Hello hello everyone my name is Laura and welcome to my channel Laura's Little Library. Today I am doing my October bullet journal. Also yes I bought a candle, it is a cinnamon pumpkin muffin scent and I love it and I thought that lighting it would create the perfect fall atmosphere for this video. For my title page I thought I'd keep it nice and simple and just kind of do a fun little October sketch with a broom and just a few little signs of Halloween. This bullet journal theme isn't exactly themed around anything specific other than little symbols of Halloween here and there. Most of these spreads I found versions of on Pinterest and created my own interpretation of them. I am happy with how it turned out, although it'd be simple and easy to do. The first spread that I will be working on for this month is my monthly calendar and I decided that this time I was going to make it span across two pages. That way the days are bigger and I can write more events and reminders within the month of October, especially because there are so many readathons and Halloween themed activities I wanted to make sure I had enough space to write them all in and keep track of them. I am decorating it with spider webs in the corners as well as little candy corn decorations all throughout the page. I did also include a section for notes just in case I did run out of space or I had ideas that were not set in stone yet. I like how the spread turned out, it looks very clean and spooky and easy. Then I moved on to my TBR page and this is set up as if they were shelves on a wall with some spooky little artifacts to go with them. I made enough shelves, one for each week, and I put the number of books on that I'm planning to read for the week as what coincides with my spooky reading extravaganza, feel free to check out any of my recent videos to understand what that is if you are new. Otherwise, I will fill in my TBR with all the bookshapes and I just thought so many of these little potion bottles and the skull and everything was just going to be so cute to spookily decorate kind of like what a witch's shelves might look like. Next to that page I have my books read spread and I like to have them back to back so that I can see what I wanted to read versus what I did read during the month and this is supposed to be a witch's cauldron brewing a potion you know boil boil toil and trouble. I realized that some of the bubbles might be a little small for the titles of the books that I read especially if I want to include the author so what I decided that I'm going to do is that I have lines on the cauldron so I can write down the books that I read on the base of the cauldron and then in some of those larger bubbles I can do my favorite books that I read throughout the month. Again, I'm pretty happy with how this spread turned out I liked keeping the theme of the spooky colors so the green and purple a little bit of blue and I thought it would look really nice next to the bookshelf so it's all witches themed. Now I'm moving on to my rankings and how I'm gonna do my rankings this month is my favorite book per week plus one other favorite that deserves a mention and this is in the shape of a coffin and I decided to add little wings on the coffin within the coffin are different phases of the moon and each phase will represent how high up on the ranking it is you know full moon versus a crescent moon and all the way down and then because I felt the page was a little boring with just that I decided to add some adorable little Halloween images candles at the bottom bats ghosts even a ghost who found a witches broom and decided to go on a little joy ride next I started on creating specific pages for certain readathons so at the moment I wrote three different pages for three different readathons the layouts look very similar across all three only slightly specialized per readathon so for example the first one the scaredy cat readathon is the entire month of October so I wrote down all of the prompts and I have a little space for my TBR as well as keeping track of how to stay in touch with the readathon so they have a discord and I did this with other readathons I even left two empty pages for two more readathons that may or may not happen during October that I want to participate in one of those I have already filled out after this video then as you can see I moved on to creating little potion bottles at the top of each page and each one has a different social media these are just areas for me to write down my thoughts and ideas for all of my different bookish themed online activities so in place for my YouTube video ideas and Instagram, TikTok, anything and everything that I do that is bookish just to have a place to have all my ideas down I wanted to keep these spreads nice and simple so that I can have plenty of space to write down all of my ideas once I finish the last one of those I created through a very similar style but this time it is a pumpkin with candles it just says reviews and this is where I am going to start writing all of the reviews for all of the books that I have read so here is a flip through of the finished spread for this month I'm really happy with how pretty much every page turned out I think this is probably the best spread I've done even though I've only done three I think that the vibes and the aesthetic are there and it's a little more artsy than what I'm used to but at the same time I didn't have to draw too much I'm really excited with how all of the readathon pages turned out and I'm really excited to participate in those again two empty pages for possible readathons to pop up later in October and all of my brainstorm ideas the last brainstorm is called final and it's just anything that I want to keep track of that doesn't fit in any of the categories and as I said after that I have blank pages just for the reviews of books as you can see I've already started writing down one review thank you all so much for watching if you like this video give it a thumbs up comment down below if you have a for your brilliant journal and make sure you subscribe as I release videos twice a week and I would love to see you guys again until then happy spooky reading


everyone and welcome. My name is Melissa Armel and I own the Stock Swoosh and today I wanted to talk to you about my Golden Gap 26-point rating system. A lot of people ask me how do you figure out the points? Well I do it on a chart. Every single thing that I do is based on advanced technical analysis so all you need to figure out the points is you have a daily chart. If you've got a daily chart you're going to be able to figure out the points after you take the class. So learning what I'm looking at in the chart that's the meat and potatoes. That's the important piece of it and that's what you will learn in my class.  Again I'm not predicting the gap that's going to occur. For example the market could gap up tonight tomorrow morning. It could gap down tonight tomorrow morning. I'm not doing anything until I see the gap. Once I see the gap then I'm not on automatically doing it. I wait. I rate it. If the gap rates 20 points or more per the 26-point rating system then I take it and if it doesn't then I don't do it at all. I don't reverse it if it rates low. For example a lot of people ask me that too. So I tend to be on the side of the shorts. Why? Because selling happens fast, panic. You know I mean that's just what it is. So I will go long. I absolutely love to go long too but I prefer short. So if you come to me you're going to learn to become an expert in shorting because it's something that I'm an expert in doing and I've done for a long time now. And I find that a lot of traders really don't understand shorting. Don't know how to short well or really are not good at shorting. But anyway it's getting back to the rating system. So you need a daily chart. You have the daily chart and then you learn the system in the two-day golden gap course and then you learn the points and that's how you rate it. If you have any questions or you want to learn my system I teach it once a month in a two-day class that's 9am to 5pm Eastern time. It's always on Saturday and Sunday on the weekends for my schedule so I can focus on teaching not during market hours and so that if you're working or people be usually work during the week can do the class on the weekend. You can be anywhere in the world and take it. If you're interested email me at melissa at thestockswish.com. Have a great day everyone.


