I'd intend to make some remarks about the problem of social security tonight. But the immediacy of congressional action on the tax program, a key component of our economic package, has to take priority. Let me just say, however, I've been deeply disturbed by the way those of you who are dependent on social security have been needlessly frightened by some of the inaccuracies which have been given wide circulation. It's true that the social security system has financial problems. It's also true that these financial problems have been building for more than 20 years, and nothing has been done. I hope to address you on this entire subject in the near future. In the meantime, let me just say this. I stated during the campaign, and I repeat now, I will not stand by and see those of you who are dependent on social security deprived of the benefits you've worked so hard to earn. I make that pledge to you as your president. You have no reason to be frightened. You will continue to receive your checks in the full amount do you. In any plan to restore fiscal integrity of social security, I personally will see that the plan will not be at the expense of you who are now dependent on your monthly social security checks. Now, let us turn to the business at hand. It's been nearly six months since I first reported to you on the state of the nation's economy. I'm afraid my message that night was grim and disturbing. I remember telling you we were in the worst economic mess since the Great Depression. Prices were continuing to spiral upward, unemployment was reaching intolerable levels, and all because government was too big and spent too much of our money. We're still not out of the woods, but we've made a start, and we've certainly surprised those long-time and somewhat cynical observers of the Washington scene who looked, listened and said, it can never be done. Washington will never change its spending habits. Well, something very exciting has been happening here in Washington, and you're responsible. Your voices have been heard. Millions of you, Democrats, Republicans and independents, from every profession, trade and line of work, and from every part of this land. You sent a message that you wanted a new beginning. You wanted to change one little, two little word, tend to letter word, I should say. It doesn't sound like much, but it sure can make a difference changing by government, control by government, to control of government. In that earlier broadcast, you'll recall I proposed a program to drastically cut back government spending in the 1982 budget, which begins October 1st, and to continue cutting in the 83 and 84 budgets. Along with this, I suggested an across-the-board tax cut spread over those same three years, and the elimination of unnecessary regulations, which were adding billions to the cost of things we buy. All the lobbying, the organized demonstrations, and the cries of protest by those whose way of life depends on maintaining government's wasteful ways, where no match for your voices, which were heard loud and clear in these marble halls of government. And you made history with your telegrams, your letters, your phone calls, and, yes, personal visits to talk to your elected representatives. You reaffirmed the mandate you delivered in the election last November, a mandate that called for an end to government policies that sent prices and mortgage rates skyrocketing while millions of Americans went jobless. Because of what you did, Republicans and Democrats in the Congress came together and passed the most sweeping cutbacks in the history of the federal budget. Right now, members of the House and Senate are meeting in a conference committee to reconcile the differences between the two budget-cutting bills passed by the House and Senate. When they finish, all Americans will benefit from savings of approximately $140 billion in reduced government costs over just the next three years. And that doesn't include the additional savings from the hundreds of burdensome regulations already canceled or facing cancellation. By 19 out of the last 20 years, the federal government has spent more than it took in. There will be another large deficit in this present year, which ends September 30. But with our program in place, it won't be quite as big as it might have been. And starting next year, the deficits will get smaller until in just a few years the budget can be balanced. And we hope we can begin whittling at that almost $1 trillion debt that hangs over the future of our children. Now, so far, I've been talking about only one part of our program for economic recovery, the budget-cutting part. I don't minimize its importance. Just the fact that Democrats and Republicans could work together as they have, proving the strength of our system has created an optimism in our land. The rate of inflation is no longer in double-digit figures. The dollar has regained strength in the international money markets and businessmen and investors are making decisions with regard to industrial development, modernization and expansion. All of this, based on anticipation of our program being adopted and put into operation. A recent poll shows that, where a year and a half ago, only 24% of our people believed things would get better. Today, 46% believe they will. To justify their faith, we must deliver the other part of our program. Our economic package is a closely knit, carefully constructed plan to restore America's economic strength and put our nation back on the road to prosperity. Each part of this package is vital. It cannot be considered piecemeal. It was proposed as a package and it has been supported as such by the American people. Only if the Congress passes all of its major components does it have any real chance of success. This is absolutely essential if we are to provide incentives and make capital available for the increased productivity required to provide real permanent jobs for our people. And let us not forget that the rest of the world is watching America carefully to see how we'll act at this critical moment. I've recently returned from a summit meeting with world leaders in Ottawa, Canada and the message I heard from them was quite clear. Our allies depend on a strong and economically sound America and they're watching events in this country, particularly those surrounding our program for economic recovery with close attention and great hopes. In short, the best way to have a strong foreign policy abroad is to have a strong economy at home. The day after tomorrow, Wednesday, the House of Representatives will begin debate on two tax bells and once again they need to hear from you. I know that doesn't give you much time but a great deal is at stake. A few days ago I was visited here in the office by a Democratic congressman from one of our southern states. He'd been back in his district and one day one of his constituents asked him where he stood on our economic recovery program. I'd outlined that program in an earlier broadcast, particularly the tax cut. Well, the congressman who happens to be a strong leader of our program replied at some length with the discussion of the technical points involved but he also mentioned a few reservations he had on certain points. The constituent, a farmer, listened politely until he'd finished and then he said, don't give me an essay. What I want to know is, are you for him or again him? Well, I appreciate the gentleman's support and suggest his questions and message your own representatives should hear. Honestly and sincerely want to know your feelings. They get plenty of input from the special interest groups. They'd like to hear from their home folks. Let me explain what the situation is and what's at issue. With our budget cuts we presented a complete program of reduction in tax rates. Again, our purpose was to provide incentive for the individual, incentives for business to encourage production and hiring of the unemployed and to free up money for investment. Our bill calls for a 5% reduction in the income tax rates by October 1st a 10% reduction beginning July 1st, 1982 and another 10% cut a year later a 25% total reduction over three years. But then to ensure the tax cut is permanent we call for indexing the tax rates in 1985 which means adjusting them for inflation. As it is now, if you get a cost of living raised that's intended to keep you even with inflation you find that the increase in the number of dollars you get may very likely move you into a higher tax bracket and you wind up poorer than you were. This is called bracket creep. Bracket creep is an insidious tax. Let me give an example. If you earned $10,000 a year in 1972 by 1980 you had to earn $19,700 just to stay even with inflation. But that's before taxes. Come April 15th you find your tax rates have increased 30%. Now if you've been wondering why you don't seem as well off as you were a few years back it's because government makes a profit on inflation. It gets an automatic tax increase without having to vote on it. We intend to stop that. Time won't allow me to explain every detail but our bill includes just about everything to help the economy. We reduce the marriage penalty. That unfair tax that has a working husband and wife pay more tax than if they were single. We increase the exemption on the inheritance or a state tax to $600,000 so that farmers and family owned businesses don't have to sell the farm or store in the event of death just to pay the taxes. Most important we wipe out the tax entirely for a surviving spouse no longer for example with a widow have to sell a family source of income to pay a tax on her husband's