It is my pleasure to introduce you to the very first talk of EMF 2016, which is Nicholas Tolawy talking about MicroPyphen. With the talk, some of theEMF schedules do overlap so when we get to the point where the main talk is finished, if you do need to run to the next stage to catch whatever's going on there He is not going to cry. Felly weithio cael yw soedd, rydw i'n rwy'n ein bod ni'n ffordd ni'n cwysig yng Nghymru, yr ychydigion Wyllfa Fawr Fawr Fawr, rydw i'n ymddangos, rydw i'n ymddangos. Rhyw ddim ond, rydyn ni'n gweithio. A rydych chi'n credu allan i'r rheimhau, rydw i'n credu allan i'r rhwng bod rydw i'n credu llunio'r rhwng. Rydw i'n credu allan i'r rhwng, beth sydd wedi'i'n credu allan i'r rhwng, ddim yn ei gynllenio i'r ddechrau. Gwnaeth eich cyfnod yw'r gwybodaeth gwybodaeth, a'r ddweud y ddweud o'r ddwyngol. Mae'n gwybodaeth nrhyw gyda'n ddweud. Efallai eich tynnu ar gyfer python ac efallai efallai efallai efallai efallai micro python fel yw'r holl? Mae yna yn wahanol ond? Felly mae'n gweithio'r holl byddwch chi'n byw. Efallai efallai? Mae micro python efallai efallai implementaeth python 3, for microcontrollers, small systems on a chip. What does it do? Well, it brings the power and beauty of the Python programming language to highly constrained computing environments. So things like the BBC micro bit, Arduino shaped devices and the EMF badge this year. And talking of that, why is it suddenly everywhere? Well, it's become popular in the last year or so because it facilitates simple yet rapid development on embedded devices. It has all the powerful features of Python that you would expect. Sometimes, depending on your device, it might have more or less of the standard library that comes with Python. Importantly, it has a transferable skill set. So I work in Python during the day working, building large scalable websites but I can use the skills that I know as a Python developer on microcontrollers and embedded devices which makes it rather a fun thing to do. And also, this being Python and MicroPython, it has an outstanding community. So, that's it, really. Actually, as I mentioned, MicroPython, it's all over EMF because all the badges that you are going to get run a build of MicroPython. MicroPython is actually all over the UK as well. Now, I can't see an awful lot because I've got lights in my eyes. But could you put your hands up if you've heard of the BBC Microbit device? Okay, that's pretty much everybody, which is what I was expecting from EMF. So, you would be unsurprised then if I told you that a million of these devices have been delivered to the UK's year sevens, so that's the year when you're turning from 11 to 12. And this was a partnership created by the BBC. One of the partners was the Python Software Foundation. I'm a PSF fellow, and so I was the person who helped organise for the PSF the collaboration with the BBC. And all the work that I'm going to show you on the Microbits today for MicroPython has been done by volunteers here in the UK and around the world. So, nobody's paid people to do this. So, you could also use software from one of our other partners. So, Microsoft, if you go to their tent, they have an alternative programming environment that you could use on the Microbit as well. MicroPython is all over the world. So, Damien George, the creator of MicroPython, is Australian, and he ran a successful Kickstarter, which I'll talk about later on. But the Pie Board, he tells me that he gets fan mail from children in Saudi Arabia who are using the Pie Board and MicroPython in their lessons in the US. It's kind of all over the place. And this is the thing that I really like, because I'm a bit of a space nut, is that MicroPython is going into space. I'll talk a little bit about that as well soon. But I think that's really cool, is that I could be writing in language that I could use to programme satellites in a few years time if this project comes to fruition. So, this dapper looking chap is Damien George. He's a physicist who was, until two weeks ago, based in Cambridge, here in the UK. And for a bit of fun, he created MicroPython. Why wouldn't you want to re-implement Python 3 in your spare time? But that's what he did, and it's become this hugely successful project. So, how does MicroPython work? So, I'm not going to give a very technical explanation of this because you can find out the technical details online. But this diagram essentially shows you the flow of what MicroPython is doing. If you start at the red boxes on the left-hand side, I'm not sure if you can see it that well, but it says repel prompt, user script, and compile strings and things. That essentially represents Python code, as we would see it in our editor. That goes through several steps to get to the compiler. So, the lexer will tokenise the Python script. The tokens are then sent through the parser, so you get the parse tree, which is what the compiler uses to turn into something that can be executed on the device. Now, for the microbit, we have a virtual machine. So, it's compiled to bytecode. The bytecode is loaded into the virtual machine and it is executed on the device. I believe that's the same for the EMF badge. So, the virtual machine executes bytecode and stuff happens. You have native code as well, so MicroPython can compile to whatever executable you might need for the particular device that you are programming. And there's also something called ViperCode, which I have absolutely no idea what it is, because I've never been involved in that part of the MicroPython project. But it sounds cool, called Viper. Anyway, that's how... Actually, I know a little bit about what it is, but ask me later. That's essentially how MicroPython works. It's a very, very simple system. The important thing that you need to know is if you're thinking, ah, right, OK, well, Nicholas hasn't really told me that much about it. I know what I'll do. I'll go to the MicroPython.org website, find where that GitHub repository and see what I can find out about this code. Some things that you need to know. Because MicroPython is designed to work in highly constrained computing environments. It does not follow traditional software engineering practices that I might use when I'm writing great big websites, for example, in Python. So basically Damian optimises first. He uses lots of creative solutions and tricks. If he can, everything's about size, so everything has to be as small as it can. So Clarity, which is something that developers, especially Python people, like to trump as a benefit of the language. In the C code, the implementation of MicroPython, we're looking for smaller code. Smaller code, more smaller code. Goto is not discouraged in the C code. Programmers will understand that's rather a contentious issue, but in the case of MicroPython, it gives us some efficiency here. Because we don't have a lot of RAM, everything's optimised for not a lot of RAM. Minimize the stack usage. All the decisions that Damian makes about these optimisations that I've flung through with a wavy type of description are based on analysis. So he's using analysis to work out where he can make the best optimisations given the particular platform for which MicroPython is being built for. So, here's Damian again, and he's always asked the same sorts of questions, which is, why do you do it this way rather than that way? Why do you do it this way rather than that way? Why are you doing GoTo rather than blah blah blah blah? Why blah blah blah blah blah? Essentially, it all boils down to one essential factor that Damian is concerned about, and that is to minimise RAM usage because we are working in a constrained environment. If you are interested, and I encourage you to have a look, because it's a very friendly community, it's MicroPython.org. MicroPython supports lots of different devices, not just the micro-bits, or the pie board, or the EMF badge. There's lots of people doing crazy stuff with lots of interesting embedded devices. MicroPython.org is the place to go. So, why would you want to re-implement Python 3 for microcontrollers? So, I asked Damian this a couple of days ago when I was exchanging emails with him, and he said, well, you know, because it was there, really, it was a fun thing to do, and he wanted to see whether he could do it. So, he's done it. Congratulations to Damian. Also, Damian loves writing in Python, and he wanted to make it easy for people to programme using Python in such constrained environments. So, this goes back to my point about having a skill set that's easily transferable. So, how did MicroPython come into being? Well, Damian sat down and he figured out, well, could this work after a