured and completed with a short explanation. Speaking of translating compound words, ensure that the overall meaning of the compound word is retained and that it is translated to its literal meaning. verbatim of such words is not acceptable while translating. As we see here on the screen, the word butterfly is neither a fly nor a butter, though is made of two different words, butter and a fly. Another challenge is of using globally relevant keywords. As we know, regional keywords may not be effective in English and some terms used in regional languages may be missing in the target language, a translator must identify keywords for the manuscripts or documents based on their volume on the global platform. Here, the literal translations of keywords may not be as impactful as it may be for the specific region. Moving forward to one of the most important challenges faced by translators are following the grammar rules. The challenge of abiding by the grammar rules of the English language is very critical. Given the trickiness of it, English grammar rules must be maintained and followed scrupulously. Learn to adopt deductive method whilst not skipping any relevant and important information and convey the exact meaning of the source text. Furthermore, avoid exaggeration and emphasize on the accuracy. However, you would notice that in case of exaggerating, there is a chance of you kind of misquoting or misleading the reader. Your best resort would be to use one of the most reliable online grammar checker tools which is Trinka AI. As we all have heard a comma can kill a man. Another challenge is following punctuation rules carefully. It is a crucial aspect that needs sincere attention while translating. Some key points to remember while using some of these regularly used punctuation marks are comma use it to create a pause or to separate ideas or listed content in a sentence. Semicolon use it to create a break between interconnected ideas colon use it to connect two sentences thematically. Full stop. It is also called as a period which is used to denote that the sentence has ended and lastly is apostrophe which is used to indicate ownership or missing letters or numbers. Finally, we speak of current usage of transition words and phrases. To emphasize a contrast use words such as however nevertheless although even though yet despite in spite of in contrast in comparison, while whereas on the other hand on the contrary to indicate cause for a reason use words such as for because since as to compare data use words such as similarly likewise similar to both and and lastly to indicate results or deliver inferences use words such as as a result as a consequence of therefore does consequently hence going to so as we've understood the tricks and tips to overcome these common challenges in academic translation my colleague and co-presenter John will take you through some relevant examples from original manuscript assignments. Okay, thanks very much because thanks indeed now we're going to take a look at some translations from various language pairs but from basically into English from from various source languages and I won't detain you too long with them we'll just pick out you know one or two from each but please take a moment and just read through these edits of translations and these edits are taken care of mainly of translation issues only you know we're not we're not even looking at a grammar stuff like that in general so this is from yeah Japanese I'm sorry can we go back to the Japanese one minute sorry thanks now this text this translation has a couple of pretty critical have a couple of pretty critical issues which I like to think of as reflexive errors that were that were edited you know in the process and I'm thinking there of you know where you're sitting as a translator and you can see the text but your brain tells you your mind tells you something of it different and you know you think your mind knows better but it doesn't I hope you can see this reasonably well in yeah line two in the first paragraph at the start of July 2019 is actually at the end of July 2019 correctly and it's a kind of you know reflexive error that you just jump to conclusion and that's why it's so important to go back and every paragraph you know look again check again these are you know constant hazards for human translators this kind of a reflexive thing one more just there on line five paragraph one the the Tokyo area should have been the Tokai area it's another reflexive mistake just jumping to a conclusion I presume the translator lives in Tokyo and is just so used to seeing that character then it's east it's Tokyo so so these are constant hazards they produce gross errors and serious problems that we can't do unless we you know are very vigilant on ourselves okay thanks so much next one thank you if you are the Chinese example thank you um we'll just pick out one point here the literature of publishing language was limited to English is that down on there's yeah line line six and seven this was a this is a phrase skip by the translator corrected in the in the in the checking this kind of skip again is a constant hazard for the human translator we must be always vigilant about it but again this is these are issues before we even come to academic translation as such thanks the next one if you would thank you the Korean yes um so there's quite a lot of discussion in this paper on the place name this is a study set in a place called Goyang in Korea which would be known in Korean as Goyangchi um uh and we would have the same thing in Japanese and Chinese as well um and so we have an issue of what we call verity in house it would be like you know almost like localization what what what do we do with this um the apparently the official name of this place is Goyangchi uh that's part of the Korean but that's not really going to to fly with a general of our general English leadership this isn't Korean studies as such is it so um the translator um amended this to city of Goyang uh and yet however uh when we when we go online when we go on to the the city's website and so on we we see that we find the preferred English phrasing they're not the official name but the preferred English phrasing is Goyang city not city of Goyang and uh that's one you know one of the kind of details that we can help our clients with in terms of credibility thank you yeah and we'll take the Spanish one last Louis thanks so much um so about uh your heritage assets heritage industry and we're coming in from a language that's you know much closer to to English and and yet we can see let me pick out one thing where is it um your second paragraph end of the first line and second line so the excuse me the translator has chosen the phrase uh material and immaterial heritage looks fine right it looks fine to me until we realize that the normal way um the standard way that this concept is discussed in English uh academia is you know tangible and a tangible heritage it's a small difference but it's a big difference in subject matter expertise and you know in the client's credibility and their membership of of a language community that will afford them with you know trust and credibility so that was a quite I think a quite crucial look smaller quite a crucial edit in helping the uh our client okay thank you so much uh but we'll we'll wrap up this part with uh some best practice pointers um quite pragmatic um that's we discussed before in in uh talking about client expectations um so when a job comes into you as a translator that you clearly establish the academic discipline and field there will be a subject allocation with email for example but you know with your own eyes you're the best person to to judge as well um going down establish your suitability for the assignment uh okay this is ballpark for me I I know this is a subject area I belong to this language community but are there any uh red flags uh maybe I should give this to someone else with a bit more expertise in this particular part uh of this field that I belong to so know your limits it's it's good to to do that and be cautious in accepting assignments uh going down clearly establish the source target key terminology you you establish it in in the original text and you nail it down in in the um target text English text whatever if you're working on a platform like men's source it'll it'll help do it automatically if you're working in word you can do it mechanically by you know find and replace um but it should be there very clearly in your mind and very consistently throughout the text you know then you can go go and do the rest of the text and translate it around that so ensure that the key key terminology is consistently in place yeah thanks uh check for emissions etc rolling um reflexive errors um skips uh clarity issues all of this you know is best done I think on a rolling basis on a paragraph basis when you reach the end of the assignment your your mind is just too tired really to to go back the way through it all again so you know just when you finish a paragraph take a deep breath scan through it again best way um very important point flag all and starting points for a project manager's quality team editor's client okay flag them don't try to to conceal them that's the most helpful thing for us all flag quoted material um either way they'll be sourcing existing translations that needs to be marked or directly back translated that needs to be flagged and finally special attention must be paid to keywords footnotes and references all of which are full of potential pitfalls and that's it thank you very much thank you john for sharing such useful information we hope our attendees have certainly gained a lot of critical information from this session we are now open to taking questions we request all the attendees to kindly send us their queries using the questions tab in the control panel alongside do we have one question in here yes please don't go ahead hang on i'm not seeing it do you mind would you mind reading it sorry which one are you referring to we've got a handful okay okay can you please tell us some english translation examples um for for the for the points i was discussing earlier uh in in the webinar um yeah sure uh if that's if that's what your your intended question is um we were thinking about uh or mentioning rather um your terminology that is inconsistent and and dated so for example you might be looking at as i was a study um well an abstract on on nursing studies where