In this episode, you'll learn which role you as a service design professional can play in the digital revolution and how to start your own podcast. Here are the guests of this episode. Let the show begin. Hi, I'm David. I'm Jacob. And this is the service design show, episode 145. Hi, my name is Marc van Dijn. And welcome to a brand new episode of the service design show. On this show, we explore what's beneath the surface of service design. What are the hidden things that make a difference between success and failure, all to help you design great services that have a positive impact on people, business and planet. Our guests in this episode are Jacob Magnell and David Griffith Jones, who recently started a podcast called Designing the Robot Revolution, which explores the intersection between technology and service design. So obviously, I had to invite these fellow service design podcasters on the show to learn why they started this and what their plans are moving forward. We ended up having a loose conversation that bounced between what it's like to create a podcast to robotics and industrial automation and anything in between, to be honest. This is one of those episodes that touches on topics that you don't necessarily get exposed to in your day-to-day work as a service design professional. And for me, these conversations are usually the most interesting ones as they offer the opportunity to get exposed to something that I don't know anything about and learn something new. So if you also enjoy conversations like this that help you to grow as a professional, make sure you subscribe to the channel and click that bell icon so you'll be notified when a new episode comes out. That's all for the intro and now it's time to jump into the conversation with David and Jacob. Welcome to the show, Jacob and David. Hi, Mark. Hi, Mark. Thank you. Hey, this isn't the first, but we haven't done many multiple guest episodes, so I'm really interested to see how this is going to work. And this is going to be a little bit different episode because we're your fellow podcasters, podcasters, podcasters. How do you call people who make a podcast? I guess podcasters. I guess podcasters. I don't know. But before we dive into that, I'm really excited to explore that topic. We always do a short introduction and maybe, Jacob, you would like to start, like, who are you and what do you do these days? So yeah, I'm a service designer. I work in Gothenburg. It's an industrial town in the west of Sweden. And I've been working with service design and recently we started doing a podcast together, me and David. So that takes up most of my spare time right now, but it's really fun. Gothenburg. I've been close, but haven't been there yet. I just hope that that will be an opportunity in the near future. Jacob, are you also in Gothenburg? David. Yeah. Exactly. I'm looking at the wrong screen in this case. Screen will be confusing. So yeah, I'm David. I'm from the UK originally and I've been in Gothenburg for six years. I work as an independent service designer, mainly in the industrial internet of things space. And Jacob and I, as mentioned, started a podcast called Designing the Robot Revolution, which we're looking forward to talking more about. Exactly. That's definitely something that we'll explore. But as you know, I hope that you've listened to some of the previous service design show episodes. We have a 60 second, well, in this case, a two minute rapid fire question round and we'll do it in sequence. So I'll ask you both the same question. And let's see what comes out. The first thing that pops to your mind.  David, what's always in your fridge? Oatly e-café. It's the oat milk specifically for coffee. And it's great. I've got the same one. Yeah, Swedish brand, the word. Yeah, Jacob, how about you? So lately, we've been having a lot of mozzarella in the fridge, just because it's really good. OK, yeah, why not? But let's talk about books. David, which book or books are you reading? I'm reading a couple of books at the moment. One called The Wisdom of Listening, which is edited by Mark Brady. It's a series of essays with people who have listening as a key part of their job. Really, really worth reading. And another one, more work related is Value Stream Mapping, which charts the history of value stream mapping and how it's used today. Well, add the links for sure. Thanks, Jacob, how about you? Yeah, right now I'm reading Notch. I'm catching up on that one. The Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein are the authors and have been meaning to read it. But now they released a final edition about their behavioral psychology book. So that's what I'm not. It's about behavioral psychology, right? Right. Yeah, exactly. Still my reading list for sure. Let's move on. David, what was your first job? My first job. Well, I mean, I worked in a restaurant while I was studying, but my first proper job was as a criminal defense lawyer. I always wanted to be a criminal defense lawyer growing up. I'd seen all the movies and brought into the dream of what it could be, fighting for truth and justice. And the reality was quite different. It was a very hierarchical, very traditional. And yeah, I quickly tried to move out and move into something a bit more innovative, but my first job, proper job, was a criminal defense lawyer. Awesome. Almost similar to to services and Jacob. What about you? So my first job was laying down rye ceiling in the roofs, like doing those, you know, with almost grass kind of roofs. But my first proper job, I would say, as a UX research consultant here in Gothenburg. Yeah, fair enough. David, what did you want to become as a kid? Well, I followed by my passion as a kid. I even from the age of like six or seven, I wanted to be a lawyer. I think it was largely influenced by the fact I come from a family of lawyers. So I didn't have much choice in the matter. And of my siblings, three of us did. So there was clearly some indoctrination going on there. And we're saying none of us work in it anymore. So clearly we were stayed in the wrong direction.  Jacob. I've always been kind of a generalist. I think I wanted to be a musician for a long time. Up until I was in the position where that was where I was going to get my money from. And I wasn't so keen on it anymore. So we went back to school. All right. Final question. And let's keep it brief because we'll dive into that for sure. A bit more in a second. David, when did you first get in touch, got in touch with Service Design? I remember it really clearly. It was 2013, and it was a project in Australia with a telco and a guy who's been on your show, Damian Kernahan, introduced me to us, working with him. And it was a great introduction. I met some fab people and really caught the bug from them. Jacob, what about you? Yeah, it was quite late. I was working as a UX researcher in Gothenburg in the car industry. And my old teacher asked me if I wanted to interview for a job. This was 2018, I think. And I got the job and read a lot of books. And then I met David on that job and he kind of filled in the the gaps. But it was quite quite a similar job in terms of like the fiscal things you do as a UX researcher, but the purpose is different. So that was kind of a good, good pivot. OK, thank you. Now that we know a little bit more about your background, some what's in your fridge, but books you're reading, let's transition into the topic of today. And that is the podcast that you started, which is related to service design, the digital transformation, manufacturing. Now, I have to start with the most important question. What topics am I missing that you thought I need to start a podcast? You're not singing, I think, Mark, your podcast is great and avid listeners. Are you obvious? Yeah. Go for it, Jacob. Now, obviously, we've been listening to your podcast quite a lot. And I think when we started talking, and you need you have to correct me if I'm wrong, David, but when we started talking, we were looking at these different podcasts that are out there, mainly in the industrial space, actually. And then also service design, which obviously there aren't many podcasts about service design, but we felt like the industrial podcasts are so technical as to be kind of difficult to get into. It's a little bit. There's a. Entry level that is quite hard to get into. Yeah, I'd say so.  And we both listen to a lot of podcasts, but we find that some of the ones relating to the internet things can be really techy, engineering-y and quite impermeable, therefore for people to get into and understand. And then there's some awesome design podcasts as well. But we're looking to try and bridge that and attract both audiences. And I you're obviously doing a podcast. The service design show is both an audio version and some people watch the video. You're opted to only do the audio version. Are you afraid to get on video? No, it's actually a technical. It's it's it's about the format of the podcast itself. We edit the podcast quite heavily. Therefore, it's quite kind of complicated to make it video. So there's the trade off between those. I think we would have to do like a video special where we're less editing in order to do video. But as of now, it would be really difficult. All right, just joking. It's it's most people listen to the audio version of the podcast. Anyway, so let's let's unpack the topics that you sort of address in the podcast and let's start at the beginning. You already mentioned that some of the Internet of Things industrialized podcasts that are out are quite hard to get in. At which moment did you think, well, this is something that we would like to a space that we would like to fill in. How did you start? Because yeah, how did you start? I think what's happened for us both through through the pandemic is that audio and video have become more and more important in our work. So when we're telling stories from the research we've been doing, we'll be capturing things in video and audio snippets. And then with digital facilitation, the audio becomes far more powerful. So it's something we'd become switched on to in terms of our day to day work.  