Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K. The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. It is another Footies Friday, Footies Batch 3. That's what this loading screen is explaining. That's what's coming today with new Footies SBC's objectives and basically the most insane set of cards, Batch 3, that we have seen in packs yet this promo. I wanna talk about the content we could be getting today and how it is going to affect this game. And also talk about the FIFA 22 beta a little bit because I know some of you guys are playing that. But today's a big day. For FIFA 21. And I wanna start off by talking about this Friday, this promo Friday with the loading screen because there's a lot we can, I think, understand from this loading screen and I think what EA is trying to tell us is these are the three main types of cards that are going to be in packs today. Path to Glory, Summer Stars, and some Team of the Season items. Now I know Team of the Seasons were included in Batch number two with guys like Neymar, with guys like Messi, with guys like Cristiano Ronaldo being their Team of the Season items in packs. I think some cards that are Team of the Seasons that are still very elite level, high tier, their highest rated version is a Team of the Season card. I think those are gonna stay in packs. Like of Iran, like Lewandowski that we saw on the loading screen. Like maybe Mbappe who doesn't have a Summer Stars or a Path to Glory card. But since I think we saw that Ronaldo on the loading screen as a Summer Stars item, that really to me makes me think that we are gonna see Cristiano Ronaldo's Summer Stars item. I think we're gonna see Lionel Messi's Summer Stars item. And I also think that we are going to see Neymar's Summer Stars item all be released back in packs today. I don't think that since Neymar was not on the loading screen that he would not be re-released. If EA decided to go out and not re-release 99 Neymar, 99 Messi for whatever reason, I think that'd be a huge, huge buzz kill. I mean they've released everything in packs so far. Team of the Years, Team of the Seasons. They know, they have to go all out today and I think that they will do that. So I expect to see all of the Summer Stars cards in packs today. I expect to see all of the Path to Glory cards, literally everything, right? I think what it's gonna be is like the best version of each card that is, you know, every player in FIFA. I think their best version will be in packs today with some exceptions. But that's why I think they chose to show Lewandowski on the front screen as well because he doesn't have a Path to Glory or a Summer Stars. So it'll be his team of the season. Now of course, people saw that loading screen and they started to sell things off. Already take a look at these price drops. Griezmann, 450,000 coins. Just yesterday, he was about 100K up. Big time panic selling there. Foden is down a bunch. He's on the loading screen. Of course, Havertz has been moving around in price. These Path to Glory cards are so, so rare. And I think they're gonna get packed a lot today but they're still gonna maintain to be pretty rare cards, right? Look at this Militow from 580K down to 485. Kind of bounced back up. But all of this stuff is going lower today. If you guys remember batch one and batch two when those cards were re-released, the amount of supply then was crazy. The amount of supply today is gonna be even more insane. The amount of packs, people have been saving packs during the whole entirety of footies for this batch. I know multiple people, many people that have been doing that. And the number of packs that are being released today, even if they're untradable packs, is just gonna be so much supply for people's clubs. And of course preview packs today. We don't have any new pack code yet as I'm recording this video this evening. But I would not be surprised if there was a new pack code for a new preview pack release. But I would expect to see like the 88 plus star rare mega players pack. That's a huge preview pack that supplies the market a lot. I would expect to see a lot of that today as well. Now, speaking of some of those packs, I just wanna remind you that of course, batch three best of re-releases is confirmed. I had some people messaging me and saying, do we know this is confirmed? Absolutely we do. Also what we know is confirmed is period two of the engagement rewards ended August 9th. So usually they drop these engagement rewards on Fridays. I'm expecting another engagement reward today. So for most of you guys, that's gonna be an ultimate pack, so add another 125K pack, two year list of packs today on Friday. And also August 13th, it is going to be a prime gaming pack day as well. Seriously, there are tons and tons of packs getting released today on this game.  The people have been saving up 82 plus player picks. Not even to mention the icon swap packs which I'm gonna be getting myself here in just a bit. I've got a couple tokens that I'm gonna be submitting and getting these players, right? It's gonna be an insane amount of packs open today. It's tradable or untradable. And that's gonna make all of these cards that are gonna be re-released like the summer stars, like the team in the seasons, and like the path to glory cards. They're gonna drop a ton in price, just like we've seen before. So they're gonna get really low in that first 30 minutes to an hour timeframe. Some of them are gonna bounce back up. There's gonna be a lot of fluctuation today. So definitely if you wanna try to trade and make some coins, you can definitely 100% do that with those cards as they get panic sold and supplied today on the market. Now, that's enough talk about market and stuff like that. Let's talk about content for a little bit. What kind of SBCs could we be seeing today? Now, of course, we're all excited about the footies vote winner. We're gonna have to see who ends up winning today, but between Albamie Yang and Marcial, that was the vote on Wednesday that SBC will be dropping today. I honestly think it's gonna be Marcial, but that'll be one of many SBCs we could see today. Of course, we had the Gelson Martins and the dynamic duo for Gelson Martins and the Faber-Gass yesterday, which was an insane SBC set, but you're gonna have even more players coming today, at least one player SBC with that Marcial. One thing I'd also expect to see today is some sort of a re-release. They've done this two times in a row now, so I expect them to do a third time around is the footies player pick. And this SBC, if they drop it today for batch three, could be mental, right? Remember the footies player pick for batch one with team of the year cards, with what if cards, with the future stars and everything. And now footies player pick two, I think they could be releasing a footies team three player pick today as well. This could be an insane SBC with multiple 99 rated cards that are impacts between Path to Glory and Summer Stars items. I really hope they do another footies player pick today. And I also hope that they release some sort of other footies favorite SBC player. We could have like two SBC players today. We could have, I mean, if they really wanted to go all out, they could do end of an era messy. I don't know if that's even possible. If they'd make it a PSG card or a Barcelona card, but that's, I guess, potentially could be thrown out there as an SBC for today. But what I would be more apt to think we would see on the game today would be that Marcial or Obamyang SBC, some sort of other footies favorite. And then that footies player pick SBC as well. Hopefully repeatable. Now, objective wise, I think a lot of people have forgotten about this, but we will see the winner of the Amavi and Denier objective, which looks to be Jordan Amavi. So I think he's going to be the objective player that we will see today inside of the game. It'll probably show up in here. Like it did the last time we had an objective. Of course, the dynamic duo of Vincel and Monnier is going away. I don't think this is going to be replaced. I think this is going to go away. I think the Amavi is going to come in and that'll be our objective for today. So that's really all I'm expecting for objectives. And it really does look like they're pushing us towards the league one. So if you have a lot of fodder today and let's say the Marcial SBC is too much or there's an SBC they released that you're not super duper into with the release of the Skeleton Martins with the Amavi SBC, it looks like they're maybe pushing us towards league one, which would make sense because after this weekend, of course, right now we have Serie A, weekend league plus objective red picks, extra red picks. We have one league left, they have not done and that is the league one. So a Renato Sanchez footies item, this is the final countdown and the final potential for that card in the next week or two, it would make sense if it would be coming this next week. So we'll hopefully if you have some fodder maybe you save it a little bit of that for that potential SBC, right? That's just kind of something to stick up there in your brain and see what happens with it. So it's gonna be an insane Friday, right?  