Ranger Bill, warrior of the woodland, struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, showing rare courage in the face of disaster, in the air, on horseback or in a screaming squad car. Ranger Bill, his mind alert, already smile, unswerving, loyal to his mission, and all this in exchange for the satisfaction and pride of a job well done. That's a heart, Bill, there's some job for us. You might call it that, Stumpy. I was just beginning to get used to the idea of relaxing. I've been quiet around here for a long time. That's why I'm working out this schedule, fellas. We've been very fortunate around here for a while. So I fit upon this schedule of clean-up work. Clean-up? No. Work for each of us to do. It's no use, I guess, when Bill feels like Chief Ranger, there's no stopping him. That's right, Grey Wolf. What have you got for us to do? Well, Henry, your job is right here in the station. That back room is pretty cluttered again. Seems like I'm always cleaning it. That's right, young fella, but you see, we're always cluttered it up. And, Stumpy, don't see you already. That right. Yep. Harmonica and keep morale up, right?  I want you and Grey Wolf to make a check of all the towers in our district where we need such as paint and maintenance and the like. All the towers? That's right. Oh, excuse me, fellas. Well, look who's here. Oh, strangers. Hi, Keith. What brings an old bear like you out so early in the year, Keith? One guess. Are you going to climb a mountain? Oh, the whole family is, Henry. That's why I stopped. I'm wondering about weather conditions and forecast and any other information you could give me about Mount Evergreen. The whole family, huh? Trying to make champion mountain climbers out of all of them, huh? I'm going to try. Billy's already been climbing with us, but this will be Tim's first goal. Oh, Timmy? Are you going to take him along? Well, he's eight years old. Already? Hey, I must be getting old. No kidding. I can remember when you used to carry him in here. So I can remember when you used to be carried around. Well, this is different. Well, anyhow, you're all going up on Mount Evergreen. That's right. If you don't have any objection. Go right ahead. I mean, is the weather and other conditions okay? As far as we know, the rains didn't do any damage that we've heard about. So have a good time. Oh, good. We've been looking forward to this old winter. Tim's pretty excited about his first climb. It's a good thing his father's a champion mountain climber. Oh, was, Henry. I haven't climbed in competition for a long time. Oh, what trickle are you, old timer? Well, I was just sitting here thinking about the two mountain climbers who were climbing way up there. Oh, here come one of old timer's jokes again. Go ahead, Stumpy. I haven't heard one of your stories for a while. The two climbers were climbing. Yep, that's right. And one looks at the other and shops. Look out for that cliff. And the other says, what a cliff! Well, Stumpy, don't be mad about it. We all know it. That's all. We're not mad. Maybe I have time for one more, Stumpy. How about it, huh? Well, there is a sort of sequel to that last one, unless you all know it already. Why not know any more of that joke? No more than what we just said. Looks like the floor is yours, Stumpy. Oh, there's the family. I guess they're anxious to get moving. How about a rain check on the rest of that joke, Stumpy? You can tell it next time we see each other. Okay! Bill, why don't you come to the door? Hi to you. Sure thing, Keith. Hey, kids, here's Ranger Bill to say hi. Hi, Ranger Bill. Hi, Billy. Timmy. Tim. Oh, I'm sorry. Hi, Billy. And Tim. Hello, Alice. Hello, Bill. That's quite a growing family you have there. Looking hard to keep up with them. This is Timmy's, I mean, Tim's first climb with us. I know. Well, have a good time. I can't get over how those boys have grown. Still, Tim's pretty young to be climbing around on a mountain. Well, don't forget that Keith is a champ at that kind of thing. They'll be safe enough. I guess. I just don't think I'd like to do it if I were in his shoes. Keith, you know, I think this is one of the most beautiful spots we've ever camped at. I know. I knew you'd like Mount Evergreen. Once you get up through that heavy forest area below and get up here with the trees set out a bit. I think it's just perfect. Look at our smallest mountain climber. Sound asleep. It was a hard climb for him, especially since he's now used to it. Did you ever notice where Billy went? Oh, he was around here a minute ago. I'm sure he can't be far away. He knows better than to wander too far in this kind of a place. Sure. Later, I want to show you probably one of the most beautiful sites in this whole section of the United States. Well, I mean, one of the most beautiful sites that doesn't have a souvenir stand and some coin-operated telescopes connected with it. Oh, such talk, Keith. What place is this that's so beautiful? Mom, Dad. Oh, there you are. There's the most terrific thing a little ways from here. Oh. Yeah, just a little ways up there. There's a kind of fork in the trail. And each path leads to a separate ledge.  Boy, it's great, Mom. I went out on one of those ledges and could I ever... No way. Not safe, Mom. At least the one I went out on is. I'm not so sure about the other, so I didn't go there. Anyhow, I went out on one, and you can see straight across to the other with this big open space in between. It really is beautiful, Alice. Well, Keith, I don't know which one of you was more excited about this, but I'm not going to get up now to see it. At least not right away. Oh, Mom. There's plenty of time, Billy. Besides, I wouldn't leave Tim a sleep here. It sure is neat. I'll see it before too long.  I'll be along later, just as soon as Timmy wakes up. Hey, good idea. Come on, Dad. Okay. We'll be back later, Alice. Keep the home fires burning. Have a good time, you two. Boy, Tim sure got tired in a hurry, didn't he? Aren't you a bit tired yourself? Who, me? Not at all. Well, remember that you're almost four years older than your brother. Oh, well, after a nap, he'll be running around again as good as new. He'll probably have more energy than any of us. Hey, here's the fork in the trail. Up that way, it gets awful narrow, so I didn't go very far on it. This way, it's plenty wide enough for both of us. I haven't been up here in a good many years. There's been a little erosion since I was here. Dan? Yes, hon? This is a neat sight in all that. But how did it happen? How could there be this split right in the middle of the mountain? Let's get up on the ledge and I'll show you. Okay, we're almost there. Oh, watch your step. This doesn't look very firm along here. You should see the other path. You just start to step on it and it crumbles. I'm glad you had the good sense to stay off of it. Here we are. Oh, I look at it. Beautiful, isn't it? Sure is. It's like looking at a whole other mountain. You see, Billy, at one time this was all together. This was probably a clearing or something. But a shift must have happened in the Earth's surface to cause this mountain to split right here and divide this clearing into two cliffs. How far do you think it is across the split to another cliff? Oh, I'd say about 30 feet more or less. How deep is it down there between the cliffs? Well, that's hard to say. You can't see the bottom because it's in the shadows, but it may go as far as, oh, a couple hundred feet. I was kind of afraid to look into it. Sometimes fear is a good thing. There's no telling how strong the edge is. If someone were to go to the edge and look down... That edge might give way and they'd go down, huh? Right. It's a good thing you didn't do that. They like having you around. And I like being around. Tim! Timmy! Listen! Alice! Alice, this way! No, I thought it was you. It's sleep. He was. He was. Okay, get easy, honey. Try to tell us what happened. Well, after you left, I began unpacking some things. And when I turned around, I noticed that... Who was it? Oh, Timmy wasn't there. Easy, easy, dear. We'll find him. You sure he didn't start back down the way we came from? He couldn't have without my seeing him. This is the only way he could have possibly come. He didn't come here. Hey, look! Where? Over there on the other cliff. It's Tim. He's crying. It's no use, Alice. I can't get over there to him. That other path is just too weak to support my weight. It's a miracle that he made it. Oh, Keith, what are we going to do? I don't know yet. Maybe I could get to him, Dad. I'm not as heavy as you are. That's not the whole problem, Billy. What would you do after you got to him? You'd have to carry him back. You can hardly lift him, let alone make it back along that shaky path carrying him. Oh, why doesn't he just come back himself? Well, we've already tried to get him to do that, but he's too frightened. How can he be scared? Dad's never scared of mountain climbing. That's not entirely true, son. Well, you climbed anyhow. Why doesn't he just forget that he's scared and come back? Probably for the same reason that you wouldn't go to the edge and look over. Well, I thought it'd fall in and me with it. Exactly. I just don't know what to do. I could get over there to him myself if I had a rope long enough, but I'd be in the same fix Billy would be in. I couldn't get us both back. Oh, Keith, if we only had some help. I don't know what good more people would be. I can't figure a thing out. We're here. There's a good 30 feet of crevice between here and the other cliff. Tim's on that other cliff. We can only get Bill and the range is up here. Then I have some ideas. Maybe so, but how? We're a good day's hike from our car. Well, telling what would happen to Tim while we're trying to get them. I've got an idea. Go ahead, Billy. We could use one about now. We could signal the Ranger Tower down in the valley without going down. Hey, that really is a good idea. Billy, you're wonderful.  