the student nurses at the beginning of the abstract are uh being asked to make entries in a thing called a student diary and at the end of the abstract they're filling out a thing called a student journal and uh so that that's in the source text so as a translator i will want to know you know is a student journal a student diary are they the same document are they something different if they're different you know what is the difference uh and so i will be um you know flagging that probably for the client in this case because it's coming from from the source um um dated terminology it's just one just an example that struck me recently was that um academic japanese uh quite commonly and quite casually uh uses the phrase um toio toio law and this comes out in english as the orient or oriental and um uh i can imagine that um oriental might work in the context of talking about you know oriental medicine the traditional medicines of japan korea china um but once you bring it over into the humanities uh the the term oriental is highly uh controversial it's it's gotten very negative connotations ever since you know uh edwards side in in the early 80s talking about orientalism as uh as a um you know the west of viewing other cultures as other and in a manipulative way indeed so that kind of uh um terminology you know maybe problematic going from one language to another though it doesn't you know cause an issue within the source language thanks yes um hi john there is another query directed to you yeah that's uh if the source paper is written badly to what degree should the translator adjust the translation um you know we're not we are i think free to to do a little bit of of paraphrasing to make something smoother um but if there are serious questions about what does the author mean uh what are they really trying to say here and you know i just can't understand what they're trying to say well that definitely should be um flagged it should be marked it should be brought to the attention of people going up the uh checking chain editing chain and finally if necessary to to the client you know um so we should be i think uh quite activists are quite ready to flag issues that are in the original yeah so i'm getting a very i don't know why but my question box is is really really narrow so sorry karsh if you can no no problem select anything thanks yes definitely okay and there is another question that is uh scientific issues have many things in common in writing stage methods and discussion have similarities with other papers and this make plagiarism problem how to solve this while translating um yeah i'm not sure that this is uh a translation issue is such i think it's more of an editing issue would you agree rukasha but uh certainly in the case of any you know quoted material appearing in in a paper you know that needs to be flagged you know um i mentioned we we often have issues of uh of for example japanese papers quoting other language material as translated in japanese what are we to do with this it certainly needs to be flagged rukasha do you have any thoughts on this yeah i agree to that the plagiarism check needs to be done at the source text itself and while the author is writing the article himself or herself uh there's another question that has brought my attention is if some question cannot be asked in a specific culture could that be left out if you are translating a questionnaire um i would have to see the you know particular context in the particular text too but generally speaking uh a questionnaire the ones that the ones that come to my mind tend to be things like uh you know psychological questions etc etc you're translating perhaps quite a lot from english into into another language actually in this case um i think that if you have an issue like that that is a good example of something that you flag to the client because if the client isn't aware of this issue then it's something they should be aware of um and i don't think it's our job as as translators to to um you know make up for for any lack of understanding that they have you know of contextual awareness shall we say that they have but it certainly is our job as translators and you know going down the line to uh to let the um client know that that there's an issue there so we take the last question for today as we have it uh there's laura asking if uh companies or uh companies that take up translation assignments are aware of the time constraints that translators face and they do not really have time to study in depth the source text so are companies aware and work on that aspect with their clients um you know in in my experience as a freelancer working for myself in the past very commonly know you know very commonly companies will come to you in a panic going we need this you know yesterday um and with uh with your latest you know we we have a much uh well developed structure uh through project managing through through client services where a project will come to us you know flagged as you know normal or or express or super express and so um that's taken into consideration on the project management end but for you as a translator if you're if you're when you when you accept a project um you're taking responsibility for that project you know um and if you feel that you you know this isn't exactly your area and that you know you won't really have time to read around as much as you should then that's one of the red flags I talked about and you know am I suitable for this project and that would be kind of a red flag for you to to decline the project it doesn't um you know it doesn't impact you negatively if you turn the project down it shows us that you're exercising discretion in fact as a translator you know so there are times when you might feel this one's not for me you know even though as a freelancer you want the job of course but not this time around yeah thanks agree so that's all the questions that we had so we would once again like to thank all the attendees for joining the webinar please find the exclusive code to get a discount on our translation services in the chat box we would also request you all to please fill the feedback survey displayed after you leave the webinar your participation will allow us to evaluate the effectiveness of our webinar have a 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Hi, this is your host Saptan Bhartiya and welcome to another episode of TFR. Let's talk and today we have two guests Satya Sankaran, Chief Operating Officer at Cloud Casa by CataLogic and Richard Oliver, Chief Executive Officer at OnDead. Satya, Richard, it's great to have you both on the show. Thank you. Thank you, Saptan. Thank you, Richard. We cover both Cloud Casa and OnDead here. So our audience, they are fully aware of both companies. So I will not ask you to tell us about Cloud Casa and OnDead. But what I'll ask you is that talk a bit about this partnership. What does it look like? How you folks are partnering? Or is this the first time you're working together or you have been working together for a long time? OnDead has been active in the ecosystem for some time, working with the CNCF. And we've been working with the goal of being open and integrate with variety of different platforms like different Kubernetes providers and also with backup. And we've been working now closely with Cloud Casa for some time since inception, really. And we've just achieved a certified integration and now we're collaborating on our joint go-to-market. Yeah, no, it's been awesome working with OnDead and Team. Look, I think we kind of go hand in hand in this ecosystem. A lot of what Richard and his team does is really just enabling customers to run stateful applications at scale. If you need to maintain state, you need to have great storage. You need to have great availability. You need to have great performance. But you also need to have good backups, right? So I think our partnership is all about enabling those customers to have a functioning application and a good night of sleep. Backup can be seen in so many different ways. Like not having a backup is like flying without a parachute or a seat belt in a car or things like that. Talk a bit about what are some of the pain points that you have seen in the industry as the market is also with the Kubernetes market has matured, production workloads are there. Where you felt that, hey, you know, we should work together to bring more value to the whole ecosystem. I can talk to what we're seeing in the storage side of the house. And that is just an ever-increasing number of critical workloads moving into Kubernetes. And as you've mentioned, the more critical the workload, the more important it is to have backup and recovery. So whereas it's inception, backup and recovery was less important for some of our customers because we're still in the dev cluster being tinkered with. But now we're seeing really serious financial workloads, telco workloads where you can't operate without having a good backup and recovery solution, which is why working with Sathya and the Cloud CASA team makes complete sense. The lineage for Kubernetes is all about stateless applications. It was everything was FM metal. Everything was elastic, everything was FM metal. But I think as you start using these applications in production, you realize that you have important data that needs to be stored in some shape or form. What's the point of being able to do compute if you can't actually store the results somewhere? And what's the point of being able to do analytics if you can't log the output somewhere? All of these are essentially driving and it's making stateful applications kind of while Kubernetes lineage is stateless, it is as you go mainstream, stateful applications are here to stay. And you're seeing CNCF surveys, you're seeing data dog surveys, all of these guys are basically projecting that, look, this is growing at even faster rate than people adopting Kubernetes itself, right, because everybody sees once they go production, they need to run stateful applications. And that's really what we're enabling. We are essential service for these stateful applications. This is not a nice to have. If you are running stateful applications, you need storage, you need that storage to be performant, you need that storage to be available, you need that storage to be replicating, and you need to have good backups. So we're really just essential service to enable those stateful applications to run, and that's where