Ranger Bill, warrior of the woodland, struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, fighting the many enemies of nature. This is the job of the guardian of the forest, Ranger Bill, pouring rain, freezing cold, blistering heat, snow, floods, bears, rattlesnakes, mountain lions. Yes, all this in exchange for the satisfaction and pride of a job well done. Hello, boys and girls. Have you ever wondered how we came to know our good friend Henry and how he came to live with us and work with us? I'll bet you have. Well, today we're going to take you back a few years and tell you all about Henry. It's a story you won't easily forget. Let's call it Henry's miracle. So you're Clyde Bethans, huh? Yes, Mr. Jefferson. I'm a reporter from the Tri-City Globe Gazette here in my credentials. The main purpose of my coming is to do a story on your young friend here, Henry Scott. Me? A story on me? Why? Well, it's rather simple, Henry. You've been named by the Globe Gazette as the outstanding high school senior in the state. Hey, congratulations, pal. I didn't know anything about this, but I'll tell you, Clyde, they couldn't have made a better choice. I'm sure you're right, Bill.  Oh, not at all, since that's my name. But why me, Mr. Bethans? Well, because of your outstanding record in sports, leadership, scholarship, and religious activities. Well, I don't know what to say, really. I don't think I deserve such a high honor. I'm just an ordinary fellow. Now, that isn't what I hear, Henry. I understand you had a very unusual beginning in life with some very tough problems to overcome. Well... Well, for instance, the time the doctor said you'd never walk until you were 30 or 35 years old? Oh, that... I guess Bill can tell you more about that than I can. Okay. What do you say, Bill? Can you supply me with some of these details? His heroic effort to overcome an early injury and so on. Well, sure, Clyde. I think the credit for Henry's final recovery goes to his father, Henry Scott Sr. Hank was the nickname he went by. He was 30 years old at the time the series of tragedies began to strike his family. Henry was 10 at the time, and I was exactly in between the 20 years old. Henry's dad was my fourth cousin. One afternoon, Henry was playing with some of his young friends when... Duck, guard of rock!  I tagged you before you said it and slammed the tin can three times. Okay, you did. Slime it.  I'm going to count to 25. You better be hit by that time. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, twenty, one, two, three, four, five. Duck, guard of rock! Here I come, ready or not, guys sure can hide. I wonder where they are. I gotta make sure I can raise them back to the rock, or I'll be in all afternoon. Here I go. Hey, too late. I beat you to the rock, Henry. Duck, guard of rock. Okay, Stevie, you beat me. Hey, Paul, I see you. You're behind the car. Okay, you'll have to beat me back to the rock. I have a head start. Okay, I can run faster than you. That's what you think. You have to take me through. What do you think I get? Run, Paul, he's almost up to it. You have to take me, Henry. I'll take you all right. Can't you take me yet? I'll take you, Paul. Okay. Henry, look out for the rock. Paul! Henry's hurt. He ain't proven.  I'll stay here and watch him. I think he's hurt bad. Oh, Stumpy, he's so still, like he was dead. Oh, my boy. He ain't dead, ma'am. He only got knocked unconscious. Let me take a look at the boy, ma'am. Is he your son? Yes, yes. Doctor, tell me how badly he's hurt. Oh, his injury is, if any, are internal. We'll have to lift him onto the stretcher and take him to the hospital. Oh, he must be hurt terribly. Oh, now, don't worry, ma'am. There's no way of telling now. We'll just hope for the best. You can ride in the ambulance with him if you want. Extra examination will soon tell if he's seriously injured or not. Mac, where's Hank? I'm back there, setting up the one-ton press, Whitey. Thanks. I've got some bad news for him. Huh? Well, what do you mean? Yeah, his boy's in the hospital. Had an accident. Oh, boy, that'll be tough to take. Yo, Hank! You got a minute? Sure. Can you wait a minute? Better snap it up. It's important. Yeah, what's up, Whitey? Bad news, I'm afraid. Your wife called from the hospital. Said to tell you Henry's been hurt. Henry hurt? Did she say what happened? No, Hank. She didn't. Only she wants you to come right away. I arranged for a company car to take you to the hospital. Oh, that's all right, Whitey. I'll drive my own car. That's what you think. You take the company car. Phil Barnum will drive you. Now, get going. Yeah. Sure, Whitey. Thanks a million. Hank? Yeah? I'm awfully sorry about this. Be sure to let us know how the kid is, won't you? Sure. Only... Only what? I was gonna say, I wish it was me instead of him. What? Nothing. Oh, I thought you'd never get here, Hank. How badly has he hurt, Martha? The doctor says it's... it's a spine injury. And it's possible he may never walk again. Oh, no. The poor kid. Here's Dr. Johnson now. Dr. Johnson? Yes. Oh, why? Hello, Mrs. Scott. I'm sorry about Henry. What's the verdict, Doctor? Well, it's not as bad as you might think. He could have suffered an irreparable injury. But as it is, I'm confident he'll be able to walk again someday. Walk? What do you mean someday, Doctor? Well, let me explain. Your boy suffered a severe spinal injury when he struck the rock in falling. The x-rays give us a very clear picture. And I'll show you them to you in a little while. Right now, the only thing I can say is that by careful physical therapy after the nerves are repaired, your boy could regain normal use of his legs. However, it will take a long time repairing those nerves. A long time? How long? I should say he may be able to walk by the time he's 35. 35? Of course, I'm giving you the most pessimistic view. At least that's better than being crippled for life. That's right. We can thank the Lord for that. You tell us what to do, Doctor, and how it's done. We'll try to do the rest. Yes. Tell us how we can help our boy. We'll do anything, you say. Henry's got to walk again if it takes every last ounce of strength that's in us. Well, that was a pretty rough situation, wasn't it, Bill? Surely was, Clyde. I'm not giving you too much detail for your article, am I? Oh, on the contrary. This will be a full-page spread. But how do you feel about the crippling accident, Henry? Well, for a while I was so sick I didn't pay much attention to my legs. And, well, I don't remember all the details. It's been so long ago. I guess I sort of got used to the idea of not being able to walk or run. What's your slant on this part of it, Bill? Well, I'd say it was pretty good natured about the whole thing. As it was, a whole year went by before he was even allowed to sit up. And then it was only for ten minutes a day, five in the morning and five in the afternoon. But he kept progressing. After a few months, the time was increased to ten minutes twice a day, then twenty. Eventually he was allowed to sit up until he got tired. Then I remember one evening Henry got a new viewpoint on the whole thing. I'd been invited over for dinner and Hank came in the front door. It's only me from over the sea said Barnacle Bill the sailor. Don't give me that, Dad. You never sail the sea. You haven't got any barnacles on you. Oh, how are you, son? Oh, fine, Dad. Aren't you going to sail low to Bill? Well, of course. How are you, Bill? Glad you could come over tonight. Thanks, Hank. It's a pleasure. You'd thank you too, haven't seen each other for years the way you talk. Well, it's been all of ten days since I was here last. Hank, better wash up. Supper's just about ready. Okay, Martha. Boy, I could eat a sight of calf. Be back in a minute, Bill. Well, Bill, would you help Henry to sit up? Just push the table next to the bed. I'll bring the food in. I'll be glad to, Martha. Yeah, come on, pal. Okay. I'll help you sit up and then push the pillows around the back of you. When you push the table over, a piece slides out. I eat on that. Mom and Dad sure try to keep me from getting lots of wheat together all the time. Well, it's might be fine of them, pal. Bill, I want to ask you a question before you help me sit up. Sure. What is it? Mom and Dad read to me when I'm tired lots of times. He helps me go to sleep. Well, they've been reading to me from the Bible. Bill, do you think Jesus could heal me like he did the sick and crippled people in the Bible? Yes, pal. The Lord is the same yesterday and today and forever and has the power to heal you just as he did in the days when he walked on earth. I know he could heal me, but would he? Henry, somehow I believe that when the time comes that he wants you to walk again he'll make it just like new. Well, that must have been a tremendous life to him, eh, Bill? Yes, it was, Clyde. Henry grew stronger as the months rolled by. He was able to sit up all day and move around, but he had to drag his legs after him. Hank would carry him to the car and they went for rides together.  