Yeah, but maybe on the wrong way, Mom. What do you mean, son? Well, they know we're up here. They might just think we found some wet water or something. We've got to let them know we're in trouble. That's a good point. Any ideas? Well, go ahead. You hit the jackpot so far. Well, how about using the mirror Mom has in her purse and flashing an SOS at them with a sunlight? Yes. How did you ever think of that? Henry showed us that trick in one of our club meetings. I thought it was pretty neat, so I remembered it. Well, let's get to it. So far, little Tim is too scared to move, but if he decides to try something, it may be fatal. Hang on, Tim. We'll get you off of there. I hope. Oh, God, I hope. You think they're getting it, Dad? I hope so, Billy. I hope so. How long have you been flashing at them with that mirror? On and off for almost two and a half hours. They're bound to have seen it by now. Why don't you stop then? Well, you just never know. I guess little Tim is still okay.  I sure wish we could have stayed up there to watch him just in case. Don't underestimate your mother, Billy. She's perfectly capable of taking care of most any situation. Yeah, I guess so. But she's a woman. Oh, no. Dad, you dropped the mirror. Never mind that. I've got to find out what's wrong up there. He can't run. There's a way to run. Oh, God, have mercy. The snake jumped and fell. It isn't moving. It looked dead, Dad. I don't understand it.  That's exactly what Betsy here never misses the mark. Something, Gray Wolf. Oh, thank God. Here now, no blubbering. The old snake has seen his last day. Look like we just in time. You sure are. That snake almost got Timmy. Hey, what's he doing over there anyhow? Why ain't he here with you folks? That's why we signaled you. Timmy's trapped over there. How'd you get here so soon? Well, Gray Wolf and I were making an inspection of Ranger stations and just happened to be at that there station when you flashed us. How did he get there anyhow? He took the wrong path. And it's too small and crumbly for anybody to go after him. It does make a problem, don't it? Maybe Bill have idea. Is he coming? We report your signal to him by phone. You see, you get mountain climbing equipment and rope and come out on double. So when we heard that an old champ like yourself was signaling for help, Keith, we knew it must be something really rough. I guess you can figure that you were right. Bill, what can we do? If we could get to him, there isn't any way to get him back over here. And there isn't any other way to get to that ledge than that flimsy path, huh? None at all, Bill. I've checked it from every angle. The only way there is by the same path that Tim took and that isn't strong enough to carry the weight of any of us. Set me, and I'm too small to be of much help. Oh, don't let that get you down, young fella.  If we could get a rope across the open space and work some sort of... Bill? I'm not nearly as heavy as most of you. Maybe I could get to Tim. I don't know, Henry. What would you do once you got there? Well, I don't know that, but it's a sure thing I'd be more help over on that side. Besides, I think Timmy would better have some company soon. He looks awfully scared over there. I think seeing all of us here has helped him a little bit. You try to hold on to us. We'll think of something. How about it, Bill? Can I give it a try? Keith, what do you think? Would the ledge hold, Henry? It's hard to tell, Bill. I wouldn't want to say no and keep Tim alone over there, but I wouldn't want to say yes and have Henry, you know, fall. I'd like to give it a try. Well, pal, you know the setup. I think it's good of you to want to do this. Don't worry. Stumpy's not the only mountain goat around here. Why, you young whippersnapper, you'd better not slip before I have a chance to pin your ears back.  He's being very careful. Looks like you learned that Indian sneak you were teaching him real well, Grey Wolf. Now, he's very sure of foot and all right. He's keeping mainly to the uphill side of the path. That's good. Boy, Henry's as brave as all the rest of the rangers, isn't he? Oh, dear. Steady, Henry. Steady. Could he grab a hold of tree root? He's almost there. He's almost there. Hard backward belongs. Doesn't like crawling on eggshells. I thought that was it. I don't know where this jagged rock came from, but I sure am glad my hand's fine. What do I do? There's nowhere to put my feet. I'm just hanging by this jagged rock on the side of the crevice. You mean bad fix, all right. You said about full ears, honey. Oh, if anything happens to Emma, I'll never forgive myself. It's not your fault, Ellis. Oh, yes it is. I've been watching Timmy like I should have. This would have happened. Well, that's foolish talk, Ellis. Please try to be calm, dear. Oh, with Timmy alone on that ledge and Henry dangling from who knows what. Henry's starting to swing himself back and forth. That's it, pal. He's trying to get enough swing to throw himself onto the ledge with Timmy. Only a few feet. If his hands not give out, he might make it. I don't know how to get down. Don't worry about that. Bill, figure something out. Is everybody mad at me? Oh, no, Tim. Don't worry about that. We just want to see a safe sound on the other side. Does dad still like me? Why'd he ask a thing like that? Because he's so good at mountain climbing and not scared of anything. And I got too scared to get back. Take it easy, fella. It was probably a good thing he didn't try to get back. What? Well, sure. You saw what happened when I tried to get here on the same path, didn't you? Yeah. Well, if you asked me, you had a real good reason to be scared. I was. You were? I sure was. Why, anybody would be at a time like that. But you came over anyhow. Sometimes being scared isn't half as important as doing the right thing. Sometimes, like for you today, being scared was the right thing. You're still alive. But I'm a chicken. Hey, what kind of talk is that? Being scared doesn't make a guy a chicken. Any more than doing a brave thing makes a guy a hero. What about you just now? That's a good question for you. I guess you could say that I did a brave thing. But at the same time, I was scared. Now, what am I? A hero or a chicken? I don't know. You'll mix me all up. Here's the thing to remember, Tim. Everybody can do brave things. And everybody is scared many times in their lives. It's just the way life is. If you get all worried because you're scared, you're missing a boat. Just as much as if you get all puffed up because you do something brave. Do you understand that? Kind of. Good. Now, how about smiling so the others can see that you're all right? Okay. In a way. Good idea. It looks like he's smiling. Hello, Timmy. He doesn't look worried. I don't know what Henry said to him, but it sure seems to have done the trick. Henry, good boy. He usually knows the right thing at the right time. You said it, Grey Wolf. Now, what about getting him off that ledge? You got an idea, Bill? Yes, I do. And with Henry over there, it'll be a lot easier. What is it, Bill? Yep, Sonny.  Just this. If we could stretch a rope across the gap between these two cliffs, we'd have an effective bridge. Well, I don't know about Henry, but Tim is no high wire walker.  Bill mean hand over hand walking. Oh, of course, but wait a minute. I'm sure Henry could make it across that way, but what about Tim? Maybe he could ride on Henry's back. Do you think he could hold him? I don't know. I'm not sure what shape Henry's hands are in after swinging from that rock. They look like they might be a little raw. Well, if I could, I'd go after myself. Well, Henry looks pretty well rested now. Let's get that rope across. Once it's secure, I'll go over there and get Tim. It'll look like it hold. Good. Now I'll go hand over hand to that side, take a breath or two, and bring Tim back. Gray Wolf, try to keep the rope as taut as you can. It'll cut down the swing. Well, here it goes. Well, how are your two ledge mates doing over here? Real well, Bill. We were just sort of passing the time of day till you came. Good, good. All right, ready to get off this place, Tim? I sure am. But how are we going to do it? Oh, your hands, pal. Well, pretty good. I scraped them up a little when I swung from that rock, but otherwise OK. Think you can make it over the same way I came? Oh, sure. What about Tim here? Since I get my wind, I'll put him on my back and follow you. That means you'll have to hold on like crazy, Tim. Think you can handle it? Tim, this is one of those times we were talking about, remember? You've got to do a hard, brave thing, even though you may be scared. Now Bill, keep his part of the job as long as you keep yours. OK, Ranger Bill. I can hang on. I'll try not to be scared as long as you're carrying me. Well done, boy, Tim. If you're OK, pal, let's get going. Right. It's a good thing Gravel is steadying this rope. Remember what we talked about, Tim? And hang on to Bill. OK, Henry. I'll try. There. He made it. Well, Tim, you all set? I'm trying not to be scared. Well, I try to be something you want. We all get scared at times. That doesn't mean we stop doing what needs to be done. That's kind of what Henry said. Do you get scared sometimes? Of course, Tim, we all do. So go ahead and be scared. But hang on to me for all your worth. Tim, it's so good to have you back again. Yes, it certainly is, son.  Henry had told me that that was on your mind, Tim.  What he said is true. You were never scared. Oh, yes, I have been on many occasions. You? And Henry and Bill? And Gray Wolf and Stumpy, the whole bunch of us. It ain't so important whether you're scared or not. What counts is what you do in spite of it. See, Tim? Take only one look straight down to see that you have good reason to fear. We all feel the same way. I think Tim gets the point, all right. Especially considering he held on so bravely on the way over with Bill. Say, Stumpy, weren't you going to finish that joke about the man who fell off the cliff? Oh, yep, I nearly forgot. Well, you see, this fella kind of busted himself up when he fell, and the only way his friend could figure to get him up out of the crevice was to hold on to the rope with his teeth. With his teeth? That's right, Billy. So he bites down hard on the rope, and his friend starts to pull him up inch by inch, foot by foot, until his head starts appearing above the cliff's edge. Wow.  Did the man with the rope and his teeth answer? He says, OK. Well, boys and girls, we were all glad that this adventure came to a happy end. And say, did you ever notice how much it sounds like that man is falling off a cliff when he shouts after I say, see you next week for more adventure with... Ranger!


