Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Happy Monday to you guys watching this video. It is Monday. That means it's market outlook time. We're going to take a look at the market this week. This for the upcoming week of FIFA Ultimate Team. We'll look through some things, what we could possibly see in the game that we could possibly prepare for early on in the week. And obviously, you know what's coming. We already know what is coming. And that is that messy player of the month, SBC. We know that is guaranteed coming on Thursday. So I'm going to talk a decent bit about that today. But there's a ton of stuff coming today. We're going to take like a high level approach, looking at everything. Not really the specifics. I'll do more specific videos later this week about all that stuff that could be coming. But again, this video we do every week. If you're unfamiliar, we do this video every week to kind of just get ready for what we could see on the market this week. Now, obviously, we're in the middle of team of the group stage. We have this promo going on, but it's almost overshadowed by the messy SBC and all that is doing to the market right now at this time. There were a lot of packs open this weekend. You guys know that a lot of these team of the group stage cards are pretty low. I got a nice lazy buyer here in Sergio Ramos. I bought this at 280, sold it at 328. This Leventoski bought at 300. These cool ballets I bought. I flipped them for about 10k profit a piece. Both of the 127 GG, I bought that one for 100. Let's freaking go, man. That was a nice one. That was a GG on that card right there. So these delix as well. I got today with the release of the SBC that came out, the Quadrado SBC. I bought a lot of these for like 42 to 45k, sold something at 50k. As he rose up a little bit more later and then just some other quick flips that we had still flipping a few cards. So that is my transfer list at the moment and I do have some high rated, have some high rated golds for the messy SBC. But again, high, speaking of high rated golds, we can start talking about that stuff first. Let's get into the messy SBC talk because that is the main thing this week. I did a video a couple days yesterday. I think it was on the messy SBC, what I think the requirements are going to be, what I think it's going to cost and how we can possibly invest for that. And you've already seen a lot of stuff on the market move because of that SBC and people know that it's coming. Like a lot of flipping graphs that you look at, they kind of look like this. Messy was 147 on Thursday, dropped down to 1330. It was actually at 127 at one point today on PlayStation. Looks like he's almost going to get back to that point right now. All of messy's cards are in the gutter. The inform is at one five and this new team of the group stage item, this card is at 2.3 mil unbelievable. That's so cheap for this game just because people know the SBC is coming and we'll talk more about this stuff later on this week as we can watch prices a little bit more. But a lot of panic selling in like all areas of the market happened this weekend because of this SBC and also because of the team of the group stage promo.  Look at this real Ferdinand 870 K for this baby card is 940. So that's actually not too big of a drop compared to some of the other cards on on the market and some of the other cards that are dropped this week. Patrick Vieira 1.5 petite middle. This car was like a 1.1 this weekend. Yeah, 1.1 mil is now under a million coins. So the icons and the upper tier part of the market have really taken a hit because of this messy SBC and a lot of those people I have put their coins into these types of cards in the last two or three days. A lot of the high rated fodder is up 85s are up like 2k piece from the cheapest. These are up like 2 to 3k a piece and the 87s are starting to rise. The 88s are up the 89s are up if you guys have invested in high rated golds if you're sitting with a lot of them on your in your clubs right now. I'm seriously going to tell you please please please sell into the hype for these cards. Like some of the things I think we could see this week leading up into the messy SBC on Thursday. I think we're going to see some more pack supply SBCs and because that's going to be EA's attempt to try to make people make less more make less coins by supplying more high rated golds onto the market during this team of the group stage promo. So I think we're going to get a pack supply SBC a couple of them probably like one on one day maybe one on Wednesday something like that but I still think these high rated golds will stay high because I don't think they can require a messy for the SBC. I just literally don't think it's physically possible. There's not enough messies on the game for people to go and do that SBC and Messi's price would rise up so much anyway. And so the people are investing in these high rated goals because of that high rated goals and high rated informs. I think I would take the money somewhere on Wednesday somewhere on Wednesday before the SBC comes out just to be safe selling the hype. I do imagine these rising a little bit depending on how much SBC supply we get. Boost gets is at 47 K and I know people are buying him up when he was 41 so that's the kind of stuff I would sell into the hype for this SBC and again we'll talk a little bit more about that throughout the rest of this week but that SBC the messy SBC is literally looming over this market right now and it's changing everything about this market in in kind of right now in this game. The next thing I want to talk about is also coming it's coming earlier in the week though road to the final cards upgrades and Champions League content of course yes it's a Champions League week it's a massive week on FIFA. This week is probably with the possible content that we could have this is like one of the most full weeks of content we've seen in a long time we got Champions League road to the final cards are getting upgraded messy SBC we have a promo going on in right now in the game and we have other player the months that could possibly coming out and Friday could start foot miss Friday could be the start of foot miss I think it will be the start of foot miss as well so looking through this road to the final cards a lot of them have started an inch back up in price some of them are low this weekend as there was some panic selling I was able to quick flip a few of them the ball was 750 like for most of the weekend Mares I got one at 250 I got another one at 280 sold them over over 300 K for these cards right here if you guys have any of these these probably will trickle up in price into other games on Tuesday and Wednesday I would take the coins on these before the game for most of them for most if not all of them I would take the coins now for somebody like John and Sasha they're in a very interesting position and I want to take a look at this right here Dortmund this is kind of a graph at a right up looking through all the possible scenarios of which teams could go through so I want to remind you guys that Dortmund right now is in third place but Dortmund has an easy match up against Slavia Praha and inter plays Barcelona the league leaders Barcelona or the group leaders Barcelona is through the race here is really between Inter and Dortmund if Barcelona beat Inter and Dortmund beat Slavia Praha obviously Dortmund will finish on 10 points Inter will finish on seven so there's some interesting scenarios in here and I just want to remind you guys again let's say John and Sasha right now there Dortmund looks like they could get in right Dortmund looks like they very well could get in this price right here I don't know if it really could go up he is kind of low compared to what his card was before I wonder if people are scared that he will not get in I was looking for an inter we don't have an inter card we do not have an inter card for or road of the final do we we do we have hand Danovic hand Danovic is our inter card so be very careful if you have a hand Danovic he's at an all-time high in price right now 118 K and basically he's the same price as as Tristegans team the group stage card which is kind of baffling to me but this is a live item so I would be very careful with hand Danovic especially because it looks like out of those three teams out of those two teams Dortmund and Inter I might see Dortmund going on through because I think they could easily get the three points and Inter would have a tougher time beating Barcelona on that one so be very careful with hand Danovic let's say inter loses what's going to happen to hand Danovic his card he's going to get panic sold off a lot his car is going to go down in price because they are going to be going to Europa League which means his card will transition over to one of these yellow Europa League items and it will continue to get upgraded but it won't get an upgrade for the initial movement to Europa League if that makes sense so like let's say inter goes down to Europa League and gets into the next knockout rounds for Europa League and Danovic will not get upgraded until they win in Europa League so that's one thing I wanted to say if any of these Champions League guys get demoted to Europa League you might see their price go down but they're not going to get upgraded so they're going to get upgraded later on in the year not really an investment thing right there but possibly just something to watch for all these cars though I would sell probably before the game if there's anybody who I would not sell before the game Sancho would be a close one I think he can maybe go up a little bit further upon them getting into Champions League just because they're they're on the cusp but they're on the edge right now if this is a car that I would keep a close eye on though because of where's lever Cusins I want to look at lever Cusins group really quick right here Bayer Levin Cusins Juventus and Athletic Madrid it's between Athletic Madrid and lever Cusins so party and Wendell are the guys that we really want to look for in this in this team right here because I think we only have one athletic a Madrid player right I think so I think it's just party and Wendell for lever Cusins one player from each of those two teams yeah party yeah so party and party and Wendell is something we really want to keep our eyes on because these two teams are very close as well Athletic Madrid on seven and Bayer on six so lever Cusins will go through if they beat UVA so lever Cusins is playing UVA which is a tough matchup I don't really think they're going to get the dub but if they do that would be huge for this Wendell card that would be a situation where I think you would see a possible investment scenario with Wendell these cards are going to be moving during the games a little bit especially for the guys that are on the cusp of getting into the knockout rounds of Champions League or going down to Europe League so I would be just be very careful with those guys the general the general advice though is to sell before they get the upgrade or before they play their game because the upgrades for these cards are not actually going to come out until like Friday Friday is going to be a big game of FIFA Alpine team boys I'm really I really mean that Thursday night or Friday I think is when these upgrades will get placed because the Europe League games are a little bit later in the week and obviously they upgrade all the cards at once so let's say Militow you know Real Madrid they're going to get upgraded they're going to get that upgrade it's going to go to 86 but people are going to be like yo this upgrade should be happening they won so people will start expecting the upgrade right after they win and technically cement for themselves a place in the quarter final or in the knockout rounds but people might start to sell out this card a little bit because of the fact that he has not gotten upgraded right away and a lot of these cards are going to drop over the next couple of weeks as we head into foot miss which is a massive coin suck promo people might sell some coins for some of these cards to go do SBCs like a messy SBC that's why you saw some of them drop this week but they're not going to after they get upgraded this Friday they're not going to get touched until February so that's why I'm telling you to get out of them they could become an investment later on in the year but for now I think you to sell them take your coins and just continue to just monitor these cards prices over the foot miss and over