Would you be willing to completely scrap the way that the Ravens currently do things in order to keep Lamar Jackson? Would you be willing for them to completely change their philosophy and the way that they really go all out on defense for them to actually do that on offense now and move forward with Lamar? Let's hear from one subscriber and what he had to say about this whole thing. Uh, this first question came from my guy, David, he said, Hey, and Graven, hope all is well with you.  Hey, um, yeah, we are one week away from when we can reapply. So hopefully, uh, things go good. So we'll see. I appreciate it though. I can only speak for myself, but I think all the team keep it clean. I wanted to see you for a very long time and see you happy. Hey, I appreciate that, David. Thank you. Just got home from my birthday dinner and was thinking about the Ravens and Lamar Jackson this year is bad. I wish we had given him office since 2018. Hopefully that would have gotten something done. And we would likely be looking at a contract renegotiation rather than a potential loss of the best QB in the league. Well, I mean, they couldn't do it in 2018. Like he was a rookie then he was just on his first contract. Um, so Ravens had, um, that you, you can start negotiating with a first round pick, uh, well, really any round pick after their third year, um, or after that contract expires, uh, cause with the seventh round picks, yeah, seven round picks get four, four years to, I believe.  He made magic happen with almost no real help. Everyone points to Andrews and says he's one of the best tight ends in the league. That's true. He had to be because the old line wide receivers and injured running backs were not helping without Lamar. We would be more like the Browns than the Ravens in my opinion. Um, I think that a lot of that is true. I can't say he didn't have any help, um, but it just wasn't enough. And it definitely wasn't up to the standards and levels of his counterparts at the quarterback position. Um, the anyway, let's just keep going. Uh, he said, like you always say, uh, the philosophy has to change for the Ravens to be great, not good. Uh, hopefully this will end in a great deal for both the Ravens and Lamar, but I doubt it. Maybe if he plays this year, he'll have a chip on his shoulder and beat the bricks off the competition. I would leverage the entire great defense that we have for a massive upgrade at offense. I love defense. That's why I love the Ravens, but now I want to see them move in the offensive direction or get a premium wide receiver or two. Keep Lamar reworked the running back deals to be more team friendly or get rid of them running backs. In my opinion, are the most replaceable player on offense. Woo, beef up the offensive line and have Lamar play a more spread offense. Hey, that, uh, yeah, the spread offense. Yes. I, um, obviously signing Lamar. Yes. Mm hmm. Getting a premium wide receiver or two. Oh, you know, I love that. I love it. Um, as far as the, the running backs, um, yeah, you don't got to rework their deals. I mean, they already reworked Gus Elwood deal, but you can rework their deal that they both on the final year, their contract, both J K Dobbins and Gus. It was on the final year of contract. Um, and Jack, like with Ravens and their running backs, you, you, you see it, you know it from watching them. You know they can be special. You do. I know y'all know you, if I know, then y'all know for sure. You know they can be special, but the way that the Ravens have done their offense, they don't allow them to be because they don't a stab, they do running back by committee. They've been doing that for the longest. But they do running back by committee and that doesn't allow anybody to really shine like that. They'll have some games where both players are doing good and whatnot. Um, but for somebody to really be that guy, they don't let them. But anyway, another conversation. Um, he said, if we failed and lost every game doing that, I wouldn't feel bad. I mean, I'd be a little salty, but I wouldn't be angry at the organization. We would know that Lamar isn't the quarterback we all think he is and we could move on with confidence that we tried and are only a few small pieces away from a perennial Super Bowl team. See, I like that because that's that's one of the things that me personally has been a frustration with this whole thing. Uh, it's the fact that for three, three or four years, I say three years, I always say three years.  No, uh, cause his first year, he didn't start his second year was 2019 and that was the breakout year. That wasn't crazy, but then 2020, 2021 and 2022. That's what I would consider wasted. Um, you talk to people and they be like, oh, well, yeah, Ravens used the most draft capital on wide. I said, yeah, they did. They technically did, but it's quality over quantity quality over quantity. Um, they never got him an established guy. Uh, and whenever you hear a lot of people talk about, oh, the Ravens got him help here that they mentioned they'll talk about Marcus Williams. They'll talk about Marcus Peters recently. They talk about Roquon Smith. And yeah, defense obviously can help the offense, but how about you help the office by getting significant offensive players like you do on defense? Like, but anyway, let's continue. He said, uh, with what we are doing lately, we don't know anything about if Lamar is what we think he is. Oh man, I guess I should have kept reading, but yeah, I agree because we haven't got to see his max potential. We haven't. We haven't. And that's, that's one of the scary and frustrating things about this whole situation. Um, we just have not gotten to see him the max Lamar that he could possibly be. The people still question this and that about him. Now, the injury part, okay, I, I get that part of people question that. So, okay, he missed, he missed time over the last couple of years. I get that part, but as far as the play. When people question his play, people question, can he do this? Can he do that? And it's like, why? How can we even really get the answers to these questions with the lack of quality that he's had? That just anyway, continuing. He said, uh, with what we are doing lately, we don't know anything about if Lamar is what we think he is. We don't know if our line can handle the NFL. We don't know if our running backs are going to be broken down next season. We don't know who our wide receivers are. Uh, we know we have a dog at tight end, a great defense, not all time great, though, and the best kickers in the league. That's not Super Bowl ready. That's, let's keep the Steelers and Browns out of the playoffs ready. Uh, the draft this year seems to be one of the worst drafts ever. We should get rid of as many draft picks as needed to co-pick and be the best team in the league. One that nobody wants to see on their schedule. Hey, no, no, no, come on now. Now that part, getting rid of all the draft picks, you gotta get rid of all.  Um, but no, uh, the draft just, it's just got to be better and Ravens, depending on what happens next, which we don't know what's going to happen next. Um, the draft is like, like either way, if they keep Lamar, then the draft picks, they, they got to hit on the draft picks a lot better than they have been. Overall, they got to, but if they get rid of Lamar, then that would mean they would have a bunch more draft picks. So you got to hit on those draft picks to make it worth it to have gotten rid of him. So the, the, either way that this thing goes, the draft is very, very important. Uh, he said, with some of the negative aside, I'm glad to see that the organization and Lamar both haven't been leaking information about each other. Telling a couple of days ago, but they still seem to be on cordial terms and might surprise us with something soon. Hopefully, I don't know. They're on cordial terms. I, I, I don't, I don't think so. That's my opinion, but I don't know nothing. But anyway, he said, I may have some purple glasses on, but it seems like they are heading in a more offensive minded approach. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. Uh, who knows.  See, a lot of us are thinking that last year. I know I was thinking that last year, but stop playing numbers, games and coach, like, you know, what the offense and defense are supposed to do. If that's the case, we will be dangerous. Let's see, baby. He said, anyway, sorry for the marathon book.  And like, I hope Lamar isn't. I'm out.  You see my boy, he like, I made it, I made it. Well, that's my home. He ain't that right. Engraving, right. Engraving. What a fun way that was to start a question from sub. I loved it, man. So shout out to my guys. So one question from subs is, as you already know, is a series where you connect any NFL question you want to. And we answered in the video like there's now if you would like to be a part of it. You can send for the team. Keep it clean. Patrons, shout out to all the team. Keep it clean. Patrons got a lot of love for y'all. Appreciate y'all, especially with everything going on right now. But for the pay, if you want to send a message via Patreon, Patreon, I can't even talk right now for the patrons, you send it directly on Patreon, you don't have to send an email or anything like that. You send it directly on Patreon. If everybody else you can send an email to team, keep it clean at gmail.com. Don't send it anywhere else, because we're going to throw it away. It's going to be trash. Only send it to team. Keep it clean at gmail.com. And let's get into some questions from some team. Keep it clean. Patrons, my first one from my guy tank, who's been a patron for two years. I appreciate your tank. He said, what's up in Graven? Hope the famous having a great year. Whenever I hear breaking NFL news, my first thought is I wonder what engraving thinks about this move. That being said, got a quick question with Zeke. Uh oh. OK, you know what? I like I thought about the same. Well, depending on how this goes, I probably thought about the same thing.  