death. There are deductions to encourage investment and savings business gets realistic depreciation on equipment and machinery and there are tax breaks for small independent businesses which create 80% of all our new jobs. This bill also provides major credits to the research and development industry. These credits will help spark the high technology breakthroughs that are so critical to America's economic leadership in the world. There are also added incentives for small businesses including a provision that will lift much of the burden of costly paperwork that government has imposed on small business. In addition, there is short term but substantial assistance for the hard pressed thrift industry as well as reductions in oil taxes that will benefit new or independent oil producers and move our nation a step closer to energy self-sufficiency. Our bill is in short the first real tax cut for everyone in almost 20 years. Now when I first proposed this and incidentally it has now become a bipartisan measure co-authored by Republican Barbara Conable and Democrat Kent Hans. The democratic leadership said a tax cut was out of the question. It would be wildly inflationary. That was before my inauguration and then your voices began to be heard and suddenly in February the leadership discovered that well a one year tax cut was feasible. We kept on pushing our three year tax cut and by June the opposition found that a two year tax cut might work. Now it's July and they find they could even go for a third year cut provided there was a trigger arrangement that would only allow it to go into effect if certain economic goals had been met by 1983. But by holding the people's tax reduction hostage to future economic events they will eliminate the people's ability to plan ahead. Shopkeepers, farmers and individuals will be denied the certainty they must have to begin saving or investing more of their money. And encouraging more savings and investment is precisely what we need now to rebuild our economy.  You see their bill the committee bill ensures that the 1983 deficit will be six and a half billion dollars greater than their own trigger requires. As it stands now the design of their own bill will not meet the trigger they've put in therefore the third year tax cut will automatically never take place. If I could paraphrase a well-known statement by Will Rogers that he had never met a man he didn't like I'm afraid we have some people around here who never met a tax they didn't hike. Their tax proposal similar in a number of ways to ours but differing in some very vital parts was passed out of the house ways and means committee and from now on I'll refer to it as the committee bill and ours as the bipartisan bill. They'll be the bills taken up Wednesday. The majority leadership claims theirs gives a greater break to the worker than ours and it does. That is if you're only planning to live two more years. The plain truth is our choice is not between two plans to reduce taxes it's between a tax cut and a tax increase. There is now built into our present system including payroll, social security taxes and the bracket creep I've mentioned a 22 percent tax increase over the next three years. The committee bill offers a 15 percent cut over two years. Our bipartisan bill gives a 25 percent reduction over three years. Now as you can see by this chart there is the 22 percent tax increase. Their cut is below that line. But ours wipes out that increase and with a little despair and there it is as you can see the red column that is the 15 percent tax cut and it still leaves you with an increase. The green column is our bipartisan bill which wipes out the tax increase and gives you an ongoing cut. Incidentally their claim that cutting taxes for individuals for as much as three years ahead is risky. Rings a little hollow when you realize that their bill calls for business tax cuts each year for seven years ahead. It rings even more hollow when you consider the fact the majority leadership routinely endorses federal spending bills that project years into the future but objects to a tax bill that will return your money over a three year period. Now here is another chart which illustrates what I said about they're giving a better break if you only intend to live for two more years. Their tax cut so called is the dotted line. Ours is the solid line. As you can see in an earning bracket of $20,000 their tax cut is slightly more generous than ours for the first two years. Then as you can see their tax bill, the dotted line starts going up and up and up. On the other hand in our bipartisan tax bill the solid line, our tax cut keeps on going down and then stays down permanently. This is true of all earning brackets but not just the $20,000 level that I've used as an example from the lowest to the highest. This red space between the two lines is the tax money that will remain in your pockets if our bill passes and it's the amount that will leave your pockets if their tax bill is passed. I take no pleasure in saying this but those who will seek to defeat our accountable hands bipartisan bill as debate begins Wednesday are the ones who have given us five quote-unquote tax cuts in the last 10 years but our taxes went up $400 billion in those same 10 years. The lines on these charts say a lot about who's really fighting for whom. On the one hand you see a genuine and lasting commitment to the future of working Americans on the other, just another empty promise. Those of us in the bipartisan coalition want to give this economy and the future of this nation back to the people because putting people first has always been America's secret weapon. The House majority leadership seems less concerned about protecting your family budget than with spending more on the federal budget. Our bipartisan tax bill targets three quarters of its tax relief to middle income wage earners who presently pay almost three quarters of the total income tax. It also then indexes the tax brackets to ensure that you can keep that tax reduction in the years ahead. There also is, as I said, a state tax relief that will keep family farms and family owned businesses in the family and there are provisions for personal retirement plans and individual savings accounts. Because our bipartisan bill is so clearly drawn and broadly based it provides the kind of predictability and certainty that the financial segments of our society need to make investment decisions that stimulate productivity and make our economy grow. Even more important if the tax cut goes to you, the American people in the third year, that money returned to you won't be available to the Congress to spend. And that in my view is what this whole controversy comes down to. Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor? Or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend? I'm also convinced our business tax cut is superior to theirs because it's more equitable and it will do a much better job promoting the surge in investment we so badly need to rebuild our industrial base. There's something else I want to tell you. Our bipartisan coalition worked out a tax bill we felt would provide incentive and stimulate productivity thus reducing inflation and providing jobs for the unemployed. That was our only goal. Our opponents in the beginning didn't want a tax bill at all. So what is the purpose behind their change of heart? They've put a tax program together for one reason only to provide themselves with a political victory. Never mind that it won't solve economic problems confronting our country. Never mind that it won't get the wheels of industry turning again or eliminate the inflation which is eating us alive. This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning. I ask you now to put aside any feelings of frustration or helplessness about our political institutions and join me in this dramatic but responsible plan to reduce the enormous burden of terrible taxation on you and your family. During recent months many of you have asked what can you do to help make America strong again. I urge you again to contact your senators and congressmen. Tell them of your support for this bipartisan proposal. Tell them you believe this is an unequaled opportunity to help return America to prosperity and make government again the servant of the people. Congress will stand at the fork of two roads. One road is all too familiar to us. It leads ultimately to higher taxes. It merely brings us full circle back to the source of our economic problems. For the government decides that it knows better than you what should be done with your earnings and in fact how you should conduct your life. The other road promises to renew the American spirit. It's a road of hope and opportunity. It places the direction of your life back in your hands where it belongs. I've not taken your time this evening merely to ask you to trust me. Instead I asked you to trust yourselves. That's what America is all about. Our struggle for nationhood, our unrelenting fight for freedom, our very existence. These have all rested on the assurance that you must be free to shape your life as you're best able to. That no one can stop you from reaching higher or take from you the creativity that has made America the envy of mankind. One road is timid and fearful. The other bold and hopeful. In these six months we've done so much and have come so far. It's been the power of millions of people like you who've determined that we will make America great again. You have made the difference up to now. You will make the difference again. Let us not stop now. Thank you. God bless you. Good night.