He was beginning to show a remarkable improvement, and one day he had a big surprise. Hank picked him up and carried him into the living room. Dad, mother, you got me a wheelchair. Oh boy, now I can get around by myself. Yes, son, your dad got you a wheelchair. Well, you've got to remember, son, the speed limit is 25 miles an hour in the living room. Oh boy, oh boy, this is neat. Boy, look how easy it goes. Then you like it, dear? Oh, mom, I sure do. And you know something? What's that, Henry? Oh, I've got the best mom and dad in the whole world. Even though I'm crippled, I'm happy. Henry progressed toward recovery rapidly. Daily massages and baths stimulated the unused muscles into activity. Of course, the big dose of love and understanding he was getting from his parents helped the most. It looked as though Henry was going to recover the use of his legs way ahead of schedule. Then one day, Martha, Henry's mother, went to see the doctor. Come in, Martha. It's good to see you. Thank you, Dr. Johnson. You've come to find out how Henry's doing? No, doctor. I haven't. Oh, well, what is it? I've come to have a checkup myself, doctor. I haven't been feeling well lately. Well, a complete physical examination should tell the story. I'm sure we can help you. I hope so, doctor. I can't afford to be ill. Henry needs all the strength and help I can give him. Hank, your wife came to see me several days ago. Yes, I know, doctor. We've been waiting for the results of the examination. Did you find out what's making her feel so poorly? Yes, Hank. I did.  Sick? I... And she must go to the hospital at once. What? I mean, yes, of course. If you say so. But what's wrong, doctor? This is bad news, Hank. Do you think you're ready for it? Yes, doctor. What is it? Martha has cancer, Hank. Cancer of the lungs. Martha? Cancer of the lungs? How? Why? I mean, for how long? Can you help her? I don't know the answers yet, Hank, but I must tell you, my first examinations were very discouraging. You mean she's going to... Well, let me be very candid, Hank. Just now, I would say that Martha has only from six weeks to three months to live. Dr. Johnson's original diagnosis was substantiated by the finding of the hospital lab. Martha died just nine weeks later. Was late to rest in the family plot at the cemetery. I suppose, Hank began to feel about this time that everything was against him. But he didn't give up, Clyde. He had to carry on, be father and mother to his son. How did he manage that, Bill? Well, he worked during the day and kept house and his spare hours. And who stayed with you, Henry, while your dad was away at work? Oh, many friends and neighbors. I was getting along pretty well then, so I could stay alone some of the time. But Bill's the one who helped most. Seems like he was with me every minute he could spare. Just trying to help, of course, like many other folks. But you entered the picture much more along about this time, eh, Bill? Well, yes, he did. And he stayed ever since. Let me tell the rest of the story from here on, Clyde. Bill's liable to talk down his own part in my recovery. Now listen, pal, don't you go giving me... Oh, wait a minute, Bill. I want to hear this. Don't let him wiggle out of it, Clyde.  Clyde, my father, worked almost to skin and bones trying to carry on. I could tell that trying to earn a living and keep up, as well as watch over me, was beginning to tell on him. One night, dad went for a walk. He said he wouldn't be back for an hour or so. I figured he had something on his mind and he wanted to talk to somebody. I found out later that he went to Bill's house. Hank, sit down here on the porch. Man, you're all in, I can tell that. You've got to find some other way or the first thing you know, you will drop dead from overwork. Yes, Bill. But what can I do? I've wrecked my brains for an answer, but nothing seems to come. I know I can't make this grind anymore. I feel my health slipping. If anything happens to me, well, it just can't. That's all. Have you ever thought about putting Henry in a nursing home? Yes, I have, Bill, but I can't make myself do it. It just doesn't seem right. But be reasonable, Hank. You're not an iron man. You can't work 18 to 20 hours a day. Now, look, there's an excellent nursing home over on the south side of town. Why don't you go over and talk to them about Henry? Bill, will you pray with me about it? I mean now. Sure. Right ahead. Tell the Lord whatever's in your heart. Father, I'm not complaining about my lot in life. I know these things are all for a purpose. All I ask, Lord, is that you give me an answer. Should I put Henry in the home or keep him with me? Or what? So, Dad decided to take the step. He talked to me about it, of course, and well, I thought it was a good idea because it would give him some relief from caring for me. Things went along at the home okay for a few weeks. Well, I was lonesome, but well, I understood what Dad was trying to do. Bill helped me. He'd come almost every day and take me for walks in my wheelchair. He even got me interested in making model airplanes and ships and cars. And then I got worse. I fell out of bed one day and they called Dad and the doctor and Bill came too. Well, Doctor, did the fall send him back any? No, Hank. The boy's all right. Fortunately, there's no physical damage outside of a bruise. Thank the Lord. Son, how come you fell? Well, you see, I reached out and all of a sudden, well, there was nobody around and I fell. Son, I want the truth. Are they giving you the right treatment here? I don't like to complain, Dad. You know, Hank, I think he'd get just as good care at home.  You're coming home right now. Hank, you're not being hasty, are you?  No, Bill. I don't need to think it over. I've got a little money yet and I feel a lot better now, anyway. Come on, son. We're going home. Well, Hank, how's Henry feeling today? Fine, Bill. He's gained back the weight he lost and he's right back in the groove, as he would say. That's wonderful. I'll be over to see him this afternoon. Oh, Hank, I don't want to butt into your affairs, but are you making out just working part-time? Bill, I just came from the bank. My account is closed out as of now. I'm afraid I'm going to have to get a full-time job. But what about Henry? I guess he'll have to go back to a home. I've heard a lot of other home around here. Sounds like a good place. I'm going to try Henry there. Well, I sure hope it works out this time, Hank. And you can count on me to spend all the time I can with Henry. Well, thanks, Bill. I'll need all the help you can give. Hank, there's nothing wrong, is there? No, only I'm tired, Bill. Awful tired these days. Well, Henry didn't do well at this new nursing home at all. It seemed that being away from his dad's love and care was more than he could take. As a result, Henry was doing so poorly that Hank asked Dr. Johnson to come out with us the next Saturday when we went to see Henry. We found the boy in low spirits. Well, Henry, here's the naughty pine delegation to see you. What's the matter, son? Things are as bad as all that, are they? I'm sorry, Dad. I guess I was down a bit. Hi, Bill. Doc. Hi, Bill. Henry. Say, you haven't been losing weight, have you? I don't know. Do I look skinny? Yes, you do, son. What's the trouble? Sort of miss your old pappy? Yeah, I guess that's it, Dad. I don't know. When you leave here, it's just like the sun goes out. That's your answer in a few words, Hank. I'm afraid he's going to need your constant care and attention until he's able to walk again. I know it's pretty rough, but you've got to be both father and mother to the boy. Yes, I know Dr. Johnson. I guess I've known all along that Henry and I couldn't be apart. I'll take him home today. Hank, are you sure you can take the grueling grind of working all day and keeping house and taking care of Henry, too? What do you want me to do, Bill?  