You were the one who had all the kits and you're the editor as well. So yeah, for me, it was a question of us talking a lot like a lot about this stuff. Rarely we spoke about service design itself. It was more of a from the perspective of two service designers. What does this mean for us with digitalization and IoT or anything that you can imagine really? And one day we were talking and we casually mentioned podcasting as a thing. And I thought, well, we could just try and do that. So yeah, we turned on the microphones and then tried it. Yeah, that's usually the way it goes, recording interesting conversations. So could you give some examples of topics that you've maybe already addressed or hope to address in on your show? Yeah, I mean, we're experimenting with different formats. So we have three different types of format. The first is Jacob or I read an article and then come and unpack an article and discuss it and how it maybe applies in our day to day work. The second format is getting subject matter expert interviewers on. So we've just interviewed an innovation leader to see how they're working in this space. And we're interviewing an executive coach coming up to get the executive perspective on this. And then the third is more of the kind of fun conversational where we just Jacob and I switch on the mic and talk about things we've been doing. And we're interested to see which which is most gets the most traction. And in terms of topics, maybe you can share a little bit about that, Jacob. Yeah, we were talking now about industrial shipping and the automation of that as a thing. And it's just an example of where we how we we find these topics are mainly we are interested in something that is complicated to one or both of us. And then trying to unpack that. So automated shipping is something that David has been speaking about, that I'm really keen on doing. And it's kind of the the geek geek thing of the moment that we've. Yeah, basically anything that we're talking about that has the potential to be relevant for for the people that we believe listen to the podcast. We did. Yeah, sorry to interrupt you. But who do you think or who do you hope will listen to your stories? So I think it's it's for designers, so designers, service designers, organisational designers, UX designers working in digital transformation and innovation, but also for the professional profiles who we work with on a daily basis in that space. So product managers, business developers, IT architects, different types of engineers who are maybe curious about design. So we really want to appeal to both of those audiences, the design audience and also the people designers work with. Yeah, because that is a main purpose with the show is to help people that could have used for service design to get into it from their perspective. So we don't try to not go from the service design perspective, but from the the potential clients or or partners that we could work with. Yes. And you mentioned industrial shipping. Can you sort of give a few more examples to illustrate what what we might expect when we tune into your conversations? Yes. So the episode that was launched released last week took an article by McKinsey around the data driven organisation of 2025 and exploring what data leaders will be behaving like in the near future. So it explained that they should view data as products rather than infrastructure projects and painted a picture of how data will be used in decision making across the whole organisation. So we took that heavy article and discussed that and gave examples of how it might apply in the organisations we've worked with. Yeah, I've listened to that episode. Absolutely. Jacob, any other topics? So industrial shipping and data, what else can we expect? I would say that it's very likely that we're going to make an episode around automation in the health care space fairly soon. I think both me and David are really interested in talking about that. So it's it's quite open right now, but we're trying to focus it in on automation and digitalisation and then put the service design perspective on that. Yeah. What I what I what I do just as if I say that it's the overlap between service design and technology and maybe you're defined technology more specifically, but yeah, I mean, that's a good way of describing it. I think one of the motivations was when we look at we think there's great potential for service designers to work in the industrial space, you can make a huge impact. From a sustainability perspective, and there's this increasing demand for traditional manufacturing companies to want to engage with service designers because they're going through this servitisation process where services are becoming so important for them in many ways, but there's language and barriers for service designers to be able to work in that space confidently. A lot of it around the heavy technical language that a data scientist would use or the the kind of intimidating IT architecture that all the IT architects will be using. So we want to try and bridge that as a means of helping more service designers come into this space, but then also seed interest in service design within those technologically driven roles. And when you mention manufacturing and the industrial space, what I'm assuming is that these are the companies, the organizations who aren't in the service space, obviously, so not the banks, maybe not the hospitality scene, but these are the organizations that still manufacture physical goods, cars, bikes, appliances, and those are looking into services and how that is transforming their role within society, maybe even. Yeah, I think many of those companies that you just mentioned have been trying to create services or reduce risks in in this space of digitalisation and servitisation and finding it very difficult. So this is a great time for service designers to actually come into that space and help out and make a difference in that journey. And from, yeah, I think both me and David feel very welcome in that space as well. And the classic situation for those traditional companies will be that they start from the technical perspective. They have a great idea for what the technology could achieve and that they don't think about desirability and the customer need and even sometimes the viability and the business model. They start with the technology. So it's really important to bring in that different perspective and start with the customer. So that's often what we're finding ourselves doing. And if you talk to other service designers who are in this space, how do they experience being in these non-service oriented, non-human centred oriented organisations? I think they really appreciate being part of a design community. So when we've spoken to other ones, they actually really say how important it is to be part of a design team so that you have your, you know, that kind of colleague to discuss things and have that perspective together because it can, although there is welcome and there's an increased interest in it, you are often maybe working by yourself in an atmosphere where there can be a few folded arms and people kind of saying, well, what's this new toolkit you're bringing? You know, we've been doing lean six Sigma for ages. They have different types of methodologies. So work, having a community and having a design team with you can really help you kind of go through that friction. Jacob, anything to add there? No, just definitely that's, I think it can be very complex. There are so many things that maybe a service designer comes into that space, haven't been subjected to before. Just IT and manufacturing at the same time can be if you've not worked in those spaces before, can be very daunting. And I think there can be an expectation from anyone working within manufacturing because it's such an old, many of these companies are very old. So there can be expectations that you actually know what you're doing when you get into it, which is not always the case coming in from the service design perspective. So I think that can be a barrier for service designers. But I think if you are curious and willing to look into it, I think it's it's a good space. So there are still so many manufacturing businesses which in fact aren't manufacturers, but they are already providing a service. I think I don't know what is the traditional example of a car manufacturer over. How about I think a few percent of the actual costs of a car go into their materials and all the rest is service related like R&D, marketing, HR, stuff like that. So they are in fact already a service business, but they still operate in a different way. What do you see some how could we accelerate the adoption of service design within those industries? What are some domino blocks that would need to follow to again accelerate this? I think this is one of the reasons why we are doing the podcast is to inform about service design in a way that is digestible by people in in manufacturing and maybe specifically in leadership positions in manufacturing so that they know why this can be valuable because it's a little bit of a fluffy fluffy thing to bring into an organization. But I think that's one way, one thing. Yeah, I'd add to that. Really, it's about business model transformation. So the the poster child for servitization and as a service business models in this space is Rolls Royce engines. And they now sell flight time rather than the engine itself. And that mindset can apply to all of these different products. But it's a completely different business model. It's