What is up everybody, Jason here for jasmiescasebrace.com. 2023, Bowman's Best University Football Delight, two box break, random first letter, first name, number seven guys. So 15 total spots, everybody gets a random letter from the list below. Remember of course, if you get a randomized letter M and we pull Michael Pennick shooter, that goes to you. There's the letters with the combo letters. Let's click dice roll. It is a one out of six, seven times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. Seven times, Nick down to Nick. La Plante, that is. There we go, seven times here. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. Seven times, seven times, C down to B. So Nick La Plante, you have C, Steve Locke with SV, David Yang with L and N and J, Jimmy with O and P, Steve with T, Nick with F and G. Steve Locke, you got D, Jimmy with A, Chad with B, R, Jimmy Black, that is. Chad with R, John, K with E and all of the letters listed. DMACC, you got W, Nick L with M, K and Nick La Plante with B. All right then guys, I'm assuming no trading, so close the trade window. All right guys, so again, same thing guys. One break, one break, one break, one break, one through four. Let's see which one is generated here. And one, we're gonna do the top two boxes here. These right here would be for the next breaks. Actually, I'll just leave them back there. Don't know what else we're really gonna do tonight. I figured it's just gonna be this probably. So let's run it back guys, kind of want to do another one too. I would love to fill up this whole case, but I mean, I'm almost starting to get to the really, really later hours, but at least maybe one more. Especially if we don't point it crazy. I feel like if we don't point it crazy, we should definitely do another one. Too much good stuff hiding in these boxes. All right, we've got Kale Williams, 14 out of 25. Letter C going to Nick and Graham Mertz, out of 10. Letter G going to Nick as well, we'll plan. All right, we've got Dylan Gaber for letter D. We're going to Steve Lock. Walker Howard for letter W going to DMACC to 100. And then AJ Swan, letter A going to Jimmy. Jimmy Black, that is. And then we got, how about for letter T, Travis Hunter, out of 150. You know, Steve, on the border with that one. Then we got a Paris Jones for letter P going to Jimmy Black. All right, first autograph. We got Robbie Ashford for letter R going to Chad B. We have Mario Williams for USC two out of 25 orange. Letter M going to Nick, out. And then we got Emmett Morhead for letter E going to John, with the E and all other letters listed. Not listed, sorry. All right, not the craziest autograph. So like I said, guys, I mean, if there's, what a point they're massive in this one, man. Honestly, it wouldn't even be a bad idea to kind of just buy these those pursels. Spoil up the whole break.  Patch autograph, baby. Drake May for letter D going to Steve Locke. And then we got a Dante Moore, another one for letter D. Three out of 15. Then we got a KJ Jefferson for letter K going to Nick L. Harold Perkins at 25, going to letter H, which is gonna go to the all other letters not listed. Braylon Allen to 50, letter B going to Nick LaPlante. Then Caleb Downs for letter C going to Nick. I know, there's been a lot of D's, right? For sure, for shout. Mara Williams for letter M, going to Nick L. And then our first one is on Michael Panix, finally. Something nice, 44 to 75. I did pull the superfractive version of this earlier. But Nick, there you go. Your Michigan Wolverine did beat him, but I'm pretty nice with this one though, right? Then we got a Bobby Ash, or Robbie Ashford, I should say, 48 out of 50. Letter R for Chad B. And woo, nice patch autograph, Jordan Travis. No, he got injured right at the end of the season, but 14 out of 49, patch autograph. Letter J going to David Yang. Nice one there, man. All right, finally, this box was nice. But again, we pulled a lot of pretty fun stuff in the last case, so definitely still there expected it to be a lot more. A nice little boxer to save it. Appreciate it, guys. So like I said, let's run back another one if you guys want to tonight. JaspeysCaseBreaks.com.


I'm very much delighted to introduce to you Mark Stubbs from across the road, otherwise known as Manchester Metropolitan University. And he'll be talking to us about transforming the curriculum, mainstreaming learning technology and improving the student experience. Quite a lot to get through in 20 minutes, I think. We'll have time for questions in the end, and I'll hand over to Mark now. Thank you. Thank you very much. Testing Vogue 1, 2, 3. Thank you. Well, a very good morning, everyone. Well done. Nine o'clock Thursday morning after the night before. My name's Mark Stubbs. I'm Professor and Head of Learning Research Technologies at Manchester Metropolitan University. A couple of bits of background about me. I used to work as a management consultant. I've been principal lecturer in business information technology at the university some time ago. And I guess I'm a bit of an optimist. I have solar panels on my roof in Manchester. So that might give you a bit of background of where I'm coming from. Manchester Metropolitan University is an interesting place to work. We're going through quite an ambitious change programme at the moment. Some of you may have seen some of the exciting new buildings going up. We're large, popular. But we've got a single-minded focus at the moment on improving the student experience. And that puts in context some of the other work we're doing, particularly the new curriculum, the new learning technologies that we brought in. I'm conscious of this audience. I don't really need to sort of go into detail about the student experience because it's a phrase I have some problems with. For me, I guess any individual student's experience is a bit of a cure its egg. Some of it is good in parts. Others you'd like to improve. When you think about a large organisation like Manchester Met, we're talking 36,000-plus students, 1,000 courses, 1,500 tutors across multiple sites. That's a quite diverse thing. When you actually start talking to the students, their expectations vary. Their perception of technology varies. For some of them, it's a playground. They want to do all sorts of exciting things with technology. For others, it's just a tool. They just want to get the job done with it. And sometimes dealing with that variety within the same group can be hard. The tolerance that students have for imperfect technology can vary. Some of them, this might be a real turn-off if it doesn't work first time. Others, well, hey, we use lots of this stuff all the time. Some of it works, some of it's broken. We just shift around it and get on to the next thing. We know that the motivation for studying varies. For some students, their willingness to blur the line between their social identity and their university or work identity varies. Dealing with that variety can be quite challenging. I think if I carry on my eggs metaphor for a moment, some of you might be familiar with a very popular physics game that does the rounds on mobiles, which involves some stolen eggs. Some questions have been asked about why is our student experience sort of flatlining. Lots of people are making improvements. And in the NSS tables, if you're flatlining, you're going backwards if other people are making improvements. So I guess our confrontation with reality was a really strong need to do something about improving the student experience. Now we did some quite detailed listening, focus groups, we looked in detail at our NSS, we used statistical techniques to identify of all the things in there, what was most strongly correlated with overall satisfaction, and we started to see a pattern coming through. There were a series of hygiene factors, things like, what's my real deadline? I hear lots of rumours, when's it really due in? Where am I meant to be from one minute to the next? Is that really the right timetable or has something changed? So we did some surveys with students about what they wanted from their mobile devices, and we were hoping we might hear all sorts of exciting things about augmented reality, and what we actually heard was, can I get my deadlines and my timetable and my reading lists? And if those things change, can you let me know? So we got this very strong message back that actually there's a series of hygiene factors that we need to attend to before we can really get on to the stimulating pedagogy stuff. Now, we also then had lots of focus groups with staff. Why can't we do anything about this? We know there's a problem. And the message that came back is, well, we can't change anything because we'd have to change everything. Everything depends on everything else in the university. It's the student record system, or it's the timetable, or it's the quality system. Really, if you sort of unpick all of this, you see lots of buts, reasons why we can't do things. And I guess a lot of them come back to the fact that we're a large, diverse, risk-averse institution. What sort of happened that was very important for us is we had one of those very important things happen. We had what's termed a Deputy Vice Chancellor out of Patience Era at Line 1. This notion of we can't do it because we'd have to change everything, built up and up and up. So we ended up with, well, if we can't do it because we'd have to change