we're working on something here we're definitely working on something no no no please please please work game the trophy let's go do I hear my anime theme music get the pose how's it going everybody dotted away here and it is once again time to jump into grand blue fantasy verses now that the next new DLC character has been released for season 2 with of course that character being cagliostro now right away I do have to mention that I find cagliostro to be one of the harder characters in the game of course that could just be my low IQ talking but a big chunk of her game plan revolves around setting up these spaces in the air or on the ground that when passed over by an opponent create spikes that stun them and do damage now of course you can assume that these are a big part for both combos setups block strings etc etc and they do play a role in all of that and to help make cagliostro even more complex they also gave her a teleport that has an active hitbox when you exit so that can also play a role in corner combos it looks really sick when done right and one of my favorite things that they gave her even though I don't think the character needed this at all was a projectile that you can charge up and form over time it kind of looks like a stone with weapons in it but once you fully form this you can block enemy projectiles while remaining fully safe yourself and you can also use this in the air to charge and fake a jump in so you just fall naturally to the ground or you can throw this projectile in the air with two different patterns making it a really good air projectile as well and that's just something on top of everything else this character has to offer so I can definitely see her being pretty insane in the right hands now whether or not I'm good enough to hop online and get some ranked wins is unknown as of right now so that's exactly what we're going to put to the test today so if you enjoyed this video let me know by leaving a like and letting me know if you want to see more grand blue fantasy versus on the channel alright here we are in our first match here it is going to be my first time playing online with this character so hopefully I can at least pass the test oh block that we don't want any part of that dodge through it let's go that was sick that is a nice setup no the orb meant nothing I tried to throw it up as a bit of like a wait a minute no I didn't work out I need to charge up my projectile bro I need to get the rock up and running back up you'll bet hold on oh what oh I couldn't even grab wow he is the amount of buttons being pressed here is insane I'm just getting overrun with buttons dodge through the next projectile back roll wow he sweep that button that was crazy hey nice alright set up some boundaries set up some boundaries oh get off of me love to see that there we go charge up the rock block the project block that is sick don't even try it why does this character have that projectile bro set down these going for a bit of a mix oh he actually take the grab that was crazy charge up a rock I'm having too much fun cagliostro is kind of cagliostro is kind of sick I thought my brain would be too small to play this character but here I go oh wait my brain is too small let's admit my brain is too small I that was definitely you're supposed to hit confirm that and wait until you actually have a visual visual approval that you did hit like that if I still had to move up I could have done it there but now I'm in the corner going through it right now command grab can't get anything off of it but still we're working on something here we're definitely working on something no no no please please please work game the trophy let's go do I hear my anime theme music get the post golden chair as well anime oh is that my trophy in the background sick that was that was so sick cagliostro is pretty pretty cool I'm not gonna lie all right watch out for all this didn't dodge through that unfortunately set the trap okay okay you don't want to open up let me get with grab set the trap I sweep I should sweep them again nice down dude the buttons are pretty good too look at the snap of the finger the animations on cagliostro are definitely next level dude I probably mentioned that in the intro but whoa dude the but the animations are so smooth block that almost got mixed he's probably getting desperate never mind he hit me a bunch of times oh I thought he would go for grab he's gonna try to come in grab me I gotta jump all right that was a really bad game I was wrong every time I was literally wrong every time that was crazy to me I was like I had to get out of there whoa whoa he tried to jump on my head what game does he think he's playing I need to get out of here no the air DP grab grab no no grab okay nice I definitely thought a grab was coming no that was supposed to be close heavy I forgot I can't control that we can't go two games down no I won't allow myself to go two games down even if it that's bad the combo damage is insane get off of me trophy do you dare question my alchemy bro getting the trophy give him the pose don't ever question my alchemy come here you're getting mixed oh I might have missed my grab win probably should have gone with a block streak well we lost game 2 to the ball out but it's okay we still have game 3 to try to win the set and I am going to attempt to win this that's fine we're safe safe on that oh antsy I'm just losing to the jumping right now oh I didn't have button priority there oh get off of me get off me if I got to use the rocks I gotta use the rocks keep them back keep them back this button is so good I just got to use it more you can still get stuffed I'm getting stuff that's the problem I gotta hit him with this again he keeps coming in unsafe I gotta keep punishing him I gotta let him know I'm here to I'm here to block and hit him with a super to pose he did not go very far from that let's clutch okay I've definitely panicked I am playing the thing is I don't know how to play from a defensive standpoint like I'm not getting a lot of time to wait we got one all right well we can we're capable of learning oh that air-to-air is pretty good too oh 2h that that didn't work I missed I missed it wasn't the air-to-air button I was supposed to hit oh back dash out of there he doesn't want to grab either there's the grab okay no no another grab I'm getting I'm getting punished nice nice DP who could have expected it you can't trust me you can't trust me in the clutch please be dead I'm asking I'm begging hit him with the pose again you gotta know the pose as plus 20 damage get the chair I'm so chilling I'm chilling don't add this games over by the way we can't play another set we take it oh we didn't get to see the cool intro oh man we are another game let's see how this would go back it up from the range oh I want to start charging my projectile that's sick the button from a range that air-to-air is also a really good option unfortunately not the best at picking up ground opponents get that off of me yeah I gotta stop hitting that button when they're not in the air it's too long America I shouldn't have grabbed oh nice movement I like the movement man I kind of forgot how much damage belial does it's damaged shitty out here I gotta wake up in man I gotta let him know I gotta let him know hold on let me get the projectile up and running it's not looking good hey back it up no no no no that combo'd I try to get a super in there for the invincibility tough that's fine we can bounce back we definitely just let ourselves get overrun plus we got hit with a mean combo air-to-air we like that option air to oh barely not enough that would have been sick all right get him in the corner set up the orbs no I did the DP why do it got my theme music ready oh nice tech I'll give it up I'll give it up I try to get a back throw to get him into the corner let's go try to get me with that come on you know I was a belial player I can't I'm not gonna fall for the counter we're right in range and he has full bar don't grab me I'm not here to be grabbed let's go hopefully that hits it does and it's enough to kill we got to stop them from being overly aggressive and because I don't have a DP option I'm just settling for supers at this point let me see if I can't set up some worms in the air oh that's way too far away oh stopping from going overhead yeah he is just he is hands down on the heavy button I gotta I gotta get away to stop that you might go for a grab here after this probably not though it could be on the docket we'll see no grab on the docket just yet oh nice 2h my man is looking out we got a hundred bar I'm just gonna spam it if he drops it we'll see what happens no no drops here he's got the belial routes oh that's game oh no I didn't even realize that was game I was just talking like yeah we'll bounce back we'll bounce back in the next one there is no bouncing back we got it we got to do it now hold on let's create some space air to air I'm not you know I'm running up I'm running up this is no I keep getting that input oh no I don't know why I didn't get the um he didn't even think about it oh wow that was considerably faster recovery than I thought oh why can't you get a light after that okay that is really good another super which means we are in trouble are we dead I always forget belial gets a sick animation off of this but no I don't think we're dead for that I could get him off me set up the set up the orbs jeep he used it against me I didn't think he'd be able to counter that I was like oh why he's just walking on top of it okay now we can't even lose a game we can't afford to lose a game here it'll be the end I told you he's got his hand on the heavy but look at that he's got his hand on the heavy button just keep him out of my rage get him off me get him off me get him off me oh no now he's in now he's in now we're coast to coast we're back in the quarter again that was what I'm talking about we got around it nice I'm glad we were able to get a couple hits it on the heavy that was that was what I was talking about from that rage he was just hitting me with the heavy button I couldn't block alright let's see if he jumps boom get him out of the oh we blocked that time I couldn't I couldn't get the special button to land not special medium the DP not DP the grab it's too much it's too many options I think that hit I think that hit get away from me it didn't but we're safe that's the power of that super back it up back it up don't let him get any closer back it up charge up the rock throw it oh no we're going to game three we're going to game three took a huge risk oh let me read this book yep I gotta win the double dragging sick alright next game I needed I was watching the animation for a break air grab oh he didn't jump that time no I'm gonna start testing his buttons I want to see if they're real I want to see what you got is real if I've been blocking so far it's been real look at this see the heavy bash get that off of me okay it's fine there it is here it is here it comes even if he blocks it will be safe on the 2h unfortunately doesn't go off that is really cheap though the fact that I can use that move and even if they block it I'm completely safe as long as we're not in the corner I guess and I'm my mashup even closer he's trying to whiff punish me I thought it would work I thought it would work oh grab and mid-screen I didn't see a coming cheap oh this is not looking good dude it's not looking great it's not looking great I might already be dead I'm already dead unreal damage Belial I just couldn't I couldn't get him from stop I couldn't stop him from getting that heavy I think that's what did us in there but really fun games I'm glad we got to go up against the other deep new DLC character so hopefully you guys enjoyed these quick grand blue fantasy versus rank matches I got to get to ranking up like I actually got a I gotta pick a character get back up and running but if you guys did enjoy these make sure to let me know down below in the comment section and what do you think about Kagliostra do you like her do you think she's an interesting deal she's choice and let me know your favorite moment of the video of course other than that you can check out more videos that should be on your screen right now I have been Dr. do it thank you for watching this one all the way to the end and I will see you in the next video


