Good morning and warm welcome to all of you. It is beginning to cool here. I think before you leave, it is going to start raining, it will cool off, then warm welcome will be really nice. It is a great pleasure for us to organize this first time ever, possibly the first time ever in the world, a 10,000 teacher training program on research methodologies. And that is done, supposed to be done through about 160 centres, 150 plus, we were trying to get 200 centres, but whatever we have 150 is pretty good, 172 as of now. So, that is really good. So, this cannot be done without your participation, enthusiastic participation, in that sense warm thanks to all of you. My name is Kannan Maudgalyan. I coordinate the National Mission on Education Technology sponsored projects at IIT Bombay. This 1000 teacher training program, that is a official name given to this. Of course, now we are thinking about 10,000 teacher empowerment through this methodology. As a matter of fact, the government is so happy with this, we are also very happy with this. So, we have given feedback to the government. Government officials have seen them in person and now they want to extend this to 1 lakh teacher training. As a matter of fact, we expect that there would be many such programs happening in parallel, organized by several institutions, right, on different subjects. It may not happen from IIT Bombay, but what we have done is, thanks to the excellent infrastructure available here and the excellent staff support here, we have been able to conduct it smoothly and we have come up with a model that we think which will work if executed properly. So, we are in a position to hand it over to anybody who would want to organize such events from their own colleges and universities. It could be for their own university or nearby colleges or people with special interest, similar interest across the country. So, we have all the facilities available. The software for this is Avu which has been created by Amrita University and it has been funded by the same National Mission on Education through ICT. As a result, it is available free of cost for every academic institution to use. So, which means that if you are interested, you can certainly get hold of it and then organize it. The bandwidth required for this is also available through the National Mission on Education through ICT. It has already given funds for that. There is also another project called NKN. You may be aware of that. So, both of these together are working in tandem to provide a bandwidth to everybody who is interested. The mission National Mission on Education through ICT was started in 2009 with a total outplay of 4612 crore. Out of that, 60 percent was devoted to bandwidth provision. About 1800 crore were devoted to content generation. So, the 1000 teacher training program and now the 10000 teacher training program, these are all supported by funding available from the content generation part. I told you about the bandwidth. So, the bandwidth enormous money is provided for and because it is a huge purchase, BSNL gave a huge discount. In fact, 95 percent discount. So, the bandwidth was available at 5 percent of the cost out of which the mission paid 75 percent and the universities were asked to pay one fourth of that. Approximately 1.25 percent, approximately 1 percent of the cost to the university that it would be made available. So, that was a scheme. The idea was to make this bandwidth available to every university and then of course, every university was asked to give bandwidth to every affiliating college of its own. And the government said that in case a university demonstrated that it used all the bandwidth and effectively and that they are running out of bandwidth, the ministry would give more bandwidth. After all, we have lot of fiber running all over the country. So, there is no problem at all in giving more bandwidth. In content generation, there are actually a large number of projects are supported. One of the unique things about this mission is it has given projects to almost every institution in the country that came up with a good proposal, whether it is private or government, whether it is an affiliating college. So, whether it is a private institution or government institution, whether it is a state government supported or general government supported. The reason being that all the students who go to these colleges, private colleges for example, are our students. Why do these students go to these colleges? Because there are not enough seats in government college. So, it is not students mistake. So, the government took a stand that whatever we do should be made available to everybody. Only thing is whatever the government gives should be made available to the students to the learners free of cost. That is the reason that no charges are levied on any of these projects and those are made available to the students free of cost. Now, so let me just talk about. So, there are three things that are required. I mentioned two things. One is the bandwidth. The second one is content generation. The third one is the connectivity and the device to do the computing. So, that is going to be done by Akash, which I am going to let professor Fater talk about when Eastern comes, because you know that the Akash project has come to IIT Bombay. We are really excited by this and then I am going to let professor Fater have the pleasure of describing that. I would want to briefly describe some of the content related projects happening at IIT Bombay. This is part of what is called talk to a teacher project. This 1000 teacher training program or now it is going to be called a 10000 teacher training program. It has a few other components. IIT Bombay's courses were transmitted live. In fact, about 5000 hours of lectures were transmitted live from IIT Bombay to C D, Central for Distance Engineering Education Program. And we are in the process of releasing these as open source. That is one of the activities. The other activity of the talk to a teacher project is spoken tutorials through which we have been training a large number of students around the country. Is there anyone who knows about spoken tutorials? I see that there are some people. Yes, thanks. In fact, we conducted more than 2000 workshops in the last one year. In fact, if there was time, I would request my staff members to come and talk to you about half an hour if you can spare time on this. So, these were the things done through the talk to a teacher project. Then we have NPTEL. NPTEL, you all know about it. So, I do not have to talk about it. Then the third one is Robotics Project E Yantra. It is done by our colleague Professor Kavya Ria of Computer Science Department. In fact, we might give a demo of that through Akash maybe during the course of this workshop. Then we have an animation project. It is called OSCAR done by Professor Sridharayar of Computer Science Department. Then he uses an open source animation software called Blender. We have excellent spoken tutorials on Blender. In fact, it is possible for us to conduct workshops on Blender in all your colleges. We have a project on free and open source software for science and engineering or FOSI. So, that is done by Professor Prabhu Ramachandran of Aerospace, Professor Madhu Belur of Electrical Engineering. I am also one of the investigators of the project. We are focusing on two software system in particular, Sylab and Python. In fact, we might have a workshop on Sylab little later. Maybe it may be there tomorrow. Then we have development of design courses by Professor Prabhu Poovaya and his team in Industrial Design Center. Now, all these projects I might have missed something, but I think I have covered most of the important ones. All these projects are collaborative in nature. We would like you to use them. We would invite you to also participate in them in creation of these. Because if you look at this project, there is only one story that I want to tell. There was a discussion of, remember I told you that one GBP as bandwidth has to be given to every university. And at that time, there was a discussion in project of the global board, which is the final authority that gives some money. And there was a discussion. There was somebody who said that to the director of this machine, Mr. Sinha, director of additional secretary M. H. R. D. and director N. M. A. I. C. T. So, there was a proposal to transfer 300 crores to BSNL, so that BSNL would give the bandwidth. So, there was this question. Somebody asked, Mr. Sinha, do not you think that we will be putting lot of money down the train, because many of these universities will not know how to use the bandwidth. They are just wasting money. So, why do not we run some pilots, give it to some 10 colleges, 100 colleges, 100 institutions, make them develop something very good and then we can roll it out. So, everybody thought it was a great idea. And Mr. Sinha replied. So, he said, there are two points. First, you can never perfect the technology. You do pilot, you keep on trying to improve it. The colleges that are institutions that are doing pilot will never be satisfied. So, wait, wait, wait. Another standard is coming 6 months from now. After that, it will get better. That is number one. You can never perfect. Second one is, even if you can perfect it, let us say after 10 years. By 10 years, in 10 years, so many generations of students would have gone from all these colleges. I want them to have the technology now, today. So, let there be only 5 percent who will benefit. So, let us give it to them. So, that motion to transfer 300 crore was passed anonymously by the PAB. So, what I want to say, I am telling you this story to tell you that this one is an egalitarian. We want to reach out to as many people as possible to all interested people that we want to benefit. Not that we want to select only some best, we will work only with them. Try to make it available to as many people as possible. Let all the people who are capable of using it benefit. So, I am really delighted that you are all here. It is a huge task. It is a mammoth task. And let us all work together and let us spread the light of education. Thank you. Good morning and a warm welcome to all of you. I can see a lot of familiar faces, some very senior friends. Thank you so much sir for coming personally. Some of you have been participating in the workshop that we conduct for 1000 teachers at a time. The mandate that we had was to conduct some 12 workshops. But next year the ministry wants us to conduct workshops for 1 lakh teachers. And we cannot do that unless we increase the scale. So, we said that the last of the workshops of the current funded series we will try to conduct this as a mega workshop. We plan to do it in December, but the ministry wanted us to do it in June. So, that the lessons can be used in the subsequent workshops. That is why it is a bit of a rush as you can see in announcement, in organization and so on. Frankly, I wanted about 300 remote centers to be ready across the country. We could not do that, but I think our latest number is about 177, 172. These workshops are slightly different than normal workshop of this particular one, because it is on a subject which is currently not necessarily taught in all the colleges and university. So, it is a new course. That is the reason why instead of a five day program, we said a three day program is good enough, because we are actually starting from scratch in some sense. We have had some experience in conducting this course. We have research methodologies course in two disciplines already as a full-fledged semester course. And we had the privilege of inviting professor Karmarkar from IIT Madras, whose lectures on introduction to research were a great hit amongst the