Zero Accounting Software 2023 Pay Bill Form. Get ready because it's time to become an Accounting Hero with Zero 2023. Here we are in our custom Zero homepage going into the new company file we set up in a prior presentation. That being, get great guitars. We're going to support Accounting Instruction by clicking the link below giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website. It's quite broken out by category, further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical, reasonable fashion making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Duplicate some tabs to put reports in by going to the tab up top and right clicking on it to duplicate it. And then we're going to right click on that duplicated tab to duplicate it again. Then we're going to go back to the tab to the middle Accounting drop down and look at the balance sheet report. The major financials tab and then to the right Accounting drop down again. This time the income statement. Let's go back to the tab to the right so we can change that date range hitting the drop down to do so custom range and we want to be in 2023. That's where our home is on this range 2023 into the year and then update it and then tab to the right and we look good on the date range here. So let's go back to the first tab and now we're going to enter a pay bill type of form. In other words we're imagining bills have been entered in the past. We actually entered the bill in the past but we did so as part of our beginning balance type of process. So we have a bill that has been created and now we're thinking about paying off the bills. Now before we do that let's take a quick look at our flow chart. This is a QuickBooks desktop flow chart but we're just looking at the flow of the cycle which is a general accounting flow. We're focusing in the vendor cycle which you can think of as the expenses cycle or purchases cycle where at the end of the cycle whether using a cashed based system or a cruel based system. We expect money to be going out of the business for the purchase of goods and services normally classified as expenses. Those things we have to consume in order to help us to generate the related revenue. So there's two ways we have to be paying off our normal bills. Many small businesses are often going to be using a cashed based type of system and you might be able to connect that up with the bank feeds because many of the payments we make these days are electronic payments which usually means the bank feed information has enough detail for us to add it as the payments go through. So we can then say the payments are clearing the banks which are basically kind of like a check type form or a money out form. Apply the appropriate expense account and record the expenses as the cash flow happens. However in some cases when we're trying to manage our money a little bit more tightly and oftentimes is necessary as companies get larger. We might want to be entering the bills into the system bills being a specific term within a zero accounting software system. They don't necessarily they don't just mean the bill that you've received in terms of a paper bill or email. They mean that when you enter the bill form into the system you're increasing accounts payable. So if you pay off a bill that in layman's term a bill if you pay off just a bill with a check then the bill isn't really a bill for zero terminology because you didn't enter it into the system as a bill and never increased it accounts payable you just paid it off with a check form. So the bill is a form within the zero system which increased the accounts payable. Now the bills are going to be necessary to track accounts payable. If we're trying to tighten up our cash flow and most likely with larger businesses you're trying to pay as late as possible. And remember that doesn't really matter too much if you're a small business because you might say if I pay 15 days early as long as I have the cash flow it's not a big deal. But if you're dealing with large transactions and or many transactions paying 15 days early just because of the time value of money could could actually become a big deal. So it becomes a big deal to try to pay as late as possible on the payment structures and then tracking your accounts payable more closely becomes more and more important. So now we're going to imagine the bills are in place and we're going to enter the pay we're going to pay the bill. It's just a money out form which is like a which is like a money out or a check kind of form. But the it's going to be specific in that when we're paying these payments out decreasing the checking account the other side's not going to an expense account. It's going to be decreasing the accounts payable account and it's going to be decreasing the sub ledger breaking out accounts payable by vendor. All right so let's go back on over just to see what we're talking about if I go to the balance sheet here and we go down to the liabilities. We've got our accounts payable 15,000. We put that on the books with a beginning balance type of entry so we didn't actually enter a bill per se for new transactions in 2023. We'll put that on the books from beginning transactions. If I go to the tab to the right and duplicate the tab again we could see that we could support that information with a sub ledger in a similar fashion as we do with accounts receivable accounting drop down reports. And then we're going to go down to the payables and receivables and let's just look at the the age payable summary aged payable summary. It's aged like a fine wine. So here we have it and there's the 15,000. Now we only have one person here so it's a pretty boring report or one vendor that we have to pay and there's the 15,000. But the point is that the accounts payable report would be broken out by vendor who we owe the money to and the total should tie out to what's on the balance sheet over here. Which is why when you enter anything to the accounts payable zero will often force you to enter a vendor so that that sub ledger will tie out. Alright if I go back to the first tab we can also see that information. If I go to the business drop down and we go to the pay bills area. This is typically where we would be sorting our bills and managing the bills. We have all the bills. We've got the drafts. We've got the awaiting approval. We've got the awaiting payment. So these are the bills that went out that are awaiting payment. It looks much like our report that we set up except there's no total here. So this is where you usually go internally to sort the bills that you need to pay. But it's important to understand that the sum of all these outstanding bills should in essence match up to what is on the balance sheet in accounts payable. You could also go to your contacts drop down and go to your suppliers. And so these are the contacts that you owe money to. And then there is the bill there. If I go into that particular supplier I can see the details. So if I had a question with a particular supplier I might then go directly into that supplier and look at the activity that has happened thus far. With them. So I'm going to go back on over. I'm going to imagine we usually go into the pay bills and we would be managing the bills we need to pay. I'm going to go to the awaiting payment over here. Now obviously we only have one transaction in here. So it's somewhat boring in the second month. We're going to do more of our ending transactions that we paid on a cashed basis system this month. And we'll enter those as bills and then pay them in the second month. So this month we did more transactions that are cashed based. And next month we'll do some more transactions that are a little bit more accrual based including these payments that we make at the end of the month. We'll enter them as bills and then pay them so we can see this in a little bit more detail with more than one transaction in it. But usually if there's a lot of transactions if you're a mid to smaller larger company you might have a bunch of stuff in here. And then you can sort by the date. You have the date type transaction date due date and the plan date. So and then you've got the add plan date make a payment. So then you can select them if you're going to be paying off multiple of them. You can select multiple of them and then go back up top and say make payment or add a planned date that you're going to be making a payment. If I go into here note also I can go into this particular bill and you also have the make payment down below. So you could do it this way and assign a check to it or if you so choose or if you want to do it. I think it would be usually most people would probably go over here. And then if you want to assign multiple items you can do it from here or just choose the one that we have. And then we're going to make the payment make the payment. It's going to go out of pay by check or batch payment. Now this is kind of interesting because you record a payment for multiple bills. So you might have one payment for multiple bills that you can make a batch payment for. So that's a kind of interesting tool that you can have there that you can put into play. Otherwise you would say pay by check. I'm going to say pay by check create and print check. I'm going to say continue. And so here it is. If now if we were actually printing the checks we'd have to put the physical checks in the printer and so on and so forth. If you don't have an actual check and you're paying it electronically but you're using this system to do so. Then maybe you could remove the check number here if it was electronic. What's this going to do when you record it? It's going to decrease the checking account and the other side is going to go into the accounts payable. Now notice what we probably purchased with this epiphone because that's our vendor to purchase guitars was inventory. We had purchased inventory. But anytime we're paying off the accounts payable we know that we're not actually going to go to the expense account or the asset account in this case of inventory for the thing we actually purchased in this particular transaction because the other side of the transaction is always going to be decreased in the accounts payable. If I want to look at what we actually purchased I have to go to the original bill form. The bill form is going to be when we increase the accounts payable and the other side goes to the expense or in this case most likely we purchased the inventory. So let's go ahead and save it and check it out. So let's go back on over to the balance sheet here if I may and update it and then we're going to check out the checking because that's always a good place to go. There's always good times, a lot of activity, a lot of stuff going on in the checking account. So we like to go there from time to time and check things out. See what's in the happening. See what's happening. So here's the payment amount. Notice that we have a different description here than a spend money. In terms of the source, which is nice because that's an indication in and of itself that the other side of the transaction is going to go to accounts payable and that if you want to see what we actually purchased again you have to go to the bill as opposed to the spend money form where the other side of the transaction is usually an expense or asset. Most likely an expense sometimes an asset. So if I go into this one again, so there we have it. If we needed to edit it, we've got our options up top to what you got. You got the print and edit send and so on and mark as reconciled and so on and so forth here. So there we have it. And then I'm going to go back on over and let's go to the other side. Move on over to the other side. And that's also on the balance sheet. And then that's going to be in the accounts payable, which is gone right now because we closed it down to zero. So accounts payable has disappeared. It's off the charts. But if I go to my aging, I can see that I can update it here and then it disappears once again. No accounts payable because we paid off all of the accounts payable, which is great. We don't have that debt hanging over our heads anymore. And then we're going to go to the first tab and now in the awaiting payments, I'm in the bills area. If I go to the banking, we're in the bills and we're in awaiting payments. Nothing's in it anymore because we paid it. If I go to the paid area, there's the amount there that was paid. That's great.  And then I'm going to go down to epiphone epiphone is epic and then scrolling down. So now we've got our, our bill up top. There's the one it says it's paid because it's been paid. So again, if you want to view it, I can hit the drop down and view it. And which is nice that they put it all in one place here because then you can, you can see that it's been paid. And then if you go into the actual bill, you can see what we, what was purchased. And here we put it in a beginning balance account. So we just put it directly into there. But again, we'll spend more time entering bills in the future because when you pay the bill again, you pay the bill. It's going to go decrease in the accounts payable account. Yeah. Cause we just put it right into equity. All right. So that's the general idea. We'll talk more about bills and paying bills in the second month of operations. Let's take a look at our trial balance now tab into the right.  And let's take a look at the trial balance trial balance. The balance is on trial. And we'll see what happens here with the trial balance. We're going to go to the customer date and 2023. See if we got an honest jury on this trial for the balance. We're going to say there it is. So if your numbers tie out, that's great. If not try to change the range. If you were tied out last time and you're following along, then if there's something off this time, you would expect it would either be the checking account and or the accounts payable account. The accounts payable down to zero here. Notice that the trial balance is nice because sometimes it gives you that zero because of the prior balance in the prior year. And that allows you to drill down on it even though it has a zero balance. Otherwise you'd have to go, you can go into the general ledger report and still kind of look at the detail. But it's nice to sometimes internally have the zero amounts if there was activity in it. So you can drill down and see the data in the system. And you can see what happens with the accounts payable. It's going to go up with a bill form. Let's bring it back the beginning date to 2022 just so you can see that. Hold on a second. It didn't do it. Didn't do it. There we go. So it goes up with a bill or a payable invoice, a bill, and then it goes down when we make the payment. That's what we expect to happen in all the time in the accounts payable goes up and then it goes back down again. All right. I'm going to go back on over to our trial balance because we're trying to just check our numbers here and I keep on babbling more. So there it is. So if you tie out great, if not try changing the date range. If something changes, then drill down on the source document and change the date.


