So I thought I'd take this opportunity just to check in with everybody and let you know what's been going on. Some of the numbers, we have now held 16 separate fora across the province, 11 of them face-to-face and five by video conferencing, actually in one case teleconferencing because the video link let us down. So we've heard at this point over 200 oral presentations. Over 700 people have come out to the fora and participated. Around about 150 written submissions, though frankly I've only read a few of them, that's going to be the next task is to start going through those. While I'm doing all of this, I do have three researchers borrowed from other government departments and what they're doing is they're going through all of the submissions and analyzing them with respect to is this an issue that is pervasive across the province or is it an issue that is really important to one sector but not to another. So they're doing that kind of analysis. One of them is also looking extracurstictional, if I can use some big words, what that means is they're looking at what's happening in other provinces and in fact in other countries. So we can look at how gaming grants are handled in other parts of the world and take from them what seems to be something that would work here. So the public fora process will be over on the 17th of September. We're ending it in Vancouver. Actually we've added on the 17th because demand has been so heavy and turned out so terrific. But once that's done then I'm literally going to disappear for about a month while I try and make sense of everything that I've heard, read all of the written submissions, look at the analysis that's being done by the researchers who are working with me and particularly at some of the stuff that they've been able to uncover from other jurisdictions and then I will start writing up the options. No report is due on the 31st of October to the Premier and I don't see any problem with meeting that date at all. So keep looking at the blog because I will be updating that from time to time with new information. There's an awful lot on there now if you want to look at what I've been hearing. It is as up to date as the Labor Day weekend and at the end of next week I'll update it again with the rest of what we've been hearing from the public forum. So thank you again for taking the time to visit this blog and I look forward to submissions that are yet to come.


Good morning, so happy holidays, merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, everything, almost a new year. We're here today because I'm doing a little bit of a giveaway. I don't know how to go about this, but first things first, my man Brian Durham hit me up and he wanted my old shoes, so I'm gonna give him my old shoes. Here you go. Give him a little signature. He asked for this. I don't know what's happening. My handwriting is terrible, so here we go. This is not the best place to do it. Okay, that came out awful, so I'm gonna try to pick another place to do it. I'll do it right on the Nike check. And that one's a Steven Silly and I'm writing in Dunk Life on this one. All right, so there's that. Brian, I'll be sending to you, sending you these sometime today, probably. So there you go. That's that. Now, next, I figured since I have some of this extra stuff, we could do a little giveaway. It'll be tons of fun. I have this Dunk Life tank. It's a medium. I wear it. It's a little tight on me, but that's all I got. So we got this. We got these silky socks that I don't use because I'm picky with my socks and these other silky socks. So that's about it. So comment what you like and I'll pick someone random and if it, I think I'm only gonna pick one of these things to send. I don't know how to do this. I guess just comment what you like about this channel first and foremost and which one you like. And if your comment gets picked, I'll pick that thing and then we'll do another giveaway and it'll be down to two things because one last thing is out of three. You get it. And that's it. So other than that, I'm not posting as much just because I'm kind of just posting my good stuff now because all my workouts are kind of the same. If I do a new workout, I'll let you guys know, but it's basically more of the same stuff. I'm lifting heavy one day with a little bit of dunking. Then the same thing on the next workout is a little bit of dunking, but light lifting explosively, but kind of the same lifts I did. And I'm switching up those lifts I do every week. So some weeks I'll do box squats. Sometimes I'll do more pistol stuff, but kind of like a heavy day than a light day and then a jumping day. And my good knee actually acted up on me recently. It feels weird when I kind of, if I'm standing on it one legged and I bend, that's when it kind of feels strange. It feels like weak, like it gives out easily. So I don't know what that is. I'm trying to take that easy. So I'm going to dunk today, but I'm just going to see how that feels. So if it doesn't feel good, I'm not going to really dunk. And other than that, I'm not posting as much also because I'm working on a really dope video that I'm going to try to get out before the new year. So I have till Sunday.  It should be hype. And I'm really excited to drop that video. So we'll see how it goes. And side note, I can make that video a lot better, but I need a better computer. And I wasn't really planning on making this video till recently. So next year, there'll be a better end of the year video, but let's get it. Let me know what you want. We'll give this stuff away. Let's get have a happy new year and everything.