There's gonna be tons of packs open that is gonna affect the market a lot and it should be some pretty good content, right? With all those SBCs, the Fridays where it's a new batch getting released in packs are also very, they're just very, very hype Fridays. So I'm excited to see what comes today content wise. I'm gonna be watching the market a little bit. Things that I could see move on the market today might be rare golds and that low tier fodder market once again, if they release a footies player pick for batch three and it requires rare golds and it requires 80 rated squad, 81, 82 rated squads kind of like it did for the Gelson Martin's SBC and at 87 times 10, you might see some of this lower tier fodder go up even more than it already has. 84s are up a little bit. They're back at six point just over six K a piece earlier this week on Wednesday. They were down at like five K. They spiked when the 87 times 10 repeatable came out. Some of them went up even a little bit more yesterday with the Gelson Martin's SBC coming out but it's gonna be a mad mix today because of course a lot of supply, a lot of untradable supply is gonna be hitting people's clubs but if that footies player pick is, you know, if there's a batch three player pick, again you think about 99 Ronaldo, 99 Messi, 99 Neymar, these cards that are going to be in packs, people are gonna go all out. They're gonna go all out today. This has been, again, like I mentioned, some people have been saving packs for weeks for this day because they were waiting until the best cards were available in packs. Man, somebody got a literal 350 K undercut on this Harrods on bid. That's how dead the market is right now. That's actually kind of crazy. But wow, 1.03 open bid on this Maradona as well. If I can sell, anyway, the trader inside of me is going crazy right now. If I can sell my Havertz, I'm gonna go buy that Maradona because that is flippable as well. Anyways, it's just gonna be a crazy day on the market. It's gonna be a crazy day on this game. Finish up your icon swaps if you can. That'll be a good way to get those packs and those should be incredible today. It's gonna be a lot of fun, pack opening and of course market movements as well. I'm expecting some huge fluctuations on the cards that go in packs, panic selling and supply, then a little bit of a rebound on some of those items. Now, one thing I do wanna also talk about today is the beta. The FIFA 22 beta, I just wanna talk about it for a little bit. Of course, the beta was released yesterday and I actually have the beta. I have access to the FIFA 20 to Ultimate Team beta. But what I wanted to mention is, what I wanted to mention is, I wanna show you some tweets right here. This is from an actual community manager, his name is Zaro, he works on FIFA. There is gonna be information released today and I don't think they talked about it in here. Yeah, right here. So EA streams every single Friday on a stream called Top Bins, right? They stream Top Bins, that's the name of their Twitch stream and there's probably gonna be more information released today about FIFA 22 Ultimate Team. They're gonna answer some more questions because that's Zaro, he works at EA again. He tweeted out earlier this week, said, hey, what kind of questions do you have? So even though a lot of stuff today is focused on footies, it's focused on the content and stuff like that, I would just kinda keep an eye out for a little FIFA 22 information from that Top Bins stream that EA puts on every single Friday, like an hour, 30 minutes to an hour before the content drop. So just kinda keep your eyes ready and keep watch for that content today as well because I know that a lot of you guys have the 22 beta, a lot of you guys wanna get on it and you wanna grind it and there's some issues with it. There's a lot of stuff going on on Twitter. Again, don't post pictures of the beta if you have it because that can easily get you banned, get you lose your access to the beta and maybe even EA banning you and you not being able to play FIFA on that account. So that would be a big disappointment, of course, if that happens. So just be very, very careful with that. Again, today if you are playing the beta, but for real, I think today is gonna be the culmination of footies. I think this legit day is going to be the culmination of the footies promo with all the insane cards coming into packs, packs that people have saved, 86 plus player picks, 87 times 10, 82 plus, I mean, just packs galore today. I think the word that's gonna sum up footies batch three is gonna be packs. So that's the video for today, boys. Again, it's gonna be a very, very hype Friday. I'll be streaming it all live down. Link in the description on Twitch. We'll be looking at the market, looking at some packs and just seeing what kind of crazy content EA releases today on Friday. So if you enjoyed this video, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been an 8th Foot Account and I'll catch you guys later. Peace, out.


This is coach Mack welcome to beneath the surface powered by Microsoft surface today We're going to look at four plays in the second half of the Titans Pittsburgh game and watch AJ Brown and the Titans offense Make a comeback in the second half after being down by 27 to 7 in the first half First play we're looking at here John new Smith lines up out to the defensive left. You see him move back in They've got a tight bunch to the defensive left side play action and then a bang eight This is a bang eight throw an immediate throw to AJ Brown Really really nice timing throw big-time catch by AJ Brown knowing that this is a collision area Watch the protection that works in with the offensive line to the right side very nice protection bang eight Beautiful throw over the top of the linebacker on the inside Splits the defensive backs on the backside and then the tremendous speed with a man his size AJ Brown touchdown Second six and the balls on the 44 yard line 12 23 in the fourth quarter now the score is 27 to 17 We're looking at very very tight in your play action week This is a play action to the weak side now watch. This is a deep dig This is a deep dig back to the backside X receiver where AJ Brown is watch the play action Really nice protection again immediate throw the ball is placed perfectly AJ bounces the ball a little bit at the first to himself But is able to hang on and then with his strong hands and his strength on the inside He's able to complete this catch huge first down for the tight Second one balls on the 29 to 16 in the fourth quarter now the score is 27 24 Now we look at everybody is spread out wide here. The back is on Tanya Hills left hip now watch the throw This is a simple stop route over here to AJ Brown That is the furthest receiver to Tanya Hills left It's an immediate throw the corner is playing very very far off coverage watch AJ Brown Not only make the immediate catch but immediately turn and get up the field to maximize the yardage on a very simple Stop route and take advantage of his speed and his size Last play we're gonna look at third 12 balls on the 46105 in the fourth quarter Yo-Yo motion, which is the back and forth motion by the tight end now We get a five-man pressure coming in here Look at the precise route running and then look at the precise timing from Tanya Hill to AJ Brown over here to his right side You get the five-man pressure the front and the back have to do a nice job of chipping to help excellent Excellent timing on the throw, but the route is run so precisely and then the sure hands of AJ Brown Ensure another huge first down in the fourth quarter AJ Brown the Titans offense Ryan Tanya Hill were a big part of Second half comeback of the Tennessee Titans in this ballgame to draw the score closer


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I've got a really random question here, Ashley. Tell me something that is true that almost nobody agrees with you on. Oh, that is a random question. Let me have a think. That's a tough one, James. That nobody agrees with me on it. I'm not going to lie, you've thrown me there. If you haven't got an answer, no worries, because it is completely left to field. Yeah.  Nobody does or agrees with you. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I could probably answer that. So this is a common thing in tennis coaching in the country, probably in the world as tennis coaches. So the most important shot in the game is the serve, because every single point in the match starts with the serve, but it's the least practice and the least coached shot in general. You know, most good coaches will spend a lot more time on the serve, but a general theme is if you had an hour lesson, lots of coaches were doing the fun stuff, you know, the hitting forehands and backhands, and because it's more physical, there's a lot more drills that you can do to develop those shots, whereas the serve is quite static. Players get cold if they're not, you know, running around, and it's a harder shot to teach. So most coaches leave the serve practice for the last five minutes of the session, whereas if you look at the stats, over 60% of all professional points are finished within the first four shots. So with the serve and your next shot being the end of the point for 60% or more of the points, it shows how important it is. So really, we should spend a lot more time working on the serve. So in general as coaches, I try to encourage my coaching team to every single drill incorporate the serve in some way. So if we're working on rally length and we're trying to get a 10-shot rally, start it with a serve. If we're doing a drill, working on the backhand, it's serve and then backhand. With the kids, lots of overarm throws, as I said before, lots of action above the head, because in day-to-day life, we're all strong at doing things, you know, pushing things below our shoulders, but we're all a lot weaker biomechanically above our head. So we need to do extra work on that. So yeah, I would say I'm not reinventing the wheel here. I think every coach knows it. It's just finding a way to incorporate the serve more often into sessions. That's a great answer. And I like that you brought up biomechanical weakness above the head with rowing. I tend to find that there's a biomechanical weakness below the waist. And everybody looks at a rowing machine. It's got a handle on it, and they're pulling the handle when they get in the gym. But actually, rowing is a pushing sport. You've got to use your legs more than your trunk and your arms. So I spend, I'm going to say 99.9%. It's not that much, but a lot of my time is spent on getting my athletes to push the boat rather than try and pull it by swinging their body back and using their arms to pull the handle of the oar. Because that's the most, you know, the oar is the most obvious thing that moves. And getting people to understand that that's actually the boat that moves rather than the oar in the water is... Yeah, interesting. Difficult to explain.