spike of code? Yes, it could. He put his proposal on Kickstarter, and almost 2,000 backers pledged almost 100,000 pounds for him to complete the work, and they got a little pie board, which I don't have on me right now, a very small device which they could then use to play around with MicroPython. About nine months ago, Damian was a second Kickstarter for converting for a conversion of MicroPython to run on the ESP8266, which is a system on a chip that has built-in Wi-Fi. And it works, which is wonderful. He had almost 1,400 backers who pledged almost 30,000 pounds for this to happen. So, Damian is working full-time on MicroPython on this. And, of course, there's the BBC Microbit, so this is how I know Damian, because my involvement in MicroPython has been through the Microbit. One day we were sat in London having a cup of coffee, wondering how we would describe to the BBC what our vision of MicroPython on the Microbit would be, and we literally sketched it out on the back of the table mat and took an arty-farty photo of it, really, and that's what we showed them when we went into the meeting. The international team of volunteers have been involved in the Microbit. The million children obviously get these devices and they can learn to programme with them. And the international team of volunteers, many Pythonistas, many people who, for the first time, have started to work in an embedded environment like myself. It's been an interesting sort of an adventure. And they've been doing some crazy stuff. So this is a robot built by a friend of mine called Radamiin who is a Polish chap based in Switzerland. And he essentially well, by the looks of it, got some motors and nailed them together with a Microbit. And this is what the result was. Kind of cute and all humans must die sort of a way really, isn't it? I think he does it again. Here we go. Very, very silly. The important thing is about the Microbit is that we want to inspire creativity. And with silly robots like this, we hope that kids, things that kids could make in their CDT class, remember this is just some motors nailed to get, well, glued perhaps, together with a Microbit and some very, very simple Python. I think it's only about 15 or 16 lines of Python code that gets you to here, okay? So this is the bit that I've been working towards, which is the live demo. So I believe tomorrow you get your badges. So here's a sneak peek. Yes, it works. Here we go. So here's the badge. It's running MicroPython. And what I'm going to do is give you, whoops, a very simple outline of what you need to do to get in touch with Python on this device so you can start hacking with it. So you, first of all, plug it in, which is easier said than done when you're live on stage at EMF camp. There we go. And if I go to my REPL here, I should be able to... That's interesting. I obviously didn't sacrifice enough chickens to the demo God this morning. Let's see what I can see. Okay, so we have the board. I can do it this way. So when you plug in your badge, it will be mounted as a flash storage device. And there's nothing on there. There we go. And what the device will do is it will attempt to look for a file called main.py in the root directory here of the file system and it will attempt to run whatever Python it finds in there. Now, the badge team here have told me and another caveat here is that I only got this badge about two hours ago and have spent about 15 minutes playing with it. So there's live demos for you. What it does, it actually runs a boot.py file if it also finds it and the main file that it runs is going to be in home main.py, which is this beautiful piece of Python code. But what I can do, and this is without the aid of a safety net, is if I rename this to main.py2 and I rename this to main.py and then I unmount the device and then I restart it. It works. So I have created a very simple spirit level in MicroPython. That's all well and good but there is a REPL that you should be able to connect to. So we have a REPL. So plug your device in you screen or something to connect to it I have no idea what you have to do if you're on Windows but anyway, here we are this is Python so I can see what's in my scope there's even help built in just like regular Python I can print hello world there we go it's just regular Python so please have a poke around you can live code the device as well so there are several libraries for the screen that lets you draw all sorts of interesting things on them so I would use the REPL to experiment and work out how it works put it into a script and then see what happens back to the presentation so that's the batch that you're going to get the thing that I've been involved with is the micro bit this is the micro bit how many of you have actually seen one and held it and caressed it there's about a third of you so let me tell you what a micro bit does it runs micro Python obviously on the front there are two buttons button A and B and there's a 5x5 LED matrix that scrolls bright rays should you make it do so across the bottom are GPIO pins some of which are big enough for you to attach crocodile clips so it's very makey makey as it were on the back the parts are labeled so we have over here is a power socket we have a reset button here a micro USB connector here here is an antenna for BLE related things we have the arm chip is here and an accelerometer and a compass as well so there's rather an awful lot on the device so as part of the project to work with the BBC they asked us to create a web based editor which fits in with the micro bit.co.uk website one of the things that we did in the autumn after we created this editor is we went around the country and spoke at various teach meets and Python user groups and demo this to get feedback from teachers because it's the teachers who are going to be providing the support for the device and the feedback we got was that actually they preferred using a real editor rather than using a browser based editor so over the Christmas holidays basically we wrote a native app which we call Mu one of the features that teachers said was you know what when you're giving presentations the people at the back can never see what it is so we would like zoom in and zoom out but I can demonstrate this feature for you now here it's awesome look and unlike the other sorts of platforms where you have to do it through a browser you have to download a hex file you have to drag the hex file over to the mounted file system it flashes blah blah blah blah because this is a native app we can do all sorts of interesting things like if I want to flash this very very simple piece of Python that all it does let me zoom all it does is zoom scroll hello world across the screen I just click the flash button and it should scroll hello world let's see what happens flashing the device still here we go hello world woo it works just fancy that ok that's not all it can do for example we've built in animation too so let me flash this what we have endeavoured to do with the APIs that we have created there we go it's a little clock or a radar or something like that is make it as simple and as easy as possible for kids who are using this device to get to something usable so this is in essence apart from the import a single line of Python and it's rather easy to read show on the display all the clocks in the image library delay for 100 milliseconds between each of the files and I want you to keep looping that for ever and ever and ever and so we get our little radar something a bit more complicated here we've built in a whole bunch of images kids can create their own images it's very simple to do with Python but I put the device in an infinite loop and I'm going to make this thing sparkle and react to button presses and things so the sparkling happens here if button A was pressed show a random image show a random image if button B was pressed scroll hello world and if the accelerometer had a shake gesture just show an angry micro bit let's see if this works live coding demos aren't they great so it's sparkling and if I press button A sorry button B we get hello world and if I press button A there it is going back sparkling we get a picture of a rabbit that disappears into the sparkles an umbrella or sun shade depending on what the weather's day a heart all done at random a skull and if I shake it you get an angry micro bit there it is pissed off micro bit there we go if you remember I said that you could get to the REPL on the on the EMF badge well you can do the same thing zoom in a bit let me not do that excuse me REPL zoom in there we go so what you can see here what you will see here live demos here we go this is