They recognize a lot of you guys that hang out with me a lot. I'm an uncle. They call me Uncle Two. A lot of you guys, they come back because I'm an uncle that they didn't have down here. And it's really cool seeing that they have that kind of respect for me, that trust.  So when they come back, I remember every time. And, you know, it's just like starting all the way back over again. But this time they get to talk a little bit more because they're Marine drill instructors. And it's a real cool thing about it. They tell me that I helped them out a lot going through boot camp. They needed that support. So, yeah, it's pretty cool. I see, I get, the good thing about it is that I get to see the transformation from them coming in, coming on the yellow footprints, being a civilian and the transformation from them becoming the Marine. And it's really cool because I see a big change.  Being a young man coming down here to help their family out, especially their mom, that's really cool. They're taking on responsibility of being a young man and to give back to society at an early age. It's really good for them.


From theCUBE Studios in Palo Alto and Boston, it's theCUBE, covering empowering the autonomous enterprise, brought to you by Oracle Consulting. Hi everybody, welcome back. You're watching theCUBE. We go out to the events. We extract the signal from the noise. This is a very special digital event. And we're really covering the transformation, not only the industry, but the transformation of Oracle Consulting and its rebirth. Mike Owens is here, Group VP of Cloud Advisory and GM of Oracle Elevate, which is a partnership that Oracle announced last open world with Deloitte, and Don Schmidt is here, who's a managing director at Deloitte. Gents, good to see you. Welcome. Good to be here, Dave. So, Don, I want to start with you. Transformation, right? Everybody talks about that. There's a lot of trends going on in the industry. What do you guys see as the big gestalt transformation that's going on? Yeah, I think there's an inflection point right now, right? Everybody has been saying that there's a lot of data centers. The leaps haven't really been taking place, right? They've been kind of moving in small bits. We're now at the point where large transformation at scale of getting out of your data centers is now here. So, we are here to try to help our clients move faster. How can we do this more effectively, cost efficiently, and get them out of these data centers so they can move on with their day-to-day business? So, data center is just not an efficient use of capital for your customers. No, no. There's ways to do this a lot faster, cheaper, and get onto innovation. Spend your money there, not on hardware, floor space, power, cooling. Two very well-known brands, you guys get together. So, what was the sort of impetus to get together? How's it going? Give us the update on that front. Oracle has been really technology focused. It was really created by technologists, right? And back to the point of what you're trying to do with the cloud and you're trying to do larger transformation, those aren't some of the skills that we have. We've been bringing in some of those skills in DNA, but if you look at it as, why would you try to recreate this situation? Why would you not partner with an organization who does large business transformation, like a Deloitte, right? And so, the impetus of that is, how do we take the technology with the business transformation, pull that together, and back to the one plus one equals three for my customer, right? That's what they really want. So, how do we actually scale that and do really big things and get big outcomes for our customers? Our partnership is not about trying to take a bunch of customers and move on a couple of application workloads. Our job, what we're really chartered to do, is really make huge transformational leaps for our customers using the combined capabilities of the two organizations. So, it's a huge paradigm for us to kind of do this. And our collaboration with the two organizations, just the opposite for what Mike just said, right? So, Deloitte wasn't really big in big IT, right? Business led transformations, kind of what Deloitte's been known for, along with our cyber practice. And so, we needed the deep skills of the technical experts. So, you just described what I would think of as wave one. And then, as you keep peeling, you got the applications, you got the business process, you might have reorganizations, that's really where you guys have expertise, right? There's a lot of things I have to sort through, right? And that's where the combined L of A program really synergizes itself around the tools that we have. We both have tools that will help make sure we get this right, right? Deloitte has a product called Adedata, Oracle has a product called SOAR. They marry together properly into this transformational journey to make sure we get the discovery done right and we get the migrations done right as well. Take me through typical engagement, typical, I know, in quotes. And then, how long? Take me through the point at which you start to get business value. What do I gotta do to get there? So, we see two different spectrums on a transformation. And it really aligns to what are your objectives. Do you just need to get out of the data center because you're on archaic, dying hardware? Or do you wanna take your time and make a little bit more of a transformation journey? Or do you wanna play some more in the middle of that spectrum? But on either one of those, we'll come in and we'll do a discovery conversation. We'll understand what's in your data center, understand what the age or the health of your data center is, help the customers through a business case, a TCO, how fast or how slow that journey needs to be for them. Create what we call wave groups of how fast and we're gonna sequence those over time to get out of their data center. In parallel, we're