a different relationship with your customer. And it can actually be different types of customers who you've never considered to be your customer before. So if we can show the potential when it comes down to money, frankly, if you can show the potential that there's these new markets, these new customer relationships and it makes business sense, that's going to be what drives the adoption and service designers have a key role in exposing the customer needs and these different values. I'm I'm curious of the topics that you've covered so far. What's the one that you found the most interesting? So in a in a in a podcast that we're recording at the moment, we're looking at autonomous shipping as a classic example of a product service system that enables autonomous solutions for the future. So it's based on some academic papers. Now autonomous shipping is we're going to go from a state where you have lots of these cargo ships floating around and they're heavily manned and they're people not great living conditions because you have to be away from your family for so long. In the future, the vision is that a team of about five or six people will be able to sit on land and control these six or seven fleets of ships that go around the world delivering our cargo. But how do we get from the current state where it's manned to an autonomous state and it involves a whole business ecosystems coming together that currently don't collaborate and it will need a change in terms of how the traditional power within shipping industries have to change their view of how they get value and who they collaborate with. So for example, they might be working with a startup now a software company that enables this. And this is very new for the traditional shipping companies. But it is the future. It's going to dramatically reduce costs. It's going to by having less staff, it's going to have benefits for the workers. So it's important that these traditional shipping companies embrace this change. So this sounds super fascinating. And now I'm imagining I'm a professional working in the service design space. How do you feel that this could be relevant to me? So we're using the lens of autonomous shipping. It could be applicable to any other type of new autonomous product service system. So in the classic that people think about is autonomous cars. But maybe it could also be other types of autonomous services within the home or within the property sector. So any project or initiative that a service designer is working on where there's a vision for this AI powered autonomous solution. It brings the perspective that, OK, you've got the technological side which you need to develop and be ready. But actually, there's the whole value ecosystem, the way that the companies collaborate that has to become part of it. So it brings that lens away from just the technology side. And following up on that, how do you? Because I can definitely see technology leading the conversation in many cases, especially around machine learning, AI, autonomous stuff. How do you bring in the voice of the customer into these conversations? Because it is like technology has a really strong pull factor. I was going to let you go there, Jake. All right, I'll go for it. That's often kind of what we're in the projects to do. So we'll be working with technologists and they're very comfortable with talking about the technology. We're pushing them to say, think about who the customer or the user is in this case. And what we've found to be an effective way of getting the team really to be thinking that way around who's the customer, who's the user, what's the value is to get them to realise that they need to go out and test their assumptions. So we'll often bring cross functional teams together and get them to align around the perspective of the person who's going to be using this AI service and get them to walk in the shoes of the customer to get into the mindset of the customer. And they often have a starting point for what they think the customer wants. But then we challenge them to think, OK, what assumptions are you making here? And then get them to realise that actually some of the assumptions they're making are very high risk for the whole initiative. So can we go out and test this with customers? And then we actually bring them along with the testing and get them to speak to customers because there's no better way to embody the knowledge than actually being part of the research themselves. I don't know if you want to add anything, Jacob. No, but I think it's just really important that is often I feel like where we end up in the beginning of these techno heavy projects is to facilitate the move towards more prototyping mindset because if you've invested a lot of time into technology and then suddenly you start seeing that there might be some cracks in the value proposition or anything connected to the humans that are going to use the thing that can be painful. But we as service designers can sorry. We as service designers can ease that by using our facilitation and methods to help them get closer to that prototyping mindset. Yeah, testing assumptions, that's a really powerful step, especially when people start to do it themselves and sort of see that not everything they believe to be true is true. And what I found with working with these kind of organizations is that there is often very strong expert led culture. People who have been in within these companies for a long time and a culture of, of course, we know what our customers want. I've been here for 20 years. Yeah, David, you want to chip in on that? Yeah, no, very much so. And I've come to, I think I started more aggressively actually being kind of aggressively pushing people to say, look, you really don't understand your customer. Over time, I've come to appreciate they really do understand that they've been working with them for 10, 20 years. Often they were actually the customer themselves. But it's about the the the nuances that they're missing. It's about the blind spots. So it's not that they don't understand the customer. They have a huge wealth of knowledge about it. But actually acknowledging there are things that they are maybe seeing through their bias lens or that they're not seeing because they're only seeing that part of the pie that they're focused on. Yeah, giving them. Jacob, yeah. No, giving them that extra layer of dynamics is most often what I think David is talking about here. I think it's a powerful thing. And as soon as you can show them that those extra layers are there, I think that brings a huge difference to their work as well. Becomes more fun when you actually look into the customers more closely.  How so? Because you're you're this may be a personal a personal lens for me. But what I feel like when I get more close to my customers, when I actually speak to the actual people that are going to use the product or the service, it becomes more engaging. It becomes solving an issue for the actual people that are going to use it rather than the company or myself. And have you ever and I'm I'm assuming you have gotten more the pushback of this is just going to delay, as you mentioned, it's going to be more fun. But if you're in an environment where people assume and in some sense know what their customers want and you're stepping in and saying that they don't, you're probably going to get the pushback that this is which you're asking is just going to slow us down. And I think that's where visualization and actually showing examples of where we need. And I think the services design toolkit has that where we can show them insights into what's actually going on. Obviously, that requires some sort of buying in order to get to that point. And that's where I think your podcast and hopefully our podcast as well and things like that that is more overarching is really important to get to that point where we can actually get in and do the explorative work. Just to add to that, Jacob, I think it's important to show that user research doesn't have to be a big slow undertaking. It can be quick and dirty and actually that will expose learnings. And so it doesn't have to be this big initiative. Also, save your gunpowder for the things that really matter. So don't be pushing for user research in every single scenario, but really pick those times when it is going to make the biggest difference. How do you know what makes the big difference? So try and get the going back to this assumptions and ask them ask the team if we're wrong about this assumption, what's the impact going to be? So if this assumption, if we're wrong about this, how you can even quantify it in terms of business value, is this an assumption with a very high business value risk? Well, that's probably something to have some deeper research around. Jacob, you've been doing a few episodes so far. I'm curious when we cycle back to the podcast being the podcast producer, host, facilitator. What have you learned so far? Um, I don't even know where to begin because I'm learning so much doing this. It's for me personally and professionally, it's a fantastic tool for digging into complex issues. That is one thing. Digitalization and an automation, obviously, but also getting better at my work as a service designer by talking to David and talking to guests, just making sure that I have these questions top of mind every day. And then there's also the technical aspects of. Producing a podcast, just making sure that it sounds good. And that can be very useful in my work as well. I think we've both, me and David, started talking about using audio more in our presentation of the work, making it more alive that way. David, what would you say is the biggest thing you've learned so far? I've really enjoyed the rhythm we've started to fall into of recording every week. And so it makes us both look at kind of a bit alert for