Welcome to digital asset news to get top stories and crypto and bring on a bite size pieces. So today just the thumbnail suggests Cardano got listed and that's great news. So we're going to talk about what's going on with that. Also a video that I did yesterday about Cardano being delisted as far as a follow up and we're going to talk about a metaverse play and why I believe it is one of the biggest things that is going to happen over the next two to four years. So without further ado let's just drink into all those things. But first let's take a look at what's going on into the market. So today it is Wednesday one day before Thanksgiving for here in the States and the prices are down a little bit. Same thing. Everything's moving kind of sideways with a little bit of dips here and there. Bitcoin's down a percent roughly. Ethereum a little bit finance. Everybody's down a little bit. Cardano took a hit six percent. Man XRP to an half. Poked out four percent down. Everything's down except for crypto.com. Man I should invest in that one. Missed the boat on that. What are you going to do? Mana though is up 28 percent. That's always fantastic. Theta's up 2 percent. Sandbox is up almost 40 percent. So remember like I love these plays and I'm glad I got into it and I'm glad that people that I watch and listen to like Stash and Alex Becker and those types of guys they even called it and they called it right and I'm glad that they did because now I can diversify and it works out pretty well. So that is what is going on in the market essentially. And before we break into the big story of the day just to let you know there's a bunch of things coming up because if you're not from the States after Thanksgiving they have like Black Friday sales which are like huge massive sales and then also you have like Cyber Monday and there's also a thing called Crypto Tuesday but unstoppable domains they're doing this it's a buy one get one free for all their domains right and that's on that's on Cyber Monday November 29th and you get if you buy any kind of domain you want either it's a .crypto.coin.walt.bitcoin whatever else for any kind of domain there you will get one for free and again the reason why I like this is because when you use it instead of sending out some like wacky 0x57535 of our blah blah address you just send hey just send it to uh Dan teaches crypto uh or Dan teaches .crypto and that's my wallet and it's got a bunch of like like Bitcoin and Ethereum and like 20 other different cryptos you can send it to just by sending it to that so that's why I like that and uh that's what's going on within Supplements. You there's a link in the description you know have to use it but if you do that would help but if not you can go right to unstoppable domains and remember it's unstoppable domains .com again link in the description check that all out so that's what's going on but let's talk about this Cardano being listed hey watch out that's good right everybody's excited and uh this information come came to me a little late yesterday so I wasn't able to cover it but I'm covering it today so this is what's going on Cardano's ADA to be listed on Bitstamp crypto exchange fantastic if you don't know Bitstamp is uh it's a pretty higher tier type of crypto as far as like the liquidity and the amounts of transactions that are going on so a little bit bigger than some like small different type of exchange like an eToro so this is the whole story Bitstamp has announced that it's listing Cardano's native token ADA on exchange beginning November 23rd and then uh you can be placed and canceled or November 24th at around 11 am ETC and that's what's going on that's the whole thing so that's great so why do I bring this up to your attention because crypto gets uh listed every single day and really what it comes down to it comes down to the story that we covered yesterday about ADA being delisted and people lost their minds I'm gonna go over everything about it but uh the big thing here is getting the information to make the right investment decision for you and yourself and we covered this yesterday and people were like Robbie didn't talk about how it was only for the U.S. I read the title eToro to least Cardano and Tron for U.S. customers due to regulatory issues and I also said it again down here for holds of the tokens eToro say that U.S. customers would be able to sell their holding so yeah it's only for U.S. customers I don't know if I need to say that three or five or ten times so sure so that's what's going on as far as that and there wasn't the content of the video the big issue everybody had with was this and I said ADA delisted the end so people were just freaking out because they're like first of all they were like I thought ADA got delisted from all the exchanges did I say there was listed delisted from all the exchanges well the thumbnail made it I that's not what it said the thumbnail is different than the actual content I mean there is it is the same information that you're getting I'm just giving you a preview it's kind of hard to tell you everything as far as the content in the title of the video so when I say ADA listed is this the end ADA was delisted and it was delisted on eToro and as far as like was it the end well it was the end for you Toro I could tell you right there and I didn't really want to go into it but now that it just comes out like oh well this is just an awful clickbait title and blah blah I'll go into it right now so when we talk about the end and then before I go on people were like well Rob why didn't she talk about this story about it being also listed on Biznap it's because guess what this information didn't come to me at that point I didn't even know about it I learned about it after I put out this video this just happened yesterday so that's the first part and then when we're talking about this this issue as far as like the end and what was said they're like but Rob Charles Hoskinson said and his video itself was and it's not kind of now it's liquidity and eToro that was the title of his his video and people just what were talking to me and they said well you don't understand because Charles said it was just liquidity that's not what he said if you watch the video again content context of what's going on he said that even though Cardano was delisted off of eToro there wasn't a big deal because there wasn't a ton of liquidity it was like rank number 64 whatever else is in exchanges and Biznap had a ton of more liquidity he also talked about how different divisions as far as IO is the technical part and the Cardano Foundation deals with all those things he goes we never got a summons we never got any information as far as they were delisting it because of regulatory issues he said in the video we don't really have much information as to why exactly they did delist everything but it doesn't matter because there's a great amount of liquidity throughout the entire world he talked about Japan and everything else so that's not exactly what it was so when i talk about like is it the end i'll get into it right now when a certain exchange or any exchange looks at and goes we need to delist because of regulatory issues it's fine right that's a decision they can do that but me i'm just thinking out loud as a business person if i'm looking at them going hmm if you're making money off of this different product why would you delist it why would you go against it and just say i'm going to get rid of it because for whatever reasons well maybe it's because they don't have liquidity okay fine whatever else but if they start to spout off and say that it is because of regulatory issues maybe me as a business and an entity and i'll and have to you know answer to a lot of different people maybe i look to myself and go you know what maybe we should take a look deeper into these regulatory issues and see if we're not going down the wrong path so when i talk about the end it was the end for itoro is at the end for other exchanges possibly we see this happen again with privacy coins need i remind you about monero what's going on there throughout multiple exchanges and that's the end for them until maybe sometime in the future so when i talk about these things give it a little content and don't just be what i call a thumbnail investor we look at the thumbnail and go jeez i need to sell my cardano if you're doing that you're not going to make it so that's really the big thing that is going on with that piece and i just want to remind everybody that in that video when i talked about cardano it wasn't like i was saying it's the end it's the worst and you need to get rid of it the content the context in there was my thesis was this if it's for regulatory issues it really comes down to the how we test and how we determine as far as securities here in the united states and i talked about how the how we tested in 1933 makes no sense whatsoever so i talked about there is utility with cardano if you use anything for nfts and i talked about cardano combat all different nfts that are being built on there i talked about cornucopia i talked about the nft gaming realm and a bunch of different things that would be considered a utility and i also referenced ethereum how they got screwed around that legal aspect because they just said they hired a bunch of lawyers i talked about the invisible machine book go and check that out and they said look if you get into ethereum it's all about the gas and that's the utility it's not the other thing that we're we were you know getting away from as far as like the security as far as someone going you know what we're going to buy ethereum and hopes that it gains a bunch of money then sell it off no no no that's not what ethereum does it's all about the gas and the utility so i made the same argument for cardano so look when i talk about these things i'm not going to give you just straight up stupid hope him and everything's going to the moon and you should have no worries whatsoever i told you specifically what was going on and i give you the best information i possibly can on top of that if you would have taken a look at it what's down a ton today six seven percent is cardano so i mean i don't know what else to tell you