in terms of innovation, I wanted to put years of innovation for you, so I'm here with you. And I will be saying to you, probably please, I'll find that you can try just to refresh the objective of this innovation committee. People in power, some of the time in the city, innovation, entrepreneurship and destination. That is the focus of the industry, which is something that the concept of this introduced into the last many months here is still ongoing. And also try to show some deliverables up to the final, as the output for the per-generational one, this is the concept. So, the objective, so basically, and according to what I want to explain, the innovation committee is the three committee, in terms of innovation and innovation. So, this was a structure that was presented on the first workshop of our station in Copenhagen in 2015. So basically, as you can see here, the main perspective of the final innovation committee was to work with three main dimensions of innovation. The part for me, very well, with the entrepreneurship of the industry and of course the same thing is a model actor and also not only in terms of space but also in terms of time and time to push this beyond the time span of the construction. So in terms of innovation, also as I've stated, that was presented in the first workshop in Copenhagen in 2015. Where the innovation committee suggested some motion point. So this is the list, and I now try to highlight things that in the opinion of the community went better, went much better and something that perhaps should push forward. So in Copenhagen, I have things that went very well in Copenhagen. So I think we missed, even yesterday we saw a portfolio statement where we see clearly a few publications also from Copenhagen. The fact that these studies have been pushed to conference papers and even journal papers as we have also said that they are preparing a special issue in Copenhagen shows that these areas that the challenges have been pushed to try to support. I think all of the meetings that we have had over these four years, we have very good solutions as well. We are also able to bring into action the experience of the industry side. So as a successful case, the last workshop was in Lisbon hosted by the industry partner. Also, I think one thing that we are pushing since the last year may is trying to address this value information issue also from a user perspective. So this is quite theoretical, it is critical to model information. But I think since we are talking about applications on real structure where these people, there are people who are not responsible for the management and they have a right to have a responsibility in their performance We need to take it to account in this formulation, this industrial perspective and the consortium. Also, at one point, innovation plays a major role in the role of the company in the project. It was successfully being led, and in the last year it is also the industry machine. But of course, only to say what the group, we can also say what brands could be better and we can learn about the location. And mainly, this issue of highlighting the perspective of the industry side of the problems that they are facing in terms of needs could be better addressed if we started taking this 6-day stage of a construction project. For instance, that this industrialization phase could be started a bit earlier and perhaps the outputs at the end of construction could be even better. But this is not a critical point of construction. This is in the learning process. Something that was often done that people suggested was to try to promote some prizes and awards inside of a construction. For example, some like the best transport recognition, the best paper, the best power presentation. This could be perhaps challenging more people to do the best perhaps in terms of their commitment in terms of participating in the construction. But again, maybe in the future, there are other options to be offered. So, in terms of power, we can set all activities that are suggested. And again, as you can see, I like to deal with all of the issues related to the participation of the industry. And I think one of the things that went very well, I think at least what I understand in the conversations with people were the social technicians in this regard. So, not only promoting people moving from a research institute or a course to another, but trying to increase my use of this mechanism of the social technician, pushing people from both sides, so either from the industry or from the research side, and trying to establish a short term cooperation period to address specific problems again, trying to formulate this rather international issue also in respect of the concerns of the industry. Something that we are now pushing a little bit later is about proposal for research. But also, I think not only we should not be only focusing on research, or it's a funding for example, or as I mentioned, thank you. But I think also we should push these industrial partners also to be invested for us in some way, because they are the individuals of these systems, and the model of information is, I think, the ultimately right against what they're better at. If we put the system that in this performance in terms of the effect of the showing evidence and announcing that many acts on the right was engaged in this construction, they decided to invest all this issue of other information in the future, that could be an example, but I can say that the reason is a partner of this construction, and I specifically invested in the project for the next five years. Where they are effectively using monitoring as a benefit to improve their asset management procedure. And this should be now something that's going to be passed actually, showing that there are industrial partners on that from the other part of the investment on the SHM towers extracting all of the information. The dissemination pilot, but this was the asset that they were interested in, so I will not say too much. And one of the things that I think we also yesterday was mentioned by our colleague, it's assessing the degree of dissemination, which I think we should also try to move it in a better way, and we are now reaching the end. I guess some mechanism as in principle, I think the case, in that case there are some tools of the game that say, see the progress of the dissemination and the track record of what is happening. And also I think the guys, I think people are good, I think they are very good, even the cost website. So I know that it's going to be done, we are preparing more of a documentary, and we can monitor the tools on the website. And we can monitor how many people who see to the website, and there is a way to check the piece. We need to have just to see what's happening, just to see what's happening to the website, because we need to spread the data, just to understand it. We are having a very short time. Pretty simple, simple. Google and analytics are done. You have to go to the track, how many people you get from where. Hello. So yes, we have a lot of work done. So basically you can cross to the official website. You should have some tools now to track how things are going over time, and also beyond the frame of the... Something that perhaps is going to be more difficult and not perhaps in a time frame of four years. So if you evaluate how things were before this construction, and after the construction, in terms of the products, so we try to see how far, let's say, the decision of the Department of Management might also come out. In fact, we don't usually do an impact on the real economy in the different dimensions, in the industry, in the schools, in the general engineering direction of the public. I think we should also try to integrate this in that direction, because this is important. So I'm pretty sure that if we follow that, we don't forget this by my opinion, I'm sure that all of us may come up in terms of having a better future in literally this issue of addressing our international policy, and the whole levels of our society. Openly. I don't think that I'm very sensitive about that. For example, it's about the job creation. I think, even yesterday, I was discussing how to create a real economy. And the real generation of civil engineering, not only civil, this was the context, should be more prepared, more aware of how to use these techniques. Why, for example, as a pilot, because my experience is that we are very conservative in the approaches when you deal with these issues as a pilot. There's a huge spectrum, the low level of the pilot. If a person is tired, he leaves, he takes all that on the road, and there is an opportunity, so I think we need also to work with that question. And the new generation that came out from universities, not only universities, but the civil engineering community, should be more prepared and prepared and be more offered to them as well in using these techniques. And also, the facility, you need to work with these in the real economy by new jobs in terms of expertise, skills, collaboration, I think. This should be something that we should have towards beyond the time frame. Of course, we try to keep the track right, we try to assess how those impact. So during these last three years, but four, but a year ago, we started discussing the concept of the new consumer education base. Again, mainly focusing on trying to look better all these work on the product information to the real economy. So this was a concept that was introduced and it's being very active, and we reacted to the end of it. So the idea here, just briefly to explain, was basically trying to make a jump from our construction industry, and trying to establish a standard negation on the supply chain. So, as I can present here, in this figure, so pushing from here and research-based institutes to ultimately collaborate with the society in general. So, from a game here, passing through manufacturing, processing, and holding on to government authorities, ultimately trying to push this into effectively this society. This was, we have been working on this concept, and there's a vision of it. We'll be getting a piece, which is for the record, last question, and we are updating computers with new activities that we have prepared as well until the end of the session. So that is how to translate these part of SHM to the code, or it's a decision making that they need to decide to decide some document and take these possibilities and come to see all these work-ends to support them to have better decisions. So, the first thing that we have is the workshop, last workshop, again, in the industrial department, so this was in Lisbon, hosted by Brita, which is now an industrial department of construction. I put here an offer, but there is a promotional video on the trailer, on the video, and it's available on the web. So, we can see, or at least try to also with, try to show evidence that in this specific workshop, the main artist will not be the part as it is here more necessarily, but they will be more industry-based, so you can look greater if you have that in the video. And also, we are trying to organize, but we have already done one, I did not listen to you, but we we have a title, Ireland in 2018, now in 2019, we have a title, so a catchy title, trying to push the national with decision makers, but then this special session. So, try to show evidence on the bank, on there, that's a structure, that's not so technical, but it's more space-based. As I said, and for the workshop that was only recently done in the original, the audience, the target audience is mainly authorities and owners. On both, these both