So in Missouri that you recently passed the most scholars program. Can you summarize that for us? Yeah, so this was exciting. In 2021, the Missouri legislature passed basically our first shot at this, first attempt, it's called the most scholars program. And so people can donate to an education assistance organization in EEO and they can get up to 50% of their state tax liability written off from this donation. And then these EOs will then distribute that out in the form of scholarships to students and families with financial need. Parents can choose where their child goes, like what education is best. We know every child is different. So let's let parents make that decision on where they get that education.


That's probably on the live. No, it wasn't. Did you guys get that? I hope not. What do you did? Hopefully you didn't. Hopefully you didn't. Hello. We're here. We're here. We have everything here so that we can see who's in and what not. So, we just did this countertop for our client in LA. And we decided to surprise her by doing her side table. But if you want to get a vantage point, it looks like this. Oh, thank you.  The counter drops look amazing. She loves them. I surprise her by doing this side table. And we have completely run out of the most everything that we usually use. I don't have any gloves. I don't have a graduated mixing cup. I don't have color cups. I don't have stir sticks. I don't have resonant colors. And that's basically it. So, we went down to CVS and we got some Dixie cups. We got some spoons. We got a couple of these. Foam brushes. We got some party cups. And some antibacterial wipes. Yeah. All right. So, now what? So, in preparation for this, Jeffrey went ahead and spray painted this, what used to be this color table. And he did the table legs in gold because that's her. Everything is gold and pink. No, but I figured we would pour them into here and here and here and here. But this is about an 18 inch round. So, we need about a graduated cup. I would say eight, 10 ounces. I don't know how much that is. But we're going to pour it out evenly. Kids, don't try this at home. Love your lashes. Thank you.  Happy birthday Anita. Happy 53. It's your birthday. It's your birthday. It's your birthday. It's your birthday. That was not a very good robot. I hope you don't see that. So, I would pour the thick one. Just pick one. I think we should pour it back and forth. Yeah, we'll do that anyway. Hello, Lisa. Hello, everyone. Thank you guys so, so much for popping in and seeing what we're up to today. Tomorrow we fly back to the Dallas. I cannot wait to spend time with my boys without worrying about when I have to take them back to the sitters. P.S., our sitter is amazing. So, Jeffrey's going to mix our resin. For this reason, countertop, because we do fly out tomorrow, we want to have this done and all of the masking taken off in our countertop coat from Stone Coat Countertops.  And if you use the code YAL, Y-A-L-L, all caps, no punctuation, you can get a discount. So, do that next time you buy from Stone Coat. And, since it's still prime days, if you use our link that's in the description box of this video, it helps us out. So, if you do any prime buying, click our link to get to Amazon, and then we get our referral kickback, which really helps our channel out. You can buy anything you want. You don't have to buy the stuff that we have. Yeah, it doesn't have to be art supplies. If you need a new writing lawn mower, just click our link first. So, the colors that we're going to be using are really sticky. The colors are really sticky. Yeah. Get that down. The first color is titanium white by Just Resin. Then, for the pink shade, we mixed Strawberry Shake by Just Resin with... My hands are about to be so gross. Dusty pink from Color Obsession. And then we're also going to be using Resin Art Platinum Rose for the deep pink veins. And for the sparkle, we're going to mix in some Milky Way from Resin Art. And it's gonna look... Thanks, Ilah the robot. If you guys don't get too crazy, I may talk to Jeff and I do like the running rabbit or something. No. I don't ever do the running rabbit. Or the running rabbit? No. Or the running rabbit? No. I need a rug. I'm just gonna go full break dance for it all. I got your rug. Now you're gonna leave this shirt in Dallas Gerr. Jeff got this from me off the Amzam. What? This shirt. Well, thank you, Rowdy. Love the name. Here's a rug. So, it is very retro kitchen. I love all the pink. It's kind of a little bit muted in the camera as opposed to in real life. The countertops are slightly more bubble dumb. And there's more accents in the countertop than you can really see. Sandy Rose says, where are you doing art in the laundry room? We're in the kitchen. The laundry room. We're in the kitchen in LA doing a commission piece. These pink countertops, which I'll give you a close-up of in a little bit. But we're gonna do this side table first. Rodney is my son's name. My name is Carrie. Well, that's an awesome name too, Ms. Carrie. Is she a new subscriber? Not sure. This is the first time in kitchen actual live since you've been in Cali. Well, what's up? Thank you for showing up. We need a theme song since we can't pan to our theme song. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Wasn't that the one, the electric one? Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Which one was the song that would we like to do the stripper music? That's it. Okay, good. But it didn't sound like that. How did you recognize it if it didn't sound like that? That sounded more almost like sign-filled. No, that was bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. That was exact, wasn't it? We're gonna get flagged for that. Did you film the client's reaction? We actually did. We're going to actually crop that into the beginning of the time lapse of doing this countertop that we posed for you guys. Zena? Zena? I agree. I think the pink color is great. Oh, Delilah, I'm sorry. You guys are on lockdown in Melbourne. Oh. Carrie, AKA Rowdy, says, I'm new a few weeks ago, but I haven't been able to catch a live till today, but have made two purchases that are my fave. Well, thank you for supporting us through purchasing from our very small business shop. It really helps us anyways, but especially through the economy being like, burp, burp. Yeah, that's what the economy said. Burp, burp. What? Thank you, Nene. We got enough? Hi, Wendy and Perk. This is like, okay, 526. Here is Milky Way. All of it? I greased it in Milky Way, but I didn't do full grease. That's right. I did paint, patch, grease. So this is going to be the verbalization of the process that we did the countertops. And then the time lapse is going to have written what we did. So it's going to be audible. Well, it's not the full. It's just through pink areas. Remember? So put. Put Milky Way in there. And then one of those can be smaller because it's going to be the platinum rose and we use like almost none. Rod. Yay, happy you guys made it out. All right. Thank you, Rod for the tip. Burp, burp, burp, burp. Burp, burp, burp. Thank you, Rod. What Rod is speaking about is. Hurricane city. Our adventure in hurricane land. If you live Roddy's name, I have a middle child named Wilder. Love it. Wilder. Way too much. Okay, well. Yeah. Let me go. Well, I'll just pour some of it and not all of it. Wasting them that. No. Okay. We need to make sure there's enough, right? Sure, but. You could have just poured it on there because that's not going to make a difference in this. Just have to give my little The Office look. Mm-hmm. It's very effective. So since you don't have gloves and you should always wear gloves and minimal for your. Random. Um, yeah. So like these big patches. We're mostly over the pink areas. That's right. So we don't, we're not trying to pour it all out. Like touch the sides. Because you want to. Keep as much on here as possible. So yeah, we, I don't have anything other than a cloth mask. And here's a bigger one. Are you going to mix colors or not? I'm going to zoom them in and then I'm going to mix colors. Sorry for the motion in the ocean, y'all. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. What? I tried to zoom in a little bit and I was like, wow. I tried to bring it back a little bit. So. And we did tape off the bottom of this. So. Yes, that did happen. You know that they watch our lives. I think she only catches them sparingly. I don't think she tuned in all of the times. So. To match the countertops, we're going to use mostly dusty pink. We're using the back end of the spoon. It's probably way too much. And then just a small dribble of strawberry shake. Strawberry. It's way too much. Yep. Yep. The idea is that she wanted to match her stand mixer. Which is over there. I'd say that's pretty dead. Close. Doesn't need any more warmth. So we always recommend using proper materials to do resin art. However, if you're, you're trying to make it work with what you got, then do what you got to do. You know, you think it's good or too soft? I think it's too soft. I think it needs to be a little more poppy. Yep. I feel like we should have like a, don't try this at home disclaimer, like running on a tick in the bottom one day. Did Nene give us a dollar? Thank you, Nene. Thank you, Nene. Point of bones. Thank you. Bow, bow, bow, bow. Yes. Today is Jeff's son's birthday. Austin, Roman Thornton. 