uh i just got a little uh perturbed i've other different battles going on behind the scenes but uh that's what i got that's all i'm gonna say about that so moving on uh next piece i think this is uh probably a better better piece so i can calm down the meta play so first of all the meta verse i think is going to be very huge within a couple of different videos one was stash which was uh crypto stash which was fantastic i like doing that one and he really made a crystal clear as to why the meta verse is going to be big and this one uh really says it again so uh i am big into real estate and now i'm more bigger bigger biggest into virtual real estate so there's a two and a half million virtual land sale what happened here so the metaverse group which is headquartered in decentralized crazy announced on tuesday that it had to complete to what it calls the largest metaverse land acquisition in history the subsidiary of tokens dot com snapped up 160 parcels of land 116 and uh that cost just a uh a small shanty 2.5 million nice metaverse group plans to develop the estate for fashion shows and commerce and this is where it gets interesting because the question is why would i buy virtual land it makes no sense rob because it's just virtual and you can't do anything on it oh contraire unfair and it says right here it will also form partnerships with fashion brands looking to expand their presence in the metaverse especially to central land who cares you're saying fashion brands who cares because they have a lot of money that's why so if you're taking a look at the gucci and louis baton how much money they swing around and if you have a plot of land and they say you know what we'd like to advertise here because there's a lot of people coming in playing games so we'd like to just set up a little shop here great i'm the land i'll rent it to you well how's that going to work because it's just it's just virtual doesn't make any sense we covered a story a couple days ago south of these south of these however you say it and uh what they had done is they had set up shop and they had auctioned off a very expensive piece by the artist known as banksy so if you have artists coming in you have the fashion industry coming in what makes you think that other industries aren't going to come into this virtual land and set up shop and want to have land and want to want to rent it from you and want to get your advertising dollars in on top of all the other things we don't even think about i am telling you in my personal opinion not financial advice just financial opinion i think virtual land is going to be huge that's why i'm going in heavy and uh to me this is a two to four year play but i think at the end of four years i'm going to be pretty darn happy and that's it so look uh that's it for today sorry i got a little heated a lot of things going on but if you like the video give it a thumbs up uh if not you can always give it a thumbs down i got a ton of those yesterday on top of that you can also subscribe a lot of things are going on pretty crazy and that's it for today so thanks so much for watching i appreciate it see you on the next one


This is Waylon Chao. Welcome to Discharge and Remedies for Breach of Contract, Module 3C Part D. Let's now look at nominal, liquidated, and punitive damages. You can technically sue for breach of contract, even if you have not suffered, you know, any loss because of that breach. And you can win a lawsuit like that, and the court would order what's called nominal damages. So you would get symbolic recognition that there was a breach of contract. There was some kind of wrongdoing that was committed by the other party. Now, the thing to keep in mind is, if you want your day in court just for that symbolic victory, that may aggravate a judge. Judges do not like to waste time on trivial matters, and the judge may say that you won the lawsuit, but they may also order you to pay some of the legal costs of the defendant, of the other party. Liquidated damages is where there is a specific clause in a contract, which we call a liquidated damages clause, which provides a specific amount of damages that an innocent party from a breach of contract is entitled to. So to be a proper liquidated damages clause, that amount has to be a genuine pre-estimate of the possible losses that may arise on a breach of contract. Now, the purpose that we put a liquidated damages clause into a contract is to avoid litigation, is to avoid a dispute as to the amount of damages, and also to provide a clear incentive for the parties to perform, because they know exactly what the financial penalty would be if they didn't. Now, the actual size of what the actual loss would be compared to the liquidated amount is not really relevant, but a liquidated damages clause sometimes may be viewed as a penalty clause where a court feels that the amount of the damages that's set by the contract is not a genuine attempt to estimate the possible actual losses that may arise from a breach of the contract. If it is viewed as a penalty clause by a court, the court would say that the clause, the liquidated damages clause is unenforceable, or in other words is not valid. So let's say this is the contract between Drew and Justin, and this is a very simplified version of a liquidated damages clause. So it just simply says that if there is a breach of contract, then the actual damages or the damages are deemed to be the lesser of what the actual damages are and $10,000. So the effect of that is to cap the maximum amount of damages for a breach of contract to $10,000. Damages such as expectation damages are usually meant to compensate the innocent party for their losses, and exceptions to that rule is punitive damages. Punitive damages are intended to punish and discourage outrageous conduct. An award of punitive damages is in addition to compensatory damages such as expectation damages. The award of punitive damages by a court is not that common in Canada as it is in the US, and also if a Canadian court does award punitive damages, it's nowhere near as large in terms of the dollar value as what often occurs in a US court. The general requirements that a court looks at to determine the availability of awarding punitive damages is that the breaching party, the one that breached the contract, had to have acted in a harsh, vindictive, reprehensible, or malicious manner. So just breaching a contract straight away is not enough to warrant punitive damages. It has the behavior has to be much worse than that. The leading case in Canada on punitive damages is the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Witten and Pilot Insurance. Let's have a look at that case by looking at actual excerpts from that case. The first couple of excerpts set out the facts, which are summarized in something called a head note. A head note is a summary of the case that is found at the beginning. So in these facts, we have Mrs. Witten and her husband discovered a fire in their house late at night. So they and their daughter ran from the house wearing only their night clothes. It was in the middle of winter. It was minus 18 degrees Celsius. The Mr. Witten, the husband gave his slippers to his daughter to go for help. And in the process he suffered serious frostbite to his feet.  They had to move into a cottage that they rented for $650 a month. The insurance company, the company that provided the house insurance, which was pilot insurance, made a single payment of $5,000 for their living expenses and covered the rent for a couple of months. And then they all of a sudden stopped paying that rent without even telling the family. And then they pursued what was described as a confrontational policy with respect to this insurance claim. They knew that the family here was in very poor financial shape. So they decided to take advantage of the poor financial situation of this family. They essentially asserted that this family had committed arson and had started this fire. So they made this assertion even though there was absolutely no proof that the fire had been started by arson. So the local fire chief had said that it wasn't arson. The insurance company's own expert said there was no evidence of arson. And the case says that the insurance company's position of arson was wholly discredited at trial. And its own lawyer conceded that there was no error of reality to the allegation of arson. So at the trial of this case, the jury awarded compensatory damages, which would have been covered the cost or the value of the house. And they also awarded $1 million of punitive damages. And that decision at trial was appealed to the next level of court above it, which would have been the Ontario Court of Appeal. There the court allowed the punitive damages but reduced them all the way down to $100,000. So then the case was appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada. So the legal issue that the Supreme Court of Canada dealt with was whether the jury's award of the $1 million in punitive damages should be restored. The legal principles that come out of this case that are applied in this case are that punitive damages are awarded against the defendant in exceptional cases for malicious, oppressive, and high-handed misconduct that offends the court's sense of decency. Now let's look at how the court, the Supreme Court of Canada applied the law to the facts. So they said that the more reprehensible conduct, the higher the rational limit for the potential award of punitive damages. And they noted that the need for denunciation is aggravated in this case, where the conduct persisted over a lengthy period of time. In this case, it was two years up to the date of the trial. And they also said that despite the defendant's awareness, despite the pilot insurance's awareness of the hardship it knew it was inflicting, indeed the insurance company anticipated that the greater the hardship to the family here, the appellant, the lower the settlement she would ultimately be forced to accept. So the court was saying that pilot insurance as a matter of conscious strategy was taking advantage of the financial hardship of this family to force them to settle for a lower amount than what the insurance company was legally obligated to pay under the insurance policy. The court here also noted that insurance contracts, such as the one involved here, are purchased by the public to get peace of mind. And it said that the more devastating the loss, the more the insured may be at the financial mercy of the insurer. And the more difficult it may be to challenge a wrongful refusal to pay the claim deterrence is required in this case, the court says. And the court also talks about talks about good faith. So good faith in terms of insurance contract is an obligation of insurance company to honestly abide by the terms of insurance policy in determining whether or not to pay out on a claim on that insurance policy. So if it if it's required under the terms of the contract under under the duty of good faith, they should pay what they're what they're obligated to pay under under the contract. The court here noted that this relationship of reliance and vulnerability that was outrageously exported by was outrageously exported by pilot in this case. And they said that the jury in this case appeared to decide a powerful message of retribution deterrence and denunciation had to be sent to the insurance company.