I'm sorry, Bill. I didn't mean to snap at you. I didn't even hear you. Dad, I've caused you enough trouble already. I don't mind staying here. I don't want to be any bother to you. Son, where did you ever get the idea you were a bother? Now, you listen to me. I'm going to see to it that you get a fair chance in life. I've lived my life. You're just beginning and upon my word of honor, you'll walk again if it takes every last ounce of strength I've got. And that's exactly what it did take. I'll never forget the night it happened. I'd been staying with Henry when Hank came in the door. Dad, what's wrong?  Hank, here, let me help you to the chair. I'll call the doctor right away. Bill, help me. I can't breathe. Take it easy now. Sit down in this chair. That's it. I'll get the doctor right away. Bill, my heart. How's my dad, doctor? Is he going to be all right? Well, is he? Henry, I'd do anything not to have to tell you this, but I'm afraid your dad isn't going to be all right. What? What do you mean? Henry, your dad is a pretty sick man. You mean? He doesn't have long to live. He may live six hours or six days. Dad. Take it easy now, pal. You worked too hard for me. Yes, but he did it because he loved you. Now listen, wouldn't you do the same thing for him? Sure, Bill. Sure I would. I never thought about it that way. If I could only talk to him, just to tell him how much I appreciate what he's done for me. You may get that chance, Henry. All we can do is wait. Now, Henry, Bill, you must be quick. And don't interrupt him. Let him say what he wants to say. Dad, can you hear me? Dad. Yes, son. No crying.  I'll try, dad. Listen carefully again. Soon as you must promise. I promise, dad. I'll walk again as soon as I can. I promise, dad. Honest. You hear? Yes, Hank. On my solemn word of honor, Hank, I will. I'll do everything I can for Henry. First Corinthians, 15. Yes, Hank, I'll read it to you. Your Bible's on the dresser. Just a second. I'll get it. I'll get Dad's Bible, Bill. Henry's walking to the dresser. Great scat. The boy's walking. Hank, can you see him? Can you see him?  There. See? Here he comes. Hank, do you see him? Yes. Praise God. From all blessings flow. I've seen my son walk again. This is your Bible, dad. Will you read to him, Bill? Please? Bill. Your dad couldn't hear me now, pal. He's gone to be with the Lord. Now don't mind me, fellas. I'm just a little choked up. What a story. What was the doctor's explanation of Henry's walking over to the dresser and getting the Bible for his dad, Bill? Well, Doc Johnson said that speaking from a purely human point of view, it grew out of Henry's strong desire to make his father happy before he died. At the same time, he could walk. These factors together made up the tremendous forces that caused the boy to walk. And yet beyond that? Beyond that, of course, was the omnipotent power of Christ. And you did keep walking after that, Henry? Yes, sir. I did. Oh. Oh, I don't know. I guess I just never thought of not walking. You see, I promised dad I would. And there you are, boys and girls, the story of Henry Scott, of his wonderful dad and mother, and of how he came to live with us. But more than these, it's the story of a God who still works in the lives of those who trust in him. Well, see you next week for more adventure with...


Selam, you're watching NewsClick and 420gms. We're coming to you with a story today that is actually most unfortunate. It's not a great bit of news that you want to read at any time. As you know, if you follow Indian football, the Women's Under 17 World Cup or the Under 17 World Cup for girls is being hosted by India in the coming months. It will be the first women's team from this country to play in any sort of World Cup finals tournament. That team is currently preparing for the upcoming tournament in Europe on an exposure tour. And over the past 3-4 days, what has unfolded is a series of allegations of serious misconduct against the assistant coach of that team, Alex Ambrose, who is an ex-India international men's footballer. He's studying for his pro-license coach on a coaching badge, one of the most well-known faces in the small coaching circuit in this country. Immediately as a response to the news coming out, the All India Football Federation have called him back from the camp. I'm presuming back in India, we tried to reach out to Alex but we were unable to. Pending investigation which will happen shortly, I'm assuming because this is something that everyone has responded to and is taking extremely seriously. It is a case that is quite sensitive because of course on top of everything else, it involves teenage girls in a team environment that where the first priority has to be in each and every case to look after safeguard their interests first, as it should be with all national teams. It's a bit, I think, shameful for us as well that it has taken us, the bravery of these teenagers who have come forward with these complaints to talk about the wider issues that are sort of troubling all of our national teams. There's been a series of incidents over the past few months that reflects a sort of very careless attitude, a very casual attitude towards how these teams are being managed, how the interests of players are being looked after. And this is a team, a women's team that theoretically we're looking at as potentially qualifying actually for FIFA World Cup. So it is also in many senses the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's going on in the overall system of management of women's football in this country, whether it's how the league is organized at the state levels or at the national level, the kind of support that let's say the men's game gets versus the women's game gets, whether it's national teams or club football or other structural things such as broadcasting, even social media. Joining us on this discussion conversation around some of these things are veteran journalists who have covered systemic issues in Indian sport collectively for perhaps the last half century or so. Jayati Basu is here and Leslie Xavier is here. Unfortunately, Alex is someone that we have seen as a player, we know a little bit as a coach and as a person. But without getting into the details of that case because of various reasons including that no investigation has gone on, how does this highlight sort of what has been happening in terms of the general management of these teams of whether it's young boys or young girls, that we are so regularly sending out with trust and faith that whatever else happens their safety and their health is looked after. Yeah, that is true. I think I thought since it is the under 17 team and consist of all minor girls, one should have been far more careful than it is. See, this is something no one can predict, no one can say what is going to happen. I completely understand, I agree with that that the team management can always turn around and say what how did we know about all these things. That is true. But what is unfortunate and what is alarming rather that if you look in the look, if you take out the whatever controversies has happened in the last four or five months, everything is involving the national team. That is something I wonder that why it has happened. So is there something wrong with the management of the national team or the people who are running the national team, they are not being able to manage things in the way it should be. One after one incident if you see this is with the women. So if you go back and list them for us going back to perhaps even before the AFC Asian Cup for Women that India hosted in which that whole bio bubble breach happened and as the host country then we were forced to withdraw from the tournament where we had hopes of qualification from.  