And we're under way, it's Tennessee. On this edition of Titans All Access, there's no time to waste. It's time to move on to Monday night football and the Buffalo Bills. General manager John Robinson tells us what needs to happen if the Titans are going to return to Nashville with a W plus from an extension to an interception. Safety of money hooker is off to a hot start. He'll talk about establishing his role on the Titans D and one Titans legend gets inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. All of that and plenty more right now on Titans All Access. Derrick Hinton! Jones dropping under pressure, steps up, hit again! Was that you that missed that sack? Who missed that sack? That you that had missed that sack? That was a bud that missed that sack.  He got him, he flushed him out. But he said he had around the legs. I said ball! Sack T.F.A. and 4-5. That was my first trip sack ever. Poof! Poof! Hey, bro, don't look at me like that again, bro. I ain't got some paper in my mouth, bro. I forgot I was marked up. I swear I forgot I was marked up. Yeah! This is the energy I ever gained. In fact, they'll understand.  Come on, D! D got the worst breath on the team. Him and Tari. So when I talk to you, they do like this, they, yeah. My girl do T-whiting. Client tail, man. I'm taking my girl as a client tail. Tana Hill. As time throws. Left side, Hillier at the 10. Hillier at the five. Hillier in the end zone! Tana Hill found him! Touchdown! Welcome to Titans All Access and the Bet MGM Studio with Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith. Pleased to be joined to open this program by General Manager John Robinson. And we're talking ball, presented by Duncan. Titans preparing for Monday night football with the Buffalo Bills. So John, a little extra time coming off game one. Time for more practice, more meetings. What's the team really been working on since your season opening game with the Giants? Well, I think improvement, Mike. I mean, there were certainly some things that we did well in that game. But also, you know, we've said before, it comes down to five or six plays that when you don't execute them properly, you know, the outcome usually doesn't bode in your favor. So really identifying those guys, working through practice, in meetings, stressing the points. So when those present themselves again, we can execute them properly. What was your impression of the Titans rookies in the season opener? Well, I thought we got production out of several of those guys, really in all three phases, offensively, defensively, and in the kicking game. There were certainly some positive plays that all of them made, but also some teachable moments like any young player that we can coach up and hopefully improve on. Let's talk about Buffalo, your opponent this coming Monday night. What impressed you about their opening win over the Rams on September the 8th? Yeah, really impressive in all three phases of the game, offensively, defensively, and in the kicking game, you know, Josh Allen, everybody knows who he is. He's got a lot of playmakers in digs, knocks, McKenzie. Davis made some plays for him down the field. I thought the line did a good job protecting for him. And then their defense, it was really attacking up front, you know, with Von Miller, DeKwan Jones showed up on the inside, Phillips on the inside, Ed Oliver, they got two great safeties in Poyer and Micahide. Both of those linebackers were running fast and getting to the ball, Edmunds and Milano. So, you know, really complimentary, offensively, defensively, and special teams, and they played well. Does it help you prepare that you've seen the Buffalo Bills the last four seasons in a row? Yeah, it feels like they're in our division. But, you know, from an X's and O's standpoint, you know, coaches always kind of tweak a little something here or do a little something different there. But from a player standpoint and a, you know, personnel standpoint, you at least kind of have an idea of the skill sets of the guys that you're going to go against this player. He kind of, I remember when he did this or, you know, he did that and I thought I could take advantage of it. So, knowing the, you know, the skill sets of the player certainly is beneficial when you've got, you know, some consistency playing against an opponent every single year. John, what do the Titans have to do well Monday night to win at Buffalo? Well, I think improve on the things that, you know, we talked about earlier in the show and get better at those. I mean, it's a raucous environment up there. We know that we're going to have to handle all of the distractions with playing in Buffalo that comes with that. But offensively, we've got to establish a run game. You know, we've got to protect Ryan. Guys got to get open quick because we know that rush is coming. And defensively, we know the problems that Josh poses as a runner and as a thrower. So we've got to be disciplined in our rush lanes because he can escape at any moment and take off running. There's a lot of playmakers downfield. We've got to be sticking our coverage and we've got to be really sure attackers. Now we've got to ask you, we saw Manny Hooker make some big plays in last Sunday's game. What led you to extend his contract last week?  It started on special teams. He was a personal protector on the punt team. He carved out more of a role defensively. He was a sub-starter for us defensively. He showed up. He made plays. He works hard. He's smart. He's intelligent. Those are the types of players that you want to commit to when they come in and they do it the right way. They grow in our program and happy for his family and excited for us that he's going to be around here for several years. John, thanks for the time. As always, we appreciate it. Thank you guys. Talk at Bowl with John Robinson presented by Duncan Amy Wells probably knew that in our next segment, it's the Nissan Insider. Amani Hooker, that's next on Titan's All Access. Jones, since Barclay in motion left, Jones looking, Jones throwing back shoulder. Intercepted, intercepted by the Titans. Amani Hooker stepped in front of Barclay.  Welcome back to Titan's All Access, coming to you from the Bet MGM Studios.  And Mike Keith had the opportunity to sit down with him to talk about how he has become a leader on the Titans defense. You've had an interesting run up to year four. Rookie year, kind of learning, growing. Second year of the COVID year, 2020. You find a role on the team. You're certainly part of the defensive package. Last year, you become a starter. What's that been like? It's been awesome. I was just talking to my parents the other day about my journey and how I was saying, like when I was a rookie, watching Kevin and Adori and them come out, how they've been in the league for a while and established and have some years of starting under their belt. And I was like, one day I'm gonna be at that point and it's gonna take a while, it's gonna take time. I just gotta be patient. But if I could just learn from guys in front of me and older guys and just take as much as I can in. Has it been an experience almost like college at Iowa? Yeah, I mean, that's kind of what I refer to all the time. Like my freshman year wasn't a starter special team, kind of played a little bit on defense. And then sophomore year, started a couple of games. And then my third year, I wasn't started the whole year. And then I left. So it's kind of like that same kind of routine as it was in college as well. What's the most important thing that you've learned that you've been able to apply to get you to this point? Never being satisfied and always wanting to learn. Always being able to take information in, whether it's someone doing something negative I can learn from it, or a positive thing. And just slowing the game down and not making it as big as they make it seem. When you're younger, it seems like it's huge and all this. And then when you get here, you just kind of have to, I can play at this level. I can do the certain things that I've seen other guys do. Why do you and Kevin Byard bind together so well as the safeties? I think we both love ball. We both have a knowledge of the game. We both just compliment each other. We talk with each other all the time about what we want to disguise and what we want to do here. And then we both ballers. We both just make plays. We both just find a way to help a team win. You claim to be the best basketball player on the team. You've claimed that before. I mean, I haven't seen the rookies yet, but I'm going to hold that to me for now. But you and Kevin are like a backcourt in basketball. Complimenting one another in that way. Is that a good comparison? Yeah, it's like two-point guards out there. It's like, literally, we want to get guys lined up if we can. If someone makes a mistake, hopefully we can help them out and communicate and get guys lined up. And that is kind of how it is. Like a basketball, just making sure that we're not technically giving assists as passing the ball, but we're assisting by giving help to where it needs to be and assisting by helping guys out. What was your welcome to the NFL moment? I'd probably say it was Odell Beckham, the first game of the year. We had Nick Chubb, and then you had Miles Garrett. I'm watching them. It was crazy. It was pretty sweet. What's the goal for 2022? Super Bowl, honestly. I mean, that's personal for me. I mean, even though it's a team goal, but that's always been a personal goal. Hey, guys. Coach Mack here with this week's Beneath the Surface, powered by Microsoft Surface, beginning now. Today, we're going to look at three draft picks of the Tennessee Titans in their inaugural. National Football League game. And watch all three of these young players make considerable contributions to the game for the Tennessee Titans. This first one we're going to look at is Kyle Phillips. This is fourth and one. He's going to be back there as a punt returner. We got single press on the outside. We've set up a return. The punter hits a sky ball. Watch Phillips do a nice job of setting it up, gets a nice block on the right side. He sets up his return, comes up inside, moves outside. Then he comes back and gets to the sideline. This is a very good job. First of all, it's really good field awareness by him, understanding that the gunner coming down to his right is going to be taken to the outside. He sets it up, makes a move to the outside. Now, once he starts to the sideline, he uses his wall and breaks back to the inside, breaks two tackles on his own, very, very beneficial, when you can flip the field like this with your punt return team. This next play we're going to look at, down here on the bottom, you can see that you're in an offset stack with the receivers on your offensive right side. Now, watch the switch release. Ryan Tannehill makes this check. He does a reverse, inside zone, handoff for the play action. Watch the release, inside. Trelin Burks does a tremendous job of setting up the man that's trying to cover him. They are covering him in what we call a top hat type of a covering. So they're going to ban Joe, what's going on inside and outside. He makes this move, nice move to get away. Then this is a classic TRC or Transcontinental route. Big game, but all set up by a very good job by setting up the defender that's got a man-to-man from an off man position. Now let's look at Nicholas Petey Frear. We're watching our right tackle here. This is a really, really good job of giving his quarterback a lot of protection from the right side. He's going against Williams, who is a Premier Pass rusher in the National Football League, a very, very experienced vet. Watch Nicholas Petey Frear. Watch him put his left hand up to protect the inside first in case they get any kind of games. And then he does a nice job of kick sliding to the outside. Now let's watch Nicholas Petey Frear in the run game. His man is to the outside. He's going to climb to the second level and not only climb to the second level, he's climbing to the offset linebacker so that he cannot cross face and come across and be able to make a tackle on Derek Henry. Watch him move up. He knows the linebacker that he has to block, drives him clear past the fireball in the middle of the field. And then a great job of getting a big body on the linebacker and moving him completely out of the play.  