27 today. Right? Happy birthday, Austin. He said right. I don't think this is going to be enough. You think it'll be enough? I think it'll be funny. So where do we do with this? Well, I did the white first and then added the pink. Why did we make pink first? Because it was closer. Noose comb. And then a harsh white. I think this is a harsh white. So in the original piece, I did a faded white and a stark white. The idea is to be able to see a little bit through or a little bit into there because the only other, okay, that'll work out. The only other color we have to do is the platinum rose and that's going to take like, so what Jeff right now is doing is diluting our opaque white into a clear to make it a translucent white. You know how they always say you can always add more, but you can't take it away? This is the only way to take it away. It's like perfect. I'm going to pour some out of here for our platinum rose color. Even that's probably way too much. You can tell like, hopefully you can tell them there. I don't know. This is the transparent. This is the more opaque. This was more opaque. All right. So we do white just on the white area. I ran it through trying to keep large patches of the Milky Way. All right. You have that one and some Milky Way left as well. I'm going to try to get you guys in closer since we're done mixing resin. Sorry about the psychedelic like zoom in. You do that. I'm scared. Yes, you do. Grab it right on the sticky part. Thank you. Thank you so much you guys. I'm sure Austin appreciates all that the birthdays. Okay. Is this the translucent one? Should be doing translucent one. So for this we want mostly white. I'm going to do this again. I'm using a phone brush because I'm filling in the gaps first and then I'm going to blend them all. You want to try the chopping action. I got that song. I've got supplies. Just the bird. So then I'm going to do like a soft blend just with the pink. You want to do the pink. But I want to make sure of what we're looking at before I add the pink. That's going to look awesome. I like that whole big patch. Same. To get the rest of it off. The cool thing about using it doing it on the table is that it's you can tilt it. So you guys can see and you can see there's the translucent here and the stark white here. And if you ever pay attention to marble you can really see that. See if that makes a difference. I turned the lights off. Oh. Okay. Cool.  Looks super marbling. ATG. I'm just going to come in on the edges for now because we want the paint to be minimal. We're going to wipe the pink and the white just over slightly to create that marbly, shifty look. We find that if you use, if you have any more, most of you will have to put some lines through. If you use a foam brush like that you can really get a nice soft blend. You can also use a styrofoam paper. But we also have to add the, this, the platinum rose. Y'all adding dark always makes me nervous. Also you have this blue left if you need to add. Okay. Okay. Okay. So my initial thought is to run this.  Run it next to the pink or through it. No. We did it like in the pink. If you want it to be in one of those like super just tiny, right? Yeah. There you go. Yeah. It would go here. That's perfect. Hey TG. The platinum rose is from Resinart. Right now Jeff is adding Milky Way fault lines through the piece to create a little bit more dynamic. We're going to add that. Just in lines. It's looking great. And then we're going to add some more stark white lines and we're going to heat it and tilt it and see what we got. Fair enough white, isn't it? So we have hand wipes with us. Let's heat this up first a little bit so that we don't lose our good and bad. Lisa said wear all the thumbs. They need us all. It's true. Arlene said you guys ever take a break? Well, we tried to in Mexico, but not very well. We'll try to take a break again soon. I love y'all's marble fairy tales. This one and the other that I've watched.  The key to marble is less is more. You want mostly white. You want less is more. Less is always more. You want a main foundation of white with hints of your accent color. Do you want to spray the white on the work? One deep color and an accent color. Is it salty? No, it should be right there on the coffee table. So to see an expert do this next part, like a Ronda or a Mike, they're going to tell you to wait, like, I don't know, two or three hours with the countertop code. This is countertop. Before you do this part, because it needs to start to set up a little bit so that you don't lose the effects, we don't have that kind of time. So we're going to go ahead and do it. And then maybe after we go to dinner we'll check it. You guys are so funny. You did all the awesome ones yesterday. So he's spraying white spray paint onto this spoon handle and is running that through certain areas to marble it out. You can do this with a dirty pour as well, but I don't have a lot of control over dirty pour, so we tend to not dirty pour. And you can see he's twisting the handle as he goes in order to deposit more paint as he drags along through the piece. He said, darn it. So when you do this spray paint method, you need to make sure that the spray paint is gloss. It's the only one that works. I don't have the signs behind it. I can't even eat signs right now, but I've tried it with Matt and it just gets a little bit chalky and breaks apart, which is also a fun effect, but that's not what you're going for. Gloss. So now that he's added the spray paint, he is spritzing with alcohol. We're working with what we got, so 70% very not ideal. You need to work with higher percentage, like 90 plus. If you don't have that, go with Everclear to get more of a blooming effect. When you use a lower percentage like this, it's got more of a not alcohol content. I guess maybe it's water. I don't know, but you're at more risk of pitting because resin doesn't like water. I think that it makes some of it, some of it separates from it like that. It gives it like almost a rocky underneath. I'm just putting resin around the edge so that it'll fall over evenly. So like we said before, this is not a client request. We just thought it would be a fun surprise. Also, the floor in this unit is not level, so we're going to have to watch it quite well because it's going to shift. So Jeff's not going to put that much heat down because we don't want it to thin out. He's just popping bubbles and creating a little bit of movement. I just want a little movement. That's why we don't have any the platypus attachment or a cake attachment. We don't have any concentrate or nozzles down. We should tilt it. Which way? It gives it like a real... That way? Think? I think we should put a piece of paper down and see which way it's... if it's off. You know what I'm saying? Sure. Right now it's coming off on all sides. But I can't tell because you just blew it. Still, I think we should tilt it maybe that way. So Jeff did add some tape under the rim of this so that we don't have to worry about clean up later. Look at that. Do you want me to hit with some heater? We're just going to do a cold tilt. Like really like moving more than anything. It's where you hit the heat last. What do you think? Maybe hold it up. I'm going to hit with some heat right here and let it move. I'm going to kind of tilt it that way. Again, we're not doing too much heat. This is just moving. That whole section is moving. I wonder if it's like... You can always tilt it back. I just want to move that one movement. Stretch. Alright, so we're going to resin that part. We bet in Myrtle Beach, what is happening? We are adding resin to a piece. And on any I was like, no, look at the bottom of the table. Shout out to Shino. Shino. I'm watching Waves all day. We watched Waves for a minute. I'm going to bring you guys down so you can see what Jeff's doing. Basically just trying to... We're going to have to just try to blend this in. We weren't going to do this part, but now we have to. We've got pink and hopefully this. So you paint or make the whole table. So we don't do the table creation. What we do is epoxy coating. So we make things look like marble. For example, this client wanted a pink marble, so we did that. And now we are making her existing table match her existing countertops that we created to look like pink marble. Thank you. It's a little bit more pink, but it'll still look good. Man says ear, feet will be marble-fied to match the table. So I've been really good up to this second avoiding stepping in resin for now. And since we weren't planning on doing this part, we didn't tape this off, so we'll wipe that off. No stress. How do you make the brown thing? What's the brown thing? So you want to hold this and I'll add some white down there? There's some white right there. We should have just taped it off. No, I shouldn't have put a wood is. We'll just fill this sucker up and then we'll tilt it and it'll look fine. Adding some sparkle. I feel famous when you read my comments. We love reading comments from you guys. Thank you, Tara. That looks fun. Maybe we can spray paint it a little and put some other... Run some dark lines through it. It'll look just fine. We'll have a mess up here. Tomorrow we can take off the bottom, that rim and just paint it gold, you know.  We can wipe it off with the alcohol rag. It gets in with a little bowl. I know, but to get it off easier, I'm not sure. I feel like if we're going to add the gold to this one, we probably should do it. Are we going to flood coat this or no? I don't know. What time do it be? It's six o'clock. Tara, thank you very much. Tara, thanks for the two dollars. You're so sweet. Thank you. Thank you everyone who's donated by the way. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. And if you're new to the channel and you don't know what Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep means is we have a button that we hit. Somebody sent us. It's a hype button like in a club. And that means that some of us donated to us. If you see the little lights that people put up, that means somebody has donated. Sometimes you don't see it. How many things have you guys painted? We're painting live pretty much every day on this channel. Let's hit that rim so that it just will, you know, it'll fall off easier. I'm scared I'm going to scorch what's in it if I just try to melt it off.  Oh, vamp sent us the button. Oh yeah, they have to send us the button. Theresa gives bananas. Is she giving our artwork a review? A lot of bananas. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12. See, that looks so good. You tell them what we're doing right now. Damn, it's famous. Looks great. Yeah, she's hitting that around that, uh, because we didn't paint it. So what, what, what's going to happen is all the residents just going to fade off the side and you'll be able to see the gold. So she's heating it up so that it just kind of runs off the side. And it'll be nice and smooth. And then we can just paint it gold tomorrow.  