But anyway, he said with Zeke just dropping on a free agent market, do you think the Ravens adding him as a primarily third downback would give our already dangerous running game a new level? Much love and have a great day. I would much rather see them go overkill at wide receiver than running back. Right now they got J.K. Dobbins who can be a third downback. They got Gus Edwards, who definitely can be a third downback and they just resigned Justice Hill. Now you sent this yesterday so March 15th at 346 p.m. I think that that was that was right either when Justice Hill got signed or right after because Justice Hill got signed like close to four o'clock. It was before four o'clock. But anyway, I don't think that they would, especially since they just resigned Justice Hill, because it's like how many running backs do you need? And I mean, if Ravens look at running backs like they do tight ends and they say, oh, we need all of them, but no, I just don't think you would be a smart move. Next question came from my guy Nova, who's been a patron for six months. I appreciate you. So he asked some previous questions and he said it's previous questions didn't age well at all. Lol. Anyway, I got two more questions in hopes to mulligan the other two here goes. Number one, so maybe I'm being overly pessimistic or realistic here, but why does the thought of EDC trading Bateman sound like it's going to happen? Bateman went to go complain and Bateman said, oh, hold up, buddy. EDC said what he said about the receivers and Bateman said, hold up, buddy. But anyway, he said a few reasons before you decide I'm crazy. Oh, no, I don't think anybody will think you're crazy for thinking that because yeah, we know the history. But he said since EDC has became GM, you notice any noisy wide receivers always end up a former Raven. Hollywood is the most obvious example, but the Sean Jackson did. I don't hear you. Well, no, he ain't making any noise. Yeah, the Sean Jackson ain't say nothing till like he got cut. Like I mean, we saw the whole Instagram story and then he was officially released like either that same day the next day. But I think they probably had already told him and then he put that because he talked about Tata playing politics in the locker room, something like that. I forgot what he said. But anyway, he said Hollywood is the most obvious example, right. But the Sean Jackson, there's Brian. Then what was there is Brian, though, I thought, uh, then he started talking after he got cut, like with all the practice tapes and stuff. And I think that was after he got released, I think, but I don't remember. But anyway, and even Willie Snead, albeit his was after his Ravens tenor. They all came out on either social media or regular media to criticize the offense. And remember, bait did this very thing. Not about the offense per se, but in response to DC's comments at the injuries, causing misgames in his two seasons with them lack of draft capital. The Ravens have this year and tell me it's not foreseeable that EDC doesn't pull this trigger on a franchise that needs a number to receive a to stretch the field. But then see that he could do that. And I wouldn't put it past him. But that was that the Ravens back even further if they did that. Oh, it was. We'll set them back even further. So hopefully not. But I mean, they pavement got the talk and I think in old May DC gonna make him get the walk in. So we'll see. But anyway, he said, besides all we know, he sees more value in draft fixed in his wide receivers as we have yet to see any of his first round picks get a second contract. Well, I mean, technically, but we can't say that because his first first round was in 2019. So this would be the year that his first first round was eligible to get a second contract. So we we can't say that we haven't seen any of his first round draft picks get second round contracts because this will be the first year that they'll be eligible to do that because it's 19, 20, 21, 22. Oh, no, after excuse me, I take that back. This will be their fifth year. After 19, 20, 21, after 2021, they will be eligible for second contracts after the 20, 21 season. But yeah, to say but he's only had one first round. But then, oh, 20, 20, so there's 20, 20, 20, 21, 20, 22. So I mean, technically, the 20, 20, first round or what that's Patrick Queen, he could he's eligible to talk. But I don't think that's like because it's technically right. But there's only two people that will be eligible. That would have been Hollywood Brown and Patrick Queen. So I don't really think that's a big deal. But anyway, he said I can see Lenderbaum being their first to break this trend if he continues his success, though. Yeah, probably number two. This leads me to my second question. Just exactly who are we? Baltimore has always been known to be an outstanding defense that's well run, but never known for offensive prowess sends a flash in the pan run by a flak old betting on himself and probably the most complete offense we've seen in this organization. Now, our defense needed Roquon to get back to a top defense. And even this, even then, it couldn't hold back since he from beating us twice in a row. Lamar's contract has gone from something short shot to an entire fiasco, exploding how bad things really are in the organization. Harvey's still coaching not to necessarily win a Super Bowl, but to keep his job. EDC is trying to be the next Ozzy Newsom, but doesn't have the draft hits that Ozzy had to solidify his GM status. And this team is being built like it's 1999 all over again instead of adapting to today's game. Now, EDC, the Ozzy Newsom comment. I feel like Ozzy obviously overall. Two Super Bowls, a bunch of Hall of Fame players. Great. Ozzy had his misses to now. Ozzy wasn't perfect. He definitely had. He had some entire draft classes that will be misses. So I know what with Ozzy. I know a lot of people, they talk about the overall success, which you got to give him credit. The Super Bowl, obviously got to give him credit. But I feel like when a lot of people talk about Ozzy Newsom, the drafts, they make it like Ozzy Newsom. He hit on every single pick all the time. He didn't. He didn't. But anyway, he said, the legacy of Ray Lewis, Air Reed and Company made Baltimore a place you want to go to unless you play receive. But now it's become a pinnacle of mediocrity and it's become acceptable. There's no clear vision that we as fans can at least grasp onto, like other clubs, Rams and Bucks are offloading to rebuild after recent Super Bowl victories. Bears and Falcons spend a season cleaning up their finances and now they're ready to improve. Bills and Bengals are contenders and now are moving to go all in. Dolphins and Niners are now contenders and making moves to reach that next level. We don't fit any of these modes. So where else are we heading besides nowhere? Man, when you put it like that, that's kind of sad. Like, oh, man, love to hear your thoughts. And as always, I appreciate all you do. I hope you and the fans stay blessed. Appreciate it, Nova. That was wow. I think so much is up in the air right now because of quarterback situation. And even before then, like Raven, like you mentioned, they've been they've been competitive, but they haven't really been true contenders. So we won't know until this whole quarterback situation is resolved. Even after it's resolved, we still got to see how they move. So so much is just really up in the air right now. Next question came from my guy, Nonic. He said, what if the market is closed? Good evening, freelancer. Hope you and the family are doing well. We're doing good, man. He said it's March 16th, twenty twenty three. And today, let me see. Oh, it's March 16th now. All right. And I have to ask you your thoughts on the unthinkable. What if the market for Lamar Jackson isn't there? Hear me out ever since Lamar was headed to the draft, the goal posts have been moving. Why don't you run the 40th combined? Why not switch to receiver? We as Ravens fans have heard all the comments from rival fans, ex coaches and commentators. He's a running back, not a quarterback. He can't throw accurate passes, see the charges, playoff game. If that loss proves he can't handle the pressure. Defenses know who he's going to be before the Ravens even break the huddle. The Ravens have tailored their office to Sue Lamar, not Greg Roman. I could go on, but you get the idea. On Monday by four one, several teams immediately said not interested. Now teams, I know that desperately needed quarterback have made other moves through free agency signings or trades and draft moves to my knowledge without even a thought about Lamar. I don't think we've ever seen a top five quarterback who was MVP pro baller with one of the best win-loss records in his first 70 games. That can do what Lamar can do and be treated this way. I have no idea what the Ravens offered, but to not have anybody interested is shocking to me. And yes, if that's the case, it will be shocking to a lot of us. We know football NFL is a dirty game. It's a very dirty game. It's a dirty business. But yes, that would be a shock. Even with because I know some people will be like, oh, but the injuries, there will be injury concerns. We've seen quarterbacks of less caliber, less talented, just not as good as Lamar have injuries and still get signed to nice significant deals. But anyway, continuing. He said, has the perception by NFL ownership, sports pundits and coaches that Lamar style of play is unsustainable or that his talents won't work outside of the Ravens organization cost him his rightful shot at the contract. Superman deserves. I'm not talking about a fully guaranteed deal like Watson, but just the next man up type of QB offer. But all I hear is silent. If he sits out in 2023, what will his market be like in 2024? If he sat out in 2023, all of the stuff would just repeat itself. And I don't want to envision him sitting out at all. Well, I could see him sitting out if he just didn't want to play on a tag. But I wouldn't envision him sitting out a whole season. You never know, but I don't think he will sit out a whole season. But if he did, then everything would just pause. It's like you press the pause button for a year on everything because he wouldn't accrue another year of being in the NFL because that would be put on pause if he held out. So everything would be like right where it is right now. Do you think he is losing money and will he ever recover those losses? I don't think he's losing money. He went from making what, a meal of a couple meal per season to making 23 meal last year. Now making on a franchise tag right now. So he'll be making about 32 meal this season. But depending on how things go with this whole office sheet thing, that's why everything is so hard to say because we just don't know. We just don't know. Like if a team signs him to a big office sheet, then he begin a bunch of bread whether it came from the Ravens or came from that other team because something would have to happen then. Because Ravens would either have to match or that team that signed him to the office sheet, they would be signing him to that deal that they signed on office sheet. So it's so much that we just don't know. Sorry for the long question, but stay strong. Freelancing your 30 days will be over soon. Hey, yeah, seven, seven days left. We close. But back to the question. I just think it's I think a lot of it is the alleged C word, the C word that rhymes with optical illusion. It's it's it's scary to think about like, man, how so many people because because owners got the power, they got the power and Lamar is going against the owners. Of course, NFL PA if they involved as well, but they will be going against the owners too. But owners got they got so much power and they can line up together and hold their own hold hands and be like, hey, we ain't letting this happen. We ain't letting this go down. So it's tough because he's like, it's like he's trying to be a trend setter against what the NFL just doesn't want to happen.  And it's like not they like now we ain't trying to make that no, man, we don't want that to happen. So it's tough, man. And you also we also talked about that it costs him his rightful shot at the contract that he deserves. I wouldn't say that. I think that's also one of those things that we just really won't know till we know. And we just got to really watch everything plays out every day just waiting, seeing what's going to go down, what's going to happen. And yeah, it's like so hard to answer because we just don't know. Last question on this episode came from my God, Joshua. He said, we need to accept who EDC is. What's up in Graydon? Hope you're there as well.  