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports guard, dripping 10 bucks Tuesdays, 10 bucks, Prism Treasures, basketball mixer number 148, random team style. Here's a look again at your random results. As always you can find these on the website under the results tab as well as the link that's currently in the chat. It's good luck guys. We'll start with our prism draft stuff. I think we have prism draft. Yeah, prism draft hobby. Start with that and the choice. Any non-NBA guy will be randomed off as well as any college base will be randomed off as well. So again, start with some 22-23 prism draft hobby. Good luck. I have not tried a quad stack here at BK. I have not. Silver Russell Westbrook. There's a Malik Curry for West Virginia. Real GM. My real GM is still up. Very nice. Malik Curry. The unrestricted free agent. I don't think he'd play it any summer league either. So that'll be a random. That'll be a random to all at the end. So this will be the first one. If we have another one, we have another college card. It'll be the second team in the random, third team, fourth team, so on and so forth. Dallin Terry. Blue Jerry West. Nice one there, two at 199 for the Lakers. Bennick Matherin. Jaylen Durin. The Pistons. Ingram. Larry Byrd. Pabs one. Knight ruined. No. No, Vaughn. Silver Jaylen Williams. There's a Ron Harper Jr. Is he Lakers? He's somewhere, I believe. Ron Harper Jr. Raptors. That's where he is. Toronto Raptors. Ron Harper Jr. So this is Raptors. The other auto. Jabari Smith. Blue Wave. Andrew Nemhard to 249. Walker Kessler. Walker Kessler. Justin Lewis. David Robinson. I don't think there's been any non-NBA base so far. We'll still do a random. We'll still do it in the random because we're doing one anyway. AJ Griffin. There is Thorell Brown Jr. Penmanship. Rookie Auto. Thorell Brown Jr. Jr. Memphis Hussle. So how do I go to the Grizzlies? Congrats on that. Memphis. Thorell Brown Jr. Coming your way. Chris Paul. Red Devon Booker for the Suns to 299. Jayden Ivey. Bennick Matherin. Eggs, Bennick, Cumbermatch, Matherin. Blake Wesley and Joellen Bied. Dominic Wilkins. Blue. Derrick Whitehead. I think he's... No, he's in the NBA, right? Or is he still in college? No, he's still at Duke. Yeah, he's one of those guys still at Duke. Stop chatting. Blue to 149. Derrick Whitehead. So this will be like when we do the random, the second team in the random will get the Whitehead. So that's basically how that one goes. Orlando Robinson. Blue Ice Kyrie. Nice one there, 299. Ryan Rollins. Hyper. Mark Williams. Kessler and Paul Pierce. All right, let's do Prism Draft. Prism Draft Choice. Yeah, Steelers aren't doing terrible. They brought back Ogan Joby and they signed what? Pat Peat. It's not terrible. I mean, that's not... Pat Peat's a few years too late, but no. Honestly, I'd probably rather have re-signed Sutton than signed Pat Peat, but I mean, you got to do what you got to do. Got KD. John Montero. Tyler Hero. That's Oseman Zhang. And Peyton Watson on your Silvers. Got Otto. Red Scope is going to be Jordan Usher. 5488 Jordan Usher. Undrafted. Summer League. He played for Utah in the Summer League. I don't think he played anywhere else. So yeah, that'll go to the Utah Jazz. Played for the Jazz. He's overseas currently. Nice one there. Congrats to Utah. Got Benedict Matherin and Red James. Big Game James Worthy. All right, so that'll do it for our Prism Stuff, so that's good. Let's do 2223 Donor's Hobby now. 2223 Donor's Hobby. Let's just go until 10. That'll be a bit behind after this one. Do apologize on that one, guys. Should make up some time on our PYTs. But again, we always finish a bit behind on Tuesdays with different mixers, generally having the same amount of time allocated. Sometimes there's more. Sometimes there's less. So we'll just keep it going. What's up, Yogi? How's it going? Hey, what's up, Yogi? How you doing, buddy? Got press proof is Chris Thops Porzangas. It's going to be a Devon Booker, production line foil. D. Wade. Jabari Smith Rookie. Wendell Moore. Braun and Tyrese Martin. Michelle Ass today's work. Yeah, that's brutal. That sucks, Yogi. I'm sorry, man. Here's a Georgia Sneang. Allen Iverson Gold Press Proof. Signed tomorrow to another team. Now that wouldn't be terrible. He'd be like a good guy with not a ton of X, but he'd be like a good one-year guy to take a chance on and then approve yourself, deal with Devon Bush, because he's not been great. Taylor Horton Tucker for the Jazz. Jonas Valenshunis, JV299. He hasn't been spectacular since he's made the NBA. Walker Kessler Rookie, but he'd be like a good one-year flyer. Terry Eason, like one-year flyer kind of guy. I would say, no, you're good. Andrew Nemhard Press Proof. There's Marta Rosen, 2199. Benedict Matheran. Ty Ty, Paolo Rookie. Marjon Bochamp, Vince Williams. Kate McDaniels Press Proof. There's Anthony Edwards on Leashed. Jalen Williams, Ochaibahi. Jayne Ivey Rookie, and Patrick Baldwin. And, well, yeah, Paolo Rookie. There you go, buddy. Dyson Daniels. Yeah, can't forget about him. Oh yeah, Cade Cunningham's second year, 2199. Scott's the weird saying that. Yeah. Trevor Keels. Jalen Williams Rookie. I know. I know we kind of got the prize of Cade this year. Nemhard Rookie. Pacers. That's tough. That's a tough loss. Yeah, my buddy had Cade and Jah on his team, so he's like done. Press Proof, Cade Cunningham, speaking of. Dougie McBuckets for the Spurs. Doug McDermott to 1.49 on the Hollow Laser. Payton Watson, Chet Rookie for the Thunder. Lake Wesley, Kendall Brown, Malcolm Branham. Got nice. Jeremy Sochan. That's going to the Spurs. Grats on that San Antonio. Nice little hit for you there. Jeremy Sochan. Got a Derek White for the Celtics. Darius Garland going to the Cavaliers to 1.49 on the Hollow Laser. T-Mac. Luke and Netmarvels, Minot, Terry, and Isaiah Mowbly. Christian Braun. No, not Christian Braun. Christian Wood, excuse me. Malik Monk for the Kings. Basketballs to 75. Sparkly. He's already over, dude. Oh my god.  He's got World Baseball Classic. Can you find it this time? I think it's actually right here. John Collins. James Hardin, Gold Press. We've got Lucky. Jalen Durin for the Pistons. Kennedy Chandler, Caleb Houston, and Keegan Murray. All right, that'll do it for Donruss. Let's get on to 2021 Donruss Choice. 2021 Donruss Choice. Keegan Murray, Bass Murray. Over to Maul. Oh, he's definitely not better than Dijon. There's CJ Ellaby talking about Hawk's Legend. Nico Manion. Xavier Tillman. Desmond Bain, nice one there. And Emmanuel Quickly. First Auto is going to be going to the Clippers. Daniel Oturu, 61 out of 99. Congrats on that Clippers. Nice one here. This is going to the Kings. How about A? Tyrese Halliburton. Crats on that. Jeff R. with Sacramento. There you go, buddy. Bill Murray. Heck yeah, dude. We'll take that. Very nice. Congrats on the Hallie. The Halligod. Got KCP, Black, Gold. Two of eight for the Lakers. And Tabea's called Welp Hope. We have a Red Hassan Whiteside, 91 of 99. Blazers and a Blue. Davis Berton's. 20 out of 49 for the Wizards. All right. I think we're going to do Mosaic Fast Break next. Yeah, we'll do 21-22 Mosaic Fast Break. We'll just go in order now. Good luck here, everybody. Scotty Barnes, base rookie. James Booknight. Full Bat News. Oh boy. Brace yourselves. Purple Charles Bassie for the 76ers, 250. Kate Cunningham Rookie. Cam Thomas Rookie and Corey Kitzver. Disco, Zyra Williams Rookie. Fred Van Bley. Bronco signing Mike Burton. Just wanted to announce a full bat signing. That's much appreciated, Vaughn. Much appreciated. There's Condu Camposo Pinked 20, 10 of 20 for the Nuggets. Davion Mitchell. Let's go Fred Van Bley. Blue is Aaron Wiggins for the Thunder. 