research scholars. He of course had addressed research scholars. We have requested him now to refine his lectures to address the teachers across the country. So, thank you very much for coming forward to doing this mega workshop with us. We will over the next two or three days do a dual task of first understanding roughly what contents we have planned. We are going to do that by getting sample lectures delivered to you which will be delivered later in the main workshop, so that we can interact. Two of the sample lectures, I mean two of the faculty members will deliver their sample lecture. They will do so in absentia. So, we will use their recorded lectures in order to check how effective the recorded lecture playing is, because that is part of our larger methodology of permitting teachers of engineering colleges to formally use recorded lectures as the lectures in their regular courses. The committee has been set up by the government to see how to incentivize teachers to use e-contents more effectively in their course, but that is a separate. There are of course logistic issues and the organizational issues. We will discuss all of them in due course of time, but an important part of this inaugural session is for all of us to get to know at least the names and faces of all participants. While I know many of you, but not everyone knows everyone else, so it might delay the tea break by about 10 minutes if you do not mind, but I would request all participants to just you please do not get up, because getting up on this structure is not very easy and comfortable. So, just be seated, a microphone will be passed on and please tell all of us your name and the institute that you come from and the discipline that you teach in your college. Good morning to all of you. Myself Basuraj Chokimund from KLE College of Engineering Technology. My subjects are network analysis, field theory and control system. Thank you. Good morning to all of you. Sir, I am Vinayak Joshi. From Angreenstof Technology and Management, Bilgam, I teach computer science subjects. My interesting area is network. Good morning, sir. Myself Rajesh Kumar Chakrodati. I am from the city of Vesnau Institute of Technology and Science in Dore. I teach compiler design and web engineering. Good morning, sir. My name is Shubrindu Govaniyogi. I am from Sair Padampat Singhhani University, Udaipur. I am in the department of computer science and engineering. I am teaching DVMS, networking and related subjects. Thank you. Hello all. From MPST, I am Sherpur. I am Ajay Joshi. I am from Civil Engineering Department. Dr. R.K. Singhai, coming from RGPV Bhopal State Technological University. I am teaching Distur signal processing etc. Hello. Good morning, sir. I, Jitansi Rathore from Thakral College of Technology, Bhopal. And I am belong to the department of information technology. And my interesting research areas are network security, network. And I am teaching computer network. Good morning to all. I am Veeresh Foskele from Central Oasis Institute of Technology, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. I am teaching thermal engineering subjects. Kedarsanta from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune. And I am from Mechanical Engineering Department. I am teaching cryogenics and refrigeration. Good morning, sir. I am myself Amit Dogher from National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh. And we used to conduct various short term and long term program for faculty members of Polygenics and Engineering College. So I belong to computer science. And my areas are Linux, open source, web technologies etc. Good morning to all. I am Ajish S.S. working in Carmel Engineering College in Computer Science Department. My research area is image processing. I often retake classes in image processing. Good morning to all of you. Myself, S.S. Udnayana. I am from Vrindu Varalakshmi, Ankatrav Institute of Technology from Bhimvaram, Anur Pradesh. And I belong to Computer Science Department. My research area is data mining. I often retake the classes in operating systems and computer organization. Thank you. Good morning to all. I am Ramesh Babuyan from Nittayam Institute of Technology. I am from Mechanical Engineering Department. And I teach finite element methods as well as sphere of elasticity. Myself, K.N. Rajan from RBS College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. I am teaching triply subjects and management subjects. Especially in my research area is renewable energy sources. Good morning. I am Dr. K. Bala Murugan from Institute of Road and Transport Technology, E-Road. I am from Mechanical Engineering Department teaching manufacturing engineering subjects. Good morning. Myself, Dr. C. Govindraju. From Government College of Engineering, Salem, Tamil Nadu. I am teaching the subjects with the specialization of power electronics and drives. Good morning all of you. I am Srinivasan Malan from Banari Minister of Technology, Satyamangalam, E-Road. I blanks to Electrical Department. From Research Area, Sir, Energy Conservation and Management. Good morning to all of you. I am Dr. Madhuri Shakti from NIT Bhopal. I am from the Department of Mathematics and teach mathematics to all the engineering and MBA classes. Good morning to all. I am Dr. Chitra Desai from Rathoda Institute of Technology Engineering College. And my subjects in the area of research are Software Engineering and Network Security. I am from S.J. College of Engineering, Mysutra, Nathapuram. I belong to Computer Science Department. I take data structures, software engineering, object-oriented design. And my domain of interest is basically machine learning and data mining. Good morning, one and all. My name is Chakravarti. I am from Gokaraju Rangraju Institute of Engineering Technology, Hyderabad. I belong to Electrical Discipline. And my areas of interest are automation and SCADA. Good morning, Sir. My name is Parth Sharti Mallik. I am from Valoran Institute of Technology, VIT University. I teach normally Nano-electronics and Opto-electronics. Myself, Dr. Uday Dabde, Valchin College of Engineering, Sangli, Maharashtra. I am from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. I am related with the Production Engineering branch. Good morning. I am from D. Y. Patil College of Engineering, Abhijitwane. I belong to the Production Department. My subjects of interest are Quantity to Techniques and Manufacturing. Myself, Ajit Patil. I am from Collaborative Institute of Technology, College of Engineering, Kolhapur, Maharashtra. I am from IT department. And I teach mobile communication and computer network subjects. Myself, Naveen Aswani. I am from the Asable Institute of Technology. My interest in the wireless sensor network. Myself, Chivai Dumar from KCE Zalgawa. I work in the Computer Department. And my area of interest is DBMS. Myself, Manoj Patil. I am from SSBJ College of Engineering, Zalgawa. And my area of interest is network security. Good morning, everybody. I am Anurag Jain from Geetha Institute of Management and Technology, Krukshetra. I am from Computer Science, Discipline. I use to teach subjects like discrete maths, compiler design, automata. Myself, Puneet Goswami. I am from Lexi Global Group of Institutions, Sambala. I am from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. And my area of interest is Software Engineering. Good morning. I am Sunil Divakar from Cummins College of Engineering, Puneet. Mechanical department. Good morning, all. I am Suresh Babu from Madatari Science and Technology, Satupalli, Andhra Pradesh. I am from EC department. My interesting areas are digital design, VLSI design and electronics. Good morning to one and all. I am Dr. Kumarak Swami Gupta from J&T College of Engineering, Hyderabad. I belong to Mechanical Engineering department. Good morning, sir. I am Krishnayas from Gagini Polybair Engineering College, Hyderabad. I am in EC department. I teach VLSI subjects and wireless and mobile communication engineering, digital speaking and processing. Good morning to all. I am Ram Prasad from Lourd Mada College, Trivandrum. I belong to EC department. My areas include digital communication and electromagnetic theory. Thank you. Good morning. I am Mr. M.R. I am taken from Rishweshwara National Institute of Technology in Agpur. I belong to electrical department and I teach power electronics. And we are in almost all the short term process transmitted under national missions of technology. Thank you. Good morning, sir. My name is Vishrinath. I am from the National Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad. I belong to electrical and electronics engineering department and I teach power electronics, drives, machines. Good morning, sir. I am Ashok Patwale from Pillai Institute of Information Technology, New Pannuvel Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra. I am teaching in mechanical department and other subjects are automobile engineering, manufacturing, planning and control and all other subjects. Good morning, sir. I am Anand Patel from VPMP LDRP Institute of Technology, Gandhi Nagar. I belong to EC branch and I am interested in signal processing. Good morning, sir. My name is Rajaramesh from Regency Institute of Technology, Aanam. I am UTI of Pondicherry. I belong to Computer Science and Engineering department. My research area is data mining and... Good morning, sir. I am Anand Kumar from SVP Engineering College, Visakhapatnam. My area of interest is cloud computing. Good morning, sir. I am Narayan Parthik Rathore from Prova College of Engineering and Technology, Indore. And my teaching subjects are DBMS and software engineering. I am Pankaj Porwal from Techno India Institute of Technology, Udaypur. My areas of interest are solid mechanics and applied mathematics. Good morning to all of you. I am Zaheer Alam from Thakur College of Engineering, Kandivali, Mumbai. My research areas are wireless networks and securities. I belong to IT department and IT is wireless communication operating system subjects. I am Shamsheer Singh. I am from MediCAPs Institute of Technology and Management, Indore. Sometimes I teach distributed computing. Good morning, everybody. I am Dr. Pradeep Bhakde. I am from Amruta University, Bangalore. I am from Mechanical Engineering department and I teach software engineering subjects. Thank you. Good morning, all of you. This is Dr. Sudhakar Rao. I am from Vignan Institute of Technology and Science. And I specialize in embedded systems and image processing. I am Joshi C. Heran from Amruta University, Coimbatore campus. I teach mechanical engineering, thermal engineering subjects, basically thermodynamics and fluid mechanics. Good morning. I am Ravi Chandra Kulkarni from N.I. Institute of Technology. I am from electrical department and I teach control theory and its applications. I am P. Bamsi Chaitanya. I am from N.H.C.D., triplet Hyderabad. We conduct a course called Certificate in IT program. And my interests are open source web technologies. Good morning, all of you. I am from S.B. Patil College of Engineering in Dabur, Pune district. I belong to mechanical engineering department. And my teaching subjects are mostly related to thermal engineering. Thank you. Good morning, all of you. I am Dr. Satish Kumar Shahajirao. I am from IIT Bombay only, alumni of IIT. I am working at Walshan Institute of Technology in Sulapur, Maharashtra. And teaching water resources, engineering, computer programming, numerical methods, etc. Good morning, everybody. I am Abhishek Rajbanshi from Mahakal Group of Institution of Jain. I take DBMS and theoretical computer science. Good morning to all of you. Myself, Dr. Sudhir Tiwari. I am from GS Institute of Technology Science in Dore, MP. And I am in mechanical engineering department. And I used to take the