See, previously if you look at the look at history of Indian football then you might find innumerable incidents. What has happened with the national team because national team always used to be on the focus like it is today. And so all this, what you see mismanagement, incident of mismanagement used to come out. But now at the moment when you have a full fledged national team department where more than half a dozen people are working and they are being well compensated by the federation. It's good. So according to all India football federation professionals are working there. Why it should happen? That is the thing. There are people for doing for ticketing there, people for looking after the travel, there are people for looking after the itinerary of the everything is there. So why it is like that? See breach of bio bubble was a huge issue actually. We have spoken about it previously also. Now we are in this show only, here also. So from flying them from Kerala to Bombay at that point of time from there on then on things started deteriorating. So I am not getting into it again because we have already spoken about it rather. So after that this, see only last month in June. That means today is July 1. So I am talking about June middle. The women's team was going to Sweden. So they had a ticket for 19th and the visa for 20th. And the team had to wait at the airport or wherever for a day and so much money was lost because of another ticketing, fresh tickets had to be done. Why should all these things happen? Why should all these things happen? This is too grave an incident, what you just spoke about. But like you say when India was playing at Hong against in the AFC qualifiers in Calcutta. How many tickets will be issued, whether 12,000 or 15,000 and 15,000? There was so much drama over it and we got to know that some people have said, Oh, nobody will come to watch matches in Calcutta. So only 12,000 you print. Later on we found 50,000 is coming for every match. So why should and the national team captain had to come out and appeal and saying that more tickets should be printed so that more people can come. So why should all these things happen? My question is previous incidents, okay. The federation was small, they had not much of money. Everything was done by the people, amateur people who are looking after things but now it is not like that. You have money, you have good department, you have staff strength, you have facilities, all the facilities needed for it. Then why should it happen? Somebody has to stand up and take responsibility for this. Yeah, fair enough, fair enough. And of course I also have to say that it's not only the national team though that is sort of plagued by this issue. Even at the league levels, very similar sort of things happen. I'm not aware really of the inside happenings of the FSDL operated league. I'm sure they are much different and far more well managed. But whether it's the iLeague or the IWL which we have seen from very close quarters. Which you will be able to say because since you have watched all of them for the last couple of years. It is system wide. At the IWL for example, okay, you try as much as possible but only in even the bio bubble itself, it was supposed to be a tournament technically that was held in a bio bubble. But it was a pretty farcical bio bubble. So and yeah, as was testing procedure because I think the idea behind it is not to look at the west interest of the athletes in question. It is to say, if we are doing it in the bio bubble, then there will be no press, no media coverage, no spectators. So as soon as we want to do our tournament, we can do it. No one will have to look at it.  So that, you know, well managed on paper. In the newspaper, press release will say that he hit so many goals. The result was this. And he won in the end. So which doesn't take into consideration at all all of the aspects that athletes are going through. And the problem still remains that this is as much of this kind of misconduct is also a question of misuse of power, because these people coaches are and for decades you have covered the relationships between athletes and coaches, how irrespective of the kind of mental and physical torture a coach is inflicting on an athlete. That coach is meant to still be considered, you know, the greatest gift and equated with some kind of God like status and all of those things. This is a very sensitive issue, but also an issue where the Federation can come and say to that there was no way that we could know that such things will happen within the team. Because as far as they are concerned, where it was a former player and he has been coaching and he has been with the team and things were going on. So I will use screen that. But for me, that's not how the approach should be because we have seen these kind of problems coming out time and again, not just in India or flight actually. And it's actually a welcome change that all these issues are coming up in various sport like for instance cycling last month, just last month. And before that across the world like in the USA where where you have sports and the sports organization is much more systematic, but still issues came out in gymnastics of systemic systematic abuse by coaches of young girls. So the only way out of this is to approach this in a very systematic structural way where you have valves where things can be blocked at a very nice in state. If at all issues coming out, you give the confidence to the young athletes, girls or even boys that coaches or the management or the person involved in this will not have a say in their life or careers. That is the biggest threat that these athletes have. How do you do that? That's exactly what I'm saying. The whole thing is about power, right? Because this is not, a lot of the girls are coming from the most marginalized sections, right? From remote parts of the country, not great financial conditions, all of those things. So this is the only way to get out of a cycle of poverty, essentially. And the constant threat is that if you don't do this, you will get out of the team. You won't get to play. Even with the league, we spoke to almost 20 or so players who are participating in the IWL, maybe even more. At the end of the day, their attitude as players is at least we are getting a chance to play. But somehow, organizers of tournaments and federations have also taken on the same attitude. That they are playing. And as if that is some sort of favor that is being done. And because so few actually, and the sad part is this, that like of the millions of children in our country, we keep saying that we are one of the youngest populations in the world, etc. So few get a chance to play regularly. To make a career is a secondary thing. But even to get a chance to play, you are willing to make all kinds of sacrifices. I mean, whether it's traveling thousands of kilometers away from your home and living with strangers and all of these things that these athletes try and do. So that threat, that danda that is always being wielded, makes it so difficult for athletes to come out themselves and say, look, this is what's happening. I mean, today, why are the three of us sitting and having this conversation without the presence of someone who has been through the system? Because even today, there are gag orders also in place, senior team, national team players who are also currently part of a national team camp. They have been told not to speak on the subject. And fair enough, okay, an investigation needs to be carried out and there doesn't. That's not the point. The point is, if these players cannot even come out in support of a child who has gone through obviously a traumatic scenario, a traumatic situation where everyone gets caught up in what the result of it is or what will happen next. And even we are talking here about systemic changes that need to happen.  