22 of 85. I don't know. I feel like Use Check would be a guy you could potentially franchise. Lamello Ball. There's nice. Josh Giddy. Fast Break Auto. Congrats on that there. Okay. See, going to Trey H. There you go, buddy. Beal, Reeves, Sandro. It was like once every 10 years. A really good full back will come out. Right now, it's Use Check. There's Dowell O'Baton. I feel like when he was leaving the Ravens, there was like a potential we were going to franchise tag him. They were franchise tagged James Devlin. True. Deontay Murray. Spurs still in that one. Springer. Mobley National Pride. There should be a Giddy behind it on the debut. A few more to go here. Mosaic Desmond Bain. I agree. Miles Turner Disco. Jalen Sugg's debut. Oh, I love Ricard. I love Patrick Ricard. Yeah, Ricard's a man, dude. I don't think he's not better than what's it called. Use Check. Use Check, but I mean, he's probably the second best in the NFL, I think. Maybe CJ Ham I'd put up there, too. He's okay. He's not great. Lamello Ball. There's Frans on the variation. There you go. Congrats, Jyn. Nice one there, buddy. Variation of Frans Wagner. Cade Cunningham Day at Butte. All right, so we're doing next. 21-22 Mosaic Choice now. Who do I got when in March Madness? I have Alabama. I took Alabama. Yeah, I have a bracket with all my buddies from college. And I took Alabama this year. Peacock. JT Thor. And Usman Garuda. We've got Draymond Green and Patty Mills. Silver and Mosaic. Nice one here is going to be an Isaiah Jackson. Rookie Auto going to the Pacers. There you go, Scott. Scott F, picking that one up. Congrats, Scott. Followed by Marcus Morris Sr. to 88 for the Clippers. To 88 is Gary Harris. And John Collins on the Peacock. Nice one there, Idlanta. Congrats, Idlanta. I mean, I don't like Alabama, Shane, but I think they have a good chance at winning the NCAA tournament, you know? 21-22 Mosaic hobby. Like if I were, like, bedding years ago in the NFL, like, I would probably bet on the Steelers to win. Like, I'd probably put a future on the Steelers, you know? I don't like them, but Alabama's loaded this year, for sure. Alabama's good, man. I know. John Collins. Boy, on McDonough, but their master's job. They haven't even really been good up until, like, very recently in basketball. And then they're just, like, a powerhouse in basketball. Now it's wild. There's Scotty Barnes, KCP, Red Kelly Ubre. Like, they've got a shot at some point to have, to be like the next Florida, like, winning football and basketball in the same year. Silver Jalen Brunson, Red Trey Murphy. The rookies are all on the front in this box, and the back is going to be all base on this one. So, Franz Wagner rookie. Cameron Thomas. I don't think, I don't think so on that one, David.  There's Josh Giddy. Quentin Grimes, Silver. There's a pink, scary Terry Rozier, 249 for the Hornets. They're the only team in the tournament. Fair. All right, fair enough, fair enough, Shane. Fair enough. T Stiball. Evan Fornie. There's Montage, Devin Booker. The Sons. Maybe, I mean, the Pistons are still good. I don't know. I'm not really a believer in like the best college team could compete against the worst NBA team. Silver, Moses Moody. Blue, Cam Reddish for the Hawks, or not for the Hawks. 21 of 99. That's Jersey numbered, Cam Reddish for the Knicks, and Color Match. This is, uh, Cade Cunningham Straight Fire. I believe it's made up of like the nicest Cam Reddish guard in the entire box. Good gosh. That's funny. Herbert Jones. Red, JT Thor. Clay Thompson. Rising Stars of Zion. Jaden Springer Rookie. Red, Kevin Herter. There's Jamal Murray. Boyan McDonough. And these are Bogdan McDonough. Last pack. And looks like we do have our auto in here. Very nice. And it's going to be, uh, Amari Stottemeyer. Nice one there for the Knicks. That's cool. Nice stat going to the Knicks. Blue Dirt. Andrew Wiggins. Overdrive. Not a mix. Moe. And Alex Caruso. All right guys, let's do some prism choice now. We'll go prism hobby and finish with NT. Thank you guys again for getting this filled on up today. Do appreciate it very much. Joe Wise Camp Silver. Precious Achua. Exclusives are going to be Bradley Beale. O'Shea Brissette. And Bill Russell. Nice one there. Auto. Rich Hamilton. Nice one there for the Pistons. Nice rip. That's on that D town. Yukon Legend. Love me some Rip Hamilton. That's awesome. We've got Nets to 88. Red Scope is, uh, Jason Kidd. And Alec Burks. That is 50 of 88. Yeah, we're really cool with that auto. We got Amari Stottemeyer and a Rip Hamilton back to back. That's pretty sick. Uh, last break we had a Gold Tyrese Maxi Rookie to 10 out of Optic, which was pretty huge actually smack. I'd say that's probably the biggest one, uh, recently. All right, 21-22 prism hobby now. Again guys, we'll be like five, 10 minutes behind after this, but got a couple of PYTs later on as well. So we'll be able to make up some time there. No random we've got to do, so always very nice. And then 10 box Tuesday, then we got some personals as well tonight. Personals are full. They have been full. So if you order a personal, we'll probably not go until tomorrow night. Isaiah Livers. Donald O'Banton. There's fireworks. Donovan Mitchell. He thinks so, Vaughn. That'd be awesome. Got artist Gilmore. Uh, for the Bulls. Nice one there. Congrats on that. Artist Gilmore. First auto going to Shytown. Football is going to deliver a monster. Awesome, dude. Like a big hit out of iMac or something. Uh, Jeremiah Robinson Rowe. Jalen Green Rookie. Hopefully Buddy Heald Silver. Fearless Trey Young Silver. Fearless Chuck. Yolkich. NAW. Yeah, Maxi's good. Yeah, Maxi's very good. We got an orange wave to 60. Austin Reeves Rookie. Trey Murphy. Santi Aldama. That is Donald O'Banton. Nice one there. 29 of 60 for the Raptors. Congrats, Raptors. That's Banton. Jalen Brown. Bass and bass on the back. Bass on the back. Red, OG and Nunnaby to 299 on the color match for the Raptors. Put that down for a second. Bass. I think Cade's live at this, yeah. We've got rookie signatures, uh, prisms, rookie signature, prism silver, card number 11, James Booknight. Nice one there for the Hornets. Grats on that, uh, Hornets. Very nice. Charlotte. Grats again on that. Red wave, Bradley Beal. Hyper Devin Booker. Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's UConn Legend from James Booknight here talking about. Red wave, Gary Payton. Steady Chetty Osmond. The Cavs on the hyper. Laurie Markinen. David Johnson. Hayo Dasunmu. Silver, Tracy McGrady. That's cool. Uh, Carl Malone on the 75th anniversary to 75. Robin Lopez. Every team legend, Robin Lopez. Mascot hating legend, Robin Lopez. Scotty Lewis. Silver, Hakim the Dream. Ooh, gold of Wendell Carter Jr. Nice one there, Jinn. Picking that up. One of 10. Very nice. That's a little gold headed your way. Wendell Carter Jr. Toss out Marika. Who is in a heated battle with Zach Collins tonight, according to Vaughn. There's Magic Johnson Pulsar. Nice one there. Julius Randall, uh, Steph Curry standouts. And he dulled into the Panthers. That's wild, dude. That, that's just that insurance right there. That's like if whoever gets drafted first isn't ready, that doesn't look like they're ready, then he'll be trotting out there in the first, uh, first game. That is Alfred Schengen. Nice. Red wave, Alpharee Camino. Follows me on Twitter. Blue ice, Patrick Williams to 125. Gold prism's always nice. Uh, yeah, football starts right after this next one. Yep. Yes, sir, smack. Yes, sir. Jalen Johnson. Silver, Marcus Morris. Sondro, Mamakalisha Billy. Yukon get past VCU. They might not, dude. They really might not. But Yukon is not a team you ever want to play in the tournament. I'll tell you that. Nymia Sketa. Silver, Bobby Ports. Kyle Kuzma. It's like the last, I don't know, I saw some stat. I don't know if this is 100% correct, but it's like the last 10 tournament winners have been like one seeds and Yukon. Again, I don't know. I don't know if it's, I don't, I'm just like summarizing. There's something that, that's a stat where it's all really good teams and Yukon have been the winners. Uh, all right, 21-22 NT hobby. Good luck, everybody. Let's see a banger. Let's see a banger. Logoman. Vet Logoman. Game used Steph Curry. Logoman. That'd be cool. Does not look redemption-y, which I like. Jeremy Grant. 76 of 99 for the pistons. Got our one-of-one printing plate. Wesley Matthews going to the Bucks. 21, 2021. Prison basketball. Brown and no hits in the next break. We've got a nice one here. It's going to be Kristoff's at Port Zingis. That is 2 of 99. Game used for the Wizards. KP. And that is game used as a member of the Dallas Mavericks. We've got a nice one here. 4 of 25. That is a patch. Of D'Angelo Russell. That's kind of sick, actually. I think he could probably mag this next one, I'd say. Let's go to Ryan L. with the Lakers. 37 of 49. That is a Anthony Davis. Jin. Jin, buddy. My friend, Jin. Nice one here. You can mag this and the next one. How about 11 of 25? RPA. Jalen Suggs. Boom. There you go, Jin. Congrats, my friend. That is four color, three color, and four color. Let's go, Jin. Congrats, man. Some Jalen Suggs mojo for you. Put up like 20 points as the second man off the bench too when we went to the game. That's awesome. We'll get that mag for you, Jin. Congrats, buddy. Very nice. Yes, sir. We've got a Keon Johnson, 26 of 99. Hey, that makes up for it. That makes up for it right there, for sure, man. Nice one for the Trailblazers. We've got 30 of 99. That is BAM out of bio. Game used, BAM. Nice one here for Denver. Coming up next is going to be 10 of 10. Alex English. One of the most underrated players of all time. If not the most underrated player of all time, Alex English. Congrats, Denver. Going to Greg. There you go, buddy. 10 of 10. On card, Alex English. And to finish this off, this is going to the Warriors. I'm going to Tim Hardaway, Jr. Jersey Auto. That is game worn. 81 of 99. Congrats, Gary E with the Golden State Warriors. There you go, buddy. Nice one there. Got to do this random really quick, guys. All right, so the way this is going to work, we got them in order. Malik, you're going to put all the teams into a randomizer. Whatever team is on top after the dice roll, we'll get Malik Curry. The second team will get Derek Whitehead. And the third team will get any college non-auto cards from Prism Draft. If there are any, there might not be any. I'm just doing it to save ourselves, basically. Save the headache for sorting and shipping. All right, so good luck here, guys. Let's roll the dice. Four times. One, two, three, and four. Rockets get Malik Curry. Sorry to do this to you, Dylan. Rockets get Malik Curry. The blue, Derek Whitehead to 149 is going to be going to the Dallas Mavericks. The Mavericks will be getting Derek Whitehead. And then the Cavaliers will be getting any and all non-auto to college numbered or base cards or inserts. So let's do a quick recap here. That'll be going to the Cavaliers. I have it up, too, if you forget. All right, we've got John Collins Peacock, Gold Wendell Carter Jr., Keon Johnson for the Blazers, Bam Adebayo, D'Angelo Russell, Kristaps Forzingis, Malik Curry, Derek Whitehead, Terrell Brown Jr., Ron Harper Jr., Jordan Usher, Jeremy Sochan, Daniel Oturu, Tyrese Halliburton, Isaiah Jackson, Amari Stottemire, James Bookknight, Richard Hamilton, Artis Gilmore, Alex English, Tim Hardaway Jr., we've got a Josh Giddy, nice one there. We've got Anthony Davis, 37 of 49 for the Lakers, and a Jalen Suggs, 11 of 25 for the Magic. That will do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up, we've got football.