I think I think with that. I think they just it's just I don't even think that it was necessarily done. I think it's just a timing. I think that's what it was that the timing just sucked. Ronnie Stanley, he got paid. And. Not even a week later, he got put out for the season. That's when T.J. White, like, rolled into his ankle and nothing was the same after that. I mean, he had missed time every year before that. But that, like, that was the injury that really like just killed him. It just really like, oh, man, it messed up everything even worse. But then, yeah, but with him having signed the deal and then not even a week later, being hurt, like, oh, it's like, oh, man, the timing couldn't have been worse. So I don't even think they necessarily regretted, but I just think the timing is just like, oh, it's like a gut punch or a bunch of them. He said, now, one of the best offensive tackles in the league is a bingo. It's probably the same thing they felt when trading Hayden Hurst and Clowney passing Metcalf for Hollywood. This whole debacle with Lamar has been embarrassing and now Huntley is on the market too. I have a question. What exactly is EDC strength as a GM? What is the one thing he does very well? Hmm. And he said trading, drafting, cap management, communication, player satisfaction. As a fan base, we were spoiled by the legendary Aussie and have extremely high expectations, but we need to accept that EDC can't feel his shoes and appreciate him for his strengths. But as I was pondering this, the question came to mind, wait, what is his strength? I want to know because I'm learning how to be content, a characteristic that is blasphemous for us Ravens fans. Wow. Um, what is EDC's strength? Um, I think they do. I mean, minus this whole Lamar thing, I guess minus Hollywood, too. And what I was going to say, they do a pretty good job of keeping their own. Um, but then I thought about Lamar and I thought about Hollywood and then I think about the Orlando Brown Junior. And I know that that was tough because Ronnie Stanley got paid. They weren't going to pay two left tackle, but then I think about Hayden Hurst. And, um, what is EDC's strength? What would EDC's strength be? Could it be getting rid of somebody early rather than later? That's what we could say because that's that what Aussie did. Aussie would usually do it later than early, but he would do it early than later. Um, and I would say in ensuring that for a disgruntled player, somebody who you don't intend on resigning that they get that he gets something rather than nothing most of the time. So I would say that's it because like with Chuck Clark, well, I mean, they had already gave him an extension, but like they just traded him with Hollywood. They weren't going to resign him. They traded him with Hayden Hurst. He wasn't going to get a second contract. Mark Andrews had got that. So they traded him for draft picks all in the Brown Junior. They weren't going to sign him. So they traded him for draft picks. So I will say that. I will say that would be his strength, getting something rather than nothing for a player that you're not, you don't intend on keeping like even with Ben Bredesen with Kair Vedvik. I know there's been more too, but that, yeah, that would be that would be where I would go with that. As far as other strengths, he he's good at sort of. The mind games like like sort of swaying the public and making them think one thing with what he says versus what he's actually trying to get done. Like it reminds me of a couple of years back when he was like, oh, I'm offended. I'm insulted about how y'all speak about and feel about all wide receivers. I'm insulted by that. What are you guys talking about? And then he went out and signed Sammy Wack walkings and draft their show of Bateman and Tyler Wallace, too. So so he's good at hitting the swerve. He's good at having a poker face. So, yeah, those would be those was what I will say his strengths are. Some we got to remember. No GM is perfect. And again, you mentioned Ozzy, Ozzy had his week consists, too. He had his strengths, but he also had his weaknesses, too. But yeah, EDC, big, big off season form. I've been saying it for the longest. This this is the biggest off season for Eric DeCosta in his short tenor as GM. He been with GM since what 2019, I think. And this is his biggest, biggest off season. So we'll see how he delivers on the rest of it. Making rage quit. Exit out the door. Exit out the door. Use his favorite team with up bottom.


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Welcome everybody to the Franconian net stage. I have the great pleasure to introduce you to Leonie who has been active in higher education politics since 2015 and among other things they have been representative in the European Students Union and an executive committee member of the Free Association of Students Unions, FZS for short. And I also may introduce you to Lasse, who currently studying in Leipzig and his representative president to the ARCHIS Student Council and member of the FZS. Their talk goes by the name Let's Get Digital how the EU envisions the future of European education. This talk will introduce you to current trends in the European higher education policy with special attention to how digitization is used to further strategic goals to the EU Commission. I'm happy to give the floor to Leonie and Lasse. Yes, hello and welcome everybody. We are Leonie and Lasse and we want to talk to you about European education policy in the following minutes and the call we want to tell you about what's the next decade we'll have in pocket for European education policy and have prepared a quite extensive agenda for you. We want to tell you first about where this is all coming from and what the EU Commission is doing and why you should care about it because those changes potentially have the potential to impact European education policy quite substantially and also impact each and every university we know and the way we study and research. One of the core things in that will be the European University Initiative, which we will tell you in a few details before and afterwards we will talk about mobility and sort of dimension and Leonie will talk through that. And then we will go into details of virtual exchanges and internationalization at all and also micro credentials, which is one of the biggest buzzwords buzzing around through European higher education policy right now. We will also tell you about the European Student Card Initiative before we will speculate about the European Degree, which is talked about in some places, but it's quite uncertain what this meant by that by now and afterwards we will conclude our speech. Thank you. So what is the European Commission doing right now? As you all know, the European Union has come under a lot of criticism recently and the process of Europeanization has come to a steady decline or it's gotten slower in the recent times. You know all the buzzwords, the breakthroughs happening and they will be definitely leaving or have been leaving two years ago and also will leave the common market on the first of January in two days, but also the Fidesz Party in Ukraine, in Hungary or the Peace Party in Poland are blocking further integration of Europe, but also on the international stage, Europe has come under some scrutiny and so the European Commission and the European Council and the other institutions have come to the conclusion that further steps to integrate Europe even further are needed and one of those could be for example the further integration of the markets, trying to enroll the euro onto other countries, which currently don't use the euro as the currency, but also one of the core principles in which further integration shall be advanced will be education. All these principles have been lined out in a speech by Emmanuel Macron, which he gave on the 26th of September of 2017. His words were actually quite drastic and I just highlighted that he's been talking of a European civil war, but also of the other side of the Atlantic and quite concisely described the problem from his perspective. It's surely also a reaction to his victory over Marine par in France, so he said that the European civil war is halting the integration and the internal divisions of Europe under the European Union have been a problem and the further steps are desperately needed to get over that. He proposed a very broad array of things and to overcome these internal divisions and to further integrate Europe and one of the core things he mentioned was a culture under which Europe could be integrated and it's very Eurocentric all in all what he said, but the speech he held at the Saban, which accordingly was called the Saban speech, had quite a big impact on the European Union and what will continue in the following years and especially in the sector of fire education policy because seemingly they diverge from the Bologna process and try to integrate things even further, but it's still quite behind the curtain of information. It's still not really breaching big publicity, I want to say, so when we look at the timeline, I just picked the date of the Brexit referendum as one of the things which happened in 2016, but you could also put in there the election of Donald Trump or other things, for example, the rise of China, which all seem to have had a big impact on the thinking of the broad view of Emmanuel Macron and of the European Commission. So things have been picking up and then on the 26th as I told you of September, Emmanuel Macron held the Saban speech and mentioned for the first time the idea of creating European universities, which will be abbreviated in the future or in the coming speech of Leonien E.S.E.Y., meaning European University Initiative. On the 14th of November, the Commission, the European Commission, published a communique strengthening European identity through education and culture and laid out quite broad visions and to show that they picked up Macron's ideas and also mentioned for the first time the creation of a European education area, which Leonien E.Y.Y. will tell you about in a few seconds, in a few minutes. On the 22nd of May, the EU Council, the Education Committee of the EU Council, so the presidents of the countries, Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, and all the other ones, which were in power in 2018, and they combined the idea of the European University Initiative and the European Education Area and decided that they want to have the European University Initiative as a flagship of the European Education Area. This developed quite rapidly into the first call for European universities, which ended on the 28th of February 2019 and 17 European University alliances were selected under the European University Initiative. Another call ended this year and there have been in total 41 European University alliances selected. The German Ministry of Education had a quite big impact on the sole process, which as you can see is a very, very rapid one for European policy and in comparison, and they said they were staunchly in favor of creating a European Education Area. They were very, very supportive of the European University Initiative and also set and followed through with giving money from the German government directly to the European University alliances. Most European universities alliances, which have German universities in it, receive money from the federal government as of now and that money is handed through the German Academic Exchange Agency. The whole process was very, very much furthered by the German government and in the back documents from the 70s or from the last century, there often has been an idea of creating European universities mostly from German side and it has been shot down quite a lot in the last century. So from the French side, so that's quite a diversion from the back from former times and the hope of integrating Europe further by means of education. So now Leonie