With the quality of attendees today, I think I should award myself an initial pass mark for properly identifying the solution and by picking the right conference to attend personally. I also checked very diligently and found to my relief that there is no charge open or hidden for my own category of attendee. I was particularly alarmed when I looked behind the program and saw a list of pre-qualified, pre-paid attendees. So when I looked there and saw that it did not require me to pay, I really was very, very happy. Which means that I can derive the immense benefits from this gathering of the brightest and best in management free of charge. What remains is for me to consult with the President of the Institute as a true Nigerian to ask whether attendance at this one meeting qualifies me to start parading myself as a management expert. The theme of the conference, managing the challenges of democracy, really could not have been a better friend. I think it was one of the illustrious past presidents of the NIM and who is here today, Aladju Muhammad Abu Bakr, who I believe it was a 2006 conference, declared quite perceptively that all sectors of the Nigerian economy were suffering from endemic management failure. To carry his prognosis a little further, I would say that the central question, especially in the public sector today, is not the lack of talent or well-researched policies, but the weakness in getting things done or implementation. Doing things as opposed to talking about doing that. Implementation is possibly the central management challenge today and it is in my respectful view at the heart of the challenges of managing our democracy. So in every real sense our problem is a management one. The NIM achieved nothing else but a prescription on how to resolve the problem. You would certainly deserve to be described as national heroes, but to take the prize you will need to ensure implementation, beginning of course with all of us who are seated here today. Let me set out some of the issues, or as researchers will say, the problematic for your consideration. First is the central question of governance, ethics in the management of public resources. Second is the issue of merit over quotas and politics in the selection of talents and projects. Third are the challenges in human capital development and fourth is the problem of scale. Scale in social services, for example education, providing 21st century education to millions of children as a country heads for third place in world population in a few decades. Last but by no means the least is the problem of poverty and the creation of wealth and opportunity for the very many millions who are right for it today and the many coming behind. Regarding the first approach as a government has been first to tackle grand corruption, which in other words is the direct looting of the treasury by senior members of government. And the second is changing the systems that promote graft and corruption. This will be done by the introduction and implementation of the TSA, the PICA, Continuous Audit of Governmental entities. The insistence on full implementation of IPs, that's the electronic human resource platform, especially for the armed and uniform services who had for long somehow stayed off this transparent electronic platform. The whistleblower initiatives and other measures aimed at bringing greater transparency and scrutiny to public finance and the conduct of public affairs. The next level is to deepen the fight against corruption, especially in government procurement processes and government delivered services. We believe that technology and automation will help moving things away from the discretion of the desk officer to the agnostic electronic platform. We aim to ensure that every Nigerian is able to obtain documents such as passports, driver's licenses without having to pay bribes or suffer meaningless delays. But how do these efficiently, how to do this rather efficiently is really the implementation challenge. And of course we're open again to advice from the gurus. As to the question of moving more towards consistency in applying merit as a first consideration, as opposed to quotas as a first consideration in public appointments, especially in appointments within the public service, every part of Nigeria has great talents. Even if we're picking talents from every state, that choice should be merit-driven. The civil service has in the past three years insisted on examinations for promotion and even for permanent secretaries. That process must be maintained and final choices for education should follow the order of merit. There are many open questions, of course, on implementation. Again, over to you. The issues of capacity in human capital development, affordable healthcare for all, education especially getting out of school children into the school system, education of girls and relevant educational curriculum are from burner issues today. Healthcare for all cannot come from budget allocations alone. As of last week we have taken major steps in the provision of our universal coverage policy. In 2018, some will recall that we implemented the allocation of 1% of the CRF, 1% of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the government of Nigeria to healthcare. Consequently, we launched the first phase of the basic healthcare provision fund just last week with the disbursement of 6.5 billion to the first 15 qualifying states and the FCT. That money goes to special health insurance agencies in the states to reduce the hardship of patients who have to make out of pocket payments for healthcare. And we, of course, intend to spread this across all of the 36 days. The next level is the implementation of compulsory health insurance for all Nigerians on a co-payment basis with government. We are working at the level of the National Economic Council on the issue of education to achieve Mr. President's June 20th directives to state governments to ensure full implementation of free and compulsory education in the first nine years of the school life of every Nigerian child. The extensive use of technology, focusing on getting girls into schools, introducing mainstream subjects into the Quranic school system, and the implementation of the STEM curricula, in our case we call it STEAM, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths, are some of the main components of the educational plans that we have going forward. Some are familiar with the homegrown school feeding program. That program has been particularly helpful in ensuring an upward trajectory in enrollment into primary schools all across the country. Today we are in about 30 states during the homegrown school feeding program, feeding over 9.5 million children every day. There are many implementation challenges, of course, in how to ensure high quality education, especially scale. At the moment several programs including technology solutions are in use or being considered in various states. We need to efficiently identify the best options and to do so put them on scale so that they can benefit all of the states of the country and of course millions of children waiting to be educated. But the implementation of policies and programs to address the challenges of poverty, of wealth creation, of jobs for millions of young, active people, now and in the future, in my view requires collective thinking and action. While we have created appreciable value in agriculture, for example, with the anchor boroughs program by adding new jobs and acreage in party rise, sodom, millet, cassava and yam production, we recognize that it is in the agroalide value chain that the greatest value lies for jobs and improved productivity. So a crucial component of our cultural plans is the mechanization of agriculture. We have a program with the Brazilian government. The Brazilian government is making available the $1 billion facility, but that facility is to be provided in equipment where we intend to build service centers in every local government to render extension services, leasing of farm equipment, provision of improved inputs, etc. In addition, there will be six assembly plans for tractors and other agricultural equipment. But the enhancing of commerce in agriculture by the building of rural roads, access to markets, commodity exchanges are also priority items. The truth is that every development plan, every plan to create the number of quality of jobs that we have would have to do a lot with what our cultural outcomes are, what our plans are and how they are implemented, especially in the agroalide value chain. Also the expansion of opportunities in manufacturing. With the completion now of the first phase of the special economic zones, we are, of course, moving very quickly towards doing that, the Enyeba city in Abia, the leki free trade zone in Lagos, the Funtua cotton zones in Katsina. These are the immediate priorities and good progress has already been made thus far. We already have indications, investor indications from the Afroxene band from the AFDB. The IFC is also supporting the initiative very closely and of course the Bank of Industry. In addition, we are in collaboration with again the Bank of Industry in investing in infrastructure, in small business and commercial clusters all over Nigeria. Examples are leatherwork clusters, shoe making, food processing clusters, printer clusters, etc. These are to benefit from provision of power and equipment and other infrastructure, cluster by cluster across the country. Under what is described as an energizing economic scheme, we license and ensure the provision of power on a willing-buy, willing-seller basis to large and medium-scale markets, such as Subongari, for example, in Kano, Araria markets in Abia and Surah markets in Lagos. So what happens there is that we have private power producers who power these markets. Many of the examples we have are solar, but in Araria, for instance, we have a combination of solar and fuel-based power plant. But these are run by private