We're now going to talk about a few specific examples of trigger equations. These are special cases. The first is a trigger equation that is quadratic, quadratic in form. This one can actually be solved using the square root method. So isolate the quantity squared, which would be cosine. Add one to both sides. Divide by two on both sides, and then you'll take the square root of both sides, and you will get cosine of theta equals plus or minus square root of one, which is one, square root of two, which is square root of square root of two. So we have cosine positive and negative, which means, I'll write it down here, since cosine is positive and negative, we want theta in all four quadrants. So it's quadrants one, two, three, and four. How exciting. So first, let's find out what that reference angle is going to be. What is our mystery reference angle going to be? A question mark. Organa, if you like to use the Greek notation. All right, so we have cosine is one over square root of two. Adjacent as one, hypotenuse is square root of two, which means my other side is one. A 45, 45, 90 triangle. My reference angle here is going to be pi over four. We have to move this angle to all four quadrants. So first off, quadrant one. Well, good news. It's already there, right? Quadrant one solution is data is equal to pi over four, quadrant two. Given a reference angle, how do I move it back to quadrant two? Well, my angle theta is going to be pi minus my reference angle. That'd be three pi over four. All right, quadrant three time. This one's my favorite actually, because we just take the reference angle and we add pi to it. Gives us five pi over four. So I have one pi over four, three pi over four, five pi over four, and what would likely come next? Well, if you haven't figured it out yet, theta is equal to two pi. Minus pi over four, which is indeed seven pi over four. Four solutions here. Pi over four, three pi over four, five pi over four, and seven pi over four. These are the four solutions in the interval zero to two pi. Keep in mind the original trig function here had no adjustments to its period, so the period is just two pi. So adding two pi to any of these values would clearly get you outside of the interval zero to two pi. Next example, which is still quadratic in form requires a little bit of factoring. So just to get this in a more familiar format, everywhere I see sine theta, I will replace it with x. So I'll have two x squared minus five x plus three equals zero. We may like this because it brings us back to those basic algebra days. So factor two x squared minus five x plus three. You will get two x minus three and then x minus one equals zero. Take each piece, set it equal to zero and solve for x. So first piece when you solve for x, you get x equals three halves. And you get x equals one. Remember what x is? x is sine theta. So sine theta equals three halves or sine theta equals one. So where is sine equal to three halves? My basic sine function, where is it equal to three halves? And the answer is actually nowhere because sine theta only spits out values between negative one and one. Sine of theta must be between or in the interval negative one to one. So sine of three halves is not true. It is undefined. So sad we can't do anything with this first piece. Second piece, where is sine theta equal to one? Well, you could write this as one over one, but realize you can't have an opposite side and a hypotenuse, a leg and a hypotenuse have the same length. That would be one messed up triangle. So draw your unit, circle and try to find out where the second coordinate of the ordered pair is one. And that would be up top here at pi over two. Cosine of zero, sine is one. Sine is equal to one at pi over two. So theta is pi over two. So all that hard work and we actually only obtained one solution, theta equals pi over two. But we did have a little bit of factoring fun in the process of getting there. Next example is not quadratic in form, but requires the use of some trig properties that you've learned previously. So these properties will never go away. I can promise you that. And the first thing you want to do is negative sines and side sine functions. They are able to be brought outside. Why? Because sine is an odd function. Next, your goal is to get all of your theta terms to one side. So we can divide both sides by sine theta. And divide both sides by sine theta. And what is cosine over sine? Cosine over sine. That'd be cotangent. So I get cotangent theta on the left side and negative one on the right hand side. So I have cotangent theta is equal to negative one over one because I do like to have a ratio here. But keep in mind that since cotangent is negative, theta is in what quadrant? Quadrants two and four. Because cotangent and tangent are positive in one and three. So cotangents negative and quadrants two and four. Let's draw a triangle. We have our mystery angle in the bottom left. Cotangent is one over one, one one, square root of two. And it looks like my angle is going to be pi over four. My mystery angle, my reference angle is pi over four. And I have to move this to quadrant two and to positive quadrant four. So how are we going to do this? We're going to use some formulas. That's what we're going to do. So first off, we'll start with quadrant two. The angle theta would be pi minus the reference angle, three pi over four. And then we'll move to quadrant four. My solution for theta, my quadrant four angle would be two pi minus pi over four, which is actually seven pi over four. The cool thing about 45 degree angles is quadrant one's pi over four. Two is three pi over four. Quadrant three is five pi over four. And quadrant four would be seven pi over four. It's kind of cool how this works out. So the solutions for theta would be three pi over four, seven pi over four. Once again, the period is two pi of our trig function. So adding two pi is not going to keep us in the interval zero to two pi. It will take us out. So there's only two solutions in the interval zero to two pi. This last one, let's use a calculator. Now what you have to do for your calculator input here is you have to use inverse sine functions. So you'll have to input inverse sine of 0.4. Make sure you're in degree mode or radian mode, whatever it needs to be in. Typically you want to be in radian mode for this section. So if I plug in sine inverse of 0.4 and I'm in radian mode, it's going to split, spit out a radian measure of 0.41. It's going to split out a radian measure of 0.41. Remember inverse sine is only defined for quadrant one and negative quadrant four. So since in this case sine was positive, it spit out the quadrant one angle. But sine is equal to positive 0.4 in many quadrants. Since sine is positive, theta would be in quadrant one and two. But the calculator is not going to give you your quadrant two angle because as far as it knows sine inverse is only defined at quadrants one and negative quadrants four. It doesn't realize that originally you just had a trig equation that was without any inverse trig functions. So I will want to move to quadrant two, move this angle to quadrant two. I do pi minus 0.41. You can use the pi key in your calculator or you could use, in my case I just used 3.14. So 3.14 minus 0.41 is going to give you 2.73. So it's theta in this case is the easy solution to get would be 0.41. And then the one that requires a little bit of thinking involved would be the 2.73. A lot of people always forget about the 2.73. Remember the inverse trig function was only used as an intermediate step. It was not part of the original question. So I can open up all four quadrants. In this case quadrants one and two were the positive quadrants for sine. Well that's all I have for you right now. So I hope you enjoyed. Thank you for watching.


My name is Alessandro Maranto. I'm Italian and I'm a PhD fellow at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and as of today I completed one year and a half of staying in the city of Delft working in the Hydroinformatics Department under the supervision of Dr. Dimitri Salomatini and Gerard Corso Pellis. Can you tell me what brought you to HE Delft? Yes, I'm a part of a Sandwich PhD program that involves the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the ICHI and when I saw the opportunity of coming to Delft for one year or one year and a half I was extremely enthusiastic of being part of this group and to go towards this experience. What are you researching, Alessandro? I'm doing a research that involves the use of geostatistical tools and data driven and pen statistical modeling for optimizing the groundwater allocation in agriculture in the central high plains of the United States. Being based in the Netherlands, how did that contribute to your research? It was an extremely nice experience for several reasons. The first one that comes to my mind, it was the possibility to collaborate with Dr. Salomatini and Dr. Corso, which are experts in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence and data driven modeling and that helps me to develop my statistical and research skill in a complementary way with respect to what I've learned in the University of Nebraska. During the time that you have been at ICHI Delft have you worked together with other PhD fellows and other staff members? Yes, for sure. Two names in particular come to my mind which are Maurizio Mazzolini and Juan Carlos Ciacon. With Juan Carlos I discussed many research opportunities and many researches idea and some of them are actually have actually been implemented with Maurizio Mazzolini. We collaborated in the development and I got a minor contribution in the development of two of his papers and it was nice because being part of this research area I had the opportunity to learn something from them and vice versa to give my contribution to some of their researches. Would you say that spending the year and a half at ICHI Delft as part of your PhD has really enriched your learning experience? It did. It didn't reach my learning experience and first of all working in a very nice environment as the ICHI Delft is gave me a strong contribution to the development of my PhD per se and also listening to the suggestions of colleagues of mine but also to staff members and faculty members and as my research skill a little bit more than just a little but definitely. Okay and obviously ICHI Delft is very different from the University of Nebraska. What would you say are the main differences that jump out? Okay let's say the ICHI Delft as an institute is like an extremely friendly environment in which you work and you know pretty much everybody in, you have the chance to talk and to develop your skills and to be surrounded by people that works in your field. The University of Nebraska is of course much more it has a lot of more variety. The main topic of the ICHI is water. I was working in the biological systems engineering department and over there I was talking with people that was dealing with agriculture and agricultural machinery which is still where both of them are I do believe there they have people working towards the same aim which is saving water and ensure water security but from different perspective while in the ICHI it was much more easier to find somebody that was working exactly in my field. And Delft itself the city is very different I'm sure from Nebraska. What was your first impression of Delft? The only thing I can say is I think Delft is the most beautiful city in the world probably. I really loved enjoying and being in this in this environment because it looks like it came out of a fairy tale and I'm Italian so I have Roman Florence to be seen twice a year very easily but it was just magic being here. And what are your plans once you leave us? I would be in Nebraska at the beginning of January and my plan is to go there keep working hard, finish my my PhD and even all the contribution that I got both from the University of Nebraska Lincoln and the ICHI I would like to be in academia again perhaps for our postdoc or a lecturing position. I do believe it's going to be in Europe and in particular I would like to be in the ICHI or in the Netherlands. Thank you very much Alessandro and all the very best of luck for your future.