micro python running on a micro bit and I used to be a music teacher so one of the things that we've implemented is a music module and I have a speaker here and if I plug it in it should just work turn the volume up there we go right then so I can do something like this music.play this is rather obvious we want kids to be able to discover this sort of stuff and understand how the API works so we want to play music what you use you use music.play music.tab completion it's got some built-in tunes which are used for demonstration purposes so somebody shout out a tune from the list there birthday what's that going to be it's going to be like being in WH Smith with all those cards that you weren't going to close let's see look at that and I can also make it do other interesting things music.pitch so I used to be a musician 440 is the standard for concert A that the oboe player will give when it walks to tunes I wanted to play for one second and now what I can do is some interesting stuff for example putting it into a loop and I can say music.pitch pitch takes an integer where can I get these integers from how about accelerometer.getX and then wait for 20 milliseconds and let's see what happens strangled cat or musical instrument so imagine imagine a room full of 11 year old children on a Friday afternoon and it's raining and their teacher brings this out it's going to be chaos and mayhem but they're going to have a lovely time so I'm going to reset things a little bit now and hopefully I can make this work properly like I said not enough chickens for the demo gods oh well I've lost the ripple anyway what we've done is we've built in a speech synthesizer I found some a Commodore 64 based speech synthesizer and it was written in C and so we've made it work and maybe the ripple there yes it is so I can do something like this I can so you can see what I'm doing I import speech everyone see that speech whoops why is it you can never spell or type when you're doing a demo speech.say again very very obvious hello F I have no idea if this will work can you imagine the fun the kids are going to have with this with micro python so let me flash this on to the device and essentially it's a recreation of the sound of music we're going to get it's singing I hope singing micro bits it's sort of like the Daleks greatest hits really so the other thing that I mentioned is that it had an antenna so you can have into device communication going on I just happen in blue Peter fashion to have one I prepared earlier second micro bit with a battery pack and it's been programmed with the script that you see in front of you now it's very simple I import the radio module I switch the radio on I clear the display I put it into an infinite loop and if it receives a message and the message is hello it displays a happy face that code that I've just described to you almost reads I guess like English this device however I'm going to flash with radio hello again I import the radio module I switch the radio on while true if button A was pressed send the hello signal and if everything lines up this little fella should show a happy face it's still flashing for me on to the device okay let's see three two one hey it works okay so you can send arbitrary messages over the radio the important thing is that kids again we try to create a very simple API kids are going to be inspired by this so back to my talk that was the live demo who I made it so I only just got my EMF badge about two hours ago and so all you saw was what I managed to figure out in about 15 minutes I hope you explore what the device can do because it's a lot more powerful than the micro bit if you're interested in the hardware that went into the badge there's a link there for the software there's a github repo as well again on the slides there micro python documentation is docs.micropython.org forum.micropython.org is where you should be asking questions as well please experiment and play okay what about the future for micro python well Damien tells me he wants to improve the existing offering so there's an awful lot of work going on for tutorials and new websites and things like that so that micro python actually starts to look more professional and so on not that it's not professional at the moment you can actually use micro python on a real operating system so micro python runs on the bare metal at the moment but there's no reason why you can't use it in other situations where you have a constrained computing environment like perhaps in a game or something like that I don't know you could program a block in Minecraft with micro python maybe it's fully buzzword compliant in that a lot of internet of things people have been using micro python recently and Damien recently got an email explained that somebody who would have spent weeks doing such and such a thing managed to do this thing in just an afternoon thanks to micro python so hopefully this is a bit of a game changer in terms of rapid application development for internet of things appliances so like I said you should be able to embed micro python within other software as well like games and places where you need scripting and like I mentioned at the beginning Damien has been working with the European Space Agency on a satellite control layer that's written in micro python so literally you should be able to program satellites in python how cool is that and perhaps one of the most important aspects of micro python is the legacy that it'll have so this was me having a discussion with some friends of mine on Facebook last year and they wanted to know why on earth is all this effort being put into programming education and why is micro python involved in this and I answered like this and I'll read it out doing a bit of a powerpoint karaoke for you asking what sort of education and learning our community support is how we decide what sort of community we become for it is through education and learning that we engage with our future colleagues friends and supporters if we want there to be an EMF camp in ten years time we need to help the young programmers of today to build and get into the making movement and all those other good things we have about five minutes left of this slot at this point I'm going to take questions I'd like you to put your hand up and the gentleman over there with a microphone will run over and ask a question and you can ask a question into the mic we have about five minutes and there's somebody at the back there always at the back why are they always at the back hi thank you for the talk very interesting the radio send is that a serialisable python object or is it limiting what it can send and distribute okay so you can send arbitrary bytes so you could do Repra for example to serialise the object you could do what you want the point is that it's just bytes that's being sent over the air fantastic I'm saying thumbs up any more questions if you want to go to see the next talk don't feel free don't feel that you have to wait here for me to finish I think we'll call it a day thank you very much


What's up everybody, Jayce here for jaspyscasebreak.com. 2022 hit parade basketball. Jaspy's exclusive dual case break, random teams, number seven just sold out. And again guys, 20 total boxes, two cases, and we do have a hit list giveaway. So, we'll do the break. We'll count up the hit list customers. Potentially there will be at least 10 since there is only 20 cars popping out of your 30 teams. But there could be more. Basically we'll gather up all those names at the end that went hit list, randomized those names only, and top two names win boxes of Optic Asia basketball, 21-22. Alrighty, so let's do the break. Here's the dice roller, here's the customer names that bought in from Timothy. All the way down to Steve Birch, who won those from Pac-Fillers and also got Last Bomb Modular. Then there's the teams. So, let's roll the dice. We got a three and a six for nine times, good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Three, six, nine, Bobby at the top, and a Matt Bristow at the bottom. Nine times, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Nine times, Portland at the top, down to the San Antonio Spurs. So there you go, that's what you match up with there. So, Bobby, you have the Portland Trailblazers, Brett with the Lakers, John with the Jazz, Steve Birch with the Timberwolves, Pacers, Knicks, Thunder, Wizards, Nets, Hermione of the Heat, Steve Birch with the Mavericks, Sons, Bucks, Warriors, Clippers, Timothy with the Nuggets, Steve with the Grizzlies, Brad with the Pistons, Bobby with the Bulls, Steve with the Hawks, Count with the Palligans, Brian, you have the Sacramento