individuals and the market people and shop owners are happy to pay a good price, happy to pay a cost-inflicted price for 24-7 supply of power. We intend to continue the energizing economy scheme. We also have the energizing university scheme where we are putting power. This is private power or we are licensing private power producers in 37 universities and seven colleges of technology. We believe that we can resolve a lot of the power problems by decentralizing power production and power generation and distribution, such that it's not just the discourse and the current privatized gencos that are producing power, but that anyone who is willing to produce power is able to do so and they were able to license sections to enable more people coming to the power market and produce power, especially on a willing buyer, willing seller basis. But it was in providing more, a better scope for jobs, especially for young people in technology and in innovation that we've been facing some of the most critical challenges, especially with respect to access to credit. Today, there are very many startups, many innovations, and of course in a country our size, the question is providing credit on scale and providing credit on an accessible basis. So the bank of industry has about 10 million that it has put aside for innovation in technology. But 10 million is not for a country this size, I mean enough. If it were Rwanda or perhaps in Ghana, yes, it might make an impact. But Nigeria is, I mean, Lagos alone is six times the economy of Rwanda, so there's just no way that we can, I mean, the kind of skill that's required is much, much bigger. So we've been talking to the AFDP, who's putting together a $500 million facility for innovation and for, you know, startups in technology. And we think that that can form the basis for giving more impact to a lot of the talent that we see today in technology and innovation. We've also started a technology advisory group, technology and entertainment advisory group, where we have a lot of the young men and women who are in technology and entertainment, advising government directly, advising government directly on the policies that are required for ensuring that the technology and all of the innovation that they're bringing forward is not stultified by regulation. For example, a lot of the FinTech companies, a lot of the FinTech companies are hybrid there, basically doing banking type transactions, but they can't be regulated like banks. They can't be licensed like banks. So there's, of course, a need for, you know, their own generic policies there, you know, and what we've tried to do is to provide those kinds of policies working closely with the central banking. With respect to small businesses as well, we've seen quite a bit of work being done, especially with MSMEs. And already we've done MSME clinics in about 24 states of Nigeria. And we've also established one stop shops for regulatory approvals in some zones. The clinics which are attended by all regulatory agencies have been an eye-opener for them as they hear and see the problems of small businesses firsthand. And this is quite important because so many small businesses, of course, have been complaining about the problems of NAFDAQ, getting approvals from NAFDAQ, SON, et cetera. So these clinics are very important in ensuring that the regulatory agencies themselves understand what the issues are. And that has led to some of the changes that we're seeing today. And, of course, we have to go beyond that. But it was in the process of thinking through the problem of access to credit for informal traders and businesses, especially petty traders, the so-called bottom of the pyramid in the commerce chain that we developed with the bank of industry, the government enterprises and empowerment scheme, what is better known as market money or trader money schemes. Now, when we think through budget, you know, especially in a democracy with the large numbers that we have, obviously, what our focus should be on how to ensure that the bottom of the pyramid, which of course is the largest number in the commercial value chain, gets some benefit and are empowered to do their own business as well. But that has always failed cycle after cycle in thinking through budget. And I think that one of the very important things is how countries with the size that we have and with the levels of poverty that we have would structure their budgets in such a way as to cater for that bottom of the pyramid. That is something that has always escaped us. And of course we cannot seriously talk about the welfare of the majority without budgets that think through the questions that concern the welfare of the majority. But what we've seen so far is that those schemes have greatly enhanced access to credit and they have improved the inventories of petty traders. Everywhere that I've been, you know, it's incredible just how little money is required to make a difference. Just last week we were in KB state, in the main market there. And I was going around with the governor looking at some of the new beneficiaries, with the governor and the bank of industry, looking at some of the new beneficiaries of the trade and money scheme. There was a particular lady who was there who we asked what she was selling, little vegetables. And we asked her how much her entire inventory was. It was just five hundred nine. Everything she was selling was five hundred nine. Now there's just absolutely no way that that can provide any kind of decently. But these are the vast majority of people in our value chain. Here in Abuja, in one of the markets here in Abuja, there was a lady who was selling her momo in a bucket. You know, the bucket, you know, taller than about this. So when I asked her how much her total inventory was, it was three thousand five hundred. And then I said how do you make profit? How do you survive on this? She didn't answer the question. She just pointed to the woman next to her whose momo was in a little bowl. She just pointed to that one. This is the person you should be asking that I'm a big player here. So it is evident that if we don't find solutions, you know, to some of those problems, some of those issues, it will become of course more and more difficult to take people out of poverty. And we've seen some of these schemes work in other parts of the world. We've seen these schemes work in India that has taken large numbers of people out of poverty. We think that these schemes will work here if they're faithfully and diligently implemented. They would work. But again, the question is one of scale. All we're able to do so far is two million people. That's, I mean, not a number well in excess of 40 million. We have many, of course, as you know, scratching the surface. But there are cherry news. The program recently won the AFDP prize for financial inclusion. And we think that, of course, there is room for improvement. How do we scale up? How do we ensure, you know, that this is done? Now, when you give 10,000 liras, when the payback, you give 15, when the payback 20, and it goes all the way up to 100. That's the trade-off money. Of course, the market money starts from 150 all the way up. And we found that there is diligence in payment. There's a lot of people who are paying back. Of course, because they know they will get more when they pay back. But we've also found that at that level, you know, people generally tend to be a lot more faithful for some reason, you know, paying back their debts. I don't want to go into the very embarrassing questions of Angkor and all of those. Perhaps there are many people here whom I don't want me to talk too much about that. Let me speak quickly to what will be done differently on the implementation of government plans in this dispensation. After the presidential policy dialogue which preceded the inauguration of ministers, the president developed a list of specific mandates for each ministry. So each of those mandates has clearly spelt out action points. Every minister has a clearly spelt out mandate with action points. Some of those mandates are about eight points or seven points. And the ministers are meant to render their first reports on performance in December. So in some senses we are moving to a more measurable way of determining whether ministers are doing what they ought to do. Whether ministries are doing what they ought to do. Of course there will be challenges, challenges of funding, challenges in some cases of clarity of plans and all of that. But we think that it makes far more sense where at least there is some clarity as to what you are required to do when you begin work as a minister. The full and effective performance of these mandates is of course always going to be a challenge. And of course we look forward to contributions again from the groups on this journey. As I close that may again commend the NIM for these many years of provoking thought and action on making our nation work for the benefit of all. I think that it's a very important forum, that this forum is a very important forum. There are few elite forums like this where there is a cross-fertilization of ideas, of disciplines and of course of world views that can do the quality of thinking and the rig of thinking that is required to work through the problems of a nation of the size and of the complexity of Nigeria. I really want to commend the NIM for the very many years of doing this very diligently and throwing up all of the issues. But just as I thought as I take my seat reading through the code of conduct of the NIM is so evident that if just those of us in this room including myself could comply with that code this country will be a completely different place. Completely different place. So I throw the challenge to the NIM. Let's walk. So it's now my very special pleasure and privilege to declare open this conference of this annual conference of the Nigerian Institute of Management for the benefit of all of the Nigerian people and to the glory of God. Thank you very much.