machine design material science subjects. Good morning to all of you. Myself, Iman Makwana from AVLA University in Dore. My subjects are data structures and computer graphics. Thank you. Good morning. My name is Ayanil Kumar Aman. And I am from Federal Institute of Science and Technology, Kochin. I belong to EC department. And I teach cryptography. Good morning, everyone. I am Vijay Ukani from Irma University, Ahmedabad. I am from computer science and engineering department. And mostly I teach subjects related to data mining and computer networks. Good morning to all. I am Nandukumar from Aaraj Institute of Technology, Mysore. I belong to CS department. I teach all subjects related to computer networks. Good morning, all of you. Myself, Deera Jain. Sanga, Mun City, Bilwara, Rastan. And my department is electronic communication. My area of interest is low-power VLSI designing nanotechnology and nanomaterials. Good morning to all. I am CM Rakesh Kumar from KNM Institute of Technology and Science, Tirupati. I like to teach electrical machines. Good morning to all of you. I am Gaurish Ankaranthi from SVU Color Engineering, Tirupati. I am from EC department. And my area of research is artificial intelligence. Good morning, all. Myself, Dr. Ajay Koteta. I am from Puneema College of Engineering, Jaipur, Rastan. My research area is real-time system and high-performance computing. Thank you. Good morning to everyone. I am PC Bhaskar from Shivaji University's Department of Technology. I belong to M.Tech Electronics Department and especially in embedded systems. And it is related to computer networkings. Good morning, everyone. I am Mrs. Jyothi Ratte. I am from MS Bidra Engineering College, Latur. I belong to electronics department. I teach subjects like analog communication systems, embedded systems, network and lines. Thank you. Thank you very much. There is a guy called my colleague and coordinator for this workshop. Actually, he keeps calling me the coordinator. I keep calling him the coordinator so there is some confusion there. What he has done is he has put all the remote centers that we have on the, I think it is Google map. While we are very happy to have a large concentrated set of remote centers which help us to conduct these workshops and they work jointly with us, you will see that most of them are on a left diagonal sort of the nation. We have a couple of remote centers in Uttar Pradesh. We have one in Assam. We have one in West Bengal but there are very few. And as Mr. Kannan said, the government is spending a lot of money in order to empower teachers across the country. And it is a no-brainer that it will not do if the concentration of these efforts or the advantages of these efforts reach only these college. Mr. Kannan asked me to talk about Akash project for which these centers are relevant and I will tell you how it is. These are the first ones outside IIT to see the Akash too which has not yet been launched. It will be launched hopefully coinciding with this workshop itself. So, these are those tablets. The brief history is that the project started about two years ago. It was awarded to IIT Rajasthan. They did a lot of hard work. They conducted a global tender and placed an order on the L1 process but then some problems came up and the project could not get along. IIT Rajasthan requested the ministry that due to intractable problems we are unable to continue. So, this project could be given to someone else. And they polled and we thought that we could do a good job primarily because we are engaged with many of you and through you to so many teachers. So, we said yes the mandate of this project is to procure 1 lakh Akash tablets and to use these to empower engineering college teachers and students. So, you might have read lot of press on Akash and this and that and school children and so on. There are lot of half truths circulating in the press. The first batch of Akash tablets are meant for empowering engineering college teachers and students in their education. The subsequent batches of the versions of Akash will come which will of course proliferate everywhere else right from school to other. Now, the way we have decided to address this mandate is to say that we will use these tablets in a two prong fashion. The first one we would like to allocate some of these tablets to chosen engineering colleges where we will give something like 60 to 80 tablets to be issued for a particular course which is being taught by a teacher. And we would like to collect a feedback by of course providing for that course the course contents which are available, the use of Moodle, the use of variety of things, new applications that we have developed etcetera. We will additionally give about 20 tablets to that college for researchers, B.E. students, M.E. students from C.S., I.T., Electro, anywhere for development of new applications and for development of new contents and these contents and applications which are developed by such researchers will not be limited only to engineering colleges. So, they must span the entire education spectrum from primary school education in Indian languages to high school education, all subjects etcetera. The idea is that while the procurement will probably continue up to November, it will start in July sometimes. So, some colleges may get it in the in the coming semester itself, but most of the colleges will get it sometime during October, November and they can start using it from the next semester. Now, how do we choose these colleges? Clearly, these colleges if we if we cannot do an RFP and tender for choosing colleges. Colleges have to be chosen in a fashion in which those colleges in I.I.T., Bombay have some rapport and have some relation. And then when we propose to the ministry that look the best bait for us and the greatest comfort level for us is to choose those remote centers which participate in this national mission workshops, because through these colleges being remote centers, there is a constant interaction with us. There is an understanding that we have ministry has approved this proposal, but they have said that you should also choose some other institutions. So, the announcement that I wanted to make is that before this workshop ends, we will collect your willingness or otherwise in participating in this and request for additional proposals. Please understand that these tablets are not to be given to students. One lakh tablets, this is not that partial funding scheme of Akash tablets by the government where 50 percent money is paid by students or some. 100 percent cost of the tablet is being paid by the government. The tablets will continue to belong to I.I.T. Bombay as its property. They are being loaned to these institutions. Of course, it is a long-term loan. Obviously, I mean otherwise if every six months I have to collect back that tablet, the cost of transportation may be more than the cost of it. But the idea is that people who agree to participate in this venture should truly be committed to do R and D, to do development, to use it and to give a constant feedback, continuous feedback. I am sure most of you would be interested but we will be discerning. We will ask for commitments and so on and so forth. So, that is the news. I think you will be the first ones in the country to actually deploy these in your colleges for teaching courses using them and in the process discover any weaknesses, discover something else that can be done and actually participate in doing it. In short, this workshop on research methodologies also opens up an important research paradigm for each one of the remote centers. Additionally, we would demand that all tablets given to these remote centers are used in each of the national workshops that we conduct because one application which we have ported here is called the clicker application where we can conduct quizzes. If you have seen Konmanega Karolpathy type, we had clicker devices. Actually, we designed clicker devices here. The first one cost us 600 rupees in the affordable solutions lab. We were very happy because the commercial clicker devices cost 2,500 rupees. Then we made a better one which cost 1,200 rupees to us. Now, we have ditched that effort because this tablet we have negotiated at 2,263 rupees each. So, we put that application here. There is a lot more about it. I will talk about it later. But before the tea break, I thought I will share with you the good news and the possibility of your teaming up with us, not only for the conduct of workshops but additionally for participating in this exercise. Professor Uday Gayathonde to offer some closing remarks and then we can break for tea. Professor Gayathonde spearheaded our first non-CS workshop that we conducted several years ago on thermodynamics. Some of you might have attended that workshop. I was quite happy and proud to get some of the comments from the participants. There were more than 1,000 teachers who participated. 800 plus. Yes, there were not each 1,000. So, he was called the God of Thermodynamics. And believe me, IIT Bombay does recognize him as God of Thermodynamics. So, Professor Gayathonde, all yours. There were only a few things. I created such a map for the centres for thermodynamics. That map was very sparse, only about 31 centres. Well, I am happy that the map is dense but the denseness hasn't spread across India. Now you will notice, one thing which was noticeable in the thermo workshop was that Karnataka was a washout. Now here Karnataka is reasonably densely packed. Andhra Pradesh had only one centre at Hyderabad. Now you will see a sort of a branch going right up to Vijayawada and Kakinada. There is a frontier mail route you can trace up to Ambala, Chandigarh, up to Srinagar. This was just a grab from the database which was on the Ekulovya site. So, I saw Gowati and Srichar and I have put them there. But I am told that the two centres are not there. So, we have a blank right from Uttar Pradesh. There are a few centres in Uttar Pradesh but they are essentially on the outskirts of Delhi. We would have liked something in Lucknow, Bareilly, Varanasi and something like that. So is Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, these are blanks for some reason. And I don't think in the days of ICT distance is really an issue. And for thermodynamics, I was informed that teachers from Bengal came and stayed at centres in Nagpur. And based on that, I expected a centre or two to come up in Bengal in that area but for some reason that hasn't happened. The historical definition of India was from Sethu to Himachal. And here we have Kanyakumari as a centre. Maybe not in this group but in the second group which comes. And Himachal will, well, Srinagar, we have Srinagar. The historical west to east spread from Sindhu to Irawati. Well, that is history. We neither have Sindhu with us. The major part of Sindhu is not with us nor is Irawati. We have, the west has been reasonably well represented but the east needs to be really represented. So I expect that the expansion across India should take place soon. And now that Professor Fatuk had shown the carrot that Akash will be available only if you are on this map. That should lead to an eastward expansion. May I intervene? For a few it may be so. I would like to intervene here. I don't know why you call carrot. It's an exciting opportunity to work. In terms of money value it is not much but in terms of excitement it is too much. But I would also like to add that I deliberately did not indicate this to people whom I wrote may say you are interested. Because I did not want people to register as remote centers primarily for participating in the Akash town. Their passion must be to help other teachers in conducting these workshops. The Akash one is an incidental advantage or other.