the team of the year time span as we as we don't see a lot of action on the upgrades of these cards because Champions League is kind of in the pausing stage over the holidays so again sell these guys before the games in my opinion for like 90% of them if you want to watch the cards during the games you should see them fluctuate a little bit that could be something to watch this week as well other Champions League content though we'll probably get UEFA Marquis matchups and I would assume that they would put in some of the big matches from this week like inter and Barcelona is a huge match again for the Tuesday timeframe they should also throw in Chelsea and Leo that's a big game as well for the Wednesday they usually do one game from Tuesday and one game from Wednesday we go back over here to the web page and check it out this is I think one of the biggest games on Tuesday and then on Wednesday I think they have to throw in this maybe this game or this game maybe I don't know Byron and Tottenham I'm not entirely sure what they're going to go with if they go with games that are really are massive for the group stage situations or if they just go for like big name teams playing each other they could do Byron and Tottenham but I think they featured in a previous UEFA Marquis matchups I'm not entirely sure about that but we will see what happens with those but that SBC coming out would definitely mean we're probably getting some special card requirements on a UCL player cards we're looking at Bundesliga players probably especially from like you know Dortmund if they do get in not not Dortmund not even Bundesliga we're looking at Syria excuse me but basically if you just pick up any of the UCL rare players we're talking like somewhere around if you can discard for some of those on bid especially for the 80 and 81 rated cards that's definitely a lookup or a pickup in my eye especially the common cards in SBC they require just commons this week and they rose up to like two or three K per card so that's something to look at as well maybe do a little bit of a club stock early on the week before people start doing that just to possibly get those in your club before those SBCs do come out like a UEFA Marquis matchups and then I again I mentioned the SBCs throughout the rest this week I think we're going to get pack supply SBCs this week which is going to supply the team of the group stage cards on the market and the high-rated and speaking of team the group stage cards I want to talk about that those a little bit right now in the in the over here on foot been as well a lot of these guys just got low like right now it's just after squat about rewards and these guys the pack weight on these cards is honestly insane but you know what EA never does anything by mistake I believe I think they go know fully well what they're doing the pack weight on these cards from the 125 K packs the pack weight is not actually changed since they came into packs on Friday at 6 p.m. UK 7.4% chance of packing one of these cards from an ultimate pack that is ridiculous just to remind you team of the road of the final cards and ultimate scream cards were just over 1% both from ultimate packs during those promos so 7.4% chance of packing one of these you if you if a champions league players is crazy that's why you're seeing some of these prices low and that's also contributing to how low the market is but watch these cards prices going into their games on a Tuesday and Wednesday Tuesday and Wednesday a lot of these champions league teams play well all of them do a lot of people believe that these cards are live items I've told a lot of people and I always try to make a point of this please let people know they're not live items because they're not but people are still out there believing that they are okay and that is going to reflect in some of their price movements this week Kula Bali and Napoli have a very not an easy game but one of the most easier games they play gank early game December on December 10th Tuesday I bought a couple Kula Bali's today because I feel like his card people are going to believe it's going to get an upgrade and I think it's going to go from a 90 to a 91 I do think you'll see people buy up this card after the game or during the game when they're winning so if that's something you want to try to trade with it's a bit risky but it is something that you could do with these cards this week is try to buy try to find some cards when they're low and maybe watch them go up in price after their games it usually works during these matchday six games because people think they're going to get upgraded after these games because they advance on and they're guaranteed to advance on so again you know some of those teams that are on the cusp of going in I don't think we have any Dortmund players we don't know we don't have any dormant players all these teams are basically locks Madrid Napoli PSG most of these teams if not all maybe maybe I XB the only one that's kind of on the edge Martinez could be one to watch being on inter watch this cards price you know if if they have a big time game against Barcelona maybe you see him go up in price another another thing to watch could be if they have a big game versus Barcelona maybe you're messy and your Tristegan actually drops stuff like that teams that win or lose on Tuesday and Wednesday these cards could be affected by those prices as they are and in the game and people think they are live items I want to transition talking a little bit about the end of the week though Thursday and Friday we talked about messy that of course we'll talk about even more later in the week as well but when to buy these cards I know a lot of people want these cards for their team I have purchased the Harry Kane for my team he's a fantastic card and Bob a one of the coolest dynamic images in the game cool Bali great card Ramos I mean a lot of people want these cards into their clubs in their teams in their ultimate team squads when is the best time to buy these I think the best time to buy a lot of these cards is probably going to end up being Thursday and I say that for a couple different reasons Thursday the messy SBC is going to be coming out right that's going to be a lot of packs put onto the market but it's not only that it's also combination with weekend league rewards and with the pack weight of these cards being so stinking high I honestly don't think there's going to be a better time to buy before that day there's going to be so many packs open on Thursday with rewards and you put on top of that possibly maybe other like marquee matchups packs and other packs in the game especially with the messy SBC packs because an SBC like messy you're going to have some major packs in there probably some 50 K's maybe even 100,000 coin packs for that messy SBC that are going to be going to be coming onto the game so I would be very careful with these team their group stage cards since their pack luck is so center I would really really watch those card prices this week I do think they'll kind of trickle down in price if anything all week to be honest especially if we get more pack supply but that'd be something I would keep an eye out for this week is and if you want to get one of these for your team I would say I would think that probably later on in the week would be the move for a lot of these guys even the ones that are really really rare and that are really really not really even the 90 ratings just because they're packed so much but a lot of these guys are going to make it into people's squad so I do think they will rise after this messy S.B.C. and confusion do I kind of want to buy this I have to buy it don't I 100K for cool Bali is a literally so cheap I'm going to list it up for a lazy buyer just in case we'll set up at like 1 23 how about that see if we get a lucky bite on that card but again a lot of these cards people think they're live items and they're going to get packed a bunch a bunch a bunch this week so just be careful be careful with those if you are messing with some of those and then a quick little intro for foot miss for this could be coming off Friday so I want to look at last year's webpage and just scroll through it really fast and look at stuff that we had last year for foot miss we have the daily countdown player squad S.B.C.'s every day to build up to the December 25th there will be three new player S.B.C.'s released every day they were only 24 hours available so basically they were you they were themed around nation league and club so we kind of could figure out the system last year with the Argentinians ranked 11 in the world so we that was really cool the way that it last year so again there's a lot a lot of S.B.C.'s that come out during foot miss and that's going to be coming this year on Friday I think since it started last year on December 14th it would make sense that it would start this Friday on December 13th I think is Friday of this week so again it'll be interesting to see what they do for foot miss S.B.C.'s this year or if they change the promotion around at all but it's been an S.B.C. based promotion for the last couple of years these are some of the cards that we got last year in S.B.C.'s if you remember any of them De Bruyne Isco Coutinho Firmino Lacazette there was a lot of popular S.B.C.'s last year Hume and Son Deli Ali Rodrigo we had a couple objective players as well there were a lot of popular S.B.C. players last year foot miss is a fun promo just to throw some different squad guys in your squad but the big problem last year was the overpricing of S.B.C. so we'll see how EA does this year with that but I wanted to kind of give you guys a little breakdown of foot miss and get your guys minds right for that kind of stuff investing for that yet I don't think we can invest for that until we see what happens with the messy player of the month because of messy player or if it doesn't require high rates for whatever reason or doesn't require a lot of them or even if there's just so much selling because so many people are investing in this S.B.C. on Thursday or Friday that we could possibly start to think about investing a high-rated golds then but foot miss the foot miss is going to go up and down like this the high-rated and the informs the requirements for those S.B.C. are going to be jumping up up and down all the time and there's going to be some easy ways to invest if we can figure out the pattern of which they're going to release S.B.C. during foot miss so we'll talk about more of that stuff later on in the week but that's your market outlook for this week it's going to be a busy busy week I'll be honest it's going to be busy a lot of stuff coming out in the game probably some more content from EA just be careful with your coins if you're wanting to trade quick flips on out-of-pack special cards is really the move in my opinion just to get ready for this messy S.B.C. be careful with it maybe another player S.B.C. coming during this promo maybe not we'll see but I do think we will get some more pack supply S.B.C. as well and then one last thing we could get Player of the Month Premier League on Friday as well Player of the Month Messy coming on Thursday Player of the Month Premier League coming on Friday so those are my thoughts this week for this week's market outlook Champions League will be fun Messy S.B.C. will be crazy for the market we'll talk a lot about that later this week and then another player of the month and possibly more Team of the Group stage content coming with content on FIFA so get yourselves ready it's your game ready if you haven't grinded out the icon swaps yet I have 11 days to do those and with a lot of content coming I'm going to have to try to fit in some squad battles games to finish off the to finish off the the icon swaps so really really need to get those done I actually played Weekend League for once this weekend as well two more wins to go three and I am done I'm piecing out as you can see Weekend League is almost over though so cutting 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Live from the campus of MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's theCUBE, covering the MIT Chief Data Officer and the Information Quality Symposium. Now, here are your hosts, Stu Miniman and Paul Gillan. Welcome back, this is theCUBE, SiliconANGLE's streaming media flagship platform. We're here at the MIT CDO IQ conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I'm Paul Gillan, my colleague, Stu Miniman. And our guest is Peter Wang. As we head into the final stretch of