Hi everyone, Joe for jaskiescasebreaks.com coming at you with a half case break of 2022 Panini certified football. Pick your team number 13, kind of a spooky number on Halloween, Monday the 31st. Hopefully everyone's having fun staying safe out there. Big thanks to this group for making it happen. We had a filler for the filler and then a team random. So big thanks to everybody there who made that happen. And then thanks to the people who bought their spots straight up. Kevin with the bangles got the bangles last spot mojo. They're not looking good tonight. I guess losing Jamar Chase was a bigger, bigger deal than I may have originally anticipated. I did go Cleveland plus three though. I didn't think they were going to win. All right. Um, sort of an awkward case here. I guess I'll just open it from here. I think everyone can see on this camera. Eight on that stack right here and eight. The other side only has six. Second half side will be eight right there. Can't have this thermonuclear detonator just rolling around all over the place. It's dangerous. All right. I guess we'll use use that red dye right there and we'll go one, two, three for this left stack and four, five, six on the right side and it's six, one, two, three, four, five, six. So this we will save for next time. And we'll put just X's on there. So you know, they're all from the same case. See X is right there. X is on the boxes right here. And the next half is in the store. Jaspy's case breaks.com. No filler yet is what we'll do here. Just gonna see four on the left side, four on the right side to bake a total of eight. Eight box. Pick your team number 13. Good luck, everybody. We're looking for two autographs, two memorabilia cards per box on average. Now, we did not get a chance to talk about all the games on Sunday. I guess I'll start with my team, the Raiders. Bad. Lost the same 24 to nothing. They even put like Jared Stidham in for like, what, a quarter, quarter, quarter and a half, something like that. It is how bad it was getting. Nothing was working. And the defense just was just non-existent. Alan Camaro was just running around all over the place like, hey, cover that guy. That guy's pretty good. I think they even lost him in some, at least a handful of plays. They just forgot that he existed. So it's pretty bad. Does McDaniel last the season? Yes, I think so. I mean, I think you just have to give him the benefit of the doubt. If he had maybe lost the locker room, I think that might be different. I don't think he's lost the locker room. I think this is a collective failure by everybody. And if you fire McDaniel, who are you going to get? It's not like that change to your interim offensive coordinator is going to do any good. So yeah, no, it's not that. It's just the offensive line is bad. The defense isn't good enough. And those are two big issues that everyone, including myself, was clamoring for all off-season long. Fix the offensive line, just do what you can to improve on the defense. And both of those things, I guess they try to sign Chandler Jones, but he's been an empty uniform. I guess they tried to a certain extent, but it just wasn't enough. They just didn't make the move. It's the offensive line, especially. You know, there's a Tyron David Price. That's for the Niners. That'll be for Jerry.  He's a solid QB, but he needs... He's a great guy. Nice autograph. 10 out of 60. The Raider Special team's really good, though. But like, they got a... That's an issue they did not address. Derek Carr, like most average quarterbacks, needs a good offensive line to really be effective. Good offensive line could make him a top 10 quarterback. But it's not like he can... I mean, I guess it's for most quarterbacks. Most quarterbacks who are doing really well probably have the benefit of a good offensive line, but that's something that the Raiders did not really adjust to. I guess there are some who can make the most of a bad offensive line, but... I mean, look at the Eagles offensive line and look at the strides that Jalen Hertz has made. There's Garrett Wilson, Jersey and autographed freshman fabric, 230 out of 249. Gotta go to Brandon and the Jets. Tristan Ebbner to 199. So I don't know what's gonna happen. I think Raiders should just be sellers, try to trade as much as possible before the deadline. Tomorrow, accumulate some draft picks, grind out the season, go from there. There's another one for the Niners. Yeah, Wilquan Smith to the Ravens. That was the big news of the morning. Here's to Mark Chase to 149. Montreux, Washington, 149. Yeah, Terry, they'll be fine. I don't think so. I don't think they're gonna have a winning record, not close to it. Mike Gems has suspended refining with another player. Adam's basically made a crime on innocent bystander. What's your point, Gilo? Gilo's a Chiefs fan, so obviously he's biased. What happened with Mike Evans is that that was an on-field incident. So instead of hating all my Raiders, Devonte Adams, I think there's gonna be a criminal case, so I think the NFL's waiting for that to happen first. What happened with Mike Evans was not going to be a criminal case. So that's why the NFL exacted punishment. Nuance, Gilo. Subtlety. Nuance. There's a difference. You think Kaderi's Tony will do, well actually, Gilo's our resident Chiefs reporter, Chiefs insider. What do you think, Gilo? I think that was a great pickup, by the way, by the Kansas City. I don't know if he was quite healthy, to be honest with you, and really not terribly favored by the two different Giants coaching staff. So one that drafted him, and then the incoming one. But I think in college, I want to say that he was a big playmaker in college. But there was no outside legal incidents right there, Gilo. It wasn't something that was going to be punishable by your DA. So that's where the NFL steps in. So I think in a case like Devonte Adams pushing that photographer, I think there's gonna be, there is charges filed against him. So I think that's a case where the NFL waits until that part of it is sorted out. And I'm sure they'll settle for some undisclosed amount of money, and then I'm sure he'll get suspended by the NFL after that. It's Kieran Williams to 149. And there is Max Crosby taking it to the max, 36 out of 50. You've been doing a pretty good, but he's not getting any help from anybody else, Chandler Jones. Then he's going to be double teamed and neutralized like he was in the Saints game, if it's more comfortable being a 180.  And I'm sure they did. I mean, I think that Devonte Adams is not a bad pig. It's fine. There's Mack Jones who looked all right in the win. I don't mind that, but they just didn't have the offensive line to really take advantage of all the new offensive weapons. 5 out of 75, Marius Andrews, Carmen Curle. Commanders, Jeffrey. So Steve Burge, what sucks? It's for Jeffrey. Tony. Canaries Tony Gilo has some high hopes for. Just a little approval. Josh Jacobs is doing well. So 149. But even he was neutralized a little bit with the offensive line regressing as it has. There's a 199. Dallas Goddard. That's for the Eagles. Adam Cuperman with the fly Eagles fly undefeated. They're doing fine. Not too many weaknesses on that Eagles team. There's Micah Parsons to 199. Oh, the guy suspended for, I see what you're saying. Guy suspended for the vacuum.  Little slow. Little slow today. Three color patch and autograph. Amod Sauce Gardener, 005 out of 249. That's going to be for Brandon with the Jets. Here is Malik Willis with a W in his first start. Maybe the Texans, 17 to 10. He didn't have to do much though. Malik Willis went six for 10 passing 55 yards, one interception. Ran the ball a handful of times for 12 yards. But when Derek Henry can carry the ball 32 times and rush for 219 yards, the quarterback doesn't have to do much. I feel like I could have been out there to hand the ball off to Derek Henry. Next box. What are some other games from yesterday that stood out to you ladies and gentlemen? Broncos came back to be the Jaguars in England. That Falcons Panthers game was a lot more competitive than I thought. Falcons beating the Panthers 37 to 34. DJ Moore getting called for that celebration penalty, which pushed back the extra point which Eddie Pinheiro missed. He missed another one and missed another field goal over time. But that should have been game over. That big game winning touchdown, plus to tie the game, the extra point to take the lead, it should have been easy. Alas, no. Now this celebration punishment, I think drives me crazy because it must be collectively bargained. Because when the defense gets an interception or picks up a fumble, the whole defense is basically allowed to run to the end zone and mug in front of the camera and all that stuff. But what, individual DJ Moore who's not getting too many TDs in this season, that guy celebrates. And what, they get penalized for it? It's Kenneth Walker, jersey and autographed, 349 out of 349. That's for the Seahawks. That's going to go to Brett. Kenny Pickett right here, rookie card. Justin Fields to 149. I mean, if they're going to trade away a couple of their best defensive players and not give this guy any weapons, why not just shut him down? Why not just say, hey, we don't want you to get injured.  We're going to tank. We're going to get used as many picks as possible to help his offensive line. It's Chris Olave to 249, piece of his jersey for the Saints, Brandon. Why, why risk injuring Justin Fields? It's Chris Olave to 149. He took off his, yeah, I understand what the penalty is, Steve Burch. But defensive players can run half the length of the field and pose in front of the camera and do all that sort of stuff.  It's Paul Warfield, Hall of Famer, 48, 49 out of 50, going to the Dolphins. That'll be for Adam, the Dolphins.  Oh, no, they blew the whistle. There's Johan Dotson, new generation relic, 147 to 249, Jeffrey with that one. Yeah, Tyra Kill throwing peace signs and I don't know, just seems a little odd. Cowboys Dust of the Bears, 49 to 29. Dolphins beat the Lions, 31 to 27. Vikings beat the Cardinals, 34 to 26. Here's Christian McCaffrey to 199. Niners cruised against the Rams. Christian McCaffrey had a nice eighth throwing for a touchdown too. Yeah, Bill was saying earlier just how bad Zach Wilson is. I feel like the Patriots always kind of has the number of the Jets though. But yeah, three interceptions, not good. But Jets are still five and three. Eagles cruised 35 to 13. They've been having some trouble with not winning the second half and looks like that's something that they address at least, at least for now. They've usually been not very good the second half. Maybe they take the foot off the gas. I don't know what it is, but this time they outscored the Steelers 14 to three in the second half. Yeah, Adam saying maybe that, oh yeah, a little roughing the passer call late in the first half changed that momentum. Nullified pick six that would have made it 17-3. Yeah, maybe if you look under the hood, perhaps it wasn't that bad. Commanders, edging out the Colt 17 to 16. Yeah, Niners were in control pretty much the entire way, I want to say. Definitely the second half. Actually, the Rams are up 14 to 10 by the end of the first half. It's one of those rare losses where McVeigh, when McVeigh leads at half, at the half, he has an incredible winning percentage, like 80% or something like that. Maybe more. But not this time. They didn't score another point in that second half. That Christian McCaffrey line, one for one and passing 34 yards in a touchdown. 