special sessions, the papers submitted focus on real structures, so they are not let's say, exploratory work, based on some editorial based on, it's only focus on real structures. Also, again, written in a style that is easy, but it's not so difficult to read from and we are able to as well for joint collaborations even for the special sessions. The participation not only people from researchers, from leads, but also special sessions, and perhaps people present in the world with the researchers that are pushing this history. The first one is in the last September, we shared a session we had a brief discussion it told me that we need to do more work, I think which is fair, and it is something that we are starting to meet, trying to change which is not very common from a special session that is for industrial department maybe on this conference, although we are seeing a very different form of practice but it's something that I think by researchers but I think we are at least from our micro-session we are going in the right direction but still impossible. The next episode will be announced in 2019 so I hope that this new episode will be more successful also, taking the fact that we are using the same title to try to record on this dissemination and also, as mentioned in the yesterday's biography, from this special session we will promote our special issue in our practical scientific work so we hope that you will do these special sessions in african in the healthy as with the health of scientific publication since I also understand what you said that what we have always is a definition of real publications with the timing of the research perspective and for people that are so far away from us there is an answer recently that I hope that for people that are willing to push our construction beyond the time frame of this work so basically that, of course I'm sure that all of you may have the idea that this idea is to promote and support the different projects for the future on this day and the other one is starting to push in the scientific perspective to perhaps give more awareness to industry partners that were not so active in this construction or even if they called us up were not even charged with this construction but they can also try to push it beyond the time frame so I'm wrong that it's not in the travel and GMF is just a lot important to miss first travel so we can engage by means of these food calls if you are for example some industry partner that you collaborate very closely and you want some support to visit them trying to engage more effectively perhaps trying to prepare for the development either by applying for funding on the horizontal infrastructure or even if it's part of that this is probably the only advice that you can engage to begin to have more effectively you can use the first call I think you can support your master with the planning and the conditions up to 4 or 5 days you can go to this department and worry the day but surely it's something that's like in our perhaps thinking about taking advantage of this call to establish a certain business and the second one is a developer who is in the same gate and who for the awareness of this in which we're talking about in the industry another thing that the generation is fully engaged and also now more even with the industry innovation it's preparing attention more information there is a structure that is already common and it's presented last in the workshop in Israel it's something that is if you present the next it will be presented so it was presented in the workshop at the prison and we had a very active discussion about it about the structure what in that perspective would be helpful for that perspective and it will be also presented formally in the next special session I mean so this is something that it is seen from my perspective because they're very useful out from this construction but mainly in terms of decision finally in terms of the innovation but also for us now more security also there is promotion also to the the innovation to be very clear about the document for this community that are out of research I think also this is something that we need to think about this portfolio showcase that we are progressively improving by means of these offers hopefully with this special issue for the journal paper I think all of them I think it will be very catchy and also very high-end if you can reach to this level I think that a set of cases that covers different type of structures not only in my case which is the part structures groups and everything and compile these after these choices of materiality on these four years of discussion construction then the journal papers think about the showcase and then go forward and also something that there is to this by means of official channels there is the next year the European industry in 2019 it happens every year I think that will be and I think that we should also be very happy to see that we can also effectively engage with their official distribution channels because if you look to the digital they will be very happy and I'm sure that even the supporters will push this and the same way also by means of their official channels and that's it thank you very much so because it supports in one of the columns it supports for people if she is the for preparing projects proposals then there is a double call for a dissemination approach if you want to present something about this construction it supports a lot of people to travel to an industrial parking and present what are we doing in this construction I'm correct yes and then for the project it's a duration of their activities and but basically I think it's equal to this model so this is a mechanism not the cost function 2014 and 2 once promoted from this very early to help people that are really to share what we are doing but beyond construction by means of whatever type of funding that may be effectively resolved but now not really supportive of cost action that can be solved on the research project or in the industrial project that this mechanism is mainly supporting what they want I want to go to a company that is working and I see that to go there to engage what they have to do and hopefully there will be some outcome in the project anything is possible so I think we see what people call a road yes and from outside and from this side the groundwater should be able to organize that to release say one month's so if you have an idea and it's maybe inspired here by this community should think of an idea then we can make it work save the people who are not so the first step is you will set this game in then you will meet the spirit of your group of your group and then you can always set up a constant and it should be a few weeks at once that we will consider the constant we also may meet one another say at least one month that you want to meet two stars so basically we act in a way that is providing a good opportunity for your own benefit in terms of continuing this discussion by using these magnets that will be available to meet your needs first session from America and then nine or ten part of the session at the time so the number of people have to stand up because many people are there at most stars so what's left goes on nine part of the session so maybe an idea like a small stand like in France just personal pliers for people first they separate a seat and maybe to ask somebody what is it because I have a feeling that a lot of people don't know that session because the name special session number three five maybe the name is differently but just the less people know what is it about and it's intended to owners to stay close etc because when there is a lot of parallel session and there are five special session so that is a very special session other thing is for example of the innovation race and of course we are not going to make so on the post websites there is no report and you can put a report to link couple of photos maybe presentation so a short before the 219 they think the beginning was ok I didn't want to say it in a way just presented we should google it so you have it all in my place report I sold it to you the reason it's really good because I can put it on the website and then just a short list who presented what couple of photos and one of the things that we are working and I'm discussing the top innovation and isolation isolation is an experience to put it available by yourself it's available to put more people and access them to the people easier to talk so now if you go to the innovation race with that couple of results and go to video and then maybe a video presentation but if there is no place it's easier to reach we are talking at least my suggestion is in the innovation community page we can clearly be in the innovation race concept and all the things that we are working on and the other things all the things that we don't know about what you said about the specialization I think it's important that we should be better prepared and yes, I think all of the things that we mentioned I think it's very easy to do they marry in their loved ones I mean it's preparing buyers preparing the session in your mind what is the reason yes, and also perhaps put anything in more shape with the specialization we can do with the cost action the opportunity and we can we bring it for the for the conference and we put there in the registration page and people in the coffee grounds they are going through and they will see something saying there is a specialization of this title on the cost action so try to push it a bit more attention during these 2-3 days of conference people they say that's nice, I mean to see I think one roll up in an entry score it's enough for a couple of slides and maybe not to blame it again the specialization of this I think it's important that we should be better prepared for the organization but this organization was not in Dimaraj they know some people who are problem I think no no, in Dimaraj there will be a specialization of the website with the name so this problem of not knowing that there will be a specialization in Dimaraj in this world but in that we propose the session with the correct name maybe actually if you know that there is a specialization in Dimaraj yeah, that was a problem but I like an idea that we do discussing of great technology about the why I think if you could bring it for the conference people are going around so we should push this thank you my question was very good no, sorry the problem is that not many people came not many people there were nine parallel sessions at the time a lot of people were in the sponsorship area because there were drinks on the pie so a lot of people were there and nine parallel sessions maybe you can expect 50-20 people to attend but if one session ends up there is a special session at the German bridge then many people came there because it was okay everybody knew that there would be I don't know there were flyers there were posters in the house it's like a classic yes I want to switch off I think it's important to work more in a different way I mentioned this issue of having some tools that can assess the management of the Facebook page and see and we can also try to learn what is the case of the website if you can put the what you have inside which is politics or education oh yes I was thinking about what I said track the impact by the statistics that we show in Facebook and LinkedIn also extended to the web page but we are talking about the road and we think this is how we work and we are working on this I think this research proposal if this tool also may help people to achieve to succeed to show that they were