different topics and then an extra reason to read an article and try and make sense of it. So I've really enjoyed the process, both when we're recording the conversation, but also when it goes before it being alert to different topics. I recognize this very much because when I started out with the service design show, one of the reasons I did that is I was looking for an excuse to be able to pick the brains of people who are smarter than me. And that's not the hard part, but actually going out to do that. That's that's the hard part. And for me, like having an excuse, like I'm going to interview and we're going to record it, that was a great way to just get out into the world, start asking questions, be more curious. So I definitely recognize what you're saying. Not everybody. I would advise everybody to start a podcast, but I'm sure that there are other ways to sort of feed your curiosity because I think that's at least that's what's happening to me. Yeah, I mean, I don't know if you've had this, Mark, but I'll often find that within a few days of recording a podcast, I'll find myself the topic that we've spoken about will come up as relevant in conversation. Equally, I'll be listening to the service design show and then something comes up that week where it's relevant. So it's a it's a way of surfacing topics that are of interest that actually come up as applicable in your day to day work. Anything to add to this, Jacob? No, not really is, but it's really true, though. It's it's a great way of processing and getting to know things that you didn't know before looking into the topic. And it's a it's a different version of listening to a podcast, creating a podcast. It's more intense, of course, but you still get that. Cooked down perspective of the topic that is fascinating and speaking to interesting people is obviously an extreme benefit. And speaking of interesting people, do you have like a dream guest that you'd like to have on the show? I see you're nodding, David. Yeah. I mean, my dream, I have no experience of working in this space, but I'm so curious about robotics and elderly care because there's so much potential there for robots to help with an aging population. And so I'd love to speak to someone who's working on the front line in terms of developing robotic services that help with elderly care. So that would be my dream interview. Jacob, what about you? Yeah, I think it would be really interesting to have a thought leader in the automation space. Come and talk to us. I think someone that is writing all these articles from from different think tanks. And just for me right now, that would be very interesting to have these very productive people come on and give us a little bit of a lowdown on what's going on and how they're working. So there are millions of people listening to this service design show right now that could be potentially have helped you. Do you have any questions? How can we help you as a service design show community in your journey that you're on, Jacob? I would love feedback, honestly. It's one thing that I'm really excited about is when someone and that's happened a couple of times already when someone reaches out to me and tells me things they liked or things that they thought was maybe difficult to to understand in an episode. But suggestions and feedback. David, anything to add?  We do really want feedback and suggestions of how we can improve things and topics. But please listen to the podcast. Would be the first thing that people could do. And then if a subject matter is interesting to you, like reach out to Jacob and I on LinkedIn. And we'd love to have conversations spinning off from the podcast. So please listen to the podcast and get in touch if there's something of interest. And with regards to topics, you mentioned, for instance, healthcare and automation and robotics. Any other topics that people could maybe link to or sort of, yeah. Yes. Smart cities. There's going to be huge changes in terms of automation in the way smart cities and smart properties are being run. Again, that's something Jacob and I are really interested in, but don't necessarily have a huge amount of experience in. So if there are people working in that context, or maybe there's other types of places where robots are having a key role. For example, we've been learning about how journalism is being taken over by bots. So now many of the articles that you read started with the financial reporting, but it's getting further. It's now written by a robot. And there's maybe surprising areas where we don't even realise robots are playing a key role. So anywhere that you can see robotics, which don't have to be the big metal arms. It can be this robotic process automation as well. We're really curious about that. So please get in touch if there's areas that you know about. Jacob, is there anything on your wish list as the topics that people could bring forward? I think that sums it up very well. Having people reach out to us if there's unexpected robotics would be fascinating because it's coming to a point where robotics are everywhere and it's not highly visible as well. It's quite hidden from view sometimes and getting to know that would be fantastic. So if anyone has an unexpected place where robotics have an influence, then we would love to discuss the services science perspective on that. Yeah, so would I. I would be really interested to hear that because there have been a few episodes on the service design show about the intersection between service design and AI, service design and technology. But to be honest, not that many. If I look in the grand scheme of the 145 episodes so far, and I'm sure that there are people in the service design space who are working in a heavily technology oriented environment that they are probably a minority and would be great. Like it's really hard to find those individual souls who are doing great work. Sorry, maybe aren't yet on the conferences, on the stages. So, yeah, if you are one of those people, step forward. And before we sort of start to wrap up, I'm curious, you mentioned that you also listen to a lot of podcasts yourselves. Obviously, next to the service design show, what are some of the podcasts that you listen to and you enjoy? You think might be relevant for the listeners? If I go first, Jacob. The Power of Ten by Andy Palayne. I think it's a great design podcast, really enjoyed that. And then my favorite kind of techie IoT one is by IoT One called the IoT Spotlight. Really great content. They go really deep into different types of topics. It is quite technologically focused, but really recommend. So both of those podcasts are great. Andy has been on the show as one of the first guests. Yes, almost five years ago, I think. Jacob, what are your favorite suggestions? I'm very much into the behavioral economic right now. And I'm listening a lot to Freakonomics and the whole Freakonomics radio network. So those podcasts come in at a clear second place. And I like your suggestions from the perspective that I also think that in order to become a better service design professional, you need to learn about stuff that isn't service design. So reading about or listening to behavioral economics, listening to IoT, anything that's sort of adjacent that can help you really to grow as a service design professional rather than just listening to our conversations here about where service design geeks geek out on these topics. I think you need to have both, though. Like the service design show is always it's always good to have that more focused service design perspective. And I think the the combination of both is really what does it for me? Bringing conversations from another field into a service design discussion. And but that that's also exactly what you are doing by bringing technology and robotics into the conversation about service design. I think that's really what we need to actively seek out the topics. The experts that aren't per se part of our inner tribe and see how we connect with them, because I think for a large part as a service design community, we are bridge builders. We need to understand what's happening in those other fields in order to create those bridges. At least that's my perspective. Couldn't agree with you more, Mark. So where do people find you? So we're on all good podcast platforms, Spotify, iTunes. If you search designing the robot revolution, we come up on all those platforms. And yeah, yeah, yeah, Jacob. No, I just if if people want the recommendation from a service design perspective, I would listen to why every service designer's dream should be to work in manufacturing. I think that's a good introductory episode to our podcast. That isn't too techy, but still kind of a nice mix. I'll make sure to leave all the links in the show notes to that and also to your LinkedIn profiles. Any last words before we close off, Jacob? I'm just so happy to have been here. Thank you so much for listening to us and I hope to see you again soon. And thank you very much, Mark. Really appreciate you getting us on and big fans of the podcast. And we appreciate you as the elder statesman in the podcasting world coming and helping up a couple of upstarts. I wish you all the best in the journey and have a lot of fun and keep making that content even regardless how many people tune in. If it's just one person who gets benefit out of it, I think it's already worth it. So keep having those conversations. And yeah, I'll definitely be following what you're doing and I'll be enjoying the new kids on the block. Thanks, Mark. Thank you. I really hope that you enjoyed this conversation with David and Jacob. And if you did, make sure to check out their podcast Designing the Robot Revolution. The link is down below in the show notes. Thank you for watching to the service design show and I'll catch you very soon in the next episode.