first assalamu alaikum everyone that was so quiet I expect a little bit louder from you guys assalamu alaikum that was better it's not that early you guys it's already 1.30 so alhamdulillah today we're gonna do another story time in crap do you guys want to do a craft so the first book we're gonna go over today is called the blessed bananas just to remind you guys if anybody is new here don't worry if you can't see a picture because when I come to the page finish reading the page I will make sure everyone gets a chance to see it okay all right inshallah bismillah Rahman Raheem the blessed bananas written by Tayyaba Sayed and illustrated by Milani Poochie I really like the cover art top of the highest hill above a giant banana plant there lived a cranky old monkey named Rico he was the wealthiest of all for Allah the most high had truly blessed Rico with the banana plant he called home it bore sweet tasty bananas all year round so Rico never had to search for food he refused to share his bananas with anyone and he never thanked Allah for all his blessings Rico thought he deserved all the bananas since he had planted and grown this plant all by himself that reaction everyone went right see that's smart thinking mashallah we have some smart boys in our group everyone in the village below knew not to come near Rico or the hill that was his home and those were his bananas every day he sat alone atop his banana plant eating bananas and tossing the pills down below not caring about the mess that is littering the monkey had everything he needed great food a perfect home with the best view in California do we have good views yes and a beautiful surrounding breeze yet Rico felt like something was still missing so every day Rico would count his bananas to make sure they were all there 305 306 307 as the monkey continued counting he heard a tiny squeaky voice from below excuse me sir may the peace of Allah be upon you the little voice called out immediately Rico looked around the area to see who would dare come near him and his bananas who's there he asked not seeing anyone in sight spoke a little white mouse Rico glared at his feet he shrieks how dare you come here question Rico this is my home and you are not allowed up here now shoot I'm sorry I didn't mean to frighten you my name is Chico I'm new to this area and was searching for some lunch I made a lot to allow to help me find food and then I saw your yummy bananas may I have just one banana he asked politely listen mouse leave my home right this minute or you will be sorry everyone knows no one is allowed up here and I don't share my bananas with anyone I heard except for himself and he is a bully he sounds like a bully let's see I I don't know anyone here and I didn't know about your rules sir Chico explained softly I won't disturb you again Chico was so sad that his eyes began to well up with tears he wondered how someone could be so selfish and mean out of respect for the elder monkey though Chico did not say another word and sadly scurried back down you all law please guide that monkey to goodness and with that prayer Chico went quickly down the hill Rico's heart was now racing with anger that was the first time in a long time anyone had come to and talked to him he was not happy about it he then realized the unwanted meeting with the mouse had made him forget his count great now I must start all over again he said out loud you do good memory I didn't remember that and I read it as Rico began counting again a black and yellow toucan flew down behind and rested on the opposite side of the banana plant she was panting very hard oh oh oh Salamu Alaikum she said between brass I'm to come may I rest here for a few minutes Rico could feel his blood boiling and he quickly turned around to see who dares to come on to his property now he walked up close to to canna he stared at her hard he then leaned in close to his her face and shouted no to canna fluttered her wings and disbelief and backed away from him I didn't mean to upset you I had been flying for a long time and just needed a break I saw your lovely home and didn't think you'd mind I'll just be going sorry to canna said kindly tired and hurt she flew away making a quick blot oh Allah I forgive that monkey oh Allah please have your mercy on him too Rico had had enough and decided to put up signs to keep strangers off his property and the signs definitely worked days went by and no one came by Rico or his home Rico ate and ate his bananas until his tummy hurt yet he wasn't satisfied something still missing he said to himself who can see what his signs say stay off and go away no bananas for you he used the number four it's like one afternoon Rico finally climbed down his tree to check up on his signs when a large gray elephant approached him a salamu alaikum brother my name is Simone he greeted warmly in a deep voice Rico turned glared up in shock at the giant creature I am not your brother Rico replied curtly what do you mean no one is allowed to come near me or my home don't you see my signs here now Simone was in dire need of the monkeys help and decided to ignore his rudeness he reached out his trunk and softly nudge Rico on the shoulder you are my brother in this land he reminded Rico I need your help to find my herd I see you live on this tall banana tree on this high hill and I was hoping you could look from above to see which way my herd went said Simone I should practice my beautiful voice Rico had hurt enough get off my property right this minute you can find your own way back the word spit out of Rico's mouth he turned his back towards the elephant and started to climb back up his plant brother I beg you Simone pleaded just take a minute to look for my herd and I'll be on my way please brother please Rico ignored him and just kept climbing in desperation Simone began to pace back and forth he didn't notice all of the banana peels below and under his huge feet suddenly he started to slip and he quickly grabbed onto the plant's large stem with his trunk whoa Simone screamed shaking the plant as he tried to get back on his feet shaking the plant startled and scared Rico held on from above with both hands bananas came crashing down just missing Simone's head causing him to lose his balance and to shake the plant even harder Rico watched with shock as one by one the bananas rain downward my banana however no one came to his rescue he then looked up to the heavens and he prayed as hard as he could yeah a law help me as you are the only one that can save me now in his deepest time who did he reach out to so that means there's goodness in his heart at the foot of the hill Chico and Tucana Tucana happened to be resting by a waterhole they both worried wordly looked up towards the hill when they heard all of the chaos do you hear that as Chico someone's in trouble up there let me fly up and check said Tucana she quickly flew upwards to get a better view and saw the old monkey desperately hanging on to his banana plant with panic in his eyes it's the old monkey to can I shouted down to Chico he looks like he's about to fall oh no we have to help him cry Chico Tucana swoop down and drag Chico into her long beak she then flew up again as fast as she could through the shower and bananas and leaves they reached Rico no time but she couldn't talk with Chico in her mouth Rico immediately recognized Tucana and was relieved to see her this time please help begged Rico the elephant is knocking down all my precious bananas Chico peaked out from inside Tucana's beak yeah a law please help he prayed silently he then told Tucana to fly down close to the elephant's ear despite Simone's magnificent size Chico knew just what to do so Chico's the mouse in Tucana the birds beak and she's telling him fly down fly down to the elephant she said lie down when she flew down close to Simone he shouted into Simone's enormous ear Simone didn't know where the order came from but he quickly let go of the plant and found his footing again Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad he recited with a lack of exhaled oh then all became calm he looked up and saw Tucana hovering above his head with a mouse in his beak peace he greeted them Salam Rico slowly climbed down to the others he started to cry at the sight of all the fallen mushy bananas why did you knock down this monkey's bananas Chico questions Simone I didn't mean to do that I got separated from my herd and I currently asked this monkey to search from above but he refused I then slipped on his banana peels and lost my balance Simone explained as he gasped for breath oh I'm sorry about all your bananas he apologized to Rico Chico Tucana and Simone all stared at Rico no one knew how he would respond the monkey sat on the ground and placed his face in his hands he realized it was his own carelessness and selfishness that caused all his bananas to fall he felt bad about how he had treated the others and yet they still came to his help and rescued him after a few minutes of silence he stood up again it's not your fault Rico said finally spoke I should be the one to apologize all these years of being alone here have made me selfish and ungrateful you each did not ask me for much I should have helped you all please forgive me Tucana let Chico climb out of her beak it's okay she said we already forgave you so that Allah can forgive us one day Rico finally let out a radiant smile please come up and take rest in my home he welcomed Tucana he then picked up a large bunch of bananas and placed them next to Chico please help yourself he told the little mouse they all look happy now then he climbed to the top of his home and he scanned the village below he pointed north and said there I see your herd that way Simone looked up at Rico happily thanked him and then went down the hill heading north I'm glad he didn't go because then Simone would have been a really lost then Rico shouted from atop his trees oh my fellow villagers please come and help yourself to these bananas what's mine is yours villagers came running up the hill from all corners gathering up as many bananas as they could they made bread shakes puddings and all types of goodies with the fruit the more Rico gave away the more bananas his plant bore so when he gave it away did all his bananas leave thank you Allah for everything Rico cried out in happiness as he was no longer counting bananas and he was finally feeling satisfied nothing was missing anymore he now enjoyed his blessed bananas atop his home with his new friends Tucana and Chico and the best part was that the bananas tasted sweeter than ever we should look up later for my skin countries otherwise Tucana might have helped what did you guys think of that book I know and there's two really nice recipes at the end for banana bread a banana date shake and banana