What's going on everybody? It's Chris from jaspercasebricks.com doing our first break of the day. Happy Tuesday everyone 2020 to 2021 Panini prism multi-pack cell one break random teams number 214 Our first randomizer will be for the teams the names obviously we'll break at the a random break at the end for Our last 10 spots in this immaculate NBA one-box random team as well so we will go to Our dice yeah two dice all the names here Thanks for when we get this filled out Nick Smith for the last spot mojo as well So we'll get started with randomizing the teams or randomizing the names. Good luck everyone Yeah, we use one dice roll for both the list two names and teams so four and four is eight Good luck everyone one two three four five six seven Good luck everyone. We'll ask you one number eight Boom, so there's our teams Allen down to Nolan All right, and I'll put them in column eight call me. All right, just to leave There you go All right, and then four and four once again for eight teams from the Hawks down to the Raptors I'm coming from the Hawks down to the Wizards eight times. Good luck one Two Oh and really quick. Yeah Um, I just make it a habit just to make sure that there are 30 items on the list for the team Sometimes I'll copy a list of teams and I forget like the Wizards and it'll say 29 And I'm just randomizing and then yeah, I realized too late But just that's just always good to check. Yeah, that was six. This is seven and our last one eight All right Raptors down to the Pistons I'll show them the eight two on the bottom Eight times All right, this is gonna be our break from Allen with the Raptors Brian with the Laker Suns Nets Jimmy with the Rocks for Filipers. I don't even say anything nice. Um, I just expand that to 150 So it's a little bit easier for you to see. Uh-huh Okay, and then you can actually click that button right there double make sure there's two arrows right there double click that And it'll resize both cells So then I'll show them the top half the list bottom half of the list alphabetized by team Or wants to show them the All the list first. Oh, then you can go to perfect Right, so I'm gonna 30 And then columns or actually just highlight column B and then it'll say a-to-z there we go All right, and then Usually I like to kind of put it in into grid so you can highlight column A and B And then just put them into those boxes right there and correct it and hit the print button Oh, and it's head isn't footer is right, and I put it in portrait. Yeah, too Perfect. All right Print and red So you'll see the pause button right there on the far right-hand side. Yeah of OBS We'll use that for the trade windows Yeah, so wait to print then read I think you can you can switch screens right there too while we're waiting cool And again, adjust the Have you want to adjust the camera? Have you want to? I'll show them show them the list once again, even though they saw it already just It's hot off the presses press that nice printer. Yeah feel and I'll put that in a So yeah, so usually kind of take this And then just scroll back up the list. I'll see the title of the break Show them the list really quick Just so they can see it use that stand right there So you can see who gets what? And then get to it. Yeah, all right that baby open. Let's see what's inside. Good luck everyone So make sure you monitor yourself on the top camera right there So Let's see A little close right there. We can I don't know if it goes out anymore. I don't think it's I think my hand is just too big Um, then we can slide this back just a little bit if you want to get a little more room Yeah, so there you go. Take a step forward. Yeah, we can kind of get close to the desk right there and then Should we move the angle up is your hand? I'm good here is your hand comfortable right there good? We good chat. We can see everything. Yeah, I think so. Okay. Yeah, there you go. All right. Let's get to it Royce. So new Cam Johnson Rudy gay ship has napier. Shea Gildes Alexander Dwight Howard Collier refractor our greens and me a christian wood with the pistons Killian Hayes with the pistons once again emergent Cassius Winston looky for the wizards brinford brineforbes. Yeah for the spurs brinforbes brineforbes You know Maldon for the Knicks. All right. Let's get to our bonus pack red, white and blue parallels Tristan Thompson Terrence Davis for the Raptors and Patrick Williams for the Bulls Right. Yeah, and regular sleeves right there and then larger sleeves up there All right, and that's going to be it for our pack. So we'll go Here take all the same thing so blank list perfect that setup Go back to the sheet grab the names. Yep. It's from nick all the way down to steve Copy paste into the new list So one to ten here going to be our top ten Our big winners here. Good luck everyone. We're rolling the dice here two dice going to be a one and a six is seven So we are rolling seven. So here's also a trick here. Click randomize Yeah, click randomize and if you hit end it'll take you right down to the bottom of the page That was one two three four five Six last one number seven. Good luck everyone All right, so we'll slow roll it like I've seen you do it So No one to Brian. That's the worst spot, right? Wouldn't you rather get blown out in a game? Yeah, oh, then lose a game by yeah Yeah, I don't want to be in the tens at all. I'd rather be 30 Exactly. So our 10 spots Allen Allen Brian Brian Brian Allen mark jimmy allen and brian Those are our 10 names everyone. Thank you very much once again Uh, yeah, and then thanks everybody. We'll see you in the next video for the next break. Bye. Bye


If you're looking for an Android smartphone that is less than six inches, you're really tough out of luck because there isn't a lot of Android smartphones that are in that size category and even a lot of smartphones in general that are less than six in terms of just size. Now this month has been really busy and we've seen a ton of devices on the channel, made a ton of videos and if you guys have enjoyed that and you're still watching hit that subscribe button and the notification icon we're almost at 500k so smash subscribe button. So the device we're talking about what you've seen earlier is the ASUS Zenfone 10. This is a lovely compact device coming in at 5.9 inches. This is one of the most compact Android smartphones you find in the market and this is something ASUS has honed in with a Zenfone line. Now the Zenfone 9 last year was also compact and it's continuous heritage. You've got five different colors you've got in some really interesting names but this is a starry white you've got like a black, a blue, a green, a white and a red and this is the starry blue right here. Now what do you have with this device is a couple of things first off you've got this lovely display it's as I mentioned again it's 5.9 inches. This display does 144 hertz only while gaming so you only have that you don't have it is not an LTPO display but at least you do have it well focused while gaming you do have a front facing camera right here very nice compact look it's got a little bit of a chin at the bottom but I'm fine with it because it kind of aids well with just the size of this device and then you've got your speaker grill at the bottom you've got USB type C yet then you've also got a headphone jack so even it's compact size it still has a headphone jack. This is a relatively slim device but there's a lot of texture at the back of the device itself where you see of course the color it feels really nice I don't know if you can hear that and this is just Zenn logo is there now the camera housings are big two cameras here on this device here we've got a 50 megapixel and we've got 13 ultra right now that 50 megapixel has something unique it's got a six-axis gimbal on there and it's got an advanced EIS for better video stabilization so that brings us to the very first thing how well does the camera handle well the camera has some unique features right you go into the camera software and you go into video you have the ability to go into adaptive stabilization and what that means is pretty much this is that adaptive stabilization allows for basically a little bit of a crop and also better stabilization while you're actually using the device so let's see how that stacks up against the S23 now I do have the S23 plus here yes which is a slightly bigger device but it has the same cameras and same functionality as the S23 so let's see how it stacks up with video photos and then you know wrap that up so here's the front facing camera on both devices the ASUS Zenfone 10 it's at 1080p 30 frames while of course the Galaxy S23 and S23 plus go all the way to 4K 60 so 4K 60 on the Galaxy and I'm just showing you what it is 1080p you can see here so I should give you an idea of what it looks like and yeah 4K 60 with the active stabilization 4K 30 adaptive stabilization one difference you find with the Galaxy is that you can switch to your front facing camera right here and which you can't do on most devices you can also switch lenses so we can go to the ultra wide here to the main and a Galaxy of course has three lenses and all those devices so we can zoom in we'll go back and you get the idea quite interesting in terms of video S23 still takes the win here I think it does a fantastic job in terms of images daytime images really nice from both devices I did prefer some of the low light from the from the S23 though in terms of the front facing camera I prefer that of the asus Zenfone 10 even though it was very noisy but it wasn't a very soft image for what the S23 provided so in camera I think you know this has done a decent job now the 8k footage that we saw that was quite interesting 8k 30 is just better than 8k 24 in my opinion and that's where the S23 shines now what about speakers because you've got some really nice interesting audio components you've got Dolby Atmos for the S23 and 23 plus but with the asus you also have aptX audio built into it as well so you've got aptX adaptive and you know covers all those aptX codecs as well as high res audio so let's see how well the speakers sound to be fair it wasn't a one-to-one comparison because the S23 plus has slightly bigger speakers but just giving you an idea of what the Zenfone 10 sounds like and I thought it was pretty good and decent in terms of audio now what about gaming we've got the snapdragon 8 gen 2 chip built into it and honestly gaming performance is the same across the board with the 8 gen 2 something you don't really have to test anymore unless the manufacturer really made a big mistake that being said though performance on this was really smooth and nice what I also liked about the performance here is the fact that you've got a lot of the asus gaming features from the asus ROG phone in here so you've got the game genie you can go in you can customize that was actually pretty cool to see and and also experience where you can go and maximize your gameplay look at your stats all that fun stuff together so that was actually pretty good and in terms of battery life while gaming yes you're going to lose quite a bit of battery life there probably around about 15 percent if you're doing like an hour of gaming but when it comes to regular battery life this has a 4300 milliamp battery which is actually bigger than what you have in the s23 itself or even the s23 plus and it does a really good job with the battery life I would say it's quite impressive I think overall a solid battery life performance from this device now plus that headphone jack is really good too as well so if you're someone like me that's got a ton of headphones back there it is something that you would definitely appreciate and use on a day to day basis so overall where does this device stand we've got devices like the galaxy we've got one pluses out there I've got nothing phones but what about the asus zen phone 10 now if it comes in at the price of what the zen phone 9 launched last year I think that is a solid offering 699 now I don't have pricing at this point when I'm making this video if I do you see it on screen but in terms of pricing at 699 I think it's a solid offering now that six-axis gimbal sounded really nice but I it still didn't do much to improve the video that I wanted to see in comparison to the galaxy but in terms of images you're getting a really good shooter plus a super compact device so if you have any questions or any comments guys let me know are you interested in something this small as an android phone otherwise don't forget to like share subscribe and always enjoy entertainment