Well, it's finally happened! Beloved Undertale skeleton Sands has come to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. No, he's not a wholly original character in his own right, being simply a costume for the Mii Gunner fighter, but that's beside the point. Everyone's favourite character from Undertale is now playable in Smash Bros. Sorry Undyne. Toby Fox's journey from amateur developer to Nintendo collaborator is incredible. We've previously detailed how Toby made his first game Undertale and the first chapter of its successor, Delta Roon. But how exactly did Toby's work in Game Maker Studio lead to his inclusion in one of gaming's most celebrated fighting games? Believe it or not, this is all thanks to you. Provided you're a fan of Sands, that is, if you don't like Undertale, don't worry, this isn't your fault. But also, why don't you like Undertale? And why are you watching this video? In April of 2015, before Undertale had even been released, Nintendo asked fans to submit suggestions for characters to be included within Super Smash Bros. Requests began flooding in, with Western fans particularly demanding characters like Ridley, King K. Rool and Banjo Kazooie. So that seems to have worked out nicely. Apparently I was the only person gunning for Alex Kidd. When in September of the same year Undertale was released, fans immediately began to wonder whether Toby Fox's love letter to Earthbound could also feature in Smash Bros. in some way. It took a few years for this movement to really gain traction, but slowly the memes spread far and wide. Nintendo fans in their thousands began calling out for the inclusion of Sands in the game. Meanwhile, Toby Fox was living his best life. In January of 2018 while in Tokyo, Toby got to meet Shigasato Itoi, the creator of Earthbound. Shigasato is a very famous creator in Japan, having worked on a variety of different successful media projects beyond Earthbound, so he could almost be forgiven for overlooking a game like Undertale. Not so though. According to Toby, today when I was walking around Tokyo I happened to find a Hobonichi event, Shigasato Itoi's company. Then I happened to meet Shigasato Itoi, mother's creator. He told everyone I was an awesome game designer. I'm happy. This world is made of strange coincidences, huh? Toby also got the chance to spend time with none other than Masahiro Sakurai, who invited him to his house. According to Toby, this was an intimate affair. There was no translator, so their conversations weren't stiff and disjointed thanks to the inclusion of an intermediary. This did however mean that Toby had to do his best to use his own broken Japanese to try and communicate with Masahiro. The pair played Smash Brothers, and Masahiro was very impressed at just how good Toby was at the game. He was among the best players that had been invited to Masahiro's home. They played over and over, letting the computer choose random characters for them to play each round. Half the time Masahiro won, half the time Toby won. They were fairly evenly matched, and Masahiro even suspected that Toby might be just a little better at the game, at least picking random characters. When their time together was over, Masahiro personally drove Toby home. As they travelled, they listened to a CD of music from Super Smash Brothers, and they laughed and joked. Toby decided to name Masahiro's car the Batmobile, which… sure, why not? It's canon now. Masahiro Sakurai drives the Batmobile, and listens to Smash Brothers' music at every available moment. Quite aside from anything else, this certainly does show how much he cares about his game, that he's so absorbed by it even during what is theoretically his time on. But then, work-life balance has never been his strong suit. It was presumably following their time together that Toby was invited to compose a new arrangement of megalovania for Smash Brothers, but this wasn't all he was asked to do. Game Freak, another orbital Nintendo company, was working on their brand new original game, Little Town Hero. If you're wondering why Game Freak doesn't have more resources to pour into modelling every single Pokémon for Sword and Shield, bear in mind that they are also trying to reinvent the role-playing game genre with this nifty looking title. Little Town Hero is apparently what would happen if Majora's Mask was a turn-based role-playing game, in which you explore a small community, make friends with various people, help them with their problems, and then use their loyalty to hurl them against monsters that get in your way. Just like how real friendship works. With development on Little Town Hero and Pokémon Sword and Shield running concurrently, Game Freak needed to expand and to work with new creators. Additional artists and developers were hired, but to give Little Town Hero a distinct feel from their other work, the studio decided to hire an outside composer for the bulk of the game's music. That composer was Toby Fox. Speaking about his experience working on the game, Toby said that it was an honor to be included. Toby initially composed the music, and then it was arranged by veteran Game Freak composer Hitomi Sato, best known for his work on Pokémon Black and White. Said Toby, though it was a very small team, I felt a lot of passion from the people working on it. I'm looking forward to finally trying the game myself and seeing how it turned out. Toby's journey over the past few years has been incredible. He's made a small passion project that he didn't really expect anyone would care much about, but after it blew up on Kickstarter and then wide release, he's gone from strength to strength. Now his character and music has been included in Super Smash Bros., and he's been able to compose music for the guys who make Pokémon games. The moral of the story is that you never know where your passion project might take you. You might not end up with the success that Toby Fox has achieved, but your own personal development goals are no less valid. Make things you can be proud of. Develop talents that make you happy. Learn, grow, and most importantly, stay determined.


Sine to the power of 6x, sine square x cos square x. Now apart from this, anybody? Sine square x plus equation of cos square x minus x cos square x. Okay, first of all, numerator 1 by AB minus 3. So, this is A cubed plus B. Is this understood so far? Cos x squared. Are we aware of it? What is it?   This is proven by the limit of Sine square x minus Sine square x minus Sine square x. So, second one, heart and soul of integration. Almost 70 to 80 percent of the problem. Now why do we use substitution in solving integration problem? Because we don't have enough rules. So, we mostly have functions. We need to use some substitutions in order to, except for here and there are some, but if a part of a function is running in terms of that variable, we don't have integration of times. But I don't get to the name of, which is minus sine into dt, which means sine x into dx, which implies you can substitute not, right? Minus as i mod x. So, in a similar way, times integral 1 by t dt will be minus 1 ln mod t plus c. Now, you can't because t is something which you introduce into the problem. So, replace it back by n cos x inverse plus c, which is ln mod ckx. So, this is a very small example, correct? So, please, I think the other way. In a similar way, that means cos x will be, which implies, so this entire x will become sin x plus c. Now, when ckx, there will be some problem because ckx requires a special treatment. So, in case of ckx, what do we do? You would get the del, do you see that? So, this facilitates us to substitute ckx plus tan x times, you get ckx tan x plus c square x is dt by dx. Take the dx on the left, would be dt and this term would, you must be thinking every time, which is ln ckx plus tan x mod plus c. Now, many times in the answer at the back of the book, you would realize that some different function is given in the answer. For example, it is just that they have simplified identities to write ckx plus tan x as tan x by 2 plus y by 4. I will quickly show you how it comes. So, ckx plus tan x, you can write it as sin square x by 2. One of them will get tan square minus y, 1 plus tan x by 2 by 1. This is clearly the formula of tan. So, you have to bring it to that form, which the option is demanding from you. In case of body exams, multiple answers of ckx minus tan x plus ckx plus tan x. Do I need to tell you, in a similar way, in a very similar title integrate for ckx. And before that, please append your point integral of c. This one, see, into ckx minus tan. So, you will also ckx minus tan x. So, this term I can write one by this. So, this was ln of ckx plus tan x. Again, coincidentally, kx minus cot x. The answer written is ln and can also be minus ln for ckx plus cot x, as what Aditi told. This is also a formula. You can go see, but now we have x times x plus x. It would have become nearly impossible to solve that problem. We must test the steps, specific types of integrals, which will only come through practice, plus ckx. So, put back your x and this is your answer. And still, I used to come across as a requirement. It will happen with another type. Let's give you an example of xsx. Put it towards xsx. Minus ln, you can write it as 1. Minus 2. Yeah, you can write it as 1. Then I will simplify to this. 1 minus t squared, minus 2 minus t squared, minus 1 minus... This problem can be 87. So, such a simple example...