Right.  So he reads comments. He just was relaying what I was doing. Well, did somebody not want your comment read or we didn't read their comment?  What? Oh, that you didn't read their comment. I try to read every comment. So does she and sometimes we miss them. So you'll just have to be patient. Oh, we're sure you're nice. Just saying sometimes we get a big. Sometimes we have a lot of comments and we can't get, we can't read all of them right away. I'm sure you understand. I hope you feel better. Yeah, I'm reading off of this. The comments are populating on the camera. Hello all you 93 people hopping in to see what we're creating today. If you don't know, we're artists till death. We paint live most every day. And today we are doing this to match the this. We did this a couple of days ago. Yeah, we did this countertop a couple of days ago. Can I turn the flash on this? You have to do it when you. So this is our pink marble. Unconventional side table to match our pink marble countertop that we did while we are out here in L.A. doing work. If you guys need some resany things done, that's what we do. What we do, do, do, do, do, do. Where's JJ? Denise, are you talking about in terms of being on the live or geographically? So if you like creating things or working with resin or you're interested in working with resin, join us every day. We usually go live now at 6 p.m. central, but here lately we've been traveling a lot. So we're just trying to get it in where we fit in. Oh, we're going live at our regular time. What's up? Anyways, you can find everything that we use, all the pigments. Sorry, these are gross because we use them at our website, artiststilldeath.com. Yeah, JJ may be working. I love it. Looks awesome. I'd have to have some rose gold or just gold in there if it were mine, but yes, could love it. So we did add gold accents. You want to just put a little? See, you can see here. We have it run through. However, it's hard to see without the flash on. There's some right there. And we'll be running it through this. We just need to do the thing. Should we just wait? Just make sure it'll soak up a lot in that paper. So just make sure you get a whole bunch of that gold soaked out. So what we're about to do is run some gold veins through the piece. We're going to try to do it extra super thin because it looks better that way. And the way that we do that is we will take our molten gold is whatever I always call it, but it's actually liquid gold from Montana. And we're going to pour it out onto some paper like this so that whatever it is that's in spray paint that keeps it fluid is also in this liquid gold. And I need that stuff to soak into some paper so that it doesn't bloom on May 2 badly. Well, thank you, Misty. I appreciate that, Carrie. See that that's soaking in. That's not the gold. That's like an oily. That's what probably makes it liquid so that it can come out of the spray can. It is. And it keeps it like a wet substance. Sure. It keeps it fluid, but I need it to be do a roadside before you do it. Yeah. Looks good. Looks good. Propellant great word. Look at that. So running this gold through will make our fault line stand out a little bit. You can see that gold shining in that middle vein. So if we hadn't have let that whatever run out of it, when we put it down, the lines will bloom and grow and just not look very refined. So we let a bit of that just soak into some paper and then it's more controllable. It really gives it that right in like, it's almost like sunk into it. That looks great. Yeah. Solvents. Thank you, Ron. I appreciate it. The thought even though super sticker isn't available in your area. I appreciate it either way. Thought that counts. We didn't mess up the mountain peak. Are you going to do some in the? Yeah. We just wanted it soft, but also fabulous. We do have a PayPal. If one of the mods can put up our PayPal that would be super. Can't show you how well out there it is. How well the gold glows in there. But it looks super nice. My biggest fear right now is dropping Jeff's phone into the roadside. Let's end this. I'm going to have a beer. We're going to get some. Blooming gorgeous. Thank you. We're going to get some lobster. Lobster. We did have some steak today, but it was cooked a little bit too much. And you know what's funny is we didn't complain and they still took it off of our tap. That's true. A donation won't pop up on the screen if you do it through PayPal. Unfortunately, PayPal and YouTube are not affiliated like that. However, we will see it and then we will hit the for you 98 people. That's insane. It was up to 110 a second ago. Was this table extra love at all? So, but she didn't ask us to do this table. We just decided to do it. So we won't charge her. Obviously, she wants to kick us a little extra for it. It's great. No, we didn't charge her for this because it was something we wanted to do for her. She, she's been a great host. So Nene, that is correct. It's Thornton at artistilldat.com. It has to be an email address and that's the one that's associated. Hi, Tia. Thank you so much. I wanted to do my kitchen and navy gold and white scheme. Do you have a video tutorial on the counter? This will be my first tackle. I definitely recommend doing maybe a coaster and then like maybe a 16 by 20. Just to get a feel of resin before you try to jump into a countertop size situation. I will also recommend that you use the art coat for your design layer as opposed to the countertop coat. It has all the same durability except for it has a two hour working time, which is super handy when you're doing any kind of larger scale piece. We will have a video on how we did this one up soon. I just have to edit it, you know, in my spare time. And we have other videos of countertops and tabletops that we do black dragonfly. So did you put gold on a bottom section too? We sure did. I promise I'm not going to drop her phone. I can't see it, but it's down there. Thank you, Nene. I appreciate it. Appreciate it. Thank you for the PayPal donation. Tiji gave us 1,100 million bananas. Hello from Ukraine. Hi. Thank you. Edit on the plane. I'm going to be playing Sudoku on the plane. So yeah. Super awesome. That's how we did that to go along with our this. Thank you all, 109 of you for tuning in. Pro tip. Pro tip. So what I want to do because I can't tell because there's so many already and we've tilted it. So what I'm going to do is put this down. Put it down equally and hopefully cleanly. And then so that I can see when we come back. Moving. I mean, you'll be able to tell obviously by the look of it, but by the new drips, which way your table might be a little bit off. So where we are in West Hollywood, everything is on a hill. Everything is Caddy Wampus. Everything. Literally everything. So in order to see how this piece may be shifting because of the floor maybe not being quite so level or maybe the piece isn't so level, we're going to surround it with more paper with clean paper. So we can see where the drips are coming so that we can probably what we'll do since we don't have anything to prop it up. We'll just rotate it 180 degrees into the other direction. However, if this was a design piece, I'd be upset about it shifting. But because this is a natural stone piece, a little shift will actually look really great. Yeah. Well, good night. Thank you for coming in. And so we don't have a level with us because we were doing countertops. We weren't going to originally do this piece as an addition, but so we didn't bring a level. So that's how we're going to work around something that's on level or if we don't know that is level. That's how we're going to keep an eye on it. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, there's 110 people in here. Just see what you're doing. What are you doing? I want to cut it. So that's the opaque white. Yeah. So he's adding a white fault line. Probably right through the middle of that. So he should have done this before adding his new paper so that we don't get it mixed up. Well, this is just a little bit of white. Thank you to everyone that's tuning in and seeing what we're up to right now. If you want to subscribe, please do so. We do resin pieces every day. We teach live answer questions and help people out with their artwork or just needing someone to chat with since quarantine kind of sucks. No matter what country you're in, we're here. We are currently on location out in West Hollywood to do these countertops. And we decided to do a matching side table. Looks like this. Here's a little bit of it. Did it right there. You just add a little bit more in there. Yes. Vamp is correct. Sometimes we do alcohol ink. Sometimes we do airbrush. This month we will be doing a lot of body paint. I really don't know how YouTube managed to get me on your channel. Well, we're glad you're here. Do you ever come to Europe for a workshop? So we've done two tours in Australia. Two tours in the States. I'm teaching classes. We haven't done Europe yet. But as soon as Europe opens back up to the US travel, we can definitely look into it. We would love to. Or you don't usually watch art? Well, we're glad you're here. I'm doing this because every time you put any kind of resin down, even if it's a little line like that, always hit it with a little heat because there's going to be bubbles in that particular piece of resin. Denise, this is my second year ATD trained. We love it. Crazy to think of how long we've been doing resin art on YouTube. I think it's beautiful. I think she's going to love it. I think that extra bit of white did super awesome. Agreed. Agreed. We would love to come to Europe. Shoot me an email or a text. All of our contact information is down in the description box. If you would like any of these colors or the resin you see us working with today, it's all gross up here. But when we ship it to you, it's nice and fancy and pretty and packaged nice. But the colors were strawberry shake, just resin strawberry shake, dusty pink by color obsession. The darkest platinum rose by resin art. This sparkly throughout is Milky Bay Milky Way by resin art. Milky Bay is not a thing and sounds gross if it was. And the white is titanium from just resin. As you can see, we don't have a lot of cell action and that's because we didn't use a lot of heat. If we were to heat it up a lot and mess with it a bunch, then it would probably start to sell up. Have you felt any shaking? No, we're supposed to have an earthquake. You guys maybe want to try stone coat. I currently use counterculture DIY and only get 45 minutes working time. But I usually do tumblers, but something 45 minutes isn't longer than that for what I do. We've reviewed counterculture. It's a good resin. It is obviously a shorter working time, which is probably better for things like tumblers. Tumblers, trinkets, maybe? Yeah. They can set past. Yeah. Anything odd shaped. Yeah. We're going to coat something. But for large scale pieces, definitely something with a larger, no longer working time works best. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. What's a good white if you don't want cells? Most anyway, just watch out for the amount of heat you use. And swiping. And swiping. And super kill. Have you come back to Australia someday? Jacqueline, we plan on being back in Australia. Probably, where am I? Okay. Probably, but we're supposed to already come back like in June. But as soon as the world opens back up, we will be back whenever. We love it. Right? One of the clients see the results. She'll be here at 10 p.m. Have you ever visited the Middle East? We haven't. We had someone ask us to come to Abu Dhabi. I think so. No. It was Dubai to do countertops and floors. And we were like, we need a deposit. We're ready. Well, we see the reveal of the kitchen all cleaned up. Yes, we're going to let this set overnight. And in the morning, we're going to break it back down, clean up all of this and the floor and all that. We'll get that done in the morning before we head to the airport. After dark is my fate. Who'll do ATD after dark? Probably won't be on this trip. Definitely won't be on this trip. I could use some art in my kitchen. Everyone could use some art in their kitchen. Anyways. Let's go eat. I'm hungry. We're going to get some foods. So thank you guys for watching all 112 of you guys that are tuning in to us right now. Please like, subscribe, leave us your thumbs, whether good or bad, we would love your thumbs. And tune in every day to see what kind of artwork we're making. We do literally everything. So tune in, leave a comment, leave a thumb, share with all your family, friends, loved ones. Are you doing that thing? Dang it. Have you visited Canada? Black Dragonfly? We haven't, but we would love to. I don't know if Canada is going to let us in right now. And I'll just do it myself. So yeah, check us out on all of our other social media. Why am I all in the camera? I usually have a pop up right here with all that information, but I have, I have none of that right now. So I'll just leave you with, thank you guys so so much for watching. Please be kind to one another. You never know what someone is going through. I'll see you guys. Manana. Bye. I said bye. Goober. Absolutely.


Colorectal cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the world and it is often difficult to detect at an early stage. Artificial intelligence, AI, specifically machine learning, ML, and deep learning, DL, techniques, have been used to improve the accuracy of diagnosing colorectal cancer. This paper reviews the current literature on AI-based ML and DL techniques applied to the modeling of colorectal cancer. The papers were categorized according to their aim, method, and data samples. The authors also discussed the challenges and opportunities of using these techniques to predict colorectal cancer. This article was authored by Davia Alboanine, Raisin Alcani, Chica Alcatani, and others.


of people in the room, right? An executive director of Playwrights Theatre Center Up? That's a good idea. And stand behind our greats Bob and director. So I think all of you are probably aware all of our work and play takes place on the unceded territories of the Slewa Tuth, Squamish, and Musqueam nations. And one of the things that PTC is really interested in is what all of these people, so one of them for the city. It's an exhibit called Seth Man. And it looks at the 5,000 year history of the Musqueam people on this land. And you can go to the Museum of Vancouver and see all kinds of living history that is animated by videos of artists who are working in the community, elders and cultural knowledge keepers. And it's a tremendous way to understand the land and the people whose place we're on. The Slewa Tuth First Nation just had a walk to raise funds for solar panels on October 30th. And you can keep in touch with the projects that they're supporting on their Facebook page, which is for the Slewa Tuth Sacred Trust. And that is at TWN Sacred Trust on Facebook. Very exciting, right in our own neighborhood, the new Strathcona Library branch is going to be opening sometime soon. They say end of 2006 and maybe the beginning of 2007. And you can find out how to pronounce the name of the Strathcona branch, which is a Musqueam word, which means we are one. And I'm gonna give it a try. It's nuts to nuts. So let's all meet nuts to nuts to meet, read books, learn about all of the cultures that are represented here in Strathcona. And also I'd like to mention a special event happening through the heart of the city festival, our wonderful partners on the event here, the Survivors Totem Pool Raising, which is the gathering at Main and Hastings. The processional start at 12 noon this Saturday, November 5th. And the Totem Pool will be raised in Pigeon Park. According to the Sacred Circle Society who are leading the initiative, the pool honors the many people who have arrived and lived in the downtown Eastside as survivors. So it's a really incredible opportunity to take part in reconciliation activities here in the downtown Eastside. So in recognizing the territories that we're living on, I think it's a daily activity that we can all participate in and it's incredibly enriching to our own lives. So over to you, Melanie. Thank you, Heidi. Thank you very much. So folks, what we're gonna start with is we're going to start with Derek Chan, and he is going to be... So this is an excerpt of the play that we've translated and performed in September down in Richmond. So the story is that the character I play is the little sous chef and we're supposed to be doing a demonstration cooking show, but the big masters are away on important business. So the little sous chef has to step up the plate and do a great job.  It's a fish dish. It's a Filipino dish called Redie and Om Bangus. So you hollow out the fish and then you stop the fish. And then previously in the play, we have named the fish Bong Bong. Okay. Here we go. Ah. Maximo D'Archu said that the Redie and Om Bangus is one of the national symbol of the Philippines. The Redie and Om Bangus is the northern part of the Philippines, and it has a special mountain range. And it's right over there. It's the southern part of the Philippines. The biggest city in the Philippines is the Philippines. It's the highest city in the Philippines. The Redie and Om Bangus is the capital of the Philippines for hundreds of years. And the fish will come out naturally. Maximo D'Archu said that they're going to catch fish and ask questions. The law is passed and the law is passed. Fortunately, the time has come. Since today, most of the fresh fish we bought on the street are fish, lard, or vegetable products. The fish market is a very simple concept. It's like opening a club. First, we have some pretty girls and male and female partners. Then we open our eyes and close our eyes. Let them have a free time together. Let's make friends. Finally, we can make friends if we don't feel like it. Open the fish market to explore the history of lard. Maximo D'Archu said that there are already a few thousand years of Chinese-American culture. But about 100 years ago, the fish industry began to flourish and the great industrial era began. There are far-fetched enterprises. If there are tens of thousands of factories in the fish market, the production of lard and the production of lard can turn the club into a super-sandals. I haven't had a home for a long time, actually. To put it bluntly, our family is a business of thousands of seafood. It's a food business of D'Archu. It's a world-class product of the market and the factory. Also, in this factory, we can see the previous manager of the family. Before me, I want to tell you a story about my brother. He's called Pierre Ibasan. Pierre and Bong-Bong were all born in a big company. About 10 years ago, he worked in the seafood industry as a first-class procurator. Actually, Pierre is now a seafood entrepreneur. Because he used to work in the Aitap tribe in the 18th century. Now, you have to understand that the Aitap people are a very strong nation. They have their own way of doing things. Nothing can change them. Even the people of West Asia, the people of Aimee, and even the people of Japan, can't influence the Aitap people. No matter what, the Aitap people have to stick to their power, stick to their traditions, and take on the Ice Age. But our Pierre is different. 