We haven't got a fancy intro this week, but that is generally how I start every video. This is August graduates. Welcome back to the School of Cassettes. We'd like to showcase and feature the incredible achievements of our students across the world and Jaco very well, very beautifully. People have been sending them in and we get excited and we put them in a little folder and then we upload them and then hopefully some of these, Tim hasn't actually seen. Maybe, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see. Of my, I'm trying to remember, I did this about a week ago, that there's a couple of beauties in there littered with virtual classroom graduates, by the way, people making serious gains inside the virtual classroom. There you go, Tim, look, we're up, up in the corner, on our first graduate as a member of the virtual classroom. Can I press play? Let's watch. This guy, Ruben, has been getting some gains in recently. Keep seeing it. Check out the, just to note, the painting clothes. Yep. I don't think this was even a train station, this was a, I've just been painting all day. Just see what's happening. See what's cooking. Frogs, the control, he is gone, so slow, trusted the process and not rushed any part of his training, little flash of the abs, inevitable when you don't talk your t-shirt in the handstand. Is it from a Ruben? Yep. Very good one. Look at that. Well, he's going to be doing handstands to celebrate his drumming. Key one. Can I make a quick coaching point? Yeah. Absolutely. This bit here, when he just, you can see me lifting these off, this is a bit that so many people struggle with, is when you have to keep that shoulder and the elbow locked, well, not locked up, but you just don't want to see a hips drop, so he doesn't see his elbows bend as he pulls through. It takes an arm and stays high. That is the crux to this movement. There's literally nothing other than just that hip rotation, nothing else is moving. Yeah. He's solid. Started super high in his frog stand, which has been a help. He's looking at corrections as he goes. I'll take this book, this one, Jaco. Yeah. He's gone, but then I can't emphasize enough that he's, he's not, he's took a, he's took his time over and he's not rushed that process at all. Let's enjoy this bit again. Get it there. Good lad. Oh, I remember seeing this one. I was excited when this one came through. Obviously. I haven't seen this one. Yeah, I've seen this one. This is Claire. Nice little kick. Okay, cropped. Look at it. Sticks it. Look at the fingers. And this, I was like as she paused it. All day. On a carpet. All day.  It's not one of the tools to lock up. But if you had a particularly soft carpet, that would make balance more difficult. We had a shag pile, for example. That would be more difficult. Difficult to tell from the, the video whether. Do you know what that's called, Jaco? What type of science is an appropriately enriched environment. I was going to talk to you about the, the, the fabric of the, the weave of the. Next level. Well, potentially. But it's, yeah. On this itself. She backs. You need this one. Backs up. I thought her standard handstand starts to now get a little bit of a flare going and listen out for the commentary. Get, get the volume. Can I just ask one question? Is that a, a tan colored yoga mat or is she just been to as we've got a cardboard box to practice on? I didn't have to ask you. Sure. Which is what that is. No. Nailed it way. Sticks it. Hello. Love that. Seal of approval from your mate. You don't need any more. She knew it was good before she came down, but it just hammered it home. You need a pro bro. Don't you? Yeah. The female version of a pro bro is, I think it's a pro bro. Yes. Yeah. Let us know who your friend was as well. Now this one I saw a while back. Matt. Yoga teacher. Yeah. Virtual classroom. Make sure there. The teachers are nailing their back lever. Absolutely. Loving the door frame set up, getting it done. Drop starts high. Feet on the ceiling. Level out. Level out. Chest on mat. Bingo. Smashed it. Lovely line. Yeah. Lovely straight line. He was pleased with that one. Control on the way down. Really well. Had some strength in. Excellent work. Yeah. Proud of that one. So there's some full graduation. Some frogs handstand, a handstand, a back lever. And a step along the, along the journey. Dr. Peewee who has done a frog to handstand, but she's working on a straight arm press and beautifully using a little red band. We should know that's the Instagram name. Madeleine. Yeah. Dr. Peewee. We just know her as Dr. Peewee. Everyone knows her as Dr. Peewee. She's a beast. Absolute machine when she come. Yeah. I like this one. Using the arms locked out. Using the band for a little bit of feedback as to where the vertical is. It's a nice vertical trunk. And then really building the strength, using that band to help with that eccentric arm still staying straight.  Basically. Exactly. So you think what's, she's going to get a press to handstand that, but she's probably going to get some carry over to it. Like you think of your punch training, you did so much of getting up into your handstand like that. Controlling on the way down. I put out a post actually this last week where I've been doing loads of like, just when doing my frog, normal frogs handstands and maybe trying to do his handstand push ups, but forgetting about that. I've not just, just not done it in ages. Coming down from a, from your frogs handstand coming back down to a frog and just building some of that eccentric strength and control. You've got a full, rather than just doing effectively half a rep, actually doing the full thing. That's what I was going to say. Cause you've got to head the long way in front of shoulders there. So she's actually starting off with like this, this line angle here. It's fair way off. And then particularly notice it on the eccentric. So that's nice little control balance position. But coming back down here, you could actually allow yourself to bend your knees back around just like, let the spine kind of flex into it.  It's putting quite a lot of, it's a hard, but when we said that, practice it like that. You're going to build way more strength and you can control it like Madeleine can. And you're going to get carried over. So yeah, more than one way to skin a cat. He's at the right. More than one way to frog to handstand.  I don't know. Animal rights. We'll be on about skinny cats again. But a step along a step along the journey and a good use of the assistance tool. It's one of the progressions. Now there. Scotty to Hotty. Yeah. Not his full name. And not actually the real Scotty to Hotty. Not from the 90s. Yeah. The grandmaster sex. What is for as a friend from down under. It's like a flag. Boom. That was that. I'm not claiming those. Educator edits girls. But then what I love is that readjustment back up. So go back and play that again. You see the gets out there before after the. Just losing the second just here. Cranks that hit back on. Yeah. Drops down and that to pull back up. Yeah. Building that strength in that top sling to keep that hip connected. To the shows. Yeah. Yeah. To get that hit back up. You just got a cranking hard from the shoulder. And that allows you to shorten that chain. Is it. It's you don't see many a finer flag in terms of like how straight that position was. Good work, Scotty. Now then. Mr. Oli Dyer. This is a local. So Oli has literally been doing. Started his calisthenics journey. Virtually the same time he did. Different things along the way. And some fitness competitions and also had a fairly bad. Back injury. So this is a massive. Yeah. And he's had a wrist and he's had a number of injuries. Strong. Oli. Had to work quite hard for the controlling one to five hands down push ups. That's what he told me at the beginning. Of the. The tune in the garden. Three. Four. Big arms. Yeah. You've got to be happy. Got to have that. And then just max it going. Going deep into those. There's a lot of people have been like. Building from there. And if a lot of people like frog stand feels impossible, but once you've done that and then you try and do a frog stand. And once you can do a frog stand, the same reason you started. So do a handstand. The first race was. I want to just do a handstand. I want to do a handstand push ups because that we just seen there. They're better. So Christopher Saunders. Virtual classroom member. Strong guy. Also seriously strong went from sort of power lifting weightlifting bodybuilding into calisthenics. A couple of years ago. Look at the height. A problem. Keeping the hips up. That's the biggest thing. You can keep your hips high and that handsome push up. You're going to be all right because you can see that line. Like sometimes you'll find you just go on this diagonal to make it a little bit easier, but he's staying super straight there. And then just really starts that last rep. If you just see that. Squeezing them out. It was dropped a little bit. Pushes backwards. But yeah. Absolutely. That's your that last from the level effort. The last rep does show you as soon as all the other reps hips, as you said, stayed high and then just that last one push back. As soon as they go backwards. And you know you're coming down, but you've already if you Chris, you've already just bashed out for it for handsome push ups. So you were already a badass. And hence the importance of need of that stability and strength and overhead positions for your hands. Just larger hands and bands, but also if you have some push ups, if you can keep that shoulder in a full flexion position or as much it needs to be able to you're not going to you then get that slight change in body angle. So unbelievable work from the graduates. It's a very high standard this month. The people and so Chris, they're a virtual classroom member. And that's been from from the beginning actually and been for us for a while. And people that are. They're redefining their impossible than they redefine their impossible again because one impossible turns into another turns into another.  We are one celebrating and applauding you and two here to help you along the way. And just want to celebrate that with you all. So unbelievable work guys. If you want to feature on the next month's graduates, all you've got to do is send us your videos. You can send them to reception at schoolofcalisthenics.com or you can tag us on them on social media platform. Yeah. Tag us in social or send them in direct messages. However you want to get to all of us and we will feature a selection. And remember the rules. It don't have to be perfect. You get, you choose how you want to move. So if it's a movement that you've been working on and you're proud of it, share it with us because it is inspirational and motivational to everybody else who's watching. It's not just about making Jack and I feel good that you can do some stuff. We actually want to share that and inspire the whole community to continue to push forward and redefine our impossible. I'm looking forward to when we get to be on it again. Yeah. I've actually got one on the go. My straddle from the floor. That will be a nice one. I currently haven't found out that I have the weakest hip flexes. I think Jack has got better hip flex strength than me at the moment. How far off the floor are you getting? Oh, not. Okay. I can pancake and that's step one. I'm on picking the process, but for me to do that, it feels pretty impossible at the moment, but I know that it's not. I've got to do some work, but I'm going to feature myself and then that will be a good commentary. Yeah. Until next time. Class dismissed.