Now speaking of rookies, this Tennessee Titans great may have secured his spot in the Hall of Fame back when he was a rookie. You wanna know more? Have I peaked your interest? Good, stick around. Welcome back to Titans All Access. Jevon Curse had one of the best performances of his career against the Buffalo Bills in a little game we like to refer to as the Music City Miracle Game. He had two sacks and two forced fumbles. And now he's getting some recognition. Jevon returned to Nashville to be inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. We were there to cover the whole thing. What's up guys? Just here in Nashville, Tennessee, getting inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame and stuff. You gonna have a little fun? Jevon Curse will always be one of my very favorites because I remember when he was drafted as the very first Titan. I remember the excitement of our fan base to get an SEC player, to get a guy who had the personality he did, the great Nick Bame, the freak, and then for him to go out and perform the way he did in his rookie year. This franchise had never had anybody like him and probably hasn't since. It's an honor. It's one of those things that I didn't think it was gonna happen to me. I mean, I think mainly because I'm not from Tennessee, but I put some work in here in Tennessee so I think it is well deserved. He gets what I'm saying. The man gets it, he gets it. This is the easy part. I put in all the work to do this, but I shouldn't. That is the truth. It's a pleasure, pleasure, pleasure, yeah. I wanna get on all the halls and all the walls, man. It's an honor to be here amongst these fellow Tennesseans because I'll call myself a Tennessean as well, okay? Still to come on Titan's All Access, we're going to break down the decision to keep Gontra Hilliard on this roster. That and so much more when Titan's All Access returns. Welcome back to Titan's All Access. It's time for the Hughes and Coleman decision of the week. Mike Keith, let's decide something here. Gontra Hilliard, what went into keeping him on this team and what went into making him the third down back? Why make him the third down back? So John Robinson has the Hughes and Coleman decision of the week because he chose to re-sign Gontra with the idea that he could be that change-up. And what's most impressive, Amy, last year when he was filling in for Derek Henry, he caught 19 passes for 87 yards. That's not great. Sunday against the Giants, three catches, 61 yards, two touchdowns. Give John Robinson the credit for seeing it. He knew Don Trell could play this role. Excellent decision by the GM. Now I had a chance to talk to Don Trell actually and he said that he knew he would have success at this level back when he was a kid. Check it out. When did you realize that you had the talent and the ability to make it not just in college but then at the next level in the pros?  And that's when I really started taking it serious. When you're taking it something like that seriously, the game of football, it's so much more than just what you do at practice, you know, it's far reaching. How did your life change when you made the commitment to football and making it a means to go to school and then to make a living as a professional? So it's a long, like a lot of the countless hours that goes, you got to put in, you know, things that nobody really sees. And even so there's still things that nobody sees that you have to go and deal with. You have to go put in a personal time studying, working on your craft and lifting weights or doing pushups at night. It's countless of things that happens that nobody actually sees. Good talk with Don Trell. Well, thank you. Love that Don Trell Hillier. When we come back, we've got your ticket to Monday night football in Buffalo. It's actually not a ticket itself for you. It's better than that. It's all the information you need to know. Everything you need to know. It's cheaper than a ticket. Time for your Titans All Access Game Ticket this week. It's to Monday night football. The Titans and the Bills in New York, in Western New York, in Orchard Park, New York. Now we talked about this earlier. The two teams are familiar with one another. They've played each other the last four years in a row. The series is tied two to two. The Titans have won the last two. We saw them on a Monday night. We've seen them on a Monday night before. We've also seen them on a Tuesday. We have, but we're going on Monday this time and will remind you that the game will kick off at 6.15 central time. Rhett Bryan and his partner, Amy Wells, will host Titans Countdown on your favorite Titans radio station, beginning at 5.75 minute pregame. And again, it's a 6.15 central kickoff. We hope you'll join us. For Amy Wells and our entire crew, Mike Keith says thanks for watching and we'll see you next time.


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Statistics and Excel, Population Variance and Standard Deviation. Get ready, take it a deep breath, holding it in for 10 seconds and looking forward to a smooth soothing Excel. Here we are in Excel. If you don't have access to this workbook, that's okay because we basically built this from a blank worksheet starting in a prior presentation, so you could start back there. However, if you want to start here with simply a blank worksheet, you can do that as well. If you do have access to this workbook, there's three tabs down below. Example, practice blank. Example, in essence, answer key. Practice tab, having pre-formatted cells so you can get right to the heart of the practice problem. Blank tab is where we started with just a blank worksheet so we can practice formatting cells within Excel as we work through the practice problem. So last time what we did is to try to think about this concept of the standard deviation which gives us an idea of the disbursement, the spread of the data around that middle point which we are defining as the mean. We thought about the intuitive way that we might come about this if we didn't know firsthand or first off about the standard deviation calculation by starting with an average deviation where we basically took our data points, we've had a very simple data set, and we took our data points and we compared it to the mean, the middle point, the average, and then we basically took the absolute value of those items and divided by the count to get a number to give us an idea of where things are populated around that middle point. So we basically took like the mean, the average of the distances from each data point to the middle. Now let's make a quick little histogram here just so we can see our data. So I'm going to select our data set and go to the insert tab and then insert tab, chart. Let's add a histogram that we've seen in prior presentations, pretty boring histogram like that. Let's add a couple buckets here. I'm going to put some buckets down below and we'll go into our buckets on the left. Let's make like eight buckets just to make it. So there we have kind of an idea of our data set, right? Like if I was to picture this data set, what we have is that middle point, the average, the mean is in the middle, which doesn't have any, which is here, and then the data are around that. We wanted to include some negative and positive numbers just to show that you might have negative and positive numbers on the mean around that midpoint. So then we have two on the negative side and two on the positive side. So that's kind of a pictorial representation of the data. And we're trying to say, well, the middle kind of point in this small little data set is the middle of zero, right? We're trying to think about what's the distance from basically that middle point with the small data set. Okay, so now we're going to do a similar kind of thing, but now we're going to use the actual calculations that are typically used. And that's going to be the standard deviation and we'll calculate the variance, which is kind of a component of the standard deviation. Now, be aware that there's different calculations for if you're dealing with the entire population versus the sample. Imagine an entire population firsthand. So remember the two buckets we talked about of kind of statistical problems. One, you have all the data. That's what we're imagining here. So we're dealing with the entire population and two, where you have just simply a sample of the data and the calculations will be a little bit different. So right now we're going to look at, they'll be very similar, but a little bit different. Right now we're going to be dealing with a population, the entire population. The variance of the population. So population.  And then let's add another formula.  So now we've got our equation item. I'm going to go to the tools now and then ink. I'm going to write in the equation with our little ink thing here. So let's see if we can write this thing in and see if it'll populate properly. So here we go. So I'm going to say this is going to be a sigma. So usually shown as a sigma squared. So it's not seeing my sigma thing. There it is. Sigma squared. And then so here we have it. I'm going to say that that's equal to that's what we usually use to represent the variance. So the symbol oftentimes will be sigma squared. Okay, so then we're going to do our sum sign looking like this. And so then on top, I'm going to put an N up here, which it doesn't see yet. But then when I go down here and I put the I equals one, then it sees that it still doesn't see my N up top. So, okay, let's see if I erase the N. Erase the N. The N is too ugly. It doesn't want to see it N up top. Let's erase this. I think I put a J there. Let's make this an I. Make sure it's an I. So I equals one. Okay, I'm going to keep on going even though it still doesn't see my N. And I'm going to say that this is going to be a brackets. I'm going to say X. So it thinks it's a C, but I'm going to put an X and it picks up the X and then sub I X sub I minus mu. Which is representing the mean. Close it up. And then we're going to put squared up top. So there we have it. It still doesn't recognize my N. What do I have to do? Excel for you to recognize. So I put my N here. Let's try to circle it. Say what? Why can't you see that? So it's still N. So there it is. So I circled it. There it puts the N up top. All right. And then let's put that whole thing.