will tell you about... Yes, so also I want to encourage you if you have any questions about abbreviations that we use or the terms feel free to ask because we know that the whole thing is very cryptic for people who are not spending a lot of their time reading these texts and talking about these concepts, so feel free and there are a lot of abbreviations going around and they are confusing. So there is the European Education Area Order EEA which is this quote that I have here is taken from the Gutenberg text from 2017 in November established a European Education Area based on trust, mutual recognition, cooperation and exchange of best practices, mobility and growth. And when this paper was published, a lot of people who are involved in European higher education policy were really surprised because we already have a European higher education area or an EEA since 1999. It was established with the Bologna Declaration and interestingly the basis for the Bologna Declaration was the Sorbonne Declaration which was done a year before. So more or less saying we need a more new Sorbonne process for Europeanization would be and many people have seen it like saying well the European higher education area which was is also called the Bologna process has failed in a way to create an area built on trust, mutual recognition. So what is the goal of the European higher education area? It is a collaboration between 49 countries who want to build an area implementing a common set of commitments through structural reforms and shared tools. As you might know the EU has 27 member states and the European higher education area has 49 so there is much more difference between those and in this talk we will not go into the whole impact that the Bologna process had on higher education in Europe at large but we will mostly talk about the impact that the European education area has and in what way it creates a Europe of two speeds in a way like a Europe in the European education area where there is a lot of money spent for the different initiatives which we are going to talk about and the different programs and the European higher education area which has been trying for more than 20 years now to build the same thing more or less but the difference of the European education area what the EU Commission is going to say we are not trying to do something different because they are also want to implement mutual recognition in the field of vocational training and also schools so that is like a huge difference the European higher education areas for universities universities who applied sciences and the aim of the European education area is to address all kind of credentials education that is happening in the EU but there is also a lot of worry that the other European countries which are not members of the EU might be left behind and maybe Lasse can also address some of these concerns and when he talks more about the European university initiative. The university initiative as you have learned is seen as the flagship of the European education area and shall be new. As I have told you already it consists of 41 alliances with up to 10 member universities so the idea is that universities in different places in Europe get together and create a European university alliance in the introduction for which I unfortunately forgot to thank you all and it was mentioned that I'm president of the of the ARCOS student council I'm sure nobody really knows what that means of you or most of you if there is no lucky coincidence and it means and ARCOS is one of those European university alliances and it consists of seven universities from seven countries and it has created an internal structure and also some form of a student council which we are still in the process of creating but we try to represent student interests through the student council which I'm president of. In total those numbers add up and there are 280 higher education institutions involved in the European university initiative in different alliances and all of them get 5 million every alliance every single alliance gets 5 million euro from Erasmus plus budget which probably will continue in the next EU budget as far as I know and and also will has got got the opportunity to use 2 million euro from the Eurasian 2020 budget per alliance and those 5 million euros are for a term of three years for the first call and there are universities from all member states plus Iceland, Norway, Serbia, Turkey and United Kingdom and I will tell you about the the two-speed part in a second when I am going to get to my maps but first let's return to Emmanuel Macron's Sabon speech where he again outlines what he thought and where the European universities are first mentioned because in the speech the goals of Emmanuel Macron are for higher education area extremely ambitious and I believe he didn't have the intention of fulfilling these goals because nobody can in the short term so in five years from 2019 where the initiative started to 2024 there should exist 20 alliances or European universities and we don't know if there's a difference in this line between European universities and European university alliances but the central goal is highlighted and that all students of these European universities shall be mobile between those universities in the first call the goal set by the European Commission was that 50 percent of students enrolled in an alliance shall be mobile shall shall participate in mobility between the universities that means that in Arcos where again the president of the student council we have 320,000 students in the between those seven universities that would mean that 160,000 students would participate in mobility during the study programs which is extremely ambitious considering that adults have some numbers between 10 and 20 percent usually but let's look at how the universities are distributed throughout Europe and to look at how the different speeds are impacted which we can see here a map where the university is participating in the European university initiative are counted up by a country and Germany for example has got 35 universities participating in the European university initiative and the smallest number are Malta and Luxembourg with both one as you can see you can't see Malta but that's because it's so small and I will just tell you what's happening in Malta and Eastland also has got what just one and yeah you can you can probably get what the numbers mean and what's most interesting here is Turkey, Serbia and the United Kingdom and because the United Kingdom has only seven universities participating in the European university initiative but it has got similar inhabitants as France for example so France with 32 universities is just second in Europe and also Serbia and Turkey have got some universities but the two speeds is quite quite different because under the European higher education area also Ukraine and white Russia and Israel and Russia are included and under the European education area it's mostly just the core of Europe plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway because Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway are participating in the initiative as they would be a normal European member but Brexit has had its impact and Britain is just on the on the sideline of this initiative which they are not in the European higher education area and each of the Sabon and the Bologna process they are normally part of the Bologna process but not of the Sabon process apparently and we can also see the the regional distribution of everything and how many European university initiative universities exist per student so the normal number is between 50,000 and 100,000 students per university which is surprisingly good when we compare it with for example the excellence initiative in Germany which the ratio has been way worse for the students and considering that students shall be involved it's quite good but it also tells us something about the regional distribution and the most interesting finding here is that Poland is way underrepresented they have got about 50,000 students more than the next closer one which would be Greece and the first bad worst represented country in the European university initiative actually Germany even though they've got the most which is because they've got the most students as you can see also the United Kingdom, Serbia and Turkey are not included in this graphic because they would very badly distort the relations on the lower end the best relations go to Malta and Luxembourg which is basically just because they just got one university and not that many students and Arthur Iceland and one can only speculate whether things have political reasons for these distributions I'm more than certain that Iceland, Malta and Luxembourg are represented for more or less political reasons but whether Poland has been so badly represented is just up for speculation I think it could be something with have something to do with the authoritarian government in Poland but I'm not that good in Polish-EU relations to make a better guess than that why Germany is on the third place is probably because Germany has got the reputation in the process of the European university initiative to be the most eager to involve it and from my experience working inside the area Germany is and the German universities in the initiative are pushing the hardest for further integration and also which is completely unrelated to whether students are pushing for it or researchers are pushing for it or the leadership of the universities is pushing for it because on all these three areas the German and both the persons involved from Germany are pushing from my experience the hardest which is in of itself a big problem and can become even worse and now I will head over to Leonie again Thank you, Lasse. So I'm going to walk you through some concepts and projects which are important if we are talking about European education policy and things that are like because we have to understand that the European university alliances are more or less an experimental field for the different projects that the EU commission is doing to further European integration so in each of the projects or concepts could feel a whole lecture so I will be very quick about it and if you have any questions just post them through the channels. So what is mobility in the context of European education policy? So according to the European commission the European ministers have agreed to double the proportion of students in higher education completing a study or training period abroad to 20% by 2020. Support for mobility remains a core focus of the Erasmus Plus program so mobility for students is defined as either spending a study period of three to 12 months abroad which must be part of the student study program or having a traineeship or work placement abroad in enterprise for two to 12 months and this should be wherever possible integrated of the student study program and it might not be surprising to you that those ambitious mobility quotas are very hard to fill not only because we at the moment have a pandemic which more or less doesn't let people study abroad physically but also because of the social dimension so what is meant by the social dimension more or less it describes all the circumstances that an individual student faces like ability social economic background which might impact his or her or their ability to go abroad or finish their studies. So if the European higher education area wishes to address the social dimension they have to create equal opportunities