18 carries for 94 yards in a touchdown and eight receptions for 55 yards in a touchdown.  There's Tyree Kill, 275 deuces. There's Nacoby Dean to 399. And we've got a Mark Brinnell autograph. Old school Jaguar? Yes. 44 out of 45 mirror signatures for the Jags. That's for Jared, Jared Oh, and the Jaguars. See how to beat the Jaguar 27 to 13. When's the other shoe going to drop? For Gino Spith, he's looking pretty good. And Bill's, we're pretty much in control, 27 to 17 over the Packers. Although the Packers, for what it's worth, covered if you had an up plus 10 and a half. Romeo Dobbs to 349, speaking of the Packers. Adam with Green Bay. I think there might be some, I think it might be some record, right? Where I think it must be, there's Mondale Robinson, 170 out of 149. I don't think Aaron Rodgers, this is what a four game losing streak for the Packers. Has that ever happened to him? I don't think that's maybe happened. Maybe not since his rookie year, maybe. All right. Giants, that's going to be for Brandon with the Mondale Robinson. Gino feels bad for Rodgers? I don't. I mean, he kind of put that team in that situation. Right?  Although I don't know why Packers don't why they haven't drafted for Aaron Rodgers. What's a weird situation out there? I can't put my finger on it. There's that Jared and the Texans. Not the Texans straight up. All right. We are halfway through this break. Got about another 20, 25 minutes to go. I'm trying to think if there's any other games that kind of jumped out at me. But I think that was it. Am I missing anything? My Adam Cuperman's Jets. Who are they facing next? Uh-oh. The Bills. They're hosting the Bills. Oh, and then back to New England. It's a tough stretch for them. I don't think they're being in the Bills. But yeah. I was going to say, don't ask who they play next. Add New England. I know. Add New England is pretty tough. The time to beat New England was when they were hosting them. So the Jets are at five wins. So let's say they don't beat them. Let's say they don't win the next two games. Although many given Sunday. Who knows? Um, Bears. That's six wins. Man. At Minnesota. Then at Buffalo again. Jeez. But then Detroit. That's seven. Jacksonville. That's eight. And then at Seattle. At Miami. To close the season. It's tough. There's Mack Jones at 349. There's Amirwa. At this point, I feel like the Raiders should just trade Josh Jacobs tomorrow. Get as many picks as possible. Just keep working to Amirwa. Anyway, that goes to the Raiders, Jeffrey. I don't mind the loss. Losses happen. As a Raiders fan, you get used to the losses. But like how you're losing, that's really the, that's really the difficult part.  That's given up a, what, almost 30 points a game and for the Raiders score zero points when that's supposed to be their strong suit? Well, I'm not quitting. I'm just saying let's, let's improve for next season. You know, like it just, it just doesn't make logical sense just to be stubborn and hold on to assets that, you know, that could just walk at free agency. There's Matt Corral for the Panthers. That'll be for Adam. Like it doesn't make sense. It would, it would almost be negligence. It's 12 out of 30. It's Greg Newsom. And with the trade deadline tomorrow, it's full out with the Browns. Like you're going to be buyers or sellers. And I think the worst thing to do is to just kind of sit in the middle and not do anything. 20 out of 50. Sky more. Reach for the sky. That'll be Jared and the Chiefs. There's a snake in my boot. All right, another box. You know who aren't quitters? Like firemen, right? But even they, at some point, will have to say we're not going to continue sending, you know, like firemen and women into a building that's no longer safe, right? That's not quitting. Protecting your people from dangerous situations. I mean, for them, it's life and death. Football is just a game. But you know, you want to live to fight another day. We've got certified stunners, Jonathan Taylor. Just say possibly a short train here. This will go to the Colts, Adam. Matthew Stafford to 199. Got CD Land to 149. And Marion Barber. Mirror signatures for the cowboy. That's going to go to Jared. And Dallas. That's a 1999 Prince. Got a strong hit here. Pierre Strong Jr. 134 at 399. Karen and her Patriots. Ooh, the hit parades sold out. The fillers too. Don't forget about the fillers, ladies and gentlemen. People always get excited about break selling out. Possibly might be giving away spots in a different break.  It's Desmond Ritter, rookie Jersey and autograph 66 out of 249. Is Desmond Ritter our only QB that is not only rookie QB that's not made a start, right? Pickets made starts. Zappy has made starts. Malik Will has got his first start. I'm sure I'm forgetting someone. I don't think Desmond Ritter. That's her Adam and the Falcons. Got Alex Leatherwood. Mirror signatures. 10 out of 10. Feel like they should have just kept Alex Leatherwood.  I know that was the pick itself was a reach, but I mean that's a moot point now. Probably would have been a second or third round pick anyway. Still could have been the same situation, but Tray McBride 349. The guy in Washington, Sam Howell. Is he still on the team? And I know Matt Corral on the Panthers. I think he's on season long IR. This is for Adam and the Cardinals. I wonder if he's not healthy because Taylor Heineke got the start. He must be backing up Carson Wentz. So maybe he's on a practice squad. I guess the qualifier is QBs that are still on the active roster. Have they all gotten a start? Except for Desmond Ritter. Although Marriota has been playing some good football lately. So I don't know if that's short of injury. I don't know if that's going to... Marriota 20 for 28. Former Raiders backup QB 20 for 28, 253 yards, three touchdowns, couple interceptions, took a couple sacks. A lot of Raiders fans were like, yeah, but wish we would have kept Marriota. And it's like, I don't know. I think Marriota, especially with his injury history, would have been on the IR by now. All right, next box. We got John Mechie to 399. This is for the Texans. That'll be for Jared. Not sure what Rich Corinthian Leatherwood is. Is that a type of leather, perhaps? I don't know my leather. There is mirror signatures. Dan Arnold, 4 out of 35. That'll be for Jared and the Jags. Mr. Mark Chase to 249. Mark Andrews to 275. And a redemption. Any guesses on that redemption? For bragging rights? There's James Cook, Dalvin's brother to 275. Velas Jones Jr. 29 out of 249.  Going to the Bears. That'll be for Adam. Attended deep callback to Ricardo Montalban commercials for cars with Rich Corinthian Leather. That's a deep cut, Mike Tower. Was that a national commercial? If it's a local commercial, then you're really digging deep on this program, which is more of a national show. Plenty of our Joshua Dobbs in the year that he was drafted. We can dig up some of the old product and find someone there. But I don't know if the demand for our Joshua Dobbs is as big in 2022 products. Not well known enough. Good try though. All right. No guesses on the redemption? Oh, Terry's guessing Drake London. If it's a Drake London, guess when those clothes. But if it's Drake London, I'll give you $5 of break credit. No, not. It's Jameson Williams, freshman fabric mirror signatures pink. That's for Detroit. That's going to go to Brandon. Fumbling the post in no time. All right. Final box. Good luck. I sure did, Mike. I got myself five Powerball tickets. Quick pick. They're announcing winners. When are they announcing winners soon? I usually check the next morning. Because if I win, I mean, I wouldn't be able to sleep. And I like sleep, so attach some of that. Right, right. There'll be no, there'll be no, there'll be no animals next to that lottery. Take that for sure. There's DJ Moore, 20 out of 35. I mean, yeah, Steve Birch is earlier. Right. It's a silly rule, but the rules are the rules. DJ Moore and his buddy Eddie Pinheiro, Adam, and the whatever happened to tattoo. Jonathan's asking. I'm not sure what that means. Devonte Adams to 75. And there is to 25. Seal of approval. That is Tyree Kill. Hervé Villachais? I have no idea who that person is. There's nine out of 15, Sam Williams. It was Jared with the Cowboys. Oh, he was on Fantasy Island with Ricardo Motelabon. There's Micah Hyde, certified gamers rally to 199. It's Fouad in the Bills, Buffalo. It's Kyle Pitts to 275. To 249, AJ Brown. And there's Johan Dotson, freshman fabric, three-color patch and autograph, 101 out of 199. And that'll be for Jeffrey and the Commanders. There's Danny Gray to 325. Oh, I remember that. I remember the man with the golden gun. That was with the guy in the dead zone. All right. Here's your recap, ladies and gentlemen. Second half in the store. So check it out. Pick your teams, jaskyscasebrakes.com. And no filler yet on the other side. So grab your teams before they disappear. And again, that was Pick Your Team 13, certified football. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next football break. Bye-bye.