everything and that's what you're saying to me, let's change everything. Now, that's really exciting because that's the kind of top-level commitment to change that you really, really need. The challenge is that's probably necessary, but is it sufficient to knock all over these barriers while learning, teaching, doing the business of the university? We felt we needed to structure that enthusiasm somewhat. So we put together a very strong project and programme team led by all the sort of key people across the university. We've got the head of quality, the head of the sort of student systems to drive that stream. And we thought about all the things that would need to change to make a step change improvement. We decided that we wanted to refresh the undergraduate curriculum. We knew we wanted to do that on a timeframe that would actually have a return on investment very quickly. Our quality systems have been typically geared up to five-year review cycles. We needed something different to cope with change on this scale. Reviewing a thousand modules simultaneously needs a different style of quality approval and enhancement. We knew that we were hearing messages about our administrative systems needed to be more flexible, needed to be more student-oriented. So we knew we needed to make change there. We also knew if we didn't make the change in the sort of things that students use to interact, the learning technologies, we wouldn't see the benefits from the students, the key people we were hoping to help. So we put together a programme board with these four strands of work. It was a bit Mission Impossible, bringing together all the key people from across the university on a fierce timeframe, kicking off in the first quarter of 2010, running right through to actually saying, September 2011, we want an entire new first year live. Now that's a fierce pace, really fierce pace. And we had to innovate some things along the way to achieve that pace. We had to get a new set of rules for a new curriculum approved. We decided we'd change the credit rating from 20 to 30 credits in order to give staff a sort of clear steer on what a new curriculum would look like. We took to academic board rules about how many learning outcomes there should be, rather than writing thousands of less good ones, be very clear, very specific about the ones that are important. And there was a lot of kind of Pareto 80-20 thinking behind a lot of the stuff we did. We looked at assessment, we'd heard messages about over-assessment, so again we focused on doing a small number of things well. One of the things that we had to do was find a way to capture this new curriculum that we were asking staff to write while delivering a year's experience for students. We knew this was a big ask. Just while you're teaching, can you rewrite next year's module? That's quite a big thing to ask, and the first draft of the unit specification form that came out was eight pages long. And people went, I can't feel that in. Doesn't make sense. We also realised that we'd need a new style of thinking. In the past, people had written a Word document, it had been to a committee, it had perhaps been knocked back, it had then got approved, someone would pick up that Word document, retype it into a student record system, retype it into timetabling, set up the VLE, etc. On that sort of timeframe that you've just seen, that's impossible. So we had to innovate not just our learning technology, but our admin technology. So where we had a policy that said, I'll cut it down here, but five learning outcomes maximum and two pieces of assessment, we designed forms that supported that. There were only five boxes for learning outcomes. There were only two boxes for assessment, but you couldn't submit the form until you were actually clear how the assessment covered the learning outcomes. We wanted to capture graduate outcomes and employability skills that students might get, so it was a requirement that assessment was tagged with the graduate outcomes that students might get from engaging with that piece of assessment. Basically, we tried to be smart with the way that we captured the curriculum so we could use it for other purposes. That's the sort of XCRI thinking, exchange in course related information that went behind a lot of this work. We also had strong support in terms of input from our learning and teaching colleagues about what makes a good learning outcome. So next to all these boxes, there were little pop-ups with good examples and guidance that people could go to. Just back to the story for a minute and the eggs, we were conscious that our student experience was really being governed by the learning environment in which it took place and the admin systems on which that rested. We'd heard these strong calls for consistency, we'd identified this set of hygiene factors, so we wanted to deploy these new systems, processes and particularly a new virtual learning environment we were moving to, to address those things. So our new virtual learning environment that we built was really a swanky new egg cup. Something which wasn't the whole student experience, but it was something in which that student experience could take place that hopefully would be a step forward and would address those concerns that students had expressed to us. And what we really, really wanted was to make it personal to our students, 37,000 students or so, each receiving a personalised egg cup. To make that possible, we had to be extremely consistent with the way we identified curriculum and we needed web services to pull things together from around the institution and assemble it around the learner. When, with technology, it's both an enabler and a constrainer. What we wanted to do was play to the strengths of each. We'd heard from our student community that they wanted consistency, so in terms of introducing technology, we wanted there to be a consistent front door to all the things that the institution had. So we came up with this notion of a core plus, verily, in which students stepped through a consistent front door in which things like their timetable, hand-in-dates, reading lists, all the things they'd asked for were there. But we were conscious that wasn't the end of the story. And academic colleagues might well want to innovate and bring in a whole range of new technologies that were appropriate for theirs. Now, some of those technologies we could enable centrally. We could set up, turn it in. We could perhaps arrange live at edgy for all students and people might well be able to use that. But other things we were conscious that staff might want to set up for themselves. And in that case, our role centrally would be to support the integration of that so it appeared to be a seamless experience for our students. And Neil and colleagues will talk a little bit more about some of that work later upon the fourth floor after this. Our vision of that swanky egg cup really was one of wrapping the institution around the learner. We wanted all the good stuff that lay in different pots around the institution to be scooped up and delivered personally to each of our students. We wanted to have a timetable but to make it look like the kind of timetable that students are familiar with from Google, et cetera. We wanted to be able to sync that to their personal devices. So we did some scraping of Scientia. We found ways to bring that in. We wanted to address students' concern about handling dates. So we managed to pull together information about when their handling dates were, whether submissions had been received, whether extensions had been granted, what marks were. And again, we delivered that into the virtual learning environment. One of the benefits of this information was that having delivered it for 36,000 students, we now knew that there were 23,000 submissions the week before Christmas. Now having that heightened state of awareness of about what was going on across the institution meant that we could have the guys with the orange t-shirts from IT ready to make sure the printers were fully stacked and ready to go. This kind of heightened state of awareness about the institution came on the back of being able to deliver personalised information. Our reading lists, we spent a lot of time with students asking them, how would you like to see things structured? We got back a very clear message. When you give us a 200 item reading list, it's really confusing. Where should we start? So we put some effort into identifying clearly those items that were recommended for purchase, those items that were essential starting points and those items that were further reading. We assessed that through Talis Aspire and delivered it back to the student. We had a lot of past examination papers, tagged them with the module code. Again, they were available to all our students. Effectively, what we were using the technology for was reaching out to engage our students, providing some business intelligence on how it was working and automating our processes. What we've seen, I know there's an embargo on the NSS results at the moment so I can't give you the full detail, but what we've seen is an improvement in that area, particularly around course organisation learning resources. So I would say we're in a better position now. When we reached out to students and asked them what did they think, we were overwhelmed by their response. 