in higher education in terms of access participation and successful completion of studies studying in living conditions guidance and counseling financial support and student participation in higher education governance so what this means for mobility is that there has to be a portability of financial support so if I'm getting disability benefits in Germany that I can also take them to another country where I'm studying and removing barriers providing incentives so if I want to have more mobile students I also need to address the social dimension because there are barriers which not every student can overcome and one of the biggest barriers to going abroad is the financial situation of the students but also ability or care responsibilities and so this brings me to let's say something that shouldn't be a solution to the problem but is used in some cases as a solution to the problem that mobility quotas cannot be achieved so virtual exchange and internationalization at home are buzzwords that are thrown around about this and I would call them mobility so I could make a whole talk on both of these concepts because the problem is that they are used by different people to further different agendas but generally you can say virtual exchange and internationalization at home both describe international experiences with which students can make without going abroad so this might be digitally or not digitally actually because internationalization at home modules that I have seen have also for example had the requirement of students to work in an enterprise or organization where the working language is English to have their international experience and the important thing that I want you to take away from that is behind virtual exchange and internationalization at home this is not mobility how it is defined and how student representatives are demanding it to have and most people who know what they're talking about would also never suggest to describe these offers as mobility for example the German academic exchange service the rd is doing a lot of research and best practice gathering on virtual exchange and they always say this is not mobility but there have been pushes by institutions high education institutions to soften the borders between mobility and virtual mobility in order to hit mobility quotas and save money because if you want to send more students from your institution abroad it costs you money in counseling and you will have to get the funding for them and so and oftentimes as you might know high education institutions don't have a lot of that but the eu ace the european university alliances are using the concept of virtual mobility to hit the mobility quotas because as you heard before macron wants that to wants all students who are part of a european university alliance to have some sort of international experience mobility so it pushes the member institutions of these alliances to in a way try to redefine what it means like shorter periods that are not three to twelve months for example or just counting digital forms of digital exchange as mobility so another thing that the european university alliances are a testing field for and it's going to haunt us in the future is micro credentials this definition that i have here is from the european commission a micro credential is a proof of the learning outcomes that a learner has acquired following a short transparently assessed learning experience they are awarded upon the completion of short standalone courses or modules done on site or online or in a blended format so micro credentials originated from massive open online courses mooks and for some reason the european commission has decided that micro credentials make education more inclusive is accessible a larger uptake of micro credentials could could foster education and economic innovation and contribute to a sustainable post pandemic recovery micro credentials can be provided by higher and vocational education and training institutions as well as by different types of private entities so there is also like the aspect of people earning money by offering those courses and like big enterprises there is also like if you might know that there are micro degrees micro credentials already offered by amazon and google and micro credentials as shown in the other three bullet points are really really pushed by the european commission right now they are a flagship action of the european skills agenda they're included in the september communication on achieving the european education area by 2025 and also included in the digital education action plan so and it's really emphasized that higher education should have a larger role in supporting lifelong learning and reaching out to a more diverse group of learners and this sounds awesome right but the problem is that there is no evidence that micro credentials boost innovation and inclusivity and high education institutions are set up as competitors to other providers of professional development offers like vocational schools, foxhole schulen if you might know them here in germany another problem is that the european commission seems to have a very one-sided perspective on lifelong learning so they really focus on self optimization and anticipating the needs of the labor market professional development another issue which is not addressed is who's going to pay for it because of course developing these modules these courses is going to cost money to the for the higher education institutions and i have been part of working on the recommendation of the german rector's conference on micro degrees and badges and not everything is written in there i do support and one thing that's written in there that to have cost neutrality for the higher education institutions of micro credentials they might ask the students to pay a fee for it and last but not least qui bono so who's really profiting from micro credentials are it the learners or is it the employers who don't have to pay for the professional development of their employees and i think that it's really not the learners who are benefiting if more universities are doing this but maybe this is something we can discuss in the end so another thing which is going to make our whole learning experience in the EU better fast and stronger is the european student card initiative so as it is written in the communique here from gotenburg that we are mentioning again and to support this initiative on mutual recognition develop and launch a secure electronic system for the storage and retrieval of academic diplomas to facilitate verification of authenticity so the goal is to have full deployment of the european student card during 2021 very excited to see that um so the aim is that the european student card initiative will enable every student to easily and safely identify and register themselves electronically at higher education institutions within europe by moving abroad for studies eliminating the need to complete on-site registration procedures and paperwork so the EU commission has been implementing the erasmus without paper network to achieve this and every institution who's part of erasmus will have to will be obliged to manage online learning agreements by 2021 manage inter-institutional agreements by 2022 and by 2023 to exchange student nominations and acceptances of transcripts of records um also the participating institutions will need to promote the use of the erasmus plus mobile app and by 2025 all students in europe should be able to enjoy the benefits of the european student card initiative but where is the card is what i'm asking because at the moment we only have an app and um supposedly in 2021 it will be but um there is more the european student card can do everything um it is supposed to give students the chance to access online courses and services provided at other higher education institutions and over time it shall allow students to enjoy card activities throughout europe at discounted prizes it should also be linked to use electronic identification rules to provide to authenticate students so it might be um connected to the um electronic identification that you're using in your passport for example um i leave it to your imagination what kind of data protection issues might come up with that but supposedly it will make everything great again so lasso would you like to tell us something about your experiences talking about this uh all right so um okay i will go on um so to come to the most speculative part of our talk um i have to um charge my laptop wait a moment technical break so we're going taking you into the unknown of the european degree so one of the aims of the european commission which is talked about a bit more behind the scenes because it's like more or less um a very controversial point um is creating world class european universities that can work seamlessly together across borders um there will be mutual recognition of higher education and the convergence of grades medicalation numbers and study programs so as you can see a bit like the medicalation numbers convergence might work about the european student card um and i think here we see also like the big difference between the ea ga and the ea because the ea ga is really focused on having the different um the differences of organization and structures leaving them intact in the different countries but if we want to converge all these things we will need to have our structures be more similar in the future so um one thing that might be a benefit of it is that high education institutions might be more autonomous from their national governments there might be easier mobility of researchers and students and there might student unions um all over europe might be more empowered by it but there are also threats and problems like the elimination of democracy in high education institutions um because um there are going to be complex multi-level governance structures um you see like on here in germany you can see either like on the federal level there's legislation on the national level and there's also going to be EU legislation to consider and um lasso would you like to continue yeah thank you and i'm sorry for the technical difficulties um so so the coughing one one one problem which could threat everything is the stoner top-down approach towards everybody which gets kind of like obstructed by the complex multi-level governance structures um because when we when we converge with all these with all these concepts like grades and study programs um on a european level gets way more difficult for senior student actors or researchers to influence the structure of everything so when when the study programs are converged throughout europe the fact that all the faculty student council um will have problems to bring forward their position because they have to also consider seven or six other faculty student councils um um also um the same problem as with the um excellence initiative initiative in germany can emerge um which will build the free class system of high education institutions um of basically universities of applied sciences standard universities and european universities um even though all the universities of applied sciences and the standard universities are trying to um position themselves as being equal and still in many places the the right to and give phd's to researchers advice with the standard universities and also as we have as you have seen um the risk is that there is no face-to-face teaching or way less and that has got problems enough itself but also some benefits but maybe there are