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com with a brand new release. We got 2019 Panini flawless football 2 box Pick your team number 8 from jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you big. Thanks to All of these folks for getting into the action right here on the 8th Break number 8 just a few number block teams in this one About last spot mojo in this few number block teams in this one And the next one is almost sold out boys and girls We just need to do a few number blocks which are in the in various stages of selling out So go to jaspyscasebrakes.com and check it out. I think it was Nick the Giants And here are the results of the number block which I uploaded in a separate video Keep this right here that I really was at a lie and here is the fresh case right here. What treasures could this hold? Look at this stuff Isn't it neat? Wouldn't you think my flawless collections complete? Wouldn't you think I'm the Joe? Joe has everything Both briefcases right here Good luck. The wonders can one briefcase hold We'll do the slider box first. I'm trying not to look at the hits Slider box first and then we'll do the gem cards and then the hit in the middle is generally the the autograph Blockchain cards which are redemptions will be going by Checklists on that unless it's a number block team and it's DK Metcalf rookie gem as signatures That will be for Nick L Nicholas L and the Seahawks. I don't know. Well, here's the Here is the the extensive Detailed blockchain about page by Panini in the chat ladies and gentlemen But yeah, they're carrying forward the legacy of Panini collectibles into a digital era Apparently Nini is leveraging Is leveraging the innovative technology of blockchain and providing users with the highest degree of legitimacy for the digital collectibles They own and proof of ownership They've got that about a page. We really actually should dig into that They've got info on what is the blockchain? What does digital card on a blockchain mean? Will the value of my card rise and fall like Bitcoin did? Blah blah blah blah blah blah, so there's a lot of interesting things there. Well, we'll learn more about it a little bit later All right, Jared stittum 3 out of 15 nice patch there for Jeremy Tillman Dual relic 17 out of 25 Kurt Warner Kyler Murray the past and now the present Parker with the Arizona football Cardinals I like these shadow signatures that are coming in shadow signature coming out. I like the way these look this year 13 out of 25 little dent there at the bottom. I'm not a fan of that rookie shadow signatures Irv Smith jr. I blame Irv Smith on that maybe who is mishandling these cards serenity with the Vikings We got Brett Kaisel 12 out of 15 for the Steelers that's gonna go to Michael Goluchy and his Steelers Dual relic and autograph Sam Darnold one out of 15 Inscribed his number in there as well for Wayne and the J ETS jets jets jets There's all this extra plastic dust caught in these top loaders Not a fan of that ultra pro All right, there you go nice clean top loader for Wayne and the Jets Oh mild sanders 9 out of 15 sapphire That's pretty sweet that autograph goes to Monty and the fly Eagles fly When look at this one coming up Dual relic and autograph 11 out of 20 That's AJ Brown for EA and the Titans Well Jersey number as well look at that EA Inscribed and on his jersey and on the serial number Again, I've said this before I'll say it again for a two-letter autograph Pretty good penmanship for a two-letter auto Nice one EA AJ Brown some big numbers for AJ Brown last year Okay Oh the gem is in the middle this time All right, so let's do the right side for or let's do the gem first in the middle It's Ezekiel Elliott five out of seven diamond Shining bright like a diamond for the Cowboys SKS on the right side is a dual relic In case dual relic nine out of 20 Pat Mahomes Mahomes and Tyreek Hill Super Bowl champs right here and the autograph on this side Is gonna be Daniel Jones. I remember this Flawless finishes six out of 15 When Daniel Jones ran it in for the touchdown his first career start Nice Nicholas L last spot mojo There you go naturally mine not lab grown. All right next briefcase Debo Samuel Flawless laundry tags. I'm assuming this is a train whistle Richard Diaz With the Niners Nice, there you go Richard all aboard the big hit Express Dual relic James Conner Benny Snell Jr. For the Steelers eight out of 20 for Michael We got a triple relic here all rookie quarterbacks Daniel Jones Dwayne Haskins and Kyler Murray 11 out of 20 That'll be a randomizer between the Giants Nicholas The Redskins Dejork and the Cardinals Parker Set that aside there Dual relic an autograph Austin Eckler. He got paid nine out of 25 Erickson Sala With the Eckler I'm enjoying these star swatches right here. There's Nick Chubb five out of five star swatch Signatures, you know slightly thicker top loader here that'll go to Matthew Matthew S and the Browns Matt All aboard the big hit Express 11 out of 20 distinguished jersey and auto Steve Largent Steve Largent Seattle Seahawks Nicholas L I think one of the One of the best receivers out there of his time It was a first ballot Hall of Famer I think he probably held a lot of records by the time he retired There's Reggie Wayne another pass good pass catcher here eight out of 10 Colts William and for the Bears 10 out of 15 Mitchell Trebisky It might be make or break for him this year He's got to fight Nick foals for a job Matt Johnston Who has the Bears? I'll do the autograph last. Oh, oh, oh What do I do for all right? So there's seven out of seven Aaron Rodgers diamond Nice That'll be for Charles and the Packers. I'm actually gonna do the auto first And it's record breakers Jerry Rice I like the gold record behind him too eight out of 10 He puts his pants on one leg at a time ladies and gentlemen Then when he's on the field he breaks records Jerry Rice auto going to Richard Diaz and the last card Is an NFL shield One of one Lamar Jackson Nice action Jackson for Aaron Billingsley And the purple birds the Ravens All aboard the big hit express That is nice Is that her second Lamar shield in three weeks Jason saying All we do is hit shields at Jaspies apparently All right rando time New York Giants Washington and Arizona Let's roll it. Let's randomize it six into two eight times team on top gets it after eight. Good luck one two three four five six seven And eighth and final time after eight times the Washington Redskins will get that triple relic That's Dijort Redskins 11 out of 20 And there you go and there you have it. Thanks for watching everybody. I'm Joe for jaspiescasebreaks.com That was pick your team eight more in the store. Check it out and I'll break more with you next time. Bye. Bye


When we talk about carbon emissions, we often focus on things that have a really obvious impact, like flying less, planting trees, switching to renewable energy. These are great solutions, of course, but sometimes we forget about the more hidden impacts that we also need to address. Every product we buy has to be manufactured, mined, grown, or harvested, processes that all produce greenhouse gases and other environmental damage. This is especially true for electronics. In fact, for a device like a smartphone, around 80% of its total carbon footprint is emitted before it's switched on for the first time. Here at the Restart Project, we believe it's really important to keep our gadgets going for as long as possible by repairing them when they break. We're part of a global community of people who run local repair events. So we wanted to learn more about the hidden impacts of our everyday gadgets and work out the most common reasons they break. Knowing this, we could make a stronger argument for laws that make repairing our stuff easier and more affordable. Our first step was to put out a call to our community to drive the investigation. Together, we scoured the internet for data that could tell us about the carbon impacts of common products that repair events like laptops or toasters. We soon found that the best sources for this information were life cycle assessment reports. Manufacturers and academics and consultancy firms use these reports to measure the environmental impacts of products, including how much greenhouse gas is produced at each stage of a product's life. But finding these reports wasn't easy. Many manufacturers simply don't produce them, especially for common household products like toasters and kettles. Some companies do collect this information, but only a small number actually make them available to the public. Despite these challenges, we analysed data on nearly 500 products. We found that it's not just smartphones. For most devices we see at community repair events, the biggest impact occurs before the device is switched on for the first time. That's because for many products, extracting raw materials and manufacturing are very carbon intensive processes. But this data is even more powerful. Let's look at a medium sized laptop, the most common device we see at repair events. We found data for about 64 models of these laptops from Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Microsoft, and learned that an average laptop of this size represents a lot of CO2, about 260kg before it's ever used. That's the equivalent of a flight from London to Berlin, and around 81% of the total CO2 each device produces over its entire life. What's even wilder is that for most of these laptops, the manufacturer assumed a lifespan of just four years. By replacing these laptops so often, the emissions start to add up really quickly. Instead, if we use the device for longer, the lower the CO2 impact will be over time in comparison. But this isn't easy. Many manufacturers are currently making repair more difficult. This is why we need the right to repair. Right now, the EU is considering new measures that could affect how some of our gadgets are designed in the future. This could be a chance to make our devices easier and cheaper to repair. But to get it right, policy makers first need to understand why our devices break in the first place. For years, our community and partners in the Open Repair Alliance have been collecting information about broken devices that people have tried to fix at local repair events around the world, like restart parties or repair cafes. Between us, we have notes on nearly 50,000 broken items. We wanted to see what this real world data can tell us about why devices break. This information could be valuable to policy makers and provide balance to the data that manufacturers themselves provide. So, we designed a series of three quests that anyone could try. The three quests focus on different families of devices that the EU will focus on. We started with printers, then moved on to tablets and e-readers, before switching to the batteries that power so many of our gadgets. In total, over 300 people submitted over 6,500 opinions about 2,000 devices. Thanks to this amazing community effort and support from Action, we now know more about why these products break, which helps us understand what could make them easier to repair. We're now sharing all this rich data, first through our Repair Carbon Calculator, the Fixometer. This is our online tool that lets community groups estimate the amount of CO2 they save by helping people repair things. Our new data will improve the accuracy of our tool and help communities around the world better understand the embodied impacts of the products that we see at our events. We've also begun sharing what we learned from our quests with policy makers and our allies in the European Right to Repair campaign. This type of data is already helping us make powerful arguments for making spare parts more available and repair friendly design. The feedback from citizen scientists who joined us was very valuable and helped us understand we need to continue to improve the quality of the data we collect. In the meantime, we're publishing all of our data so anyone can use it. So a big thank you to our community, partners and everyone who took part. This was only possible with your help. We also couldn't have done it without the support of Action who funded this work and whose advice was invaluable. If you'd like to learn more about our work, visit us at Therese.project.org.