Welcome everyone to the Journey Towards Autonomous Teams, a Coaches to Kit by Yashashree Barway, Senior Consultant, Data Consultancy Services. Without any further ado, over to you Yashashree. Thank you once again for this opportunity and I'm very happy to be here today. Good afternoon, good morning based on where you are in the part of the world. This is basically to share my experience report in taking agile teams on to their autonomy journey. This session is about some of the teams that I have been coaching and how moving into an autonomy experiment happened with them and what we learned out of those. It's a very close to heart subject because agile coaches are basically supposed to be helping teams to take them on to the autonomy journey. I took this journey along with my teams and the coaches that were working with me. So thanks to the teams and the coaches that I'm here to share this experience report to me. Looking forward to share, know what we have learned over this journey. I think the introduction part is done. So thank you Jitendra for saving me some seconds. And I just wanted to call out that, you know, my book Agile Mindset Magic has a lot of stories that I have gathered through my experience as an Agile coach. And even today's session is basically a story that I wanted to share from my experience over last, I think almost a year, right? And that journey also started with last year's Agile India Conference and I'll talk about it a bit later. This particular story, today's story basically is from an internal IT group of a customer organization that I work with. And it is basically about the teams that I have been working with, right? So this particular customer organization has been on the Agile journey for quite some time, at least for last three, four years. And what we observed is that these teams have been scoring themselves low on autonomy in their email survey often, like for a very long time, right? So of course this was a topic of interest for coaches and we wanted to actually help the teams. We started thinking about, you know, how do we help the teams to move better, to be better in terms of autonomy and that's where this whole experience started. So I want to cover this in four sections very, very quickly. This is a short one. So why it mattered, what it is and what were the kind of workshops that we did, the toolkit that we used and also some of the experiences that we got through this. All right, so why autonomy is something that we started discovering as we started talking to the teams. And of course, if you remember from the Scrum Guide, one of the main things that the Scrum Guide talks about is Scrum team is self-managing, which means that they internally decide who does, what, when and how. And of course, coaching the team in self-management is one of the main responsibilities of the Scrum Master and as well as, you know, the agile coach that works with that particular team. So we started talking to the team members, right? And one of the things that we realized is that what exactly autonomy is in itself had varied opinions within the team members. Well, forget about the team members. Even within the coaching community, we had different perspectives of how we want to address autonomy in teams. And what does it mean? And how does it help the teams? And how do we really try to figure out whether the team is feeling autonomous? If yes, why? If not, why? So that itself was a lot of different opinions that we had within the coaching community. So they started our journey to understand it better and learn from various sources better and then take it to our teams and then learn it along with them as well. One of the sources that really helped us was basically the ScrumBooks.org. So ScrumBooks.org has a lot of patterns that can be used very well by the Scrum Masters and the coaches. So when we started looking at the way they address autonomous teams, we figured out that they basically focus on two things, right? One is, is the team able to establish their own culture? And secondly, it was about how the team carries out their work. Are they autonomous enough to carry out their work? And they believe that the Scrum Masters or the coaches are definitely somebody who work like a firewall to basically fend off any external pressures that the teams are getting from the business or from other stakeholders or any other organizational forces. So this definitely meant that we as coaches had to really start taking this to the teams and try and ensure that they understand what autonomy is and what is hindering them basically, right? So they started the journey and then we started looking at a lot of work that various thought leaders have done in the industry defining autonomy. It of course had to start with Daniel Pink's drive. One of the most celebrated books, I'm sure all of us would really appreciate in terms of the autonomy. Daniel Pink considers autonomy to be one of the three most important pillars of intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers. He says autonomy is basically the desire to govern our own lives and decide our own paths without the dominance of others. That was a very important and very relevant definition that many people could relate to. And then we also started looking at the 40 framework that Daniel has, which is basically task, time, team and techniques. He talks about how autonomous teams can choose the tasks that they work on. They can choose the time they work for as well as they choose the team that they work for, work with, and also they can choose the techniques on how they want to do their work. This was really a very, very good input to establishing the understanding of autonomy within the teams. And when we took it to the teams, and of course, there were a lot of seniors and some managers and leaders, who would always have questions about what happens when the team is autonomous, if the team can do what they want to do, how do, what is the control that exists as an organization, or how do we ensure that the team is on the same lines of what the organization wants as objectives and so on. So they're actually, of course, this was a very, very valid point, right? Like are we saying that autonomous teams are teams that can simply do whatever they want, whatever way they want? If you remember, one of the times Kent Beck said that autonomy without accountability is simply like vacation. And that is not something that we were looking at definitely. And that's where one of the things that was very relatable to our leaders and managers was the concept of aligned autonomy. And this is what Henrik Thieberg really brings out very beautifully in his engineering culture at Spotify videos, which talks about how autonomous teams when aligned are really purpose-driven and they really bring out the best to take the organization's objectives to the end, right? So this concept resonated very well with a lot of our senior stakeholders. So aligned autonomy is something that basically attempts to balance the autonomy of a team to perform the work so that it is aligned to the objectives of the organization. A very, very powerful concept, which resonated very well. In last year's Agile India, as I was mentioning, right? I was very fortunate to hear Dan Nord's talk and his talk was basically Agility at Skillets available on YouTube. And he spoke about meeting of two mindsets and while I was working on this autonomy piece, I happened to hear this talk and I really felt that it was a godsend because whatever he proposed really helped me to formulate the abstract concepts that we have on autonomy into something concrete that I can take to teams and we can start evolving that further. He spoke about six dimensions that he believed are very relevant for autonomy, skills and capabilities, resources, authority, purpose, constraints and accountability. And this was of course very well aligned with the aligned autonomy concept as well. So in an enterprise, if we want to really scale Agility, how all of these six dimensions can help. Very beautiful talk, I'll really highly recommend and I have also attached a link to his talk last time. He brought in case there are any gaps, so like for example, if we find that any dimension is getting a skill oneself, a reskill oneself or so on. For example, if it is harder to obtain, probably we should borrow some or we should probably hire some skills or anything that is needed basically to make the team autonomous. And if we feel that if it is impossible to obtain, then probably we should simply just de-prioritize. So a lot of these concepts are very relevant to the work that we were doing and we took a lot of these insights together and experimented those with our teams. And every time we experimented with our team, every time any coach experimented with the teams, we learned more. We learned from the experience of the workshops and we also learned from what the teams said, right? And we could evolve the way we were bringing autonomy to the teams for their understanding better. So I would want to share the kind of workshop model that we use with all of you. So I modeled it on the GROW model that we use for coaching, which is basically goal, reality, options and will. So the goal of the workshop is basically taking the autonomy journey for the team. So the team is already on their agile transformation. How do they take their autonomous status or autonomy quotient, if you will, to the next level? The second aspect is reality. And this is where we used a toolkit that was based on the various work that we just saw from the various thought leaders. We put it together in a toolkit so that we could kind of baseline where the team feels they are in their autonomy journey. Then look at the options based on the various liquidity strategy then move on to the will part, which is basically the improvement backlog and how do they want to take it ahead and so on. I'll very quickly talk about the toolkit that we used in the base learning of dimension. So this is of course just a sample from the toolkit that we used. So I can share if any of you are interested more information about the workshop as well as the complete toolkit that we used. So what we had was we had four dimensions, skills and capabilities, resources, authority and purpose as the first column. And for each of these dimensions, we created some questions to start making the team think about where they are in terms of that particular dimension in their journey. So the coach would basically facilitate this whole discussion, would take each dimension, each question within the dimension, look at how, what are the examples that the team can code with respect to that particular question. The team will also discuss how, what is the alignment that is needed or expected out of them. So like for example, the skills and capabilities, if the question is, the team has all the skills and capabilities within so that they can independently deliver working software and some examples given, they will have to align to the capabilities that are defined by the organization they are part of. Also there will be some constraints. So call out those constraints and whatever you see here are examples, but the whole idea is to trigger the thought process within the team and the team can also say, this is our constraint or something else is our constraint and so on. So in this case, the constraints could be learning options, availability, right? Like some of the organizations may give options to learn, upskill, reskill, some may not. So that would be a constraint, availability of people to be staffed. Some may have budgets, some may not have budget and so on. And then accountability, like what is accountability that team will have with respect to the dimension that we are talking about? So in terms of skills and capabilities, autonomous teams will have accountability to identify what is the skill or capability needed depending upon whatever is their product roadmap or any technological changes that have happened. So they will have to identify and raise impediments early and often as needed, right? So that will be their accountability. And we also called out some techniques that the teams can use to improve the question that is being discussed. So the coach will basically facilitate this discussion to chart out what is the reality and the team will score themselves, right? So the team will say, yeah, we are doing good here, we are not doing good there and so on. And then the options will be discussed based on the liquidity strategy. So pick up the lowest rated dimension, talk about what can be done to make it better and so on. And then of course, finally, the will, which is what out of all of these things that have been discussed is the team willing to do. Are there any impediments that they would want outside of the team to come back and actually start resolving? So that will be the will part of it to bring closure to whatever discussion have happened. So this is the kind of workshop and the toolkit that we used and I'll be very happy to share and learn from any of you who are ready to experiment with this because we had a discussion in the coaching community and we saw really a lot of variations of these toolkit and some of the coaches also took it to evolve it to a different level altogether, coming up with some kind of definitions in terms of the maturity level and so on.  Very quickly talking about the experiences, right? Which is something that I wanted to share from a couple of teams we experimented this with. Just two teams for the sake of time. So one team is, which was relatively at early stage and we had to spend a lot of time in discussing and getting on the same page with respect to what is autonomy with them. The second team was at a relatively mature stage. So there we could actually use the toolkit and we could baseline where the team feels they are in terms of their autonomy journey. So for the team, the coach facilitated this discussion and we had very good comments from the teams to understand what is autonomy? Why is it important and how does it look like if they are an autonomous squad? And then based upon that, there was a shared alignment built in when the coach brought in the lot of thoughts or insights that we just saw in the first two sections on what the thought leaders are talking about in terms of autonomy. And that really was helpful to the team. Whereas in team two, they could actually relate to a lot of concepts and also the dimensions and they could look at all of these dimensions and see, yeah, we needed skill. We could scale ourselves. So we are really autonomous in that case. We are doing good there. Or we don't have the right access because of the compliance issues. We can do better there in terms of having being autonomous. So this was a very rewarding experience, very thought provoking experience for us and it actually helped us in many ways. So definitely the scores on autonomy and team health increased. We could take the suggestions, the improvement opportunities as well as impediments to a larger organization to be solved, right? Something that was not under the team's influence. We could take it there and better handling of those impediments happened. And sharing of this with the community led to evolution of this particular toolkit further. And different variations that were suited for different teams that actually helped them to be better and more autonomous. So that's what I had to share. So thank you for being patient and listening in. And as I mentioned earlier, I would be very happy to share the toolkit as well as the workshop format that we used with any of you. You can mail me or you can connect with me on LinkedIn. Chitendra, I don't know, I think I crossed the time. Thank you very much. This was an exciting session, Yashushri. Thanks everyone for joining this great session and thanks a lot, Yashushri, for this wonderful session. Thank you very much. Thank you for the opportunity.