There are some things you should never do after you've meditated and this is really important because when you meditate you change your brainwave state your frequencies to a different state so you become more relaxed and in one of the more suggestive, suggestible and open brainwave states after you've meditated your brain is like a sponge and you're going to absorb every thought and idea that comes into your brain and into your consciousness. Here are the top five things you should never do after you've just meditated. Number one, don't consume media content.  You're going to absorb all of that stuff and take it into your subconscious mind. You might absorb a belief, a negative idea, a scary idea, maybe even you become fearful or annoyed or okay, critical, paranoid. You don't want to consume any media after meditation. To be honest you shouldn't be consuming media at all and when I say media I mean like the news and stuff like that. Number two, you don't want to do something really physical straight away.  You're actually reducing or you know reversing the positive effects of meditation with that exercise and this is just going to reverse the effects and kind of make it a waste of time to have done the meditation in the first place. If you're going to exercise, which you should, you should wait at least an hour after meditation unless the exercise is something kind of soft like yoga, walking, Pilates, that kind of exercise. Those kind of exercises are fine but not things like running, powerlifting, cardio, a hit training. Number three, after meditation do not try and do something stressful. You should avoid stress for as long as possible unless you absolutely have to do that stressful thing. Like let's say if you know that checking your emails is going to stress you out. Don't do it straight after meditation because you've just got your body into a relaxed, you know, peaceful state. If you have to check the emails and this applies to anything that might stress you out. Do the thing and then meditate after you've become stressed to sort of calm yourself down because otherwise let's think about what would happen. You meditate, you're relaxed and peaceful then you do the stressful thing and then that stress stays with you until you next meditate which might be tomorrow. So you have the entire day with this stress in the background of your mind and it renders the meditation kind of pointless. So really what you should do is if you know something is going to stress you out and this goes for anything, it could be like if you know that you need to confront someone, you have an argument or a debate, check your emails, do something or deal with somebody stressful, deal with bills, call the bank, whatever it is it's going to stress you out. Do that thing and then meditate after doing that thing. Don't just meditate and then do the stressful thing. Number four and this is kind of before meditation but you should before meditation you should not eat anything really. You should be you should drink water okay but if you eat just before meditation your body is going to be digesting that food of course right and when you digest food your body is in a tired state. Now with meditation the one thing you don't want to do is you don't want to fall asleep because that's going to render it pointless. You're not trying to fall asleep here, you're trying to build the habit of being self-aware while you're awake.  Well no it doesn't because you end up potentially falling asleep. Your meditation isn't as good because your body is spending half its energy digesting the food so don't eat just before meditation and number five or number four I can't remember is to make sure that you don't fall asleep when you meditate. So you've just meditated if you then fall asleep then that's kind of you would then need to start again when you wake up because the goal of meditation is to become self-aware and to disconnect yourself from that mind chatter right so let's say if you've just meditated you're in this nice peaceful state of being serene and awake and aware and if you then fall asleep or if you fall asleep during the meditation as well then when you wake up your brain is going to start from scratch again your brain maybe you've just had a dream a nightmare even and then your brain has to start again and it's like it kind of wastes the time so that's several things that you should never do during meditation or things you should not do after meditation. Thanks for watching guys this video and this channel was supported by my Patreon followers please consider giving just a dollar a month to support this channel or just click the links in the description you'll find links to various lucid ring products articles techniques and tutorials if you did enjoy this video please click the notification bell and subscribe and I'll see you next time.


0.25, 0.25% that is what the Federal Reserve raised the federal funding interest rate in this last meeting that I just announced last week. We shouldn't be too surprised. Inflation at the highest spend in 40 years came in at 7.9 according to the Consumer Price Index by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that was released a couple weeks ago. So inflation is at 7.9% and the Federal Reserve goal of inflation long-running is 2%. So Federal Reserve wants inflation to be at 2% a year and is at 7.9%. That means that what is the Federal Reserve going to do in order to stop inflation or to slow down inflation to get it down towards that goal of 2% you understand 7.9% versus 2%? It's a slight difference. Federal Reserve finally decided to raise the interest rates the first time in many, many years bringing the federal fund right now up to 0.25% base points for some of you may be saying. But what does that mean? What does that entail? That's what we're going to talk about today. Federal Reserve raised the interest rates to chase inflation and what does that mean for investors? But if you haven't done so already, please go ahead and make sure you hit that like subscribe, comment, share button and as always my name is Prince Dax. I'm the Prince of Investment and I know you guys and girls don't have a lot of time. I don't have a lot of time. So let's go ahead and jump straight into it. Federal Reserve decides to raise the federal fund rate by 0.25% the first time in many years, especially since we had the pandemic. When we experienced the pandemic back in 2020, the Federal Reserve, the chairman, Jerome Powell, you probably see his face, probably don't even know you see his face all the time. He decided to take the federal fund rate all the way down to 0 essentially, very near zero and when you push down the federal fund rate, this pushes up asset classes. We had a smooth recovery. We saw the stock market run up. We saw unemployment start to drop, meaning that we're going to a booming or a growing economy. The economy grows so much, grew so much that now we have a problem with inflation. So now only did we lower federal funds rates. We print up a bunch of money and we threw it out there and we called it PPP loan and we also called it the PPP loan and stimulus checks. Remember those stimulus checks a lot of Americans got thrown into their savings account. They give it to their kids, things like that. That's great. Everybody was happy, especially at a time when a lot of people lost their jobs and the economy was closed. They always say no good deed goes unpunished. So guess what? We already kind of knew that inflation will start to run away from us. Now inflation is at a 40 year high, a 7.9%. What does the Federal Reserve do? They decide to raise interest rates by 0.25% and we're looking to raise to buy six times a year. At the Federal Reserve keeps up on this rate. The Fed fund rate will be at 1.75, which is nothing compared to being at 4%. We were at a couple of years ago, but now today we're going to 1.75. But I can't say all of this if I didn't bring up the history of the early 80s. Seeing the early 80s, it kind of sounds similar to today. One key indicator that we don't have today that they had back in the 80s was unemployment. Unemployment in the early 80s, they had high inflation along with high unemployment. Put the economists in a very strange situation because if you raise interest rates, yes, you get to curve inflation, but then again, do you want to raise interest rates in a sluggish economy with high unemployment? The rise of interest rates led us into the recession. Now, granting, the Federal Reserve didn't act as swiftly as Jerome Powell did back in the early 80s. They raised the interest rates when all up to 20%, which was a self-induced recession that took us into a recession, but it did curve and slow down and stop inflation. Inflation was at double digits, which brings me to today. Do I think Federal Reserve, do I think interest rates are going to get to, not interest rates, but inflation is going to get to double points? Yes. I think by the end, by the summertime, we're going to be in double digit inflation, which shouldn't be a very big surprise because the last couple of months inflation has slowly been moving at 0.5%. Today we are at 7.9%, and I think the next CPI report that comes out next month for March is inflation is going to, we're going to easily stumble over 8%, then when we go into April, I think it's going to push us a little bit more. By April, May, June, June timeframe, we're probably going to be at 9% or 10%. Now one thing that I saw that was very intriguing. What will the Federal Reserve do with this balance sheet? What will it do? Remember when we had the, to stimulate the economy and we had the pandemic, two things Federal Reserve did, they lowered interest rates and they also started to purchase assets. When you purchase assets, anytime you buy something, just like we're experiencing in the housing market, why are the house prices going up?  