All right, I used to be a Microsoft guy, and then I was declared clinically dead, and then after a miraculous revival and an unexpected recovery, I had a clean slate, I had a second chance of life, and now I'm a Linux and Drupal guy, any question? No, I have some questions, I have some questions, why, you know, how did I end up on my deathbed in Thailand, and was it my fault or was it out of my control, and why was I only able to communicate by wiggling my toes, and what was I communicating, and are there any habits or actions or mindsets that we can take to better ourselves in the face of adversity, and you know, if I could be anything, what would I be and why, and why do my Bluetooth headphones never connect when I need them to? So, I am Dallas Ramson, and I'm grateful to be with you today, this is a story about my recovery, rebuilding my life after an accident on a train in Thailand shattered my skull to pieces, and I had to adapt to fundamental changes in my life, I had to relearn how to walk, I had to relearn how to talk, and this is a story about resilience and about perseverance, and it's a story about letting go, it's a story about smiling again, and it's actually a story that starts here in Sydney 20 years ago, and it's a decision to travel to Thailand was made at the Trails Cafe at the YHA Youth Hostel up by the Harbor Bridge at the Rocks, so 20 years ago, so just a word of caution, this is a story of deeply personal journey, and it's some heavy topics will be talked about, and some medical situations will be involved, and so if you feel uneasy at any point, feel free to leave if you need to. Alright, so 2004 I was a university exchange student at Newcastle University, north of here, and I immediately fell in love with Australia, I love the culture, I love the people, I love the food, and I strategically scheduled my classes so I could have light classes on Monday and Friday so that I could travel as much as I could responsibly, not missing too much school. The guy that I traveled with was also an international student, Andy Bale, he and I traveled a lot in Australia, we decided to travel to Thailand together, fellow Yankee from the US as well. This is the day before we flew in, we flew into Thailand and rode the tuk-tuk around, and then the next day we were catching our 13 hour train ride from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, the very next day, and it was a nice trip, I packed my luggage, I packed my guitar, and I was reading a book, conversing with strangers and that's all I remember, that's all I remember of the trip. About halfway through the journey, I was found unconscious, the upper half of my body was hanging out the train window and my skull was shattered to the point where the bones stuck up like a stegosaurus through my scalp and I was bleeding profusely, and to this day we don't know what exactly happened, there's conflicting stories. The newspaper says that there was a few of us taking photos out the window, but if that's the case then why wasn't anyone else hit. My mom says she was told that a woman standing next to me felt my arm go limp and looked down, saw that I was bleeding and went to get her boyfriend, and it could have been just me, I don't know, I don't know, and it's something I've had to come to deal with and accept that I may never know, and anyway so two, I'm bleeding badly, two university students, two medical students were found and they came in and they did first aid on me, t-shirts and towels were found and to soak up the blood because your scalp can't actually, it doesn't actually congeal, it just pours out and so they were mopping up with the blood with shirts and towels and wrapped around my head to slow the bleeding and to keep my head intact and the reality was this happened in the middle of nowhere Thailand and the train just can't stop, just can't stop and so for 45 minutes this continued until the train could, there was a spot to unload and it was a remote village and so at this remote village there was a first aid station so what they did is I put some Vaseline on my head and they wrapped my head in gauze and that's all they had available at this remote town, the village and so our tour guide Joe was his name, a native Thai person and so he was speaking the language and he was trying to get a helicopter, a medical helicopter to fly in, he was contacting commercial helicopters and he was talking to the Thailand military to get a helicopter flown in and they kept refusing because what happens is with an open head wound the changes in the air pressure are known to cause fatal seizures and so they didn't want the risk of an international tourist dying on their flight and causing an international outcry so no medical helicopters were available. So what was found was a rural, just a basic care hospital, about a 45 minute drive to a different village and so that's how I went there via passenger van, by just a van. So it was my unconscious self, I was Andy and the two university students, the medical students and myself. Let's see what other notes here, sorry there's a lot of details. So at this rural hospital, again they didn't have sufficient medical equipment to tend to my open wound but I had lost so much blood at this point that I did get a blood transfusion at this remote hospital and it was becoming more and more apparent to people taking care of me that I just was not going to make it at this hospital and again requests for helicopters were denied and so there was only one viable option and that was to take me via the same passenger van, the van unmedically equipped, back a six hour drive to Bangkok and so here we go, so now we are, I guess I was supposed to be going, oops, sorry I missed, I did the Google Meet, anyway here we go, hello. So the arrival, I did, when the van arrived to Bangkok the hospital that I was supposed to go to couldn't be found just because it's, I mean I can understand why it couldn't be found, it's a very big city, it's a very undocumented city and they dropped me off at Boomerangrad and so from the moment of impact to arrival of Boomerangrad Hospital there was 32 hours without any major medical fixes to my skull and just for context 32 hours is if we think about when this conference started at 9 a.m. yesterday from 9 a.m. till now is about 28 hours so for 32 hours I was pretty much bleeding uncontrollably and upon arrival I was declared dead and I was not in a good state and the doctors didn't want to work on me because I was in such, I was in a horrific horrific state and there was one doctor that wanted to work that was compelled to try and that's because he had studied, local Thai doctor, he had studied at the University of Wisconsin which is where I was a student and he felt compelled to try to help me and so he told my dad later that he gave me some of the most powerful drugs available and he worked on me for two hours but he was going to just give up and go to his other responsibilities and then all of a sudden he came back to life and that's why he told my dad. So at this point I'm no longer clinically dead, I'm in a coma, I'm in a coma and I'm bad but I'm also battling some serious, serious medical conditions. One is I had contracted that whatever it's called, the Pseudomonas aeruginosa meningitis which is extremely, extremely rare bacteria that comes from invasive surgeries such as blood transfusions and it's so fatal it has what's called a guarded prognosis and it's a medical term but the, so anyways I was fighting that, it's antibacterial, sorry antibiotic resistant, it's really hard to fight. I was also leaking, continuously leaking spinal fluid or brain fluid out my ears and nose, it's common in head trauma and brain swelling I was also one of the bigger battles I was going through.  The brain because of the skull it doesn't have a luxury to expand and so what happens is that pressure builds up and it keeps re-injuring the brain and it's kind of a recursion of death and it's very, it's very, very, very critical, very critical. I also had pneumonia my right lung I was having trouble breathing so I had to put some tubes down my throat to clear the airway. A few days later I woke up from my coma and by this point my family had made it over to Bangkok, they had to get emergency passports and it was not easy for my family but when I woke up from my coma the very first fuzzy memory I have is looking to my left having no idea what, I just had no idea what was happening and I looked to my left and I see them, my family crying and jumping and being happy and it's like I just, you know I thought they were, I didn't know what was going on but I waved to them and but my very first clear memory was that I really, really, really had to pee and the, again so I looked down, I was totally not aware what was happening but I see these hoses, you know these tubes in my arm, wires on my fingers, I'm going to have to go to the bathroom right, like I'm not going to pee in a stranger's bed so I just start taking them out and then I go to stand, I try to stand and I try to stand and just an indescribable dizziness like just a, just like imagine like going on a merry go round and just being thrown off that merry go round and my legs are weak and I slammed into the ground and but I had to go to the bathroom and so I started crawling and taking the IVs with me. When I was finished with the bathroom my dad had come in and helped me the rest of the way but when I was finished I went to wash my hands and I saw myself, I saw myself in the mirror for the first time and two realizations, two realizations. One is I saw myself in a hospital robe and I knew that I was the one in the hospital, I knew that this, it became clear to me that this situation was I was in the hospital and the second realization was I saw this bearded, this bearded stranger with deep dark sunk purple bruised eyes and I had a shocking scar that ran the entire length of my head down my face.  Alright a few days later like I said my family was here and I had intended to read this whole letter but the sake of time I can't but I wanted to demonstrate the fear and the uncertainty and the hope and just the encouragement that was going on but so in this letter my sister she's telling the world about how I had opened my eyes for the first time and I could follow voices, I couldn't see anything but I could follow their voices and she talks about how I could respond to people holding my hand and holding their hand tightly if I thought they were going to be leaving and she talks about how the doctor was telling us that it's going to be 18 months before they can even determine what the cause, what's the impact of my life is going to be 18 months so that's what that letter was supposed to be. Now I didn't do, I didn't recover by myself, my story went viral at the time, chain emails were a thing, remember you copied everyone in your address book and you sent that out and they did the same thing, everyone did their address book and also at the same this is the year that Facebook was launched and so this story spread across Facebook like crazy and friends blogging sites were put up and people were blogging and messaging and hundreds and hundreds of cars and strangers and friends and flowers and messages all came from across the planet, people I just didn't even know and I didn't even know this for 20 years until I told my mom that I was giving this talk and she was like oh I have all these cards. So for the first time, for the first time a couple of months ago I was reading through this, I was just absolutely in tears, I just can't believe this is the amount of support. Now one of the people that I want to talk about is Evelyn Potter, she was a friend of my grandparents, she had a second home in Vietnam and so she flew over to help my parents and look after me. So I bruised my frontal cortex and that's in control of your personality and what happened is it became extremely, actively suicidal, I was suicidal all the time and I had to be watched and I was also very aggressive so