mission critical applications are running stateful sets. When DevOps teams, platform engineering teams, they take leverage of this combined offering that you folks have versus what they were doing earlier, to kind of how their day-to-day operation changes for day two. We also talk about developer experience or depends on how you look at it, operators experience, that with this offering suddenly their life has become much more easier. I'll also talk a bit about some industry movement which is happening, where a lot of folks are looking at cost cutting, layoffs are happening, so teams have to become more efficient. So these offerings are going to, the vendors are going to help companies become more efficient. So talk about that. Does that make sense? Yeah, absolutely. I think one of the primary drivers for moving data into Kubernetes is to reduce cost. So moving away from managed database offerings or moving from legacy systems into Kubernetes and using the existing teams to run those applications more efficiently in a cloud native way, not necessarily in the cloud, more often hybrid cloud. And so one of the unique values that we collectively have is helping the engineer, so the person on the call phase having to go and solve these problems quickly and efficiently and serving them in a way that they want to be served, which is ultimately through a self-service channel, through as a service type offering. And so this is very much an extension of what's happening in even the mature ecosystems around VMware and so on. What you do see is you tend to pick the best-of-breed storage vendor, you tend to pick the best-of-breed backup vendor. And in order to put together your stack, it's not so uncommon that you're running a Dell EMC for storage, but a WIM or a rubric or a Cohesity for backups. Those kind of combinations are something that our users are really used to. They see it going on in their enterprise. It's happening so far in the VMware side. And now I think the same requirements do exist. You do want a best-of-breed storage solution. I think on that run some benchmarks to show that they're faster than perhaps any other solution out there in the market today. And you do need a best-of-breed backup solution. It's again an essential service that you don't want to be doing a lot of self-managing for. And it's a service that is primed for being delivered as a service model, where folks are happy to just sign up for an SLO or an SLA and then just make sure that the backups are getting taken and have that peace of mind for those users. There was a recent report that found that on that delivers kind of the most efficient performance for throughput and latency compared to other solutions. You did talk about, you know, boardworks in terms of cost, but let's also talk in terms of performance as well. Yeah, thanks, Wotmio. We did conduct a report quite recently by the independent Alice Chris Evans from Architecting IT. That was really focusing on the real world workloads like running MongoDB or Postgres and doing a benchmark comparison where we came out about 30% performance advantage over other solutions in the market. But actually surprisingly, our customers with this new world of hybrid cloud are more focused on the cost. And when you're paying for every IOP, increased performance means reduced cost. And so the reason we can do that is through our architecture. Ultimately, we've been designed from the ground up to be container native. All of our data services are in line. So from application to disk, it's a single threaded approach. And that's how we get the low latency performance. The other thing is that we're platform independent. We don't have any, what you can refer to as kernel modules, which also create complexity in terms of data operations, but impact performance. But moreover, running in these hybrid cloud environments where the Kubernetes and Linux layers are more locked down such as Linux real time, other cloud storage solutions can't run in those environments. And we can run down to a single or three node cluster in AWS. And so that independence gives us the advantage not only to be faster to reduce cost, but to solve this hybrid cloud problem that our customers are trying to move towards to give them more choice. And of course, to do that, we need to have, we need to have a backup platform that enables us to solve the same problems in the same way. CloudCasa were named a leader and out performer in its radar for Kubernetes data protection report by GigaOM. Talk a bit about that report. And of course, as I said, you answered a lot of questions that I was going to ask that why they saw you as a leader there. Yeah, Sopnil really humbled and happy and proud of our team to have gotten that leader and out performer tag. Only a handful of vendors got the leaders tag and even less number of vendors got the out performer tag. And we're one of, I think just a couple of vendors that got both the leader and the out performer tag last year. I think it's a reflection of two things. One, I think it's a focus on the Kubernetes ecosystem and the cloud native ecosystem. Every one of our features that we've added, whether it's about enabling security scans and vulnerability assessments on the clusters that we are protecting or enabling backup of cloud configurations and not just your Kubernetes ecosystem resource protection. All of this is about delivering the right outcome for our customers. And that's been our focus. And this report, I think, took the right approach and said, we're going to focus on who is delivering the best protection in the cloud native and Kubernetes ecosystem. I think our focus there certainly helped us here because if you look at that report and who we're surrounded by, we're surrounded by hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and hundreds of millions of dollars in acquisition and billion-dollar companies in the backup space. And yet I think we're placed in the core and that's without having raised any funding until today and with a fairly small Nimble team and all with the ability to focus very clearly on Kubernetes. We're called out performer just based on our performance in the last year. In the last year, we've added support for all three big cloud providers, EKS, AKS, and GKE. And that means we walk with the cloud providers directly and we can inject our agents back up how this is configured and again use that infrastructure to spin up new clusters. We've added security capabilities. We're adding support for KubeWat which is again where you're going to see a lot more. This is why VMware has been scared about Kubernetes to some extent because it's only a matter of time before VMs are running inside Kubernetes. And you need to be able to support that and our job is to follow the data. If the data is going to these workloads, our job is to protect those workloads and deliver that best outcome. And we're again very happy and humbled that GigaOM and team gave us kudos for our focus on this space and also recognized what we've been able to deliver in the last year and don't take that for granted. We want to be there even closer to the nucleus in the report next year. But it's great recognition for our team and something I'm very proud of. I think, Sathya, it was a very good point talking about being Kubernetes focused. That's where we have absolutely something in common and two things come from that. And the first one is our developers don't want to talk to traditional storage salespeople. Our customers just want to self-serve. They want great documentation. And then the second thing is, if they need help, they need to speak to a Kubernetes expert. It's not a storage problem generally in these type of situations. It's how do I architect my solution for Kubernetes and think Cloudcast and on that together are Kubernetes experts. And that really what makes us unique in as a combined solution, delivering for that developer platform engineer DevOps engineer persona. Sathya, Richard, thank you so much for taking time out today and talk about this collaboration. And as you folks said, the whole focus is on the Kubernetes and making things also easier for teams there. So thanks for sharing those insights. And as usual, I would love to have you folks back on the show. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Sathya.


Sheba 1000 here today. We're going to be Doing a stereo install in this 2010 Chevy Traverse. It's not just your everyday Stereo swap there's some things we're going to have to do and I'll tell you about them here in just a second stay tuned Okay, guys, so like I said, there's some things I got to tell you about This has got the steering wheel controls So I got to put a an interface into this thing to make the steering wheel controls work now the the stereo that I bought for her does have an extra Steering steering wheel controls That you put on the steering wheel no work, but it's not going to bring back the chimes. It's not going to bring back on star So in order to do that, I have to put an interface in so there's some soldering that's going to be going on and Also, it's going to have a backup camera. So we're going to have to run the backup camera and So it's not just you know a 20 minute What was that? So it's not just like a 20-minute job here. So Let's go around back and kind of get an idea where we're going to put the camera because I want to run the camera first because Well number one, you know, the the stereo has to be out in order to plug the camera into the back of it and Number two, it's supposed to rain this afternoon. I've got a 50-50 chance. We're in Florida. That means we're gonna get some rain So I want to get that put in first Then if I have to I can sit in here and put the stereo in if it is raining. So Let's go around back here and let's see where we're going to put the camera at Okay, guys. So what I'm thinking is Well, I maybe put the camera up in here somewhere I Kind of want to back in a little bit. So you're not you know bumping it and stuff with with your legs It does have the backup Sensors on it Also, I don't know did I mention it it will do away with the chimes and this will bring the chimes back You know for Warning chimes and stuff like that. So I'm not sure exactly where I want to put this thing Because this is where the license plate is going to go right so If I put it back in here I don't know. We'll just have to see I'll have to go get it out of the box and see And then run the wires up underneath and then I don't know if I can come up in here somewhere And also I don't I do not know If this thing's got rear speakers because I was doing some research online and it says that these altis did not come With rear speakers So if that's the case I don't know what that was all about the doors just locked for no reason Oh, I might have hit the button If that's the case Hopefully at least they used the wiring harness out of the same vehicles and uh The wires will be there. If not, I'm gonna have to run new wires Or maybe I'll put an amp back here. I don't know yet And some some of them had speakers up in here Uh, like I said, the altis is just kind of a Kind of a base model.  