It's what the Federal Reserve did in order to stimulate the economy. They started buying assets or purchasing assets, aka pumping money into the market and they lowered interest rates. Now they're talking about, well now they are doing the same exact opposite at the end of last year. They started tapering, slowing down purchasing assets and they started to raise interest rates. In an attempt to slow down, in an attempt to slow down your, not your stocks, but to slow down the stock market itself and to slow down inflation. Now I became very interested, I did an episode and I talked about the other night, the Federal Reserve raising interest rates, is this going to do something, is this going to be deja vu of the 80s? Meaning in the 80s we saw the Federal Reserve chase inflation as they raised it and led to a self-induced recession. But a very good point that I am one of my mentors said today, they said, well you talk about the 80s inflation went all the way up to 20%. They don't believe 0.25 is going to do much to the economy. They don't believe 0.5 would do that much to the economy. So we don't believe that these small increment pieces of moving up the economy, moving in the interest rates up, that doesn't mean much, right? So we don't believe that it's going to touch the economy, stroke the economy or hurt the economy per se, right? When we have those things happen to the economy, please reassure yourself that the Federal Reserve is trying to hit the sweet spot. It's like, hey, let's raise interest rates enough to curve and slow down inflation. Once inflation tops out and starts to decline, then we're going to slowly keep interest rates right at that point or slowly start to decline them. When people say this, I think this is what they try to do in the early 80s, but we'll have to take a look at it. They believe that interest rates are way too low and the actual raise in the interest rates is a good thing for the economy. Now here's another tool to think about. Every time we saw the Federal Reserve start to raise interest rates, guess what happened? It was a sign of stocks doing well because the Federal Reserve would not raise interest rates in a time when stocks are not doing well or quote-unquote equities are not doing well. So right now we're seeing stocks kind of catch their breath a little bit for 2022. They started out very sluggish last week or so, last week or two. We are seeing oil have a great year and we're also seeing stocks taking a turnaround. A scary part about the 80s and today, Prince, why do you keep going to the 80s? The 80s was the last time we've seen double-digit inflation. It was the highest inflation was. Also on top of that, at that time, you had the Iranian embargo that happened in the early 80s and the early 80s, when they had that embargo of like, you know, Iran came out and said, you know what, we make all the oil. We're not going to send it to the United States. When they did this, they shot the price of oil because demand stays the same. If supply drops, what's going to happen to prices? What's going to go up? You look at what happened in Russia, Russia's the third largest producer of oil. According to the EIA, the Energy Information Association, they're the third producer of oil. What did President Biden announce over the last couple of weeks ever since the invasion of Ukraine? They announced numerous sanctions that, hey, we're not going to purchase oil from them. We're not going to purchase their products. And if we're not going to purchase oil from the world's third largest producer of oil, that itself curves down supply. Yes, we've been talking to Venezuela. Yes, we've been digging into our own reserve. But that starts to send oil prices up. But every politician you can see, every American out there is talking about how much gas is at the pump. Scary resemblance to the 80s, what happened with Iran in the late 70s, early 80s, and what's happening today with Russia and the US. The only big defining difference that I saw that was very different from the 80s and now is unemployment. Unemployment is not high like it was. You know, excuse me if I said this wrong, I think it was called stack flation. We have high unemployment and high inflation at the same time, which kind of ties the hands of the Federal Reserve. So right now, the Federal Reserve were on power on his latest meeting. He said, hey, I'm going to raise interest rates in an attempt to curve inflation, but I'm going to rate it a little. Watch the economy. Raise it a little. Taper our asset purchasing. What are we going to do, right? I'm very interested in what the Federal Reserve is going to do with the balance sheets. So very, very intriguing time right now. We've seen what the Federal Reserve is starting to do. We've seen that what does this mean for the economy? And usually when the interest rates are being raised, that's a great sign that stocks are doing well. But the downside is that technology stocks, anytime you raise interest rates, it starts to bring down asset classes. So low interest rates, very low interest rate society. I was able to get my house for 2.5%. I was able to afford more house. When you have low interest rates, it increases the demand for goods and services. But now with inflation starting to, not inflation, but with interest rates going back up, it will slow down the real estate market and the stock market. Now, does that mean it's going to slow it down to a reaching halt of a depression or recession? I'm not saying that. I don't think we're going to go that far. I know the Federal Reserve is kind of watching out to hit the sweet spot on that. But I definitely think that it will slow down the demand of houses. Houses have been going up 10, 15, 20% a year these last few years. And I think that it would get it closer to real estate price. Real estate current price is about 3%, right? Yeah, 3% is what real estate usually compounds that on annually. So I think we're going to get closer to that rate instead of 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, right? So yes, now the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates. When they raise interest rates, it's going to bring down the demand for assets. Bring us down to more realistic points. Stocks have done very well over the last couple of years, and so forth. When we had that pandemic, we was in a 10, 11 year bull run. We had that pandemic. We had a huge correction put us into recession territory. But due to the swift actions of the Federal Reserve, by them deciding to pump billions of dollars into the market, what they call asset purchasing, and also lower interest rates all the way to zero, and provide stimulus packages to the general public. This in return stopped the inflation rates, not stopped inflation rate, stopped the economy from dropping even further. We had a smooth turnaround in 2020, actually put us into a positive year. 2021 was a positive year, 2022 was a positive year as well. But now 2020, the end of 2022, we're seeing the return of oil and we're seeing the quietness of crypto was going to happen to crypto. So anyway, ladies and gentlemen, that's what's going to, that's what's happening right now with the Federal Reserve. Federal Reserve decided to raise interest rates slowly and to curb inflation. And we're going to keep an eye on what happens to employment and also what happens to the inflation rates. Or is it going to slow down or are we going to go into a reverse way? Because right now we're at 7.9% and the Federal Reserve wants to get it down to 2%. So they're slowing down asset purchasing, taking money out of the market, and also making raising interest rates. We raise interest rates, it makes purchasing assets a little bit more difficult. Because my purchase, let's take my home for example, at 2.5%, great fits into my budget. At 4.5%, it's out of my budget. I wouldn't have purchased it. So it makes certain assets more affordable when you have low interest rates and it makes stocks go up.  When you see stocks go up and jump, then guess what that's going to do? When you see stocks go up and jump, it's going to entice more people to want to invest. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, that's my time for the show today. Hopefully you guys and girls got something out of that. We talked about the Federal Reserve raising interest rates for the first time in about five to 10 years, if I'm not mistaken. Raising interest rates and also to curb inflation, to slow down inflation, that's at 7.9%. And we're seeing those oil prices go back up. So I did a case study on this going back to the last time we've seen high interest rates. Very intriguing time, something to watch out. Hopefully you guys and girls got something out of it. Don't forget to hit that like, subscribe, comment, and share button. Don't forget that hey, whatever you do today will affect tomorrow. Make smart decisions. Until the next video, podcast, book, cartoon, or whatever else craze you see me do around the globe. Peace, be safe, I'm out and thank you.


The remains of Senator Joseph Weyers, the late Senate president in the Second Republic between 1979 and 1983 is yet to be buried, 16 months after his death. Cross River State Government had inaugurated a funeral committee to plan for his burial. A year after encountering, the late Weyers has yet to be laid to rest. The petition was raised by a lawmaker representing Cross River South, Senator Jecheon Bassi, seeking the endorsement of the Red Chamber to take over the burial arrangements of the late Weyers. Observes that Joseph Weyers brought a high degree of knowledge, style, pomp and grandeur to the leadership of the Second Republic Senate. The Senate is worried that the remains of the late Senator Joseph, of the late Senate president, Senator Joseph Weyers is yet to be buried. The Senate is concerned that this delay is an embarrassment to the National Assembly and to the nation that he headed between 1979 and 1983. The lawmakers have described the situation as not only appalling but a national embarrassment calling for urgent intervention. The mover of this motion, because I was deeply worried when I read on the pages of newspapers that there are issues, there are problems in respect to the burial arrangement of the Senate president of the Second Republic. It was very, very embarrassing for someone who sacrificed so much in running the legislature of this country at a time that we wanted to put in place a democracy. In as much as we don't have such a Nigeria budget, but we must take up this as a corporate social responsibility that the Senate must get involved. I think the Senate has to liars with the government of cross river states. I don't know whether this family has communicated officially to the Senate that they lost Senator Weyers. I shouldn't the president officers of the National Assembly not have some medical support when they leave. This is provided for the president and vice president for the two justice of Nigeria all retired for life. No, it's not about now. Actually, we killed it in our constitutional review.