they handcuffed me to the bed so I couldn't move and quite atrocious and I didn't have any filter in my words, I just wasn't myself and so when I became too vulgar for my family and they left, Evelyn would look after me and she would distract me by doing jumping jacks and man I hate, it just became so annoyed. So I called her grandma jumping jacks just as a way to discourage her from doing jumping jacks but she embraced that role with love and compassion and she signs her letters still today with grandma jumping jacks, really fascinating person. This accident, the impact happened on the end of November, we're now into the week of Christmas or December 25th and the December 25th this year was on a Saturday and on Thursday, the Thursday before it, my family was being told because of the brain swelling and because of the leaking of the spinal fluid, I couldn't fly, I couldn't leave, I couldn't leave to go back to the hospital in Chicago, to Chicago and then a different hospital. So that was Thursday but my family was being told, hey, make plans, prepare to stay well into the new year and we have a very risky surgery scheduled on Monday, the Monday after Christmas to do a craniectomy which is what they cut the skull open or in a science you can't go too deep because it will damage the brain, you can't cut too short because you won't cut enough. That was scheduled on Monday. Now Thursday night and into Friday, somehow just a miracle happened and I recovered well enough to fly and they rushed over a medical doctor from Toronto, Canada and he was going to look after me and shepherd my family back to Chicago and it's about, I mean it's a day's trip, including layovers, probably about 26 hours flight and so we left, we left on the morning of the 25th and it was that day when we were in the air, that's when the giant tsunami, the largest earthquake that Asia has ever experienced, causing the Boxing Day tsunami which has caused the biggest natural disaster of the 21st century, so we left within hours and I don't know, I mean they say there's nine lives, right, down three or four right now, so now we get to the recovery and it was becoming more apparent, my new reality, my new reality, my life and I couldn't smell and I can't hear out my left ear probably ever because it's brain damage, it's not your, it's not your drum damage, it's brain damage and I had massive peripheral blind spots in my eyes and my eyes were always constantly swollen, I would have seizures, but the biggest recovery I guess from my perspective is I couldn't even live with those things right, but the nurse, the medical team kept asking me to walk and I would refuse, I just wasn't in the mood to walk, I thought I needed to rest my brain, I was mentally exhausted, I was physically exhausted and I just had psychological, I just couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't walk, I couldn't walk and I didn't know at the time, but if walking is a very complex motor activity that involves a lot of different parts of your brain, if you actually don't use that due to atrophy, your brain loses, it forgets how to walk and I didn't know that, I didn't know that, so anyway, so I kept saying no, no, you know, to the medical team and finally they had an intervention, they got my friends and my family and they, you know, they came and grandma would come in, mom come in, dad come in, brother, sister, I don't say no, I say no and the, then my roommate Tyler came in and he, you know, he looked me, he just looked me straight in the eye and he said, he said six words that were the most, the clearest words that I can remember from my whole recovery and he said, he said get up and walk, damn it and I did and I did and it was the hardest thing I've ever had to do and, but I had profound, had profound clarity in that moment where, I don't know what happened, I suddenly clicked, I realized that I could, I could remain a victim of my circumstances and take the, take the easy, take the easy route of not walking, just, you know, having, having, you know, hospital food delivered to me and, you know, like staying a wheelchair and, you know, like I could, I could do that or, or I could, I could actively choose to, to be relentless with progress and take the hard route of, of, of making a recovery and, and that's the route I chose and it was not easy, but those first couple of steps turned into, you know, days and, and weeks and months of, of, of physiotherapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy and I recovered quicker than most people imagined, but I, but I, I attributed it to, to my mindset, lessons in resilience and went back to uni, finished my software engineering degree and I just, I had a, I wanted to make up for lost time and so I took on, I took on another degree of business and marketing, graduated and I didn't want to take a traditional career route, I just, I just, I didn't feel, I didn't feel like I wanted that, so I took, I took the, the most physically demanding, most dangerous job that I could and that was a wire, what's called an oil field wire line engineer and we're basically in charge of taking special nuclear type equipment and putting into the earth, you know, thousands of, of meters into the earth, there's explosions and anyway, I almost, I almost had, I almost caused a, almost caused a environmental disaster and it really woke me up again and not as like I, I'm putting myself in danger, I'm putting the environment in danger, I'm putting other people in danger and I left that job and at that time there was a hurricane coming through Houston, Texas. I was, I was based on Mexico, Texas border and after some, after some soul searching, I went to help rebuild the city of Houston, Texas and while I was there, I got, you know, face to face with victims of natural disaster and I was compelled, I was compelled to build an online community where storm victims could be, could be connected to people that were willing to donate their time or donate their sofa or donate their silverware, right, I wanted them to build that community so this is a document on my LinkedIn, I'm only going to Google search, software for an online community and three came up, right and probably know what they are, Drupal, Joomla and WordPress. Because of my software engineering background, I studied the code base over a weekend, studied the code base of every single one of them and by far Drupal had the best code base and that's why, that's why I went with Drupal. Now over time, I got, you know, as I say, come for the code, stay for the community, right, like I got, I got more, I got more involved in Drupal, but so anyways, I discovered, I discovered Drupal in Houston. Life had me, it moved me back to Denver, Colorado and I felt compelled to give back. I felt, I felt like it was just a need to prove that the humanity was good and that we need, I love it, feel the power of that train. The, how are we doing on time? I need to fly through this, sorry guys. The, anyway, I was, I learned Drupal by teaching myself. I wanted to create a website, a digital experience. I was planning to walk 2,000 miles, Forest Gump style from Denver, Colorado, up to Toronto, to Ramston Park in Toronto, Canada and I was going to build just a digital experience where people could see where my journey was and they could donate or they wanted to walk with me for a certain couple kilometers or miles of good and they could join me. So that's how I started learning Drupal and that was in 2000, 2008 and since then, Drupal and I have kind of, you know, been taking, moved to Korea, moved to Boston, joined Aquia for a bit and now it also supported me in my, on moving back to New Zealand. All right, so let's, let's talk lessons of resilience. How are we doing on time? Five-ish, okay guys, sorry. So, why do we need to be resilient in the first place? Let's extract that from my, my story. Well, basically, I believe, you know, resilience is going to be crucial for us thriving in the future. Biology says, you know, it's not the strongest that survive, it's not the most, it's not the, it's not the smartest that survive but it's the most adaptable to the environment. That's the species that survives. Now, there's a couple, couple laws that are happening, right? Law of accelerator returns or related Moore's law, which means technology moves, the change of technology moves exponentially. And so it takes a long time for it to start but when it goes, it goes up. And I, you know, I think if we want to be successful in the future, we have to be resilient because change is going to, is, is happening around us right now. You know, Drupal's experience it was CK5, you know, the new symphony stuff. I mean, I don't yet change. Lessons of resilience. Okay, so I came up with four.  Make sure you have a support network and be willing to adapt to change and make sure to take care of yourself. Now, the interesting thing when I was putting this talk together, I actually realized that a lot of these lessons that I was applying to myself in my recovery actually pretty much almost one-on-one map up with the values of Drupal. Like, I just, I just couldn't believe this when I found this. And originally I was on the fence when I would include the slide, but I did the, and, and I was even more blown away when, when I was just, you know, attending some of these talks and these, these, these values of Drupal and these values of resilience kept appearing in talks. So this one we have a, you know, a gloriously labeled talk. I don't know if I've ever seen a longer talk label. So congratulations. But it, but it's exactly what it's, you know, it was great. Nice talk Griffin and Nathan. Dries, right, he gave that, he gave that example of, you know, when Jeremy Andrews and, you know, the slash dot effect and it totally crashed down the Drupal site. You know, Dries could have gave up. He could, but he had a growth mindset like, no, let's make this happen. All right. So adapt to change, right? The, in my story it's clear that I had to adapt to change. I couldn't hear. I had to really not walk. These questions will help you develop resilience, you know, what's, what's a change you're currently facing and how can you positively adapt to it? And, you know, how can you stay open and flexible when unexpected changes occur? Develop a growth mindset. You see this quite a bit. What does it actually mean? Well, it means, in my opinion, it means you believe, you trust in yourself that you can get better and you can improve yourself and you can improve the situation if you dedicate yourself to making it happen. And it's, it's, it's, it's choosing your attitude to be optimistic.  And, you know, what did you learn from a recent setback or failure? How can you view a challenge as an opportunity to grow and, and how can you approach a new challenge with curiosity? That's pretty cool. How can you, how can you approach it with curiosity rather than with fear? And then build a support network. Please, please, this is, this is in, this is kind of important, right? Make sure that you establish your mentors, reach out to friends and family, you know, and connect with them.  The, you know, who can you turn to? Make sure you, make sure you know who you can turn to. And how can you can, how can you contribute? Maintaining this, make sure you maintain your support network because it, like a plant, it'll, it'll, it'll go away if you don't water it. Importantly, I think manage, you know, make sure to take care of yourselves.  That's your physical health. That's, you know, figure out what it is you like to do, have your hobbies, right? I know COVID's really changed up a lot of people's habits.  Okay, so that kind of, kind of wraps up this, this talk takeaways are, you know, from my experience, I've learned that we need to be, you know, have a growth mindset. We need to maintain a support network, adapt to change and take care of ourselves and those map to Drupal. You know, we face a lot of changes in our community. So let's, let's, let's get up and let's walk. Thank you guys.