Okay, it's time for After Press, and we want to take a look at those headlines. I made it to the front pages of some national dailies. And I've been joined by my guest, Jida Johnson, Chief Lecturer at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism here in Lagos. Good morning to you, Mr. Johnson. Good morning and good morning to our viewers. All over the world, it's a pleasure to be with you. Thank God it's Friday. Pleasure to have you. Thank God it's Friday. Let's begin with the punch newspaper. And it relates with indefinite strike. Labour protests as FG threatens union leaders with contempt charge. The writers there threat won't deter us. We are no coward, says TUCVP. Governors ask NLC to share of strike. AG have said strike could be contempt of court. Let's begin with that. So NLC is set for the murder of all strikes on the 3rd of October. Well, what an independence gift that both the government and the NLC would be giving to Nigeria on our 63rd day as an independent country. The question is actually, are we truly independent? That's another conversation, another discussion for another day. However, on the issue of this strike, I think that government and liberal should be able to find a common ground. I've said it, this is my position and this is my argument. Look, strike has never solved any problem at the end of the day. Both war and parties usually come to the negotiating table to resolve whatever differences they have. At the end of the day, no matter how long strikes take. However, it would be better for them to come to the table in the short run and resolve the issue. But the challenge we have is that those in authority assume, particularly in government, assume a role of people that cannot be questioned. Before they start negotiating with people and my advice for liberal is that they should understand the government they are dealing with. The Lagos State Civil Service Union used to be the most active, the most vibrant. In actual fact, the strike was not successful in the past, particularly under military regime. With that Lagos playing, even when the federal capital was in Lagos, with that Lagos playing a prominent role. Now Lagos State Civil Service Union is the most moribund you can ever think of in Nigeria. The death knell of Lagos State Civil Service happened when the president was the governor of Lagos State.  We knew what happened. So the Nigerian Liberal Congress should understand that they are dealing with an old fox and they should know that if they are dealing with an old fox, they should know how to go about the strike. Secondly, the other parties that try to be successful, the student union, the student union bodies, they are no longer in existence. All student union bodies are an extension of the office of the vice-counselor. What has happened to organized civil society? Majority of the members of the organized civil society either have become ministers or have become commissioners or have become consulters to government. This time, Mr. Johnson, this time TUC is joining NLC. So it looks like it's going to be stronger this time than the one in strikes and all that's happened in recent times with NLC. If you understand the attempt of government to create TUC, in the past you used to have NLC. Now you have the further division of the umbrella budget for NLC being divided into two. As far as I'm concerned, I don't think strikes are a problem, that's my take. Because number four, who are those that will benefit more from strikes? Is the civil servants, what is the percentage of the number of civil servants you have in the country? Majority of Nigerians are self-employed. So at the end of the civil servants that go on strike would get their money in terms of their outstanding treatment which would be paid at the end of the strike. But what happens to that woman operating at a small stall that survives on dealing with subsistence? What happens to that person that operates his own private business? It does not get any leave packet from government. So strike for me is not the way of dealing with Nigerian leaders that do not respect public opinion, that you don't care about public perception. Okay, so I hear you on that. I hear you on that. I hear your argument. So what would you suggest to NLC and TUC? If they don't go on strike, which is what they seem to know, and they are saying the negotiations, the dialogues they've had with government has not been productive. In fact, they are accusing the government of insensitivity. What would you advise them to do so that they don't go on strike and yet achieve what they need from the government? For example, you saw a drama that took place at the office of the minister of works yesterday where the staff went down tools and then they locked the minister himself. In the office, we call out those that are operating in a sensitive position to go to work and not to do anything that you can down tools without going on strike.  You ask them not to go to work up here in Europe, you just down tools and you ensure that these government offices do not function properly. That's one way of dealing with that. For example, if your staff prevents the minister from assessing the office, if they present the ministers from assessing the office and wait for MDAs from assessing the office, that should be the starting point, rather than asking us to go on a full-blown strike which affects people that lose on the release of assistance and make their money from release of assistance. That's my view. It might not be right in the eyes of some people, but I think that usually in the long run, it is the people in the informal sector that suffers most from the strike, people in the informal sector don't actually suffer too much like we do in the informal sector. The informal sector is immediate employers of labor for a lot of Nigerians. Indeed. Alright, so let's move on to this story which you already alluded to, what happened yesterday with the minister of labor. You have the picture there on front of the point in his paper where you have the workers who were locked out and who eventually locked the minister in. He's received knocks and commendations. What are you giving him, knocks or commendations? He got to the office at 9.30. He got to the office at 9.30 and discovered that many people hadn't come to work and said, okay, this is in discipline, this should no longer go on and shuts the gate. Some are saying he should have done it differently and some are saying no, it's time for discipline to begin to be seen to come to play. Well, it's not the military regime and their civil service process and procedure. I'm sure he must have observed that over time and what did he do concerning that? Did he ask the permanent secretary or the director of admin to issue query or to issue a memo to that effect that subsequently anybody that comes late, discipline and action will be taken against them. If you understand that it's no longer a government that rules by fear, you know we have it on record that allegedly that staff in a born state who came late at one point in time were whipped with king by something for coming late and this is not a born state. This is the federal capital territory. So at this level, it's not an improv, it's not a dictator, it's not a military administrator. There are processes and procedures. The fact that they come late, what steps are you taking internally before you take that action? I think that you should have left that for the DFA. Probably all those that came late, their names should have been taken and they should have been given query to answer query and we take discipline and measures to address other than going for these photo ops that has created a negative image good for himself and good for the workers. I think that those who are given responsibility of authority should understand the leadership that comes with whatever responsibility you have given to them. As far as I'm concerned, I'm against locking workers out. You could deal with it better. You give them query or you send the memo before you take this drastic, drastic, drastic, drastic, drastic action and then they start themselves also locking in. So two wrongs are not making right. If I were to be the minister, I wouldn't adopt that approach in the first instance. I would have called the management meeting. In the management meeting, we discussed that issue and when we discussed that issue, we issued memo to that effect. The memo is yielded to all departments within the ministry and anybody that falls foul, this is what I measure will be said and that person will be tried other than locking them out and creating impact optics for himself, for the ministry. Some work with other disability boards. You don't use two wrongs. You don't use another wrong to correct your wrong. They are processes and they are procedural to deal with that matter. In fact, it believes the minister to be the one giving their directive. What are his directors doing to that effect? It means for me, if I were to be in this position, the person I would query would be the director of administration. I would query the director of the administration. I would query the minister, the permanent secretary because I would say these are the things that are happening in the ministry and you are there, you are not doing your job. And he said that we will even achieve more effect than for the minister to consider himself to the level of being a janitor. The role he played was the role of a janitor and not the role of a minister. Okay, let's look at some other headlines on, let's go to above the masthead. There you have academic record, article as called to overrule Chinubu's objection. You have telcos plan different tariffs for calls, data in states. Then you have CBN will spend $3 billion loan to stabilize economy. Let's start with the story that has to do with the president and the opposition. Former president Artico Abubaka, what's your take on that? Well, it's good for you to explore all means to get to the truth or to get to the bottom of whatever matter they are interested in. And he was an interested party in the presidential election and he's exploring whatever means to gain an advantage over someone that has been declared as the winner of the election by the electoral body and by the first by the first court of instance, which is the appeal. As far as I'm concerned, if you ask me about my own academic record, they are there in the public domain. The moment you offer yourself a public service, your academic record should be in the public domain. I don't see any drama around it. If I were to be the president or if I were to be one of the minders of the president, I would just tell them, let's leave this goes to rest. This thing has been ongoing since 1999, 1999 to 2022, it's 24 years, 24 years. So let's leave this goes to rest once and for all. There's no need for us to raise any objection. If indeed our records are clean, we just throw it out in the public domain and you leave this particular goes to rest other than be subjecting Nigeria to ridicule whether you like it or not. But this has created a negative impression about the totality of the credentials of Nigerians, regardless of whichever works of life you belong to, because if someone is questioning the credentials, the authenticity of the credentials of the president, who happens to be the number one image maker of the country, then what happens to every Nigerian? So whatever any Nigerian is facing with respect to his credentials, he or she should understand that this is a fallout of us not being transparent and not being open with our credentials. And if you go ahead, the president, in my opinion, she just would use this record and once and for all, clear his name and all this cloud around his identity, around his gender and all of this would be cleared once and for all. And then he can focus on governance. Indeed. And then, it's a major distraction. If you think it's not, they're not being distracted. It's a lot. If you have ever faced any crisis in your life, you understand what major distraction it has on you in terms of the everybody that places on you emotionally, physically, psychologically, and mentally, not to add the financial implication of all of this. Indeed, it has been quite distracting, not just for the president, but for Nigerians. You know, it's been a huge distraction. And no doubt, Atiku Abubaka is aiming for something. He knows what he's looking for. We don't know. We're just waiting to see how the court is going to rule on it and what's going to come out of it. And