Kings, Steve with the Celtics, Rockets, Nicholas with the 76ers, KY with the Cavs, Bennett with the Raptors, Mark with the Magic, Steve with the Hornets, and Matt Bristow, you have the Spurs. Now, we'll have a trade window open, guys. I won't pause the video, I'll just give you like 30 seconds to a minute. If we have a trade, we'll do it. If we don't, then we'll close the trade window. But if you wanna trade it for a team, potentially that you're looking for, chat it in the chat. If I don't get any responses, pretty dead, we'll just close it. Also too, guys, the next hip parade, number eight is the last hip parades we have. Now, we have been selling cases as well on Instagram, so I think pretty much we were down to three left. So I just took two of them and marked them to save them for number eight. And then the one loose case that's over there still will be for Instagram. So it looks like Instagram could have sold quite a few hip parade boxes because I didn't see any more over there, I only seen three. So I assume that we went through quite a few over there on Instagram. All right, guys. I guess no trades. Show you when to close in. All right, here we go, guys. 10 hits here, 10 hits in the next case. Buttercade, Cunningham, just started us off with the Detroit Pistons, going to Bret Foy. There is some Cade Cunningham's on the sell sheets. Now, I think we were only previewing like 12, we obviously had a ton of cases. So there might potentially be more that maybe it just wasn't photored or something similar. So this Cade is probably a very nice big hit, but it's not photored to my knowledge, but a very nice one there to start us off. So Cade Cunningham for Bret and the Pistons. That's a Prism rookie autograph. And wow, how about a Josh Giddy? Cade and a Giddy? And I don't think this is a sell sheet hit, but damn, this is a very nice hit too. Thunder, OKC, Steve Burch, what am I thunder? Thunder up. Nice, two very nice hits to start off the case. How about an SGA rookie? So it doesn't have the rookie logo on it, but this is a rookie SGA. And that's going to the Clippers since he was drafted by the Clippers in a rookie year. Clipper is going to Steve Burch as well. Very nice, man. SGA, thunder up. I must say three solid boxes. Jesus. All right, let's go. We have a Jalen Brunson. I remember a couple of years ago, man, you didn't want to get this guy. You wanted to get Luka Donchich, but now Brunson of course is a pretty big time player. Of course, not on the Mavericks anymore, but this part will be going to the Mavericks, which is also Steve Burch. That is to 99. After this halfway through the first case and Tyrese Halliburton that's going to Bryan and the Sacramento Kings. Again, another player that's not on the Kings anymore, but rookie year, rookie wise, he is a King there. And we got a very nice three color patch there, Quad Relic, Cole Anthony. That's numbered at 49, 35 out of 49 for the Orlando Magic, which is going to Mark. And we got eight out of 49 pen pals. That's Jaden McDaniels. Another solid player that's, of course, rookie year wise, you want Anthony Edwards, not him, but great player. Milwaukee, or not Milwaukee. Minnesota, that's going to Steve Burch. And we have a Dijontae Murray. That is 94 out of 99. Now this is a collegiate product, which I believe if we go look at the official checklist, it's not going to have the team name affiliated with it. So we would have to go to group break checklist. If group break checklist has a proper checklist for 2016 contenders draft picks, it's going to go to the team that he was there currently that year. But if not, it's going to have to go by college rules. Teams are currently on our teams. They play for the longest. Now I know Dijontae Murray, he was a spur. I don't know if he's still there. Is he still there? I don't think so, right? So we'll come back to that right now. Once I get done with these two boxes, I'm going to take a look. But that's where it gets a little tricky sometimes with the collegiate stuff. If he's still a spur, then it's going to go to the spurs, but I'm not too sure yet. All right, then we got a silver screen debuts from Noir that is Trey Murphy to 99. That is Pellagans. Put the hit there, there you go. I am with that one. And last one before we move on to the next case is a Julius Randall. And again, that's Lakers rookie edition works from Excalibur, three color patch, piece of the basketball to 349. Lakers, it's going to Brett's. All right, let's take a look really quick. So it looks like guys, there is no contenders, draft picks, collegiate basketball on group break checklist at all, besides only 2021. None, they have 2018, they have 2019, but nothing as far back as 2016. So, and I'll show you guys here. So 2016 contenders, draft picks, basketball, no trackless. So since there is no trackless guys, that has to go to by college rules. Teams he's currently on, teams he played for the longest. He did, he did get drafted by the Spurs, but he's no longer a Spurs since there is no checklist. That would have had a team logo on there. Then yeah, we'd give that to the Spurs right away, but now he's currently Atlanta Hawk. So that would be going to Steve Birch. So yeah, but he's not out of the league. He's currently active.  So that goes to Atlanta. Yeah, but that's the tricky thing with collegiate products. They don't really give you a proper checklist. So if group break checklist that we use doesn't have one, then kind of really can't do anything about it. And that's how we establish our rules here. So ATL. All right, now let me quickly also two, copy and paste the list that people have gone hitless. Okay, so Atlanta Hawks, not hitless. Lakers got a hit, hitless no more. Pelicans, hitless no more. Minnesota, Steve hitless no more. Magic, hitless no more. Sacramento Kings, hitless no more. Dallas, hitless no more. Okay, C, or not okay, C, sorry, that's Clippers. L-A-C no more. Then okay, C, no more. And Detroit, so there you go. So we had 10 different people, not part of the hitless promo no more. Now let's find out and see how many more are we gonna add to the promo, or deduct from the promo. Here we go, that's Jared Allen. Two-color patch and autograph there to 50 from Immaculate. That's going to the Cavaliers, which K-1, hitless no more. There you go, on the board. Paul Pierce, signatures from Upper Deck 2003, 2004. 24 out of 50. Now again, same thing, Collard Drew's here. He's currently not active, and I believe he played for the Celtics the longest, but let's just double check on the checklist. But I think at that time, he should have been a Celtic there. Let's take a look at that. These cards, man, these cards were so banging at one point.  All right, let's see. 2013, Upper Deck, I do miss Upper Deck making basketball cards, like exquisite. This was all 10 greats, right? Yeah, so they actually have the checklist, but it doesn't have a team affiliated to it. So that'll go to the team he played for the longest, which is Boston. So just to show you, they have the checklist, it just doesn't have the team affiliated to it. So at the time, guys, I think previous to 2013, 2014, it was really hard to get checklist, honestly. They didn't really actually add teams to any checklist. I've really liked until like 2015, probably, which just sucks, but I guess people didn't really care for, you know what it is, actually? I take that back. It's for breaking, actually.  