Let's unlock these doors before I Before I lock myself in or out of this thing, but So let me check on these and see if the speakers are in here Or speaker wires are in here. I'm pretty sure there's no speakers Uh, which is weird because Chevy, I don't know what they did It shows you my favorite vehicle in the whole world, but I don't know what they were thinking because that stereo is set up for fade which is front and rear Um, so why they would put that in there and not a couple speakers. I don't know.  It's real tiny so it may fit where I want it to go But like I said, and then I got to figure out where I'm going to run the camera wires I believe I got a hook of wire into the backup Into the backup lights Which Are up in here. So I'm not sure I'm going to do that yet. Let me do some research on this thing Well, look around and see what's going on with it See if I can come up with any ideas because that would suck having to run my A lot from my coax all the way up to the front, of course Then I would have to run a backup camera Up in here up around here fish it through that Snake it through here Then into here and then down here and into the reverse lights Uh, I may be able to do it from up there hook into something up there. I'm not sure Okay, so let me go get the camera and let's see what's going on All right guys, so I've popped this door panel loose And over there. I don't know how what you're going to see this but there is a speaker up in here Right there my hand up in there. I can feel it That is a speaker Why is it not working now? I heard of some some guys saying that This could be the issue up here that plug right there moisture or water causing that I'm plugged in it seems to be fine So I'm not sure what's going on there And I'm not sure exactly where I'm going to put this camera at Uh Because I got a drill kind of a big hole This thing's hot This is plastic, but I really don't want to Put a big gigantic hole right there This is for the squirter for the windshield washer Um, so I really don't want to do that if I don't have to So I mean, I don't know. I don't know where I'm going to put it yet So anyway The stereo is real easy to get out of these things. I'll sit you on the stand I really wanted to get the backup camera in first That's one of the main reasons why I got the stereo Was for the backup camera instead of having one mounted up here or in the In the mirror Let me get you on a stand Okay, so I got you zoomed in you're outside the car, but all this involves It's just uh, there's a place here you can get your fingers in Give it a quick pop Okay Now You're into your stereo There's four screws here Looks like five sixteenths. Maybe eight millimeter I'm going to go get some tools. We're going to pull this out And uh, we're going to see what's back behind here And make sure I've got a place to put my uh interface and all that Then we'll get the soldering so Hang tight guys, and I'll be back with you. Okay, so hopefully you can see a little bit better um I'll turn this key on and the buzzers, but or the The chime is chiming. I don't know if you can hear that Okay, so now what we're going to do Where did I put my it's in the back hang on okay, so Let's go ahead and take this out. These are not five sixteenths or eight millimeter. They are seven millimeter so Let's go ahead and take this I'll show you how to remove this and then I'll show you Uh, I'll take you in the house and show you what we we have to solder I still don't know what I'm going to do about the The uh The backup camera yet.  So They had to go to Walmart All right now this Back here These will just unplug You push the tab down right here And they'll unplug they're in there kind of tight still don't know why the uh I'm sure what's going on with that still don't know why the rear speakers weren't working. So, okay, let's turn the key on now We'll see if our boners quit Yeah, see there's no It's not bonging. It's not, uh Uh, like if you leave your lights on or whatever That chime also works on important stuff like low oil You know, so I want to keep everything, you know, like on star is not going to work now Nothing So that's why I need to put the interface on it So I'm not sure how this comes out of the should just pull out um So anyway I don't think there's a Okay, I'm gonna mess with that and get that unplugged But I still don't know why the speakers weren't working Could be something in here Because it looks like these were taped up Not from the factory. That's probably an issue I'm going to have to deal with because if that's the issue Is here I got to sort that out because once I plug everything new into the stereo Still not going to get rear speakers. So I got to figure this out Untape this and find out what's going on here because I don't think this is original because usually This kind of it's like a fuzzy tape will usually go all the way up here. Um, this looks like Hand taped stuff here. So I got to get that figured out And then I'll take in the house and I'll show you what we're going to do what we what we have to solder together To make this plug and play but since I've got an issue here I'm not sure if that's going to work. So I got to figure out make sure all these wires are are right It looks like maybe someone had a stereo in here stereo system in here before and had a hard wired and then Took it back out and put this one back in maybe. I mean that's a speculation. I don't know Let me figure this out. Okay guys. I don't know how much of that I got But this is what I'm coming up with there's a wire off here. I'm guessing it's supposed to be up inside of here There's a wire here that Has been taped up, but it goes up inside of here So I don't know what's going on there. I'm going to have to research this online and find out what them wires are for The speakers could be unhooked inside the door I don't know Um, I mean I'm moving this tape. It doesn't look like these wires were cut. So that's good Uh, most of these like uh, these blue wires or speaker wires You know brown brown and yellow. I believe our speaker wires The light green and dark green. I believe our speaker wires, but And there should be a couple purple. There's a purple So I don't know what's going on here. So let me go research that. It's going to house is getting hot out here Okay, so This is our Our replacement interface here. This is what we've got It's supposed to work fine on our vehicle This is what we got a solder. These are The wires that go into the back of the stereo right there. Okay So these are all going to get soldered To the ends of these Now this then this will plug in to the interface One of these one of these right here All right, I'm not sure what this is for Um But all this plugs into here. This is the new chime. That's what's going to be making the bonging noise for now on Okay, I'm not sure if I'm some of this stuff I may not use because it's for different applications like this is for the rear camera I'm not going to need this because it doesn't have A factory rear camera the camera we're going to be using right here as you can see it's very small. There's my thumb Almost covers the whole thing's very small It will plug in the back of here Right there where it says cam in that's where that'll go. So we're not you know, we won't be using this um so and knees These here are what's going to plug in To our wire harness from the vehicle that normally plugs in the stereo then these Ends will also Plug into here some more probably See I'm not exactly sure I got to go over this. I haven't read up on it yet um So we're going to find out what goes where but the first thing I got to do is solder all this stuff together So here's my chime This will plug in To here that plugs in there.  This is in a different antenna thing for different applications I'm not sure what this one's going to take yet, but it goes right down in there So Like I said, I haven't I haven't really been able to Check that out yet. I'm going to have to find out where those two wires went because um that they're open there What I mean by that is they're they're not insulated like these, you know, there's no rubber on them So anyway, so I got to solder these up get these put But You know get these put together and I'll have to uh, of course, I'll put heat shrink on all these I'm not going to bore you with that because you just you just color code them, you know, white to white Gray to gray It's very simple.  