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问. Welcome to the Justice Committee's 14th meeting of 2017. We have apologies from Oliver Mundell and I welcome Alexander Stewart to the committee who is substituting for Oliver today. Agenda item 1 is consideration of the affirmative instrument on the international organisation immunities and privileges Scotland amendment order 2017. I welcome Annabel Ewing, minister for community safety and legal affairs, along with her officials, Hamish Goddaw. Policy officers, civil law and legal systems, system division, and Greg Watt will occur solicitor, solicitor's constitutional and civil law division. I refer members to paper 1, which is a note from the clerk, and invite the minister to make a short opening statement. Good morning and thank you, convener. The draft international organisations, Immunities and Privileges Scotland, Amendment Order 2017, amends certain legal immunities and privileges in connection with the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, otherwise known as the European Southern Observatory, or ESO, for short. ESO is an intergovernmental organisation supported by 16 member states, including the United Kingdom, along with the whole state of Chile. It was established by an international convention signed in 1962 in Paris. It is developing a giant telescope, which is in an advanced stage of design by astronomers and industry across Europe, led by ESO. The UK astronomy technology centre at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh is leading the partners involved in the UK part of this international project. There are some 20 full-time equivalent members of staff working on the project and the work is split in fact between some 40 to 50 individual staff members. To enable the organisation to fulfil its purposes and carry out its functions, certain privileges and immunities apply by virtue of a protocol to the convention signed in 1974. The conferral of immunities and privileges on officers of the organisation is effectively a condition of membership. The UK Government joined ESO in 2002, but the protocol on the privileges and immunities of the organisation only came into force for the UK on September 2012. As part of the UK's membership of ESO, the agreement has to be effective throughout the UK. That includes the privileges and immunities, some of which relate to devolved matters in Scotland. Equivalent provision in respect of reserved matters and devolved matters in the rest of the UK has been conferred by legislation at Westminster. To the extent that the privileges and immunities relate to devolved matters in Scotland, however, conferral rightly falls to the Scottish Parliament. The purpose of that order is to correct an error that was inadvertently made to the principle order, the international organisations immunities and privileges Scotland ordered 2009, by an amending order in 2010. That is a very complex area of law, and the policy note therefore sets out a comprehensive explanation of the position. In fact, articles 7 to 19 of the protocol require member states to grant a number of privileges and immunities to the organisation and to its officers and staff. The majority of those do relate to reserved matters and are dealt with in the parallel United Kingdom order. In fact, an error in the UK order is a failure to confer certain immunities and privileges and officers of the organisation who are British nationalists came to light because the ESO pointed out that some of its staff were not receiving the reserved tax exemptions to which they were entitled. When the Foreign and Commonwealth Office alerted Scottish officials to the discrepancy in the UK order relating to reserved tax, the Scottish order was reviewed by Scottish officials last autumn and it was discovered that there was a different mistake unrelated to taxation. In fact, the Scottish order had conferred too many immunities and privileges in one instance only, that is, on high officers of the organisation, specifically the director general of ESO or a person acting in their stead in the event that they may be British national. It is unclear how the discrepancy in the original Scottish order rose and, whilst it is regrettable, officials have acted to remedy it as soon as it was realised in the autumn of last year that an amendment was required. The work had to be done in tandem with the FCO in order that the two orders, the Scottish order and the UK order, might be considered at the same privy council meeting. We understand that the discrepancies in the Scottish order have given rise to no practical issues. In that regard, it should be noted that the director general of ESO has been a Dutch person since 2007. The purpose of this order today, therefore, is to correct and limit the provision of immunities and privileges of high officers of ESO who might in the future be British nationals in the course of any activities in Scotland in order to reflect the equivalent Westminster order and the terms of the founding agreement. High officers who are British nationals will only be entitled to more limited immunities and privileges, namely exemption from income tax and immunity from legal process in respect of acts performed by them in the exercise of their functions and within the limits of their authority, except in the case of motor traffic offences committed by them or of damage caused by motor vehicles belonging to or driven by them. The order will therefore help the UK fulfil its international obligations in respect of Scotland. I hope, convener, that this slightly more comprehensive overview this morning of what is a technical and complex area of the law has been helpful for members, and I would be happy, of course, to seek to answer any questions. Do members have questions for the minister, Stuart Stevenson? Thank you very much, convener, and the answers to my question will not influence how I will support this, regardless of the answers. The minister, in her remarks, referred to motor traffic offences and how they are outside the immunity. I just wanted to be clear what motor traffic offences in this context means, and I specifically am thinking of parking offences, and in particular there being some parking in Scotland that is subject to criminal law and some that is subject to civil law being decriminalised. I just wondered what the phrase motor traffic offences, which is in paragraph 7 of the policy memorandum and to which you referred, what it actually means. In other words, it is one of the urban myths that diplomats can park anywhere, and I just thought that it might be useful to get on the record the limitations or perhaps shoot down the urban myth forever. Yes, I thank the member for his question, and it is a very pertinent one, because I think that there is a myth about the extent of immunities and privileges in the circumstances and, of course, it is the case that the relevant officials concerned are required to be the laws of the host country, and that includes the parking laws. I do not really think that it would make any difference whether that would be the case only in circumstances where parking had not been decriminalised or vice versa, it would apply across the board.  That is the extent of the immunities and privileges, and parking fines are still payable in all circumstances. John Finch. Are you able to say the status of the UK legislation at the moment, please? Well, I understand that there is to be a debate on that order in Westminster, I think, next week, if that is official sorry, the 25th of April. The plan is that both orders, if approved, would go to the Privy Council on the 24th of May, so that is the timing of the two pieces of secondary legislation. Thank you. I am reassured that you say that it can be confusing and complex, because that is certainly how I found it. Nonetheless, from the note, it says that state parties are, however, required to extend article 16 immunity to all persons in the service of the organisation, regardless of their nationality or permanent residence. Can you clarify what that means? Yes, that is the tax exemption entitlement. That is what that refers to, that the position had been, and the reason that this came to light in terms of the error both in the UK equivalent order and the Scottish order was that, in fact, the ESO, I presume further two issues raised by officials themselves, raised the point that some officials were not receiving the tax exemption entitlements to which they were entitled under the immunities and privileges. It is then the case that that was looked into, and it was noted that, in fact, the protocol required that that be applied equally to your own citizens and those of other contracting parties, but that was where the error in the UK order had occurred, such that that provision was disapplied to the benefit of British nationals. That is what the UK order is intended to correct. That mistake was not carried over in the Scottish order. You mentioned income tax error. What other taxes would that relate to? Other taxes? Yes, but the question was relating to which specific taxes. There are various exemptions set down in the protocol, and I would be happy to write to the member. I mean, it is quite detailed and referred to other pieces of statute, but I think that primarily the focus on the part of the officials concerned would be the exemption from local income tax. It would be the normal issue of particular focus of the individual officials concerned. I would be very grateful to receive that information. Thank you. Are you able to say then, with regard to this specific organisation, how many individuals this would apply to? In terms of the number of British nationals working for the ESO out with Scotland, I do not have that figure to hand, but we can find that out. Within Scotland, the officials concerned would be those who may have a link to the telescope project currently taking place in the Royal Observatory. Again, we would have to, as I said, the number of full-time equivalent members of staff working on the project at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh is 20, which encompasses about 40 to 50 individuals in terms of the actual number of individuals, rather than full-time equivalent posts. I would need to have officials check on the exact status of each of them to see whether they were full-time officials or not, as the case might be. Potentially that is 50 people in Scotland for this organisation not paying tax? Well, not being subject to exemption from the tax of the UK, yes, in terms of income tax, and that would be the normal position with respect to international organisations. Founded by international treaty, which has an immunities and privileges protocol as part of their condition of membership of that organisation, and that would be the case, then for British nationals working in other relevant member states of this, contracting parties of this organisation. It would not be a benefit simply that it would be applicable uniquely to British nationals or others working in the UK, but it would be applicable ergo omnis to those nationals of the contracting parties working to further the functions of the organisation and within the limits of their authority. On exemption from the law, can you confirm that that is both the civil and the criminal law? Yes, it is. Immunities and privileges are deemed to be a functional necessity in international law and international convention, but they are not to go wider than is necessary to secure that objective of functional necessity. In the incident case, yes, there would be in principle an application in terms of both the civil and the criminal law, but it is limited by the very important caveat that the immunities and privileges only kick in in the circumstances where the individual concerned is acting in performance of the exercise of the functions of the international organisation concerned, in this case, the ESO and within the limits of their authority. Therefore, in practice, I guess what you would be looking at would be white collar crime if that. Certainly, as I said before to Mr Stevenson, you are required to obey the laws of the host country and it would be therefore easy to see what particular offences under the criminal law could not ever be further to the privileges and immunities as