Welgwm yn y Toffey TV, dwi'n mynd bai Matt Jackson. Just going to quickly talk about current evidence. We've checked out Matt's interview, all about how influential he was when we won the FA Cup. Single-handedly won the cup, I think, was the line you used. Matt, was that right? I might have been miscoachy, but... OK. Well, I mean, people can see it. It's on the video. I just wanted to get your thoughts on Carlo Ancelotti, really, coming in as evidence. My manager, obviously, when Michael Silver was shocked, and then your old team mate, big Duncan, took the game, you know, took for three games and was very good. I mean, when you played with Duncan, was there any inclination that he would be a manager? No, I mean, I think it was hard to say that he would be a manager in that regard. And ultimately, he hasn't been it. I'll put off a bit of a hazy. So, I said I was interviewed quite soon after. Maybe the day before, actually, Ancelotti was actually appointed saying, it's really big for Duncan now, you know, what his decision will be in terms of having had that little taste of it as much as he loves Everton and he's going to have this fantastic role under Ancelotti. At some point, do you have to go to come back? And it's a difficult decision, a tough one. I mean, he was always a great character, a lot quieter than, you know, people possibly would think with what he expressed when he went on to the field. And obviously, we all know him well within these sorts of environments in it. And he's loves to talk about the game. And you would know he would always have the passion and the drive to want to be the manager and he did a fabulous job in those games. And ultimately, I think Carlo has benefited from that bit of stability that Duncan brought in in terms of maybe not being the most technical performances from the lads, but at a time that was really tough, as it always is when there's a transition of managers going, got them to a point where it wasn't a panic, they're out the bottom three. It doesn't feel like a big crisis issue. And I think certainly Carlo and his staff have benefited from that. Were you surprised that Everton were able to guarantee a lot of you? I was a little bit. I was and I'm delighted with the impact he's had. And I'm delighted that he looks like he really fancies the job because he's been super successful. He's got that unbelievable CV. I presume there is no financial constraint that means that he has to take a job.  Obviously, I know he's got his son as part of the coaching staff, which is great, and if it's about that transition, absolutely fine. But it looks like full commitment and that's all you would ask for this football club. He come out and said the other day that he actually wants to be longer than his four and half year contract because that's how much he's enjoying it. So I suppose that's great news for Evertonians to hear.  That was always a toughy at heart. Well, exactly, you know, he knows. But so financially, he's not had to come here for them. I'm sure he was quite well paid in other jobs. So it is about the drive at that age as well. Sixties still have that hunger and desire to do well. I don't think that will ever go. And I'd like to think if I was in that same situation that at some point you'd want to probably challenge yourself. Because you'd have known this wasn't going to be easy. You're not walking into a situation that's going to be a cake walk by any stretch. And I love the fact that he wanted to challenge himself and set himself a task. Whatever the motivations are, knowing that you've got to do that.  But you know what I'm saying? How much of an impact can I make to a football team that is where it's a struggle? So I mean, we're not league one. No, no, that's not the point I'm making. And that is exactly why leading back to a dunx dilemma, you know, Robbie Fowler, Tony Grant out in Australia at Brisbane, I'm desperately trying to get that management foothold. Tony's been great for the football club in a scouting capacity. It's out there. They had to go to the other side of the world to get an opportunity to try to maybe come back. You know, it's hard, a brutal, brutal environment to earn a living in that coaching side. It's great for Duncan to be obviously working under enchilotti as well in terms of, you know, a sponge.  He was able to fire the players up. And now he's got one of the most decorated managers to work under it. It's incredible for us. Obviously, there's been a big improvement. Everton are now seventh and in the hunt for Europe, which is great.  And just from it, because obviously you were out of it when you got into Europe, I've seen people not complain but are concerned about squad depth. But as a player, surely if the opportunity is there to get into that Europa League next season, do you want to do it regardless of the squad depth? Yes, I think to a certain extent that's the case. I think there's a problem with the Europa League in the way that it's looked on by football because the Champions League, rightly, is such a massive competition. So if it feels like an afterthought, then maybe that's not the greatest from a motivation point of view. And ultimately, if it is affecting what becomes Sunday fixtures, then it really does become an issue. Close to Sean Dyche up at Burnley and I know the problems that there may be. Burnley in Europe are fantastic. Why would the whole club, the whole town not embrace that European football? But ultimately, it almost becomes a pain because it so affects the bread and butter of everyday Premier League existence, which unfortunately is the livelihoods of so many people and the clubs themselves in these instances. I think with us, obviously, we've had more resources and Wolves are doing it really well this year. They've negotiated it well and they're into the next round. And then there's obviously, I think a few years ago, that would have definitely been the case because the prize money in the Europa League was nothing, but now it's the group stage, I think it's 12 million quid. So that's for FFP and there's also the prize of if you win it, you get in the Champions League, it's Chelsea with the benefits of France. And that is huge, but you still manage your squad, you know. Do you want your strongest team playing in that European tie on the Thursday night? Or do you want to see your squad being at its best on the Sunday for whatever that premise? So as a fan, you then have that dilemma. Obviously great when we mix the squad up and it'll be a bit of both, but then unfortunately you get a bit of both results and nobody likes that. No, I'm still want us to get in. I'm going to touch Carlo. He says he wants to play every three days. He would have a plan for sure. He'll be alright. And then obviously off the pitch the move to Bramley Mordoch having put plan and permission in now for that and hopefully we'll hear that in the summer.  You'd be sad to see it go. Obviously from a historical point of view, of course. But when you see the experience that's on offer and again horribly the amount of money that good stadiums proper new modern stadiums are able to take that then makes a difference on the pitch. That's, you know, it's huge. But they do a brilliant job at Gwdyswn with that matchday experience. The staff are always magnificent, but you are left with what you're left with. You know, when you walk into the Gladys Street and send yourself back into the 1960s, it's not the full fan experience and it's not the experience that the fans deserve. Of course, we've all had great nights at Gwdyswn and great Saturday afternoons and, of course, you'll be nostalgic and whimsical about it. But ultimately, you also want to move at the time so the team can be as competitive as we want it to be. And it does look like the stadium's going to be magnificent down on the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey down there, be lovely. Can I just ask you about Marcel Brands, about the director of football, because this is a role essentially you've done at Wigan Athletic. I know it might not be called that. Well, no, but you've been involved in all that academy recruitment. The fabric of a football club. So, because I still think here in this country, people still are unsure about the role, particularly in the Premier League, people still... I don't know, the manager should make all of these decisions, but you've seen it at both sides of it. The manager is often the one that is unsure about it. That's the difference in this country, that a lot of the resistance comes from the managers. So it's tough. Ultimately now, multimillion-pound businesses outside of football don't get run necessarily by the line managers.  And if you're the manager and you know that three games down the line from however good your position is, you're going to be under pressure. You're not looking at the long-term future of the football club. You haven't got the time to see the detail of what the progression of the under-17s through... You know, when you've got a fantastically funded academy, it has to lead to something. So there has to be somebody saying, okay, how do we look at the succession planning so that we aren't investing 2 million pounds a year into an academy that we'll never use? Because the manager, understandably, he's looking at Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday, wondering whether he's got a job at the end of it. So it amazes me that there hasn't been the transition into every club doing it pretty much at every level, because short-term planning in football clubs is the most dangerous thing you can do. You have to have a long-term plan and you have to have a structure that's available. And you have to have succession planning of coaches so that you don't end up a point in the manager who is never going to like, you know, Roberto Martinez, Sam Allardice, football spectrum, we're caught in the middle. You'll have millions of pounds worth of wages and talent that is isolated one way or the other. And so if the succession planning is wrong for coaches and managers, it can get football clubs in a horrible, horrible position that takes years, literally years to recover from. I think, to be honest, I think that's where everything are.  