It's just starting to get really big, kind of like when we were getting into it 2014, 2015, it really took off. So I feel like before checklist, it didn't care if there was a team affiliated next to it or not. But I think once they, you start breaking and breaking older products, you know, the checklist is the one thing you go by, especially if you're looking for redemptions and whatnot. So I feel like at 2015, Upper Deck and all these different companies decided to start adding the team next to the name. So that way, there's kind of an affiliation for checklist. All right, nice, Donovan Mitchell. That is a black box, one of one. I believe this is actually on the sell sheet, yep. Sell sheet right there, guys. There's that Donovan Mitchell right there. So that's a black box, one of one. Going to the Utah Jazz and John. So John, you are hitless no more. Let's take you off there. So Steve, we're gonna take you out there for Boston and Utah, John, hitless no more. All right, next one. And Jerry West for the Lakers. Brett with the Lakers. And I believe Lakers already hit, so that's our first repeat hit. This one here. And for the Atlanta Hawks, Steve Birch, that is a green of Dominique Wilkins, and that's number one out of eight. There you go. So Atlanta Hawks, of course, I've already hit, so hitless no more. Well, actually, that's your second hit already on this, so not part of the promo. Explain the hitless, what do you mean by that, man? Sorry. For what break or for what? Oh, like a sell sheet? So if you look on the website, there's like, I don't know, 12, 13 cards as the photo for this specific break. Those are basically preview cards that are gonna be part of this series in 30 cases. So when we hit one, kind of like to say, hey, look, it's a sell sheet. That means that it was probably one of the biggest cards in the whole 30 case print run, basically. So that Donovan Mitchell was a big hit for this case and just in general. And for Detroit, Grant Hill, 18 out of 49. So that kind of gives you a little bit of a chase, you know, like, oh man, there's that really sweet kid Cunningham that's in that product, so I have the opportunity to hit that, but obviously you have to get randomized to Detroit Pistons first, and then obviously be lucky enough to get the case that has that specific hit. So it's just more kind of a chasers, we like to call them. Just to entice people to want to buy in, right? If you want that specific card. It's gonna be available in one of these cases, we just don't know which one. And Brandon Clark, which I think is a solid player as well. I'll get another player that really wanted to probably jam around more than this guy, but this guy's great. 54 out of 99 playoff ticket, contenders ticket. Playoff. And that is Grizzly Steve Burch. All right, three more to go guys. And for Philly, Markels Foltz. That's a rookie autograph on card from Revolution. Number 35 out of 50. And for the 76ers, first time hitting is Nick. So hit list no more, man, but nice hit right there. Foltz of course, has had a little shaky career, you know, being, having that shoulder injury and then just never panning out there. Got some minutes and got some time in Orlando, did okay. I don't know if he's even still on the team or what, but kind of one of those first round picks that hasn't lived up to the potential. But a hit to hit though. And wow, another Hakeem, didn't we go? Oh no, we got Dominique Wilkins actually, sorry. Hakeem the dream, 49 out of 49 for the Rockets. I think that's the Rockets first hit, right? Yes, Steve Burch. So you got Dominique Wilkins and Hakeem now. Alrighty, and down to the last boss guys. So hopefully one new hit in here for a team that hasn't hit. But again, if you haven't hit, don't worry, you will have a chance to get something back in return. Top two get an optic team wall box sent to you, which is probably, I think I assume, pretty close to the spot price, if not more. Might be like about a $100 box. And it is for the Spurs, Tony Parker. So the Dijontes more got kind of taken away, but you did get a Tony Parker here though, Matt Bristow. And there you go, man. Three color patch that's numbered 17 out of 20 from Noir Basketball 17-18. And just like that guys. So let me double check the hit list customers again.  Yep, all right guys. So there you go. So basically the customers here on the right side, if your name is still there, that means that your team went hit list. So I think it was about like 13 different names. So we have a two and 13 shot to get something back in return. Spaces though. All right, so there you go guys. Good luck, let's dice roll it to two and a six, eight times, good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eighth and final time guys, here we go. Boom, eight times, eight times, two and a six, Steve Birch and Herman, congratulations. Little extra something, I believe those optic boxes are pretty close to the spot price though. We'll ship you those optic boxes each, you guys get one each, and it is from 2021, 22 optic Asia basketball. So we'll ship those out to you guys. Appreciate it guys, jasperyscasebrakes.com.


Speaker, so. They will be. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right, right. Yeah. So anyway, sorry. I don't know what it is doing.  Yeah, I know. Jim? Jim's not going to be here until late. What do you need? Well, he's saying that he's familiar with the system. I mean, I was talking to Melissa. I don't want to work in the office today. Yeah. And I had to go with the starting arm. Jim's not going to be here until late, so I... There's supposed to be pictures of how to do it in the box. Yeah. She didn't show you how to do it? Hey, Charlie, how's it going? Yeah, I think so. I'm still here. I have officially got divorced January 18th. It was a pretty ugly 22 months. I remember... At least she's going to go through that again. Yeah, it was a very... I was crashing her at the very end. She pretty much gave me the kit. So I'm basically a single parent. It's taking full responsibility. There was a lot of pullback with her family and how it impacted him. And he has all this in anyway. I'm doing the Green Acres Homestead. I'm pretty much phasing out a special edit until I'm in the middle school. Part of this to be there for him. I'm going to do the markets up at the hospital now.   Got my chickens and my ducks and my... So does our panel. I'm still in the Green Acres. Yeah, I'm off Green Acres. I have to step down the way. Thanks to Al and Jesse Watt moving on. Almost six houses off the island. And a little amount of free time. I'm working on the Kenan's campaign because I'm tired of it. The old city hall political. This could be a major change. The whole city could be a major change as a city council. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. There's an outlet over here. I know the old government is trying to run their old system in here. And I think this is the last one. There's people. I was trying to run on the upstairs. I'm trying to get over there. You guys have power over here? Yeah, they do. Because they've got a little light on. And we had this couple. Wasn't that linked to my book, Stairs in the House? Yeah. Are they setting up? Are they doing that for themselves? Oh, that's separate from you. The guy that usually sets it up for them. Okay. Are you familiar with how they do it? No, I'm only here once a year. Okay. Are you doing it through channel 17? Yeah. So anyway, I ran to this couple. I wish there was enough for them to get more space. And they're 30-ish. They have a young kid. That's some health issues. And they told me they were looking at a three bedroom condo and having it, right? You don't know if that is through something we're able to do. Do you know how much the three bedroom condo is going to cost in a day? 20, 80, 50.  Yeah, for the three bedroom condo. Do you only need the 30 seconds? One minute? Yeah, well, you can look at it online. I can get... There are two bedrooms at 16, 18. Yeah, well, it's like this condo. It's a basic application. I think it's like a global model of people body. And everyone's feeding on each other. They're at 30 seconds. One minute. One minute. Over there. Yeah. Security. I have. I got. I got. I got. I got. No. No. You're still looking at. Okay. Yeah. But anyway, Come check it out. I thought my friend was going to be a little more in the middle of the show. So do you think the chain is really good for the year? Yes. Jeff, did you print out a text? I see how much you do. Oh, I know. I'm just going to put it on. Well, I think there are a lot of people who like to follow the orders. You guys? Well, we've got to come back. Yeah. I think there's a start. I don't know which way it is. I don't know. I think it's here. I think it's right here. I don't think it's right here. Well, I think it's right here. I think it's right here. I don't think it's right here. I don't think it's right here. How are you? Nice to meet you. Yeah. Thank you very much. We're all scared. You're having an evasion of aid, and they're going to ask for some of my local dollars. It's just that the wall didn't have an interest. Okay. Now that's the way I'm going to stand.  