Nationals in September offered Bryce Harper $300 million for 10 years. So it was reported today, well that's the highest offer of any free agent ever and he turned it down. Like people were outraged that he turned it down. First of all he wasn't a free agent. He was the property of the national so it wasn't like he had 29 other teens bidding for him. He wasn't a free agent. That was less than the average annual value of the contract given to Miguel Cabrera and Dejean-Carlo Stanton. You're two weeks away from becoming a free agent where all 30 teams could bid for you. Why would you ever accept that offer? Now you can say, well, if you can't live on $300 million, that's not how these guys think. He has enough money to live now for the rest of his life if he never plays again. He made $20 million a year the last two years. So don't look at him as greedy. He played the game. Do you know that he actually went to college at 16 and put himself in a position to be drafted. This was a plan with Scott Boris all along to test a free agent market when he was 26 years old and he's going to sign a contract with the nationals for $300 million for 10 years. It doesn't make sense. No. You've got to test it. Is it a gamble? Yeah. It's a gamble if all of a sudden people go, oh, he hit $249 million. Yeah, he did hit $249 million. But he had a tremendous on base percentage and the guys are really, really good player. And there are teams out there. I think that will move heaven and earth to get him. I believe he's going to get more than 30 million per year for average annual value. And I don't believe it will be from the Yankees. Despite the fact Boris has opened up that door by saying, well, he'll play first base. Buster only, who will join us at 430, said unequivocally, about a half hour ago on Twitter, he is not signing with the Yankees under no circumstances. Yankees don't want them. So that game is not going to be played according to Buster. But to rip this guy into column greedy, this is all a chess match. Now, the Nationals are playing their version of the chess match because you know what they're saying now? We've got to know if he's going to sign. We can't because Scott Boris historically drags it all the way out to January. And the Nationals then have to keep 30 to 35 million dollars a year away from what they could spend if they wait on Bryce Harper. They've got enough in their outfield with all their young players that they can win without Bryce Harper. And I think the $300 million offer was eye-washed as David Cohen would call it to the Nationals fans. Well, look, we offered them three and he turned it down. I don't think the Nationals wanted back at that kind of number. I agree with you. They knew he was going to say no. Absolutely. And he should say no. Yeah. Has nothing to do with greed, has to do with smart. You've got to test free agency. Especially when you get that close.  But two weeks away, of course you turn it down.


In this first session, I am going to give a brief introduction on the Aakash project and Aakash on education. First of all, most of you have been conducting workshop with us, but there are at least about 100 remote centers who have registered of fresh and they have directly become Aakash workshop, Aakash project partners with IIT Bombay. They do not have the experience of running these workshops. So, very briefly in about 5 to 7 minutes, I will recapitulate the way in which these distance workshops are conducted. So, for those friends who have come here for the first time and of course, as a recapitulation to all others, I will tell you the background that we started the distance education program in IIT Bombay in the year 2000 after experimenting for a couple of years. We used VSATs for two-way communication initially and then subsequently, we switched to internet. Typhact sponsored conduct of workshops in our early days for two years. We gained experience of how to handle interaction with multiple remote centers and so on. And then we launched a plan called trend thousand teacher plan. So, under this plan, we would try to provide a two-week training to teachers of a particular chosen engineering subject and this workshop would be conducted like regular IST or QIP workshops, which you conduct for 35, 40 people. We said we will conduct it for 1000 people simultaneously. So, for this purpose, we identified remote centers such as yours and we permitted engineering college teachers from all over the country to register at one of the remote centers closest to their place or state. They would assemble at these remote centers about 35, 40, 50 teachers at one remote center. The modest opportunity of a two-week workshop was that we will deliver lectures from IIT Bombay which will be taken to all the remote centers as you have seen on the ABU. These lectures would be interactive, people could ask questions but in the afternoon the teachers who assemble at the remote center would be conducting their laboratories, tutorial sessions, etcetera, etcetera in the local remote center. So, this is a blended mode that we use, a synchronous interaction in the morning, interaction could be limited but the delivery of good lectures from the top of the rank faculty members who are available, not necessarily from IIT Bombay from anywhere else and the local conduct of the tutorials and the lab sessions which will permit exhaustive understanding by the group of people there. We did two innovative things in this to ensure that at the remote centers of tutorials and labs etcetera are conducted properly and in tune with what has been decided, we started conducting a one-week orientation program for the coordinator. So, for each workshop we would appoint a coordinator who himself or herself would be a faculty member in that subject and we call all of them here, we try to understand from them what is the syllabus in that particular course, what are the question papers that are asked to the students and then collectively with our faculty core faculty for the workshop will decide what would be the syllabus for this training course. So, that the workshop that is conducted is meaningful to the teachers, we try to get a blend of two things, one what is needed in the local places to teach that particular subject and two what we believe are the best practices in IIT and similar systems so that they could also be incorporated. At the end of one week the coordinators went back and then spent time in setting up the labs etcetera which have been agreed upon and on this side the faculty members will prepare the course material according. About a month or two months later the actual two week workshop will happen for which registration will take place, people will assemble at your remote centers and as I said lectures will be given from here. Now all the lectures are recorded including interaction, all these video recorded lectures are released in open source they are available freely for anyone not only your teachers who participate but the other teachers students everybody open source is open source. Additionally we introduced one more innovation that the teachers who assemble at these workshops at each remote center we form them into teams of three, four, five people each and we say that each team should work for two more weeks at the end of the workshop and prepare some contribution to the knowledge in that sense. So, it could be a set of question bank, it could be a lecture, it could be a video recording, it could be a project idea whatever that group feels. These submissions have to be given in the course model which we use extensively and it is accessible to all of us. So, the local workshop coordinators then confirms that all the teams from his or her remote center have submitted those assignments, only after those assignments are submitted the certificates are given for participants. So, there is a this is a rigorous program, there is not a conventional two week workshop where you just go attend of course, learn something and come back but here you are expected to contribute back, this is the theme of the workshop. We started with a few centers, we actually started with four centers in 2000, I do not know whether those people are here, VRC in Akpur is here, somebody from VRC in Akpur is here, that was one of the first remote centers. JSITS Indore was another, I think Nandhe was one, the three or four centers with Vsats, then we switched over to internet and we started using AVU system which is developed by Amruta University. And then we started increasing the number of remote center. So, we started this program in 2009 and up to May 2012, we had trained about 9400 teachers in ten workshops. IST president told me that to train so many teachers, they would have to conduct more than 500 workshops. So, that is the advantage of this process, the feedback that we received was very good. And then MHRD asked us whether we can scale this up. Because as you all know, there are 4,000 engineering colleges and the number of engineering college teachers is humongously large. So, even with 1,000 teacher at a time, remember we trained them only in one subject at a time and each teacher as you know in your place would be teaching at least two or three subjects. Very rarely, you have the luxury like IIT system where a teacher may teach only one subject every semester. So, there is a large amount of training that is required and therefore, we planned a mega workshop. This workshop was conducted on introduction to research methodologies in June, July 2012 in which 8,400 teachers participated. We wanted, we called it a trained 10,000 teacher program. We actually had 12,000 teachers registered, but we could not scale up the number of remote centers. You know, ultimately you should have 30, 40, 50 people at each remote center. But we permitted larger numbers because this was a peculiar requirement of the day. People wanted to get familiar with the research methodology. So, out of 12,000 people who registered, we could accommodate only 8,400 teachers in 168 remote centers. But we also permitted 1,000 ME students in the local colleges to attend. This was a great success and we got an excellent feedback. We confirmed to ourselves and to the world that when the number increases, the number of interaction requests do not increase linearly. They do increase and there is a problem that we need to solve. How to address this interaction request? But essentially, this project was successful. We have now made a proposal to MHRD to scale up and to empower 10,000 teachers at a time. We plan to run 15 such workshops over the next three years. The model is refined. First of all, we have one more hub institution. IIT Bombay is a hub. There is another hub institution, IIT Kharagpur, which has joined us. They will be conducting six workshops. We'll be conducting nine workshops over the next three years. We also propose to establish 10 nodal centers. Now, these nodal centers will not fall from the sky. Some of the well-known institutions amongst yours will be chosen and will be made into nodal centers. The idea is that each nodal center will coordinate with about 30 to 50 remote centers, which was the model in which we found that interaction was the idea. So the interaction and the supervision of the activities, etc. Problem solving for the local remote centers would be handled by the nodal centers. And we propose to have a total of 500 remote centers. We already have about 350 remote centers. We'll be advertising again for additional nodal centers and we'll rope in about 500 remote centers. It does not mean that every workshop that we'll conduct will be run from all 500 remote centers. That is not necessary. A particular subject may be conducted only at 250, 300 remote centers, but still there will be much larger than 50 or 60. That is one. Secondly, we also expect some workshops to be conducted simultaneously. So while IIT Bombay is conducting a workshop, let us say on thermodynamics, IIT Kharagpur can be conducting a workshop on basic