going to free the number proposals that in fact signed X partners that resulted from this networking and it's excellent and we should in our customers I think also all these articles of conference and journal records that is even a quality of excellence made from the research I think also it's just I'm not aware of it but this is something that has been mentioned also since the beginning is this issue of the public information that is being introduced progressively in the Russian training students is there for example overall working towers for example having an update this module from this app specifically the position of social monitoring including this public information analysis because if you look more in the long run I think you should also be great the next generation of students here to be able to use this that's a not quite but I think this is a changing of problems but this is really an example of the project so it's not only the research but also to come from the major entities here in the last network we are the major entities so the very first or the very first students then there will be a few courses in which courses are lost and then there will be courses and this is a level where you are making your PhD so these courses, the PhDs and courses and then other courses that you can teach so some of the guys here have been there but this is a level where they practice very well these people are going to do a research on this and I said you need to prefer a new generation that you have to work in a master degree course so you have to include many of your courses and for this Simona I think is not for research but really this is a project in courses here and I hope in order to have the impact because Sebastian said we have to measure the impact how many hours is the course and is it once per year or after this and how many students or how many hours are because if there are 10 courses I remember when I was in the EDC Munich yes but actually most of them were course students but in my course not because the course was not good but in my course so if you are a course you can make this and you show which idea you get more information on the subject you can design, you can save money and so on in your course somehow you can have a complete course but this is impossible but if you demand and you are safe how many students you can measure for example I asked Simona to make this study because she sent me a picture there are 10 courses on the WP Germany 5, Denmark this does not mention the production of this another is for free so can we take a summary of what we are doing this is a question for you Simona I think I supported many because we have forgotten she said not easy so I asked her he said she needs to fill out the question so one could ask Senator Kassuna how many grades do you do in your courses how many grades do you do you have also said one one hour one fifth of my course is in the menu because I don't know any course which is in the menu exactly that one there are courses certainly more than courses there are many courses well the mother could do a little cheat I would show her to not cheat two more I would say which is in the menu which is for how many students and how many hours or days is it for so I can I can I can yeah of course I can write my suggestion I can write to you just to show you my idea on the feedback on this page so I was surprised to hear that in front and they put the ability in this as a bachelor we teach a lot of information for free so I can catch your eye as the other university we have introduced 10 years ago a bachelor's degree and at that time we have introduced in the program so we have one project I think one of the things that we stand with about to talk about the religious situation is not only to arrive at times as the impact on this network crisis, or where it cannot be considered as the impact on this problem, because it happened ten years ago, but to collect this information and create this dynamic that is actually happening, this is the concept of creating more pressure for the DNA causes to be used in the program in order to be able to produce a dynamic that has to be done in such a way that in the awareness that is done, between the thought that there will be a lot of impact, there will be a surge and so on. But that is the effect of that. At least you are preparing impact parts in the short and not so high, but in the long run it should be high ten years. If you keep this idea, this dimension, which is part of embedding this, but then there will be more action. So if you create a union, if you have a union mission, from a certain network on this subject, perhaps because it is right, it is not because it was waste of time, it is right, it is because it is important for society and the general. So now I think, or I guess also, as we are assessing out, how could also we should use all this discussion that was promoted during the sub-session, as you said. The value of information is that it is not restricted because that is what you do, of course. But take advantage of this movement, this disability as a sub-session, where the union is important, so it is given, I'm sure. Also, to refresh a little bit the caution of the same thing. I understand that when we start talking about a sense of hardware, it's not the same as union, but it's not that matter of the force that you're dealing with, it's probably the same in the industry. The value of information, especially in the spectrum, the next generation of slavery should be really comfortable. If you really want it, I know. I know how I should use it. I think it's the most effective way to change society in terms of education. The same is not ours. And a lot of people, famous people, that say it's the best in the most efficient way to change society is the need for education. So if we are able to introduce this also in our degrees, I'm sure that it's an application that we're assessing now. We appreciate what I've come back to, but we appreciate what I've come back to, because we've introduced this here from day one of our course, and the point that I'm making was the additional point in the moment, but we understand the value of these aspects. So people like us, we're trying to develop networks to promote and implement more support from this community to justify some of the justice. So this is really important. Perhaps from your side, if I'm understanding correctly, you can also use this idea of this construction to justify it. You appear here saying, please take it to account. It's the right moment to promote this network and this exploit. So I think it's justified why we are trying, and I think putting this is the beginning. So it gives us strength to keep it and I think we are in the right direction. Is it important to try to impact the movement of the society? Yes. More questions? So we have many more more questions. Any direction? Feel free to comment on the situation with me, mainly for these two people. So if you are interested, just drop an email and we are more than happy to support you. From my side, I agree. Also, the value of these posts is something that we have been providing before and that we would like to provide here an access zone and we also need to provide these moments that we want to avoid. So we choose a quite recent email, and we find another comment that I'm very interested in. It's a type of moment. So, we think this is the goal and it must provide your audience to make and use one or two performance that will be well solved. Thank you very much. Okay. Yeah. Comedian. So, yes, let's say I'm sitting there. Thank you. You're welcome.


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Hi everyone and welcome to this lesson on the mean value theorem. Let F be continuous on the closed interval from A to B and differentiable on the open interval from A to B where A is less than B. And if you just take a moment to take in the graph and note some of the different characteristics about it you'll notice the line that joins points A and B is a secant line. And you will notice that there are little tangent lines drawn at p sub 1, p sub 2, and p sub 3. Barring in a human error that was made in drawing this graph what do you notice about these tangent lines? Well hopefully you'll notice that they're all parallel to each other as well as to the secant line AB. So what does the fact that they are all parallel imply? It implies of course that their slopes are equal. Therefore the slope of each tangent will equal the slope of the secant line from A to B. Let's write that in terms of an equation. The slope of each tangent of course can be denoted by the derivative. And the slope of the line that connects the secant AB is simply a regular slope equation. So F of B minus F of A all over B minus A. And that brings us to the statement of the mean value theorem. So F is required to be continuous on the closed interval from A to B and differentiable on the open interval from A to B. Those are the two conditions we are going to have to make sure applies for each case. What the mean value theorem tells us then is that there will exist at least one C value in the open interval from A to B such that the derivative at C, the slope of the tangent line at C will equal the slope of the secant line connecting the endpoints. This was proven by the French mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange. And it's used mostly to prove other theorems in calculus. Some consider it the most important theorem in calculus. And it is closely related to the fundamental theorem of calculus that you'll learn later on. Let's take a look at an example problem. Suppose we have the function F of x equals 5 minus 4 over x. And you'll see the graph of it there to the right. We are asked to find all values of C in the open interval from 1 to 4 that will satisfy the mean value theorem. Well, remember those two conditions that we need to make sure do apply. The first one is that F needs to be continuous. Well, if you consider this function, the only place it's not continuous is at x equals 0. But that's not in the interval that we're concerned with. So we can conclude that this function is otherwise continuous on the closed interval from 1 to 4. The second condition that needs to be met is that it needs to be differentiable on the open interval from 1 to 4. Now again, this function will not be differentiable at 0. But once again, 0 is not in that interval from 1 to 4. So once again, we can conclude that this function is otherwise differentiable everywhere else. Our two conditions are met, so now we can go ahead and try to find the C that is being sought. So we'll need to find the derivative. Here's the original function. The derivative simply will be 4 over x squared. Let's go ahead and find F of b minus F at a all over b minus a. So in this case, b was 4, a was 1. We will need to substitute those into the original function to determine what F of 4 and F at 1 are. And you actually do get 4 and 1 again. So our slope of the line that connects the endpoints is 1. So remember what the mean value theorem tells us. It tells us that there should be a C value at which the derivative at that C value. So all I did was substitute C in place of my x in the derivative should someplace equal the slope of the secant line connecting the endpoints. So we have 4 over C squared equals 1 to solve. And if you go ahead and solve that, you'll find that C is equal to plus or minus 2. But remember that the interval we were concerned with was the interval from 1 to 4. So only positive 2 lies in there. So positive 2 is the only C value in this scenario that will fulfill the criteria for the mean value theorem.


Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the original stories by Rose Franken brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself Have a Coke and now Claudia I hate to wake up, but I have to darling. I'm in here shaving. You're what? Shaving I've got an early appointment in Connecticut this morning I know it and I wanted that breakfast started before you woke up even the best laid plans of mice and men Hush up.  Hey, what'd you say about a mouse? Is our kitchen mouse in the bathroom with you? No, no, I'm all alone. Go back to sleep I'll get my breakfast at the station.  What do you think? I'll take the will for the deed I have to catch the eighth three to redberry and I can't afford to miss you won't miss it I'll be dressed in no time darling. Please stay in bed. Believe me. It'll be easier all the way around The principle of the thing though. Oh, where'd I put my mules? Hmm? This country wasn't built by women who stayed in bed while their husbands got up and went off to hue the soil This country wasn't built by women period. I'm not going out to hue the soil Anyway, you don't hue soil. I'm just catching the train to Connecticut Well, you're gonna catch it with a good breakfast in your stomach. You're in my way move over say You're not going to take a bath. I took my bath last night. Just let me wash my teeth a minute I still say it would be faster if you stayed in bed. Look, don't you want to have breakfast with me? Sure I do But I also want to get shaved Lather's getting dry. It's a nice lather by the way Kissing you is like kissing a lemon rang pie made with lilac. That's the soap. It's not lilac Or is it? It's lilac. Not too strong. Don't worry darling. Nobody me would notice All right. I'm out all finished. Yep for keeps. Yep Too good to be true. All I have to do is comb my hair I thought you have the mirror to shave in one second go on be a good boy move over This apartment seems to be getting smaller in the morning I suppose you'd like it if I put the coffee on in a kimono. Frankly, I'd prefer it in the percolator Goop Also be glad I don't have to scramble into a girdle and hold up the bathroom putting on lipstick and rouge Haven't I told you how glad I am about that? No. Well, I'll tell you now Come here that glad David am I really a good wife? Well, you're the best I've had to date your coffee's pretty good. What do you mean pretty?  Then you'll be a bride until you're an old lady That's very sweet. Optimistic tune. I run along and fix breakfast quick quick quick All right. All right. All right. All right. Hey, leave the door open while you shave so we can talk to each other I don't like to talk to each other while I shave. Then you just listen. I like company while I do things Hey, Claudia I'm cutting myself to ribbons. What's happened to this razor? Listen, I know you didn't shave with it, but did you use it to open something with? Oh What come on out with it? Say no more. Claudia. There is one thing in violet to a man and that's his razor Never use my razor again again for anything for cleaning windows or anything else David You are not talking to me like a bride. I'm talking to you man to man. It's an unwritten law A wife is not to tapper with her husband's razor. How much does a razor cost? It's not the cost Did you put it before it's the principle of the thing Suppose I didn't have another blade, but you have though, haven't you? David answer have you? Yes, I Have one that I hid Then I think you're very inconsiderate to make such a big fuss over nothing I'm inconsiderate just because I happen happen mind you to have an extra blade. I'm in the wrong Oh, you're the limit. Then why'd you marry me if I'm the limit? I guess I Like people are the limit. It's good David we almost had our first fight. Do you know it? Oh, we came mighty close to it Is uh breakfast on the way coffee's on David you really want two minute eggs. They're so wishy-washy. I like them wishy-washy You can drink them. They go down quicker. Look darling. I'm in a hurry. Let's skip the eggs this morning You will not you can't go to Connecticut without eggs nice eggs like I'm cooking Are you putting your tie on yet? No Tell me where you are. What's it to you? Nothing to me but everything to the eggs Look I I've timed you for a week now I put them in after you've got your tie on and they're just right when you come to the table Eggs are cooked with a clock not by a man's tie Anyway, I'm nowhere near my tie. I'm only up to my socks my you're slow At the moment I have One brown sock And one blue sock Best dressed men are wearing them the same color this season. Oh, you must have taken them from the wrong pile Are there two piles?  I found another blue sock. That was clever of you Hmm as a hole in the toe naturally you took it from the wrong bundle sweet heart darling angel I could joyfully ring your neck David. I think you really mean that Oh, don't let's fight over little things or big ones either. Yes, let's don't I'll count to 10 One two three four five six seven eight nine ten I would still like to ring your neck. Well ring it That was nice I like you to ring my neck That's all the time I have to Ring next this morning I'll wear the hole. Oh, you'll feel uncomfortable all day. I know Let me find you another time. I'm catching the eight three Toss me my tie and a hustle with a hustle with that breakfast. It's ready. Oh stop joking. I'm really in a hurry I'm not joking. It's ready. I always put everything out the night before even the table set I'm surprised you don't make me eat my breakfast tonight before So, you know what give us more time in the morning to have breakfast behind this I think it would be better just to let things go along in their old humdrum way Look darling, you're underfoot like a puppy now scat scat scat is for cats I wonder what's for dog. I never thought of it remind me to figure it out tonight. Now come along to breakfast Doesn't the coffee smell good? Yeah, it smells pretty strong Oh David, what it's boiled away. Well, never mind darling. It's all right But I do mind you can't go off without coffee. I'll add water I don't like coffee with water added. You'll never know it But I do know it. I just have my eggs and cereal. No cereal. It's prunes this morning prunes I did not get married to eat prunes. Mama told me to give them to you once a week. They have iron or something in them That is the first nasty thing your mother has ever done to me. I just wait till I see her just wait Then what will you eat the eggs will be enough here? They're hot They just came off the stove. What do you expect? Hey Hold on These eggs aren't soft boiled. They're hard as rocks. Oh David, they passed the two minutes stage. That's putting it mildly They're practically ready for college. Okay, let me cook you some more. Lonnie take a minute. I'm in two minutes I have to go. I have to go on. But you can't go on an empty stomach. You would be surprised. Goodbye David come back. You haven't kissed me. I haven't time. But David Promise me you'll get breakfast at the station. That's what I wanted to do in the first place Claudia what is the matter with you? Nothing mama. Don't tell me nothing. I don't like the way you've been acting all afternoon Shopping makes me a little tired again. Since when? Come on out with it. What's bothering you? Nothing What did you and David quarrel about this morning? Mama, how'd you know we had a quarrel? Whose fault was it? Your fault. My fault. There is one thing I will never do cause any trouble between you and David Oh, what are you talking about? He adores you. He thinks you're just about perfect Except for prunes. Oh The prunes are only the finishing touch though. It was really his socks that started it socks He should have taught me to darn socks better mama. Darning gets me done. I've absolutely no talent for it How do you know? Have you tried it? No, I haven't gotten around to it yet. What do you expect? Have you got a darning egg and darning needles in the house? I've got regular eggs and regular needles and that's good enough for any sock Mama look don't get off the subject Look at what that pet shop. There's a monkey in the window. Mama quick. Come on. Stop pulling at my elbow I am not interested in monkeys What I am interested in is buying some darning cotton to patch up your marriage. Well, wait a minute. Just look at him Can't you? Isn't she fascinating?  He is though. Watch him swing I do not like monkeys. They're dirty and they're homely. Course they're homely. That's what's so cute about them I'm going in the shop a minute. You're going to do nothing of the kind. There is no law. I guess just looking around There ought to be Claudia come back.  I'll meet you later. You're not fit to be trusted in the pet shop alone Wait for me. I'll go in with you There are those puppies. Oh, couldn't you just eat them? No, I could not come along out, Claudia.  Well, what can I do for you ladies? A nice little puppy What kind of puppies are those? Well, those are Very fine puppies. They're Well, as you can see wonderful puppies Their mother was a nice puppy too. Oh, they're adorable, but I can't seem to place the breed Well, like I told you miss they're just puppies and they're going to grow up to be just dogs You know some of the best dogs there is is uh Well, it's just dogs My husband wouldn't like a small dog But I am interested in the monkey in the window. Oh, that's a nice monkey. That is do they like good pets depends if you like monkeys Some people like monkeys I just sold one to the old a day the picture actress She likes monkeys. My daughter isn't the picture actress besides I heard that monkeys bite. No, this here monkey only bites men He likes ladies all right, but it's funny how we just don't like men All david would need would be to come home after the prunes and be bitten by a monkey in his own house Now come on. Let's go Hey mama, wait a minute Uh, do you think there's any chance that those puppies might grow up into big dogs? Well, lady, that's anybody's opinion But I'd say they'd grow up small Looking at them you sort of get the idea that a cocker spaniel is about their biggest ingredient Then I won't even get friendly with them. Of course one of these might No, no, no, I guess not Lady you wouldn't want a really big dog now. Would you sure you got one here? No, thank heaven Not here. I mean but out on my place in Long Island. I've got a great dog What kind of a great dog lady there isn't any use describing this dog I'm speaking about he's got to be seen to be appreciated. Why isn't he here? Well, no, you sort of too large to keep in the shop But I could bring him in we wouldn't dream of traveling I would would you bring him in Why sure I would no trouble at all.  Are you utterly mad?  Patch up our marriage. Try some donning cotton instead. Oh when we have as exciting David and I need a pet of some kind something alive and and and living to bring us together In due time and God willing you'll have a baby. That's alive and living Can't you wait until then? Oh, we have to wait too long, but we can have a dog tomorrow mama He's just across the river All story material used in this broadcast of claudio was under the supervision of rose franken and william brown meloni When you have young folks in the family, you just can't tell when they'll be trooping home with their pals But you sure can tell that they'll be heading straight for the refrigerator to get out the frosty bottles of coca-cola Now that there's more coke available keep your icebox stocked up Every day monday through friday claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time And now this is joe king saying or if war and remember Whoever you are whatever you do wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of coca-cola Or ice cold coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes


Ngātiwara. OK. What I'd like to talk to you about today is our digital interpretation at Toyota Otago Settlers Museum. I know some of you have perhaps been there. Some of you I hope are about to come, if you haven't been already. At the moment I'm acting director, but my unusual day job is visitor experience manager and I was involved in the team that brought this all together. What I'd like to do is first of all do some thank yous to the team that brought the whole thing together, including Workshop E, our design team, and I know there's people out in the audience who are part of that team, so well done everybody. It was really, really good. Basically the museum's been on the go since 1908 in various incarnations and eventually it got to the stage where we decided we had to do a complete redo, redevelopment, got the money, et cetera, et cetera. And as part of a $39 million development, most of which went on the outside. The museum opened in December last year. But part of the way, along the way, we had to decide what to do and how to do the interpretation. And it was quite a process, which I'll talk about today. We looked at what we wanted to do and how we wanted to do it. But it started with the need to develop a text hierarchy, which would then inform our interpretation scheme. And I was very lucky to be asked to do that. So I organised and thought about and wrote and developed a text hierarchy, which then went back and forwards with Rich Hoppe, our design company, until we were all happy with how it was looking. But at the same time, I was also asked to consider what new technology I would want to see in the new museum, what I asked. Bit of a gadget girl, I owned the very first iPad sold in the entire South Island. I know that because I queued at the door for it. So I had spent a lot of time talking about technology and text and how to present it. And in the end, it ended up being done together more or less. And one of the research things that I looked at was what Tapapa had done in terms of writing effective interpretive text. I don't know how familiar you are with that. But basically, the interesting things are the longer the text on a label, the less likely it is to be read. The more text there is in an exhibition, the less of it is likely to be read. And visitors spent on average two seconds, scary. Two seconds reading any given text in an exhibition. The most read text are about things, object labels, or captions. The least read text are about ideas, labels not immediately associated with objects. And then the last thing that I really talked about was however reading behaviour is notoriously difficult to observe directly. Think about this finding. Given good legibility, visitors can take in 20 to 30 words during a two to three second movement towards or past a label within their field of vision with no apparent reading. And that's from Tapapa writing effective interpretive text. So what we ended up was a text hierarchy, which had very strict word limits and which placed most text at the lower end of the hierarchy and less at the top. And I can say that this was not universally popular when it was first mooted, but is working really well in practice. I think everyone would agree with that. But just very briefly, gallery name at the very top, one word, maximum three. Topic, which is up with gallery name 50 words. You could explain the whole gallery in 50 words. The traditional subtopic, we took it out altogether. So we have no subtopic panels anywhere in the museum, apart from one place. And then we've got object label, which is about 30 to 50 words. And then on top of that, we've got what we call a hero object, which is an object without which we can't tell the story. And that one was allowed 80 to 100 words. Which, as you can appreciate, was not a great number of words. So we got that organised, and then we started thinking again about what to do. I locked it radio frequency ID. But again, expensive, not a lot.  And also, you had to be quite close to the object that you were looking at. It just seemed a bit limited. I also locked it near field technology. That was very, very new. Back in 2011, when we were considering that, too dependent on it being installed in the phone, or the device that you were using. So we kind of had to think about how we were going to do it and what we're going to do it with. I also considered GPS compatibility.  If you've got two objects close together, it's not going to differentiate about where you are. I then locked it QR technology, whichever I'll tell you a bit about later. It still needed a smartphone, but it didn't need any particular smartphone. And then what I had to do was battle, and I mean battle, to get free Wi-Fi throughout the whole museum. So it wasn't dependent on having access to a paid phone network, which was good. Okay, now, what we also looked at, and this is again Nina Simon, a big fan of Nina Simon, we wanted to do something meaningful with the technology and something meaningful in terms of the whole interpretive scheme. So I looked at this, which was the metawii design, which has a whole lot of different stages. Basically, stage one, we have provided access via a range of options. We've got printed text, QR code, access to YouTube videos and layers and layers of text on computer information screens, which I'll show you shortly. Stage two, we also thought very much about not spoon feeding the visitor, but making them hunt for the information that they needed. It's there, but you've got to do a bit of work to uncover it. And that's an ethos that goes right through the museum. You've really got to sometimes work to find that information.  Easy to find. We also have, for stage three, we've got various things, but a participation sculpture, which provides a platform for stage three interaction where people can write down directly what they think and put it up. We transcribe those and look at them. We've also got the usual social media platforms, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube. And stage four, I think we're still working on, but we do have a research centre where you can be face-to-face with staff who'll answer questions, and of course, we've got staff on the ground as well. Stage five is a tricky one. Partially solved via our people posts, but I'm not quite sure we've quite yet cracked the place for social interaction, although... And again, it was interesting because this has already been mentioned earlier. We have got... We've got craft collective, which is once a month people get together and do craft works together in the museum. We've got Book Club and other things, and we've got a Tuesday Club, which has a really highly social aspect to it, where people are really into the social aspect. In fact, I often joke that Tuesday Club doesn't matter who you get to talk to them because they'll come and listen because they really want to catch up with their mates and have a cup of tea. But they actually can take quite a lot of hard historical data as well. They're a very good group. But people are starting to become regulars at our social events, which we think is really, really good. So these are the concepts that we develop with Workshop E, and I'll run you through various ones of them. What we call a Digital Label Rail, or DLR. It's a touch screen for all the cases that we have, the big cases. We still do have written labels, printed labels for smaller cases. The DLR particularly is a concept that we weren't sure how that was going to go, but again, the Tuesday Club average age about 80. I tested it on them. I gave them the screen. I gave them no instruction. I just said, you've got to the case. Here's the screen in front of the case. And I didn't tell them any more than that, and they all got it. They touched it. They looked at it. They worked out how to use it really easy, which is really, really good. And the other concept that we had as well, which didn't work in one case, which I'll talk about people posts, is we didn't have any touch the screen to begin or there is information on the touch screen. We didn't. All the screens were touch screens. We didn't explain that they were touch screens. We didn't explain how to use them. We didn't explain that you had to touch them. And that, again, is about our not spoon-feeding visitors and making people find out for themselves. And again, the only place that didn't work was the people posts. There's our digital label rail in front of one of our cases. It is basically a computer screen. The housing contains all the gear, and I won't go into technical aspects here. I haven't really got time, but it's standalone, but networked, centrally controllable, and works really, really well. Now, the first screen, when you get to it, and I'll just give you an example in just a minute, has all the objects laid out with our design scheme of the case on it. And then we have a second screen, which takes you to the object and a third screen, in some cases, where there's more information. At the moment, we are working on providing a third screen for a lot more of the object, so we're adding another whole layer in there. So this is the Chinese case.  And again, each, this is an object label. It has a photograph associated with the object. It has a heading, a label, and then it has a photograph credit as well. Sometimes we have no photos, so there's no photo. And interestingly, where there's a photograph and no credit, we decided that to make it easier, because we had a lot of photographs, we digitised enormous numbers of photographs. We didn't put a credit where it was our photograph for two reasons, number one of which made it easier, number two of which we hadn't named ourselves yet, so it was much easier to go back and leave the name out, which we did. Okay, now also, while we did a lot of digital things, we also said we don't want to do only digital things. Let's keep it off the time. We wanted to have other things as well, so what we've got is we've got a reproduction newspaper of the period from the 1840s, 1850s. We do a daily guided tour if you want face-to-face interaction. You can have that. We have a lot of textile hands-on interactivity, which I haven't got time to talk about today, and dress ups are tremendously successful. If you put dress ups in a museum, it is obviously sanctioned, and the thing to do, and all sorts of people dress up that you would never think of would dress up, but they do. Okay, people post. This is another concept that we developed whereby we wanted to tell stories. It started off with all of our ethnic and other communities, and we said, how do we tell those stories? And we talked about objects and cases and all sorts of things. And in the end, we decided we would go with putting their voices into the gallery, and you can see here, this is a concept drawing of how it would be. It's a real life purse, a real life. It's a video, but it's life-size, and it's at the right height, and they talk to you. And I'll just show you two of them here, give you an example. They're very short. When you click on the people post, you get eight options on each post, and there are nine people posts. That's a lot of video. But you can then choose them, and they all set up YouTube style. You can go back. You can see how far through you are. Kura koutou. Sometimes the places and origins of areas around Otago get lost. My family has a strong connection with a place called Waitati and Blue Skin Bay. My ancestor, Kahuji, was heavily tattooed with the traditional blue colour, and he earned the name Blue Skin, which was given to him by sailors and whalers. Waitati is actually called Waitati, which means restricted waters. And if you travel there, you'll see the mouth of the estuary and the river. And I'll just talk briefly about the holding screen, what we did with the holding screen. We thought it was a really neat, cool idea. We got some people who were in the videos to just sit there and look around at the gallery as if they were looking at people. And what we found was, and again, we'd no instruction at all on the front. And what we found was people were walking past and not touching them and not interacting with them. So, hmm, okay. That's not working. So, and again, some of them were, I wouldn't say intimidating, but people didn't feel comfortable going up and poking them in the tummy to see what they did. So, what we had to do on the home screen, which looked much like one of these screens, was actually put a little hand symbol and a little bit of movement around it so that people would go up and touch it because they weren't interacting with them to that extent, or they had to have it explained. So that solved that problem. Chinese gold miner. Wong Gong came from Bamboo Village in China. He was a well-known gold miner and interpreter in the Schifters area, sent to Otago. One day, when he was working on his mine, was his mate Jimmy. Wong Gong was buried in a rock fort. Jimmy ran off and got the dredge master, Tom Hoskins, to help to dig him free. After he was dug out, they rubbed him down with Chinese liniments. Months later, the locals thought Wong Gong had gone mad when he was very busy building a rock wall garden. After that, Wong Gong presents it to the Hoskins family with a sack full of vegetables and he continued to gift the family with vegetables for many years to come. The truth was that Wong Gong had discovered that gardening was a much safer occupation than mining. And again, what we've got there is we've got people telling their own stories and their own words in the 20th Century Gallery, but people in other galleries telling the stories of their ancestors. It's a very personal experience. It works really, really well. Now, the other concept we've got is information stations. Again, this is what they look like on the ground in the gallery. There's nothing on them that sees information stations. There's no instructions, no nothing. But again, they work really, really well. One of the problem I have is if I want to show them to people, I've got a queue or wait for someone to finish looking at them. And in fact, I've also had to buy extra seating. The designer only organised for one seat under the small screen, the big screen you're supposed to stand at. But in fact, people were dragging the seat round to sit at the other screens. We put more seating there because people are spending more time at the screens. And I'll do a quick run-through of what they are. This is the big screen, which is place based on a map divided into three colour categories. So you can actually, it's