as you have said, the president is most likely very, very distracted by this whole thing. And we want to see an end to it so that we can move to more important and serious issues. Telcos are planning different tariffs for calls and data in states. It's unfortunate that I was in a fall last week. And then when we go to the premises of federal police technical fire, we don't have service. I was talking to my friend and I said, you know what? The telcos industry have become so far that they are not even extending their services to other parts of the country, like they used to do, like they were doing when the money came into the country, that they had more than enough. You have yourself this question, how much do we spend on data on monthly basis? If you look at the amount of money we spend on data compared to the amount of money we spend on calls, you discover that the amount of money we are using to buy data is a lot. We have been ripped off. And then the regulatory body, the NCC, and then the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, whatever name they call the ministry now, they are not doing enough in terms of oversight function. They are doing the National Assembly that is meant to do an oversight function to ensure that Nigerians are protected from exploitation. They are not doing that. And it's very, very clear that we have been exploited. I must tell you for a fact, how do you justify the amount of money you used to buy gigabytes of data? And then before you know it, it's like there's a spirit that wipes out the data. I recall one of my putuji travel to United Kingdom just this month and then he got to United Kingdom and we got on the sets. I bought about five gigabytes of data and I've been using the five gigabytes of data since, what is the difference between the five gigabytes of data in United Kingdom with the five gigabytes of data in Nigeria? I said I don't know. He said I've watched movies, I've downloaded a lot of things which I can do within the drinkable of a night. Those gigabytes of data will be exhausted in Nigeria. So I think that the government, you see all of this body, you are imposing on Nigerians, you are increasing electricity, you have removed subsidy on petroleum products, you have introduced new forms of taxation and then you are now bringing in the credit goes to looking for opportunities to add to the bodies that Nigerians are going to work. What we have was if at the end of the day you stifle Nigerians, you morsel the ox, I don't know what productivity you get from Nigerians that you have rendered useless by taxing them with whichever opportunity you have. Okay, so I just want to add the other ones but we won't discuss them. We'll just go to the next newspaper. But still on the punch newspaper you have Ongo MPC PDP Confident as Tribunal Rules on Saturday, Oshun Accident, five Lautec students driver burnt to death, very sad story there, and FG targets welding Nigerians in new tax drive. Let's move to the nation newspaper. The nation newspaper is leading with. Government, TUC, NLC, respect, court order, baron strike, AGF, rights unions, Falana, DSS, IGNSA, it's judicial terrorism, breach of rights, says labor. So we've talked on this. So let's move on to financial reforms ready for unveiling says Cardoso. Are you expectant? Well, for me, one experience that we are concerning commercial bankers. We have had two commercial bankers in the recent time heading. People with commercial bank experience come into a regulatory, you know, central bank is a regulatory agency and not a commercial bank. It's not a profit making agency compared to commercial banks. We have had two, we have had three, actually three. And the three, the two of the three, each will be the third one in recent time under this democratic dispensation. We had the president had crisis with him, with the former emir of emir of Karnu, Sanusil, Lamidu Sanusil, who was also remunerously removed. And now we had another, it's tenor was faced with one form of controversy or the other with other critical stakeholders and particularly with the president. We have also had emir feeling coming in, if with commercial bank experience, and now you are not coming with Cardoso also with, if you follow the senate screening, I want to salute the senator, representing a do not, former emir president for his question and for raising those issues. These are the critical issues which should raise when it comes to other regulatory, having people managing critical sector. You understand that the politicization of the central bank did not really help this country. There was a lot of mess that was created in the last nine years of emir feeling, emir feeling is a governorship of the central bank. And the other thing is, I don't know, I don't know how it came about. I thought that the, in doing the screening, the senators would have asked for the resignation letter of one of emir feeling and other members of his, of his, of his management team, the, nobody, nobody has seen the resignation letter of, of, of the former emir management team of, of the central bank. Everything that is done should be done in public domain, in, in, in, in with transparency. There shouldn't be anything done in, because it's done in the interest of Nigerian. So the circumstances surrounding the screening, the appointment of, of Cardoso is decided, is decided in ministry. And if it's decided in ministry and if that is the foundation, I can tell you that if something is fought with the foundation, the outcome of it will not, will not, will not be good. But let's keep our fingers crossed. Let's hope, let's hope that in this present central bank of now will not, will not be open to political influence and political interference that comes from, from the presidency. However, the removal of the former management team was an interference by the president because the due process was not followed. And his own appointment, too, was as a result of political interference. If you put it in, in proper, in proper perspective, but let's believe that it will end with this appointment and that it will not, it will be independent as required by the Sequoian Act to ensure that we have a better monitoring policy and then to ensure that it does not apply to the tombs, to the tombs of, of, of, of, of, of the presidency and other agencies within the presidency or other, other powerful people within the presidency and subject himself to the kind of influence that, um, immediately subjected himself to. You will recall that the governor of Edusty was pointing out that government was insolvent as far back as 2021 that we are printing money. We are printing money that government is printing money. I hope we will be bought enough to say, to, to resist any attempt of political interference and do the job which is, is meant to do because if, if the circumstances surrounding his, his appointment was based on the fact that the people occupied those offices resigned, the same approach they used to remove those that he succeeded might be used to remove him too. That's just, that's just the reason why as journalists we must ask questions and we must call for transparency and openness in the way things are done. Indeed, the question you've asked about the letter, the resignation letter of Amir Feli is quite on point. Um, we, we should have been shown that letter because you do remember that when he, he and his team were newly announced, people were saying are they acting because they needed the Senate to approve them. All right. All right. We are hearing also from the punch newspaper headline there that the CBN will be spending $3 billion loan to stabilize the economy. That's from neck. So still talking about Cado, so you're saying he should act independently independently. He should, you know, serve Nigeria and not the executive. Yeah, that's, that's, that's, um, what, what, um, that's what he should do because we need, we need, we need, we need, we need a better monetary policy and then central bank has a critical role to play in stabilizing the value of the era in ensuring you see when it becomes a regulatory role properly and that role is played properly. You can have control over the commercial banks. You can have control over the interest rates. Now if you have interest rates at single digit, not modern, not at single digit, then it, it means it easier for people running business to get credit. When you get credit, you are able to create better opportunities, job opportunities and you are able to, to, to build the economy and strengthen the network. But it's usually about people don't have access to credit and the inflation is, it's double digit. But then you have the challenges which you are having. It's because a monetary policy and a fiscal policy was not in, in alignment with one another under various administration and that's where we have found ourselves. We require money, we have found ourselves. It must, the central bank government must work in tandem with the minister of finance and both of them must be on the same page and work in a coordinated manner to ensure that both the fiscal policy and the monetary policy is running towards the same goal, not at cross purposes like we have under a various administration. And then we are going to talk about improvement in our economy. You can have, you can have economic good and not have economic development. Well, we've seen that under various economic growth without economic development. There is no basic thing you can point out to that actually had affected the human development index of Anabina and Nigeria in terms of their capital income and in terms of their standard of living because the standard of living under various administration has been taken to a big small loop because of the cost, cost of living. And if you look at the present situation of Anabina and Nigeria and you look at the various reforms, this new government is even bringing in, I can assure you that our standard of living is dropping lower and lower because the cost of living rises, the standard of living drops. That's reality. Indeed. Okay, let's move on to the next newspaper, The Guardian. The Guardian has the big story and details of it you find on pages four and five. Independence and vestry, tales of war, mixed opportunities, unmet expectations, 63 years on. You have a picture of former heads and presidents of this country and the map of Nigeria's turn to pieces and just being held by threat. Does this capture the Nigeria that you see? There's no doubt that we have enough freedom and potential. Nigeria has a lot of potential. There are a lot of opportunities in this country. The challenge we have heard is with leadership and if you look across the land and place, it's a... And that's why a lot of Nigerians think it's a no-place situation but I still believe that at the end of the day, once you go down in this place, you can't go down beyond down and if you stay down too long, after a while you begin to rise again. Some of us believe strongly, it might not be in our lifetime, it might be in the twilight of our lifetime, the Nigeria will surely be great. Because if you look at it, in actual sense, if you look at those pictures, it's the same set of people that have been ruling this country. We have been unfortunate with leadership and we have been unfortunate with the dash. That's the reality. And then if anybody is thinking about having an hope concerning the present arrangement, when we hope that God in his infinite minds will intervene because the same actors, let's take 24 years out of 63. The same actors that are at the national level now were actors at the state level in 1999. Majority of them were actors at the state level. They played critical role in national life. And after 24 years of democracy, we have started the journey of the 2050 year and we still find a no-place situation. That itself must have informed the president to have tied to his campaign as we need to go. But if you look at the policies that have been put in place and various revolutions that are coming here and there, I'm not to show the Nigerians have renewed withdrawals. But if you look at the story we read, retail cost trying to increase their drive across the states. As far as I'm concerned, a lot of things, every independence is a time for reflection. Could we have been better for us as a country as Nigerians? If you look at the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, look at the critical infrastructures that we have and look at, look, I see this. Majority of the infrastructure that you pointed out to