pudding what did you guys think of that book did you like it what do you think we learned from the book to share good to not be greedy can you say that one more time that Chico felt like something was missing and that Chico needed friends that's nice Rico you're right Rico Rico needed friends Chico was the mouse it reminded you of a Pokemon named Trico I've never did we think did we learn anything else from this don't be greedy and selfish is a good one being nice and kind to others being kind that's a good one that was a very good one yes what about what happened when he gave away all his bananas in the beginning he saved him because he wanted to save them all for himself right but then what happened when he when he gave them away we're gonna I'm gonna pick on people have their hands raised the more he gave away and being respectful good the more he gave away and the more Allah blessed him with more bananas right so what does that tell us if we if we're giving it away but we're getting more what does that tell us but who's the one who provides for us is it just our hard work a lost rent a lesson when we give to others is that really taking away from us or do you think Allah's front is gonna give us more back we're talking about good good masha Allah I have two more books and now we're gonna talk about some really cool things okay so Alhamdulillah one thing that we realize in that story was that Rico had a beautiful banana tree and in the banana tree that was his home right Allah blessed him with that beautiful home and all of that so let's think about it let's this book is called let's think about it and it's Allah's great garden this is called let's think about it Allah's great garden and it's by the Ali Gator series Bismillah everything grows in Allah's great garden with his blessing and grace Allah's great garden is such a wonderful place with trees so tall and strong giving us shade from the Sun nice fruit to eat and also great places to play so that let's think about it that's kind of what happened with Rico right he had a cool a tree that gave him fruit place to stay and then when he had friends a place to hang out I climb Allah's trees but I must be careful and first make sure my parents say it's safe not too high says my father as he looks on do any of you guys like to climb trees raise your hand if you climb trees you know what I love to climb trees to some of Allah's trees give us delicious fruits like bananas apples and pears they are so colorful and nice to eat watermelon is juicy and perfect on a hot day it grows in the ground not on a tree can you see the watermelon seeds so what's your favorite fruit what are your favorite fruits pineapple apples pineapple we have another pineapple bananas me too that's a lollipop that's not a fruit then watermelon and carrots kale oh pears thank you pears mashallah I like that's anyone which one do you like watermelon I think everyone here loves watermelon raise your hand if you don't like watermelon you don't like watermelon that's unique okay let's keep going because I'm gonna ask you some more questions in a second all plants start as a little seed from the smallest flower to the biggest tree it's incredible to think that something so small could now be so big and tall plants and trees are a miracle of Allah do you guys see big trees and small trees when you look out your windows yeah I'm sorry it kind of looks like one all right when it's time to plant our new season's fruit I collect the seeds and put them into a bottle I need to take care of them so my mother and I can plant them in our garden does anybody here plant do raise your hand if you've ever planted a seed do you guys know that planting seeds is a Sunnah did you know that did you know that raise your hand if you knew that planting a seed was a Sunnah you guys are doing Sunnahs when you're planting seeds mashallah the seeds need to be put into the ground covered with dirt and given some water then Allah makes it grow into a plant or tree here I'm planting corn can you see the corn that I planted a few months ago they already so tall mashallah it's fun to see things grow when you plant them Allah takes care of the plants by sending the rain rain is food for the plants everything grows only by the will of Allah I'm before I read this page who knows how many how many plants are mentioned in the Quran how many do you think 10 how many do you think you think 100 let's find out did you know that there are 54 plants mentioned in the Quran some of them are figs pomegranates olives good corn garlic onions lentils barley we ginger pumpkins guess what else you everyone in cedar bananas cucumbers and baby I also do love watermelon and it's mentioned in the Quran maybe there's a good reason we love it because it's very good for us every day after school my mother and I check on our plants in our garden the colors of the flowers make our house look so beautiful we look after our plants but we always remember that everything only grows through the of Allah so before we plant what should we say we should always say Bismillah before we start something when we look around and we see all the trees that grow it reminds us Allah's blessing us with stuff so what are certain things that we get from trees that apples what else can we use trees for apple seeds well think about it what else can we use trees for for shade shelter bananas we can get fruits and bananas can get paper like a very good one oxygen trees gives us oxygen so we can breathe can everyone take a deep breath deep breath out that oxygen we breathe wait what happens if we hold our breath does it hurt our lungs it hurts us so subhanallah the trees give us oxygen that we breathe that's our very good ones you guys excellent so have you guys ever heard of a Khalifa have you heard of a Khalifa good so in Surat al-Baqarah this is ayah number 30 your Lord said to the angelic beings I am placing a Khalifa on the planet earth I am planting a Khalifa on the planet earth can anybody tell me what they think a Khalifa means a tree a tree okay that's good guess a prophet okay that's a good guess a seed okay that's a good guess we take one more guess something you say okay that's a good guess well a Khalifa is a servant of Allah the Allah put on this earth to take care of the earth so when we take care of the trees what are we doing we're being the Khalif is of this earth right we're taking care of the trees we're taking care of what else can we take care of plants good what about what other things are there in nature that we take care of animals right what about animals do you guys have any pets does anybody hear of any pets who is pets you have a pet your brothers so what pet do you guys have together a cat do you guys take care of your cat or do you just leave it alone that's good but I think you're still taking care of it a little bit right you're making sure it has everything it needs that's very nice so you guys are taking care of the plants and the animals all around us right because Allah made you guys responsible so I'm gonna I know you guys are getting a little bit antsy so we're gonna start our activity in just a minute you guys want to do the activity I thought you'd be ready for that inshallah but before I start I want to tell you guys about a little club that we're starting you guys want to be a part of the club this is our club is called the Sunnah seekers can you guys say that seekers so what we're gonna do is every time we meet we're gonna try and think of different Sunnahs that we can do all the time and then I'm gonna ask you guys if you've been doing them okay so what are some Sunnahs that we can do that help us be good Khalifahs of the earth what are some good Sunnahs excellent we can water plants and take care of them what are some other good Sunnahs that we can do to take care of the earth planting a plant good things did you know that Prophet Muhammad would if he had a rip in his clothes he would help fix it or he would recycle reuse things good you're gonna protect the other things the things that need protecting like protecting the animals so no one hurts them that's very good composting she's a gardener that one not throwing garbage or metal in the ocean that's an excellent one great job you have a fact to share with us you know these are all of the Sunnahs I wrote down I have a whole list you guys have answered a said most of them and one of them is we don't hurt animals without good reason because the Prophet Muhammad said him said whoever kills a sparrow or anything bigger than that without just cause law will hold him accountable in the day of judgment so should we hurt animals why would you hurt a tiger just for its fur but what is a good reason what what is a good reason if we are to try and get some animals for what maybe for survival or I was thinking something a little simpler yeah for food well yes food good job inshallah all right so do you guys think that you guys could be Sunnah seekers and take care of animals and plants this month till we meet next month maybe well to help you guys out we're gonna do this month's bird feeders so I'm gonna show you guys how to make a bird feeder you have all this stuff to make one but you know what all the people at home or if you guys want to make more you know how we can do this we could use recycled stuff look this is a tool from the from toilet paper roll or a paper towel roll we can get that right we could save it we can wipe it off make sure it's clean and then we could reuse it for a bird feeder right what other things could we use for our string if we don't have if we want to reuse something we can reuse ribbon maybe from an old gift what else yeah we're gonna put see what other kind of things could we use for string I like that we can use thin strips of something maybe paper might get wet right what's another one that's a good that's a good try though I like that what about old material like on your shirt cutting a strip of that maybe from an old shirt though when that's messed up yeah or what about your old shoelaces can we use our old shoelaces maybe yeah you guys have lots of things that we could recycle and do that you have another one huh twine yes twine you have another one you forgot it it's okay all right so now I'm gonna show you guys how to make it okay you have your bags huh yarn you got yours back good so in your bag first you have a coloring sheet this is just to remind you guys what we learned today so it says let's take care of the earth and it's the Aya that we talked about and then you guys can color in the picture and then you can write what is the Khalifa so this is for you guys we have lots of markers on the table if you want to color it in now or you can save it for home it's up to you but it's for you next we're gonna make bird feeders to hang so in everybody's bag you can't open your bag but we're gonna make sure that we don't leave any garbage in the message right good so in your bag you're gonna get a long tube do you guys see the tube all right fine your tube good here's your tube and then you have you're gonna be very careful you have a plastic knife it now it shouldn't hurt but we're still gonna be careful it shouldn't hurt but we still gonna be careful yes so I'm gonna explain to you guys what to do and then we're gonna get up and go do it in the back okay so when you have your tube you're gonna use your oh can everybody hear me when with our plastic knife we're gonna put it we have peanut butter on the table okay if anyone has an allergy to peanut peanuts please talk to me after inshallah okay so inshallah what we're gonna do is we're gonna get the peanut butter and you're gonna cover your your tube in it then you're gonna get the bird seeds and you're gonna roll the bird seeds in it once the bird seeds all you're gonna put the string the yarn through the tube absolutely your parents can definitely help you and then me and we have brother Abdullah helping in the back and then we have sister Oland also helping okay so if anybody needs help we're here to help okay we just gonna tie it here and then we're gonna take it home to hang it up it's that simple you mean I love hummingbirds they're really fun they're very beautiful I have some night my house too does anybody have any questions before we get started any questions no alright let's get started then you guys can go to the back tables I'll see you over there in just a minute inshallah