gonna be doing as Mike was saying around all the operational aspects. So, while we're doing that discovery, we wanna start standing up their cloud center of excellence. Getting cloud operations into their organization is, it's a different skill set for IT to have, right? They're gonna need to retrain themselves, retool themselves in the world of cloud. So, we kind of do that in parallel and then what we wanna do is when we start a project, we wanna start with a little POC or small little group of safe applications that we can prove out the model works. Move those into the cloud and then what we wanna do is we wanna scale that at large pace, right? Get the IT savings, get the cost cuts out of the organization. Do you guys have specific plays or campaigns that I can do to get started, maybe do a little test case? Any particular offerings that can you? So, under the program of Elevate, we've got a couple of campaigns. So, the biggest one we've been talking about is around the data center transformation. So, that's kind of the first campaign that we're working on together. The next one is around moving JD Edwards' specific applications to Oracle's cloud. And then the third one is around our analytics offering that Deloitte has and how we're going to market to general, put that in as well. So, those are our three major campaigns. The JDE migration. So, you've got what? Situations where people have the systems and they want to? And I would say it's actually more of a JDE modernization. So, you have an organization, right? They may have a JDE or JD Edwards instance that's really, it's older, maybe on version nine or something like that. They don't wanna go all the way to SaaS because they can't simplify the business processes. They need to do that but they also wanna take advantage of the higher level capabilities of cloud computing, right? IoT, mobile, et cetera, right? So, as a modernization, one of the things we're doing is an approach together we work with customers, depending on where they're going, going, hey, great, you can actually modernize by taking up this version of JDE through an upgrade process, but that allows you to then to move it over to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, which allows you to actually tap into all those platform services, the IoT and stuff like that to take to the next level. Then you can actually do the higher little analytics that sits on top of that. So it's really a journey where the customer wants to get. There's various kind of four major phases that we can do or entry points with a customer on the JDE modernization we kind of work them through. So that's a skill of some of the capabilities that Deloitte has as a deep JDE and as well as Oracle Consulting. And we actually are going to market that together. Matter of fact, we're even at conferences together talking about our approaches here in the future. In the analytics campaign, so it seems to me that a lot of companies don't have their data driven, they want to be data driven, but they're not there yet. And so their data's in silos and so I would imagine that that's all about helping them understand where the data is, breaking down, busting down those silos, and then actually putting in sort of an analytics approach that drives their, drives them some data to insights. Is that fair? Yeah, fair. Yeah, it's not just doing reporting and dashboards. It's actually having KPI driven insights into their information and their data within their organizations. And so Deloitte has some preconfigured applications for HR finance and supply chain. Guys, true powerhouses. Thanks so much for explaining in theCUBE and to our audience, appreciate it. Appreciate it. All right, thank you everybody for watching. We'll be right back with our next guest. You're watching theCUBE from Chicago. We'll be right back right after this short break.


All right guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new my name is Bobby guys in today's video I just want to share very quickly with you how I am consuming eggs at the moment after leaving veganism behind I Experimented with chicken eggs, but chicken eggs just don't work for me out of all the chicken eggs I have to say that the omega 3 eggs are still the best But overall they always lead to digestive issues Hence I am choosing quail eggs. So here you can see a quail egg It is much much smaller than a regular chicken egg I would say maybe 25% the size each egg comes with one gram protein and Roundabout one gram of fat. I like to consume them raw and on top of that I like to consume the shell as well because the shell is a great source of nutrients such as calcium This is what you can find in the shell. It is really bio available. All right, so let's get to it I just take the egg like so no preparation needed. It is very hydrating and Immediately I feel the effect in my voice somehow it really feels like it is lubricating the throat. I Have to add here the first time that I tried quail eggs out of a sudden I understood where this crunchy sensation comes from and why people might be addicted to potato chips nowadays I was really wondering why people enjoy those crunchy junk foods nowadays And I was looking for an equivalent in nature and so after trying the eggshells I realized this might be the origin this might be the source that we are trying to replicate with Modern-day foods. Let's try one more Don't get me wrong I'm not oblivious to the fact that this might be disgusting for many out there probably 99% will say this is disgusting, but I really have to say that it doesn't taste disgusting at all quite the opposite It tastes really refreshing and it has a nice flavor to it with chicken eggs I would agree chicken eggs always have that stench, but quail eggs on the other hand are very very soothing to the throat They taste absolutely delicious and you can feel the hydration straight away people assume that water is very hydrating But let's be honest every time you drink after that you piss it out again Fat on the other hand, especially those raw fats stay in your system and lubricate the membranes anyways guys I'm gonna enjoy one more egg here That is my breakfast after breaking my fast of 16 hours If you like this type of video just a short insight into my day how I eat nowadays then leave me a thumbs up If you haven't subscribed already, please do so and as always guys much love and peace