today's video coverage, Peter Wang is the founder and CTO of Continuum Analytics. And we're brought to ask him to come on theCUBE because of a session that he's leading later today called the D and CTO stands for disruption, not data. And that's a provocative title, certainly. But Peter, let's ask you first to just talk about quickly about what Continuum Analytics does. All right, so we are the creators of a very popular distribution of open source data science libraries and tools. It's called Anaconda, and it is downloaded, it's been downloaded millions and millions of times now. And it includes Python and R and all the core libraries you need to do data science, data analytics, machine learning and visualization in those particular languages. We also have enterprise and proprietary components that we've built on top to help businesses operationalize open source to help them manage and govern the use of open source within their environments. Because business environments are very different than what open source hackers normally deal with out in the wild. The topic that you chose for this session about disruption, not data. I mean, it sounds like you're trying to stir things up a little bit. Why should the CTO role be disruptive? Why shouldn't it just play nicely with others? Right, that's a great question. So the thing that I realized, and I think it's been very validating to hear in the sessions today and yesterday, so many people are reflecting on the fact that the CTO role is a relatively new one and it's constantly being redefined. It sometimes reports to the CTO, sometimes reports to the CIO, sometimes directly reports to the CEO. And what the CTO owns, he or she has different charter depending on different kinds of environments, federal versus finance versus pharma. And so the thing that's really interesting about the CTO role though, that in the conversation I've seen, I've heard many people reflect on, is that they don't really own all the data, right? Because data's everywhere. Everybody owns their own data. The CTO's charter really has to be about laying out strategy for managing data policy, governance, quality, all of those things in a time of great change across the IT and the computational environments. So the thesis really of my talk is that the CTO has to basically provide strategic vision around how to lean into that change, how to be resilient in the face of that change, not just how to hunker things down and stay with the old paradigms and continue building bigger and bigger and taller silos that are going to get washed out when more data comes in. But silos are a fact of life in large organizations and it doesn't seem like that's going to go away. I mean, when you're telling people that they have to take ownership responsibility for data, aren't you in effect endorsing silos? No, the difference is this, that silos, they may never go away, they may just get buried. The water level is going to rise higher and higher. And one thing that we've seen in our company, we have both product but we also do consulting and training. So we get invited to large firms all the time that are using Python and R in production. And what we see is that in many of these places, there's what I call dark data. There's data that's not in the provenance chain. There's data systems that have been set up maybe on the side, on some Linux box somewhere. There's data systems that result from a massive export from some official data system into some other thing. And actually I would say the mass of data that I've seen in these places, that has relied on production on a daily basis, those are dark data systems. And so I would say that silos are a fact of life but all the data that's leaking out of the silos is also a fact of life. And so CDOs need to be agile and they need to actually lean into that. And so that's sort of the theme of the talk. Peter, it's interesting, if you look back, technology used to be one of those things most people don't understand. Today, most people we talk to, the technology seems to be almost the easy part. It's the business processes that are some of the hard part and if we look at the CDO, it's that business process that is the main piece of what they're doing today. Right, and I think that that's the disruptions, that they don't have to go and disrupt all these technology systems. They need to disrupt the stagnant or the legacy ways of thinking about data and data governance. In the same way, I mean, IT is going through this in general, right? People talk about bringing your own device and all these other things because you just can't control anymore why not someone's going to check work email on their phone. You just can't lock all of that down as easily or as naively as I think people initially try to. So CDOs, I think, have a similar charter in terms of reforming really leading change in their organizations around mindsets and attitudes towards governance of the day. So how do you see the relationship of the CDO with the developers and data scientists and the people that are down there using all those tools and creating some of that change? That's a really great question. I think that one of the key things the CDO can do is actually be a peacemaker between those people. A thing that we like to say a lot is that data science is a team sport and it really drives to the point that silos of technology create silos in the organizational silos, which then create fiefdoms and people kind of at war with each other. And that doesn't have to be the case anymore. And so CDOs, I think, have a part of that charter of changing mindsets is actually figuring out how we can have cross-functional and sort of integrative approaches and collaborative approaches. Now that's easier said than done, obviously. Yeah, I'm curious. I think in the software world there's this thing called Conway's Law. That says Conway's Law says that your software is going to look like your organization. So can a peacemaker actually do this or do I need to restructure the organization and what's the CDOs for all of that? So Conway's Law is actually, yes, that software resembles the communication patterns within the organizations that produce them. And so I think a very similar thing can happen here is that when, because data does flow everywhere, the CDO can use that almost as a conductor of electricity and influence. And you can set data policy that encourages collaboration or you can set data policy that reinforces more of the same. If you create a policy, and usually, you know, CDOs, let's say CDOs will be very intimately involved with the analytical sandboxes that are being built out, maybe a data science center of excellence that has executive cover. So the CDO has deep connections and deep buy-in at this executive level. They can actually use that as a way to kind of get their tentacles in the organization and encourage and actually, you know, sometimes in these organizations that have such fiefdoms and such divides, all that you need is for somebody with enough cover to say it's okay to do this. It's okay to be innovative. And that's what we've seen is that there's a lot of fear of innovation that reinforces the silo at the organizational level. So I think that's one of the biggest things the CDO could do. You talk about transformation, the transforming thinking patterns. One of the big hurdles that IT organizations, I'm sure, have to get over is, is moving from operational thinking to strategic thinking. IT has been an operational function for 50 or 60 years. And now we have to start thinking about data strategically. Do you have any advice for how you can make that shift? Yeah, well, that's a very, very big topic. I would say that actually in some cases, I mean, IT has different flavors components, right? For some organizations, they a long time ago realized IT was deeply strategic. I think in the finance sector, we see this quite a bit. There is the operational IT of how you get your email and who's outlook is up and what calendar extensions you have. But then there's the IT around how do we build the fastest simulation, the fastest market data feed? How do we build all these things? In those cases, IT is life or death strategic. So I think that what organizations have to do is a very similar thing is recognizing that the way they manage data is not merely an operational concern, is not merely a risk avoidance, not merely a compliance thing, but actually by enabling agility, by enabling data science on the organization's data and getting smarter as an organization, that's a deep strategic capability. So again, we see it finance for whatever reason tends to leave the field in this area. And so we've seen that happen in finance in a massive way. We're not starting to see it in a lot of the startups, right? If you ask many of the startups in Silicon Valley, they see themselves as being data companies because the data they have on social behavior, on customer preference, that's their crown jewels. So I think those are great exemplars of what this could become. You lead a company that sells open source software, has open source software and proprietary software as well. You've been in this business quite a while. Have you seen the attitudes change within enterprise IT organizations toward the use of open source? Is it now basically mainstream or does it still have a way to go? So in the people that we talk to, it's fairly mainstream, but there's some selection bias there. I think across the board, across the board, there's definitely more acceptance of it. I think, and this is actually something I'm going to cover in my session, open really means different things. When I say open data science, I don't merely mean open source. That open actually refers to data science as a team sport. So being open to collaboration, also being open to innovation that happens outside of your firm. So having less of a non-evented here sort of approach. And most importantly, I think the key thing that, well, where I see open source having the most positive impact within enterprise IT, is places that actually have moved beyond the fear and risk avoidance and more into the strategic thinking. And when they look at the strategic thinking, they realize actually there's a lot of innovation happening out there. We cannot possibly pay for all the innovation ourselves. We have to actually tap into this global pull of innovation because if we don't, our competitors will. And I think that's really the bar that's been set. I mean, everybody's using some level of open source. Let's face it. The biggest, most successful companies in the world are relying on open source and production every day. So for anyone to sit there and say, oh, well, I don't know if I can use it because someone else might have written the code. Or you don't know who wrote the code for some closed source because it's software either, right? Everybody is using open source. Everybody's using open source. If you've done a search on the internet, you're using open source. Everyone's using open source. There's no question. I mean, it's just not even, for me, actually what's interesting is it's a really interesting signal when I'm in a customer conversation and that question comes up. It's like, well, can we really trust it if it's open source? That to me says more about the customer, actually, right? The customer actually has never even gone through that conversion into adopting all of these new age technologies. I'm curious, any specific verticals that you're seeing at the show? We've talked to a lot of government people. Of course, they've got kind of the open mandate here, very regulated in government and governance specific industries or tend to be what we see here. But what have you been seeing? So yeah, there's definitely a lot of government here. That's a little bit of a surprise to me, but given the panels and sessions, I think that's not too surprising. There's also actually a wide mix of folks, right? We've talked to pharma people. I've talked to some finance people. It's all the standard people you'd expect that would show up to look for solutions for big data management and data quality. Those are the folks that have it in spades. They have that problem in spades. Very quickly, best brisket in Austin. Best brisket in Austin? I think I make a pretty good brisket, but consensus opinion is Franklin's. Thank you, Peter Wang. Very important to answer that question. Thanks for joining us here on theCUBE. We've got a couple more guests before we wrap up today's coverage. So we'll be right back in a moment. Hi, this is Chris Devane.