So, because we don't have some, I think we received one message from a group of member associations of AFF, which is the State Association essentially. One of, at least in this statement, one of the demands was to replace all male staff on all teams with female staff of all women's teams. Now, that is a knee-jerk reaction that doesn't again address any of these issues. But that is the only thing, the quality will be compromised, could be compromised. No, I disagree with that. It's not about the question of quality because we will have good women coaches come out. We can't assume that women coaches would be lesser than male staff. No, at some places, that would mean to them. So, the problem here is that it doesn't inspire confidence either because that's not the solution. We are shutting out the problem and we are just doing something else of a gimmick just to plug the hole. But the hole is larger. Like if there is a gag order on senior players to talk out about this thing, talk out in whatever ways that they want. You are not saying that they have to narrate the things that they went through as juniors or whatever. But they could at least speak out in support saying that we have trust in the Federation that they would do justice to the investigation and all that. So, the problem here is not finding who is guilty and investigating it. That should be done at all. But the larger idea is that how do you get these people? And we are not, of course, the entire structure is flawed. There is a problem right from the grassroots. Like for instance, we have had this discussion before that at the National Women's Football Championship, which was held in Kerala. The stadium did not have bathrooms or changed rooms for the women to change into their kids. It's like some portable loos were kept and then it became so dirty that it can't be used at all. And this is happening in Kerala where you would like to imagine that people have a larger civic sense on these matters. So, it never happened. So, again, the same thing. The organizers were thinking that we are organizing it. We are letting the women play. That's a big deal in itself. But the larger problem is, I mean, the larger thing here is that this has happened in the national team, which is a controlled environment, which can be a great environment if at all you choose to make it so. So, these girls in question, the under 17 team, they have been in the system since they are under 15 days. It's been a 2-3 year journey with the national team setup in camps. Camps were disbanded because of COVID-19 as well, but within that system they were there. So, you nurture their psyche as well because you are not just building a group of girls to kick ball and score goals. We are also building individuals who are capable of giving it a fight on the playing field and also become ambassadors of the game to a larger audience, young girls, as well as the society, as examples, saying that we are women footballers and we are like, for instance, someone like a Megan Repp, you know, coming from a different system, but she still has to fight. She still had to stand up there. They had to file a case for equal pay. So, the fight is always there. But where does she get that confidence? Maybe from the societal setup there and maybe also within the team dynamics or the federation dynamics, there are things which give them confidence for that. So, what the AIF should be doing or national federation should be doing is that when you get these individuals, these young, talented girls or boys into the system, you build them on all friends and also give them assurance with officers in place or individuals. It can be in the case of women's team. It can be a woman so that the things are easier for them to talk out and all that and ensure that regardless of who it is that confidence is given that you speak out, we will take cognizance and we will take action or we will ensure that this is investigated properly. That kind of confidence building will only happen if the federation itself changes its way of working and become transparent in its idea. Gag orders should be out of the question. If it's a matter of indiscipline, if some irresponsible things have been spoken about, then you correct the individual. But as youngsters, you don't put a gag on their mouths and then you expect them to learn and evolve and become responsible individuals or players at the latest stage. So that kind of approach change should come in to address these matters, try and read out these matters. Of course, a societal issue is there as well as these abuse, misuse things creeping up. Yeah, no, but that's why that is exactly why because these things exist in wider society. I think when, let's say an actual team comes to your home and approaches your parents and says to you, we will take care of your child, we are taking them around. You assume that because it is exactly the controlled environment that you said, that you are making a good decision, not the opposite. And so I guess also because the new constitution is being thought of, drafted, actually now it's probably beyond all of those stages. But I think special, maybe some things can be added because there are best practices, at least some kind of established practices, some kind of safeguards. Everything takes time because it is always... It takes time and it has to be played. Because the entire system is based on competition in the end and like any advantage in that competitive process I guess is what athletes are forced to kind of more often than not.  So these are not easy choices to make. So I guess it will be tough. It's a good thing. I think in the recent past, about the last year or so, the Players Association of India, which is the union that represents the interests of players. So it's not part of the All India Football Federation. It's an external union which you can sign up to and become a member of. They have started to work with women players as well. They have an ex-player, Anisha Chavan, who's heading their sort of women's department, liaising with women players and all of that. So there are... I believe this Constitution has a players council provision. Yeah, there are players council also very important. Provision is there and it will be elected like it has happened in cricket. There will be elected players council. So they have given anybody of India have played more than 15 matches. They have to be members. In the last 20 years, those who have played for India, something I'm not very clear about it. I just read it but forgot it. So there is a provision for players council in the proposed constitution, which is going to the Supreme Court. Unless it is approved, it's not, of course. But there is a provision. So and also then take steps, I think, to tell players that these are the means by which you can address someone, you can speak to someone basically. That knowledge and that helps in a long way. Also, the other problem that I have felt in my experience in the system as well as as a journalist is that how do you control the... I mean, see, for a federation who has employed a coach or a manager in a team setup and if that manager or coach has a longish tint in that setup, he or she sort of becomes the king of that field of that. And it's treated like that as well. So I would control your future. I would control your career. So the same thing happened in, I'm just diagnosing a little in the case of cycling and the case of abuse that came out recently. The coach in question, R.K. Sharma has been dismissed and investigations are on. He allegedly called the parents of the female cyclist who complained saying that now you arrange for a wedding because a career is done. She has nowhere to go in cycling anymore. So that's the... And you're threatening the parents of the athlete. So the kind of psychological trauma that the athlete herself being in the camp or being in the hotel room, hotel where this man is roaming around it. Of course, that's how, across the world, sports systems work, but across the world, federations have evolved itself trying to block these things in some way possible.  