OK. All right, good evening everybody. So let's just jump into the next slide. I think, yeah, thanks Marco for introducing. And then you guys can just, this is my Twitter handler. If you need to reach me after this session, just go ahead and tweet me inside that, all right? And then I'm obligated also to introduce my teams and Kaushik, senior R&D, software engineer. He's been working on the lead engineer also for the Python SDK plugin for OpenTap. And then we have three brilliant students from the University of California, Sun Cruz, Ivan, Alex, and Ashton. So let's jump into the agenda. So what we are going to look into today is, we're going to look briefly, I believe Brandon and Jeff have already gone through the introduction of OpenTap and also the architecture, but we're going to go through briefly. So set up the stage before we go into the tutorial self, all right? And then we're going to look into how the three students engage into the OpenTap and which program they are through via the, we call it CSSPP, which is called the Corporate Sponsor Senior Project Program. And then last, we're going to deep dive into the tutorial aspect. So what is OpenTap? So briefly OpenTap, it's a project for OpenTas, open source test automation, test sequencer, all right? And the main aim is actually to build a test sequencer, which is scalable, using a scalable architecture based of three core ideals, which is simplicity, scalability, and speed. This goes from your development phase until the production. So as mentioned by Brandon, time to market is very important. So this is where the core of it, the OpenTap itself, based of these three ideal cores. And then OpenTap is actually built on top of C plus C sharp, all right? And it's a proven language. So on top of that, we have right now Python SDK plugin, which helps a lot of people, especially those great fresh students, right? Most of them have their first language is definitely via Python. That's what we taught in universities. So we are in a good start also. And the OpenTap are being used right now in hundreds of products and applications, all right? And also, the foundation of OpenTap is fast, able automation solution, as I mentioned, is now from the start to finish on the DVT till the many things. So next, we're going to look into the architecture of it. This is basically how I would just let me give you a pointer, that'd be better. All right, so let's say we can see that it's the OpenTap itself sits in the center, the engine sits in the center, and then the rest of the components are actually plug-ins, like plug-and-play, right? So the OpenTap can exist by itself, but then when we need a device under test, we can create a new one, all right? We can create your own device and then plug it to the Open using the class. Either you extend the class or use this, all right? And then we also have a tested plugin, which is a test type, as mentioned by brand names, of kind of function. For example, let's imagine you want to do a benchmark for your own PC, right? This is a simple example to give you an idea of it, if you want to your PC. You have to look into a few components, right? You need to look at CPU performance, you need to know your RAM read, write, speed, and so on, and then also storage. So test type, we can look into one test type doing a CPU testing, another one is doing RAM. So all those comes into a group where we say, this is a computer performance test, right? And the overall is called test plan, but the small individual part is the steps, right? And then we also have the instrument plugin. You can create your own plugins. This is not tied to the OpenTap, it's a plugin, right? It's a plugin. So you have, in the future, there can be a lot of plugins comes, like a lot of new instruments. So in order to grow, in order to be flexible, the instrument plugin, you can leverage the interface or the base class of instrument and then create your own instruments on top of it, all right? And then we also have result listener, right? Now Keysight or the OpenTap has open source, the CSV result listener, where you can take the results from the test plan and then output it into a CSV file. And then we also have a test log result listener and a DB storage is one of them is a Postgres DB, all right? You can create your own result listeners by using maybe NoSQL, MongoDB, for example, or Time Series database, Sky's limit, your own ideas, whatever, how you want to do is depend on the project itself, all right? And then we have the user interface component as well. Right now, OpenTap comes with CLI, the CLI mode UI interface where, and also we have Keysight has its own editor, which is UI based. That one is based on the community addition, but you are not bound to just use these two. You can create your own user interface. Maybe you can create like a base of a web base, right? So Sky's limit, imagination is the best part, all right? And then we're gonna look into how OpenTap has been used across right now. So what you can see there's a four pictures here. This is just a sample, all right? But there are a lot of use cases. The one that on the top left, is actually a web UI automation. And then this one is the Y56 plus positioner testing, and then this is a cybersecurity penetration test. And the last is the robot arm in manufacturing. So all this kind of a different range of fields of testing, right? OpenTap can be used. So this is a real like a strength of the OpenTap. It can be in a lot of more thing fields and stuff, all right? It's not just a niche, sits on the certain niche field, all right? So that's the power of the OpenTap. And then right now let's go into the reason why we have this student engagement in our, on the OpenTap itself. So right now Keysight has been partnered with the University of California, San Cruz, to create a course in the University itself of being used to spread across other universities, to introduce test and automation. So this course will be using the open source PS lab board itself, where we have these oscilloscopes all in the board of the PS lab. So that's to actually teach the new students about the test measurement and the test automation. And then the reason why we do it is actually when we have actually encountered, when companies are looking to a new hire, right? New grads, one of the hardest aspect is finding the candidates that can apply the academic knowledge theories that they have learned for the past four plus years in the real or the real industry applications, right? So, and then many expertise in a specific knowledge silos, but few have the real depth knowledge and that can able to extend to other expertise or other areas. In addition to that, what we actually encountered is the field of test and measurements are not actually given a kind of like a important or interest like how other technology ecosystems are there. But the thing is test and measurement should come together with other inventions, right? Because we cannot do invention and never do the testing. So how are we gonna be use it properly or how are we gonna test the reliability or reliability of it, right? So all of these are very important. And what we key side see is actually a few key benefits of being in the test and doing the test and measurement is we effectively able to collaborate with the other team, all right? And we normally never work in a silo or individual and we can able to extend our knowledge from our core responsibilities, all right? And as day by day approaching, right? Hardware and software, the gap is becoming lesser and lesser. So eventually, once you want to do something in hardware, you need to also do programming. So the open tab able to provide this for the students and together with the key side, we are building the course for the students so they can have this knowledge, all right? So this is to break the normal sentiment that right now they have under the test and measurement field. So right now let's jump into the tutorial. I'll be sharing you guys the screen. Let me just, right now we have got a base of underling of open tab and remember, try to remember again, the architecture of it. We're able to go through it. We're gonna today build an instrument based of, we're gonna try to connect to use the PS lab and then make a class, specific class that able to control the oscilloscope in the PS lab IO and then try to make a measurement from that and then look at the result and look at our result listeners. So how are we gonna build all those steps? And the three engineers, there's three new students, a brilliant students from the University of California we're able to guide us through right now. And then please feed two questions and also jot down questions, right? We are there to entertain. Can everybody see this? Oops, can everybody see? Yeah, can you see? All right. And it should come set up the settings on right with the test plan in the middle. So you look to the left, going over test steps. We have multiple test steps we can use to test our hardware under PS lab. Alex talked about, we have our generate sign-on wave. We have our RMS voltage. And if we move, we have our test plan. When we add these, they will generate and be available here in our test plan. And our test step settings is used to modify parameters we wanna pass through those test steps. Our law panel is to view what is happening during the execution. And you will see information being printed here after you run the program. Now let's see how to create a test plan. The PS lab sign wave generator states a spec of 100 to 5,000 Hertz. We're gonna be using the test steps that Alex built to test this specification. Okay, so first we're gonna add some instruments. Do that by clicking on add new plus sign. And then we're gonna add our waveform generator and our oscilloscope close, go okay. We're gonna go to the left side on test steps. Now to generate sign-on wave, the RMS voltage. And we're gonna go to flow control and add the parameter range. Move the parameter range just by clicking and dragging it to the top. And I'm going to make the sign-on wave and RMS voltage children of that. I'm clicking on both of them. You're just leading to the sweep range as highlighted and just dropping it inside. You see this is completed on the left side of this diagram. This shows that these two steps are children of sweep range. To get rid of this little red icon and go to the left versus frequency, click on the three bars, parameter zone parent. We're gonna