electronics. The idea is that these two subjects will be attended to by different faculty. And therefore the centers could be divided. Some centers could simultaneously run both workshops if they have the infrastructure. The idea is to engage teachers. Please understand the difference in, this is not a distance education in the conventional sense. There is a deep interaction between the teachers here and the teachers who are participating. There is extensive interaction between the group of teachers who assemble at the remote center and the remote center coordinate and the paraffin. And I believe personally, like many of you would believe, that teaching learning happens best through interaction in groups. Individual learning is not very easy, although it is facilitated by the technology and that is what we are trying to do. Unfortunately, the final meeting of the project approval board has been postponed. Otherwise, I would have been able to give you good news that this proposal has been approved. I can do that. The Standing Committee of the NMEI City has approved this proposal. Tomorrow is the project approval board meeting. My colleague is going there and hopefully, by tomorrow evening, we will know if the government has approved this proposal. If this proposal is approved, there is special provision for some equipment and something for each of the remote centers. So far, we have not been giving any grant to the remote center for equipment and so on to remote centers. They were doing it on their own. We usually provide a little bit of honorarium for the coordinators and the other associated faculty and technical staff who help us conduct that workshop. And of course, we fund the TADA requirement of the participants if they are outstation candidates and so on. But here, we have proposed that we should be able to give at least some notional support to each remote center to set up the best of real equipment. Because we have seen what happens that many times, for example, during the AVU testing, we have found that the connections are not proper. The PA system used is something that is used in marriage functions and so on. It is not a professional PA system. The connections are made in such a way that eco reverberates all across the country. So please remember that if I am interacting with you, whatever we two are talking to each other is heard by everybody else, all other remote centers. And if there is an eco and there is funny thing happening, all the funny things are seen by all participants. But be very careful. Camera, some people put a webcam there and anytime a teacher has to ask the question, the teacher walks one mile from a corner, comes to that webcam and stands in front of that. That is not how a class is conducted. See, for example, in this room, if somebody gets up and asks a question, all of you can see that person. And I can see all of you and the person. Now that is the model of the group activity that we do. So you need good quality cameras. Now obviously not all colleges have been able to create an adequate priority for this activity and provide funding. Some colleges have genuine problem in providing funding for an activity, which is not conventionally part of the regular academic requirement. So I have proposed to the government that rather than spending a lot of money in creating just hubs, which government must do, additionally they must support engineering college. There has been an argument because see, even if you take 2 lakh rupees support to each college, now there are 500 colleges I am talking about. So 500 into 2 lakhs is 10 crore rupees. Now the government does not have problem with 10 crore rupees, but disbursing 10 crores to 500 colleges which are not government colleges, etc., etc. I have tried to answer those questions. Hopefully we will have a good news by tomorrow. But this is the plan. And if this succeeds, these 500 colleges, please remember these 500 institutions will be more than 10% of all the existing engineering college. And I expect each of these engineering colleges to emerge as a hub, eventually conducting courses on your own for neighboring colleges, not necessarily engineering college. For example, teachers in accounting, teachers in history, teachers in geography also require training. Who will give them the training? The experts may come from science college and arts college and commerce college, but they have no technology. And in each town, your engineering college holds the key to technology. You understand what internet is, you understand what audio video is, you understand how to put these things together. So eventually I expect each one of your colleges to start offering such workshops locally in the town on internet for other subjects. And there is no reason why you can't extend it to trans school teachers eventually. In short, you people represent in my opinion the initial thirst of a completely new innovation in the Indian education problem. And depending upon what you do, a whole lot of things can happen in the regions around. So the nodal centers, the ten nodal centers which are to be established, I expect them to first become the hubs. And the remote centers are to be strengthened in technology infrastructure as I mean. There will be further refinement of pedagogy, which I'll speak about later. These are some of the early remote center thing. Those of you who are coming here for the first time, this is how all the participants across the country will be seeing your center. When somebody from your center asks a question or is interacting, all the country will be able to see this. That is the advantage. This is essentially a single logical classroom across the country. The better the bandwidth you have, the better the connectivity that you have, the less the noise that you have, the greater will be the clarity. These were the remote centers. This map was drawn by my colleague, Gaitonde, who jokingly called it the railway route map of India. So you can see frontier mail going like this in Madras Express, Calcutta Mail, and rest of the places, they were hardly any centers. We have tried to, we'll populate now the, not 250, but 360 remote centers that we have, out of which 250 today have volunteered to become our partners in Akash Project. That is what I'm going to talk about. So this last workshop was inaugurated by Mr Kapil Sibyl. These are some of the snapshots from there. You can see very nice facilities at some places. In some places, participants attended from the lab itself.  These are either ways up to you. On that day, Akash 2 was unveiled, what we call a soft launch. I'll speak about the Akash project, but this was, one tablet was, four tablets were given notionally to the principles of four engineering colleges where our remote centers. The lady here's the, so many engineering colleges, so many. Now I come to the tablet computers. Most of you know about it, so again this will be a revision. For those of you who are not completely familiar, tablets are primarily excess devices. And they got introduced in the world when Apple introduced iPad in 2010 as excess devices. Connect to internet, surf the web, do some mailing, et cetera, et cetera. But essentially, excess the contents, participate in the chat sessions, do Skype, whatever one. These were excess devices, primarily. Now, the estimates are that the tablets are likely to proliferate the whole world. Already the sale of PCs all over the world is declining. The sale of tablets is increasing. The tablets were very costly at one point in time. But anticipating that the tablets will reach the masses much sooner than the computers will, just as mobile phones have reached the masses in India. The government of India started saying that can we use these devices for quality education in future. So, the Indian L-CAD project, L-CAD is a short form for low-cost excess cum computing device. A stands for excess cum computing, L-C is low-cost. We are not ashamed of saying that we want low-cost devices because affordability is not very good. If India was very rich and if we would attempt effort, that's a thousand dollar solution. I bought an iPad to recent, it cost me thousand dollars. And I could give it to each one of 300 million students of the country, no problem, but we don't have that kind of money. So, we are looking for affordable solutions and that is what the government launched this project. Affordability is very critical in our education. Please understand the dilemma. We want the best cutting edge technology to be used to improve the quality of education. But we want that best technology to be affordable. These are contradictory points and we are attempting to do that. The nation's main plan was to fold. Fundamentally, it wanted to offer tablets at subsidy to all students in the country. You would have heard about it in the newspaper, 50% price. Students have to pay and they will get these tablets. But this plan envisages that before that, some effort should be made to understand whether giving these tablets will make any difference to education or not. So, for that, the government launched the project, which is called the demonstration of the usage. And this particular project, which is called the phase one of the project, was launched in 2009, 2010, actually. 2010 it was launched, 2011 it was rectified. This was to purchase one lakh tablets, deploy them in engineering colleges, and see how engineering colleges are able to use these for quality education. If that succeeded, then there would be some sense in government spending money on, you know, 5 million tablets and then 10 million tablets and so on. It is expected that the ecosystem of tablets in this country could grow to about 20 crore tablets in 5 to 7 years time, provided the tablets are inexpensive. So, the Akash was actually launched, which was called, now it is called Akash one, but the Akash was launched in October 2011. There was a lot of confusion because this was launched by our sister institution, IIT Rajasthan, which was doing that project at that time. Primarily, as a part of this one lakh teacher empowerment or one lakh tablet deployment in engineering college. However, when it was launched, the ministry announced that it will be given at 50% subsidy and so on, so forth. And then tablets started coming in the market, saying Akash tablet, whatever work. So, there is a lot of bad press you might have heard because initially there were some problems with the device. Those of you who are familiar with the development of new embedded systems will know that such embedded system evolution requires a lot of iteration. It is not that overnight something can work because we are not talking of ready-made Apple tablets. We are talking about very low cost tablets. The tablet cost was $49 at that point in time. IIT Bombay was given this phase one project in March. So, there were some problems IIT Rajasthan then submitted to the ministry that look we have intractable problems we cannot carry on for some reason and they returned the project to the ministry. Then when ministry scouted around, I will also tell you the reason why I volunteered to take that project. I realized immediately that the objective of this phase one project was not merely specifying technology and getting tablets. It was actually to deploy these tablets in engineering colleges and try to see whether they can be used for education or not. Now, fortunately as all of you know we were running these workshop programs. So, we had first hand relationship with so many engineering colleges. At that time we had about 100 engineering colleges. And we had already thinking of ramping it up. So, I told the ministry that it is possible for us to create 200, 300 remote centers who may be interested in participating with us in this Akash project and therefore give us two years time we'll be able to develop new innovative applications and contents and we'll be able to demonstrate whether this makes a difference to education or not. That's the unique advantage that