You got your red You got your yellow you just color code them. I'm just going to twist these together solder them and put Put heat shrink on them Then like I said, this will get plugged in here somewhere And I know this tape set radio select switch Before connecting vehicle harness So I'll have to read up on that. I do know they put this tape over here So, you know, whether you uh You know when you're when you plug it in that it's plugged in or something like that anyway Here's where you you got to set your push that button in You have to turn this when we get to this I'll show you what I can of how to set this up for our vehicle. So the chimes will work in the uh The on-star and all that now we don't have on-star yet We're we're considering getting it but we're not sure if we will or not But it's good to have everything working the way it's supposed to like I said this These are not, you know, I'm not going to be using these Okay, there's these are for an amp and this for the rear camera Okay, so I'm not sure About this deal here I think You know this these will plug in here. I'm not sure But anyway, let me get let me get this sorted out read up on it a little bit And I'll be back with you. Okay one more thing real quick Here's the steering wheel controls they give you But again, it's not you're on-star still not going to work your Your chimes are not going to work this is just only this will only work The stereo Like I said, no on-star or anything like that. So I mean that would be all right if you didn't care about that other stuff But I want everything, you know the way it's supposed to be So I gave an extra hundred bucks for this This system here, so instead of having that I don't know how that's supposed to clamp on there, but The clamps are on your steering wheel and that now becomes your steering wheel controls Cheap Looks like it takes batteries and it does they don't even give you the batteries Well, it's a cheap stereo. I understand that but my god. Come on guys. This is This is crazy. All right. It does have a remote, but you know There's what it looks like just a cheap. It's not, you know anything Big time. It's just a cheap mainly Mainly so we can use the backup camera the reason why I'm so into this backup camera Is for backing that damn boat trailer when the boat's not on there. You cannot see that trailer So that'll help me backing down the ramp. So all right, let me read up on this stuff Okay, guys, so I've got everything all taped up here. Like I said, uh, I did use uh heat shrink on them I won't be using this That's for a mic port for your an external mic For your uh on star, but I've got mics up here from on star. So This is for xm Radio, this is your chime All right, so now What we're going to do It says to set this a seven now What we're going to I've got it set at seven. It's for other. Okay, so let's go ahead We're going to plug this in we're going to get our These are these will only plug in one way. So you can't you can't confuse them. So What I mean is you can't You can't mix them up and hook them up backwards so All right now we're going to Plug this into the radio Okay, so we're going to use our Where's our antenna thing we use our antenna? In here I'm going to plug that in there. This is going to plug in to the radio works as antenna then We're going to plug like I said where I'm not going to use this so And these same way you can't mix them up. They won't let you so You'll be good to go that in there and We're going to put red and red And white and white Now Find the keys. We'll turn the keys on or turn the ignition on See what happens here Mission's on Okay, I got power to this And we got power to this. Okay I can't do that. So let's uh, let's see bluetooth Let's let's do one of my One of my videos on here. Let's go to bluetooth Bluetooth let's turn bluetooth on here There it is So it's connected cool Now let's try I'm going to setting up bluetooth here. There it is Change bluetooth on other devices here. All right, let me get this Connected and then we'll check out other things. Look how I did with I had it on on started, but I had to push the music thing Playing my my fish Still I still don't know what what's going on with the back speakers Those wires that was in here those are ground wires So I think but the size of the last one but not and it gives all the information there All right, so let's Go ahead and get out of this Going here All right.  Have it on low medium or high There's high it's going to go up under there now For some reason This thing is not working with the buttons up here on the steering wheel So There's this stupid looking thing Some reason this this thing ain't even changing the station. It's turning up and down, but it's not changing the station. Wait a minute It's on movie. All right And now it's changing the station. So that's cool There's mute, but it does not Work on the steering wheel for some reason now This is reading it This is reading the steering wheel I don't know if you can tell that light blinking But it's reading the the functions on the steering wheel everything But the radio is not responding to it so I don't know So anyway I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go get our in-dash mounting kit I'm going to try to figure out a way to put this stuff in here to where it's nice and tight I'm not going to do the camera today. That'll be have to be another video Because I'm not sure where it's going to go. It's kind of getting late right now It's 4 30. It's hot. So Anyway So that's what I'm going to do Right now Like I said, this not getting hooked up. There's a little cover for this. I'm going to plug the cover in Just so it doesn't You know Touch anything that's not supposed to let me go get the mounting kit and I'll be right back with you Okay, this is messed up. I'm always getting screwed When you look this stuff up you type in What kind of car you have 2010 Chevrolet Traverse and it'll come up whether it's an exact fit or not Right here. It even says General Motors multi-kit 94 to 2012 and Well for one This doesn't even fit the radio and two Look at that You see that It nowhere near covers that up so I'm gonna have to send that back and uh Return it because On number one, it's missing four screws. I opened it, but um Yeah, it's this exact fit for this vehicle, but when I looked in the gap in the guide here It says it doesn't say anything about a Traverse or Equinox And I see nothing in here where it goes up to 2012 on anything They sent me the wrong damn thing Jesus Christ All right That's what I ordered This fits 2010 Chevrolet Traverse right there so Yep, 94 to 2012, but I'm gonna have to send that back because it does not fit this So, you know, I'm not having big holes there. I want this to look factory So now I'm gonna get a hold of them and send it back.  I know that has nothing to do with the rear speakers not working I'm gonna have to trace that down Find out what's wrong with that Maybe they're just not hooked up in here. Maybe someone had a different system just didn't hook them back up I don't know. So I've pulled the door panels off and checked that But uh, if I have to, you know, I'll have to run new wires, but Yeah, that's uh But you know, you pay that kind of money. I know that's only a hundred bucks With the mounting kit and everything but still It doesn't, you know, it's supposed to fit right in here. I showed you it's in the green will fit the 2010 Chevy Traverse No, it won't Yeah, I mean, I'm sure it'll mount it in there, but it's not You know It's not going to fill the gap, you know So I'm going to have to find something different And go from there. That's the first time I ever had that issue. So You know already put in for a refund. I'll send them back tomorrow That's ridiculous, man. You know When you have those kind of issues also by the way, if you have one And you just get in a blue screen Cut that pink wire and leave it off And that'll take care of it. But so You know, I was like, okay, no big deal there um, but man When the whole reason why you get it is so it can work properly like it's supposed to as if it was in the car You know, that's why I like to do things. I like to hook things up You know, to where if it's got steering wheel controls it's going to work with steering wheel controls, but you know, for some reason it didn't and uh It had it had a setting that you go into That you were supposed to be able to adjust that and it wouldn't do nothing You hit the buttons. It wouldn't wouldn't do anything and it was supposed to set for each control It didn't do it. So I don't know if it was you know defective or what but I'm going to call it defective when It's all in it did say that it is compatible with the uh, Which I'm keeping this because I know this works. It's compatible. It's supposed to be compatible with the rp5 GM 31 it's supposed to be compatible with this and for some reason it wasn't working So Whoops. Sorry. So what I did I even tried to Because you can also set with that thing. You can also change what your buttons do on your steering wheel um, so It wouldn't let me do none of that on that stereo and I looked it up three times and all three times It said it's compatible with that interface So And that's pretty good interface um, how it was Like a hundred bucks on its own, you know tax and everything so But I will keep that because I know it's working because it worked on on star You can turn the on star up and down like you know when she starts talking to you It would turn that up and down and it made the buzzer You know the the chimes work like the backup because it's got the backup sensors. They worked You know, so it worked everything with that The stereo wouldn't work with that So I'm going to blame the stereo for that one So I'm just going to send it back and the in-dash mounting kit back and I'm going to see what I can find that I know is going to fit in this vehicle so, you know Maybe I'll just get the one that's supposed to be in here bought off a gym. I don't know but You know, that's some of the stuff you run into you know that You know what I mean that just uh You just got to deal with sometimes so I'm sitting here finishing my cigarette in the air So There we go Complete fail That one's coming through the speaker All right guys. Thanks for watching appreciate it. Shea Bear is a mental man legend. I'm gone for now. Bye. Bye guys in take care