Dlai, roi ydych yn fylwg, mae'n i'n gwneud y bach neu'n dod oaf y bach, i'r fawr yn Gwyrtroi yma, da i'n ei ddechrau'n Chynwys Blyneddoedd. Ac ydych chi'n mynd wedi'ch gwybod i'r gwybodaeth i'w gwybod i'w euddo'r Rol yn Yrwyr. Ydych chi'n mynd i'ch gwybod i'u gwybod i'w gwybod i'u gweithredu hegemoniad. Felly, dweud o'ch arferwad i'r ysgolwch, cyhoeddu ffrodol yn ddau, oherwydd rytwm ei ddim yn ôl am ymddangos lawer o gyllid a path yw yn tynnu'r hyn. Felly, y gallan i'n cwestiynau gweithioheitho'r rhaglenon nhw, byddiol gael cael y gallwn dda, yn ymateb o'i chydig ddim yn hynny oherwydd yr yddyddol yn write i'r rhaglenon nhw, bobl yn rhaid o'r rharf, sgwrs oherwydd i siarad o'r rhaglenon nhw yn oeddu o'r rhaglenon nhw, Rwy'r hwn yn fawr i'r gwaith yn ysgolwch ar y cyfnod o'r cyfrifiad yng Nghymru. Ond mae'n rhaid i'r pethau hyn yn ymweld y cyfrifiad a'r cyfrifiad. Mae'r gwaith ar y Cyfrifiad o'r hwn yn ymweld a'r gwaith. Mae'n mynd i'n gweithio i'n maen nhw'n credu o'r tyn i'r tyn i'r cyfrifiad. I'm not going to specifically talk about the implications for Ireland, but I hope we can get into that because I'd love to hear from your perspectives what you think this all means for Ireland. I'm quite conscious, I will be talking about economic policy and security policy, and I'm quite conscious that in both of those areas, Ireland occupies a particular space. It's in the Eurozone, on the other hand, in terms of security policy, it's a neutral country, so I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on that. I'm not going to say very much about the current immediate political crisis around the leadership of the CDU and who might succeed Merkel as Chancellor, or the future of the SPD, for that matter, the future of the Grand Coalition. I'm happy to get into that in the discussion afterwards, no doubt people have questions and comments on that. But I thought I'd just start by saying something a bit more about the structural situation of Germany in Europe. This has really been my argument over the last few years is that German power is structural rather than a function of Merkel's personality or the strength of the current government. I think it's much more structural than that. It's almost exactly a decade since the Euro crisis began at the beginning of 2010. It's incredible that it's a decade has passed since then. That really prompted this big debate about German power in Europe. Lots of people started describing Germany as a European hegemon. One variant of this was the idea that Germany is a reluctant hegemon. In other words, it's not actually a hegemon, but it has the potential to be a hegemon if it would just overcome this kind of mental block that it has around leading Europe. But this idea that Germany was an actual potential hegemon became something of a commonplace, really routinely described in newspapers, very good newspapers as being a European hegemon. My argument has been that's not right, that Germany is neither an actual hegemon nor has it the potential to be a hegemon. I think this is actually one of the lessons of European history that actually Germany can't be a hegemon. Although in 20th century history what it meant to be a hegemon was something very different from what that means now, but I think the lesson still holds that Germany is actually not simply not big enough and not powerful enough to be a European hegemon. One very simple illustration of that in the current context is if you look at the size of German GDP as a proportion of the GDP of the Eurozone as a whole. So in other words, forget Britain and the other EU member states, well Britain's not an EU member state anymore, but the EU member states that aren't members of the Eurozone, if you just take the Eurozone. Germany makes up 28% of Eurozone GDP, which is quite big, but it's not that big. It's not above 50%, and actually if you put France and Italy together, they make up a bigger proportion of Eurozone GDP than Germany, which I think illustrates that Germany just simply doesn't have the economic resources to be a European hegemon. I think that the events of the last 10 years have shown again and again that Germany can't be a European hegemon. It hasn't been able to resolve the whole series of crises that Europe has faced over the last 10 years. That I would argue is because it simply doesn't have the resources to do so. I think the Euro crisis and the refugee crisis are particularly good examples of this, that Germany was simply overwhelmed by these two crises in a way that a real hegemon wouldn't have been. My argument was that Germany is not a hegemon, it can't be a hegemon, it's actually a semi-hegemon. This was a term that was used historically about Germany in the period of the classical German question between 1871 and 1945. A German historian Ludwig de Hio originally used this term, help-hegemon was the original German, semi-hegemon. What that meant in terms of the classical German question was that Germany was too big for a balance of power after German unification in 1871, but not big enough to be a European hegemon. It was in this in-between position which created instability. Obviously now the context is very different. I've argued that although Germany is once again a semi-hegemon in Europe since unification, it's no longer in the geopolitical way, in other words in terms of military power, that it used to be. This is rather a geo-economic perversion of the German question. The German question has re-emerged, but in geo-economic rather than geo-political form. Germany is a kind of geo-economic semi-hegemon. That's the argument that I made in a book that was published in 2014. Basically I think that still roughly holds. It wasn't really affected, I think, by Brexit. There was lots of speculation about that at the time of Brexit that somehow this would affect the role of Germany in Europe and change the balance between different European countries. I don't think it really changed anything. The statistic that I just gave about Eurozone GDP illustrates that.  Brexit may have increased the perception of German domination, but that I think is a slightly different thing. That's basically the argument I've been making for the last few years. I do think that this semi-hegemonic position that Germany has may now be coming to an end. That's basically what the argument I want to make this afternoon. Really for a couple of different reasons. The first is really that I think the German economy is going through actually quite a big structural crisis. There's been a lot of sort of declineism about Germany in the last few months, particularly around these economic questions. Some of you may have seen Wolfgang Minschau's column in the Financial Times on Monday, which was called Merkel's successor must confront Germany's decline. This was really all about the way that Germany is now, particularly the car industry, is now vulnerable to what Minschau called a technology shock. In particular, it sort of failed to diversify into electric cars and is now having to play catch up. There's also, I think, a big structural question to come back to China, which I talked about here last time. There's, I think, a real challenge now for Germany. It's becoming incredibly dependent on China as an export market, again, particularly the car industry. That demand though is now slowing for some structural reasons which have to do with the way that China wants to do more indigenous innovation and move away from being kind of an import economy. And so the German car industry I think is now facing a really, really big challenge. I saw another article yesterday on Reuters which was comparing the German car industry to sort of Detroit in the 1970s. This slowing of demand has led to an increase in the use of Kurzarbeit, which is where the German government essentially subsidises German car companies to continue to pay workers without them having to actually work because demand is slower. So there's a real challenge to the German economic model, this kind of export dependent economy. Germany's always been an export dependent economy, but it's become much more export dependent over the last couple of decades. An exports account for roughly 50% of German GDP now, which is quite extraordinary for an economy the size of Germany's, which really ought to have a much bigger internal market, an internal source of demand. So that's part of the story I think is these challenges in the German economy, and lots have been written about that. I think the second reason though, and this is mainly what I want to focus on, is, as I say, to do with the way that the international environment around Germany is now changing. And in particular the role of the US in Europe. So I think that actually the more significant shock actually that happened in 2016 as far as Germany and its role in Europe is concerned. There's not so much Brexit as the election of Trump actually. I think it has much more profound implications for Germany than Brexit does actually. It also, by the way, has a slightly knock-on effect for Britain's relationship with the EU and the EU's relationship with Britain. I'll maybe come to that a bit later. So, as I kind of suggested earlier on, this position of semi hegemony that Germany has had wasn't exactly created by the euro crisis. I think it actually goes back to German unification in 1990. But this position of predominance that Germany developed that really became apparent, I think, with the beginning of the euro crisis in 2010, I think developed in a couple of different phases. The first was simply with the end of the Cold War and German unification itself, which increased the size of Germany and therefore its resources. But also because of the end of the Cold War meant that Germany, the unified