So hello, everyone. I'm very happy to be here today to present the research I completed as my thesis project at Queen's University on the aging properties and potentials of materials used for scratch repair on the polymethyl methacrylate support of face-mounted photographs. Now, Clara already did a wonderful overview of face-mounted photographs, so I'll just do a very simple recap. In the most basic sense, face-mounting is a finishing process for dye coupler or inkjet-printed photographs. Patented in 1972 by Heinz-Suvila Brilhardt in Switzerland in a process called diasec, it eliminates the need for heavy and hazardous glass frames by irreversibly adhering the image directly to the backside of a polymethyl methacrylate, or PMMA, acrylic sheet. This licensed method uses a moisture curing silicone sealant as an adhesive to set the photograph in the anoxic environment between the photographic emulsion and the acrylic. There are, however, some other unlicensed face-mounting methods that use different types of adhesives or transparent double-sided adhesive films of varying thicknesses to secure the photograph to the PMMA. In general, face-mounting allows the photograph to be adequately protected from harmful deteriorating agents, such as ultraviolet radiation, airborne pollutants, fingerprints, and mold, while the rigidity of the PMMA can allow the print to be displayed without a distinct frame, thus opening the image to the viewer with no subconscious barrier. Commonly used by many contemporary artists to showcase their work, face-mounting allows the colors from the photograph to seemingly permeate fully throughout the acrylic, giving the completed work an absorbing and wet look that the viewer can fully enjoy. In terms of general research on face-mounted photographs, many authors have already given great focus to the subject. In 2004, a global face-mounting initiative comprised of many member institutions and partners was set up to establish guidelines for the preservation and conservation of face-mounted photographs. Some research has been dedicated to the image layer of the print, categorizing and analyzing different types of damage that can occur, ranging from slight to severe, from surface contamination to damage from transport, as we all saw in Alex's presentation. The effect of these problems has been carefully and meticulously described in many publications. Also documented have been experiments designed to monitor the effect of different types of storage in gallery settings on the aging characteristics of these prints. As they are a combination of different materials requiring specific storage conditions, these experiments have been vital to the safekeeping of these delicate and sometimes quite large and obviously expensive works. Some studies have even tried to measure the extent that the adhesive contained in these prints will off-gas and, in turn, how it can affect any degradation and color changes that occur. Otherwise, certain authors have focused their attention on the rigid surface finish. As PMMA is so easily scratched, abraded and susceptible to damage from certain solvents, it has become a constant problem for institutions wanting to display, maintain and care for these prints. Researchers, like Clara and her team, have put many materials through a wide range of tests to examine the effect that different combinations of cleaning products and cleaning methods will have on the acrylic. Unfortunately, their tests were too successful, demonstrating that no matter the product, there will always likely be some small level of scratching produced on the surface. Since the finishing process irreversibly adheres the photograph to the PMMA, the acrylic sheet becomes inseparable in the viewing and interpretation of the object. While the acrylic can sufficiently protect the photograph from physical harm, the susceptibility of the PMMA to abrasions will cause just as many distractions to the preservation and presentation of these prints. When the acrylic is severely scuffed or cracked, the print in its entirety would need to be fully replaced, ultimately becoming quite an expensive cycle, especially since polishing away a scratch on the surface isn't always a viable option. Building off the work that has previously been done on scratches produced by cleaning brings us into the reason for this research, as my original focus lent towards reducing the visibility of scratches on the surface. A scratch on a smooth acrylic is composed of a depressed center trough and rough and uneven ridges created by the displaced acrylic material. When the raised ridges on either side of the trough reflect light haphazardly, the scratch is visually disturbing. By modifying or reducing the scratch ridges, as has been stated in other research, and filling the trough with a material that has similar properties as PMMA, the visibility of these scratches should be reduced. The problem here lies in finding a film material that will visually act as PMMA does with time with no adverse deterioration and reflect light in a similar way. Fortunately for me and my research, this intention is not a new idea, as quite a few researchers have already begun investigating the idea of using adhesives as film materials. Each adhesive that has been tested was chosen specifically based on a number of factors. These are, and a number of these materials are on the screen for you to see. In order to replicate a PMMA surface, the ideal material should have a similar refractive index, surface gloss and color tone, or a