We had Sam Allardice, you know, we'd already had Martinis, he's gone out with other Michael Silver's coming. When you're looking at the football club as a whole and how it moves forward, if you're... It makes so much sense to have someone who has a thread and sees where it's going and then try to make the manager fit the team, right, and the team fit the manager because, like you just said there, what manager buys eight players, nine players, doesn't work, he gets sacked, the next manager comes in and goes, well, I don't, them six can't play in my team. And then you're left with that right now, trying to get people out on loan because this manager doesn't want them and they're on big wages. So it makes sense to just have someone, a director of football, if you like, or a sporting director, with that one vision. The fabric of that is vital, vitally important. So at all levels, really at all levels, because so much money is off the picture any given time. That's the thing in Premier League clubs. And fans want an identity as well. They want the School of Science to produce footballers. And there's a snobbery to it at times at all clubs where they feel like they have a divine right and look at Marino going into spurs and the spurs fans are, well, we don't want that sort of football. Well, do you want success or do you want a little bit of defensive structure? So you have that all of the time. The one thing I remember saying in the interview that I did right before Angelotti signed was that I hoped that they didn't have a mad January where they signed a whole load of players quickly. And I was saying at the time that it felt like the club were going to be fine from a survival point of view. That was never any doubt. So spend four or five months finding out exactly what you've got before you then do the summer restructuring to say we now know exactly what we need. Because there's always players, and Calvert Llewans being the perfect example of it. Suddenly he's popped. We all know he's a good player and he's got an ability, but suddenly, bang, you can be a massive part of this as opposed to being, we know you're a good player, but we're not exactly sure what it is that you can do that's the best for us as a football club.  Brilliant. That's £100 million you want to have to spend.  It makes, I mean, that makes so much sense. Can I just ask you finally, because you've worked within an academy structure and players, the under-23 football, there's a huge difference between playing under-23 football and playing, say, Premier League football, even playing Championship football, you know, for these kids. There's a lad at Wigan, Joel Gellard, who's really linked with, you know, you probably know about him and, you know, can he step into the Premier League? Where's that gap? Because for me, the 23s, the gap's just too big. Is there any way we could bridge that gap, do you think, or...? Not really. OK. Not that isn't being done, because there's so much money being spent on the academies, people are absolutely desperate to find a way that that's the situation. Is it simply loans then? So, loans are, but so many loans, I mean, I've done it, that role, as you say, at Wigan, where we don't want to take lads on the first loan, because they come out of the 23 environment and can't go into that. You're playing for livelihoods, people. So, everyone thinks League One, League Two are cruising to that as an un-23 player. You just can't do it. But the mad thing is, you're talking about the transition from under 23s.   So that was my point there. Which is amazing. And ultimately, be good enough. You know, if you're a young player, find a way to be good enough. You know, Tom Davis, find a way to influence enough to get yourself in that team. Cos it can be done. Do you think it should go back then to certainly under 21 level? But because we say this, when we talk about Everton's kids, is that if they're not banging on the door at 19, are they really going to be any good in two? Because we've got Anthony Gordon now who's 18, and he's played a couple of games already.  Brilliant. We know that cos he's got the level. There's a couple of others that haven't knew you go yet. But there's lads in our under-23s who are 22 and have never played.  The 22 years of age, you've never been involved. So how do we strip that back? Well, if you've got a succession plan that allows those players to develop and be sold as assets, which then funds the next ones through, cos the statistics tell you that everybody can't be a player. So there has to be players going out of the academy, which is absolutely fine, as long as you protect yourself with cell-on clauses so they become players elsewhere, that's absolutely fine. There's no problem with that, but don't have them sit and kick in their heels for three years. Don't have that development plan for them, then release them into the football wilderness. And they do go into the wilderness because you leave Premier League clubs at 23 and think, oh, I'll go and cruise it in the championship. And they don't. And you know what, within two years, they're not playing any football. That's the thing. And that's where it's wrong. And that's where it's hard. But to be one of the best footballers in the world to play Premier League football, it should be hard. But you've got to find a way. Don't feel sorry for them because it's not the system's fault. You've got to find a way in that system to be good enough cos everybody that's playing in the modern world has found a way to do it. You've just got to make yourself be one of those. And you might look back on opportunity and you might look back on, I was injured at the wrong time or whatever it might. I never, you know, I never... It was all a bit soft and I didn't know how important it was. Well, find out how important it was to make yourself a player cos there's nothing better to be doing.  Moron anter, this isn't it? Because you can sometimes go, oh, it's the system, not stopping these players. But I'm talking about Anthony Gordon, who ultimately is good enough because he's in the first team squad. This is where, you know, some of our... Some of our tonings will say, like, Tom Davis is a championship level player. And you're like, well, he's played over 100 Premier League games. So I think he would have been found out earlier if he was a championship player or did he not tend to subscribe to that? I'm not specifically talking about David. No, I know you're not. I just mean, if a player's played 100 out of games, that's 21. I mean, funnily enough, growing up, I was always told you do not consider yourself a player until you've played 100 games. That's why I kind of smile at that because it was something that was drilled into us. So, I mean, if you're getting that sort of exposure, and I think for someone, I know you're not talking specifically about Tom, but at some point, he has to become a major influence on the team. Because what we're really talking about is players being a major influence on the team. And that's what it comes down to. You know, you can put any player into a team environment. There's 10 other players and they're great. That's why it's often easier to go into teams that are doing really well because you're going into a team that knows what's doing. Going into a relegation threatened team as a young player is tough because it's hard. You know, players are looking after their own careers. They haven't got that bond of everybody looking after each other. So, it's tough in that environment. But for someone like a Tom who's game is based on obviously having the sort of power and that running ability and going box to box. But if you suddenly think he's going to be a super creative player that's spraying 200 passes a game and creating numerous chances, that's not and shouldn't be his niche in football. So, you have to accept players for what they are. And the athletic side of the game now is almost overtaken, that ability side. That's why the best athletes who can really play are such superstars because you have to have that athletic ability first. It's a tough one. It is a tough one.  Is it someone else's fault that you're not? I might come and have a game footy with you later. You see. I'm not sure it'd get in our side. No, maybe not. Maybe not. I was just about to say, what can you do? Talk a good guy. That's the best way. That's the way. That's the secret. Big thanks to Matt. Massive thanks for coming in on this chat with us. Cheers. Make sure you subscribe. 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Purdue Engineering helped me tremendously in that it allowed me to start over. I started, as I mentioned before, as an architect with an architectural undergraduate degree and Purdue University took a chance in me. They invested in me sufficiently that I was able to change courses in my career and the result of that is everything I've achieved professionally thereafter from the people that work in our company to the mentorship I'm able to do here on campus they are all the results of Purdue's investment in me allowing me to chart my course. I was able to get my master's degree in two years and the reason was I quit my job full-time and came back to Purdue and by doing so the university supported that by offering me a partial fellowship which supported some of my financial need and able to be able to do that and as I said before that's one of the reasons why I am constantly working to repay the investment that university made in me some 25 to 30 years ago. Regardless of your age, get a mentor. It is fundamental to our career, to our progression, to advise ideas to improved outcomes by having a sounding board for the things that we do and the second is, it sounds a little corny, give back. I just got through spending an hour with senior students here at the university talking about my life experience and giving them an opportunity to find out from me how they too can accomplish better in their careers and so that would be my advice to students, make sure you have a mentor and give back. The three small steps that come to mind in my engineering career were one, choosing Purdue University for my graduate degree. The second was working under great mentors and the third was having the faith to go out into business as a business owner. The one giant leap that relates to my engineering career is the current business that I have started that has grown from 10 people to 40 people in six years. My name is Ken Beach. I have a Master's of Science in Civil Engineering from Purdue University in 1994 and I am a Purdue engineer.