10,000 students filled in our personalised survey. They left us 58,000 comments. We repeated the survey and took out the final year so we're completing the NSS. 7,000 filled in and left us 33,000 comments. This is a massively rich dataset about the student experience. Our analysis of it shows that we've still got work to do on course organisation, which we have in hand, but something came up in there that we hadn't expected. There was a notion that we need to help students build confidence and I think some of the work we're seeing on digital literacy and all those things is very important in that regard. But we wouldn't have picked that up without having access to some of this data because we wouldn't have seen it across the institution as a whole. What have we learnt? We've learnt that the technology can do some useful stuff, it can personalise the experience, it can reduce the burden of some of the assessment and it can help us prioritise interventions. One of the things we saw, for instance, from the satisfaction survey was that there was a dip from students moving from first year into second year. Focus group, everybody got together and went, well, hang on, we make a big fuss of the first years when they come back, we have induction weeks. We don't do anything like that for our second years. Our two critical success factors, if we join up our thinking, align with our business processes and particularly with academic practice, we can make a difference. We can rewrite the entire undergraduate curriculum, connect it up with technology and roll it out. You need the right partner relationships and colleagues like ULCC, Ombield, Talis Aspire and new signings like Cartera. We're looking to create that ecosystem of partners to deliver that and keep it rolling. There's full details that you might want to follow up later about this, but at that point, I'll leave it and have the floor for questions. Thank you very much, Mark. A fascinating insight into all the things you've achieved. Have you got 10 minutes also for some questions now? If you'd like to raise your hand if you have questions and the roving might welcome to you. So are there any questions from the floor at this point? It's too early in the morning for questions, it seems. There's a question up there. Ruth. Thank you. Good morning, Mark. Thanks very much. Very interesting speech there about quite radical change within a large institution. I'm just interested in how easy was it to engage everybody, the academics and learning technologists, in discussing some of the admin data, especially around course information. Good question. You've also picked up there something that I would really should add as a critical success factor on here, and it's the people sitting in that row over there, the learning technologists. Through this project, we were able to establish learning technologists, we've termed elearning support officers, one in every faculty. Having that point of connection, that bridge between the centre in all its world of codes and curriculum modules and that kind of thing, and the real world on the ground of the academic in the classroom trying to make a difference was vitally important. It's not easy to engage staff in these discussions about how you represent the curriculum. It is easy to get staff to talk about the things that are frustrating them, the fact that perhaps the student record system is geared around an academic year starting in September and doesn't cope too well with January starts. It's very easy to pull out those issues. In the design of that web form, we try to find a sort of more agile way of giving the technology and the admin processes what they needed, but presenting it in a way that made sense for academic colleagues. So, cutting down an eight-page word document into a one-page that for them captured all the things they needed was a very important way of engaging them in that process. As we trimmed things back and ended up with, this is the right things to be on the drop-down list for assessment types, these are the right things to be in the graduate outcomes. We were able to bridge that gap between the world of the academic and the world of data that was needed for that course information to flow, set up the student record system, set up the timetable, set up the VLE, et cetera. And it's flowed further. It's flowed out onto our campus M mobile app, so students not only are having this stuff in Moodle, but because it was a web service, those hand-in-dates, the reading lists that academic colleagues have put in are appearing on students' mobile devices this September. I think there was a question here. Say your name as well. James Clay from Gloucestershire College. Mark, to me this is quite exciting. Somebody at the back said it's radical. But then I kind of took a step back and actually you're doing what we should be doing. You know, to me this isn't radical. This should be normal. And what we're actually doing, most organisations aren't operating in an efficient and effective manner. So that's kind of the first part of my question, but the second, which leads on to, you know, you made it work at MMU. There's quite a few of us who are probably gonna go back and want to do it at our institutions to make them work as they should. How on earth do we do that? I mean, you know, can you got any kind of like suggestions or recommendations to get our, well it won't be in my case, it would be a principle, but DVCs get that kind of like, that lovely quote isn't it, patients are a patient, whatever. I think the top tip would be don't waste a good crisis. The fact that we're where we were with the NSS and that we've been trying lots of things and it just wasn't having the effect meant that we really had to bring everybody together to focus on that problem. And you're right, what we've been doing is moving the institution into a better place. And now we can start the exciting things. Now we can build on this and do the things that we want to do, but we've had to put in place the business as usual that we wanted to see in order to be able to do it. And that, you know, we needed the senior management buy-in. I mean, this had the key members of director at in meetings regularly every couple of weeks understanding, well if one would just have to change the academic process then. You know, when you reach that stage of transformation you've got to have the decision makers who can make those decisions and make it in the room in order to meet these sort of time frames that we work to. So don't waste a good crisis. One more question. Yes, over there. And if you introduce yourself as well, please, thank you. Hi, John Traklar from Wolverhampton University. Sorry, I agree with all that James is saying. Is there a mechanism by which you stop yourself being in this position again in five years' time? Or is there a kind of coping with the change of change? Yeah, that's a really good point. I think what's interesting is to look at some of the legacy stuff from this work. I've already mentioned the e-learning support officers to help take things forward on that regard. One of the things that we really beefed up as part of this project was our business improvement team. We brought them in to understand how this depends on that and you'll have to do that project and, I don't know, we'll need to have it approved and back from the externals by February if we're going to get it into the student record system in March, et cetera. So we had that initial program management process review stuff brought in for the project, but we've now mainstreamed that. The other thing we've mainstreamed is these student experience survey work with the levels of analysis that went behind it. When those students submitted those comments, each one was tagged with the module code and the program code. So the module leader, program leader, got that information back straight away. The challenge for us was looking at it across the institution as a whole and trying to spot patterns that ran across the whole. That was more difficult and that's where we've got some work to do to establish a kind of business intelligence infrastructure. But that's what we're working on at the moment to stop us slipping back on this stuff. Thank you. Do we have any online questions? Yes, there is one. It's from dyslexic IT. That's the name. And the question is, how did you address the change to the tutors and lecturers? I think again, this partly comes back to the role of the e-learning support officers, but also the fact that we had to have champions in every faculty who were behind this initiative carrying colleagues with them. And I think you might want to have a look on the GISC design studio to have a look at an article on there called In the Throws of Change that captures just how difficult this was from a range of different perspectives. And there's some nice insights in there about what it felt like, because it isn't a sort of rosy story from all academics across the institution getting there. As you might imagine, it was challenging, it was hard, it was a big ask for people to do this on top of their day job. But there are a bit of persistence, a bit of we've got to do this. We really do. And by trimming things back, don't expect people to fill in an eight-pager. Ask them for the one page of the things that are needed. Using that kind of approach, we carried people with us. Thank you very much. I'm afraid that's all we've got time for.