However, despite this spirit being embraced by many scientists, data sharing remains the exception rather than the norm in contemporary systems neuroscience. The Allen Brain Observatory, ABO, is an example of an initiative that seeks to promote open data sharing and reuse. ABO has shared data and metadata associated with surveys of neuronal activity in the visual system of laboratory mice, which has led to over 100 publications and preprints. This paper summarizes some of the lessons learned from ABO, such as remaining barriers to data sharing and how they can be addressed. This article was authored by Saskia E. J. De Vries, Joshua H. Siegel, and Kristof Koch.


Hei, allan, yw Simon McStrupp. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This week's scrapbook layout is one of me and my grandfather. This is me about two or three years old. It had been a family barbecue. Apparently I'd been running around like a lunatic and I'd fallen over and grazed my nose. So I think granddad was giving me some some attention there and sharing his beer as you do when you're that age. So it was a lovely picture and I just knew I had to scrapbook it. So rwy'n gweithio ac yn ddweud o'r pêpa o Rosie studio. Rwy'n gweithio'n iawn gwych, bwysig, gyda gwych gwydig fflexol o'r llwyll. Mae'n bwysig yn gwych. Dyma'r plan yn ymdweud yw'r pêpa o'r hart. Yn wahanol, rhyw ystod, rhaid. Rhaid o'r pêpa o'r rhaid. Ac rhyw un i'n gweithio. Rhaid o'r pêpa o'r pêpa, rhaid o'r pêpa. Rhaid o'n gweithio 10 x 10. Rhaid o'r pêpa o'r 12. ac rhan o'r rhaedd iawn i'r rhaedd. Rhaedd rhaedd yna'r ystafell sydd wedi ymballod o'r rhaedd. O'ch rhaedd arall, mae'n gallu gweld o'r rhaedd. Rhaedd yr hyn, rhaedd yn cael myfyrdd ymlaen i rhaedd ac rhaedd o'r rhaedd, a rhaedd eu gwneud ychydig i'r bwysig ac rhaedd i'r bwysig i'r bwysig. Rhaedd o'r rhaedd o'r hyffordd o'r ddweud o'r hyffordd. ac y gallwn yn cyfeirio'r dda wedi bod yn gallu'n go i ddweud ar y gwaith yma. Ond rydych chi'n gweithio'n ddweud i'r ddweud ac rwy'n go i ddweud eich copa ar y boson. Felly gallwn i'n gweithio yw copa. Rwy'n gallu'n gweithio bod cwpio. Rwy'n gweithio bod cwpio, ac yna'n golygu'n golygu'n golygu'n golygu'n golygu, ond yn ddweud yn gweithiodd, ond rydyn ni'n dwygynnu'n dweud hynny. Felly, fel rydyn ni'n gael, mae'n gael eich porffodd iawn yn ynnud bod yn ystod. Rydyn ni'n ddych chi'n gallu'n ddwych i'r ddweud o'r byd. Felly, rydyn ni'n ddweud o'r byd o'r byd. Ond rydyn ni'n ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ffiyllwch ac rydyn ni'n ddweud hynny'n gwybod hynny i'r ffordd. Gwyddon yw'r hyffordd. Felly yw wych chi'n cael ei gael, nol o'r rhan sy'n cael cofri beth mae'r gwrdd yn ei ffordd. Mae'r rhan sy'n cael rhan sy'n cael rhan. Dwi'n meddwl, mae'r ffordd yw'r ysgol gyd, mae'r eich môn ar y pad a'r ddysgu'r llai dw i'r ysgol. Dwi ddim yn ddod o'r gyflwyffol ac ddim yn ddod o'r dyfodd. Mae'r rhain yn gwneud eich bod hynny'n ddiddordeb is very similar to the pages in my scrapbook it's craft card in my scrapbook and it would just look lost against it so by doing this frame it just helps lift it from that paper so I'm just brushing off some excess I've gone over a little bit further there you can just see I'm just going to go along there and just kind of even it out a little bit there and then get that all heat set make sure you do the front and the back so you can see here I'm just setting the back just so you don't get any kind of loose bits on the back of your page and there you can see I've got this nice nice pattern coming along so there's that strip for the middle I'm just folding over the edges and it's it was it was kind of like a graduated kind of paper so it was light on one side and then dark on the other so this darker strip actually does show up better once it's laid over the top there so I'm just trimming off a little bit of that picture you can see the idea for the the colour palette actually came from the picture the background I think must have been very hot summer because the grass had all dried out so I'm just going to mat this one on white cardstock as I always do and then I will be distressing that because I don't want any kind of real kind of blunt edges raw edges sorry and any crisp white I don't want that look in this layout I'm also using craft card to mat on top again and then I'm going to bring in my vintage photo distressed photo vintage photo oxide ink and I'm just going to go around here and you can see that I'm just kind of just roughing them up a bit making them look a bit dirty a bit aged a bit vintage a bit antique anything you want to call it I'm distressing the edges there and I do this for everything so I'm doing my craft card frame there and then I'm going to go and do every single heart so I painstakingly go through them all and I'm starting off with this doily heart which is kind of the main the main one I would say and it does make quite a difference I mean you can see now the kind of colour against the craft card and just going around all the edges there as well and by doing this it just lifted it it just looked quite flat if you just put a plain craft of playing the craft card on top of craft card it doesn't look very good so by doing this it just gives them a little bit of a silhouette a little bit of a shadow and it really does make a difference so you can see there how different they all look and then I just get all those tiny ones at a minute and I just pile them all together on that card and just dab over with my doorbell much much quicker so I'm also distressing the edges of this strip although you don't see it too well in the video it does really come out and it just gets rid of that white edge so now I'm running that strip through the middle and I'm going to start layering everything up now I never stick anything down okay so even at this point nothing is stuck down I just want to start positioning things again I spend ages deciding where my photo is going to go but I do opt for that kind of slightly down towards the left but everything is going to kind of sit within that central strip and then I'm just starting to layer up where I want all these hearts to go so I'm putting some of the paper over the craft card the larger ones on top of the the smaller ones on top of the large ones and so on so you can see I've got it all kind of where I think I'm just taking a picture of it just so I can kind of then you know revert back to that now I realise that that strip is actually too thick so I decided to go down about one and a quarter inch again I'm just going to distress the edge there it was kind of you were losing some of those embossed hearts that I've done although you don't see a lot of them it's just meant to be little kind of areas of interest that will just kind of little bit shine you know show through so the intention isn't for you to see all of it just parts of it so now I'm going to stick that one down right through the middle of that page and the reason really is just so I don't have any waste I like to especially when I'm doing 10 by 10 layout if I'm always cutting down the paper then it's good to use that paper back in your layout so I'm just sticking this photo down there with some foam adhesive again I always like to lift my photos up again I'm not sticking it yet because the photo is going to be the last thing to be stuck down so what I'm doing now is I'm going to stick down all those hearts and some of them go directly on to the paper and some are on foam some are again stuck then directly down so there's lots of different levels lots of dimension to this which again you'll see in the photos at the end it's probably harder for you to see at the minute but you know yeah some are on the foam and some aren't so it's very erratic there's no kind of flow or what's the word I'm looking for nothing's kind of equal it's just really random so you can see there I'm just finishing up and get the last couple of bits down there and I do one little rogue one over towards the left hand side there and it just starts to really come together now I'm really pleased with it because these kind of things are just in my head and then I I never know how they're going to turn out so um I remembered I had this stamp set from one of my UK magazine subscriptions and it's the apple blossom is the brand and they've got these two pints of beer kind of clinking together and I just saw I know it's me as a baby but I'm there with having a beer with my granddad as you do so I thought I'm going to bring in these little beers so I'm just inking them with the same vintage photo oxide ink just again I don't want the black kind of frame and then I'm just bringing in my watercolour pencils there although I don't use the water I just use the the plain pencil just to colour them in um I'm using more of a mustardy kind of yellow and do a little bit of blending there just so that I can get them just looking as real as possible these ones come with