Welcome everyone to Ward 4 and 7 NPA. We'll start off with reading the ground rules. First off, listen to others speaking. Respect the agenda. Share your opinion politely. Treat people respectfully. My name is Jeff Clark. I'm on the Steering Committee from Ward 4. We'll pass the mic around and introduce everybody. I'm Ryan Frink, Steering Committee, Ward 7. Linda Deladuca, Steering Committee, Ward 7. Ward 7, Rex Buck. Erica Redick. Jim Carrier. Alder. Al Bellucci on Turf Road. Will Bellucci on Turf Road. Martha Friedman on Shore Road. Constance Kent on Saratoga Ave. Gene Bergman. Mark Mataba on Green Acres Drive. Harley Johnson. Andrea Novotny, Pleasant Ave. Billy Novotny, Ward 4. David Driscoll, Ward 4. Bob Hooper, Ward 4. Ian Christensen, Ward 7, and candidate for city council. Paul Bushner, Ward 4. Ted Ward 7. Ali Dengwood, 7. Martha Opus, Ward 7. Joanne Hunt, Ward 4. Phyllis Furstow, Johnson, North Cove Road. Kiyomaniwa, NPA staff. Erica Nuta, Ward staff. Ryan McGarvey, Ward 4. Joy McGarvey, Ward 4. Steve Hamlin, North Avenue Co-op. Zachary York, Ward 4. Maggie York, Ward 4. Karen Muller, Village Green. Dave Prodell, Village Green. Dewey Oren, Ward 4. Molly Mordek, Ward 7. Lindra Mordek, Ward 7. Travis Bragg, Ward 7. Jeremy, Ward 4. Nancy Comstock, Ward 7. Hannah Carpino, Cedar. Gary Lee Duby, AM. Dick Duby, North Cove Drive. Matt Robert, Ward 7. James Lee, Ward 7. Ryan Paulino, Ward 4. North District City Council Candidate. Dave Hardner, North City District Council for another two months. Anyone else? All right, now for this period, we'll talk about any announcements you have for the crowd. Keep it to about 30 seconds to one minute. No real questions just now. So again, I'm Gene Bergman, and I'm with the no on ballot item four. I just want to say we've got some fliers back there, and it's got a website that's got our information on it, and I won't take up any more of your time. So I notice a lot of new faces and some old faces, and this will be the biggest turnout we have for an MPA, why I'm still current city councilor, so why I have you all here. I just want to thank each and every one of you, the ones that supported me, the ones that didn't support me over eight years. It's been an incredible experience serving the New North End. It's a wonderful community, and other than being a dad, it's been the best experience in my life, and I've enjoyed it. I have some family matters. I know there's all kinds of stuff out there where I'm getting done. I wasn't going to run, I was washed up as some of the other councilors said, nothing like that. I had the fire in my belly still. I don't want to go to the city. If the opportunity comes, I will. I've been an incredible experience, and the way that this community has embraced my family and the outreach and support for my daughter, myself, my wife when she was ill. Forget about politics. It makes no difference, right? I can't tell you enough how much I appreciate the support that you guys have given me, and I'll never forget it. Thank you. Any other announcements? I do have one. I have a local job opportunity for the wards four and seven. In my office, I have an Edward Jones branch at the East and Allen Shopping Center. We have a local opportunity for a branch office administrator, and Edward Jones is a financial services firm focused on meeting the needs of individual investors. Our Burlington, Vermont branch has an opening for an administrative assistant. Excellent organizational skills, communication skills, and the ability to work independently are required to perform administrative, marketing, and client service responsibilities. We offer competitive benefits and a comprehensive online training program. To be considered, go to EdwardJones.com slash Careers. Check out monster.com, indeed.com. North Avenue News this month. It really is ideal to be local for Edward Jones in the business model, so to have someone from the neighborhood would be great. Please spread the word. Thanks. Any other announcements? All right, I thought we'd have more. Thank you. This is Ali, City Councilor Word 7. I can't hear you. Thank you. So on Monday, March 11th, we have a City Council meeting, and on that City Council meeting, we would want people from the New North End to show up and to talk about what do they think about plan, DTV, New North End. First of its kind. It never happened in the New North End before. We know Central, we know South, but for the first time, we're talking about plan, DTV, New North End. So I was in a house party with Kenan, and great ideas was generated. I think it will be important for you to show up on March 11th at 7 p.m. at City Hall to talk about what we need on North Avenue. Thank you. Is anyone representing the mayor tonight? So he had a 15-minute slot to talk about the ballot items. All right. We'll take a 5-minute break. Dave. And grab some refreshments, have some conversations. We'll be right back.


I have a question here about McClung Museum. Chris, do we work with McClung Museum? Do y'all work with McClung Museum a lot? We do. We have similar goals to McClung, being the museum on campus. So, you know, they're a museum. We're an archive. We both collect and make available different kinds of objects. The formats that we collect are a little bit different. So, we work with them. There are some overlapping collections that we try to place in the right place. This is belong in a museum or this belong in an archive. We also have shared outreach goals. So, we would like to work with them about how we get a message out to the public, how our collections can complement each other's. So, if they're having an exhibit, what do we have in our collection that might complement that? So, we do work with them quite a bit to make that information more available to everybody. Yeah, absolutely. Alicia or Laura, do you have anything to add to that? Well, you can. What question we usually get to with the museum part of it is, what, how is an archive in a museum different? Since we have a lot of the same collecting goals and obviously preserving history, it was like Chris was saying, traditionally, the formats are a little bit different. Archives would generally collect the paper manuscript and not maybe the objects as much or the artwork, but now those lines are kind of meshing and we're working together for shared collecting and preserving goals. And, you know, if they're like Chris was saying, if they're having exhibits or we're having exhibits in the library that we can share that material and make sure that the public gets to view it in a number of different ways. So, it isn't just they have the artifacts and we have the paper, it is really that shared collecting goal. Yeah, we love MacLone. They're great.


The Nigeria People's Party, NNPP, has reacted to the ruling of the Gov. election petition tribunal and the ongoing demolition of properties by the Karno State Gov. Abbas Yusuf. The party's national auditor and spokesperson, Ladipo Johnson, and the Chief Press Secretary to the Gov. Sanosibaturi, vowed that the court's decision will be appealed, adding that the Gov. won with more than one million votes. They also explained that they destroyed structures where former public properties sold to individuals by the previous administration of Abdullay, Ganduja. The Gov. has been demolishing a lot of places. To put the request straight, this demolition is a very strategic initiative of our administration and it's done for me. Why? Because Karno has been moisturized by Ganduja and in so many public places such as train grounds, mosques, hospitals, markets, schools, ghost primaries, secondary and tertiary, and then including graveyards. Karno, who can use the mighty power of his executive seat to allocate illegally or otherwise the public place, like schools, hospitals, graveyards, ghost primaries, would have nobody to buy from him or her because of the lessons that he provided in this administration. We bow from this issue then to the issue of the Tribunal judgment. We received the judgment as a shock because this is an election, it will be contested and won with a wide margin of over 100,000. The margin of lead between the APC candidate and NNDP candidate is over 126,000. So therefore our prayers is that we are heading to the appeal court with a hope that this judgment is going to be overturned. We will get justice at the appeal court and the appeal court of the Tribunal and the fact that we have said clearly and clearly that we know that we have enough grounds to file a proper appeal in the appellate courts. The other issue is that we found that over time it would seem that because Lagos has the press it would seem that in the 100 days of Dogma Yusuf he achieved so many things yet people seem to, a lot of people seem to just have heard the issues of demolition, marriages or whatever and they were reported in a negative light. So I told my brother that we have to shed light on that. Let a wider number of Nigerians realize that this man has done so much in the first 100 days, probably more than anyone else. Please hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Thankfully, we have some things prepared. David says, I was playing around in reminders and found that I can group lists of reminders on the left panel on my iPhone by dragging one on top of another. I can also create smart lists based on tags and other criteria. I had no idea that you could do this in reminders. Like that's very, very cool.