How's it going guys? Welcome back to another JHR view and today we're going to be looking at something that is going to be a little bit confusing for me because I can't read it but we are going to attempt to make this microwave make your own chocolate kit by heart I believe. If we turn it around on the back you can see that there is a little bit of a diagram if we zoom in about microwaving your chocolate in a mug, stirring it and then I guess you fill the molds up there inside of here and I think we have to freeze it for just a tiny bit of time in order for it to solidify but it's very interesting and I'm really excited to kind of try it out so let's go ahead and open this up and see what we can do alright let's slide everything out okay I see so basically what we're going to do is we have two of these little guys right here and let's open them up so I can give you a good visual revois indigile let's see so right over here I don't know what this one is it's probably something important though we'll get back to that later right here we have these little tiny areas in here where we're going to lay down these guys just like this and that's before we put the chocolate on but we use these dots to fill in these little kind of little crevices right here if we go ahead and yeah these little tiny little holes in prints we're going to go ahead and fill those with those beads and make some designs and then after that once we are done with this I'm going to take this thing of chocolate right here we're going to nuke that for probably 30 seconds and then we're going to get it nice and liquidy and then we're going to pour it inside of the mold and try to make some kind of like I don't know I guess lollipop of some sort but I'm not really sure what flavor these guys are not sure if there's a specific flavor or not so I'm excited to see what these taste like and then excited to see what we can get to come out of this so go ahead and stay tuned so first thing we need to do is open one of these guys and I'm going to go ahead and try one out before we put it in to see if it has any flavor or if it's just like a sugar kind of base actually I was completely wrong these are just shells with little tiny bits of chocolate inside so let's go ahead and pour some of these in here we don't want to do too many because we want to be able to get some sort of design I'm probably not going to be able to create the most intricate design sorry my hands blocking the way but we can try to get like at least maybe some separation in here maybe some hapsies that's kind of cool yeah they kind of jump around quite a bit yeah kind of hard to maneuver we'd have to have like tweezers or something so maybe this is like some kind of like little clouds or something I'm not too sure and we can throw some of these white ones in there too maybe like a blue and white one try to put them mostly on this area maybe we can put like a center of different color like maybe like a red I'll see what we can do some of these guys don't have homes yet though so we gotta pop them around oh I guess that's okay there we go and I think a red would look nice in the middle I don't know if you're supposed to fill it all the way up but there's a lot of these balls so you know as well try to maybe it yeah one two oh there's one more one more right there and yeah that one already had these two have homes already come on there we go so that's completely done kind of looks a little spread white and blue so all right and then this one let's do some yellows you can try to do like a fire or something that would be cool don't know if I have the skill for that though I'll stir in the edges you know when you're trying to think about it I'm just like this fire have the yellow on the outside or the inside I don't remember like traditional like cartoon fire let's see kind of get these to jump around until they find their little homes I guess I can roll it around a little bit there we go okay well nope two of them come on guys there we go oh almost but now we're knocking these guys out too almost there perfect and now gonna fill it with this red and it looks like a superhero symbol or something like the flash like the reverse flash actually it looks a lot like the reverse flash I'll just eat these guys if I can't get them out if I can even pick them up you're gone and you're gone I just leave these guys at the bottom though if I can't get them out easy alright we have successfully made this into a design I like this one better than I like this one but I think they're both pretty cool so let's lay our little sticks down right here let's like that I might actually want to put something on the ends to actually prop them up maybe that's what this is I'm not too sure it's gonna hard to tell what this is what do you guys think that is some kind of grabber I'm so dumb this was the grabber the exactly what it was let's pull one of these out here this whole time if I want to pick one up I just got to do that oh well it works in theory I didn't grab it properly let's try one more time so we have one little guy right here we have these two little holes so we grab it like that perfect I can't believe I didn't realize that maybe I'll just throw some random thing the middle right there it's so precise though and if I wanted to pick that up so easy I can't believe I didn't realize I'm gonna eat it oh well that's okay though we can just eat these later to these little chocolate balls but without further ado let's open this guy see what it looks like and then pop it in the microwave alright so we have the chocolate bar right here and it looks pretty much just like a regular chocolate I'm gonna try a little bit before I melt it yeah pretty decent not too bad I think it'll go really good with this so let's go ahead and heat it up alright so I went ahead and melted this chocolate up so let's try to get this out of here as soon as possible we don't want this to uh oh there we go and completely surround and fill it up almost there and stop and then let's try to get as much as we can out of this one too because this one's gonna be a little bit harder because a lot of this wants to stick to the bottom and then we're definitely gonna have to reposition those sticks to where it'll do the right thing because it's not gonna solidify in there in the freezer if they're not submerged in the chocolate yeah it's giving me a little bit of trouble down here but I think I'll be able to get most of it out I should have got like a spoon or something instead that's alright though if one's a little bit lacking of the chocolate I was trying not to get it on my setup but luckily my setup I found a good solution made out of a kind of wallpaper that you can get and you just tape it to the desk versus the cardboard back panels I was getting before that stained really easily this I can just roll off a new piece and it'll look exactly the same which is really nice and convenient so I did lose quite a bit of chocolate in there but I was very generous on this side so that's probably why I didn't have enough but let's go ahead and put this inside of the freezer and see what we kind of get at the end alright I went ahead and I took them outside of the freezer and they're pretty solid as well but I think the biggest question is how do we get it out of this mold if we look on this side you can see that it actually worked pretty well if we zoom in right there you can see the design that we created the chocolate did kind of overlap the balls a little bit which I'm not extremely happy about because if you see right here it kind of takes away from the design if it's wrapped in chocolate but let's go ahead and turn it back this way and see if we can maybe push from the other side to get it to come out oh no it already cracked in half guys that sucks that's alright though as long as we can get something out of here right oh man the chocolate doesn't seem to have the same amount of dexterity as it did before it was melted well that sucks let's move that out of the way so basically what we're working with now is stuck in chocolate in a mold and I'm pretty sure I left it in there long enough to I mean you know when I touch it yeah it gets melty but that's just from the heat of my hands see if we can pop this one out over here and it's on the floor so I wasn't able to get anything out of this one but this one right here has a lot of cool little design on there and it actually kept on pretty well the chocolate's pretty melty still but let's go ahead and take a bite before it all falls apart hmm that's pretty good not gonna lie it's actually really good let's go ahead and lay this back in here yeah that is not bad at all the chocolate didn't lose any of its like taste when it was melted down in the microwave there's no weird aftertaste all of the balls that are in there are still just as good as when I ate them by themselves and it's kind of like eating a Hershey's bar mixed with M&Ms is probably what I would equivolate it to it's really good stuff and I definitely would suggest buying this one just as long as you separate the chocolates evenly and you make sure that you get those sticks in there more properly surprisingly the one that had the stick in it better is the one that didn't work but the one that it was kind of floating halfway out ended up working the best so yeah a huge shout out to my patreon's thank you guys so much for your support you guys are awesome if you enjoyed this video don't forget to comment rate and subscribe and as always I'll see you in the next video