Because, I mean, visual thinking in the federation itself, because a new constitution maybe will help. But you know, in the past 10 years, how top officials in the federation have been controlling the federation. So that trickles down to at the barest local level also. The district administration president would be the king in his country. So if the problem is actually to be polluted and problem requires complete whole of the system, which is probably impossible, but yeah, some changes should happen. Yeah, actually, this is a kind of problem. If we're talking about this under 17 women's girls women's team thing, that problem is, of course, that it will happen. It's happened before it will continue to... Because it's such things do happen. Only thing is that how you control it. If you have to bring it down to minimum, that is a very important thing. And for that, you have to be very careful while choosing the support stuff, especially for the minor girls. I think you have to be very careful about it. See, even there will be slip up. There is no doubt about it. See, you can't read somebody's face or mind what is there. But more tried and tested people should be allowed to get into it, I think. That is there. Probably. And probably a screening process that requires to look at larger... That's what he said. That's the coaching condition. How to control it. No, the idea... In fact, after I saw this press release, I spoke to a couple of players who are currently in the system. And I think the response or the approach was, we'll take the lesser of the two evils. There will always be this power dynamic between the coach and the athlete. Because the coach's career is as linked to the athlete's career as anything else and vice versa in some ways. So that power dynamic will always exist. And there will always be some elements of corruption in the system. Where one coach will maybe say, I'll select you because you can give me some extra, some money or something else. But if, at least to a large extent, having for a temporary period, only women as support staff and as coaching staff, then if that at least stops it from being sexually peritory and getting into that territory, then as players, we'll take the lesser of the two evils. In any case, like you said, the struggle that these athletes, like everyone else has to go through is real and it doesn't end. So why should they also add the workplace? The ILO even has recently adopted occupational safety and health as one of part of the workers' bill of rights. So governments now are mandated to ensure that... And you have to consider these not just workers but I mean minor workers, like you said, and so therefore especially important. So with all of this coming together, I think it's a good time for some safeguards to definitely concretely be put into the system. And hopefully thanks to the bravery of these girls who have brought up the issue, it will be heard and get the ball rolling at the very least. We have pretty much that I think wraps up this episode of 420 Grams. We wanted to talk a little bit about the meeting between EGOS team as the head coach of the national team who is scheduled to be on the show tomorrow. At some point we will confirm the time, I mean be on the show and we'll probably record that and put it out a little bit later because we're not sure when exactly he'll be free and available and all of those things. But Jairidha, just to wrap up a quick bit on what's happening with the contract. See they were supposed to... I believe the coach was supposed to meet, not meet, to have a talk over the Zoom or whatever, virtually to the COA. It must have been done but what has happened, I have no idea unless the Federation people give suppressions or whatever, somebody speaks out we know. But I think the extension should be done and why not because even in this Ambrose case he has been given an extension last month only or most of the support staff of national team has got extension for one year. So why not the national coach can be given, I don't understand. I think he should be given. At this moment I have a feeling that there are some forces trying to scuttle his chances. I'm very open about it. I think because he has been talking too much he must be hurting some vested interests somewhere. So they are trying to pull him down. Well, I have no evidence of it but I have a feeling. Probably you should rephrase the thing saying that scuttle the national team's chances because a coach who has been with the team for two years I understand that there was lockdown and break and no real but I believe that he has tried his players he was mixing and matching combinations and all that and he has probably hit on a... done something atleast. Which can probably see India do a better show at the Asian Cup. At the moment when finally things are looking like looking up looking like looking up I would say. So he should be... if he is get disturbed or he is being then it would be very unfortunate. I think he should be given at least till the Asian Cup tournament he should be there. Fair enough. We have an agreement on 420 grams on that issue and we maybe will have more clarity on it very soon with EGOS team match. With that I bring this episode to a close. Thank you very much for joining in. Please do write in, send your comments, subscribe, follow, share, all of that. 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Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering Red Hat Summit 2018, brought to you by Red Hat. Hey, welcome back, everyone. We're live here in San Francisco, California, to Moscone West for theCUBE's exclusive coverage of Red Hat Summit 2018. I'm John Furrier, the co-host of theCUBE with my co-host this week, analyst John Troyer, co-founder of Tech Reckoning, advisory and community development firm. Our next two guests is Erica Kochi, co-founder of UNICEF Innovation, United Nations Children's Fund, and Mike Walker, director of Open Innovations Labs at Red Hat, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for coming, joining us today. Thanks for having us. I love this story. So, Erica, take a minute to talk about what you're working on at UNICEF. You guys doing a lot of great stuff. You got a relationship with Red Hat Innovation Labs, but you're doing some pretty amazing things. Take a minute to explain what you're doing at UNICEF, some of the projects, and what we're going to talk about here with the school and the magic box, all the greatness. Sure, so at UNICEF Innovation, essentially what we do is take technology and apply it to the problems facing children around the world, and we do that in a variety of ways. I think the things that we're probably most known for is our work in mobile technology to connect frontline health workers and young people to governments and let them have a say in what's happening in the halls of government, and we have a program called UReport, which has five million young people from all over the world who are talking directly to their government representatives. We need that now more than ever. We certainly do, yes. So open source, obviously with Red Hat, big shared vision, talk about the shared mission, like what's going on with there? Where's the connection? Obviously, open source is great for society. We've seen the benefits all around the world. How is this translating for you guys? Yeah, so I've been at Red Hat for a while, and obviously we're the world's largest enterprise open source software company, and I've, as a consultant, been able to see Red Hat and open source software used for many different purposes and every vertical you can think of, but this one was really unique because we found a natural partnership, I think, between some of UNICEF innovation's vision to use open source and open principles for maximum impact for good, and so when I learned about innovation at UNICEF, really by chance, I just ran into a colleague at a meeting in New York and she gave me a few words about it. I said, this is incredible because we can leverage all of what we've learned at Red Hat, our knowledge of open source to impact people and culture, not just for technical reasons, and partner with UNICEF to make maximum social impact for children that need it most. And you got Red House, the technology company, got