Hey everybody, Forest here, ripping two boxes for Jackson C, a 2022 Prism World Cup hobby and a first off the line box. Jackson, good luck. Let's see a color wheel here. We'll start with the hobby box and end with the first off the line. This stuff has been fun. Yeah, sorry, Ryan, can't, can't satiate your, uh, your needs for eminence. Got the auto right here. Is that an auto? No, that's a, is it? No, it's a Leo Messy. National pride. What a start. Case hit, Leo Messy. Jackson, huge card right there. That's just dust on the card. It's just prism dust. Woo. Moken. Got an Abdu Diallo red prism, 203 of 399. I mean, you can't do much better on a national pride than a Leo Messy. New era is Diego Linus. That's the way to start right there. That might cover the cost of both of these. Straight off the bat. Hyper, John Stones, Wales team badge. Why'd you get a Messy auto out of? He don't miss. That was last night. The mixer last night we did not miss. Silver, Kaladu, Kula Bali. All right, guys. Got cracked ice. Selo, Brazovich. Oh, the orange lava. Very nice. Yeah, I remember that one. That was last Monday. It was Sam. Yeah. Oh, an orange now. Could be a, could be a monster box you got here. Orange prism. That's a pretty nice one, Timothy Castagne. There we go. Taking orange as well. Number 15 out of 25, Castagne. Pretty solid. I'm after, after a Messy case hit, everything's kind of gravy. Everything's just extra. Silver, Livakovic. Yeah, it's a huge one, Max. He don't miss. Blue prism now. Is a Ryan Graven birch. Number 140 of 299. Good player there. Guys, we are like five days away from the World Cup. I cannot believe it's going to be here and it's going to go quick. It's going to be gone in an instant. Look at football already. Yep. Hyper UNI, Simone. Yeah, I... It's crazy we're already 10 weeks into this thing. Yup. Silver rookie, Yuda Nakayama. Nakayama. Still looking for an auto, I believe. Pink prism rookie, Yokey Anderson. Here's the auto, I believe. It's a redemption. Purple Rodrigo de Pal. Number 55 of 199, a Silver Belgium team badge. Redemption. Lukas Podolski, International Ink Prism Silver. German Lukas Podolski. Silver Maddy Cash. It's a Johnny son. My name is Johnny Cash. First of the line. So you get a blue shimmer auto, which are non numbered but obviously short printed. And a blue shimmer parallel to five. Let's see a messy blue shimmer to go with the national pride. That would be gigantic. Personal year. Yeah, I'm sure Bill's fans are sick. They threw it away like four times. So sorry, that was tough. Red prism, Andre O'Nanna. But what a game. 282 of 399, yeah, game of the year. Game of the year. Best catch I've ever seen by Justin Jefferson. Good lord. Best catch I've ever seen. Just had to have it. Yeah. Had to have it. Silver Eric Garcia. Blue shimmer, here it is. Now is this the auto or is it the base? Rookie Sultan Al-Ghanem. Not the biggest one there. One of five. Blue shimmer. Blue, Carlos Soler. Number 199 of 299. Silver Rookie, new era. Luca Ivanovich. Ivanovich or Ivanovich. Yeah, and the first box of this break, there was a, in this personal break, there was a national pride in Lionel Messi. It's a huge one. Hyper Kazimiro. Yeah, Jefferson really took over in that game. Silver, Harris Safronovich. Jaysung Lee, Rookie Cracked Ice. All right, Jackson, still have a blue shimmer auto coming. I think it might be here. There's a red mojo as well. Come on. Come on. Rich Harlesson. Blue shimmer auto. All right. That's pretty nice right there. Brazil color match. There we go again. Blue shimmer autos are non numbered in Prism World Cup. First off the line. That's a pretty solid auto right there, a red mojo. Nice. Lucas Martinez, Quarta numbered 45 out of 99. Silver, Phil Foden, Phenomenon. Sean's boy. Silver, a Thorgan Hazard. I'll see another big parallel here.  So Rookie, Rad Pavlovich, 399. Gold, new era. LaLuca, Ivanovich, Rookie. Nice gold. That one's numbered 2 out of 10. Croatian Rookie. The Pavlovich is 35 out of 399. Yeah, Justin Fields is for sure legit. Rookie Hyper, Ryan May. There's Silver Rookie, Fokundo Pellistry. And Pink Prism is Pau Torres. All right, Jackson, thank you again. Congrats on the messy national pride. We will get that out to you shortly.


Or what's all this stuff look at me? What are you doing welcome back to another episode of jenice? Rage it's a lot it's been a while since I've done something to my hair or any part of me And I'm getting bored like I shape things into my eyebrows and that made me feel better for like a day But I'm bored again So it's time to do something and I was thinking to myself first of all I have a wedding to go to this week Can I fuck that up? What can I do and I've always wanted to do teenage girl Me always wanted to perm always just like how I can never get any hairdresser to ever dye my hair blonde They're like it's that for your hair. Oh, it's not good for it You're not gonna look good with blonde hair and I would ask my mom like mom. Can I perm my hair? She's like, oh my god. No, it's so damaging on your hair.  My hair is very damaged very process I'm gonna be lucky if I have any of it at the end of this And so I got all the supplies that I need and I'm just gonna do it So I washed my hair, but I realized that I have to do this pre-treatment You're gonna have to rename your job to perm it Oh, I did put a little Olaplex in my hair But not the good kind because the guy was like I can't tell you the other one since you're not a beauty professional And I was like, um excuse you I have a living breathing online resume that I think more than qualifies me as a beauty professional So get fucked I'm gonna need a lot of Julian's help because I can't do it all the way in the back It's the clear goo.  If your hair was longer, this wouldn't be me perming my hair I'd be perming your hair. It'd be tight. I have a question for you Julian. Why do you put up with me? You've got to be the longest serving independent and congressional history. Call your hair perry sanders Sanders honestly truly what my hope is is that my bangs get curled enough so I can cut myself some curly front bangs Hi pony right here like half up half down with a scrunchie in a dress at your wedding Invite me. I have to cancel going to the wedding Basketball game tomorrow. Okay, imagine me on the basketball court at my basketball game tomorrow Flowing curly red locks.   Do you ever the MTV show next?    Wow, should I call the police? That's what I want to look like Can I have a sip of that coffee do not After Number one of the salon is don't be nasty, you know that now guy Tang said we could leave some of the end out Stop put it up By the way last night it was like dark we went upstairs to go to bed We found an entire bar of soap in the bed with a giant tooth mark in it Kermit your soap fetish has finally gone way too far ready. Yeah We're gonna the top Oh my god, that pinches Wrapping my hair for its funeral Ew, I feel so disrespected in my own salon.   Yeah, boy Now we can move on to the actual perm This is like mediocre at best, but we done did it julian.  Ow. I felt it on my scalp.  It's time to kick it. Time is up julian. Will you please help me rinse my hair? Why are you gasping I just want to be a beautiful red curly head It's a shake neutralizer shake it.    So that's a good sign. It doesn't look permed at all. I'm upset I want my money back julian. I have a face for him. Oh, wait. Is that curly? I'm doing this.   Okay I'm gonna rinse and then maybe dry So wet for this hair right now. It looks so straight. So I guess this is what it looks like wet I can't really tell if it's curly or if this is like my natural texture So I'm gonna go blow dry it and then be back right with the final reveal This worked or not. If not, let's go to the store and get another one I didn't put any product in it because I wanted to see what it looked like So this is like halfway dry. It's definitely not curly. It's like wavy. See all these waves I just look like a like a dirtier version of myself Like is it bad that I kind of like it? It definitely feels Incredibly damaged in the front. Look at these curls in here. It worked. It's not curly. It's wavy I thought with this like it would be more curly, but I kind of like it I think I'm gonna go sit outside for a little bit and let keep letting it air dry And then I'll give you a final look You look like the bottom half of a sunflower It's really fun. It's nice and fluffy and big this level of damage takes such hard work and dedication Our bangs didn't curl like hardly at all. Hell. Yeah.  Are you kidding me? Harley and control girl I'm coming for your brand.  You look so cute We've been sleeping on perms y'all.  It smells terrible.  I'm started.  What does it feel like? Let's just say it looks a lot better than it really does It's very frizzy and very dry, but you know, I think it looks really cute I'm overall very pleased and this box of parm costs like eight dollars. So like for eight dollars This is an awful lot of dollars plus labor No labor was free That's pretty much it. I can't believe we did this. My worst fear was that it wasn't going to get curled at all It's not exactly curly. It's like pretty much wavy, but I'm 10 out of 10. Please would recommend Make sure you subscribe to my channel. I put a new videos every Wednesday slash Thursday. Goodbye Julian you're next. Let me just do your Bye