Hey guys, how you doing? This is Rich from Rich to Be Live and today I want to talk to you about BBTV, advancing the world by helping influencers become more successful. As an influencer, I think this is vital. I think this is huge. This is the future of influencers. This is the future of television. This is the future of social media. This is the future of communication and BBTV is leading the way and if you go to TMX Money, you can see that they're currently priced at $10.45. They went down a little bit yesterday like almost everybody did and the markets have been really, really choppy. But this is one of the reasons why I really like the company. Key data here, only 14 million shares issued an outstanding total classes, fully diluted 20 million shares, giving them a market cap of 214 million, despite the fact that they have some really good strong growing revenue. I think this is a company that everybody needs to put on their watch list and put on their radar. Let's take a look at their revenue because BBTV announced record Q4 and full year 2020 results. BBTV Holdings Inc., BBTV in Canada, BBTVF in America, a media tech company that uses technology enabled solutions to help content creators and influencers become more successful. Today announced record financial results for Q4 and full year 2020 ended December 31st, 2020. Management team and analysis along with full financial statements are posted and available on CDAR. All of that is on CDAR. I'm not going to go through it on CDAR. We can read here what it says. I am very pleased with our performance this quarter says Sharesad Rafadi, chairperson and CFO of CEO, sorry, of BBTV. Following the initial industry-wide slowdown caused by the pandemic, BBTV's growth trajectories accelerated well through the year. It is a testament to the strength of our platform to monetize content for influencers and the dedication and skills of our team to deliver 40% revenue growth this quarter. We exceeded our expectations on all of our core KPIs this quarter, including growth in revenue, views, and revenue per thousand views. We are especially bullish on the next few quarters as we continue to see strong momentum in the growth of our higher margin plus solutions which positions us well to accelerate revenue growth and enhance margins in the coming quarters. Revenue is everything. I'm constantly focused on trying to educate our community on revenue and investing in revenue. This is a company that is growing in revenue. Look at this. Look at these numbers. Q4 2020 financial highlights. Total revenue generated in Q4 2020 was 150.8 million. What? An increase of 40% over 107.8 million reported in Q4 2019. That is an epic number. Total BBTV share structure of revenue total BBTV share of revenue Q4 2020 was 12 million or 8% of total revenue. Cost of revenue including content creator and third party platform fees in Q4 2020 was 0.7 million comparable to the previous quarter. Adjusted gross margin which is gross profit divided by BBTV share was 94% in Q4 2020. Gross profit reported in Q4 2020 was 11.3 million. Pretty substantial there. A 12% increase in comparison to 10.1 million reported in the same quarter last year. Gross margin was 7.5% in Q4 2020 in comparison to 9.3% in Q4 2019 as a result of penetration. Pricing strategy to gain market share. Net income for the quarter was 1.2 million compared to a loss. Huge, huge change here of 1.2 million in Q4 2019. That is a huge change in the right direction. Earnings per share was 6 cents for Q4 2020 based on pro forma 20.5 million shares outstanding compared to a loss of 9 cents per share in Q4 2019 based on 13.1 million shares outstanding. Adjusted EBITDA which is non IFRS measure was 1.0 million for Q4 2020 compared to 0.7 million reported for Q4 2019. Q4 2020 highlights in Q4 2020 the number of views on BBTV content was 114.2 billion. Wow. A 16% increase compared to 98.7 billion reported in Q4 2019. Revenue per thousand views RPM increased in Q4 2020 by 21% to 1.25 compared to 1.03 in Q4 2019. In Q4 2020 BBTV announced the signing of new international gaming partners Latoya, Noor, SNX, Games Edu, you, Mustafa game over and Vin MC who collectively achieved 217 million monthly YouTube views and boasted over 23 million YouTube subscribers. This was in addition to new signings with Nick pro, Penguins, Oh, Jack Denmo, and Francesca Farago adding 267.8 million monthly views and 12.5 million subscribers organically. BBTV also renewed and expanded content partnerships with key existing partners including Quabel, I am Santa and CJ so cool who collectively generated 187.6 million monthly views. Additionally, the company announced that it extended its content management solutions to the encore YouTube channel presented by the Canada media fund CMF and it renewed its agreement with the NBA huge huge huge agreement with the National Basketball Association for which BBTV manages all fan uploaded NBA content on YouTube across the global across the globe, excluding China subsequent to quarter and BBTV announced a strategic partnership with both Instagram and TikTok to monetize influencers across those platforms. Wow, these guys are not joking fiscal year 2020 financial highlights for fiscal year 2020 revenue was 459 million that is unbelievable a 23.3% increase from 372.4 million reported the fiscal year 2019 total BBTV share of revenue in fiscal 2020 was 38.9 million or 8% of total revenue cost of revenue excluding content creator and third party platform fees fiscal year 2020 was 2.8 million which was comparable to the previous year adjusted gross margin which is adjusted gross profit divided by BBTV share was 93% in fiscal year 2020 total gross profits for fiscal year 2020 was 36.1 million comparable to 36.3 million reported fiscal year 2019 gross margin was 7.9% in 2020 in comparison to 9.8% in 2019 as a result of penetration pricing strategy to gain market share net loss for fiscal 2020 was 10.3 million compared to loss of 8.2 million in fiscal year 2019 loss per share was 50 cents based on pro forma 20.5 million shares outstanding for fiscal year 2020 compared to a loss per share of 62 cents based on 13.1 million shares outstanding for fiscal year 2019 adjusted EBITDA loss which is non IFRS measure was 2.6 million for fiscal 2020 compared to income of 1 million for fiscal 2019 the decline in EBITDA in fiscal 2020 compared to fiscal 2019 is related primarily to increased strategic investments in sales and marketing days sales outstanding DSOs for the year was 37 as of December 31 2020 the company had 60 million of cash and short term investments so the company is very well capitalized now this is the website it looks like this bbtv.com and advancing the world by helping influencers become more successful this is huge love what these guys are doing revenue growth is good strong management team and if you're an influencer and you're looking to grow and gain more market share more market penetration you need to consider bbtv these guys are clearly making waves and working with some of the biggest influencers in the world and myself included I would love to work with bbtv one day and that's something that we are working on just so you guys know despite the market disruption caused by COVID-19 pandemic earlier in the year we were able to expand views on our platform and improve rpm added mr faddy to capture market share in the wake of the pandemic we reduced our revenue share to gain more influencers and significantly more views on the bbtv platform as a result we're well positioned to maximize monetization on the platform and to expand our revenue streams going forward to maximize our opportunity we're actively investing in sales and marketing capabilities across our higher margin solutions we're providing a summary of the results of operations bbtv corp the main operating entity of bbtv holdings bbtv holdings the public company was initially a shell entity which acquired bbtv corp on october 28th 2020 wow that's not long ago and the financial results therefore only include two months of q4 2020 operating activity bbtv holdings does not currently generate revenue and other than the transaction related costs operating expenses were 1.2 million and not operating expenses were 1.8 million for the year certain pro forma consolidated unaudit financial statements which combine bbtv corp and bbtv holdings and the unaudited bbtv corp financials may be found in the mdna bbtv holding audited consolidated statutory statutory financial statements are filed separately future earnings releases will combine bbtv holdings and bbtv corp into one reporting entity in accordance with regulatory requirements so this just breaks down all their financials which we've already talked about and just real quickly we'll talk a little bit about bbtv bbtv is a media technology company headquartered in vancouver canada where i reside the company's mission is to democratize content by leveraging its proprietary technologies to drive viewership and monetization for content creators of all sizes from individual influencers to global media companies bbtv monetizes the content of the influencers through end-to-end monetization solutions bbtv's platform is powered by its innovative technology enabling influencers to focus on their core competencies content creation love it bbtv has the second most unique monthly view viewers among digital platforms with more than 600 million globally wow who consume more than 50 billion minutes of video content the most among media companies bbtv wow huge huge huge this is their website you can go to its solutions click on influencer solutions and you can literally become a partner you have to qualify obviously they have some of the biggest influencers in the world that are part of this so you have to literally qualify but once you become a partner they could potentially really help you grow so you can see here a leading influencer network tens of billions of monthly views more than half as many monthly unique viewers as google wow that is crazy you can see here their influencer network and what do they focus on best in class technology and third party tools from third party tools to a rights free music library and easy to use video assets take advantage of powerful solutions to make top tier content and they focus on distribution and monetization brand deals we bring your content to some of the biggest brands in the world from ad sales and sponsorships to full integrations distribution maximize your reach and distribution opportunities across a range