laid down in the protocol, for example assault or crimes of that type, but perhaps white collar crime could potentially fall within the scope of the immunities and privileges. Who would determine that, minister? How is it determined? There is a process where the issue of immunities and privileges arise. As far as I understand, there is a process that would be followed because that would be the case as part of the understanding of how the privileges and immunities were to work across all the contracting parties, and that would be how matters would proceed. However, as I say, the actual scope of the protection is limited to where you are carrying out your job and the limits of your authority, and you are still required to obey the law of the host country. Who would determine that? It depends on what scenario you are talking about. If you were talking about the commission of if you were charged with serious assault, it would be quite clear that the charges would proceed in normal way. However, I would imagine that there would nonetheless be some process in terms of notification further to privileges and immunities scenarios, and that would be the case for all organisations that have privileges and immunities protocol underpinning the membership over that organisation. That is how international organisations have developed, including the United Nations, over many decades thus far. That is the accepted position. Of course, there have been high profile cases, for example in the United States, where the diplomatic community in this, as we are trying to explain, is lesser than the diplomatic community under the Vienna Convention, but where diplomatic community has come up against the law of the relevant country where the official has been working, and there have been certain high profile cases, the immunity conferred here, and that is what the order is intended to correct. It is not conferring diplomatic community per the Vienna Convention. It is conferring a particular protection where you are carrying out the functions of your job and within the limits of your authority. It is placing no restriction on access to premises as applies in other orders. No restriction on access to premises? I am not quite sure about access to premises. I am not quite sure what you mean in that regard. Well, in other orders, what is the phrase? Involatile or something like that? Oh, the inviability of residence. Oh, sorry. That would have been the equivalent protection that would be equivalent to comparable ranks under the Vienna Convention, and that is the protection that would be deemed to be in excess of what was required under the protocol in the event that it is a British national concern, which has not been the case, because for this one post, the director-general of the SOA or the Person Authorised Act in His or Her State, the position has been that that person is a Dutch national and that person was appointed in 2007 and the protocol came into effect in the UK in 2012, so there has not been any practical issue as a result of the way that the initial order had been drafted, but that will not now be the level of privileges applicable where the national is a British national, and that is what the order is intended to correct. So it is just a civil law exemption, a criminal exemption and an exemption from taxation, but not a question of the inaccessibility. In the circumstances where the national is a British national, this order is intended to correct the position in those circumstances only, so that is what the order is designed to do, because the way that the previous order had been drafted extended the level of privileges to a greater extent than the protocol determined, and that is what the order is trying to correct. So it would be in circumstances where the future director-general were to be a British national, then there would be no inviability of premises, for example. Okay, for me, just three very short ones. There is no consultation on this order, minister, and no impact assessment. Well, I am advised by officials that it was viewed as a technical amendment. There had been the initial order in place and this is designed to correct that particular provision that I just referred to in that regard. You said that 40 to 50 with regard to that particular organisation. What is the cumulative effect of all those in terms of numbers who have this level of immunity granted to them in Scotland? You mean further to this organisation or to all the other organisations in Scotland? I am afraid that I do not have that information as to how many individuals are working for international organisations that are treaty-based organisations that have a protocol in immunities and privileges. I think that that would require a particular job of work to ascertain, firstly, which international organisations meeting that description are. Do you have operations in Scotland and, second, how many people are involved in working for them in Scotland? Third, how many are Scottish and UK nationals? I am afraid that I do not have that information. Okay, and finally, there was no business regulatory impact assessment done in respect of this, notwithstanding that it is financial matters that bring it to light in the first instance. I am advised by officials that, in fact, it is the UK order that is dovetailing this Scottish order before you today that is correcting the erroneous previous UK order, which had suggested that the tax exemption entitlement could not be extended to British nationals of the European Southern Observatory. Therefore, that is the UK order that has jurisdiction there because it is dealing with reserved tax matters. This Scottish order is rather dealing with the position of the circumstances where, at some future date, the director-general of the organisation or a person authorised act in his or her stead may be a British national, and that is the extent of the legislative reach of the order before the committee today. Are there any more questions from the minister? I appreciate that you are talking to this specific piece of legislation minister, but can I just clarify that, if there was any additional taxation that was accrued or taxable income outwith the exercise of the functions of the authority, then that would be payable, obviously. In normal circumstances, yes. You have got to look at the way in which the privileges and immunities are focused on, and they are focused on people exercising their function further to their work for that organisation and where they are acting within their authority. That is why I indicated that, in normal circumstances, that would be primarily income tax. Of course, we are going to write to the committee and respond to Mr Finlay's supplementary question. Okay, thank you for that. Are there any further comments that you want to make, minister? No. Agenda item 2 is formal consideration of the motion in relation to their affirmative instrument. The DPLR committee has considered and reported on this instrument and had no comment on it. The motion will be moved and there will be an opportunity for formal debate if necessary. Motion 04479, that the Justice Committee recommends that the international organisations, immunities and privileges, Scotland amendment order 2017 draft be approved. Can I invite the minister to move the motion? Formally moved. Do any members want to speak? John Finnie? Thank you, convener. I think it's just yourself, convener, and I will recall that we were in a similar position in the last session, indeed, with an order in respect of an organisation called the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. At that time, I expressed some surprise. I absolutely get the international long-standing convention, but it does seem to me to be a bizarre situation that we have government ministers representing legal departments coming here to extol us to have people to be exempt from civil liability, criminal liability and, indeed, taxation. There is no way that I will be lending my support to this order. Are there any other comments, minister? Just to respond briefly to Mr Finnie's point, firstly, this is just an order correcting the previous order in Scotland, the reach of which, as I say, is to cover one specific instance of the director general of the SO being a British national. What I would say is that this has been a long-standing debate, the extent of privileges and immunities that international organisations rely on in order to, in their view, be as effective as possible and the reach of the national law of the host country. It is always a balancing act. I have tried to explain that the balance is such that you are, in general circumstances, required to be the law of the host country, but that, nonetheless, there will still be certain privileges and immunities. That is a balancing act that international contracting parties have worked on over many decades. The feeling that underpins this is that such privileges and immunities are necessary in order to protect the integrity of that international organisation as far as its workings in any particular country are concerned and, in particular, where there could be circumstances where political developments in a particular country could, for various reasons, put individuals and their reasonable expectation of the right to carry on their peaceable residents and their employment and could potentially put them at risk. That is the kind of thinking behind why we have, in international law, privileges and immunities in the first place. However, I recognise that it is always a balancing of interests. No further questions and we move straight to the vote. Then I put the question, is that motion 04479, the name of Annabelle Ewing, be approved? Are we all agreed? No. We are not all agreed, there will be a division. All those in favour? Thank you. And all those against? Thank you. The result is 10 in favour and 1 against. That concludes the consideration of the affirmative instrument. The committee's report will note and confirm the outcome of the division and the fact that the minister is going to supply further information to the committee. On that basis, members are content to delegate authority to me as convener to clear the final of the draft report. I thank the minister and her officials for attending and suspend briefly to allow the minister and her officials to leave. Agenda item 3 is consideration of three negative instruments. Act of Sederent, fees of solicitors in the court of session and share of court amendment pursuers offers 2017. First tier tribunal for Scotland, housing and property chamber procedure amendment regulations 2017. And first tier tribunal for Scotland, tax chamber procedure regulations. I refer members to paper 2, which is a note by the clerk. The DPLR has considered and reported on all three instruments and had no comment on them. Do members have any comments? No. Are members or are the committee agreed that it does not wish to make any recommendation in relation to these instruments? I agree. Excellent, thank you. Agenda item 4 is feedback from the justice sub-committee on policing on its meeting of 30 March. I refer members to paper 3, which is a note by the clerk. I invite Mary Fee to provide feedback. The justice sub-committee on policing met on 30 March when it took evidence from the Auditor General for Scotland on the I6 programme review. The sub-committee heard that it is critical that the Scottish Police Authority and Police Scotland now put in place a plan that sets out how the benefits that the I6 was supposed to deliver will be secured. That is particularly important, given the emphasis on the use of technology in the recent policing 2026 draft strategy. The next meeting of the sub-committee is scheduled for Thursday 20 April, when it will take evidence from the Scottish Police Federation, the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents and Unison on the financial planning of Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority. As ever, members are welcome to attend, and I am happy to answer any questions. No further questions. In that case, we now move into private session. The next committee meeting will be on 25 April, when we will consider our draft stage 1 report on the railway policing Scotland Bill, and I suspend briefly to allow the public gallery to clear.