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So about a year ago I made a stock broker tier list where I ranked the best stock brokerages in my opinion for investing. Now this video did really well. Most people loved it. Some people didn't like it. There were some comments down in the description below where people sort of argued over what the best brokerages were. But overall I think it was great because it started a conversation and I think we all learned a lot. Then 2020 happened, first the market crash, then it went up like never before. And also the whole Robinhood GameStop situation happened. And if you haven't heard of this, this was basically where a bunch of different brokerages blocked the ability to buy GameStop stock which helped out the billionaire hedge fund managers and hurt the common everyday investor. And because of this many people are now looking at which stock brokers are trustworthy and which ones are full of it. Now on top of that there are other factors to consider like what the fees are, how easy to use they are, how easy it is to integrate it with other types of financial products like your bank account for instance. So there are a lot of different categories to look at here and that's exactly where we're going to be doing in this video. So we're going to be looking at all of the most common stock brokers looking at their strengths and their weaknesses and then I'm going to be ranking them based off of my own personal experience. Now almost all of the apps that I mentioned in this I've either used myself or I have friends that have used them and they've let me kind of like go in and look at their features. And I've also done a ton of research on this video in general. So without further ado sit back relax and let's jump right into it. So the first one on the list is going to be Ally Invest. And Ally is basically a company that is trying to be a full service solution. They've got an online bank account but they're also breaking into the investment world as well. Now they've got a really good savings account along with their checking account. They also have a very large ATM network and I have to say their investment app is very easy to use and user friendly. Overall Ally is really good. I think they're one of the companies that's pretty close to kind of bringing it all together in the full picture. They're still relatively new. So I'm going to go ahead and give them pretty high marks here. I'm going to put them into A tier. A for almost S tier. Next on the list we're going to be talking about Charles Schwab. And this is one of the biggest brokerages in the entire world. On top of that they've got brokerage accounts, checking accounts, credit cards, like pretty much anything you can ask for. Again, they're trying to be that all-in-one solution. Now one thing they did is they started charging zero dollar commissions and they probably ended up losing money here. But it was kind of a long term strategic play because what ended up happening is other company stocks dropped. Other companies tried to copy them and of course their stock price went down. One example of this would be TD Ameritrade which they just bought. Now on top of this Charles Schwab is well known especially if you're an international traveler having one of the best bank accounts. And the reason for this is because they will cover all of your ATM charges pretty much no questions asked. So if you're somebody who travels international all the time Charles Schwab has probably the best bank account you can get. I'm kind of trying to stick with just brokerages here but you do have to keep the whole picture in mind as well. Overall without a doubt Charles Schwab is S tier. S for steps ahead of the competition. Next on the list is going to be Chase Sapphire Banking and this is a really great service but at least last time I checked it's only available for people who have a significant amount of money in Chase's bank account. So you have to have hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank account and if you have that they will give you access to Chase Sapphire Banking but specifically Chase Sapphire Banking the investment services. Okay so this is only for like your super bougie clients right rich people basically or very close to being rich. So I've heard really good things about it obviously I've never used it myself but this one is going to go into B tier B for bougie. E-Trade is next on the list and this is another company that is going to offer not just the brokerage account but you've got a checking account a savings account that has really good rates unlimited free ATM usage. Pretty good overall just not as good as some of the other ones on the list. I'm going to go ahead and put E-Trade into B tier. B for better luck next time. Next we're going to be talking about Fidelity and this might be maybe really depends on your opinion overall the best one on the entire list. So you know I've done these videos on you know the best credit cards the best bank accounts the best brokerage accounts the best investing apps like I've done all these videos and Fidelity is just constantly all the time they're on the top they just offer really good services. I think they're the closest to combining all of the different services together to just have a one stop shop solution for all of your financial needs and so for that reason Fidelity is definitely going to go into S tier. S for superior next on the list we're going to be talking about interactive brokers now generally speaking people who use this platform are using it for like day trading or swing trading. I'm not personally a big fan of day trading however I did do a challenge that I posted on the channel where I tried day trading for a week and things turned out really well I think I just got lucky it was kind of just like a roll of the dice sort of thing but I checked out interactive brokers and they are excellent for day trading I got to give them props there. So if you are into day trading swing trading that sort of thing interactive brokers is probably the best platform for you to use in my opinion at least from the research that I've done so for that reason I'm going to go ahead and put them into B tier B for but only around 3% of day traders make money and less than 1% of them make more than minimum wage yikes. All right next on the list is going to be light speed another platform that's generally used for day trading again not a big fan this is one of your better options I guess for day trading but you know I'm just not a big fan of it so this is going to go into D tier D for debatable whether you're investing or gambling. Next one on the list is going to be Meryl Edge and this is a company that has been doing really good lately they're kind of in the same boat as Fidelity, Charles Schwab where they're trying to kind of combine everything together in my opinion they're just not quite as good as these other ones so for that reason I'm going to go ahead and put them into A tier but they're kind of on the precipice of being an S tier A for almost as good as the best ones and I realize here guys I'm not really going into too much detail the reason for that is because if I go into too much detail the video is going to be way too long so I'm trying to keep this one short but anyways next on the list is going to be option express and this one is specifically used for penny stock day trading which is basically like the most risky version of day trading so I'm not a big fan of day trading and I'm even less of a fan of penny stocks okay so this one is going to go straight into F tier F for functionality next on the list we're going to be talking about Robinhood now this was the huge controversy of early 2021 where Robinhood decided to stop people from being able to buy GameStop stock which was a decision that ended up hurting normal investors and helping out hedge fund managers so people were very very angry about that now the truth is when you really look at the details it wasn't just Robinhood they took the brunt of the blame but there was a bunch of different companies that did this and second they did have some legitimate reasons for doing this okay but despite that fact people are still really mad at them and I haven't been super happy with some of the moves they've been making in general you know and from what I've seen unless you know an update happens and you know that I didn't see they don't offer retirement accounts they don't offer mutual funds or bonds anything like that and that's just kind of unfortunate I think they should offer some of these long-term investing strategies because that is it's been shown time and time again that people are going to get better returns if they invest long term but you got to give it to Robinhood they were kind of the OGs they started the zero fee or very close to zero fee trading that made it possible for average everyday investors to get started investing at a much younger age and so overall I think Robinhood is a net positive there are some negatives there like the way that they make money is a little bit sketchy if you look into it but overall it is a net positive I'm going to go ahead and put Robinhood into B tier B for used to be best friends with Robinhood but now my best friend is Weebol next on the list is going to be SoFi and they are a company that is known for dealing with loans so they will help you to consolidate and refinance your loans specifically student loans and that's what they're most known for but they are trying to break into other parts of the finance world they are somewhat limited at this point and what they offer but it's pretty much like zero dollar fees the commissions are low I think they're doing a great job trying to break into finance it's just that they haven't been around for long enough for me to give them such a good score so overall I'm going to go ahead and put SoFi into A tier A for a challenger for S tier if they continue improving their product all right next on the list is going to be TD Ameritrade and they were just acquired by Charles Schwab and so it's really not even worth talking about them they were really good for a long time one thing that they had going for them is they had a lot of physical locations where you can go in and actually talk to a live person which some of these investing apps don't really offer so I'm going to go ahead and put this one into A tier which A stands for all around a good while they last it next on the list is going to be trade station and this is another one that is all about day trading so we're talking about active trading however in my opinion it is one of the best if you are going to day trade not quite as good as interactive brokers in my opinion but it is one of the best ones if you don't like interactive brokers this is probably the one that you want to use so I'm going to go ahead and put it into C tier C for confused about what they're doing because they offer so many different services and it doesn't really make sense all right so next on the list is going to be Vanguard and Vanguard is probably the most trusted company on this entire list if you ask me and the reason for that is because they are basically the OGs of the index fund and in my opinion index fund investing is probably the best type of investing that you can do at least if you're somebody who has like a like a medium level risk tolerance so when it comes to Fidelity, Charles Schwab and Vanguard it really just comes down to your own preference but if what you care about the most is kind of reputation and trust I would say that you should probably go with Vanguard so it's not quite as good when it comes to technology and you know the app interface and the online interface it's just not as good but overall when it comes to trust they are number one so that's why they're going to go into S tier S for straight up the most trusted brokerage all right so next on the list is Webull and the reason that Webull was able to burst onto the scene in the