other places to discuss the benefits and because the time is quite limited we have to continue with um our um conclusion yeah more than the picture thank you oh that's nearly part um yeah sorry uh nearly please um all right so um digitization is used as a tool to further european integration like by um introducing the student e-card virtual exchange possibilities and um micro credentials which are really tied to digital ways of transferring grades and having grades um recognized but the measures create an uphold a europe of two speeds um the digital solutions are seen as a cheaper way to hit mobility quotas and social dimension goals instead of addressing those problems in a real way um also the impact of the tools and structures which are being put in place is not reflected upon sufficiently because um looking at each of the initiatives projects themselves i also have a lot of um reservations about them which are not addressed and without significant engagement by those affected by these policies there is a real danger of being excluded from decision-making processes um so it is very important to ensure democratic student involvement and the possibility of bottom-up approaches and i would also really suggest to the EU commission to think about involving some gravity specialists before they are like doing things because i'm really worried and now um five minutes after time we would like to conclude our talk and thank you all kindly for your attention and would be open for your questions now so thank you so much for this very in-depth talk it was super super informative and very very interesting and for now unfortunately there are no questions yet but i think they will come up soon when we process all this input so i'm also sorry that we were so fast on some things but it's really hard to know what to not mention in a way that's super super okay i would like to invite both of you if you can spare the time to our IRC chat if there are questions coming up for now or do you want to mention anything further information that you can spend with us um i could i could tell you about how corona yeah i can tell you about how corona impacted everything because there has been a quite big impact by now which is the current thing i think i dropped it out of the european university initiatives oh but um we all know that the time frame and my call made out is completely blown away by the pandemic um most the european university initiative start the first one started to work in um of november of 2019 and most in european university alliances haven't had the opportunity to meet before the pandemic started um the one i'm in for example planned on having a meeting on the 11th of march and um by then the italian fraction from padua was on complete lockdown and couldn't leave Italy so um everything was blocked and so the the the big tip for me is if you want to do some mobility and you know that your university is in european part of the european university alliances now's the perfect time to apply for funds because there is a lot of money lying unused around and um you can easily go to one of the places because everybody wants you to be mobile so there can be some special deals and you could you just need to ask around in your local um institutions where you can apply for these grounds and also um the whole time frame is kind of gone away and um we will see how that turns out in the future but um it's it won't like no goal will be achieved by 2024 but it's kind of certain as of now well camp will come i guess well i mean they also wanted to be finished with the bologna process in 2009 and well yeah okay still going i see i see so if there are no questions i can also talk a bit more about something that worries me about the european student card yes go ahead please yeah i'm just going to go back so because if we are thinking about um the plans for this and and think it to an end of course it would mean that there would be a european student id and it would make it possible to track students across borders in a way with all the information connected and it's like really hard to know what kind of data protection is in place um about that so and if it's also connected to electronic passports so there are a lot of stuff that is a bit worrying about it but also what is more worrying is something that last and i talked about is that it we kind of feel that the european commission might not know how universities higher education institutions actually work um and maybe lasso you might want to add something about like the communication issues you are facing inside of the european university alliances yes thank you exactly um so it's the problem is that not only the european commission um knows how european higher education institutions work right now but apparently nobody knows um how other european higher education institutions work um it goes so far that when we now students can't talk about our structures we can't we don't have words to speak together and that's not because we are bad at talking english but because the structures are quite different and um all these linguistic connotations um get faded away for example we are um the the leitzig student union in german is called student art so student council but it was built on a kind of like a post-socialistic view after the fall of the gdr because it was founded on the ninth of november of 1989 so the connotation that it has something to do with like some council democracy and gets completely lost but we also don't know how the structures in spain are exactly working because it's very hard to translate fashats but into spanish and and i think that's that says a lot and i mean we we even have problems talking to our austrian colleagues in german about our institutions because even there they are difficult and different and and so we need new words and we need multilingual lexicans building a common understanding about we can even move further and even by creating this common language we are deeply converging everything and because the structures get similar and the views get similar and the student councils influence influence each other in ways we haven't had thought possible probably so that's very very interesting and it will become difficult and what it means for the student card initiative is that the ticket to how to use the transport in mobility in germany which is quite common where you pay a fee of 180 euros or something in that bracket and can use the public transportation in your city on your own island in your country and it's difficult to tell that to a european commission because germany is kind of the only place where that exists and then they want to have like one common culture offer for all students throughout europe but then what happens to the university of minster where they have a culture ticket where you can use your student cards to visit the museums and the libraries and the theaters for free just because you've got your student card and how how will you include that in the student card which will be distributed all over europe so because then the local institutions like the theaters and the museums will say like no way we're gonna make it free for every student in europe to use it if we are the only place doing so and so the commission is getting into probably quite deep problems with some of the initiatives because there are some implications of them which are going deep into the fabric of what has been created around higher education institutions throughout the countries which is also different from country to country so different that we can't even really speak about it so yeah language barrier and further difficulties but i think they will get solved i hope well what do you think you know would you use a european student card do you think it's useful to you i think it would be useful i mean i'm actually studying english so for me going abroad would be of course great and i think i mean yeah yeah of course you would use it maybe more in the beginning than the year but as he said like museums etc that would be so useful for everybody actually and they would um just really not not just use it but i'm liking the words i'm sorry no problem i think it would be so convenient for everybody for every student i'm just seeing a question in the um there are i see are there any plans to educate students in addition to the subject content or to encourage them to study more than just their subject what would you think lasso is there some intention of broadening the curricula i actually i actually think it it's it's kind of like one of the few possible benefits of the how of the word dance of the market credentials and you just i mean that it will be it will lead to the creation of weird sub subjects and i don't i mean it's it's a very very difficult question because it's so broad and we don't know how it will develop but for example my sociology institute and that's quite strict in what they teach and so on and the participation of the university of leipzig and the european university alliance and will broaden the sociology subjects at hand for me um or not for me because i'm nearly finished with my studies but you can you can use the sociology department of bergen and without many hurdles because all hurdles shall be um all walls must fall between the student study programs is kind of the official policy right now i see which we will see how that turns out that um some some warning will happen but i don't see that um the study programs get truly liberated so you start at the university with like your blank a blank study program and can just pick what you i see yeah i think so we're running a little bit out of time right now i'm really sorry to cut you off um i would really invite you again to the chat so um if there are any further questions that might go there directly to you so thank you again for this very very informative talk i will rewatch it yes and i mean people can um also reach out to us on however they want i mean over uh i'm on twitter i'm lemon green bird if you want to find me and you can just ask me questions about micro credentials for example which could feel like a whole talk me talking about it yeah and i think also lasso will be very happy to answer any questions you have about european university alliances and we are always looking for more people interested because we think it's important that people with a lot of different perspectives look on this issue and not only like those few people who are experts on that so thank you again have fun on the last day and stay healthy and we see you on our time goodbye


When I started university the first thing that struck me was it wasn't like school where you start your day at 8 o'clock and you finish it at 3 so it was very different and I felt really empowered because I could do anything with my time but I knew I had to manage my time better. So I had to make time for my friends, for my studies, for my extracurricular activities. So I mean I'm still practicing and I know no one is perfect but what I did this semester was I had class from 8 to 9 and then from 12 to 1. So in these three hours I used to dedicate one and a half hours to my work. I would just study, I would do my assignments or whatever and I used to work really hard in that time and in the one and a half hours I used to go out with my friends or I used to go to the gym whatever I wanted to do. So by the end of the day I didn't feel guilty and I achieved all my targets and that was really encouraging. So what I'm just saying is just be mindful of your time and enjoy your time at university.