10 years ago, he talked to his boss. He said, the things of God, there's no use in the old man's superstition. He went to the construction site to work. Now, we're cutting a knife behind the fishing line. We'll probably see a little bit of blood in the house. That's normal. Just like a teacher said, the sharpness of a knife doesn't mean that it's a unique thing. Now, we're going to use a round knife to cut the skin and the meat carefully. If you do the right thing, it should be like cutting a牙 bone that's as round as a fish's body. I think when Pierre said he was going to use the knife to cut the skin, he started to feel so guilty. But think about it. Every day, his boss worked so hard that it took him 15 hours to catch the fish. After that, he even sold the fish to restaurants and restaurants. Even if Pierre and his boss were so good at fishing, they still had to work as a salesman. Speaking of which, I'm using the Maximum series and it's really useful. It's a hand-to-hand knife. It's a high-tech, hard-earned knife. It's a long-awaited, long-awaited knife. It's the best. Of course it's Maximum. Pierre and his family started selling fish. Before the opening of the sea, Pierre's bad boss used to sell fish every six days. That's right. Every six days. But even if it was so expensive, they still had to work hard. And their fish was less than a year old. I heard that even if the whole village caught the fish, they couldn't catch the fish that was on the island. Fortunately, the sea is the only way to start a business. We don't need to rely on the fishing industry. There are scientists, scientists, and MBA teams. But the future of the stock market is enough. The fishing industry is the only way to start a business. The fishing industry is the only way to start a business. But the fishing industry is the only way to start a business. And the fishing industry is the only way to start a business. Let's start with the bottom two. The prices of restaurants and restaurants are lower. But they're more affordable than the price of a boat. And you're asking me to sign the contract to join the Tian Ha Sea to start a business. Now the sea is the only way to satisfy Nam Ka Yan Wan's needs and to satisfy the whole country. Even the taste of the law is not enough for you to eat. I'll tell you what. Everybody's a winner! If they wake up a little, it won't be a big deal. It's a long time ago. MIRROR is so far away. Piax will come to our world-class construction site. He has been working hard for 9 years. Although he is working hard for the sake of the fish, he can do it. And Piax's workers are the same every week. They don't need to worry about the weather. They don't need to worry about the rain. The most important thing is that Piax will be able to provide his and his wife's quality. And Piax only needs to stand here for 8 hours every day. He is sure that he will deliver the package before we put it on the table. The fish that will come back to you is the basic food safety standard. It won't be as easy as it seems. Thanks, Melanie. Well, in keeping with the theme of food and culture, I have a little short story that I wrote. But first, I thought I'd share an interesting tidbit about myself. I didn't fully realize I was Chinese until I was almost 25. Now, obviously, I was aware of the fact. I couldn't not be aware. I mean, the signs were all there growing up. High academic achiever. Living in constant fear of failure from an early age. Unbelievably overbearing mother. And we didn't keep kosher, so I could reasonably deduce that I was, in fact, Chinese. But being Chinese never really seemed to matter until my mid-20s. Up to that point, I'd followed the regular life trajectory of a Chinese boy growing up in the 70s and 80s. I skipped a few grades because this was before they realized that this stunts your social development. I studied engineering because that's what all my friends were doing. And eventually I joined the workforce. But about five years into a very mediocre engineering career, I decided that I wanted to be a professional actor. Best decision I ever made. And now I honestly can't imagine choosing another path. But back then, there was a price to pay for my newfound freedom. In the eyes of my peers and colleagues, I ceased to simply be a person and I became a Chinese person. As awful and tedious as I found engineering, it's one saving grace was the fact that it's more or less a meritocracy. None of my professors cared that I was Chinese, neither did any of my employers. In fact, you think about it, a lot of Chinese mom-approved professions are merit-based.  No, you just want to know that the person drilling into your skull knows what they're doing. But acting is a very different animal. Acting was a real eye-opener. Because you don't get to define yourself in the theater and film world.  So if you're, for example, if you're overweight, you're appropriate for these roles and these roles only.   So that's when I had my awakening. I am Chinese. This is now the first thing my peers see about me. I thought I had many dimensions and qualities, but this apparently is now my primary dimension. My prospects and my aspirations are now very much informed by my ethnicity. Every performing artist of color has a similar awakening. And unless you have some very strong support systems, it can really play havoc on your psyche. The ones who survive are the ones who find strategies to define themselves and who refuse to let others do it for them. Part of my strategy was to embrace my Chinese identity without letting it define me as an artist. So I learned about my heritage in a way that I hadn't really thought about before I started a Chinese Canadian. I started to read about Chinese history and the history of the Chinese diaspora in North America. And as a playwright, I usually write plays with Chinese themes, not because I'm a one-trick pony, but for very pragmatic reasons. If I'm not adding to Chinese stories to the Canadian theater canon, then who's going to do it? All of this is a very long preamble to say that in my mid-20s I became Chinese. And I navigated my way through life as a Chinese man until a few years ago, when in my mid-40s I went to a Hong Kong cafe and discovered that I'm not really Chinese. Chung Chao is an outlying island about 10 kilometers southwest of Hong Kong. It's like the Bowen Island of Hong Kong. And Chung Chao is typically where I stay when I'm working in Hong Kong because that's where my long-time collaborators live and they have a spare flap on the island. Although Chung Chao is just a 45-minute ferry ride away from central Hong Kong, it's like a different world. Hong Kong is all glass, steel, and concrete jutting up towards the sky. Chung Chao is grass and trees and beaches. Hong Kong is power suits in high fashion. Chung Chao is definitely shorts and flip flops. Cars are prohibited on Chung Chao so everyone bicycles. So when I think of Chung Chao, I think of the bikes and I think of the smell of dried salt fish and shrimp. I think of the amazing cafes there. There are Cha Chantang and Da Paidong everywhere on the island. Now, I don't speak any Cantonese. My parents are from Manila and our home dialect is Fukian. I speak a very modest amount of Mandarin but virtually no Cantonese. And this has never been an impediment working in Hong Kong because anyone speaking only Chinese can get by in Hong Kong very much a testament to its colonial past. But Chung Chao is completely different. Chung Chao is a blue-collar fishing village that never had to cater to British overlords. So there are plenty of cafes where there's no one who speaks a word of English and the menus are all Chinese only. And one of these Chinese only cafes became my local hangout for seven weeks. Gold Hing was the name of the cafe. The only bit of English signage there. I think the Cantonese name of the place was Gam Hing so it got translated as Gold Hing. I didn't choose this place because of the food or the service and I certainly didn't love being a functional illiterate there. Gold Hing had two things going for it. It had outdoor tables with a great view of the harbor and it was the only place within walking distance with Wi-Fi. And so every morning I'd go to breakfast at Gold Hing with my laptop. I checked my mail, skyped the office and suffered the indignity of being Gold Hing's least favorite customer. You know those heartwarming fish out of water stories where a foreigner shows up in a strange place and is adopted by the locals despite the fact he doesn't fit in. This isn't one of those stories. I'm going to hazard a guess that if I had been a blonde Nordic type they might have taken me in. But the problem was in their eyes I should have been able to speak the language. And I tried. Believe me, I tried. I would say Josan every morning. And when I'd order I'd say depending on which waitress I'd had I'd either get a derisive snort or a tisk of disgust. And how did I order? I used the point and lego method. There were basically 12 items on the menu and I'd cycle through them every day. But the problem with the options every time I ordered I'd be offered like a choice. Do you want this or do you want that?  