Germany at this point, was no longer much more secure than it had been during the Cold War, where it was literally on the front lines of the Cold War and very, very vulnerable in security terms. It became much more secure after the end of the Cold War and therefore is a consequence of that also much less dependent particularly on the US but also on France and the UK, which had been sort of security guarantors, significant security guarantors for Germany. So that's the first moment, as it were, is unification itself. And then I think the second moment, which actually is an indirect consequence of reunification, is the creation of the euro, the single currency. And with that, the transformation of the German economy that took place in the 2000s. One of the consequences of which was to make the German economy much more export dependent than it had been before, as I mentioned. And I think this is the part that really only became clear after the euro crisis began, but actually the shift had been underway before that. So Germany emerges into this kind of predominant position, but I think what the election of Trump illustrated was the sort of weak foundations on which that was based. That Germany was essentially this position of semi-hegemony that Germany had developed was dependent on this particular configuration of liberal international order. And in particular the role that the US played as a provider of global public goods. Above all in terms of security, but also increasingly in the last few decades in economic terms. Not just guaranteeing the economic order, but also being a source of demand for Germany. Again for German cars in particular. So before Trump was elected, successive US administrations had accused Germany essentially of free riding in these two different ways, both in economic terms and in security terms. In security terms, because it didn't spend enough on defence, it wasn't meeting the 2% commitment that NATO countries have. But it was kind of an economic free riding as well, which was basically free riding on demand from the US and not creating enough internal demand. This particularly became an issue after the euro crisis began in 2010. In the early years of the euro crisis, as you may know, there were these rather fraught phone calls between President Obama at that time and Merkel where Obama was urging Germany to shift its economic policy. Now the reason I think the election of Trump and the uncertainty about the US security guarantee that he's created. There was some uncertainty even before Trump, but he's really increased that uncertainty about whether the US is committed to the security of Europe with his comments about NATO and so on. The reason I think that's so important for Germany and its role in Europe is that I think what it's done is it's changed the role that military power plays in relations between EU member states. Until now, and for the entire period of European integration, the US security guarantee was fairly clear, and that was in a way the basis for European integration to take place. I mean, the colon seal community happens after the creation of NATO. The entire history of European integration has taken place within this framework in which the US guaranteed European security. One of the consequences of that, this way that the United States sort of pacified Europe, was that military power was taken out of relations between European countries. The fact that France and Britain were nuclear powers and had significant conventional military resources wasn't really something that they could use in negotiations with Germany. It was to some extent during the Cold War, but as I say, after the end of the Cold War it certainly was no longer something that they could use as leverage. But I think that's now changed since the election of Trump, now that there's this uncertainty about the US security guarantee. Suddenly the fact that France, and in a slightly different way now that it's left the EU, the UK, are these secondary security guarantors for Europe. It's now a factor in relations with Germany in a completely different way than it was. It was quite interesting, almost immediately after the election of Trump in 2016, a debate started in Germany, albeit in quite small circles, about whether Germany needed to think again about a nuclear deterrent. Either a European nuclear deterrent or a German nuclear deterrent, quite extraordinary. Now it hasn't really gone anywhere, the debate has kind of kept coming back, but this is now a question in a way that it wasn't before. Some of you may have seen that Emmanuel Macron gave a speech in Paris a couple of weeks ago specifically about the French nuclear deterrents, where he invited other European countries to start a, what he called a strategic dialogue, about the role of the French nuclear deterrent, the force de frappe in collective security in Europe. Now what was sort of implicit in that, I think, was the idea that we would be prepared to think about some way of extending the French nuclear deterrents so that it could include others in Europe. But that's the beginning of a conversation and there would clearly be some kind of quid pro quo here. And so you can start to see, I think, the way that French military resources now are a kind of a form of leverage in relations with Germany in a way that they weren't before. Now this kind of brings me to a piece that Bob Cagan, the American foreign policy thinker, wrote in foreign affairs last year called the New German Question. And he talked about the way that the collapse, the potential collapse of liberal international order. I mean this is really all about Trump really, the way that Trump is threatening the liberal international order. And especially the US security guarantee to Europe could lead, he argued, to a return of German militarism essentially. So there's a funny way in which, although his essay was called the New German Question, he was actually talking about the old German Question. It's the geopolitical version of the German Question, which is all about military power, the 1871 to 1945 version of the German Question, rather than the geo-economic version of the German Question that I've been focusing on. Now I think Cagan's wrong about this because I think he underestimates the degree of cultural change that's been in Germany since 1945. Pacifism, if that is the right word, it's something slightly different from pacifism, but broadly the opposition to militarism is now I think so deeply entrenched in German culture. I don't see that changing even if tomorrow the US security guarantee were really to completely disappear. I don't actually see any possibility that Germany would somehow revert to its previous militaristic culture. And you see this also in the reactions to this emerging debate about nuclear deterrent. There's such opposition, and I just think politically this is unrealistic. I think there's actually another possibility, which is actually in a way quite optimistic, certainly compared to Cagan's rather dark vision of the direction that Europe's going in, the direction that Germany might go in if the liberal international order, including the US security guarantee, were to further be eroded. I think there's actually a way in which US withdrawal from Europe could help resolve the German Question in its current form and could actually be good for Europe as a whole. As I said, thanks to the US security guarantee, in the past Germany had no need for French or British, for that matter, military capabilities. And so therefore it had little incentive to make concessions to France on other issues. For example, and I think most importantly, the whole set of economic issues around the Eurozone. I think one way of telling the story of what's happened in the last 10 years in Europe has been that Germany has refused to make concessions and reach a compromise with France to make the Euro sustainable in a way that it would have done in the past. And that I think in turn is to do with the way that the balance between France and Germany has gone. And it basically went already after reunification in 1990 as it really became apparent after the Euro crisis began. But I think the structural shift really is after German unification in a somewhat analogous way to what happens in 1871, when the balance of power between France and Germany also is destroyed. And so if that's right, that a big part of the story of the Eurozone in particular in the last decade has been the imbalance between France and Germany, in the past the way that the European Union often functioned was that France and Germany reached some kind of compromise, kind of a grand bargain, that's how European integration kind of functioned. That's I think ceased to work because the balance between France and Germany has gone. There's also another factor which is that EU is much larger now and so I think a Franco-German agreement is no longer enough. But I think it is a kind of a precondition particularly around these questions around the Eurozone. And so I think there's a way in which this at least now creates the possibility that the balance might be restored between France and Germany, that France has a little bit more leverage over Germany than it did in the past, precisely because its military resources now are relevant and important to Germany in a way that they didn't used to be when it could just rely on the US. And so there's a way in which I think actually there could be a new grand bargain between France and Germany that could help in particular make the Eurozone sustainable, which would obviously be good for Ireland, and more broadly make the European Union function again in a way that it hasn't done for the last decade or so. Thank you very much. Thank you.