click on sweep range. Now we're basically going to edit the output of our graph and what we wanted to start and stop at during our test up. Kind of start at 100 and then stop at 10,000. Now let's run the test plan and see what results we get. We can do this by clicking on the green arrow. When our test is completed, we can make our way up to tools. Results we are. You see our x-axis as frequency or y as voltage. Around 5,000 hertz, you see it start to drop. So you can see we have successfully tested the spec of the board. From looking at this results here, you can also do many things with changing the x and y axis, the chart type, so the histogram. So now we successfully know how to create a test step and run it. We saw how to use OpenTouch to create a Python plugin on our PS live board and saw how to install and set up the community edition. Okay, so this is a quick question. Anybody else who's playing the video, the tutorial? Watching and listening, yes. Got left behind fairly early. Okay. Sorry, that's not a critique of the tutorial. It's just that to do it realistically needs the ability to pause and it's not viable during a live session. So that's fine. You can watch it again because it's a recorded version as well. So I think I just continue first, all right? Okay, currently right now, I hope the old development cycle, sorry, the light is switched off back to that mode. So what I'm going to say is I hope that the tutorial I've given you a glimpse of the development cycle, how to develop and the overall architecture, how the way the OpenTap engine reacts with how can be tied together. We can able to, how does it, like actually it's all, as I mentioned, it's not in the core, it's not tied together well. So it's like you can plug and play. So when, based on your project requirement, like how we just did just now, all right? We can have multiple plugins and then when that particular use case came in, we can just put the instrument in or the DUT in and we can use our test steps. We can create multiple different test steps and then create a new test plan out of it. And then it all works well, but it's not tied like a super solid. So it's all plug and play method, all right? It all is a dependency. And then if this overall session have triggered you, your passion or interest, if you can go into this OpenTap.io, you can also scan the QR code there. There is a documentation as well, even better documentation, a document for user and also for developers and how you can create your own packages out of it, all right? So even deeper. And then if you have any question across, before that, on the top side is what we can see is actually the OpenTap GitLab repo. We published our source code there, all right? And then if you have any questions while developing and if you just have any questions, right? Please do feel free, go to our OpenTap Community Forum. We'll be all there. And then you can also find the QR code and also I think Brandon have shared the links to the above and also the OpenTap Forum. I think that's the end of my session. And if you have any questions, I'm here to answer as well. All right, thank you very much. Darwin, great tutorial. I think there's no questions on the share notes for now. Quick question is the code that we just saw, is it available when I get a repo? Or you guys plan to put it somewhere so people can follow up? Yes, definitely we can put it somewhere. But how do we publish the link for that repo? Is there any way we can publish it? Yes, you can. Oh, let's see. Okay, I think I'll publish it in the session post. Yeah, you can also put it on the, if you just meet these slides later, you can also put it there. I guess, okay, definitely. Yeah, that should be good. Yeah, perfect. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. So, we're on. I have a question if I can start. Oh, Maya. Maya has a question. All right. Darwin, I just wondering, that was a bit fast.  But I think it is great that you're sharing this video. And then people can stop and continue. Yes. But I'm also wondering if, were you based in Singapore, right? Yes, business in Singapore. So it would be cool maybe if we could work together with Hackerspace SG and organize a meetup. I don't know if that would be possible to do that workshop, for example, with people hands on. The situation is improving step by step. Of course, we have to see how things progress. But this would be something that I could imagine to follow up. And possibly also we could organize at one point in the next few weeks. Yes, definitely.  It would be lovely also. You can organize a session like that. Yeah, cool. And you're already talking with the right person and Marco is aligning people there also. I guess it's a good contact, right? Yes, definitely. We'll keep in touch, Marco. Yeah, sure. Thanks very much. You're also based in Singapore, right? Yeah, yeah. I'm also based in Singapore. All right. Let's keep in touch. Yeah, keep in touch. See ya. Thank you. Yeah, take care. Thanks.


We're live welcome to the virtual readings of the 2016-2017 cohort of the Alta emerging translator mentorship program. My name is Allison Sharet I facilitate the program and happy International Translation Day to all who are viewing This is for those who don't know this is something that happens every year on the Feast of Saint Jerome who was One of the earliest button earliest known of Bible translators. He translated most of the Bible into Latin and so we love him So today we have with us three out of our four Mentees from this past year who have done amazing work. Unfortunately Eliza Rose our Polish Mentee was unable to make it But he sent her all the best We have Sabrina Yasi with us We have Noah minutes and Natasha Bruce They are going to be reading some excerpts of the works that they've done that they've been working on with their mentors for the past year So it's been a long process for all of them and I can't wait to hear what they have for us so first up we're going to start with Sabrina Yasi Oh and I Also very very much need to thank all of our funders for this year who are the the French Embassy books office The Polish Cultural Institute of New York the Russian Federation Institute of Literary Translation and the National Arts Council of Singapore without them None of this would be possible. So thank you all very very much for your support of this program So we will start now with Sabrina Yasi who's going to be reading a no voice by Grachov and If you have any sort of introduction for it More than welcome to let us know. Otherwise, you can just dive right in Sabrina take it away Okay, thank you Allison and thank you to Alta and all the funders for organizing the mentorship and reading and thank you to my other Readers today So over the course of the last year I've been translating the short stories of Grachov who is a little known Leningrad author of the 1960s and Today I'm going to be reading a very short story from his story cycle entitled Sons Without Fathers via TBS as well This is a group of links stories that follows recurring cast of boys in a Soviet orphanage Including the two heroes of this story and just a note on the names in the story since As in a lot of Russian literature they can be confusing. Um, the meathead. Um, the the meathead character is The narrator and he also goes by Martina And then his friend is named corn cob in my translation and he Also goes by polka, which is his first name Okay, so I'll start by reading just one paragraph in Russian and then I'll go on to the translation Okay, so it's called no voice in Russian net goles Okay Okay, so here's my translation of no voice by Greek Grachov They brought us to the big city to sing some songs Corn cob was just a thing, but I was to dance too. There are 53 of us all together They unloaded us at a school and set us on some beds, but nothing to eat Bovka corn cob walked the hall sniffing but smelled nothing edible just oil paint He came over to me Hey meathead. How about I eat you? He says Don't eat me corn cob. I say wait and maybe they'll feed us What if they don't I'd like to eat your hand and nibble your cheeks Wait, I say they've always fed us before and they may again You can eat me later when we're sure there's no food Fine Bovka says then let's go scram something up in town We go to town a beautiful town smells good. We walk walk and come to a factory It turns out. It's the factory that smells good Chocolate Bovka says no, I say chess cookies Chess cookies are made in a bakery not a factory Bovka says No way chocolate is made in a factory.  I say We need not something not so nice Bovka says like this diner Alright a diner I say but here's a cafeteria Perfect for us and smells even better than the restaurant We stood and sniffed then we kept walking Up ahead there were no smells just flowers a beautiful street with flowers on both sides paved no holes Then it smelled of wine.  Hold up. He says first. That's fine where it smells of wine We keep walking see a bar. There's a man in front snatching people's sleeves as they go by They get free and keep walking the man snatches other people's sleeves and points to his throat We go up to him and he snatches wolf because sleeve He has hands like a worker the bones in them are workers What do you want Bovka says he points to his throat croaks What do you want Bovka asks he croaks croaks and coughs Boys I have no voice. He says What's that you're speaking with Bovka says The man looks at Bovka then at me and starts shouting Bastards sons of bitches cocksuckers scumbags motherfuckers and other cuss words Who are you swearing at us?   I Don't get it. He's having no voice focus says as we're walking me neither I say he was talking after all And what was he croaking for Bovka asks? I don't know but let him and that's hurry. My stomach is sticking to my back Mine too. Wolfka says But I feel sorry for him Back at the school. We run into the director public sealage get dressed at once. We're leaving for the house of culture How about lunch? I ask What are you bothering me for public see which says the concert is in half an hour? Did you have lunch?  Just you wait corncob. I'm coming for you But we haven't eaten what Chris says.  I say Wait a minute. We'll show him. We'll have no voice What do you mean? I ask then follow a silly which is honest again still not dressed Brace yourself Martina after the concert. I'll give you to something to sing about Croak Wolfka whispers.  We have no Boris. I'm out What did you say?  Oh, I say Guess you do have a voice now get run and get dressed He hurries off and the other kids surround us so meathead you got your vocal cords checked It says it's not fair making a sing without lunch You're right. They say it's not you guys will kisses. Let's pretend not to have a voice until they feed us He won't believe us the other says get that the others say well, of course not you'll be doing it in protest Who focuses a protest they say back home health stage a real one Fine focuses to hell with you all We arrive at the house of culture and take our places on the stage The curtains part and we start singing Suddenly Boca grabs my hand Don't sing I Understand and stay quiet. We'll cut doesn't sing either.  What because says to me We're quiet again. Everyone's singing about us.  No reaction We're not singing.  