Living in West Branch is a different atmosphere than living in a larger city. We do have longer drive times for commuting to work, but unlike the city up here, 15 miles is 15 minutes. And you see wildlife along the way, there's less traffic to deal with, and really for me that pays off in the end. I use that for my decompression time, both before and after work, and it allows me to be more refreshed for patients each day. A commute to work would be no problem at all. It's not like in Metro Detroit where it's not unusual to travel an hour or longer to get to work every day. West Branch is a very quaint Victorian style town. They have really wonderful little shops on Main Street. They have an outlet mall. A nice downtown area has a Victorian feel and seems to be thriving where a lot of smaller communities, the downtown, sort of disappearing doesn't seem to be the case in West Branch.  There's a new brewery that just opened up in the last month with good food. Walmart, you have Home Depot, you have an outlet mall and an area that we call Hamburger Hill where there's every fast food restaurant that you can think of as well. So it has a nice mix. They have a wonderful art show every year here in town. They have the local produce and they have the markets in the spring, summer, fall. And so the farmers are involved. There are a lot of outdoor recreation opportunities as far as canoeing, kayaking, fishing, hunting. So if someone enjoys those sort of outdoor activities, you don't have to travel on weekends to do that. You can just go out your door and enjoy those activities. We have the headwaters of the Rifle River just about 20 minutes away in a really beautiful state park. We've got the Assable River, which is noted for its canoe race each year. The schools in this area are very good and they have a lot of services that they offer to the students now and they're very, very involved with the students and the communities involved with the school. It's a great place to live. There's great community support, you know, a smaller area allows you to know your patients better and get involved in their lives, which makes healthcare more personal.


What's up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasebreaks.com guys, happy new release day guys, 2023, Canadian Dollars Football is here today guys, this Friday here December 1st. This is a hobby edition, six box break, picket jeans number one guys, and again all-card ship. Look for some cases like gridiron marvels, downtowns, unleash inserts, and of course the breakdown per box is a one autograph, one memorabilia, 18 rated rookies, 12 parallels, 42 inserts. One base or non-rookie, no name parallel, and five base rookie test parallels.  So again, one, two, and three will be from the same case guys as it is a 18 box case, so here we go, here we go, stacked into sixes already, six, six, six, one, two, three, four, five, six for the dice rolls there, one, we're going to go with one, two, the left side, so these right here will be a four breaks, two, and three, and a little bit, here we go, the Donner's football. I think a lot of people were excited for this guys, because first of all, Donner's got a great price point, you know, under $300 a box, you get an autograph, you get a relic, but you also get to get some like optic rated rookie previews, right, get some chances of some downtowns of the new draft class, right, marbles, so I think it's a fun product for early on in the 2023 NFL release calendar, because as soon as Donner's comes and you have, you know, prism, then you'll have, you know, optic, and by the time you know, we'll have frickin' Immaculate NT and flawless of this draft class, so this is what optic is going to look like at some point, just with the chrome finish, you also have some like holiday parallels in here too, like these calendars during Christmas, trip open a couple of boxes at a time and then we'll go to the next one, if you're just tuning in guys, this is PYT number one, number two is right after and then number three is basically at two left, so I'm sure we'll be running that back at some point right after these breaks. Might squeeze in a couple other breaks, like some fillers or a little mini humming brake in the meantime as well, three boxes, so we'll take it slow for the first box, just kind of enjoy this break, enjoy the box, the new and new release today and we'll kind of like skim through it as a Christian Gonzalez ready to rookie, Russell Wilson Dominators insert, JK Dobbins, Power Plus, and Don Hooker, number to 100, nice, little red, and we got a Josh Allen Relic, Jersey Kings to three and 99 for the builds, gonna David B, Michael Mayer, the rookies, Tazer Spears, got a Jay Caner, legend series, Isaiah Foske to 50, there's a CJ Strout, Justin Fields Dominators, there's a little bomb squad, this looks pretty cool, Jordan Addison, nice little rookie phenoms, Relic autograph, that's for the Vikings gonna cliver, there you go man, I'm gonna count, Jared Miller, Jared Hall, a modern St. Brown, Justin Jefferson, a little action all pros insert, Kenny Pickett, Christian Wilkins, little Dyka, Devon HN, little bomb squad there, Jaylin Hyatt, little Michael Wilson, Desmond Ritter, little no-name, Michael Parsons, Will Loves, Miller, Jonathan Mingo, Keenan Allen to 50, Rich Eisen, fans of the game, Jets edition, Zeke, alright, so here are your two hits here, little patch autograph, Jordan Addison and then a Josh Allen, then we have some like numbered hits right here, bigger rookies, keep those separated and I sleeped up a lot of them, I mean I feel like if any of these will stay sleep some of them, some of them won't but just because it's a new release, new product. Alright next box guys, Travis Kelsey, little action all pros, we got a Michael Mayer bomb squad, CD, little LT, KVL Tippadale, Derek Carr, Devon Tessimeth, Miles Murphy, Will McDonald, little Dyka there to 75, CJ Strout, the rookies, legend series, Manure Forbes, Joey B, Najee, and a little Bijan, nice one there to 100 and that was last spot mojo and we got Bryant Young, Canton Kings to 199, Tyler Scott, Tajie Spears, Jonathan Mingo, then we got Dwayne McBride, that's a black out of 10 for the Vikings, which is Clifford, come on witherspoon, Dorian Thompson Robinson to 49 autograph, nice, three to rookie autograph, that's for the Browns Michael, T Higgins, no name, bomb squad, Dolce and Cade, Michael Mayer, Sam Laporta, red, Bijan, hey, how's it going over there? Alright, Tyree Hill, Tyson Campbell, yeah basically, they're all done so I love action, Jameson Williams, any downtowns you play? Travis? They wouldn't have Jason, oh that's cool. Alright, next box, here we go, Jamar Jefferson, no name plate, Rashawn Johnson, Rice Monsquah, clean tune Tank Bell, Zay Flowers, Jalen Hyatt Redd, and a, oh that's one of those one per box, right? I guess they're one per box? No, they're not one per box, five base of rookie, a Kias test parallel, that's interesting, yeah I'm gonna say, Jordan Addison, Bijan, nice one there, we got the one out of 100 earlier, Rockins last bomb mojo, Sean Clifford, Otis Anderson, Josh Downs, nervous today man, Oregon game, Saddest sound in the world, elite series, shoemaker, crime branch, to 32, the Eagles play the Cardinals on New Year's Eve, it's a great way to end the year, right? For bird fans, watch them lose, right? No, yeah, I would have went to the game if they were here as well, when did you start working here last year? Oh man, we could have went to the game, didn't you well last year? Yeah, DiVante Williams, next time, DiVante, elite series, Tyree Kill, Bombsquad, Jimmy Gibbs, and an Anthony Richardson, nice leather Kings, to 3.99, that's going to the Colts, Colts is David, to Otago Aloeva, have you got the autograph on these books? I feel like we haven't, there's an AR, Miller, CD lamb, little die cut there, it's number to 75 for the