a lot of smart people there, but with open source, there's been a DNA in your blood stream of the company around democratization, and now, we're out in the open with everyone online and everything, so this is a democratization piece. Talk about some of the things that you guys are doing with Red Hat. What specifically are you celebrating together here? So, we had a great collaboration with Red Hat, their labs program, which really took a look at our challenge of using big data to better understand what's happening on the ground, especially in schools, in countries that are either coming out of emergencies or have limited access to a lot of the parts of the country, and so we layered satellite imagery, information on poverty, other sets of data, so you can really get a clear picture about where we should be allocating our resources and how we should be planning for emergencies. And this collaboration just finished up a couple days ago, and it's really been great. What's some of the impact? Give an example of some of the use cases. So, obviously saving time, money, moving things around. What are some of the impact things that you see with this project? What are some of the things? A lot of countries right now are thinking about how they can connect all of their schools and make sure all of their schools are online, and give children this access to information that's really essential to thrive in the world of today and tomorrow. And if you don't know where your schools are and you don't know if they're connected or not, and you can't see what else is happening in the socioeconomic way in those areas, it's really hard to figure out what to do and where to start. So we're really just at the beginning of that process to try to connect every school in the world, and we're at the moment where we're trying to lay the groundwork to understand where we're at and where we need to go. So the level of insight you're providing once you connect the schools, you can get, people can know what to do and how to align with what's happening. It's interesting, I was just in Puerto Rico a couple weeks ago, and the young kids there have self-formed their own blockchain network between the schools, and they're teaching themselves how to program, because they recognize that to get out of their world and the mess that they're challenging through now post-hurricane, they want to participate in the new economy. So as someone not knowing that, if I know I could help, you're kind of providing a window into that kind of dynamic where, is that kind of the use case, is that how it's working? So it's participation and contribution base? Absolutely, participation is key for young people and they need to really learn how to acquire the skills that they're going to need to become successful productive adults in the future. And school is one of the entry points to do that. So that's really important. And everyone loves that too. Yeah, I'm kind of curious about the structure of the project. Today in the keynote, Jim White started us off by saying, well, we can't plan everything. We've got to be a little bit more agile. Here's a framework for how to really approach problems when we really don't know what the outcome or even what we're going to hit. So can you talk a little bit maybe about the structure of the process and did you know, did you start with a blank piece of paper, or how did you figure out the pathway to the ultimate outcome here? Yeah, I can take it first. That's a great question because at labs we experiment with ways to get fast feedback. And really in a very short amount of time, usually one to three months and a very limited amount of funds, how can we make maximum impact using open technologies and open practices? So the project was already in progress like most IT projects are, right? There had already been some research, we have data scientists to work with. And one of the first things we did was really talk about really our concerns and fears about how we might work together using an exercise called how might we. We kind of came together and said, how might we solve this problem or that problem and just got it out on the table? One of the aspects that I think work really well is dedicating a small team in a residency style engagement where we worked off-premise. So Red Hatter's left their office, UNICEF folks left their office. We came together in a COLO workspace in New York City that was fairly convenient and we all focused on a tough problem. And we decided really early on that in order to make sure that this problem actually would be usable in the hands of end users in the field across the world, we needed to get face to face. So we made a trip to Latin America to work with a UNICEF field office to get fast feedback on prototypes. And that helps us adjust what we ended up shipping as the product at the end of the two month cycle. Erica, how was the outcome for you and your team? It was great. I think one of the things that really aligns Red Hat and UNICEF is not just a commitment to open source and the values around that, but also this agile methodology. I think that to really move something, a product forward or a program forward, you need to step away from the daily part of life and move away from the email and the connection to the laptop and the phone. And I think we were able to do that. I also think that you need to ground truth things. And so that trip to the field and to really understand the context and the problems that people are facing is completely critical to success. And that's like an agile program. You kind of get out on the front lines. I'm trying to ask about the data. I'm really intrigued. So you got multiple data sources coming in. Love the satellite thing.  As you're talking about humanitarian real-time efforts here. What's the data science thing? What's the tech behind it? Is it ingesting data? Is it third-party data? How does it work? I mean, can you share some of the mechanics on the data science piece? All right, you want to take this? Yeah, I think there's probably a lot we can talk about. I can talk about data all day. Love data. But some of the things that I think were fundamentally really exciting about this project and about what UNICEF innovation has done. So let's take, for example, Facebook. They have a whole lot of data, but that's one company and it's sort of one lens to the world, right? It's quite broad and we get a lot of information, but it's still one company. What UNICEF innovation has done is found ways to partner with private and public companies and private and public data sources in a way that maintains the security and integrity of that data so that it's not exposing proprietary information, but they've been able to create that community, essentially, that's willing to share information, to solve a really tough challenge for social good. And so we have actually a really wide variety of data at our disposal. And our job was to create a sandbox that allowed data scientists to really both proactively plan for things that might happen and reactively plan when events occur, when we don't even know what that event might be. So I like to think back to Jim Whitehurst's speech last year at Summit where he said, planning is dead, we've got to try, learn and modify. I think that's exactly what we aim to build. A platform that hasn't been planned for any one event or action, but provides the flexibility for data scientists to try, experiment, pull different data together, learn from it, sharing maps. We integrate a geospatial data and maps to be able to pass this along quickly and then modify based on the results so we can more quickly achieve something with the greatest impact. That's awesome. Yeah, so for example, if you take, you know, you take like, for example, epidemics, right? So many factors, there's so many different types of data are needed to really understand what's happening in an epidemic. For example, tixika, you have temperature, right? Mosquitoes only breed at a certain temperature. You have poverty, which really indicates standing water where mosquitoes can breed. You have socioeconomic factors. Does the house, more likely, does it have