I shout, but he doesn't hear us everyone's singing and we're shouting, but it's like we're silent Acquire really is loud Then I dance because I have to you use your legs to dance after all Then we go to dinner. I Understand what now with that man meant what it means to have no voice focus says and I understand I say That's it. Thank you so much. That was wonderful It's always such a shame that that we have to turn off all the rest of our videos and not be able to hear the audience Here because I was just dying with laughter So funny All right. Thank you very much three. Thank you. All right next up we have No, a mince who is the mentee from French? he's going through reading excerpts from the yet-to-be English title the alarash by And Maybe later we'll talk to you a little bit about how difficult that title is to translate Yeah, it's been probably the most challenging part of the translation just that title Last that's totally fine. Yeah, sounds good Yeah, I'll be reading from alarash by Patrick Gougeon. I have it right here I'll read the first paragraph or so in French. I don't think there's really any context. We need so let's just jump in Kadi a pass a la vampra par le vitre du minibus saman fondé la levant en ondulation et regardé c'est un dauphan à chaque voiture qu'on croisé Fred lui rappelé d'être vigilante attention pas pour jusqu'à ce que ça finisse par gaver les oreilles de adama qui contrairement à alban et herman avait oublié son mp3 Il attiré le bras de Kadi pendant qu'elle capterait l'air dans sa main en coups boules pour fondre de s'asperger le visage avec Tantan parce qu'ils sont ce qu'on te dit et d'autorité il a remonté la vitre je prenais un bolder Kadi stuck her forearm out the window of the minibus her hand cutting through the wind in undulations. Look it's a dolphin With every car we came across Fred reminded her to be careful watch out for the semi To the point where adama who unlike alban and herman had forgotten his mp3 player was fed up listening to it He pulled Kadi's arm while she was capturing the air in her cupped hand to pretend to splash her face with it Don't you hear what people tell you and he rolled the window back up with authority. I was just trying to catch some fresh air The monotonous but pleasant road Sunflowers Fatou is searching for an anomaly a rebel flower with its back turned to the Sun Would we stop breathing if there's no more trees she asked in the parking lot There was naturally a rush toward the shopping carts in their car out Fred had handed the plastic token over to alban who came sliding back with the cart Three or four kicks and then he jumped up and perched on the support bar sneakers wedged above the wheels The cart his race car while the others unexpectedly frozen strangely defensive Hands in their pants pockets and shoulders slumped dragged their feet toward the entrance of the supermarket They stopped in front of the automatic doors They stared at the families who in turn did the same to a girl of about 15 Everyone said what's up, and the girl went to stick close by her father busy scrutinizing the coupon catalog Erman not easily phased or maybe to lay the blame for his actions on someone else asked me What's that prissy chicks deal huh? She never seen a noir before? It's just the country for Edward worded there are blacks here to cut it out for five seconds. I Didn't say blacks. I said longs Don't fall for the delusion that you're being persecuted. I added you have as much right to be here as anyone and no one cares Just don't wreak havoc no shouting no running in the aisles. That's all Still they all lowered their heads upon crossing the entry including alban Why does a voting ballot until Erman exaggeratedly lifted his chin put on his cap before then folded in the back pocket of his jeans He stood tall with back a dojo and let Lou say wish come on.  I grumbled to Fred You know the concept of stigma reversal. I shook my head now. We're right in the middle of it Not for long once I chew them out. I Started by shaming Erman to catch the other's attention and since I was foolishly worried he'd ask why me I preempted with a this Goes for everyone like if this kept out damned if we wouldn't all go right back to the banlieu this minute We don't have to put up with this We have our own lives and declaring that threatening it. I repressed the gorge in my gut so it wouldn't rise into my throat We're happy to be here on vacation with you. Let's be clear, but we don't have to be so you cool it right now You give me your hat you give him his money back and you you're going to put that club sandwich back Wasn't even halal anyway. Adana said At the checkout their crestfallen faces and the dead calm that reigned over them would have to be seen to be believed The cashier scanned the products the girls arranged them in bags Which the boys placed in the cart the cashier with the sweet face of an adorable young student whom I was watching Striving not to get caught in the blue ribbon tied in her hair not to see the heart shaped powder for upper lip Not to notice the furtive glance as she casted her colleague to registers over Each time her gaze accidentally came against those of the children that touch of contempt and the absence of a response when fatso Kari Adama Alban Irman Unenthusiastically sure but in chorus greeted her with a have a nice day, ma'am She bit her cheek and rightly or wrongly I ignored her attitude ignored my anger Which browsed silently focusing on the asinine radio ads the store announcements Claire you needed at the front desk Claire to the front desk From the balcony flex was watching the horizon still and again the same flashing light at the tip of the monument of the capital at this Allure how many revolutions and since when did we no longer even notice it along with the airplanes? We no longer heard at least every seven minutes all day long and partway through the night Two red dots at a variable distance the wingspan no more significant than the imaginary line Connecting the incandescent tip incandescent tip of flex's cigarette and mine the same cigarette Which we took turns drawing on while watching the same horizon. I said it's over with Claire over over Over flex understood that I would hold on to the cigarette until it burned down to the filter so he lit himself another Six years ago. No seven.    It's not even about how many miles I've gone. It's how little time I've spent elsewhere. What's that worth?  I hissed through my teeth The caretaker at the gymnasium had this time thought to turn off the lights the rectangular windows were dark Tell you what if I'd had to write a book for example, I'm realizing now It would have been to see what book I'd write if I'd been somewhere else That's it. Thank you. Thank you so much Noah Yeah, I'll stick So we will now move on to our final reader Natasha Bruce And before we do that, I did want to mention that for all those of you who are watching this live If you have any questions for our readers You can email them to me because I haven't quite figured out the YouTube live Set up, but don't tell anyone you can email them to me at Allison charrette at literary translators.org That is a l l is on Cha Rette at literary translators org And we'll have a quick Q&A session after our readers published Finally, I would like to also very much thank the mentors who have been working with our four mentees for the past year We have the Emmanuel Estelle Bill Johnson Marion Schwartz and Jeremy Tieng and they have they have given Enormous amounts of their time and knowledge and energy to help these wonderful emerging translators long and for that We are also eternally grateful So finally for this evening. We have or rather this morning where Natasha is we have Natasha Bruce who is very wonderfully joining us from Hong Kong at eight o'clock in the morning her time. So thank you very much for that And Tasha's going to be reading a couple of excerpts from lonely face by in pie on and I will let you explain whatever you'd like and take it away Thank you Allison and Yeah, thank you also to Alta and to the mentor Jeremy and the Singapore Arts Council for making mentorship possible because it's been wonderful And I'm very happy that I got to take part I'm going to be two short extracts from The opening chapter of the novel I've been working on which as Allison said is called lonely face or Gucci delian And it's by the Singaporean author It's a novel that he wrote in 1989 and it is about a 39 year old man whose wife and child have just left him Despite what he claims in the first line of what I'm about to be And whose father has just died and he's taken himself to this casino hotel resort to reflect on those two events But actually also his whole life just asking himself basically where everything went wrong The the structure of the novel is quite interesting because it cycles through the second first and third person perspective depending on chapter which Creates effect where you feel like you're zooming in really really close on this man and his sadness and then kind of pulling away Just when it starts to feel like it might be getting a bit unbearable So as you can imagine, it's not always the most Uplifting of novels, but I think that one thing in pay and does really really well is to Introduce kind of comic relief opening the form of quite sharply described secondary characters just when you need it the most But that said the extracts that I'm going to read up in the first chapter where he's setting the scene for the death of a father and the departure of wife So in some respects if you don't feel slightly depressed after listening to my reading then I might have failed as a translator I'm not going to read it in Chinese to start with like the other two did with their languages because I don't trust my Pronunciation to adjust this so I'm just gonna start with inch.  You've often resented. She mean she certainly wasn't a good wife But you've never tried to put this resentment into words Perhaps out of fear that once the words are on paper. They'll rub at your old wounds Not ready. You feel a little suffocated You pick up your pen and put it down again Then look to the ceiling and straighten your back as they're fighting to the surface of water for a breath of air And then you sit frustrated waiting for this latest wave of emotion to set side So those are the opening paragraphs And now I'm going to jump a little further through the chapter to a time when this character has stopped looking at himself in the mirror And has moved on to the hotel casino You stand at the slot machine mechanically insert a two cent coin and then pull the metal lever on the side Serving rapidly at the spinning pictures the reels were around and around and come to a stop nothing You have your own special system six goes with one cent five goes with two forward three and so on There's no real reasoning behind it But you like applying yourself to a set of rules stuffing your brain full of meaningless calculations so they can't think of anything else The slot machines are arranged like a bank of doled up women batting their eyelashes and casting alluring glances at every passify Their noises reverberate through the hall turning it into a kind of frenetic disco The metallic scrape of believer the frantic were for wheels the thrilling ding of the winners bell the silvery clatter of coins into the metal dispenser train Shouts of dismay size You lose yourself in the disco music just like everyone else pulling wildly on the arm of your dance partner Transfixed by the colors fitting across their face Four bars three stars two sevens a red cherry golden bell purple lemon Is it a lemon?  