Hello everybody. My name is Tal Ayalon. I am the project manager for the Open Knowledge Repository of the World Bank. It's a pleasure being with you today and it's an honor and a privilege to be able to present as part of the CNI annual meeting. Today I'd like to discuss something that has occupied a lot of our time as administrators of Open Institutional Repositories and other Open Repositories or Repositories of Open Access, and it has to do with accuracy in reporting of usage statistics and how can we make sure that we have as accurate results as we can or statistics. Let me share my screen. Now we can start our presentation from here, the United Rainbow Collars of Bots separating the wheat from the machine generated chaff in Open Repository Statistics. Now what do I mean by that? For this presentation's purposes we define bot activity as machine generated interactions with a repository, which could be visits, views, downloads, etc. that are not part of the intended services offered by the repository. Those can range from malicious activity through statistics boosting to benign or even helpful web crawler activity on the repository server. Our challenge as administrators or as users or as institutional users of Open Access Repositories can be summed by this excerpt of the Open Access and Analytics presentation from the last NISO conference. While traditional paywall publishers can take advantage of industry standard counter reports to communicate usage to subscribing libraries, no similar standard exists for OA content Open Access. Instead, many organizations are stuck with proxy metrics like sessions and page views that struggle to discriminate between robotic access and genuine engagement. To help with this challenge on the OKR, the Open Knowledge Repository, I have come up with a tool that helps define bot activity and track it and mark it. It's not a perfect system but I hope at least some of you would find it helpful. How do we detect bot activity and remove it from a repository's real statistics and metrics? Introducing the rainbow scale of bot activity from red, which is the easiest one to detect, to violet, which is the hardest to detect. The red level is the one that's easiest to detect, a DDoS attack, distributed denial of service. This is a no-nonsense malicious activity by machines. Distributed denial of service attacks are malicious attacks by bots on an online system intended to overwhelm the server with false requests until it shuts down. Such an attack is obviously bot activity, raising an alarm with us and our vendor, DSpace vendor, resulting in a complete block of the offending IP addresses. And yeah, clarification, the OKR is built on DSpace and our DSpace vendor cooperates with us in locating bot statistics and bot attacks like this case, which is the red color in the rainbow. The next level are crawler HTTP agents. Many of the most common bots operate in the open and perform, sorry, operate in the open and perform benign collection of information. For example, the Google Scholar Crawler that indexes academic websites for relevant metadata. Those types of bots are initiated by HTTP agents that are easily identifiable to system administrators and do not pose a threat to the server. However, they should be marked so that statistics they generate do not infiltrate the server's human generated genuine statistics. And as you can see on the right side, you can see a list of HTTP agents that are known to belong to bots, such as Scrappy. In this case, and it's different versions of Ruby, which is another crawler. Those are excluded from the statistics in the OKR by a configuration file that you see on the right and your statistics will not be counted. The yellow layer is a bit harder to detect, but with a little bit of manual work, they can be weeded out as well. Those are known blacklisted IP addresses. Cybersecurity websites often publish and maintain lists of IP addresses that have been known to originate spam attacks and other malicious or disruptive activities so that administrators can block them, aka block lists. And we at the bank also subscribe to a few of these block lists. Those lists are a great basis for the formation of an exclusion list for servers, but new bot servers are created every day. So those relatively static lists cannot be relied upon is the only line of defense against bot activity. So you could have a very rich IP blacklist or block list, but for example, if it gets updated once a week and a new bot attack was initiated the day after the last update, you'll have six days in which the bot can do whatever it wants without being added to the block list at least six days. So there is a delta there of time that is not covered by publicly available blacklisted IP lists. And for that, we have the next level, which is a bit harder to detect and to filter out. Those are newly found blacklisted addresses. Many malicious and spam bot registries exist online, as we see. To get the most comprehensive and up-to-date information regarding blacklisted IP addresses, use a meta blacklist. All IP addresses that pass a certain threshold of interactions with a repository get analyzed by such meta blacklist sites and are added to the block list if they are blacklisted on one or more trusted blacklists within the meta blacklist. New spam bots and worse are launched every day, so keeping our blacklist up-to-date is paramount. So sometimes you can find an IP address that is not raising a flag on any one of your specific block lists that you subscribe to. In that case, you can also compound that search with a meta blacklist site that will go out and send your query to dozens of other blacklists and see whether one of those has already been updated with this IP address as a malicious or a bot IP address. Now comes a part that is a bit of detective work. It's not an exact science, but it does help keep your block list up-to-date. Non-blacklisted IP addresses behaving suspiciously, that is the blue color in our rainbow. Sometimes an IP address engages a lot with the repository and does not appear on any blacklists. Engages a lot or engages in a strange way or a suspicious way that looks abnormal. However, a deeper analysis revealed behavior that appears non-human such as SQL injection attempts. An IP address downloading only one item 10,000 times in a week, which has been known to happen, or an IP address downloading each of the repository reports the exact same number of times. All these are suspicious behaviors by IP addresses. These cases are a judgment call. Factors that affect the blacklisting of such IP addresses are, is it registered to an entity that has other blacklisted addresses that could be a strong indicator for false activity or machine-generated activity? How inexplicable is the behavior? For example, an IP address from Eastern Europe downloading a report about South America 25,000 times. And when you do that detective work with your repository statistics, you will many times find very suspicious activity that is not detected by any of the blacklists or meta-blacklists. Moving on to Indigo, we have bots that are disguising as VPNs. Most VPNs, virtual private networks, are legitimate repository users being lumped together through one IP address due to various internet access restrictions or via large institution. So for example, when I see a lot of action coming from one IP address, let's say, in Bulgaria, for example. Well, the World Bank has a large office in Bulgaria and it might just be that that whole office uses one VPN to mask its activity and everybody in that office that searches something on the OKR is registered as a statistics from that IP address, which doesn't make it in itself a machine-generated statistics or statistics that should be excluded. Those statistics are human-driven and welcome. Bots behaving like VPNs, a large number of statistics originating in one IP address but distributed among many different HTTP agents interacting with a wide range of items and what looks like a random pattern are very hard to detect because they look very much like human activity within a VPN. A strong indication of a bot as VPN would be its IP address being registered to a previous known offender known to operate malicious or stamp bots. Another one would be in converse to what we said before about the HTTP agents is, for example, one IP address that has a lot of interactivity with the repository but only uses one or a very small number of HTTP agents. So it looks as if everything came from one computer and that usually means that there's less of a chance that this would be legitimate VPN activity. Which brings us to the most difficult kind of machine-generated statistics to detect and one where we sometimes just throw our hands in the air and say that we're as close as we can to pure statistics or pure human-generated statistics but we will probably never approach 100% of accuracy with open access repositories. Bot client arrays. Identifying bot activity is not an exact science. No system can read itself of non-human-generated statistics 100%. I call it the Heisenbott principle. If someone maliciously designs an array of bots with different IP addresses from different places limits activity below a reasonable threshold and apply some randomizations to their activity they could probably create non-human-generated statistics that we will not be able to detect. Bots are becoming more sophisticated and so should we. Future trends in the field of bot detection and repositories. The bot net detection market is estimated to grow with a compound annual growth rate of 37.6 percent over the forecasted period of 2021 to 2026. The number of bot net attacks is quickly rising due to which the demand for bot net prevention is expected to grow. And also bots also know how to forge common attributes that are used for bot detection. They manipulate HTTP headers and their values in order. They can change and they change their browser fingerprints. The best bots are able to perfectly mimic human behavior. For example they can easily pass captures and can also imitate realistic mouse movement and keyboard strokes. And below is a diagram of a plan for machine learning bot detection which will probably be the future trend and will help us a lot with parts of that rainbow in which we are not yet at a high enough level of detection. So this sounds a bit scary but still there are very a lot of brute force or pretty easily detectable bot activity going on and it will probably go on even after there are more sophisticated bots because they will also tend to be more expensive and harder to implement. So we still have a very good piece of the machine activity that we can detect and we will never be 100 percent perfect probably but we can keep striving for it and keep doing our due diligence and our detective work on our statistics. Please let me know if you have any questions anything to add anything that I'm missing in my bot detection algorithm and my email is down below and I would love to hear from you. Thanks a lot for your time and I hope it was helpful to listen to this presentation. Thank you.


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