a way of dividing up what's on the map. We've got change over time, which is new developments for the period made and needed in local businesses and companies, overground and underground. And as you can see, you can either touch it on the map and zoom into it and look at it. It gives you information and a photograph. And again, you just pinch and zoom. Very intuitive. Different colours, again, at the bottom are different types of things. And again, this one you can see has two screens and two images. And again, this one here, the information station is no word limit. Curated to be very happy about that one. So this is where you can put a lot of information because people have got to that layer. It's the last layer. Almost you have got time to sit down. So there's a lot more information in there and go to town. You've got two or three images. You stick them all in there. This is the place for them. There's an awful lot of information in them. And they all have the same format. We've got three of them and each one is in a different chronological period. But again, we haven't labelled them. You've got to work that one out. We've got another three in development. So eventually we'll have six information stations on the floor. And again, it was rather tricky trying to decide how to cover the whole area. But we said we have to cover the whole area because we needed to go right from Port Charmers Waikawiti right out to Outram, Mosgill for those that know Dunedin. It's one of the greatest land areas of a city council area. So we had to cover that area. It was very big. But again, people are used to zooming in out of the map, Google Maps is taught people how to do that, have a navigate round. So again, very intuitive way of navigating around. That's probably enough of that one. Then we go to the next one, which is People and Event. There's the small screen based on timeline. So you can just scoot along the timeline up and down in chronological order until you get to the one that interests you. And again, lots of words and photographs. These ones you can't zoom into the photographs like you can on the big screen. But they're still a decent size. And again, sources the whole thing. So it's quite a lot of information in there. But not only that, it's nicely presented. You know, it's not a linear fashion. It's not like a label on a screen. It's built as a computer interactive. Okay, and the other one I'll show you is about Monday. We have a series of 39 photographs. They are absolutely stunning photographs. They are really, really high quality and very big. They are a snapshot of Dunedin in 1864, about three city blocks. So it's a very, very small, concise area. As you can see from here, you can zoom into them and then you can move around. You can read the labels on the products in the shop windows. They are very, very detailed. There's an awful lot of information in each photograph and you can zoom around inside them quite a lot. Again, we've got on the side, we've got a map of each image. You can see precisely which angle it's taken from and where it is in the street. And we've also got information about Monday, the photographer as well. This one here just shows you the level of detail. You know this Dowling Street, that rock is now gone. And people do spend, this is a stand-up interactive, but people do spend quite a lot of time looking at it and going through the different photographs. People that know the area, people that don't, a whole variety of people that look at it. Okay, the other interactive we've got is one for the Smith Gallery. It's our portrait gallery. This is where the museum started. It's very, very historical. Very, very loved, a real iconic piece in the gallery. This is it from 1948. This is at a concept stage and this is it in reality. And you can see in the middle there we've got computer stations. Again, this is another one we had to modify a bit. Each computer station will show you each of the four walls in the gallery, but we found visitors were very politely curing up to go to the different station in front of the wall they wanted to go to. So we thought about that and re-jigged the interface at the front to make it more obvious what you were doing and what you were looking at. So that seems to go quite well. I'll show you this here. So you're looking at the wall in front of you. Again, what's really good about it is if the images are quite high up on the wall, you can look at them more closely. And again, some of them you've got multiple people, which means you can, and they're quite small, you can zoom in on and look at them more closely as well. So you need to click on the i for each photograph. You then get the information about that image, which can be quite long depending on what we've got. We've got 470-odd photographs on the wall, 80 of those have got a full biography of sort of like three, 400 words. This is information about the gallery itself. We also have a searchable index. It's not completely searchable in terms of typing something in, but it's arranged alphabetically. So you just have to scroll through until you can find the name that you're looking for, and then it will take you straight to that picture, and then it'll also tell you, when you click on the i, it'll tell you where it is on the wall. And again, we find people using this that don't even know the people, but they are really interested in knowing more about the pictures and the people that they're looking at on the screen. Okay, and now this is a fail. I'll tell you that right now. I've had, it's working and it's not quite working. This is QR codes. What we did is we decided, we had a lot of information about our hero objects. If you try to scan that, it won't work, sadly. The idea was you could scan it with your smartphone now and you could listen to the curator and see what I mean while I'm talking. But what I found out when I scanned it quickly at the end of last week, to make sure I could put it in the presentation and go, oh, it's not working. So I fired off a quick email, and the email string has got longer and longer and longer. And basically what it turned out is that when, in the process of changing our name, we of course changed the website. All of our QR codes point to our old website. So they have migrated everything over to the new website, that's fantastic. But the QR codes don't point to the right place. So we've had this big long discussion now of IT people and they're saying, oh, don't worry about it, develop new content. No, we don't want to develop new content. We want this content because there's 40 odd videos that have been produced with images and curatorial narration. We want people to access them. Oh, okay. Well, put new QR codes and fire them while over the place. There's 42 of them. They're all over the show. That's an expensive thing. We don't want to put a tacky sticker over it. Can you not just get the old website live again, pay the very small amount of money and then just redirect everybody. So we're still discussing that and trying to get them to see what the problem is. But I now have a word for it. It's called linkrot. I learnt that yesterday. I know about that one. But the scary thing about that is that I know they were working or even a month or so ago because I was testing one, but I don't know when they broke and nobody's told me that they're broken. So I'm not sure how well they're being used. There we go. If no one's told me, I know. So there we go. So how are we going? We're getting really, really good feedback. There's some things here that we've been doing. We have been gaining a lot of awards for various things for the whole project. But I think again, everything that we've done fits in really well to the whole project. We're getting many repeat visitors because there's so much content and there's so much to see. And what's really interesting when we're finding is people going, oh, we love the way you've added the labels onto that thing and we're going, oh, that's nice, yeah. And we don't tell them, but it's been there since opening. Oh, we love that new thing. You've got that new thing. We go, ha, yeah, been there since opening. So, you know, there's such a lot of content and there's so many layers of it that people are coming back and again and again and finding something new to visit, which is really, really good. And our visitor numbers, we haven't yet been open a full year, but we've just over 310,000, which is really, really good. And like I say, good repeat visitation. A lot of overseas visitors, a lot of cruise ship visitors as we're in the midst of cruise ship season just now. But I'll show you some of the feedback, including some from our visitors. We love TripAdvisor. TripAdvisor is so good. And some of it, again, doesn't matter what sort of talk I'm doing, I go back to TripAdvisor and I can find somebody commenting on just exactly what I want to talk about. And again, what we're finding is that people are using what we thought of as an interpretive device as an interactive. Yes, they are interactive, but that's not primarily why we design them that way. They are an interpretation device, but they are really, really excited by the interactivity that we've built into everything and how much it engages the younger kids. That's what we're finding is that people are really liking it. That's awesome. Yeah, it was a lot cooler than when we were kids. I used to hate coming here on the Prime Minister, so it was pretty boring, apart from the juice apps, but no, it's a lot cooler now. It's a lot more exciting, more interactive. Yeah, more things to touch and get involved with, which is a lot cooler than just looking at things behind glass. The tide of us was really cool. Yeah.  It was great fun. And the dress ups and the boat was really fun as well. Yeah, it's cool. Obviously, for her age, they get a bit bored really easily, but we've been here for an hour, and she's only just getting fed up now, and we've been and had quite a lot through everything, so that's fine, and she's had a great time, so it's been good. I'll skip the next one back here. There we go. We two from here. There's lots of other things we're looking at and exploring. Like I said, we've got three information stations. We're looking at getting another three on the floor. We're collaborating with the Jewish Online Museum live today. I asked them very nicely if I could use a screenshot because it wasn't up and running yet, but it's live from today, which is fantastic. We're also looking at the montage there. We're looking at Cats and Dogs exhibition. At some point, we want to get everybody, the public, to load up their pictures of their cats and dogs via Flickr, and then we want to use it as a montage in the gallery and build it up as the exhibition goes along, so it grows as the exhibition goes along. We're redesigning our website because it's about three years old now, and we're also opening a new exhibition very shortly of a new exhibit called Ghosts of Wall Street, and I'd like to play you a video. It's Rebit Long, but I'll play you that because it's based on sound, solid research. It's based on digitising our photographs. It's based on real characters and real... It's fictional. They've made up a story, but we provided real hard data to make that from, and the exhibit is based on archaeology. So we said, right, okay, how do we bring archaeology to life? We've got all these things in this case. This story is based on a conch shell. It's a fairly unusual object to find in an inner-city archaeological site. We have evidence of a well-known, very early Chinese woman settler, and we gave all this information to a company and they came up with this, which is, I think, for us, it's a way forward. It's really, really good. It's about interactivity as well. It's about emotion. It's about lots of different things, and we're really looking forward to getting this one open very shortly. When I saw her for the first time, she was staring in a window at the conch shell I had to put there. Every time she passed by, I see her looking. I called her to come, but she's scared. Think I'm angry like others. They tell her, go. Shout at her to get out. Go home. So I learned words. Harry, my, and call her again. She comes into my store. Her name is Tahu Nui O'Raki. She knows English from missionary. Her tribe, Ma Mui, is very small. Our people have no woman here. So I dress like English lady, even though they will not speak to me. But Tahu comes again. And again, each time we're talking, she teach me her words. And I show her English letters. We give gifts and tell stories, speak of family, our ancestors, and their spirits. At home, we different. But here, in this city, we the same. This shell is stranger also from long away. Tahu calls it Tauka, a treasure. Yet no one buys. My husband say it unlucky. But I say shell has not finished his journey. So I give it to her to remind that. We do not know where travels will lead us or who shall be here when we arrive. And it goes back to a still picture and that's how it sits in the gallery. The still picture then comes to life in a sequence. There's some details if anyone's interested and I think we're on to question time now.