He seems ready to beat the machine to a pulp if she won't give him more coins On the right there's a young guy of around 20 wearing a loose white shirt with a skinny red tie His lanky frame sways from side to side as he plays and has clearly enjoying himself He keeps leaning over to see where your reels land wanting to share the fun At long last you hit the jackpot with four sevens and the machine dolls out two hundred dollars in small change Such a pity. Why didn't you bet more in the first place? The youngster's already gone and the man in the batik eyes the money pouring into your tray You shoot him a quick, please glance and then press the red button on your machine trying to make the money come faster Suddenly you think of Chi-min If only she were here You came to this casino together once and you won then too Coins poured from the machine like water from a burst down She jabbed frantically at the red button clutching your arm in excitement ripping so hard you yelped in pain But happy pain And how long ago was that?   He's about 30 squinting has a cigarette dangling from his mouth He calmly takes a coin and drops it into his machine And that's the end of that reading Excellent. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Oh There may have been an echo there Yes, apparently I'm echoing Your speakers, but thank you very much for that. That was absolutely depressing So I will I'll bring everyone else back now Um, I think I will let's see I'll bring your videos back and keep you muted for the time being As a reminder for those of you watching if you have questions for this next Q&A Part of this reading you can email them to me at Alison charrette at literary translators.org And I will be checking that every so often Otherwise I get to ask questions So we'll we'll start with Sabrina since you're the first one I would I would love to know how you found this and how you decided to translate it and And Did did the did the comic-ness of it have anything to do with that because I'm imagining it did but I would love to know your process Yes, it definitely did So basically I was a big fan of the writer Sergei Devlatov who's another 1960s learning grad author who later emigrated to the US and published quite extensively in the New Yorker and I was looking for a translation project and I Had an inkling that there might be someone from the same era because it's a very Rich and I think somewhat undiscovered period in Russian literature the 1950s 1960s raw period when The controls of the Soviet Union were relaxing somewhat and they were letting in more Foreign literature for example, so artists had exposure to more stuff but the censorship was still quite quite strict, so although many Writers were experimenting quite a lot and doing interesting things Many of them like my author Grachov were not published really during the Soviet Union. They didn't get by the censors and So it's a rich period and has many authors that are still to be discovered So I was just paging through an anthology of Devlatov's work and there were some photographs and I was going through the photographs and just looking through Who was there and It was all writers, so I just looked at everyone basically on the internet and then I went and got their books from the library and Finally, I found Grachov and yeah, I just I loved his stories immediately. I just found them So affecting and the story I read is is Funny and many of his stories are funny, but many of them are also just like extremely poignant He writes beautifully from the perspective of children as as you can tell from that story And he has a very unusual style for a Russian writer. I think he his prose is very spare Very humorous Kind of a telegraphic style, so those are all things that that drew me to him Well, we'll just keep going. I was wondering about your your your translation process specifically if you have If you wouldn't mind talking a little bit about those that amazing string of course words Well, I thought it was interesting because it jumped from kind of the the normal curse words If you want to call it that to the demons and suck you by Yeah in the Russian, I don't have it in front of me. I can't remember exactly what words he used but It was quite a diverse string of different epithets and None of them. I think were quite as rude as the ones that I use because in Russian Curse words are like really rude like you would never say them and literature whereas in English literature I think it's it's pretty acceptable and no one's gonna be incredibly shocked So I think I did probably Ramp up the rudeness a little bit And then there was just such a diversity. I mean, I think also in Russian There's a much greater diversity of Of things bad things that you can call people So in English, I had to sort of reach for some unusual Obscuring of same examples Yeah No, I would like to ask you a few questions as well Um, okay specifically I Working from French. I have a little bit more knowledge of what you may be looking at than any other two But I was I was thinking I haven't I don't think I've read very much fiction that That that gives the perspective of people in the volume and But then those are those are very much, you know, there's a really negative connotation for the volume of projects in France and Do you know if this is kind of one of the first that's come out and did that play a role in you selecting this project? That's a great question. I think Bonilla literature is something that we're going to start seeing more and more of both in France and in translation There are some folks who have been doing it from a slightly different angle Dominique Fabre Writes a little bit about the Bonilla, but mostly from like a middle-aged white man perspective So it's a slightly different one than this like younger one. There's um, so Petit Gougeon he grew up in the Bonilla and he liked his character in this novel Worked as a school guidance counselor essentially and so I think this is pretty rooted in in reality and The most the novel takes place on vacation like a summer vacation in the country with these kids from from the projects and Yeah, I think it's it's a really exciting thing to be bringing into English for me It's I think one of the greatest things about translation is its ability to complicate notions that we might have of other cultures in in America or anywhere else in the world and so in order so to be able to Open that whole aspect of French culture is really exciting and interesting and challenging Example other examples of film would be like a entre les murs That's a really great film that takes place in a classroom in the Bonilla. So I feel like this book has a bit of a Kin there Definitely what were some of the challenges for you working on this translation of the course of last year was it a lot of Registered vocabulary something else Mostly register. I found myself really struggling with the Exactly the right tone to take with the way that these these children speak because I think it's very accurately reported in the book and It's hard to bring that into English without making it sound like existing English registers So to take a very unique Not very unique a unique linguistic Register of the the children of the Bonilla and many of them have parents from West Africa where they were born in West Africa or In the Caribbean or anywhere else. So there's all these linguistic and cultural Influences that are not in the like standard written French so a lot of it I had to learn and then a lot of it was Trying to bring that into English without making it sound like An existing English register and not making it sound like African-American vernacular English for example, which would be unfaithful and untrue and unfair So kind of letting it be its own thing without it sounding weird was very challenging I think sometimes I succeeded sometimes it still came across a little awkward That's with everything. This is always a work in progress. Of course. There's one point in the in the novel There's a brief wrap that happens Yeah, still working on making that rhyme Yeah, that was a something I wasn't expecting to come across I was interested to see the parallels between your work and Sabrina's translation because That the the you know kids in different eras different countries and yet they're all still just goofing around Mm-hmm. I very much liked that So Natasha, I am most interested to hear and I want to hear how you came across this novel a lot but I am super interested to hear about your experience working with the second-person narration because that has such a Reputation for being so difficult to make Work and you know Realistic so how how did you go about working with that and and I will say I found it extremely successful and I'm I'm really glad we had such comic things before you because that was slightly dressed Thanks, um well Perhaps a backstory to having the second-person narration This wasn't actually the book that I proposed for the mentorship So for the mentorship I proposed a collection of short stories by the same author But it turned out his wife had just finished a translation of the story So they were not available, but then the author himself Proposed this book and said that he felt very affectionate about it And one of the reasons that he liked it was because he was experimenting with using different pronouns And I think because he did it at the end of the 80s I think he also felt that he had kind of beat the curve So he was one of the first people in that way to use it. So it was one of the things that he liked Um And yep, so there it was and I read the book and I I actually felt a bit wary to start with because yeah Second person I think doesn't always work and sometimes can just seem like it's done for not the head of it But yeah, it's contentious But I really liked it and I felt they was really effective at making you feel uncomfortably close to the protagonist Um, but when I when I translated it the first draft I did have the second person In the past tense because I did the first and the third person also in the past tense Like it was a regular novel And then I was talking about it with Jeremy and my mentor and he suggested trying it in the present tense And he also suggested trying to think of it kind of like somebody doing a voiceover in a film Which I found really helpful as a kind of way to visualize it And I think he was right and I think the present tense does work Better which obviously is a freedom that you have in chinese Which I guess you might not have in french or russian because in chinese the tenses are more flexible anyway So yeah, that was the process of arriving there the other challenge that also came with it Which is sort of a present in all the chapters, but I think especially in in the second person Which is that in chinese I think there's a much higher tolerance for Starting sentences with the pronoun like just Repeatedly so I think that in pe an has A very precise rhythm to the way that he writes the sentences, but he does repeat the pronoun a lot And in english, I think it didn't really convey the rhythm that he had in chinese So it did have to think quite hard about different ways to start the sentences Yeah, yeah I'm I'm I'm very much in awe of the work that that you've done and indeed all three of you because you You've achieved such vastly Different yet wonderful translations of these things and I'm I'm I'm very very Proud of all of the work that you guys have done and and all of the Success that you have already had because all of this is just fantastic Is there I did just want to open it up to the three of you in case you had any questions for your your fellow translators I realized that was you know something I should probably let you do if you'd like to And if not, that's okay too I guess Like how did you guys find working with your mentors? Did you find it? Did you think that it really helped you grow as translators? We were leading For me, absolutely. Yeah, it was an incredible experience actually um, yeah, and Marian was just incredibly generous with her time and had so much experience and I Yeah, I think just the the conversations we had about the individual stories were the most helpful thing and um Yeah, because there are just these issues that come up with that and nobody else in the world would know what you were talking about But she knew exactly Yeah, so It was fantastic Thank you backing off that question. What was the And and for for any all of you what what was the the one thing that your mentors taught you that You think is the most helpful for you either in the act of translation or in Trying to work as a translator Get a comfortable chair Immanuel told me that on day one.  