last few years is because they basically saw all of the weaknesses of Robinhood that Robinhood wasn't fixing and they basically filled in all of those gaps so in my opinion Webull is just a slightly better version of Robinhood so in my opinion Webull is more for beginners just like Robinhood it's slightly more difficult to use than Robinhood just like I don't know five percent more difficult to use however it has a lot more functionality there's just so much more that you can do with it it has a super nice interface it's just very ergonomic easy to go around I love using Webull anytime that I do some kind of challenge like when I did my day trading challenge for instance I used Webull for it and on top of that they offer probably the best promotion in all of the finance world where you can get up to four free stocks I think at this time it's valued up to $1800 something ridiculous like that just for starting an account and putting $100 into it and you can see that down in the description below I have a link to that doesn't get much better than that I mean that's like four free stocks you could end up getting up to $1800 just for signing up this one is going to go into S tier S for especially good for beginners next on the list is going to be you invest by JP Morgan this is one that didn't make it on the last year's list people commented about it and so I looked into it now this one is relatively new it's not really fully fleshed out or anything like that they don't offer all of the functionality that some of the other brokerages do now this can be a good or a bad thing depending on what you're looking for so if you're looking for something that's just super basic and super simple kind of like for a beginner this could be a good one for you so overall this is one to keep your eye on I'm going to be keeping my eye on it but I'm going to go ahead and put this one into B tier B for baby brokerage that could be really good in the future all right so next on the list is going to be zax trade and this is one that again kind of caters towards day trading and like penny stock trading that sort of thing some argue that this is actually the best day trading platform they swear by it the commissions are going to be a little bit higher than some of the other platforms you also I think you have to have at least $2,500 to start trading on here which is again a little bit higher than some of the other platforms so if you're into day trading and you know the other two that I mentioned interactive brokers and trade station you're not into them you should definitely give zax trade a look I'm going to go ahead and put this one into C tier C for commissions are too damn high another comment that I was getting on my video that I did last year was I didn't offer any option for some of my viewers who are from Canada Australia Great Britain etc so I did some research on these obviously I haven't used these but some of my friends that I know online have used them and I did quite a bit of research and I you know I haven't used them so I don't really want to recommend them but I just want to mention a few that you can look into yourself and so some of these would be Europe eToro DeGiro Revolute Canada quest trade wealth simple trade United Kingdom trading 212 heard great things about that one free trade great name Australia stake and self wealth okay so look into those if you are one of my international viewers and you know always verify make sure you look into it see if it's really good if you haven't done it already go ahead and gently tap that like button hit the subscribe button ring the notification bell comment down below any thoughts comments criticisms especially if you use some of these I really want to hear your feedback on these different apps and brokerages and if you haven't done it already check out my other videos right here I made them just for you


The Niger Governor's firm has rejected visitation ban placed on Nigerians by Canada and UK over the Omicron variant, describing it as a discriminatory rather, the firm stated these in a statement in a book by H.Chamen, Governor Cairo Define me of Ikea State. The Governor's drew the attention of the World Health Organization to the obituary signatization that is caused by the recent banning of countries from visitation based on Omicron's spread. According to the NGF, it is very discouraging to note that there are several countries that have reported cases of Omicron similar to or higher than Nigerians that have not been banned from entry to the UK and Canada.


Felly, y cwestiwn y Pnyddaeth Yng Ngorffydd 14 107 yn lle o ddefnyddiad diogelio i'w ffarring. Felly, y cwestiwn ymwhoswn yng Ngorffydd ymwhoswn, os mwy时 yn ddechrau'n dwiwr. Felly, rwy'n ddim yn ôl i ddifydd y cyfyniadol. Da, gyda'r iawn y Gw參 ddafaneu i fynd i ddraethu £500m o wahanol o gyfnodigau ymhyrch chi yn gweithio coaches yng Ngorffydd i ddweud yr oedd Fythdyngu Gwysigol a'r iawn – creu cyfnodigau. The United Kingdom Government is implementing swinging cuts to both public services and the benefits received by the most vulnerable in society. The chancellor's announcement, therefore, and his commitment to invest a further £100 billion on a new generation of nuclear weapons, clearly demonstrates that the UK Government has its priorities all wrong. The Scottish Government has set out the infrastructure priorities that we pursue through the infrastructure investment plan, covering areas such as housing, transport, energy efficiency, schools and hospitals. Those are the priorities of the people of Scotland. Alison Johnstone is, indeed, pre-emptive and wrong-headed to spend £500 billion on paving the way for new nuclear weapons while people suffer hardship through welfare cuts and are having to rely on food banks. Faslane is strategically important. It is a vital naval base that can play a much more effective role in our defence without nuclear weapons. Does the cabinet secretary agree that if the point of this money is to create jobs and improve people's lives, the UK Government's return on this particular investment will be very poor indeed? I agree with the approach and the line of argument that was advanced by Alison Johnstone. I think that there is a long-term role for Faslane as a conventional naval base. It has always formed part of the plans of this Government and of my party. At a time when public expenditure is under such pressure and when support for defence expenditure is universally, if not universally, very broadly supported in this country of ensuring that our conventional defences are effective and properly funded, the decision to invest £500 million on, essentially, as the chancellor said yesterday, the foundations of the next generation of nuclear weapons is, in this Government's view, their own decision to be made. There are a variety of other ways in which we could ensure that the expenditure of £500 million on a capital investment programme could have a much greater and more profound and more long lasting and beneficial effect on the lives of people of Scotland if it was spent in a different way. On 6 August last year, the Scottish Parliament voted with the Greens for a constitutional ban on Trident and a global ban on nuclear weapons, but George Osborne is still going ahead and Labour continues to say their anti-nuclear but pro-new weapons. Does the cabinet secretary agree that this investment does not respect the will of the Scottish people and will only undermine global disarmament efforts? Does he welcome the opportunity for Scottish Labour to finally get firmly behind unilateral disarmament? It is beyond doubt that the decision that the chancellor announced yesterday can completely ignore the question of respect to the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government. One of the points that was made by the Prime Minister to the First Minister immediately after the general election was the fact that he intended to govern on the basis of respect. Unfortunately, there was no respect in Mundi's announcement, no respect whatsoever, no respect for this Parliament and frankly no respect for the Westminster Parliament either. For the Westminster Parliament, it is apparently going to be having a debate and a decision about whether to proceed with the next generation of nuclear weapons. The principle of respect has been entirely ignored by the Conservative Government. As for the points that Alison Johnstone makes about the Labour Party, I shall leave the Labour Party to speak for themselves, but I think that the overwhelming majority of Labour-supporting individuals in Scotland are hostile to the new generation of trident nuclear missiles that are proposed by the United Kingdom Government, and it would be good if their voices were expressed by the Labour Party in Scotland. Sandra White Thank you, Presiding Officer. Can I ask the Deputy First Minister if he agrees not just with me but with very many eminent experts that trident nuclear weapons are obsolete and play no part in the terrorism that is happening just now? To spend this type of money when we are supposed to be, according to Mr Osborne, in austerity is absolutely disgraceful and terrible for the people who are suffering just now with the cuts that are coming from Westminster. I agree with Sandra White on her point about the wrong priorities of the United Kingdom Government given the pressure on the public finances and the fact that conventional defence forces are not receiving the support that they actually require to enable them to do the job safely that we expect of them. The other point is the strategic point that Sandra White has made, which is that we live in a very troubled world. There are a whole variety of different examples of conflict around the world, and nuclear weapons are not protecting us or not contributing towards the stabilisation of those conditions. That is one of the many reasons why the Government believes that there is no place for nuclear weapons in our society. Is the cabinet secretary aware that the £500 million investment from the UK Government into Faslane is also for jetties and ship lifts to accommodate additional submarines? That is a decision that flows from something that Gordon Brown did to consolidate all the UK submarine fleet at Faslane. Surely with the SNP's plans to make Faslane home to the Scottish Navy, whatever size that would be, this would be a welcome investment in infrastructure, and therefore does he agree with his own words when he said that he would