On the breakfast, Najran politics takes place within the framework. 23 years after, we take a look at the system and what has transpired so far. Also on the breakfast, the governorship election syndicate, state is shadowed for June the 18th, little over a week from now, the people of the state will elect a successor to Gov. Coyote Fiammi. We take a look at the speech of the candidate, their competence as well as their intention. Don't forget, we would also be looking through the papers as always analyzing the biggest stories after the day. Welcome to the breakfast in Plasti via Africa, I am Masya Bouf. It's a beautiful Monday morning, a happy democracy day. Well, we start off a top trending conversation as always with conversations that are generating different reactions in different spaces. And so first on the list this morning is the president's speech. You like to say, Buhari's democracy speech. Let's take a listen. We'll be right back. Today, June the 12th marks another democracy day anniversary and an occasion to celebrate freedom and unity of our nation. From 1999, we consistently celebrated democracy day to mark the end of military rule and the return of power and control into the hands of those freely elected by the people. This is my last democracy day speech as your president. By June 12, 2023, exactly one year from today, you will already have a new president. I remain committed and determined to ensure that the new president is elected through a peaceful and transparent process. The signs so far are positive. Recently, all registered political parties conducted parameters to select their candidates for the 2023 general elections. These parameters were peaceful and orderly. Those who won were magnanimous in their victories. Those who lost were gracious in defeat. And those agreed opted to seek judicial justice as opposed to jungle justice. I will therefore take this opportunity on this very special day to ask all candidates to continue running issue focused campaigns and to treat opponents with dignity. As leaders, you must all showcase high character and never forget that the world is watching us and Africa looks up to Nigeria to provide example in governance. The tone you set at the top will surely be replicated in your followers. For the voters, I am pleased to inform you that in the last seven years, our government across all tiers has made significant investments to reform and enhance our electoral laws, systems and processes to safeguard your votes. The executive, legislator and judiciary were and still remain united and committed to ensure those reforms are fully implemented in the 2023 general elections. Welcome back to the breakfast. Of course, that was the president's speech or democracy day. If you like to say that has not really sat well with a lot of Nigerians.  Some people think the speech is empty. Others are saying that it's a reputation every order time. And others are saying, hey, there's really nothing there to talk about. But, you know, the big question would always be, I mean, if we look at the tenet of democracy, how far have we fed so far in terms of all of the issues that, you know, democracy would stand for. So you want to begin to look at the issue of freedom of assembly and association. And some people would say, what happened on the 20th of October? What happened? Freedom of association. We remember the situation that happened right here in Lagos where, you know, there was a massacre. According to the report that was confirmed by the panel that was set up property rights. There's a lot. And a lot of Nigerians quite disappointed with the speech of Mr. President saying it does not. Nothing really reflects the tenet and, you know, the principles and believe of democracy. There's a total waste of time. Well, however it is, the cases there are no absolutes. They're just relative. Progress it is that we're making very nascent. And I'm sure that we will definitely get there. Away from the president's speech, let's also take a look at a recent movement. Now, if you follow the Nigerian politics, then you will be very sure that the issue of political apathy is on top of the list. Now, it feels like 2023 is going to be very different because there's been a recent movement. Some people would like to call it a revival. Others are saying this is the revolution. No PVC, no church. We'll take a track now when we come back we'll continue with the conversation. If you don't have your PVC, don't bother coming. Because there is no point in having Christians fill the church. But during election, we have only a handful of them go out to vote. So it means our number, our population means nothing. So we want Christians to take their responsibility and their role seriously. So today I am serious about it. As I'm standing here, if you have your PVC, begin to come in. But if you don't have your PVC, find your way back home. You will not attend Massier today. Is that clear? Because with your PVC, I have begin to come in. I also don't have their PVC. We need to go back. I'm serious about it. What people do is, from today, if you're coming for Mass, carry your PVC. If you don't have your PVC, don't bother coming. Because there is no point in having Christians fill the church. But during election, we have only a handful of them go out to vote. So it means our number, our population means nothing. So we want Christians to take their responsibility and their role seriously. So today I am serious about it. As I'm standing here, if you have your PVC, begin to come in. But if you don't have your PVC, find your way back home. You will not attend Massier today. Is that clear? Because with your PVC, I have begin to come in. I also don't have their PVC. We need to go back. I'm serious about it. Well, I find that very funny. Comical if you ask me. But like I mentioned, it's something that's going on. It feels like some people have described as a movement of the PVC. But you need to also read the comment and see the reaction and hear the conversation of Nigerians across the entire country. It's something that we have not seen before. But in all of this, the question is, in the cost of asking that people get their PVC, which is very important, because according to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, you have a right to vote and be voted for. And so it is within a right. But some people are also questioning the fact that is it also compulsory to vote because it's a choice. Now, in other climes like Australia, it is actually a crime not to vote. But I'm not sure that in our country or our polity, it is actually a crime not to vote. At the end of the day, we're talking about rights of individual. But you see, everyone also have a right to a peaceful assembly. And that's what the Constitution talks about. And that's why it is always very disheartening when people talk about protesting government policies across and then having protests and then you have some anti-protest element. At some point, people say these persons are really from the government trying to stop the people because everyone has a right to a peaceful assembly. So what should be the approach? Yes, we understand it's important that everyone become part of the election process, become part of democracy because if you look at the concept of democracy, it has to do with the people. And so participation of citizens is very critical as one of the elements of a democratic process and system. And so, yes, it's fine that there's a movement that's asking for it. But on the other hand, are we also depriving people and the citizens from also having a right to a peaceful assembly? We need to think about it. Two wrongs can never make a right. But hey, the encouragement and sensitization should continue because it's important that you get your PVC. It's important that you cast your vote because you have a right to vote and be voted for. And if you do not have a PVC, how then do you cast your vote? And what right do you have to criticize any government if you're not part of that process? And that's it. Let's move away from that. Still with the issue of vote and 2023. So you also have the youths saying, hey, we're taking this back. There's been a lot of concerns. I mean, we have a lot of our celebrities who have come out together and they've gathered and they've organized concerts. And they're saying the concerts at the end of the day so encourage the young people across because there seem to be a perception. Not necessarily seeming to be, but there is a perception that votes don't count. And that's because there's a deficit, trust deficit in the system. The people who have lost trust in the entire electoral process. And if you move around, I engage with the people from time to time. And then you get to hear people say, oh, it doesn't really matter. Votes will never count. I mean, who cares? They already know who would become the process. What's the essence of going out to vote? And this is constantly contributed. But it feels like it's different because you have the likes of Wajie, the vows among all the celebrities.  The concept and the ideology that your votes never count is a delusion. And that's why you have this concept. Also, very interesting is the fact that, you know, the chairman of the MPAR, we're talking about INAG right now, Professor Mamoud Yacoubo has also assured Nigerians that they have voted to count and they're doing everything possible. It probably just feels like this might just be the right time to be a Nigerian. And as he has assured the youth and Nigerians across saying that we would have a free and fair election. The president has also assured that there will be a free and transparent election come 2023. Absolutely great. But we'll take a listen to this when we come back, we'll continue with the conversation. Clearly, I have two requests. When you collect your PBCs, when you collect your PBCs, please let me assure and reassure you that... I mean, that's the MPAR, the chairman of the MPAR, encouraging and assuring the young people that were gathered for this concert saying that they have voted to count. And I think that this is a time that we all have been waiting for, constant engagement. And it's a process. And I think that gradually we're getting there, you know, the feedback. Of course, there's also been calls that you have an extension for the voter registration. And that is it.  Now, if you're not even vying for a political office, but you also have a right to vie. And so don't, I mean, neglect your right because you do have that right. And that's the much we can take this morning on our top trending conversation. We will return tomorrow with more interesting conversations that are generating reactions in different quarters. Say with us when we return. It'll be time for us to be looking through the front pages of a National Daily. We'll call it off the press down. Great analysis coming your way because we have open up on Kataria who joins the conversation. Good morning.