lack of color, and ultimately be invisible over time. Furthermore, to be an ideal filler, the material should be relatively easy to manipulate and be able to flow readily into the very narrow and minuscule surface area of the scratch. While considering all these factors, certain materials continue to produce a favorable range of positive properties and results, as well as demonstrating challenges that still need to be faced with application, creating further areas to explore. The experiments conducted by previous conservators and scientists therefore allowed me to narrow down my potential fillers to three materials that would undergo even more vigorous testing in my experiments. My film materials, an acrylic co-polymer, a two-part epoxy and a UV curing adhesive were chosen and tested based on their ability to replicate an unscratched PMMA surface after an aging process that simulated museum storage and gallery exhibit conditions. Building on previous research, I examined the characteristics of these materials when used in conjunction with surface modification techniques that try and reduce the visibility of scratches on PMMA. An initial pilot study analyzed the covering ability and working ease of each of the three materials. Half of a deep scratch area on PMMA was blocked with cellophane tape, that's the left section of the images, while the other half was covered with the material. Paralloid B72, a common material in conservation labs, is a co-polymer of ethyl methacrylate and methylacrylate and has a refractive index of 1.49, the closest of the three to PMMA, which is 1.4899. Since many organic solvents can cause crazing in PMMA, the B72 in my experiment was a 20% mixture in one to four hexane and toluamine. This combination of solvents creates a very thin solution and allows the B72 to flow into the surface scratches. And while these solvents are safe for PMMA, they have dissolved the adhesive in the tape, which is why it has bled out onto the area, as you can see. And yet the covering ability of the material is still quite strong. It has proved to be a worthwhile scratch reducer except for application problems due to quick solvent evaporation. The second, hexadol, is often a first choice in terms of glass repair and conservation. Here, the low viscosity of this compound again makes it ideal for flowing into thin scratches. With a refractive index of 1.52, hexadol was able to closely match and cover minor scratches in the PMMA. However, remaining bubbles from mixing the epoxy appear quite noticeable in the deep scratch. Finally, with the lowest viscosity and longest working time, dimax, the UV curing urethane acrylate-based decorative adhesive coating was expected to provide the greatest covering ability of the three materials. Though it was easy to work with since it wouldn't harden until cured and easily flowed into the thinnest scratches, the curing process itself proved to be more difficult than expected since I was unable to acquire UV lamps with enough power. Therefore, the curing time went from the expected 20 seconds to over an hour of UV exposure, resulting in dust attracting to the surface. Even with the incredibly long exposure time, the dimax with refractive index of 1.5 was still able to cover all minor scratches and a good portion of the deep scratch. Even with, oh, I already read that. Overall, the three materials continued to present good initial covering ability and visual scratch reduction prior to introducing any surface modification techniques. My experimental samples were braided using a custom-made mechanical rub test machine that was designed for a previous student research project. A small weight with sandpaper at the PMMA interface was passed over the surface of the samples to produce relatively uniform scratches, ranging between 50 and 100 microns in width. The rub test machine allowed me to create gentle scratches and gentle and relatively shallow scratches that emulated damage from repeated cleaning rather than the deep gouges that could be caused from transportation or handling disasters. As you can see from the slide, the scratching produced rough ridges on the scratch troughs, around the scratch troughs that reflect light and become visually distracting from the smooth surface. In order to alter the surface characteristics of the scratch ridges and reduce their overall visibility, I chose to introduce two surface modification techniques on my samples. A flattening strategy involved the localized application of heat with a microscopy roller to soften and reduce the scratch ridges. By heating the displaced PMMA, the ridges were smooths and any sharp edges were reduced. The second technique, a scraping method, quickly and easily created a smooth surface over the existing scratches. Using a razor blade that was pulled mechanically over the surface, the ridges were quickly and easily removed entirely to create a surface theoretically free of any sharp, light-refracting material. Both of these methods altered the way that light was reflected and demonstrated how the reflection of light from the scratch ridges plays into the visual disturbance of scratches on the surface of face-mounted photographs. After initial sample preparation, each of the fill materials was applied to a sample in each surface modification category, creating nine areas of comparison. These scratch unmodified samples were braided using the rub test machine and the fill material was applied. These scratch-flattened samples were scratched and underwent flattening prior to adhesive application and the scratch-scraped samples were similarly abraded, scraped, and then coated. After adhesive application, the samples were subjected to thermal aging for an equivalent age of 100 years in museum storage and then to light aging to mimic 100 years in gallery exhibition. To calculate accurate degradation factors, the thermal aging times were based on the thermal degradation activation energy of each material. Analysis