Hello everyone.  I translate mainly financial and legal documents and stuff like that. I'll do some websites marketing but I don't really do fiction and the main reason is that I'm scared of doing fiction and I find that to be a fiction translator you have to be quite strong. So I just want to salute all the fiction translators out there for being able to do it. And let me get a bit into it. The reason why is that when you do translations like what I do, financial translations, there's usually always a way to translate something, right? You know, there's a certain way to say account konto and you know how to translate it. Even if it's something difficult, there's a glossary and you can look it up. So these are very complicated terms of course but you can always find out what they are or ask around and there's a certain way to do it. Even when there's more than one translation like the word statuto in Italian could be statute or it could be bylaws or it could be articles of incorporation and but there too it depends on the context. So you just look okay what's the context? Hmm oh it's this context over here okay it'll be statute or articles of incorporation or whatever and so it's there's very little guesswork and there's usually a precise way to translate something. You find this in all technical texts which should be more difficult and very often they're very difficult but there's always a precise way to translate something so in my view that's easier. Even if you can't look something up you can ask around and find out what the correct term is because there is a correct term. With fiction there is no correct term. You need to figure it out yourself and there's so much gray area that you really need to you need to be sure of yourself and strong enough to be able to translate something. Someone gives you a work of fiction I don't care if it's a short story if it's a novel a novella if it's a children's story a horror story whatever you need to understand not only what the words are and translate them but you need to understand the whole context who the who the target audience is the feel of the book and be able to transpose that and if someone you know it is supposed to sound really smart someone else is supposed to sound really dumb someone else supposed to sound old-fashioned stuff like that you kind of have to pick up on that because that's how they need to sound in your translation right. Obviously this doesn't always happen and I think everyone who reads in more than one language has noticed maybe here are their translations that seem a bit off but by and large if someone knows what they're doing with the translation has it looked over they want to make sure that you have that same feel and if you're a fiction translator and if you're worth your salt then you know how to do this and so that's why I salute you and I find it very interesting because it is not easy to do I know for certain people like Umberto Eco if you read anything by Umberto Eco you can feel safe reading it in any language because he worked very closely with all these translators trying to convey the same meaning of what he wanted to convey in the original so he was able to do this I think quite well I've read him in both languages you know but very often the authors don't do this if you have a question you can usually ask them but there's a lot of work you need to do yourself and you need to be strong if you want to rip apart whatever the author wrote and then rewrite it in your own way because you decide in your language it sounds better in this way and there's so many examples of this well some examples are like between Italian and English you know the language as I know and a certain thing if you if in English if you say someone's an entrepreneur the image that's conveyed is someone you know the guy tinkering in his garage and trying to come up with the next big thing or some guy being all techy and doing stuff you know these are the entrepreneurs and so it has that feel that certain you see that type of person they act in a certain way something you know that's how you see the entrepreneur so the translation for entrepreneur in Italian is imprenditore but if you say imprenditore in Italy then and it's changing a bit now but usually frankly if you say imprenditore it has a very different feel it's usually the guy who does business but he's got connections and he's kind of just on this side of the law let's say and uh very cunning and kind of that is one thing he's like I'll take care of it don't worry don't worry don't worry but he's not your average mom-and-pop shop type of guy or a guy who works in a factory even a you know decent family-owned business usually imprenditore you use it to mean this guy who's sort of doing his own thing and uh it's kind of shady but so how do you translate entrepreneur then what if you're talking about the techy guys you translate as imprenditore or some other way as I said this is changing now just because people like Mark Zuckerberg and all those are constantly being referred to as entrepreneurs so it is changing a bit but it is kind of hard um another example actually would be smart smart very often is translated as in Italian as furable but when you use furable you don't mean smart he usually means someone who's more wily I guess that's smart in fact imprenditore many times is furable it's smart but trying to find ways around the system and you know trying to uh again be more cunning trying to uh find a shortcut to figure out what's going on and cut corners is that's the sense of furable which is completely different from smart smart you use it for a mathematician or science scientist or something like that which you would never use furable for you use intelligent intelligent anyway um just to point out these differences in translation that to me I mean can become crazy you have so many words and each one of these words can convey something different and you have to try to convey this feel and so I just salute you fiction writers actually before I sign off one other example which I find very interesting that I read about was James Joyce James Joyce obviously he's an Irish writer and he would write often about people going to the west coast west coast of Ireland going back to the west coast they're thinking about the west and this doesn't just mean thinking about the west coast or even just the west coast of Ireland in Ireland the difference is apparently that the west coast is a lot more traditional has a lot less English influence people are a lot more Irish there and while in the east coast they're kind of more British and more influenced by what's going on on the English side of things so when James Joyce says oh they're thinking about the west coast or they want to go back west it has a very specific meaning it means basically trying to thinking about their roots trying to get back to those or a tradition and stuff like that how do you convey that in a translation even in English it's not it's not a translation but to like a population to an audience who's not from Ireland someone from the US they won't know that say the west coast in the US it means LA but you say the west coast of Ireland even then you're like okay you know you don't you don't think about all these things usually and so if you have to translate into a different language forget it so that's I find this fascinating by the way because then how do you translate that even from one even in the same language and then but it definitely pops up when you're translating between different languages and it can be very hard to convey this certain feeling so I just wanted to salute all of you fiction translators because I feel like you're stronger than I am with what you're doing I don't know that I could handle that and so keep doing a good job and that's all I have to say I'll see you next time thanks bye


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