of advertised and subscription platforms such as facebook amazon snapchat and more they offer other revenue streams and value ads take advantage of new revenue from merchandising to custom apps and rights management general specific value ads access of range of verticalized value from a massive library of mba video clips to distributing your music on spotify and more we have services that cater to every vertical you can see partner experience now obviously we're a youtuber and this is huge we're also on tiktok we're on every major platform that bbtv is also on and this is what they focus on so if you're a youtuber or you're an influencer on any of those major platforms bbtv can help you with channel growth bbtv helps to grow your audience and enhance your engagement through channel optimization content strategy and creative and design services they have a talented management get the vip treatment from our world class talent talent managers who work closely with you for every act for event access new monetization opportunities and personalized day-to-day support support and education connect with real people for technical support and learn from regular newsletters and bbtv's blog to keep up with the industry and our services here's some of their influencers as you can see some big big names big influencers already working with bbtv direct sales we work with basketball personalities like chris london to visit a finish line event booth and review their latest products in a highly successful campaign spine engine network custom apps bbtv interactive developed and launched chad wild clays spine engine network mobile app hitting number one in the united states in the family category merchandising bbtv developed angry grandpas widely successful merch line so they help you they help you develop merch including everything from apparel to plush toys that were the top selling items on the bbtv merch store and general specific value ads every year we collaborate with influencers to co-produce exclusive content with the mba at marquis events such as mba all-star with top tier sponsorships from major brands and they provide distribution and label services bbtv's music division opposition offers distribution and label services to music artists across all major streaming platforms with a focus on digital marketing to drive streams and artist awareness and right here as an influencer myself you have to apply not everybody gets to work with bbtv you have to apply and you have to hit certain milestones what you need to do is click on partner my channel we're checking for things like copyright strikes adsense and your channel stats for partnership click on this and then they will ask you for your email address and then they will ask you some specific questions to let you know if you qualify so if you're a youtuber or an influencer i would suggest you take a look at bbtv they are an absolute game changer and i'm very impressed with everything these guys have done i'm not going to go through the entire website but i wanted to break down the big news and i thought the revenues and the quarter was very strong love to know what you guys think remember rich tv live is strictly for education entertainment purposes always do your due diligence always do your research before you mess in anything that we talk about here rich to be live if you like the video smash the like button comment down below share the video and subscribe tap into unrivaled content management with bbtv bbtv announces record q4 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Now, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INAG's returning officer for Arbia State Governorship election, Professor Nina Ooty has recalled how she insisted that votes must count during the just concluded election. Ooty, who is the Vice-Chantel of the Federal University of Technology Oire Fuhtel, said she refused to compromise the Arbia Governorship polls despite being offered money and threatened. The VC disclosed this while addressing students during her return to the school where students and staff of the institution had given their Vice-Chantel a hero's welcome. As an Electoral Officer, I have never in my life, never participated in any election, never. My duty came calling. I made my enquiries from Abuja, and I said, Spanish, Spanish! They came with their threats. They came with their money. They came with their intimidation. I will mark what I call home. Let me start today. I stand here before God. Jesus Christ, I have never, I have never defrauded anyone. Declare the riot arts as follows. Under me, votes must count. The people's mandate will be repelled. Because Professor Nana Oti, the mother of three children, and their wife, Abu-Nan Oti. The Vice-Chantel of the Federal University of Technology, Dear Professor Oti, stand and firm on heart believe.


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Hello and welcome to news click. The train accident in Odisha's Balasore district has left 275 people dead and 1100 injured. The heart-wrenching visuals of the accident has shook the conscience of the country and people are rightly asking for fixing the responsibility. The popping out details suggest that there was a signalling failure which sent Coromandel Express into loop line where it collided with a freight train. There are also structural issues of lack of safety staff, slow progress in track renewal among other things. We have today C.K. James, his secretary all India loco running staff association affiliated to C2. Sir, thank you for talking to news click. How would you explain the current accident where three trains have collided? The officials are suggesting that there was a signalling failure. I mean, how would you explain it? After the explanation given by the railways, the point was supposed to be set to the main line but because of wrong wearing, happened during maintenance work immediately before the accident. This point was set to loop line and the Coromandel Express was diverted and it collided with the freight train which was stable to there and now after the statement of the railway minister, it is coming evident that a failure of a man can cause a serious accident like this. This is not the standard we expected from the railways. Railways are being considered as the safest mode of transport when compared to road, rain or seaways because there were multi-layer safety securing system in railways earlier. Because of technical advancement, this responsibility is now given to the technical gadgets. If any failure comes in the gadgets, there is nobody to see it. That is the problem coming. When the speed is increasing, the gravity and the consequences of the accidents are increasing. So the railway should take a serious step to ensure a safety such a single man failure should not cause such a serious accident such as the standard of safety must be needed to be increased in the railways. Say for example, I am a locomotive in it, when the speed is increasing, load is increasing, number of passengers are increasing, then the duty of it must be reduced like that. We cannot continue the same rules which we are having in the steam era when the number of passengers was 10 or 12 and the number of passengers were less than 300, 400 like that. Right. So I mean the thing is there have been questions over lack of safety staff and then there was question of slow progress in track renewal. So as a workman, as a person working on the ground, how would you explain it? I mean how does it affect workers like you on the ground? Work pressure is increasing. That is we are always complaining and we are struggling for that. Even in the escalation system, whenever there is modification is coming, considering that modification, they say there is no need for staff. When the staff is being reduced, when auto-motor is coming, whenever an automatic system fails, the number of staff required will be much more than normal working. But there is nobody. These are the issues prevailing in railways. When the traffic is increasing manifold, but the number of staff is reducing in the reverse proportion. That is a system continuing many years and railway is trying to act as a commercial institution. So the prime motive of every officer is to reduce the expenditure. By reducing expenditure, staffs are being reduced. Maintenance allocation is being reduced. And maintenance awareness is being reduced. Even the training of the employees are also being curtailed. I joined in the year 1986. In that time, I was recruited as a diesel assistant. There was only one type of locomotive. Say the nomination WD2. The training period offered to us was one year. And now there are 17 types of locomotives are there. But the training period is curtailed to three months. There was also a question regarding privatization. People are suggesting that the desire to cut costs and move towards privatization is also affecting railways. What's your experience? Definitely it is there. Even the signal system. Now the signal system is being designed by private parties. After approval of the decision, that being installed by the private parties. And they are also given contract for maintaining for ANC in that way it is going on. Even in locomotives, in a single locomotive, the equipments are given from 100 million to private parties. Private extension is going on everywhere. Sometimes there is a very short range of staff to supervise all these works. That is also having an impact on safety. That is what is happening in the signal system also. Right. How the workers of efficiency have been compromised as far as this pattern of taking longer hours of work from workers are concerned. How does it affect other departments? Can you share your experience? We have fought for this limit for working in a ways and we are having some rules. There is a maximum limit of toilets for working. But it is not limiting that toilets. They are forcing the people to work even more. Two months before there was an accident in the Velaspur division of East-South-Eastern Railway where a locomotive who was working for 14 hours and 20 minutes to the end of the night. And he has slept at the home signal and passed this platform and collided with a stationary goods train. And the driver of that stationary goods train was killed. In the same way that such things are happening everywhere. There are people working for 24 hours and even more. Even station workers are working for round the clock. That is the system now in railway study week. Because there is no sufficient people in station if somebody wants to leave. That mission says you take extra duty and adjust yourself. In that way the system is going everywhere. This overworking is an issue in railways everywhere. Thank you sir. Thank you for talking to Newsclick. Stay tuned with Newsclick for other updates.