Thanks for staying with us. There's still the breakfast on Plus TV Africa We're being joined by Mr. Tunde Kolaole a legal practitioner here in Lagos to review the papers this morning Good morning and welcome to the program. Mr. Kolaole Okay, let's begin with the punch newspaper this morning the headline the major headline is saying Senate to probe Buhari's government a mepheli over 30 trillion Naira CBN loans the riders are Senate links food security crisis to reckless ways and means loans under Buhari's cabinet and then panel to investigate CBN's 10 trillion Naira Ancoboros came 24 billion dollars for ex fraud and others your take on that The kind of move that the Senate is about about to make In a way, they're very strange to me Why do I think it's strange? it is strange because some of these loans that The Senate now said to want to start a problem Well, actually approved by them And some of the people you find the Senate today Why in that Senate when these loans were being approved? all the radio the television woman right organization at that period in time Christ and we both They approve of those loans by the National Assembly But all entreaties to them to do the needful To stop that reckless borrowing of money or reckless printing of money and spending me The Senate or the National Assembly? Tony a blind either me blind there and the death yeah, you will recollect the incumbent governor of a two-stage Was the first to raise their land? But the Buhari administration was nearly printing money and spending it and that the consequences on the nation on the economy Was going to be fired and totally damaging But in a given agenda saying this isn't doing anything with respect to governor of a techies outcry and that wasn't time for them more They were also beneficiary of that money in terms of the package type of office That were provided for them from some of those ways are made That general Muhammad will value and back for fun so as they will not be seen So pro indict Condemn and not sure for which they were prime beneficiaries He's very strange to me Honestly speaking I would rather Want to see a situation? and with the National Assembly and the present government in power at the federal level and at the different state levels and all that concerted efforts on salvation Whatever is left of the Naira I'm making sure that the economy gets back on track The issue of this country has thought it's not that No probe has ever yielded any positive results most times The report of a pro is usually set under the capital simply because Those who should take action on those rules Those who are on those pro Those who use to implement the report of those two Agents are usually inducted By the report of those of by the report of all our posts. Take your mind back to since independence No probing this country has ever yielded any positive results It's usually set under the capital and then we begin from Zero from Grand Velo or as they call it Begin to pick up all the points from those costs So it's helping mechanisms to me That's all I thought it wasn't the cancer he's an escapist a way of giving the present government and not the time for not facing serious governor up or not Timing solutions and not doing the possibilities for governor That's the way I see it. Okay. Well Meanwhile, the federal government Blames opposition for food crisis on cover 32 smuggling routes. I Chocked when I read that and you I don't know how you feel federal government is blaming the opposition for food crisis Arguments People are smuggling food across the border What is the constant looking? What is immigration looking? What is the Nigerian army looking? I'm more importantly The country to which they say this food is being smuggled. Oh, which is basically in a very public And sometimes Kalleroon countries which borders with Nigeria Have been shot down for a long time And where they are now shot down The armies are supposed to be Who are said to be in the safety control of those borders because of the activities against the Bukwaram and then the bandits That are operating in those are more importantly more to remember than the J Republic But I have always said It's like a second home to our northern border It could be this has an ascended of Nigeria Why food has taken from Nigeria to Nigeria and not a place is there You will find out that a lot of good services Also flowing from DJ Into Nigeria It's like things things like onions and water So if you say you're going to speculate shot down for that the consequences will be You might be generated Not just in Nigeria But also in the very public more important to the tool it is doubtful whether brothers and sisters in the north will complete it too in shopping them the passage of food across the border Because you'll find out there are some families in in other Nigeria Who also have an effect of their families in the daily public How much everything is in the daily public pick out that language And those who don't pick out the language they speak for food is full and in language It does the artificial border that we have been there. I don't see how we can enforce the secret closure of that border and total stoppage for food from curfews in between Nigeria And it really probably between Nigeria and Cameroon okay, well On the on the on the daily trust and the Guardian newspaper and also here on punch that we are dealing with right now We we see that state police has passed Second reading the bill for state police creation is has passed second reading but here on the punch They say governance to appoint police commissioners a bill lease conditions for CP's sacking the rider is CP's can't be removed without PSC Assemblies approval. Okay, state police here. We are now second reading and we are already seeing some parts of this bill What's very quickly say not except is a mutual cooperation between the national assembly The state of your family within the presidency and the governor We may see this far far away From achieving the objective of having state police in this country. Why do I say they? We collect That is police. I mean the police is under the exclusive the legislative list Which only the federal government can handle If you are going to put it on the court in the state is made Then you have to amend the regular constitution I'm ending the conclusion is not a very easy task at least 24 Of the federal assembly must give their consent And then the national family too must give their consent and no one it is passed from both the House of River and then the Senate When the president can be signed So except the corporate To give you the kind of accelerated approval Both the state level and the federal level We may see the very very far away from it then more importantly too They already started making some mistakes in there saying that It is a police service commission Which I suspect the federal police service commission that will give a prover for the removal of state police And the state commission of police at the state level. Yeah, I beg to disagree with that The state once the state police is created the state should have their own police service commission And it is the police service committee at the state level and the state's House of Assemblies That's why final decision Or no get a prover as commissioner of police and who gets sucked at Commissioner of police at the state level It was the following we made in the judiciary In which we have the federal digital service commission and then the state's digital service commission And we killed the state's digital service commission by a service in the NJC Which now takes effective control and total control As regards a vision of justice in Nigeria, as well as the management of affairs of authorities in the country Without too much regard for the police service For the state Digital service commission If you say you are part of the federalism You must pass these two federalism in the two sense of it Anything that belongs to the state they should have effective control of it Anything that belongs to the federal they should have effective control of it Not that you now establish the state police and then must get the independence Of the state police So the federal police service commission and then you Turn the police at the state level They may have to place a bulldog It is not going to have matters of thought I will also want to enjoy the national assembly Not to stop At the police at the state level alone It must also be included in that deal Local government police It must also be included in that deal Police at the corporate level If schools in Nigeria If churches in Nigeria If some other big bodies like corporations Feel that they are the way that means To establish the police They should be licensed by the state police at this commission To have their own police And then to be kept All that you require to do Is that in licensing them There's the parameters And training and standards An oversight function That must be made On the police at the local government level And they are the corporate level Nigeria is too big To be left alone For the police at the federal level And at the state level In most other jurisdictions In most other countries of the world Police are even hard At the level of countries Municipal authorities They collect in those days Ibrahim Nagos Especially Nagos Island Used to have a very effective municipal authority Which was running its own transport Running its own supply of water My mentality is gold and water That is what two federalism is all about That is where we should go into So In establishing the state police We should also have police at the local government level And police even at the At the mosque At the church And then at the corporations level That is the way to go And those must get the police At the state level To their constraints At the federal level But even though we want autonomy We want independence Of the state police Do you think the recruitment process should be left to the state Or it should be like for instance Jam Where you take jam But you are going to various institutions Some people have expressed fear That the recruitment exercise might just reflect The The person in power The people in power That should include their voice That they use for political gains Into the police force So that they can get away with everything Get away with everything So do you think the recruitment process Should remain at the state Or the federal can do the recruitment And let the states run the service I agree that Some of these things Will be subject to appeals Like the governor In the respective state And we have the little bit of that Only the second republic In which they say all the religions Add a lot of power Over security You'll find that whatever party Will remain at the regional level Will use the native police Under them To create all sorts of mansions And have what can make life Typical For their political opponents Sometimes we read in the post In which the native police authorities Will go to the mutuality Carry dead bodies in the mutuality And go and dump it In the premises Of the Political opponents Of the people at the regional level And then the same police The native police withdraw And go and arise those political opponents And begin to prosecute them For murder That is not impossible We have also seen How The state governors are in the past The knowledge or skills Of abusing and muchepong Of abusing last month Against their political opponents This is not impossible But when you also look At the federal level Too many times too We have seen situations In which the police at the federal level Have been used Or abused By the people in power at the federal level To arise Detain Or press And make life impossible For their political opponents What we require to do To stop all these abuses Is to ensure We provide the noble rules In the law that we establish In these police So as to minimize abuse Furthermore The fundamental right Forcement procedure in Nigeria And our cause Would have to be strengthened And punish my maids cheaper By anybody, by any governor Whom I want to abuse Whatever state police Are established under them I want to wait Not only abuse By state police Or by local government police To be found as gross misconduct Which will be an impeachable offense When these policies At the state level And the local government level Whatever are established All Nigerian politicians Have the penchant And the predilection So at