Welcome back fellow techies to our latest tutorial video, I am The Technician Project, next tutorial video which is a how-to part 3 video of how to do our acoustic mix part 3 The Vocals. Now where we left off our mix last time was we'd done the guitar neck guitar body di for the chorus and what I've done is I've unmuted the bottom 6 tracks and we've done a little bit of mixing within the mixer just to mix these 12 tracks together. So we've got our first 6 tracks which we've edited in our previous video which is these ones just here and as you can see I've panned them hard left so all those 6 tracks are panned hard left so that is the verse chorus for your neck, your body and your di all panned hard left. So what we've done is we've copied all the effects onto the duplication tracks, copied them all over, copied all the levels over as well and panned everything hard right on the other 6 tracks. So we have a really wide stereo guitar track now, a really solid stereo guitar track and what I've done is removed the EQ and the compression from the guitar reverb channel because I felt it added too much bass to the overall track level so we've kept the space design, the reverb and we've just increased the wetness of the reverb just to make it a little bit more brighter. So let's have a quick listen to it now all the way through the verse into the chorus at the end of the chorus. That's lovely that. So after listening through to the guitar verse and the chorus what we're going to do is we're just going to mute all the guitar tracks. So now we've got everything muted in our mix as a whole. We unhide our vocal tracks so we want to see the vocals now so we're going to unhide all the vocal tracks there and we're going to unmute all the vocal tracks as well so we can have something to play with and then we're going to hide all the guitar tracks. So we just want to listen to the vocals on their own now. We've mixed the guitars on their own now let's mix the vocals on their own and then we'll bring the whole mix together near the end. So let's unhide that and what I'm going to do is I'm just going to mute our main vocal effects line and what we're going to do is we're going to mute everything else as well because I just want to listen to the main vocal line on its own. I'm starting to for the first couple of hours just to see where it's at, what we can do with it and how how it should sound. So let's have a listen through. You listen careful for the clash and hear that Johnny's out of cash. You see the Christ be stills his stash and find the queen is singing flesh. Now just by listening to that first section there, I feel that some harmonies need to be added, some effects need to be passed on to the vocal line. So that's what we're going to do. We're going to add the effects first and just brighten up the vocals a little. They do sound quite good on their own, but it's always nice to add a bit of EQ and a bit of compression to them. So let's add a stereo EQ to the vocal line. And we just want to add a bit of, let's see, can we add a bit of warmth? Yes, we can add a bit of warmth. So let's add a bit of warmth. We'll have a quick listen to some sections with her singing and we'll go from there. You listen careful for the clash and hear that Johnny's out of cash. You'll see the Christ be that sounds better. Let's have a listen to it without the effects on and back off again. You stills his stash and find the queen is singing flesh. That's lovely, that with the EQ sounds lovely. So what we're going to do is we're going to add a compression unit to it just to tighten it all up, tighten it all together. But I have to add a very harsh EQ, just a nice, bright vocal EQ will do. So let's just go back and listen to some bits with the Q on with the compression on, sorry. Listen careful for the clash and hear that Johnny's out of cash. You'll see the Christ be stills his stash and find the queen is singing flesh. Oh, lovely. And what I like to do is well, I like to just add a little bit of reverb to the vocal line so we can have a play with that as well. Let's have a bit of reverb, a small room. I always do a small wet room and then increase the wetness or increase the room accordingly. Listen careful for the clash and hear that Johnny's out of cash. Lovely. You'll see the Christ be stills his stash and find the queen is singing flesh. Now we'll skip the vocal main vocal effects. Like we'll go to the harmonies here. As you see the harmonies match up with this part, this section of the vocals. So let's unmute the harmonies. Let's copy the effects over to the harmonies because it's the same vocal line, same singer. And let's just turn the harmonies down a bit in anticipation for them to be quite loud. Let's listen to this little section here with the harmonies in. And find the queen is singing flesh. Oh, now what I would do for the harmonies add a little bit more reverb. Let's try that now. Might be a bit too much, but we'll load it back up and find the queen is singing flesh. Oh, that sounds really nice, really, really nice. And there's another part here where the reverb comes in. So let's have a listen to that bit as well, just to see if they both match up. He gets a barber tool from Dylan. Lovely. So what we've got here is we've got some distant vocals on tracks 10 to 15. So we're going to bring those vocals in first. And let's have a look at listen to the distant vocals as well. Let's just drag and drop those in. And what we're going to do is we're going to unmute. I'm going to use three for the time being and we're just going to drag those in because that's only place distant vocals come in. So let's drag both of those down. Lovely. So the distant vocals will go in here. So let's listen back to this bit. But also before we do that, let's just copy and paste these effects over because it's the same vocalist singing. So we might as well keep the same effects on them. And we're going to also copy the reverb over as well. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to hard pan these vocals. One hard left, one hard right and one straight down the middle and see what they sound like after this pit. And find the queen is singing flesh. Saviour. We also want these two vocals, these three vocals here. So that's the second part of that vocal line, which I just realised we made a mistake on. So let's copy and paste those over. We want all effects on those as well. Now, you would say, why don't you have those in the same line and the same instrument line? When we done the recording, we done separate lines to make it easier for the vocalist to record. So what we're going to do is we just copy all these effects over like this. We're going to hard pan all these. Just like that. And we're going to match the levels to what we've set already. So that's minus 16.4. The other one is minus 15.4. And the other one is minus 15.6. Lovely. So let's play the whole section again from about here. Actually, let's play from the beginning. You listen careful for the clash. And hear that Johnny's out of cash. You'll see that Crosby stills his stash and find the queen is singing flesh. Saviour of the universe. Lovely that that. Stevie wonders how your feet get interrupted by the vocalist there. Those distant vocals sound really nice, but we may bring them further back in the mix. We'll see. So we've got a couple more harmonies here that we can play with. So let's bring up harmony two to seven and let's drag them up to the top and put them after harmony three, harmony one, sorry. So now we've got all the other harmonies are coming in lovely. So let's play the mix from here. Before we do that, let's address these harmonies to have all the same matching EQ. So let's just give me a second and we'll copy and paste all the EQ over. Now, we don't have to use all these harmonies. They are obviously being recorded by the vocalist during the recording session, but it's entirely up to the engineer and obviously myself today, whether or not we use them all and where we go with them and what effects we use on them or what panning we put. So let's bring them all down to around seven. So that's just minus seven point two. And we'll copy that along to all these failures like that's perfect. So let's listen from this little section here by these harmonies fill in this gap. He gets a bar but two from Dylan. Just listening back to that, then I feel there's too many harmonies going on. So what we'll do is we'll just go and mute. We're not going to delete. We're just going to mute the first three there. And with these harmonies, we've got left at least harmony two, three and four. And what we're going to do is we're going to pan harmony one that way. So I'm going to that way, how many three straight down the middle and how many four as far as we can. And let's have another listen back to this little section here and to see if that's improved any more. I might be entitled just to bring them down and so smidge more actually. See what they sound like. He gets a bar but two from Dylan. Oh, no. That sounds loads better now of only those three and they've panned slightly. So that is the vocals, in my opinion, mixed to the point where we can now go on to the rest of the mix. We'll see you in part four. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to like the video if you enjoyed it and subscribe for more. And also ding dong that notification bell to get further updates. Thanks again. Goodbye.