in Lagos, for example, if you talk about Third Mellon Bridge, if you talk about National Theater, most of the infrastructure that I've done to monuments were built by the military regime. You are built by the military regime and then if you look at what is here in the last 24 years, what they've done with the resources we have had in the last 24 years, we begin to work for this country that if this trend should continue, definitely Nigeria will not be great. But we pray and hope that the present couple of leaders will have a change of heart. It's not too late. At 75 years, Ibrahim caught a new vision and then the vision was fulfilled in his lifetime, even though it took 25 years. So I still believe that the present leadership can cut a vision. We need a visionary leader, a selfless leader, a leader that is not interested in making money for himself. I've said it. You really want to develop this country. Look at the present group of leadership. How rich were they in 1999? If you look at everyone of them, what was their asset in 1990? And you compare the asset in 2023. Majority of them are wealthy people with no enterprise. In the 60s, in the 70s, in the 80s, it was commodity farmers that were rich in Nigeria. And those that were trading, those that were trading, they were the richest people in Nigeria. They were not politicians. But first of all, from 1990 to 2024, majority of the rich people in Nigeria are politicians. And those that enjoy political prudence. I think we need to have a rating. What was working for us at the dawn of our independence in the 50s and in the 60s and in the early 60s? What were we doing that was better than make Snider to compete favorably with foreign currency? What were the things that we were doing? Sometimes going forward and me going backward. No matter how long you are going, no matter how far you have traveled on the wrong journey, going forward is actually not making progress. Sometimes making progress on the wrong journey is going back. And probably we need to retrace our step and go back to do things that we used to do in the past. That really works for this country. Do you see this country moving forward without constitutional reform? Yeah, that costs for a proper restructuring. It costs for a proper restructuring. It costs for a proper restructuring. Do we need to go back to the parliamentary system of government? Do we need to go back to the parliamentary system of government? Do we need to go back to regional government? Let's say we have eight regions and not 36 states in the federation. And then we have centers. We have federal centers, unique legal centers and federal centers. And then probably you have western region. You have a region in the south south and then the north east. You know, I think there's a problem. There's a need for us to have a conversation. But I'm going to tell you this. And I'll say this without any apology.  The Nigerian progressive politics have been doing for power since 1960. And then they discovered the best way for them to get power is for them to align with the conservative element of the north. I have seen that arrangement in 1999 with the formation of PDP. And we see the further reinforcement of that alignment in 2014 with the formation of ABC. And I tell you all the ideas that the progressive arm of the Nigerian politics have propagated since 1960. That they have propagated since 1980. That they have propagated in the fight for democracy. After the death of Abiola, they've not fulfilled one of it. They've not. Look, for example, let's talk about let's talk about true federalism. True federalism talks about the revolution of power to the local government. Who are those that killed that when Abiola was trying to do during the constitutional amendment in the night assembly? It was the progressive arm of the Nigerian politics. In the 21st century, the political state voted against it. The political state voted against it. Although the state voted against it. And you have 31 state voting points. The political state voted against it. The political state voted against it. And although Abiola had voted for even Nikiti had voted for local government reforms. That gives autonomy to local government. I will tell you that local government will have got their independence. They will have become a part and parcel of the 1999 constitution. But it is the progressive arm of Nigerian politics that led to the death. I'm waiting for the president. Because the president took Obasanjo to court when he was governor of the state. Over the creation of local government development council here. I'm waiting for the president to follow the bill that will give autonomy to the local government. Because he fought Obasanjo administration to a standstill. And he got his free judgment concerning that. I'm waiting for the president. And he actually says what he had expected of the president in his first 100 days in Obasanjo is for him to have put forward an executive bill giving autonomy to the local government. So we can't have the development without having any restructuring. Because you build on structure. If it is a structure of governance that determines, we have a unity structure now. And there can't be meaningful development. Because for anybody to get anything done, you have to get to Abuja. Oh wow. Happy independence in advance by the way. Happy independence. Oh God of creation. Direct and noble cause. Guide our leaders right. F, are you the true to know? You know why? The second standard is very very interesting. He said guide our leaders right. You need right leadership. Right leadership talks about vision. Vision. F, are you the true to know? Because you need you to to have a clear understanding and knowledge for them to do the right thing. And not an honesty to go. What do the political class do? Because the vision through ethnicity, through religion amongst us. So if you look at the second standard, which they don't actually recite in any case, they are always in a hurry because the second standard of Nigerian national is an indictment of the political class from local government to the federal government. It's an indictment. Well, thank you Jide Johnson for your time. It's a pleasure to be with you. Thank you. Have a wonderful day. Have a wonderful weekend. I wish you the same. Jide Johnson, chief lecturer and address to the journalism leg of state has been my guest on the press. We'll take a break now and come back with our first hot topic. Stay with us.


So, Miu, the first one is coming soon. Coming soon, you asked for it. You probably saw me showing this off on a couple of Desk Lady 8s and it's not out yet. The QT Pie 2040, I put one together and it all kind of worked, which is weird, but that sometimes does happen. So it's coming soon. It won't be green, it will be like this, black and white, it might look a little bit different. It's got a Stemic-QT connector, it's got 13 GPIO, RP 2040, I think it's probably going to have four megabytes of flash, but if people really want, I can make another version with a 16. It's got Neopixel, Stemic-QT connector, buttons for reset and boot, you know, nice strong power supply, big capacitors, so it should be really good and stable. It's got cast-related pads, you could theoretically mount this onto a PCB, but you'd have to have a cutout in the center.  So it's, you know, a great upgrade for the QT Pi if you want something even more powerful. This is going to be like a super powerhouse. Okay, next up, this book is back. It's back. So this was a voluntary recall. There were a couple typos in this book, but luckily they're very easy to fix. We got new versions of the book from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. If you have a Pico and you want to use MicroPython and you want to be entertained and educated at the same time, this book is really wonderful. And I think we're sold out, but we're getting more. There's also a PDF you can download if you just want to read it on your computer screen, but it's a really cute book and a great way to learn electronics, programming, and MicroPython all at once. Next up. Next up. Okay, so you've got this really adorable little fingerprint sensor. Very, very slim. It's not as cheap as others, but it's like definitely the slimmest one we've got. It's got a little Molex connector that plugs in the back. It's got a plastic piece that lets you panel mount it pretty easily. And it's basically like the thickness of like a nickel. So why don't you go to the overhead and I can show this off and also demo it. So this is the thickness of it. So this is this plastic piece can come off, but you can see it's a little panel mount assistant. This is the actual sensor itself. And I've got it wired up here to my feather with an OLED plug in and I can do a quick demo. There are blue LEDs on the bottom. You can see that they sort of shine through. The only reason this is flashing is because I do a timeout. You don't have to have it flash. You can have it just be solid on whenever it's waiting for a fingerprint. Put the fingerprint on and I pre-programmed it with my fingerprints so it knows about three different fingers. There you go. It can detect fingers pretty well. This is definitely the slimmest one we've got. So if you're looking for something really compact, we have ones that are less expensive but they're chunkier. But this one is a very svelte. Cute fingerprint sensor. Okay. Next up. Okay. Next up, we have updated the e-ink gizmo. You love the e-ink gizmo. You're wondering, oh, now I got discontinued. What happened? What happened is the tricolor 1.5-inch displays we were using were discontinued. The display itself. I couldn't buy any more. So we upgraded it. The new display has more pixels. It's 200 by 200 pixels, tricolor. It does use a different driver. So if you have existing code, you'll just have to change the one line of code where it picks what driver it uses to use the SSD 1681. And otherwise, it's pretty much the same. It does look a little different when it updates. It flashes in a different way, but it still takes about 15 seconds. It still uses the same overall library code. So if you're familiar with CircuitPython or Arduino, we have code for both. So I thought maybe we showed on the overhead. Just one thing to watch for with these e-inks, you see, they take a while to update. This is normal. This is a little flickery, flashy thing. That's it slowly bringing the red in and then adding black as well. But you can see it's a really beautiful 200 by 200 pixels that it's got a great high density resolution. And of course, when I pull the power, it's still on. And I really like that the red is nice and vivid. The black is very dark, high contrast, and the resolution is very good. So as e-paper goes, the quality is improving and improving. And as new panels come out, we'll keep updating our products to use the latest technology. All right, next step. We've updated the BMP388 like many other sensors. This got a STEMIQTification. Same chip, great temperature and pressure sensor from Bosch, very high precision. Now with STEMIQT connectors for plug and play. The size, the code and schematic are the same. All right. Let's start the show tonight. So do you lead a community of customers and everybody out there on the Eat-A-Four team is? This is, okay, I got to get the part number right, it's the TPS62827, I put the X on there because the part number we could release a version that has different chip. This is our new product for the week, it's kind of a little basic breakout. If you need up to three amp peak of three volt power from five volts, which I do for a couple of products that are coming out, this breakout will get it for you. So you have a couple alkalines or lithium polymer battery or maybe of USB power and you just need a lot of power at three volts. This is our most powerful buck converter. It's not the widest range, we have some couple that do wider range, but none of them are going to be able to give you up to three amps peak. This one will do two amps continuous, no problem. There you can probably do three amps as well, but it does start to overheat a little bit. Also you have to make sure that your cables are nice and thick. This is a two ounce copper PCB, so that should help a little bit with the current transfer. It uses this really nice TI buck converter that we found and has even a little power good LED that lights up as long as the input voltage is in the right range. So if you're like me and you need a lot of three volt power, check out this buck converter. All right. Let's go for it.