I did learn one phrase. At about week number three I figured out they were always asking me what to drink. So I'd always order the same thing. Dong Nai Cha, a Tao team which is my very poor attempt to say cold milk tea unsweetened. And the waitress, one waitress would actually get so mad at me because I was mispronouncing this so badly so she would always correct me by re-pronouncing what I said louder and slower. And I'd say, I'll just go with the bill. And to those of you who don't look like me I encourage you to learn these phrases because they will love you over there. So it wasn't until my final week in Chung Chao in October that someone there attempted to speak some English to me. The owner who was always at the cash register said, you Korean. And I shook my head and said, no, Chinese. And he said, Chinese and once again said, no, me. I'm Chinese. And everyone in the cafe laughed and the owner said, you're not Chinese. I wanted to say goodbye to them to say I was going home to Canada. I wish I'd had some way to thank them for feeding me for two months. But of course I lacked the words because I'm not really Chinese. And with that new information I went home to Richmond. Just as a little postscript I have ended up having to pass through Hong Kong two months later on route to China. So I visited my good friends on Chung Chao. And out of habit, I guess I went back to Goldhang for breakfast. I didn't even need to use Wi-Fi. I just went back for whatever reason. And for the first time the wait staff would never have been particularly welcoming. They greeted me like an old friend. The surliest waiters who thought I was a bit challenged brought me a cold unsweetened milk tea unprompted. So to them I may not be Chinese, but at that point I was at last a welcome guest. Our moderator today is Kathy Dufflin, is the Dramaturg at PTC. She's been a Dramaturg. And thank you Melanie for greeting us all and taking care of the dumpling challenge and lowering microphones and doing all that. I'd just like you to know that if you want more water for your tea just take the lid off. That usually works in many of the restaurants that I've been to. And someone will notice that and bring it. It looks like they're getting ready to serve the dumplings. Dumplings are on their way out. Dumplings are on their way out. So I'd like to thank Derek again for doing that reading. Derek has written a wonderful essay about translating the play that we've posted on our website. You'll find out a lot about the language and a lot about Derek that you never thought you wanted to know. And I'd like to make a note of Giovanni wrote the play in English originally and I'd like to start by asking you why you wanted it translated into Cantonese. Oh well it wasn't so much that it started like I wanted it translated. I really had a strong desire to work with Derek to do a show at Gateway in Cantonese. As I recall, we had a meeting almost a year ago back in December and we were just talking about what are some plays that were either written in Cantonese or that would be good for translating. And we threw out a whole bunch of different titles and then I guess at one point it dawned on me, hey, what about this? I think I asked you if you cook, right? Yeah you do. Yeah and then I said, yeah, I can cook. Yeah. So it wasn't so much born out of a desire to have the piece translated. I really was dying to have Derek do something in Cantonese on our stage and it just turned out that it was my play in the end. Well, we'll talk some more about that. Yeah. Andrea you may or may not know has been recently besides being a producer and all a director and just about everything there is on a board of Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre is also an actor and I didn't know you were an actor before you were everything else so but she was recently in a production of King of the Yeas and I'd like I heard some great stories from the people who were in that show that suggested that it was a really unique experience to be Asian actors together and I'd love to hear more about that. For the first time we had a workshop read through and looking around the table we all actually all the actors and the team sort of we knew each other but we were never all in the same room together working on the same project and it was such a that was sort of a very wonderful moment of like oh we're actually all together because usually the experience in theatre I found is that there'll be one of me and maybe maybe another Asian person and that's about it and generally there's not all that much diversity in the cast so but this was also like the first time I've ever experienced where my cultural background informed my work like a lot of times I'll go into a Shakespeare or I go into a modern play but that doesn't take into consideration sort of how I was raised and even just certain cultural traditions that I was raised with and that was actually really interesting to have to access this sort of my Chinese history my Chinese ancestry and the culture that I was raised in the role itself and also I'm not really used to a role generally as a person of colour there aren't a lot of roles written for you in English and Lauren was an Asian-American female who was in her early 30s and I'm an Asian-Canadian female in my early 30s so that was a big first and it was really delightful to work on that cast in that way I love your culture informing the work even one is language I didn't have a lot of Cantonese but having to speak Cantonese again there's something that almost happens in your brain and just having I don't know even speaking Cantonese all of a sudden just reminds me of my family and the language of my family and there's something about accessing that and then there are little points even the dynamic between the father and the daughter so Giovanni played your father Giovanni played my father and that aspect of because Lauren is quite feisty and she's quite independent but culturally and this spans other cultures but I was very much raised when you speak to your dad no matter how upset you are or whatever there's a certain level of respect and there's a line that you just don't cross and I think that really informed how I spoke to Giovanni's character there was always a certain level of respect and respect for authority so like little things like that that would inform the role you look like you wanted to jump in there no Bob you've been spent many years caring very deeply about preservation of culture in Chinatown and I was wondering if you thought having seen I think you saw both of these plays that if you think that theater has anything to bring to help in that fighting almost definitely it's a medium which brings about the awareness of my generation subsequent generations about expressing the pride of being Chinese for me anyway and I really think theater such as King of the Yeas and and Test of Empire sorry how it brings that out how it brings it out and make it more appealing to the masses but to me it really it's a great affirmation about being Chinese and I really think theater is a very expressive way of doing that I was thinking about you saw it in Cantonese right yes did you ever see it in English what Test of Empire no well first of all it was in Cantonese but English subtitles oh right because I could never understand it if it was in Chinese I you know because I'm third generation and I do recall some words that were spoken like a little semblance of it but the idea of having English subtitles really appealed to me yeah so Derek talked a little bit about while you were in the process of translating about this that you've been studying writing in English for what 14 years yeah something like that yeah and now all of a sudden you went back to Cantonese and what was that like it's I think I've said that before it's kind of like making up with the family member that you had a really big fight with 14 odd years after I remember some of you know this story when I first moved here I tried really hard to sound Canadian to behave like a Canadian I would avoid speaking Cantonese and working in Cantonese but I don't know something just changed in the past year or so that something changed in me that I feel like it's a part of me that I can't get rid of and I should not get rid of it and yeah it's it's a nice feeling in a way but it also feels a little bit like I'm making up for lost time can you talk about that a little more yeah because when I first moved here I really feel that oh I'm in someone else's country now I gotta speak a language I gotta be like one of them and that's because otherwise I'm gonna sound stupid they're gonna think I'm stupid I'm not gonna get any I'm not gonna get any work here in Vancouver and so on but now that I'm here come to think of it I think it's a bit of a silly thought really oh I was recently doing a project that requires me to speak some of my lines with a Cantonese accent and I was just lamenting to one of my co-performers that oh I honestly don't know where mine went and not so much in a good way that oh you sound like you're from here I used to be pretty proud of that when people tell me oh yeah I didn't know you were you spent 16 years in Hong Kong I used to think oh yeah great I made it but now when I hear that I think oh great I have the ability to do that but then also I think whoa hang on a sec what did I get rid of exactly so yeah I guess it's a good and bad what I did to myself yeah Giovanni, you want to say something? well that kind of resonates with me because my formative years I was actually very ashamed to be Chinese it was part of being that local born got assimilated into the white culture as much as possible because of the conditioning that my parents had and wanting to be more white than wanted to relegate anything of my culture local born Chinese culture and then getting passed through all that and then later on in life having a stronger awareness of my culture and heritage and wanting to learn how to speak Cantonese instead of having to and then we get this guy here coming from Hong Kong who speaks Cantonese but he tried he chose to try his best to learn to speak English not so much to assimilate but also not so much assimilation but communication that's the way I see it with Derek and so it's learning about being Chinese from different aspect from my aspect and from Derek from Derek's share as well so anyway that just resonated with me which Derek tried to train me let me see if I can say it in Cantonese sik den tin ha something like that when you're talking about having it in Cantonese did you know Giovanni how did you feel it went what worked about it and what doesn't work if you know what I mean that's a really good question in practice I think Laf's landed in slightly different places but not totally different so it was partially a different experience is it first because our audiences were really split mixed between Chinese speakers and non-Chinese speakers and it seemed to land best with people who were second generation bilingual and primarily English speakers I think people who were older sometimes I don't know if the irony is that fair to say I have a similar feeling to because it's a satirical piece I don't know enough about Cantonese but I don't know if that strain a very like its influences are things like the Colbert reports full frontal that kind of sense of that tire and I don't know if it translated as well so that's one thing that we've tried to work through in the translation process to in terms of sentence structures and how