Cowboys, Will Anderson Jr., little Patty Mahomes Super Bowl MVP, Donneress, first time seeing that one, and Zach Charbonnet, nice, out of 49, he had a great game, you got injured at the end of the game. You got injured? Yeah, I had like a knee injury, he was freaking, he was doing great dude, yeah, he scored a touch, I think. I had him and Luke Schoonmaker, I got, I mean, not this time, Jake Ferguson, yeah, he got one too. And then I had, some guy almost cashed out, looking back at the hundred bucks, yesterday I seen it online, it was like a DK that scored three touchdowns, and he was almost there, he would have won like 18 grand on a $50 bet, and he could have cashed out like a $2,000, I don't know if you did though. I got like a 10x yesterday, I bet $25 and got a $250. Nice. I was sweating 24 hours so hard, bro. Yeah, but you didn't get one after all, he sucked yesterday, but he got one. No, I needed a under 88 and a half finish in receiving yards, he had 83, I had DK over five, it's six, Jake and Charminate touchdowns, and then I had Devon Witherspoon, four tackles, I meant to bet on, I meant to take a, to recall it. Oh, okay. I accidentally took Witherspoon, Witherspoon had zero tackles going into the fourth quarter, and ended up getting four. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. It's an odd branch actually. Nice. There you go. All right, so there you go. So far through the first three guys, there's one autograph relic, relic autograph, couple of nice colors here, rookies, and then autograph there. So the three autos have been DTR, Jordan and Addison, and Zach Charminate, and then we've got three relics here, Josh Allen, Bryant Young, and Anthony Richardson. So let's see what else we can find over here guys in the second half. This is the first break, Savvy, first break. Number two's coming up next, and then I haven't went through orders yet, but if number three and four, whatever sold out, then they'll be coming up after that. The only thing I have on my schedule is selling out is breaking one and two. But yeah, I don't know, did anything else sell out this? Looks like number three's at one, so about to sell out. Looks like the mini-home it's sold out, so probably do mini-helmets before I do number three, and then four, five, and six are all at three left. So here we go. Next three. Zae Flowers, nice. Autograph to 49, Great Iron Kings. That's sweet. That's for the Ravens, Aaron, Marvin Minns, Anthony Richardson, the rookies, Bijan Bomsquad, C.D. Lamb, Chase Brown, BJ Ojalari. That's another 50 foil. Then we got a relic here of Howie Long. Number to 199. Nice little Howie there. Aaron, come on though. Is someone not focused today or what? Your partner. And then he takes it again and he said hello, and I thought he was joking, so I put it, I took it back hot. And then I asked him why he said that. He's like, since I didn't know for so long, I texted Teddy just walking around. Oh, well that's why, yeah. I'm like, duh, I'm breaking, bro. Yeah. Dominators. Ana Monro, St. Brown. Tajie Spears. Yellow Jalen Carter. Little Super Bowl, Wildcard, World's the Super Bowl. Burding. Barclay. Here's the no name. Jerry Henry. The client. Joey Porter Jr., that's pretty cool. Icrias Test. Shoonmaker. Then we got a scary Terry McLaurin to 50. Bobby for the Giants, it looks like. Roshan Johnson. Or Roshan Johnson, I should say. Bijan, Bernie Kozar, Devon Witherspoon. I don't know, David. That's what I was talking to a customer of ours yesterday. Eric, he's a Bears fan. And I told him, how do you feel about Justin Fields? I mean, I've always been honest with him about him. He's shown flashes that he could be a Jalen Hertz and even better than a Jalen Hertz, honestly. I mean, I personally believe he has a stronger arm. He's faster, bigger, obviously, but the one thing he just hasn't been able to get over is just kind of his decision-making, right? Taking too long, hesitating. So why not? Do you blame that on the coaching? Do you blame that on just like the team overall?  I mean, because at some point, I mean, the Bears might end up with like the number one overall pick and like a top five pick on their own. So it's like, do you risk just keeping Jalen Hertz? Do you risk keeping, you know, Justin Fields for another year or so and passing up on like a Caleb Williams or something like that, especially if he does go into this draft? I mean, I'm not always sold on quarterbacks out of college that are supposed to be the next big guy, because sometimes it just doesn't always transition well, right? Patrick Mahones wasn't Patrick Mahones in college. None of these guys were that in college just as much, right? They kind of developed and got better in the NFL. I personally believe in Fields, but I just think they need to like let him, let him like run the offense, let him like get a cater to his strengths. I think that's why the Eagles offense is so successful in that sense with like Jalen because they let him make all those decisions, right? Whether it's a run, a pass, you know, keeper. And in crunch time, I mean, Jalen hasn't really turned over the ball much, right? He makes great decisions in crunch time and picks up those dubs. He's definitely not perfect though, Tyler Boyd, but it's going to be interesting to see what happens. I personally think if you can, if Justin Fields shows way better flashes throughout the season for what would they have, I mean, go get him a big weapon, you know, maybe get him some offensive line help. And I mean, I think it's better, I think it's better that way because then now you're going to have to race another quarterback, a little draft pick on another quarterback. It's around him with talent. He's still a rookie at the end of the day, Patrick Mahalendralek to 399 and then you're going to waste the number one overall pick on a quarterback, most likely for our first rounder again in a span of like three years. We'll see you guys. George Pickens, well Anderson, Jr.  There we go. Oh, Tyreek Hill. Nice. Little Super Bowl Chrome autograph for the Chiefs. Chiefs. What a Jeff. That's awesome, man. Vaughn Miller, like a nickname short for him or something. I mean, that's the question, right? If you go plug in Jaylen Hertz on the Bears and you go plug in Justin Fields on the Eagles, do they play better? In theory, you say yes, right? In theory, you say, well, yeah, Hertz has a better team, right? He has a better offensive line. He has better weapons, blah, blah, blah. But I personally think that Bears actually have, they got decent running backs. I like Khalil Herbert. They traded for DJ Moore. I mean, a year before they traded for what's the name, but he's not there anymore. I like Darnell Mooney. I mean, it's an interesting thing, but obviously that's hypothetical, right? I just think that Fields has shown that he can make the right decisions and not hold on to the ball long enough. And like I said, give him the free power, the range to just do whatever he feels best, right? Take off and run if it's not there, right? Do some more run pass options. Give Jaylen basically a wall of the offense around him and give him the power to make all the decisions really. You know, Masi Smith. But see, this is my thing though. This is what I say about those people about saying like the Eagles have such a loader roster. Eagles would be nowhere near 10 and 1 if Jaylen Hertz isn't their starting quarterback. I mean, we kind of seen it last year. The couple game team is, I'll tell you something like that. You know, we've seen it last year with like Garner Minshew, right? He stepped in.  The games with Jaylen Hertz is out.  