peace whatever powers Are confound them It is the Nigerian people Across the spectrum That would have to rise up to that challenge And then whatever governor May want to abuse Whatever state police Is established When this law is eventually Apart Like we have always said Development Abusive Is only possible When citizens Negrate their obligations To be vigilant To be ready to make sacrifices To stop whatever abuse Any person in power May want to abuse it on them That is the way it is done And it's not law But say It's the people who must decide And challenge How they want to recover After how many are these governors How many are the local government The senators are now that So if we lead them to our peace Our rise Of course we will continue to abuse it Whether at the local state level Okay Well we are going to the daily trust Now let's lift a story from punch And take it to the daily trust On punch it says Federal government seeks $10 billion To stabilize exchange rate As Naira tumbles And then daily trust The leading headline is Dollar Heats Okay despite federal governments clamp down Dollar Heats 1900 Naira And pound 2250 Naira To the dollar The riders are BDCs Rated operators arrested Trial and error not solution According to economists Partner asked to address volatility Operators tell government Once dollar pegged at 850 Naira So dollar is now 1900 Naira Just Tuesday we are alarmed that In one week it moved from 1600 Naira to 1730 Naira But in two days it has risen From 1730 Naira To 1900 Naira Who knows what will happen at the weekend My brother My brother Let's Take note of what I am going to say This guy is not stupid The Naira is on the way To become Another Zimbabwe dollar But when you want to buy Maggi You want to buy pepper You want to buy onion You have to take millions To the market In fact To buy those items Why is this so What determines the value Of the nation's currency Is the level of productivity In those In the country Not regimentation You cannot begin to dictate How much Your currency Will be valued And the fact That all the efforts that the federal government Has put in place Recently Has not helped the Naira Since all the people in government The regimentation This Quartermaster approach To managing a nation's currency Will not solve the problem We have to look At our productive way And so that we begin to become More productive Almost cost down On the cost of government And all that All the measures that they are putting in place today Were measures That the Naira had tried When he was misread of paper And then in 1984 and 1985 He didn't work He also tried to denominate the Naira That was the only time He didn't work On the communist civilian president He also tried to denominate the Naira And then also change the color and water He didn't work He did not work Furthermore When the nation is facing the kind of challenges That we are facing We are having wars in your hands We are fighting Islamic Fertility We are fighting banditry We are fighting kidnappers And what are those What sort of nation is what they do What they do Is to adopt or go into A war economy In which you streamline a lot of things Cost down a lot of spending Look at ways that are made And with some of the things that we import You stop importing them And begin to produce them internally Look at a country like Ukraine It is a fighting war For more than One year now With a war power With Russia And here Ukraine is fighting With rice and water The country also announced recently That it has manufactured A ballistic missile That can travel as far as Seven to fifteen kilometers And that can hit anytime in Russia That is a war economy That is a war economy They will not be able to do that So If this government also wants to cut them And then make sure that Never get back its value They will have to prune them The policies and programs That they want to implement I have advised That this government should Just concentrate on agriculture They should just concentrate on Security They should concentrate on maintenance Of existing infrastructure They should concentrate on Power supply And of course education All the other things for now To be put in a bayon Until we get its rights Until we get the health Or until the economy gets Recovered Its health status Anything sort of that Is never likely to be helpful Furthermore Look at these sensations Going on in the National Assembly Going on at the federal level Going on at the state level For the past six months or so All the states All the local governments Are getting good, good money From federation accounts Are they translating Into any improvement In the web being of The people at the state level And at the local government level The answer is no This is what the government should be looking at And also it should be paramount to the government That before the finality That we have in this country There is no alternative to those refinalities Let's get those refinalities Working again Then we will tell the finality We will not solve our problems Then we will tell the finality We will replace Like any refinery in Dubai Like any refinery in Russia Like any refinery in the United States It will send us very competitive And not otherwise So All this breaking wood And work back an iron mark approach To solving the problem Of the Naira Is never likely to help us at all Okay Let's take this You know that there was a truck intercept Set like we find in In nature news Zamfara government intercepts 50 trucks of grains heading to Georgia or Niger rather So on these daily trucks They say customs subsidizes Distribute seized food items Partners Media trust Okay so now The plan Is to distribute The trucks of The food that was seized To people in Nigeria And I'm just I don't know Let's say it is illegal smuggling And then they are going to distribute it To Nigerians in the coming days Five trucks of food You see When you embark on this thing It's like a price control It's like finding Of Freezing of food from one place to the other What you get is kind of A black market A new underground market to the Naira Which will now begin To operate and blow some So that when this problem is solved It is difficult for you To rein in How to stop those underground markets That would have become one and Can establish Smuggling Is an activity In that activity All over the world The solution to smuggling Is availability Not banning The price regulation Not suppression Of the people From engaging in their ordinary commercial Activity And then they could weigh by which They are going to participate In this item And then distribute them Without following due process of law I'm not comfortable with it Both government and individuals Ordinary people obey their own laws Not food items That have been purchased By some people They are paid for it And if they bought those things And then they paid for illegitimate claim They are entitled to have Those goods supplied to them These things that they get That say due process has not been Followed in the purchases Of those items Then you can engage in the kind of activities The custom is said to have engaged in And not because you have The problem of supplies At home Then you begin to complicate and command there Because that's what my fear is Because it is coming At the time where government is calling anybody Who is saving food in the house Or keeping food in the house As hard as they say You cannot take food outside You cannot keep food in your In your ban or anything So you don't even know What really this is But It's disturbing It's disturbing I don't think If a man has envisaged That they are going to discuss City of Food And they are taking steps To supply food To guarantee food security For his family Or if a farmer Feels that He wants to make better profit From whatever policy comes from his family And he puts those policies Of Products And some silos and solidities And all that I am not to show That the law allows you to go and complicate And command there Whatever you may have cared for Your own wealth And burn out of your own sweat You must make a law Before you can Appropriate Or take that away from me Or you buy the legitimate From him At the prices You see that those goods Or those Or those pamphlets Are worth We should not begin to Behave As if it were a law Without a constitution Without law That we can just Span from people And command there And take away Whatever belongs to them Legitimately The problem is at hand Even though looks are very big There are solutions to them Very simple solution If The Nigeria in their life Will Be committed To enshrine That this ban is free That this is a kidnapping going on All over the place The end The topic Because they want to start mining Precious mineral resources And selling the international market For their own profit Or for their own wealth And all that Then they can find solutions to the full crisis Because We have in the rural area Is due to the fact That certain parties and armies Certain people To be able to take over Some lands And then begin to spoil Or mine Whatever precious mineral resources Like gold, titanium And what are used Are in those places And look at the weapons That the bandits are using Who has the capacity Who has the ways and means To be able to import And make this kind of weapons available To the kidnappers To the bandits And to the Bokwaram That we have all over the place Is basically the Nigeria in their life Not you and mine So if the Nigeria in their life Are cutting their own losses In order to spy themselves Then should please Meet the rest of Meet the rest of us alone They should let us Not our own And find solutions to our All to the problem that they have input Or not After people Okay, there's a story that All the newspapers Carried On punch it is motorist lament Poor drainage as floods Submerges Lagos roads Is the same thing On the Guardian rather Nema 151 houses Affected by downpour in Lagos And also on nature news Which we are concentrating on now Nature news 151 houses Affected by flood in Lagos The rider is Lagos flood crisis And not Central's delayed rainfall On veil Nigeria's Weather challenges in 2024 According to Nema Lagos state Being flooded Just one rain or two rains Or you know The rainy season has not even come We are seeing flood And 151 houses Which is quite a number Have been affected by flood The truth of the matter is that Climate change is real When you look all over the world And take a place like Pakistan That will in the past Not explain what rain falls In the year They are now having massive massive flooding In those places When we were also growing up There in Nigeria And Nauda There was a reality In the northern part of the country If I can recollect That sometimes Special prayers And in the churches And by the traditionally Foreign to fall Before it began to fall in those days But you see what is happening In the northern part of the country now We are having floods In those places So that's helpful That Climate change Is not a joke It's the audio We are the people Must Get more prepared For all these Climate changes By creating Artificial canal Canalization Widening some of our roads And adopting A different methodology Of building our houses Along the coastal areas And the river line places And all of them Part of Lagos Are below the sea level But our houses Build to withstand The challenges of the soil Of an environment That is below the sea level The answer is no So there is no way we will not be having floods If our houses are not built To take cognizance Of the below the sea level State of Of a legal state Because of the canalization That we also have done In a place like Lagos for example They have not been done So those things have to be visited Furthermore The attitude of our people To dispose of their waste Is also blocking the damages Recently Within the federal government And the state government Have said they want to ban All these plastic Containers And also the sake of their drinks Because they continue to constitute Very serious Environmental hazards So when those things Are used We nearly throw them on the ground We don't find a way To dispose them In such a manner That you will not put the damages And water them And you know what You can take about the only year Before they can decay Before they can biograte Before they can De-generate and then turn to soil again The only years is a long time And also there somewhere That there is no technology yet To really be able To take care Or collect Waste that is De-generated By all these plastics And the nylon Containers And water You have to do it manually So if this is a challenge You must get prepared For it Furthermore the legacy government Used to do massive Masses Drainages, clearance And water bill Before the rain starts On the yearly basis And then Consume And you need some resources To be able to do that I think there is no way out of that You must continue to Ensure that Drainages Are clean The sand that have coated those Drainages Are cleared out Before the rain starts on the yearly basis By this way This is where we have to wrap up Thank you so much for being a part of our program This morning We sincerely hope that You can rejoin us next week For another edition of the program Thank you very much We've been talking to Mr. Tunde Kolaule Legal practitioner here in Lagos We'll take a very brief break And when we return We'll be treating our first hot topics Stay with us