and when the jokes land in the two different languages just because how words have to be in particular orders but yeah the satirical aspect to figure that out yeah but I thought Derek did an amazing job like I mean the fact that I'd say 90% of the laughs landed in the exact same spot you'd expect them to is a real testament to the strength of his translation and to the content the content must must get must be received in a similar way I'm guessing I don't know I don't speak Cantonese I was reading the subtitle you too because you're talking about speaking Cantonese well again my Cantonese is okay it was sort of a weird thing my first language was actually Cantonese and I was apparently fluent when I was a kid and then kind of similar maybe to Bob's experience as I was growing up there's a lot of messaging of like okay speak English now we're in English spaces and I lost it so now I call I have restaurant Cantonese I do okay in like the Hong Kong cafes and stuff but outside of that it's not great but I do feel I think like I remember going back to Hong Kong and then basically having been forced to speak Cantonese and I don't know how to say it but like your thinking changes in a way and I don't know how to explain it but the way that you think or even the way that you perceive the world changes something in your brain kind of happens and as well as I learned in theater school this weird thing happens is I speak English with the muscles that you use to speak Cantonese so they had to actually eliminate and try to work on that because it was actually messing up a lot of my speech and they realized that and I had to sort of learn vocal exercises to open up Derricks you were nodding too yeah what comes to mind for me it's all in the tones it comes to Cantonese well can I, I mean like a standard example of me going to a restaurant when I was a kid the term for waiter is foge and I called him foge which is turkey so it's just a question of being to me when it comes to any language it's the tones especially Mandarin and Cantonese so you just got to be careful what you say yeah that's what I find it's all in the tones well you're a different performer in English than you are in Cantonese I think yeah I think I am I feel like I am I think I'm more in my body when I'm performing in Cantonese I think less I definitely think less when I'm performing in Cantonese because a taste of empire has so many moments of bantering and joking with the audience and I find doing that in Cantonese so much easier yeah it all comes more from yeah and I feel and I make jokes I make are very different in Cantonese and in English in Cantonese they tend to be a little more crass I guess childish I mean it kind of makes sense because it's the language that I've been speaking since I was a kid you know 16 I was still making really terrible crass jokes you were 16 I also resonate with Andrea's story about in performance class your voice teacher working with the way you speak in English well removing your voice removes I also remember I was going to say I also remember my dream switching languages from Cantonese to English and then when I was doing Tales of Empire it kind of popped in a little bit it's kind of gone again Bob while I was doing a little work on this thinking about this two separate sites called Underwater Chinatown and one of them is a storytelling site and you're involved in that can you talk a little bit about that that was last January it was a workshop done at the learning center and it was an audio so this is my first time I've ever done anything audio and I collaborated with Liz Chung and basically we decided to have an audio about dumping making in fact it should have been done here I should have brought it down today whatever but this underwater audio was quite something we got into it the ingredients talking about talking story pertaining to food and what we did with it Liz and I compared our different notes with different family functions and everything so it was really funny I was just reminiscing about this is a reminder of the Friday nights at home the kitchen table making dumplings and talking with family and that's basically what that underwater Chinatown did bring back that reminiscence of being with the family and preparing food we're going okay we're going to put that up on our website it's underwater Chinatown wordpress.com slash stories and there's also an interactive site that displays archives related to three different Chinese theaters or opera houses in Chinatown so if you just google underwater Chinatown you're going to get those things do you know anything about those opera houses those theaters? are they part of your tour? no not part of my tour I'm more culinary and cultural there was an opera house there called Hart's Opera House at one time and that was on Carroll Street I know there was another opera house on Shanghai Alley but to my knowledge that were the two three there was three opera houses well there are three that are on that site I'd just like to ask each one of you to just weigh in for a minute about if you think that there are ways for us to create more cultural space in Vancouver for Cantonese language theater oh yeah absolutely I mean that's what we're really trying very hard to do a gateway in Richmond is to create a space for not just works that are presented from overseas which we have done but also original Canadian voices like what Derek did and I think the two have to definitely be part and parcel of it bringing voices from abroad so you have that kind of international exchange but also you know supporting something that would be almost like a Chinese version of where you have people as well as having a French language theater in town we definitely have room for Cantonese Mandarin language theater in the lower mainland it would also help is to to say also include invite audience members who don't speak Cantonese to those performances and just to show that we're not only doing Cantonese shows for Cantonese people in English show for English speaking people because I don't think that's the way to go I think there's something in theater that brings people together and not to separate us into different groups so what we did with the I thought that was a helpful device to have Chinese and English subtitles I worked for gateway during last year's pacific festival I guess just to add on to that is that there is actually a real demand for Cantonese language theater I know a lot of times in the theater conversation there's an assumption that like Chinese people aren't interested in the arts and aren't interested in the theater but it's not that it's more so there isn't the art that's catered to them or not just catered but welcomes them as well so what was really beautiful about the pacific festival was seeing so many people and having like wait lists people waiting to go see art and it was so beautiful but also having those the English sur titles which really gave this message that everyone is welcome yeah I think we all learned from each other and I think that's the important issue and I really think taste of empire it comes to mind like I was I was invited to go down to San Francisco for some Chinese opera and it was at the opera at the opera hall and they actually had Chinese opera with English subtitles so just to give people non-Asian, non-Chinese the awareness of Chinese opera is just not all clang-clang-clang-clang-clang there's a meaning behind it and people can then understand it so we all learned from each other and I think that was pretty cool English subtitles well it's not like we haven't been doing opera in Italian and we don't all speak Italian exactly I'd like to open this up to the audience are there any questions from the audience so after after we had that initial conversation I kind of went away and made an early draft and then on the recommendation of PTC Heidi and Kathleen they suggested that we apply for a translation residency hosted by playwrights workshop Montréal Hall in a little place called Tato Sac in Quebec so there we spent 10 10 days just focusing on this particular piece so in the morning we would I would read a bit out loud and then Giovanni would read a bit out loud and then we would kind of discuss oh is the pace and the rhythm kind of matching are we saying the same thing here and also just I'd go line by line and maybe talk about things that weren't evident on a first read or even a second read for example certain sentence structures like something that happened at the very end of the play I would tell Derek however you translate it's really important that there's a parallel between this and this because this is a call back to that or there's a line where he says it's just a really silly thing where he says letting all the goodness of the earth and letting the bounties trickle down and I asked him trickle down is like a reference to trickle down economics so can we use the same Cantonese translation that you'd use for Milton Friedman's principle of trickle down economics just little nuances like that and I'd ask I wouldn't presume it would work but I'd say the determined Cantonese for trickle down economics work just little things like that that again aren't really evident so he really is just a way of letting him inside my brain of what I was thinking when I wrote it Alex? I think it's translated as I think it's a straight direction translation probably Dik Lau, Geng Zai but then trickle down so and then we say Her Ha Dik Lau the English one's being published in the spring of 2017 yeah, yeah, I'm sorry I shouldn't say that by talent books but yeah, you know what's funny yeah, so yeah, we should just have both sides yeah, I was talking to Anne-Marie at the opening and I said I don't know why you'll just put both of them in yes that tends to happen in my writing I yeah, when I write plays I tend to explore those darker places then when I, well so far then when I work in Cantonese but I've also been told that I don't move like a Hong Kong Chinese person anymore that I move like a Canadian what does that mean? I have no idea