I just don't truly think so, man, especially the way Jaylen plays in crunch time, especially this year. This year, Eagles are not blowing out teams this year, right? I think a lot of teams are scheming for them. The Eagles have been making great second half adjustments and finding ways to win ball games, right? And some of the plays that Jaylen has done throughout this year has just been freaking amazing. Go look at his stats in the first three quarters or even first half and go look at his stats in crunch time, you know, when trailing in the third fourth quarter and what his stats are. I don't think he's throwing a pick yet. You know, he's like 10 touchdowns, no picks. Record is like undefeated. It's pretty amazing. Damian Pierce, Jaylen Carter. Ooh, Bryce Young. It's like this kid. I think this kid is so good, man. He's just in a messed up situation. He's basically in a situation that Trevor Lawrence was his rookie year. Getting that head coach for him and then firing him the same year. Team is just horrible. La Porta. Yeah, I also think Trey Lance didn't get his fair share of opportunities though, David, right? I feel like they basically gave up on him. The year that they were going to give him all the power to do good was last year. Boom, gets injured, done. Right? Perti comes in, takes over and that's it. They just like, oh well, we got Perti. We did good with Perti, which they did. I think Perti's a solid in a fourth quarter back. I don't think he's like amazing, super, super talented, but he makes all the throws. He makes all the right reads. Cedric Wilson Jr. and does exactly what they need him to do on that offense to get the dub. 10 or one out of 10. Yeah, you just gave up on that dude so fast though, which is sad. Like I said, teams just don't want to wait anymore. They don't want to give time to their quarterbacks to develop. Plain tune. All right, school birds, baby. Josh Downs, no name. Sal Scarner, Tyler Scott, Desmond Ritter, Marvin Mims, Legends, Pickens, out of 50. That's the one thing, Damian. I'm not saying I called this, but I once said, man, if he starts racking up injuries and he has been the last few years, he's going to be so injury-prone and I don't know, man. I just, I don't trust the dude. Hey, DeVon, hey, Chan, and there you go. Is that all the autographs? I feel like it was, right? Or did we get shorter than that? I feel like we got shorter than an autograph. I'll have to double check again. That's one, two, three, four, five. Yeah, we got shorter than that. Let me double check. I didn't miss anything. Unless I put it in a different stack. I'll double check those base stack right now. I'll just put it back over there, but it looks like we might have been shorter one autograph. Which, with Pinini, I mean, it does happen a little bit more often than Tops, but there is a slight chance that that extra auto is hiding in another box in this case. Yeah, man. Joe Burrow, the last three seasons already, just hasn't been able to stay healthy, start, have a full, like, training camp, being healthy. See if we missed anything. Maybe I might have missed something. I missed a Dolphin Cade review, so it's good in my life. All right, guys, we might have been shorter, like I said, man, unfortunately. This is kind of like a pattern. It's going to be where all the inserts are at. Unfortunately, I'm not seeing anything. Well, I think we might have got shorter, guys, but like I said, I mean, it could still be hiding in another box, unfortunately, but no downtowns, though. So, I mean, definitely can still have some nice stuff in the remaining boxes, but we pulled some cool autographs in here, though. Don't get me wrong. Addison, Charbonne, Zave Flowers, DTR, a little Tyreek, so not too shabby, guys. Thank you guys so much. I can't remember all card ships, so you'll get everything here, guys. A ton of cards I sleeved up, guys. Some of them might stay sleeved. Obviously, I have the numbered cards to be top-loaded, but I just wanted to protect some of these rookies since it's a new release. Thank you, guys. Number two is coming up next shortly, guys.


I have a construction update for you guys. This was filmed yesterday January 15th But I like to post things for the patreons to see in a little more in-depth And then I'll upload a video the next day So I am doing daily drone updates as long as it permits my drone to fly But for my drone, it's really hard for it not to fly it can handle a lot of winds and it can handle extreme cold And it can even handle a little bit of snow. So it'll be very rare that I don't fly So again, if something crazy is happening at Wonderland the video will go up I'm not gonna withhold that information, but as you can see my buster is continuing its double down in quotations Work it is looking like it might not be that Big of a retract so I am gonna say take that with a grain of salt because it is hard to see right now with the snow I will say But it looks like they're just doing the rails and not the wood I haven't seen any evidence of ripping up the wood after removing the rails But again, I don't work on these wooden coasters and that could come next week So but as of right now, they are just lifting up the rails themselves And not the wood, but I would assume that woodwork should take place So I'll have to see but speaking of woodwork As you can see metal fencing posts were arriving and you'll see later on in the video them actually drilling holes for it So they are moving really fast at front gate. So I can tell you that I know the entire layout now. I can Whip it up for you guys. I'll probably do that for the podcast whip up a drawing and show you exactly where and what things are going And yeah, it's definitely really cool I'm not sure how it's gonna work yet in terms of guest flow exiting the park I would assume that maybe the left and right side will turn into those exit points But yeah, as you can see there steel framing has arrived for the store To start going up and they are clearing out the area and a lot of foreman are there getting ready to start a lot of work So again, the logo is still up and that is something I'm keeping a close eye on because in my opinion the logo Will tell us everything about how large of a run of this is I will say though This company needs to start work on this coaster Starting very soon. So they are running at a time I would say that, you know, we should start seeing signs of our 2025 coaster construction by March and April the absolute latest I mean Cedar Fair must be really pushing it with these projects. There was some drilling going on on the road Behind Wild Beast, so as you can see here, they're drilling some holes right along the road edge So I don't think it's connected to Wild Beast But I just wanted to talk about it because I felt like it So I saw them drawing holes, so I just wanted to throw in the video right now It means absolutely nothing. So don't jump to any conclusions about Wild Beast It looks close to the structure, but it is a lot farther away for it to be anything important then you realize But yeah, here's some shots. Moosehorn Falls is still continuing work with its utilities, but as you can see there They are just reburying and they repaved a lot of weird activity going on with International Showplace and the arcade where they do Santa's pics as well people coming in and out of them And it's not Wonderland workers. They are what do you call them? What's the word? Trades people. So trades people were going in and out of these buildings So either they're getting renovated on the inside or again, they're getting gutted for what's to come in the area So we'll definitely be keeping an eye on that But yeah, really exciting. So as you can see there, they're drilling the holes for the woodposts. So Construction is just gonna be really high-pace at Wonderland for the next couple months and leading into 2025 So lots to cover. Thank you so much for watching this construction update again Head on over to our patreon if you want to support the channel and get your daily dose of high-quality pictures and information and monthly Newsletters. Thanks so much guys. Have a good one. Bye