of the samples was completed at each stage of the experiment with a spectrophotometer to detect any transition in B star values, that is, any change from blue to yellow, and a gloss meter that measured the change in surface roughness after the modification techniques. The success or failure of the fills was evaluated based on the ability of the fill material to replicate the original PMMA surface through color and gloss and visually reduce the surface scratches. Now, with all the testing and analysis that took place over several months and my experiments, I was left with a great deal of numbers, unit values, and graphs. Therefore, to make it easier on everyone, I'm only going to present some of my results here. In terms of the results for color change, this graph illustrates the average transition in B star for the change in the level of blue for each of the chosen adhesives acting as fill materials over the surface of the PMMA. The graph on the screen indicates data levels from the beginning of the experiment after thermal aging and finally after light aging. The blue line demonstrating changes in the unmodified PMMA itself shows a slight increase in the amount of blue. However, since the change of less than one is considered negligible and unnoticeable, it is unnoticeable by the naked eye. In regards to the adhesives themselves, the parallel B72 had the least change in blue throughout the experiment, while the dimax had the largest blue decrease, mainly apparent after light aging. Hexadol also became less blue, however, less so than the dimax. I should mention here that a decrease in blue doesn't necessarily mean a transition to yellow unless it's so severe that the value becomes negative, in which in those cases it hasn't. When comparing the final B star values at the end of the experiment, the dimax displayed the closest final color to that of the unscratched PMMA followed by the hexadol. The parallel B72 resulted in a final color most different from the PMMA, however, these final values are still within the error range and are not considered noticeable by the human eye. In terms of surface gloss, the resulting effects of the modification techniques are about as graphically apparent as the preliminary color changes. The chart on the screen demonstrates the extent to which scratching in red specifically reduces the surface gloss of PMMA, as shown in blue. The extensive gloss decrease with scratching is slightly improved with the flattening treatment, shown in green, and even more so by the scraping method in purple, which does actually decrease the surface sheen. Oh, sorry, it increases it, if only by a small amount. As theorized, this can be described by the effect each treatment had on the scratch ridges. By smoothing out the ridges, the surface became more uniform and the ridges diffracted light more evenly, thus reducing the visibility of scratches. While removing the ridges completely, created a flat and highly reflective PMMA surface from which there was no sharp flakes to create any visual disturbance. While these results can be more visually noticeable, the compiled data statistically demonstrated that any modification is fairly indistinguishable from an unmodified surface. When examined with a stereo microscope, the effectiveness of the surface modifications when paired with the fillers becomes more apparent. On the slide, I have inserted some images at high magnification to better illustrate the covering ability of the materials over surface scratches. The scratch unmodified and scratch-flattened DMACC samples were the most visually effective in reducing scratch ridges. Though the B72 scratch-flattened samples, as well as some of the Hexdahl samples were also effective scratch reducers on the more shallow abrasions, unfortunately, when considering each sample set, there didn't seem to be a method or material that continuously reduced the visibility of scratches in the same way. For the purposes of my experimentation, I'll conclude by saying that the samples in my research had no perceptible color change in any of the tested fill materials after accelerated aging. However, the Paralloid B72 produced a noticeably matte surface while the Hexdahl became even glossier than the unmodified PMMA. Due to the aforementioned curing problems with the DMACC, too much dust had accumulated on the sample surface to be considered effective in reducing visual disturbances on the PMMA. Redoing this experiment with correctly cured DMACC samples would be essential to discovering its potential as a substitute acrylic surface. In this experiment, the filled scratches were always somewhat visible, even though the refractive index was similar to that of PMMA. Possibly due to internal reflection within the scratch itself, as stated in most of the other research, handling an application of these materials was still a problem. While the low viscosity materials could flow easily into the scratches, regulating the desired fill amount to stop overflow onto the surface was difficult.  In regards to the surface modification techniques, both flattening and scraping away the ridges resulted in an increase of uniform light reflection and a corresponding increase in surface gloss. While neither of these techniques exactly replicated a piece of unscratched PMMA, the scraping treatment by removing the ridges completely created a flat surface without large material disruptions. While the lack of great changes within the materials themselves presents these adhesives as good candidates for future fill material research, the experimental stage still contains too much risk to be able to apply successfully to works of art just yet. I would like to acknowledge all those involved in my research, process from Queens University and at the Royal Bridge Columbia Museum, as well as my colleagues at the Art Institute of Chicago and those responsible for planning this meeting who have helped make this presentation possible. Thank you.