Hello and welcome to the course on an introduction to programming through C++. This is the second lecture sequence of the second week. The topic for today is a program design example and the reading for this is from chapter 4 of the book. So the main problem that we are going to consider in this lecture is how to write programs. And we have been writing some programs, we have written some simple programs and we sort of wrote them automatically or intuitively if you will. Now if you want to write more complex programs, even slightly more complex programs, we need to approach this with care because we might make mistakes and we might find it difficult to get out of mistakes and we really should be worried about mistakes and also about how much time we spend on the writing process. So we should make our writing process efficient and we should also make sure that our programs do not make any mistakes. Now that is because the program could be doing some very important calculations, maybe controlling the flight of a plane or maybe deciding how much radiation to give to a patient. So you really cannot afford to make any mistakes in this. And so we should do sort of due diligence and it is important to learn what are the things that you should do in order to ensure that your programs work correctly. So the goal of the chapter is to develop a slightly more complex program than what we have seen so far and while doing this we will follow a typical program development strategy. So what is this? So this begins with the description of the specification. The specification simply and very concisely usually states what the input data is and what the output required is. Now if you are writing a program to solve a real life problem then the statement that might be given to you might be ambiguous or might be incomplete and so when you write down the specification you should try to make it as precise and as complete as possible. Then we construct the test cases. So for what input, what output do you expect? Then we think about how to solve the problem using pencil and paper. This is kind of the first important seriously creative step. Now here what you are expected is to really just mimic manual computation. So the creativity is a little bit less important right now but you really need to pay attention to how you solve the problem manually. So you need to figure out what the structure of that manual solution process is. Which means for example to decide whether something is repeated if so how many times. After this you get to the program writing stage and here the manual solution process will help you because the structure will get reflected in the program. And you also need to decide what variables to use. You can again reason it out from the way you perform the manual calculations. Once your program is ready you run the test cases and if the program does not work correctly as might happen from time to time then you need to figure out what went wrong and you need to fix it. The problem that we are going to look at is a very simple problem. So we have a series whose value approaches E as N increases or we have a sum. So this sum is 1 upon 0 factorial plus 1 upon 1 factorial plus 1 upon 2 factorial all the way till 1 over n factorial. If you add the terms up and as you take n larger and larger you can see you can prove in fact that this sum is going to get close to E is going to tend to E. So we are supposed to take a program we are supposed to write a program which takes n as input and prints the sum of this series whatever the value of n might be. So first let us come to the specification well the input there is only 1 the integer n. So we have clarified that n has to be a non-negative integer the problem does not make sense if we have n negative and the output is the sum 1 upon 0 factorial plus 1 upon 1 factorial all the way till 1 upon n factorial. So notice that 0 as input makes sense because then that just means that you get the first term which is 1 that is of course nowhere close to E but we did not really promise that it would get close to E for such a small value of n in any case. Now in this particular example for this particular problem the specification is fairly straight forward however notice that even here we have added a bit of value so when we said that input is n we also wrote down that it had better be larger than or equal to 0. In general when you write the specification or maybe say after you write the specification you should ask yourself well I have written this down but are there any tricky points to it can something be misunderstood even by mistake because you do not really want any misunderstanding because those misunderstandings may creep into your program as well. So in this case you may realize that if you are careless you may think of n as also being the number of terms to be added up but that is not correct 1 upon 0 factorial might be regarded as the zeroth term then 1 upon 1 factorial is the first term 1 over n factorial is the nth term so there really are n plus 1 terms to be added up. However the number of additions you perform is actually n so n does have some significance but not as the number of terms. The next step is to construct the test cases so here you just pick some input values and you calculate the required output values so for example if we say n is 0 then the required output is 1 over 0 factorial or 1 if we say n is 1 the required output is 1 over 0 factorial plus 1 over 1 factorial which is equal to 2 if n is 2 then the required output is 1 over 0 factorial plus 1 over 1 factorial plus 1 over 2 factorial which is 2.5 and this program really is meant for calculating E and that happens at some large enough value so maybe we will say that if you pick say n equal to 10 or something like that you would like the answer to be close to the known value of E which to so many decimals is 2.718281828. Now test cases will be really needed after you finish writing the program however if you construct them early it is just a confirmation to yourself that look I understand what is expected of me I have not missed out any point okay so what have we discussed so far so we said that the first steps of the program development process consist of the specification writing the specification and constructing the test cases. And we are going to turn to how to solve the problem manually we will take a break.


Love it or hate it. Death Stranding is certainly a unique experience, and in the modern, big-budget games industry, that's disappointingly rare. When asked why he'd made something so utterly weird, game director Hideo Kojima replied by saying, mainly because games haven't changed in a long time. With experimentation, though, comes uncertainty, and it turned out that Death Stranding was not an easy game to make. When Hideo was first plotting out his new open world epic, it was hard to get people to see his vision of what he wanted to achieve. The biggest challenge was money. This was not a cheap game to produce, and was never a very safe bet as an investment. Death Stranding only exists today because a few of Hideo Kojima's fans decided to break the rules and take a leap into the unknown to help him realise his dreams. The year was 2015. After a particularly messy breakup, Hideo Kojima and his employer of the past 30 years, Konami, had finally parted ways. Hideo had nothing. No studio, no finances, no business partners. He was desperate to set himself up as an independent game developer to avoid getting trapped in another unfavourable partnership. Without any money, though, he couldn't really do anything. What Hideo lacked was legitimacy. As popular as he might be as an icon among gamers, negotiating with businesses is hardly his strong suit. In setting up his own company, he felt like he was starting completely from scratch. Hideo's family didn't approve of his decision to go indie. This was incredibly risky, and he was a 53-year-old man. Now was the time to be thinking about future retirement plans, rather than throwing everything away to establish his own game studio. It didn't help that Hideo's plan for a new, sprawling, open-world game was very ambitious. And likely very costly. He wanted world-famous actors to lend their likenesses to his game. He wanted sprawling mountains, realistic graphics, and a state-of-the-art game engine. This wasn't something he could do alone. So, Hideo needed a team. He needed to be able to pay them for their work, and he needed to be able to liaise with other studios. This also meant he needed legitimate office space, if only so that companies within the game industry would take him seriously. Plus, aware that his own family were hesitant about his success, Hideo wanted to make sure that the families of any of his employees could take one look at the Kojima production's office space and feel like their loved ones had made a smart decision in working there. Alas, all of Hideo's work up until that point had been through Konami. He didn't have any clout of his own, and potential investors were not shy in saying so. He might be a big deal to gaming enthusiasts, but to the banks and lenders of the world, he was a nobody. Said Kojima in an interview with Famitsu, I went to a bank and couldn't even get a loan. We understand you're well known, but we don't have any record with you as an individual, they told me. Hideo ran into similar problems with trying to hire office space. The owners of the buildings would run background checks, come up with nothing, and wind up asking, what exactly is Kojima Productions? Hideo's response that it was a newly formed indie game studio didn't exactly inspire much enthusiasm. For a while, it seemed as if Hideo's dreams were going to be crushed. He couldn't work within the system. Who would possibly take a chance on him when he didn't have a history of making money? Then, a few brave fans stepped forward to help. At the largest bank in Japan, to Hideo's complete surprise, somebody approved his loan application. As it transpired, one of the higher-ups within the bank was a big fan of Hideo's games. Perhaps, Hideo suggests, one of his biggest fans. The decision to fund death stranding didn't come from typical banking logic. It wasn't a move to make money, because Hideo was clearly a risky investment. In one unexpected act of defiance, a banking executive decided to break the rules and put the development of art above the need for assured safe profits. Hideo's office space problem was solved in a similar fashion. After applying to rent plenty of different buildings, Hideo managed to stumble upon a property that was managed by a huge metal gear fan. It was this connection that allowed him to get his application approved. Not because Kojima Productions was a proven trustworthy tenant, but because the manager wanted to make sure Hideo landed on his feet after leaving Konami. The moral of the story is that sometimes you have to break the rules to achieve your dreams. Hideo Kojima was told by everyone around him that his goal of making a big-budget indie game was impossible. It simply couldn't be done within the established system. In spite of all of this, Hideo was able to find a few other like-minded souls, other people who were willing to push against conventional wisdom in order to get the game made. Death Stranding is the work of many, many developers, artists and programmers who've come together with the goal of making something different. Whatever your thoughts on the finished product, this originality is something that's worth celebrating.