a matching dye as well which is great and uh so I'm just going to get that run through but obviously these give you a white border so again in a minute you'll see that I end up distressing that because it was two whites and obviously I've started to kind of dirty everything up and try and keep it all within those browns so now I'll just bring in again and just go around those edges just to keep everything kind of matching these are great really really fun it's the first time I've used them like I said I've been recently sorting out all my stamps and I found a lot that I forgot about so I'm trying to use them now so I'm just playing around see where I want to position that and then I need to do my title so for this one I'm using these craft card letters and I'm going to do happy hour again it's a really fun play on words it is a happy hour you know that was a nice moment mum said like you know it was a it was a family barbecue it was a good day and it's just nice and I just thought that it's a good play on words um I want to say these are from hobby craft but I think they might have been from the range I could be wrong but there you go you can see there so I've just done happy hour so now I'm bringing in some of my rosie studio words these match the papers so I'm using cherish at the top there on the photo then I've got that one there is happy little moments and they're just uh going to go over them with glue because they do peel off especially that one that's going on that photo and then the one at the top there is smile so just nice appropriate words I thought they worked really really well and then I bring in this gold one which says remember and I just thought that was really nice it's one of my favorite pictures of my grandad who is no longer with me so it's just a nice one that I've been wanting to scrapbook for a long time so I'm bringing in the glossy accents now and I actually go over the whole of the happy hour and also the foam on the beer and it really transformed it it made those letters pop and it just they really lifted and I just thought it looked brilliant next I'm doing a little cheers so I've just got my stamping up alphabet letters and just on the left there I'm just going to stamp cheers again just near the beer I just thought that was quite good and then because I've got that yellow all on its own in the beer I've brought in this mustard nuvo drops and it just worked really well to just kind of complement it just those little pockets little bursts of yellow and it really did finish off the layout perfectly and this has become one of my favorite layouts I've thoroughly enjoyed this one and it has come together so well by just sticking with you know very very few colours and you can see there it just looks brilliant and that this the happy hour and with the new with the glossy accent sorry I think it's just turned out so so well and I'm super pleased that this photo has been given such a lovely layout so there you go I hope I've inspired you with a more masculine layout this week it was really really fun for me to do as all my layouts are they're you know they're just I love them I really really really enjoyed doing them so I hope I've inspired you I hope you give it a go I'm getting some lovely comments with these layouts and lots of you are saying that I'm inspiring you to to start scrapbooking which is really nice and I encourage you to do so and yeah if you enjoyed today please hit the like button and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching guys bye


Contrary to reports being pedalled around, the United Kingdom does not have a problem with vaccines being administered in Nigeria. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja where it gave an update on the vaccination exercise so far. Plus TV Africa Angozika Ohecesi tells us more. It's another opportunity to brief Nigerians on the vaccination effort against COVID-19. The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Faizal Shwaib, begins with the spell and the rumor that the United Kingdom has placed Nigeria on a list of countries whose vaccinations are not recognized. To seize this opportunity to comment on the UK government statement which was released yesterday, Nigeria status has not changed. Nigeria is not among the red-listed countries that need to mandatorily quarantine for 14 days in a supervised UK facility. Nigeria has fully vaccinated less than 3 million people against COVID-19. This represents just 2% of the legible population. 4.4% have received one job, meaning Nigerians do have a long way to go. Dr. Shwaib disclosed its efforts being made to get more people vaccinated. In recent weeks, we have intensified campaigns for the uptake of second dose using multiple media strategies, stakeholders and community engagement, and these have yielded appreciable results. However, more work needs to be collectively done to improve vaccine uptake. Dorothy Ocholy, who is representing the UNICEF country representative, lists some points that the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency should look into and provide solutions. We still need to increase the number of people that have vaccinated daily from the current figure of about 100,000 per day to nearly 300,000 per day if we are to achieve the target that has been set. The World Health Organization country representative Dr. Walther Gazzadi comments Nigeria as it looks forward to the country sharing its example and experience in other African countries. From WHO perspective, we look forward to Nigeria sharing its example and the experience in how to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine to inform other countries. Nigeria will be receiving more than 3 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine in two weeks as the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency urges eligible persons to ensure they get vaccinated. For Plus TV Africa, Ngoziqa, OHHC.


Rabantia is one of Europe's leading global design companies and now they're going to re-enter China this time with their own brand store and with very aggressive expansion plans. The re-enter into China needed to start with one big bang so we secured a spot at one of the most reputable industry fairs where also the global CEO was going to come. So MSL worked very very closely with Rabantia during the entire process to strategize and really ensure that the outcome was maximized. The success of Rabantia sales in this market will primarily depend on two things. First, consumers know about the products and then the products are available in the stores. MSL needed to come up with a concept in an easy and visual way to manifest the brand and its commitment which would impress both consumers and landlords removing their concern about if the products would fit in a typically Chinese home. The concept should function as a platform for all the upcoming communications and at the same time be efficient for the fair. What we did is went back to the core of the brand which always has been about being solid, being long-lasting and having a very simple design which is timeless but yet contemporary. Then we added a geographical element to this basically telling the story saying that Rabantia's products look good no matter what year, what city or what country. We manifested it in a way which was very visual and striking. We used a technique called 3D mapping. Our MSL team built a totally white kitchen in the booth at a fair with some of Rabantia's products and then we project with a live show visualizing the Rabantia products in the kitchen from history the modern days and the future. We really love the strong story and idea from MSL. We love the concept and we actually want to use this concept as a base for all of our communications in China. MSL really made Rabantia stand out from the crowd. Comparing to the rest of the exhibitor our booth was the one that attracted by far the most attention. MSL also created a testimonial video. We went to the stores and we interviewed consumers and we had them talk spontaneously about the different Rabantia products and this video was shown in the booth but it's also going to be shown in all brand stores all across China. The route was really amazing. Actually we have entered the market with the big bang we are in before. We have successfully generated the coverage in all the key media and achieved a great 80 value. Many consumer media are interested in writing more about Rabantia in the future. To be honest we have received a very positive response from the landlords we are communicating with. They deliver what they promise all in a professional way. We mainly work from Holland but despite for the distance MSL makes us always feel safe. MSL is very strong in strategy and creativity. They even challenge us to make us look at our brand in a new way. I think MSL is much more than my agency. I think MSL is my strategic business partner in China.