use the money to invest in conventional defence or Nicola Sturgeon's when she said that it would be education? So Deputy First Minister, who should we believe? Deputy First Minister? I might have known that Gordon Brown would be responsible for all of this. He seems to be responsible for everything disastrous that has happened around about us in over many years. I can also say to Jackie Baillie that it says at all that Jackie Baillie is coming here as the cheerleader for this announcement that was made by the Conservative Government on Monday. It is just continuing, of course, the role that Jackie Baillie has occupied for some years as the cheerleader for the Conservatives within Parliament. It is nice that, after the summer break, some things are back to normal within 11 minutes of Parliament reconvening that we have had that confirmed. Jackie Baillie knows the priorities of this Government. The priorities of this Government are to invest in our housing infrastructure to create homes for our people, in the transport infrastructure to connect our communities to the energy efficiency needs of our population, to reduce energy costs, to invest in our schools and hospitals, and to ensure that we meet the needs and the expectations of the people of Scotland at every turn. Thank you. Given the population of Argyll and Bute is projected to decline sharply over the next few years, a subject that we debated recently in this Parliament, does the minister accept that many people in Argyll and Bute are delighted with the Chancellor's announcement yesterday, which will help to create and secure many thousands of valuable jobs, as well as the very many construction jobs that will be created. The new infrastructure will allow the number of staff base there to rise to 8,200 by 2022. Isn't that a good thing? Mr MacGregor is utterly out of touch with the people of Argyll and Bute. Having spent a good proportion of the summer in Argyll and Bute, both on my personal holidays and also on Government business, the things the people of Argyll and Bute were raising with me were about digital connectivity. Wouldn't it be better if we spent £500 million on digital connectivity or on ferry infrastructure or on improving the rest and be thankful for which Mr Russell has championed so effectively? Perhaps those are the priorities of the people of Argyll and Bute and not wasting money on the next generation of nuclear missiles in our society. To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many people in Scotland died between December 2011 and February 2014, shortly after a work capability assessment found them fit for work. The Scottish Government does not hold information on the number of deaths in Scotland relating to the UK Government's work capability assessment. However, today, I have written to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions asking for a breakdown of the figures in Scotland. Clearly, if there is any causality between the assessment and anyone taking their own life, that would be a very disturbing and very serious situation and one that would be intolerable. Does the cabinet secretary agree that it is time that Ian Duncan-Smith adhered to the so-called respect agenda between Governments and comes to the welfare reform committee of this Parliament to answer the many questions that we have on the sanctions regime, cuts to tax credits, cuts to disability payments and, shockingly, the deaths of those found to fit for work by his Government? I absolutely agree. In fact, the lack of respect not just from Ian Duncan-Smith but from other ministers in his department and indeed the UK Government generally cuts entirely and undermines their claim to treat this Parliament and the people of Scotland with respect. I would have thought that it would be highly appropriate for the Secretary of State to come and explain the reasons for his policies to the welfare committee of the Parliament, because I am absolutely sure that if I listened to some of the evidence received by the committee, it would hopefully persuade him to change course completely. Clare Adamson. Thank the cabinet secretary again for his answer. Does he share my concern about the recent announcement by Ian Duncan-Smith that it is likely to be cuts to disability payments for 43 per cent of those currently in receipt of ESA with his current plans? Clare Adamson. I think that he's generally accepted that if you take the welfare cuts in totality, then the people who have suffered the most are families and disabled people. Indeed, if you look at the impact in Scotland generally, the UK Government's package of welfare cuts will reduce welfare spending by just under £2.5 billion in the year 2015-16 alone. By any standard, that is a major attack on the living standards of the most vulnerable members of our community. Question 3, Sarah Boyack. Ms Boyack. Apologies, Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the National Museum of Scotland regarding the on-going pay dispute. Cabinet Secretary, Fiona Hyslop. National Museum of Scotland held talks with ACAS and unions on 21 August. National Museum of Scotland has kept the Scottish Government informed of the outcome of these talks and the impact of the industrial action in the following week. NMS, as an employer, is keen to maintain dialogue through ACAS with a view to resolving the pay dispute, and I would strongly encourage this course of action. Sarah Boyack. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. Is she not concerned that the dispute has been running for over 18 months now and that the NMS only agreed to call on ACAS on the eve of the strike last week? Surely intervention should have taken place far earlier than that because there is now a huge turnover of staff in this department who are on a two-tier wage salary, and surely that is totally unacceptable to the Scottish Government? She is right to say that this issue has a long history. The new contracts for new employees were implanted almost five years ago. It took a further, I think, three years for the PCS to take up the issue on industrial action. In terms of trying to resolve this, there have been proposals put forward to tackle some of the low pay issues. I want to make clear that NMS complies with the Government's pay policy and implements the living wage. I would encourage both NMS and, indeed, the unions to engage with ACAS. I think that it was unfortunate with talk scheduled with ACAS that there was industrial action. It has to be taken seriously. I have asked NMS to take it seriously. I also hope that the proposals that have been put forward constructively are engaged with, and I do not think that the PCS members are yet aware of what those offers might be. My understanding on talking to some of the staff on the pick-at-line last week is that some of their low-paid members have been asked to donate some of their salary to other low-paid members. How can that be acceptable? If affordability is the issue, how can the cabinet secretary think that it is acceptable for the Government to spend £150,000 on a commercially viable profit-making enterprise such as T in the park, rather than sorting out this long-term debilitating, reputational damaging dispute? In order to introduce a new weekend allowance for staff, it would cost £1.2 million over the next spending review. I would point out that, over the last spending review, which took place at the time of the changes back in 2010-11, despite that, there has been no request from any member of this Parliament to implementers to have a change that would provide £1.2 million that would be required to do what the PCS has been asking for. I am grateful to the cabinet secretary for agreeing to meet with me to discuss the on-going dispute at the National Museums of Scotland. However, the mood of the workforce that I met on the pick-at-line last week is steadfast in its opposition to a two-tier workforce that has been imposed by the management without appropriate consultation. Therefore, can I ask the cabinet secretary if she will take further steps to encourage parties to come to a resolution that ensures fairness in the workplace and brings to an end a dispute that is damaging the reputation of the National Museums of Scotland and has gone on for far too long? The member will be aware that I have met with PCS, FTA and Prospect and also with the National Museums. Indeed, a number of the issues that were raised with me by the unions has been dealt with, including the Scottish living wage for NMS enterprises who weren't part of the pay policy of the Government, but now have the living wage. I'm also addressing the issue around no compulsory redundancies that have been addressed, but I do think that the issue of low pay is one that is very important for all areas. Indeed, when you consider that in terms of the fixed costs, including staffing for NMS, that bill is 76 per cent of the grant in aid. In terms of the reductions of the Scottish Government's budgets, it has been very difficult for many cultural organisations to meet the responsibilities, including providing uplift where required under the pay policy despite pay freezes. We must resolve that. I want that resolved, but I think that the best way of doing that is to bring together and continue the on-going ACAS discussions. Why is it okay for the Cabinet Secretary to find £150,000 for tea in the park, but nothing to settle this two-year long dispute? Could you answer that directly, please? I think that there are many jobs dependent on a successful on-going tea in the park. I think that in terms of £150,000 for that event to ensure its viability, many people across this country would think that that is the right decision, and I have said that to me. In order to address the issue that he has addressed on our number of times, and indeed Jimmy Dee has asked to meet me, and indeed, when I personally addressed that with the unions, we would have to find £394,000 a year to address and increase and provide an additional allowance. There are proposals on the table to address the issue of low pay in that sector. I hope that every employer, whether it is public sector, charity, as is the case with the National Museum or others, would be seeking to resolve that. However, it is a real task. There is an offer that has been provided to PCS. I would encourage them to get round the table to discuss with ACAS and to address it. The next item of business is a statement by Nicola Sturgeon on the Scottish Government's programme for...