No, come on I live in san francisco expenses are high chairs It's on the list It's comfortable enough. I think uh That's good advice if I had to say for um, uh, am I am I live? I can't am I can you hear me? I didn't see the green dust. Um I didn't I didn't get any so succinct advice from Jeremy, but uh, I would say that in terms of actually Translating then um, I think maybe it helped me see that you have a bit of room to manoeuvre with the language Like you don't have to be so big You have to look at the text as an English text and see how it works and figure out how to make it work And if that means deviating slightly from the Chinese sometimes that that can be beneficial rather than just Unfaithful, so I think figuring out that space was really helpful. Um, and in terms of transition as a career I think Jeremy is just fantastically organized and far see you so I think he really helped me see that you have to Yeah, you have to kind of be looking Ideally kind of three projects ahead. So I mean, I don't think I've quite achieved that but he did Help me see that that's something to aspire to like to see how to line up projects and chase them while also working on a project Which is yeah, something that I didn't have in mind before That's good advice for any freelancer. I think yeah, yeah Um, I think for me, um, yeah, again, I don't know if I got any Uh, very pithy advice, but um one thing that mary was always pushing me to do was um, just to look at the expansion rate in English from russian because um, You know for various grammatical reasons, um, you tend to add a lot of words when you translate from russian And you don't necessarily notice because the words are shorter in english So it looks like it's the same length. But really you've added a lot of word count um, so She basically told me that I should expect a one-third expansion rate Which was a very scientific way of looking at it, but very helpful Um, and anything more than that I should I should really examine What I was doing that actually makes you really lucky and then chinese translators because I think definitely in the uk A lot of places pay you per english word like Well, that is wonderful. Um, thank you all so much for joining us tonight. I am so pleased to have been able to give you A bit of a platform to share your work because you have done incredible work over the last year And I'm I'm so pleased that you all have gone through this program and had such a good experience with it um, so from an alter perspective, we will be sharing the news of all of our mentees both past and present when they Inevitably get publications and win awards and all of this It's already happened for the mentees from last year or from the pilot year rather. So um, it will will be sharing news of of these three and of Eliza as well I'm sure very very soon. So Watch all of the the alter social media sites and we'll be letting you know what they've done Thank you all so much for joining us tonight. Thank you. Noah and Sabrina and Natasha Thank you to all of our viewers. Thank you again to all of our funders and mentors and everybody at altar who supported this program It really does take a village and This this is the result of it and as you can see it is well worth it So happy translation day everyone and we will see you next time


His restaurant food really that bad for you and in most cases it kind of is But since we're talking about restaurants, I did want to mention guys We just finished up best burger reviews, which is my burger review channel here on YouTube Posted the finale yesterday.  If not, maybe just take a look at the finale You get to see another side of me So there are five pretty big reasons that we've broken this down into the first one is that the food isn't organic and Simply by going organic not only do you remove the agrochemicals the pesticides the herbicides the fungicides the glyphosate All of these poisons being sprayed on our food Overall, it's usually a much higher quality product and Yeah, there's some nuances like the eggs should also be corn soy free the dairy grass fed But the plant foods like the grains the fruits and the veggies organic is usually as high as you're gonna get Yeah, there's still a mega six concerns and things like pork and chicken But when you go to really high-end resorts certain restaurants They will be using organic produce but because of how expensive everything is now It's kind of hard to find if you do have the luxury of discovering some type of organic product That's for sale and it's not going to completely break your bank Yeah, you're gonna have to pay three four five six dollars just for loaf of bread It's worth it.  Yes deep frying is the worst culprit Whether it's french fries or battered foods that are soaking up all of this oil this high Omega-6 Oxidized crap which when you consume it's what your cells are now composed of and the body doesn't Recognize this linoleic acid that it thinks it's a toxin so you have all of this massive inflammation throughout your body and Unfortunately a lot of restaurants will use this in almost every dish as their vegetable seed oil So you might think you're getting some reasonably healthy pasta dish or a salad or something That's supposed to be good for you in a restaurant But it's doused in vegetable seed oil and it's as bad as you can get this is in arguably the worst food You can put in your body. There's nothing worse than it is basically a chemical that you're poisoning yourself with and Avoiding fried foods might be okay to some degree, but it's usually not good enough You got to be careful, especially if you're going to a cheaper lower-end restaurant number three is cleaning chemicals which people don't really think of but If you ever work in a restaurant, you'll know how much sanitizing Stuff is involved in cleaning everything whether it's the glassware in the bar degreaser dish soap chlorine Every single surface in that restaurant used to make your food your drink is served in your dinner plates your forks and knives It's covered in like chemical residue from it being sanitized and unsuper safe I mean maybe there's some like European restaurants out there in different countries where they're not as crazy about this But in America for the most part to my knowledge That's a pretty that's a pretty big deal even if you're going to like the highest quality organic restaurant or drinking this Biodynamic wine, you know, hey Yeah, I mean in those restaurants. Yeah, they wipe the wine glasses out with like cloth and stuff But in most cases, it's just more chemicals that you're consuming Number four is cheap bulk foods, which really just means lower quality and more of these things So they're definitely not organic, you know vegetable seed oils usually comprise a lot of these cheap bulk foods And there's more chemicals in them. So when you're buying the lowest quality Stale Possibly has mold and mycotoxins in them. You have to be mindful that when you're going to this restaurant It's not like the mid-grade peanuts. It's usually the lowest lowest lowest quality Possible that they can put into a dish at least in many places in America. So for number five We're talking about powder ability increased by chemicals So MSG which a lot of you guys are familiar with I think it's monosodium glutamate It is a chemical.  That's another good thing Even though steakhouse is usually expensive sticking to beef as opposed to any other animal proteins is Definitely the lesser of the evils. They are still problems with conventional grain fed beef But it's probably the least worst animal protein You definitely want to avoid fats in the context of you know low-quality fat being the worst Macronutrient to consume you know if you're eating low-quality protein and low-quality carbohydrates. Yes, those are pretty bad too But not nearly as horrible as vegetable seed oils and some of these fatty dressings that are just Bombarded with these low-quality oxidized fats You also want to eat before so you know you're not like stuffing yourself and overeating and that applies to two things one saving money at the expense of places and Two, you know not stuffing yourself at a fast-food restaurant. So definitely eat a high-quality meal before just to avoid the damage and It sounds kind of weird, but filling up on bread Might not be a bad idea because bread compared to all the other food in the restaurant is in most cases the least inflammatory thing Yes, you know GMO wheat is pretty bad for you But not as bad as the other stuff on the restaurant menu And a few things I was doing when going to all these burger restaurants as like a protocol to Reduce the damage was taking mastic gum with it.  All that stuff gets absorbed into the charcoal activated charcoal to kind of reduce the toxin absorption And then you can also use probiotics like water keeper to help digest and break down some of that restaurant food to remove the stress of your body and Then being hydrated very very important a lot of restaurants will have a bottled water you can buy something like Pellegrino So you really want to just stay super super hydrated so that you know things are moving as smoothly as possible through your digestive system And then you want to eat Good quality food as soon as possible after the restaurant meal whether that's Later when you get home at night or possibly the next day just you know back on the high quality organic diet Maybe just like a big plate of organic brown rice and steak and just push all that crappy food out so Hopefully this gives you guys an idea Of what you need to avoid in restaurants and look there's a lot of good places out there There's a lot of good dishes that you can have but it gets very very very subjective And it's difficult unless you have a good understanding of health and nutrition To know what you should eat and what you shouldn't eat because even something that seems healthy like sushi Could be full of pollutants and toxins from the ocean So you got to be really really careful So you guys can go to frank-shiffon.com if you would like to check out all of my businesses We have the high-quality grass-fed meats on Frankie's syringe meat guys Water key for and all other sorts of interesting products on Frankie's syringe foods We have the master come and some other stuff that will help you deal with the detoxing on organ supplements And of course we have Wi-Fi shielding. 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