IIT Bombay has and that is why my director and dean said all right for that we can go ahead and do it. This project came to us in March, 2012. We placed the order in May, 2012. The specs were strengthened further. So, some of you might like to write down the current specifications. They have undergone a change even after we placed the order. The tablets now have a one gigahertz processor. Remember it started with 366 megahertz processor in 2011. When we got it, we increased it to 700 megahertz and then to 800 megahertz. Now it's a gigahertz processor. The memory was 256 MP, then now it is a 512 MP RAM. So, one gigahertz processor, 512 MP RAM. It has a capacitive touch screen instead of a resistive touch screen which was originally there because we believe that capacitive touch screen will make a better interface to people. And finally, it runs Android 4 ice cream sandwich as it is called, the version of the operating system which is the latest. We would not have launched on this ambitious thing with all of you unless we are sure that these tablets work properly. They do work properly. Two of them have been given to you. Unfortunately, the deliveries in large scale have just started happening because we had to certify the samples which they gave and so on and so forth. This launch formally is slated on 11th November. So, let me tell you 10th and 11th November is our two day workshop. However, 11th November happens to be the education day for the country. It is celebrated in honor of our first education minister, Abdul Kalam. So, Abdul Kalam, if you remember, was the first education minister. Now 11th November annually there is a function held but this time the ministry has decided that because of the success in Akash development, there is a one and a half hour function in Vigyan Bhavan in Delhi where the president of India will be launching Akash. And I naturally said that if the president of India is going to launch Akash too, then instead of having only 500 or 1000 people in Vigyan Bhavan attend that function, why don't you permit more than 13,000 teachers participating in the workshop also to attend? So, this has been agreed upon and all the participants of this workshop from 11 o'clock to 12 30 on 11th November, the only session will be the education session happening in Vigyan Bhavan. I have further requested the president of India and the other dignitaries to possibly interact with some remote centers so that the country gets a feeling that people at different places in the country are actually watching. So, we have selected some names. I'll be interacting with those people separately. Like some of you will remember we did that during the previous thing. Of course, we will select different centers this time but we'll try to be representative of the country. So, this is I think a great historical occasion when so many teachers will be participating in this workshop. So, 250 colleges are our R and D partners. I think 230 only have been able to come. Each college is to use Akash for classroom teaching and for final year project. I'll elaborate this further. For this purpose, we will be giving about 100 tablets to each college give and take some depending upon the classroom strength. Please remember that when we conduct those trained 10,000 teachers workshops in December and May June, all the tablets issued to that college must be made available to the participants of the workshop because they will be using them. But during the working semester, the tablets will be given for a classroom teaching. The idea is to create innovative educational applications and contents and not necessarily innovative applications only for engineering education. There are some final year students who may do a project on how to teach geography in Telugu to nine standard students. Somebody may create an application on how to teach geometry in Hindi to students of say 11 standard or fifth standard, whatever. So innovation should be across the bound because we believe that the tabs will proliferate across the country. I will conclude by saying that there are disruptive changes which are happening. This is something which many of you may not, may have realized but not articulated. Look at the entire education system that we have today. What do we offer to our student? If I am a student and I register for a course in your place for each semester, what do you guarantee me? 40 lectures per subject, so many subjects, one hour lectures, so many tutorials, so many exams. In short, you are guaranteeing me a fixed time. What should you be guaranteeing? You should be guaranteeing me a fixed minimum knowledge in that subject. It has not occurred to many of us that when we guarantee a fixed time, we are unable to guarantee a fixed minimum knowledge because the learning capacity of each individual is different. Different people learn at different pace. We just shrug our shoulders and say, sorry, we can't do much. The smarter students will get 80%, 90% marks. The people who are laggards will fail. Somehow for 200 years, we have been comfortable with this scenario because nothing else could be done. Given the positive, one teacher, so many students and the fixed regimented time available, nothing else could be done. There was no technology. But with the advent of this technology, can we not suggest that the laggards could work for two hours extra at home? But not in isolation. The technology will help them to give them the material, the guidance, et cetera, et cetera. And therefore, for the first time in the history of the world, the nations and societies are in a position to try and guarantee a fixed minimum knowledge to every participating student. There will be differences. Some people will learn more, et cetera. But the question of failure should simply not arise. Absolutely. Because the minimum knowledge can be guaranteed. That is the ambition. There are efforts like Coursera Khan Academy, you might have heard of, spoken to us, we'll speak about it today. But there is a new pedagogy that is emerging to ensure focus on learning and not on lectures and delivery. Please understand that even today, many students in your colleges are attending coaching classes rather than your lectures. And that is because they believe that is more to the tune of solving problems in the exams and so on. The best lectures today are available on the net. So the lecture or lecturing and delivery of that lecture material is no more the important point of the education, not going to be in coming year. That will be available. The important point will be prodding the minds, igniting the minds, discussing with them, solving problems. Some of my colleague teachers have already started experiment. They don't teach in the class anymore. They announced that in the next lecture, the question answers will be on this particular topic. Please undergo a one-hour presentation which is recorded and available on the mood. So people have to listen to that lecture in advance and come only for discussion. Things are changing very drastically. Eventually we'll discuss all those things. But that is where we believe that the Aakash tablets could be maximally utilized. We'll unfold how we should become ready. My contention is are we even trying to be ready? I think all of us are still attempting to strengthen the traditional systems of one-hour lecture, tutorial, how to do that better? Of course we must do that. But additionally we must do something else which hopefully technologies such as Aakash tablet will help us establish. So Aakash project is one such attempt and you all will facilitate creation of a completely new teaching learning paradigm starting with using Aakash for strengthening the present system, because that is the beginning. You can't demolish a present system unless you create an alternative, then only chaos will result. So first we try to strengthen our system and then we continue doing something better. So this is the background. Welcome to this, you people are special now. You're not merely conventional workshop coordinators. You're Aakash project coordinators. That means you will be guiding at every step. You are colleague teachers and students in your college who are going to work on Aakash tablets and this association is expected to last at least for two years. That is the expected. As I said, in this proposal we have requested the government to permit us to strengthen the basic infrastructure required for running projects on Aakash. Now since we propose to use Aakash tablets for conducting quizzes in the classrooms, you will require Wi-Fi access points in one classroom that you so designate. You will require a small server in which you can keep all the open source contents which will be synchronized with here. Tentatively therefore I had said in my communication earlier that we'll be supporting you to the extent of setting up a server and Wi-Fi access points. However, this workshop has overtaken our planning. So for this workshop we would expect there are no labs in the main workshop. The only lecture sessions. So I'm sorry I've taken some extra time but I just spent two more minutes to tell you some decisions that we have taken about this workshop. So far as I said we have about 13,800 registrations. Now some places we have as many as 150, 170, 120 people registering. Ordinarily all of you have committed that you'll be able to conduct a workshop for 50 or 60 or 70 teachers depending upon A the classroom and B the labs that you have. Luckily for this two day workshop there are no labs. There will be a moodle session in which the participants will have to give a feedback and appear for a quiz. Ordinarily this is conducted in a synchronized fashion across the country. But again for this time there is no need. So on the final day on Sunday afternoon when people are required to give the feedback they can go to the labs in batches. That means even if you have 50 to 60 computers at one time and you accommodate 50 people to appear for that moodle and then next 50 as long as they all finish by that weekend by that end of the day it's okay with that. We have therefore decided to remove the restriction on the number of participants that can come from every college. There will be one limit. And that limit will be decided by you. The total number of participants you can reasonably accommodate in the auditorium or the hall where you have arranged and tested the AVU. If you have tested AVU connectivity to a small classroom and now you suddenly say okay I'll shift to this larger hall. You are welcome to do that. But it is your responsibility to ensure that the PA system, the internet connection, et cetera et cetera works as perfectly as it works in your. If you can do that find out the largest hall and get as many teachers to participate as possible. Last but not the least another decision which has been taken because this we are contemplating. You'll remember that we had mentioned that the teachers who participate in this today workshop and also complete that assignment, our team assignment for two weeks are likely to contribute subsequently in our efforts to guide projects. It need not be electronics or IT or CS. It could be mechanical engineering anybody because educational contents, educational contents and everything. So therefore it would be nice if these teachers had a tablet with them for the entire two year duration. Now remember in my earlier mail I had said that hundred tablets will be issued primarily to the students. What we have now decided is all the participants of this workshop who complete the two day workshop properly is not just for the sake of attendance and complete the team assignment at the end. Each one of them will be issued a tablet. The idea is that your colleague teachers will be empowered to think differently by using it, trying it out. The idea is that you do not know where the creative ideas will come from. So we try to spread it. I hope you like this idea. Yes. Okay.


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