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Gluton play a little better today Tom Brady Bay's Clyde Edwards, E-Lair Zeke Jalen Hurts Jordan Love. I have no idea what you're talking about man. AJ Terrell DeSean Jackson God game Michael Thomas Miles Garrett's Tom Brady Bay's another Herbie Curtis Martin silver J. Rice and Derek Brown Green. All right, there you go First five boxes done. Let's go with the next ones. Yeah, let's do it man. After this we got Blaster Blaster mosaic football. Definitely gonna fill up that prison.  How are you talking about? One more box and we'll roll through the next box Yeah, and I'm getting a couple orders in so that's good. Keep them rolling Touchdown pass to Christian Kirk. Not a Russian touchdown pass. All right, next box guys CJ Henderson, how we long? Oh Jeff Saturday. Oh, that's right, CJ. You have the You have the Cardinals. That's right. Let's get you some color and then either he rushes a touchdown for me on my fantasy or or Touchdown pass Christian Kirk get double double the points. Come on Kyler Pass it to this guy right here Herbert Green Yes, he ran it in himself. Is he I don't know. I'm not watching this. I'm not watching the Seahawks game I'm flipping back and forth watching my boy Herbert and then watching this Cardinals game just for fantasy purposes. Oh, yeah, TJ. You got to see him live too. That's awesome He is very very exciting Amazing to me. He's making it work like He he scrambles and runs when he needs to but he passes. That's the good thing. He's got a cannon Kevin Byer MVPs Leaf hooker Justin Jefferson Green Jonathan Taylor James Morgan Ricky Williams Jordan Hicks Jeff Ocuda AJ Dylan Prism Silver Dean Las Palmojo Cam Acres Gabriel Davis Bill's Gonna Ria Jalen Rigor Kevin Byer Tua first to a sighting Switch it back to that game. I don't really care about Josh Allen playing offense at Jalen Rigor rookie Scripps autograph Who has my Eagles Dean? Hey, oh man, that was like one of the last three four teams taken you got Jalen Ragger Let's say Rigor, but I guess it's Ragger T Higgins and Terrell Davis Lamar Jackson Green Come on Herbie Lombada, Jr. Gabriel Davis will the win Derek Henry Juju Smith Schuster Wow back to back other guys in lots of bugs max max Unger Seattle Seahawks Auto That's going to Jimmy Josh Allen Green Silver MVPs Tom Brady Ryan Harold with the Patriots. Oh, come on Herbie Chase Claypool Brandon Ayuk Come on Herbie. You're better than that Alright next five guys Alright you guys next one Tyler Lockett Wow third autograph James White That's Patriots going to run Harold Andre Johnson Speaking of Tua, just throw a touchdown pass Tua Togo Iloha, Deshaun Watson, Silver And we got Justin Jefferson and a Jordan Love Green KJ Amler So Kwan Barkley CD Lam Cleo Mack Ben Jefferson the under Hopkins Silver The rookie Patrick Queen Lamar Jackson Mark Andrews LaVisca Godgame Aaron Rodgers Edward Eler Jalen Hertz And congrats for you. Look at this a Silver NFL debut Joe Burrell Very nice NFL debut Green Justin Herbert Godgame Aaron Rodgers Green And a rookie Michael Pippin, Jr. No, I don't think so Julie Nittleman Jerry Judy Fleet Flicker LaShawn McCull, I mean I'm LaShawn McCull Devin Singletary, I almost said LaShawn McCull J.K. Dobbins Deondre Hopkins, Prism Silver We got A. Gamerino Hall of Fame Last box right here and then we got five more Mike Evans T. Y. Hilton Jeff Ocuda Tony Gonzalez Randy Moss Cam Acres Brandon Ayuk Alright guys, last five boxes Intercepted What's up dudes and ankles Alright, last box here guys Arturo, what's going on man Alright guys, last five boxes right here Justin Jefferson Justin Herbert man, that's a good amount of Herbert's today Erna Vinche Michael Pippin, Jr. Sonya Michelle Prism Silver Jones Green, Touchdown Masters Chase Claypool Henry Ruggs Larry Fitzgerald Tua Ryan Tannehill Old School Van Jefferson Alright two more boxes guys Rob Grangowski Jerry Rice Stefan Diggs Tom Brady Another Herbert, nice I wanted the break to go Jordan Love NFL debut Green Justin Jefferson, Fleet Flicker Alright last box guys Josh Jacobs got Game James Connor Jerry Judy Matthew Stafford J.K. Dobbins and a Silver Jaylin Perz from my Eagles Jonathan Taylor Green Doug Ameser Locke and Jaylin Hurts Green NFL debut Wait, what's up Ryan? Isn't there only two mixers? Did we post up another one? Alright guys, so there you go, that was the Twenty Box Blaster and let me quickly Oh okay yeah, I mean Little Lebron giveaway is always nice I mean, cool to enter a break that you could potentially win something without having to get anything from the break But I didn't really take a look at closely The football mixture consists of but at that price point, it has to kind of be like last week's where there was just plenty of great boxes in there I mean I would have to look at the boxes Ryan but I mean basketball I'm sure if it, depending on the price I'm sure there's a lot of high end stuff in there and basketball just resale value is much better than football when it comes to like those kind of boxes Prism and stuff like that but I'll take a look right now and help you out man Alright we got Max Unger Jerry Silver, Joe Borough Base, Herbert Base Jordan Love, Prism debut another Herbert Base with a green Jaylen Regger Otto Borough Silver, Herbert Green Herbert Base, Tua another Herbert, Jordan Love Jaylen Hurts Silver, a green James White Otto, Tua, Jordan Love so not a bad come of with some nice Herbert's coming out of here and there you go guys, that was the break this was Mosaic Football Twenty Box Blaster Case Break, Pick Your Team Number 31 I think that was Penny Slate to be top littered also more Prism Silver's other rookies of course and greens and what not so I appreciate you guys, this is Jacksby'sCaseBreaks.com


This paper proposes a new artificial neural network, ANN, model called ANNSFP which uses statistical feature parameters, SFPs, as inputs instead of raw data to improve the accuracy of short-term solar irradiance forecasting, STSEF. The SFPs are derived from the historical data series and include the mean, standard deviation, maximum and minimum values of the irradiance and ambient temperature. The model structure is determined by cross-validation, CV, and the Levenberg-Marquard algorithm, LMA, is used for the network training. Simulation results show that the forecast accuracy of the proposed ANNSFP model is significantly better than the conventional ANN model using historical data series, ANN and HDS. This article was authored by Hongshan Zhao, Shersu, Xingxiang Mi, and others.


Abstract, type 2 diabetes mellitus, T2DM, is characterized by excessive reactive oxygen species, ROS, accumulation in pancreatic beta cells, leading to their eventual destruction and insulin deficiency. Current treatments focus on improving quality of life and self-care, but drugs targeted at reducing beta cell death are lacking. To address this issue, researchers propose a novel approach based on selenium nanodots CENS, which are pro-drugs of the antioxidant enzyme glutathione peroxidase 1, GPX1. CENS not only scavenge ROS effectively, but also deliver selenium specifically to beta cells to increase GPX1 levels and thus boost the cell's natural antioxidant defense system. This strategy has been shown to be more effective than the current first-line drug metformin in rescuing beta cells from ER stress and mitochondrial dysfunction, and therefore holds great promise as a new therapeutic option for T2DM patients. This article is authored by Cheong-Wong, Ziruan Lu, Yu-Rong Yang, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Member statements the member for Hamilton East Stony Creek. Thank you, Speaker Speaker 1996 was a very long time ago It's hard to remember a world where the internet and cell phones were still novelties to most people The 1990s were a time when families gathered around the television to watch sitcoms and live sports without the distractions of tablets Text messages or Instagram feeds one of the galvanizing events that saw the people of Hamilton gather around their television sets or Outside in a chilly minus 10 stadium was the 84 grey cup that was held at Iverwind Stadium in the fall of 96 While the tiger cats were not playing that day It was still thrilling game between Toronto and Edmonton The game became known as the snow bowl as tractors had to remove snow from the field prior to the game as well as Half-time it's been a long time coming But at last with a new stadium to play in the people of Hamilton will finally get the chance to host the 108th Grey Cup this upcoming December 12th The Hamilton tie cats may not be at the head of their division yet But it's still exciting today to watch the hometown heroes represent the Eastern Division in the grey cup Here in the hammer. We have also been awarded the 2023 grey cup if we don't win this year We have another shot to bring the cup back to the home of the CFL Hall of Fame as Famous saying in Hamilton has turned a hundred years old this year speaker and dedication to the great pig skin Pete and the Hamilton tiger cats Oscee wee wee Oscee wah wah holy Mackinaw Tigers eat them raw Thank you before we continue with member statements I need to inform the house that as a result of a change in the proportionality of private members within the recognized parties Both the government and the official opposition are entitled to the same number of member statements each day Therefore both will be entitled to four member statements each day and the independent members will still be entitled member statements The member for Whitby The speaker the honourable Nina Tangry associate minister of small business and red tape reduction recently introduced the supporting people and businesses act This comprehensive red tape reduction package speaker builds on the three years of work to reduce the burden Enlighten the load for hard-working Ontario families and businesses weighed down by the pandemic's demands I'm pleased speaker to support Ontario's colleges like Durham and my whippy riding with their innovative work on credential reform As part of the supporting people and businesses act Speaker colleges can deliver graduates with the right credentials if they're given the autonomy and flexibility To bring programs to market quickly and design the right credentials to meet labour market needs Speaker since taking office our government has been working hard to remove the red tape and readily regulatory burden That make growth for businesses more difficult and stifle opportunities for job creators non-profit organizations and workers across the province Through our work to modernize a regulatory system and make Ontario ripe for future investment and economic prosperity We're making Ontario an even better an easier place for businesses to expand and thrive. Thank you speaker Thank you very much member statements the member for Toronto centre. Thank you speaker COVID-19 is not the only pandemic we have been battling in my riding of Toronto centre The opioid and homelessness crises combined with COVID-19 have created an untenable situation in my community Last month I met with members of the church and Wellesley village BIA And the stories they shared with me were shocking and heartbreaking They told me about staff being physically assaulted and people dying in their establishments by overdose We also spoke about their concern for the most vulnerable members in the neighbourhood We talked about the helplessness of watching the mental health decline of our unhoused neighbors folks who are beloved and cared for Speaker for three years I've stood in this house and tried to call attention to the opioid and homelessness crises as I've watched Helplessly as this government has refused to act My whole community is demanding better I hear it from the frontline service providers from activists from health care workers the business community and even the police I spoke with one of our neighbourhood officers who was also deeply concerned He's tired of being called to apprehend someone in serious distress Only to have them turned out of the hospital within hours with no support No mental health or detox treatment and no housing While this is a complex issue that will require complex solutions Watching this government sit back and say hey, we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas has been frustrating beyond measure I am urging this government to come to the table and take action today to respond to these crises in my community. Thank you Thank you very much member statements the member for oxford. Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker Mr. Speaker, we've all seen the impact covid-19 has had on small businesses across the province In my writing of oxford the walters theater located in bright is operated by the multi-talented walters family I had a conversation with one of the co-owners darin walters who told me the family's independent music and dinner theater stages 120 performances in a four month season with paid attendance of more than 20 000 The estimated economic impact of the theater is over four million annually The pandemic brought it to a halt to the theater's performance season and unfortunately They were not eligible for our government's recovery programs Darin didn't let that get him down He channeled his energies to create a podcast where he interviews outstanding singers and musicians and producers worldwide This show evolved into the stone house sessions Darin brings together musicians to create unique studio quality collaboration from their homes One of the stone house sessions included nashville country star T graham brown combined with the canadian singer jason blaine and the canadian country music association all star band To perform a special rendition of rainy night in georgia working with this video editing Musician nephew star Skyler lambart the final production earned them a 2021 international tele award Honoring excellence in video and television Mr. Speaker, we know that ontaria small business owners are resilient and resourceful And i'm pleased to bring an example of this from oxford county Thank you very much The member for humber river blackpink Thank you speaker This conservative government has kept up the liberal tradition of ignoring eye care here in ontario and on september 1st 2021 the situation reached a breaking point now It has been almost two months that oh hip covered patients are unable to receive eye care services. We're talking about children and youth Up to age 19 seniors age 65 and up in individuals with specific eye conditions and diabetes People across our province have been reaching out desperately to get the eye care they need In my community. I've heard from neil a senior with type 2 diabetes who needs regular checkups to keep his sight Beverly whose daughter has been suffering from eye pain and migraines and many more Countless people whose eyesight has changed and need a new prescription So they can continue to drive and go about their daily lives safely enough is enough I'm calling on this government to immediately return to the bargaining table and work out a fair solution So people can receive the eye care they need and deserve. Thank you Member statements the member for dawn valley west Mr. Speaker I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the community members and business owners of thorncliffe park Who for over six months now have been working to impress upon metro links and the government that they do not want the ontario Line maintenance and storage facility in the heart of their community Thorncliffe park is a microcosm of this country It is a diverse thriving community of more than 30 000 residents from all walks of life This past spring I convened consultation tables Which met from april to september with metro links in an effort to convey to the transit agency That there needed to be changes to the planned msf location I wrote to and spoke with the minister of transportation in this legislature I invited her to attend our meetings or to send her associate minister or a senior staff member Her chief of staff attended one meeting never to return Speaker the community has brought forward alternative suggestions Attempted to demonstrate to metro links that there are options that have not been considered But even when metro links officials seem to agree that a suggestion was worthy of consideration There has been no change to the plan and the community feels mr Speaker that the criteria and the numbers change each time a suggestion is brought forward I believe that if the minister had taken the time to familiarize herself with the situation She would have directed metro links differently speaker the shovels are not yet in the ground This is a community that wants and needs higher order transit But not at the expense of the integrity of the community This government needs to say yes to listening to thorncliffe park mr. Speaker Thank you member statements the member for kitchener connoisseur Well, thank you very much mr. Speaker and one of my family's favorite ways to kick off the weekend in kitchener connoisseur Is to head to the local farmers market and we are lucky to be just a stone's throw away from canada's largest year-round farmers market And one of the largest in north america mr. Speaker the market in st Jacobs But there are several other markets in my riding like the ones in wilma at wellesley village in omyra Where you conveniently pick up local produce meat cheese and baked goods all at one stop But there is one thing that is noticeably ablet absent from ontario's farmer farmers markets mr. Speaker and that is craft beer Even though craft brewers produce locally and support local jobs They haven't had the same opportunity as wineries and sideries who have been able to sell in farmers markets for years now The st. Jacobs market sees over one million visitors annually That is one million potential customers craft brewers in waterloo region have been missing out on That is until our government's 2021 budget made it possible for local breweries to set up shop and sell their beer at ontario's farmers markets I was thrilled to join the attorney general the minister of agriculture and rule Food and rule affairs the ontario craft brewers and ontario chamber of commerce earlier this month in st Jacobs to celebrate this change and learn about the benefits it brings to craft brewers in waterloo region Breweries like stockyards and kitchener who you can now find at the st. Jacobs market We are opening up new opportunities for them at a crucial time so they can grow their business and support the local economy I like many others I'm happy to be able to add craft breweries to the local list of local businesses that I can support at farmers markets across my riding Thank you, mr. Speaker Thank you the next member statement the member for brampton center Thank you and good morning speaker Speaker front line healthcare heroes like our nurses are tired of empty words from this government What they need is action They risk their lives to serve and protect those who needed it throughout this pandemic And I want to thank nurses from the registered nurses association of ontario from brampton like tereza serrano diana Pennelly Guyani we're a sing and charles muthapore Who have been advocating that this government do the right thing and repeal bill 124 speaker These frontline healthcare workers risk their lives to serve our community and the way that the government is currently thanking them Is by capping their wages through bill 124 speaker our frontline healthcare heroes deserve so much better than that speaker I'm urging this government to do the right thing and repeal bill 124 and ensure that frontline healthcare heroes are rewarded for the Hard work and dedication that they have shown throughout this pandemic. They deserve that they deserve to be paid fairly They are burnt out Overworked and stagnant wages are not helping a staffing crisis in healthcare We all have a responsibility to address this staffing crisis here Capping wages of healthcare workers is not going to help us attract and retain the healthcare workers that we need here in the province of ontario So i'm urging this government to do the right thing Listen to the nurses listen to the healthcare workers Help us address this staffing crisis and ensure that workers are paid fairly. Thank you Thank you very much next member statement the member for atobico lake shore Thank you, mr. Speaker Speaker i'm honored to have based in my writing of atobico lake shore a storied canadian regiment the toronto scottish regiment queen Elizabeth the queen's mother's own who are celebrating their 100th anniversary Originally formed as a 75th mississauga battalion The regiment was renamed on the 1st of september 1921 to the toronto scottish regiment The torr scottes have contributed significantly to canadian history and fought in some of history's greatest battles of both world wars The sum passion dale and vimy ridge Dieppe filets and northwest europe Members served in korea and numerous peaking peacekeeping missions including the un and nato led missions like bosnia and most recently afghanistan Most recently the regiment aided ontario by providing emergency covet 19 relief when the canadian armed forces were asked to assist We do not have to wait until november 11 to say thank you to those who've served continue to serve and continue to make sacrifices in so many ways There are so many ways to serve and i know that the torr scottes have found every one of them Finding words worthy enough to express our gratitude is difficult So i simply just say thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Your contributions will always be cherished I congratulate the toronto scottish regiments commanding officer lieutenant colonel kerney and all the members of the regiments on this milestone Happy anniversary and as your regiments motto says carry on Thank you very much that concludes our member statements before i invite oral questions i'm pleased to inform the house that tanvi sony from the riding of brampton west is today's page captain And we have with us today at queens park her father nikiji sony and her sister jill sony emily martin from the riding of king vaughan is also today's page captain And we have with us at queens park her mother camilla martin her grandmother diane martin Welcome to the legislative assembly of ontario


Check out this beautiful gradient. It's on one background. It has six linear gradients inside of it I'm gonna show you how to do it first. We'll set up our style here on the background create our first linear gradient The direction is zero degrees, which is to top. We're gonna create a red HSL color with 80% opacity We're gonna drop that same color So it's gonna be from red to 0% red and it's gonna be 75% the length of the viewport We're gonna make another one and all we're gonna change here is the degrees Which is the color we're gonna do that for all six gradients at 60 degree interval increments And that way when we come around back to 360 we're back at red. Look at that And here's a cool trick You can see that length if we go check it out So I'm gonna go select all the 75% and I'm gonna bump them up slowly from something low to something high So that you can see how it works how it all came together How cool is that stick around for more gooey snippets and I'll see you on the next gooey challenge. Bye y'all