mosquito screens or not? And then you have the social, right? What are people talking about? What are they concerned about? And I think like a really interesting picture emerges when you can start to layer all of these kinds of data and that really helps us see where we should be focusing. It's great discovery information, using the data to drive kind of where to look at and where to focus efforts. Yeah, exactly. And also a global footprint, right? In previous decades, maybe this would have run on a PC with some sort of a proprietary GIS thing or yeah, I'm not even sure, right? You'd chip around disks maybe, but I mean, not to be too product oriented, right? Built on OpenShift, we've seen a whole lot this week, right? These global footprint, it could live on any cloud. I assume that's a piece of it, right? It global accessibility now for the resulting application. Absolutely. And we want to take what we've done in one scenario and apply it to many others and many other locations. And so being open source is key for this because we wouldn't be able to do this in other locations or replicated just as easily. You can hand it to the local folks, have them again adapt it or take it further. Yeah, or have other people work on it, whether it's academics, other companies, us, yeah. Nice, nice. I love this structure, like how it's agile. I got to, Eric, I got to ask you about this because we're seeing a big trend with open source. Obviously that's well on its way to becoming. It is the standard of doing software, but mission driven technology activities aren't just nonprofits anymore. You're starting to see collaboration, the jobs act that Obama put in place really set the table for new kind of funding. So you've seen a lot more younger people coming in and saying, hey, you know what? I can build it on the cloud and grants over but the code can just live on, right? So you're seeing a new flywheel around mission driven non-profits and for profits. A new kind of entrepreneurship culture. Can you share insight into how this has developed? I'm sure you see a lot of it. I have a lot of thoughts on this topic. Share them, please. So I think that as technology companies become so much more influential in our lives, they're not just showing you the news anymore, they're moving into every aspect of our lives, whether it's into our homes or even inside our bodies. They're occupying so much more influential role in an individual's life. With that comes a tremendous amount of responsibility. And I think that while it's not enough to say you should do good because it's the right thing to do, I think that employees also really demand it. I think that, you know, and that shift will occur because employees realize that they want to be doing good in the world and if they're going to be influencing so many people's lives, that's really, really important. It's a new citizenship model for the younger generation. Certainly millennials want to work in a company that's not just the profit, hunger, motive. But also there's some dynamics going on with the infrastructure world. You look at Facebook as a classic example, you know, the word weaponizing content has been a bad thing. But we've been talking about in theCUBE, there's actually a reverse of that, polar opposite, which is you can weaponize content for good, meaning that all the same principles that do bad things could be used for good things. So this is where we're starting to see a lot more people saying, hey, let's do more of that and punish. So the new kind of rules are developing in society. So I find it fascinating and I'm just curious, is this known within the societal entrepreneurship culture or what's your view on how to do more, how to do better? I'm doing a lot of work in what AI is going to be meaning, what it's going to mean for children around the world. And, you know, there are so many opportunities. We've been talking about some of them, but there are also a lot of risks, right? What does it mean when your child's best friend is a robot? What does that change about us, you know, as human beings? And so I think it's, you know, you have to look at both sides and you have to be very conscious about designing the technology that you want to see in the world that's going to make the world a good place to live in. And I think that there definitely is an awakening that's going on. This is a first generation set of problems that social entrepreneurship brings, just society. I mean, who sets the policy? Which side of the road the cars drive on? Or, you know, there's new issues that are evolving that have never been seen before, you know? Cyberbullying to all kinds of things happening. So congratulations on all those success. So what's the forecast for Red Hat innovation that has more of this? You're going to continue to double down on it? What other things do you guys have going on? Yeah, so labs is growing quite largely. We are now live in North America, EMEA and APAC with plans to extend to LATAM in the future. And we're growing quite quickly in terms of our ability to execute. I guess, you know, the labs team is relatively small, a small number of specialists, but we are all of Red Hat. So the way we operate is based on what we're trying to achieve together. We will look at all of Red Hat and sometimes even outside of Red Hat to figure out who we can bring to the table to help solve that problem. And so it allows me to work with our engineering, with our business units, even with our marketing. So we brought marketing in to the first meeting, not simply because we're creating a marketing event, but we realized we need to advertise internally and externally what we build in order to gain adoption. It's part of building a community. And what I've found is because labs has an objective that goes beyond simply a technological objective, we're aiming to change ways of working and to change culture. It's really easy to build a lot of interest and adoption among all Red Hatters to bring them together to solve a tough problem. A really interesting facet about labs.  You can come to them, but I think, like you said, it's important to get outside your office and your day-to-day for these focused projects. Talk a little bit about your approach to that. Yeah, so we've learned a lot.  I think we launched in April of 2016 at OpenStack Summit.  So we do have first-class facilities in Boston, Singapore and London, but I would say the large majority of the work efforts we've done to date have been in what we call pop-up labs. And what that allows us to do is create that immersion and focus on a tough challenge by getting people out of the office, but also provide the ability to go home at the end of the day and have dinner at your home, which a lot of people enjoy. And from the Red Hat perspective, we've got a lot of folks used to travel so we can make that happen, meet in the middle, and it's been a good hybrid approach that we end up doing more and more. Great stuff. Here's my final question for you to take from Jim Whitehoff's keynote today. How is blockchain changing this effort? Yeah, right. We're doing it on the blockchain. No, it's been five years from now. Well, I mean. Yeah, token for good, token economics. That's absolutely right. And I mean, Erica, you might want to weigh in as well, but I think, I love blockchain. First of all, I love math and I love the science behind it, but I love the fact that it was developed in the open. It was debated in the open. It's radically transparent. You can see all of the transactions of anyone in the chain and it's being used in ways that no one ever dreamed of. I mean, it was meant for a universal currency, but, you know, think about this. We might be able to use it as a token system so that we can actually ensure that humanitarian efforts that are done are actually recognized by people that may not otherwise have funds, right? Some of them with very little money can still use. Well, also proof of stakeers. Just to make sure the money gets put to use. Absolutely. In the end point of all this. I mean, it's a responsibility. We're using it to exchange electronic health records securely and privately with the people that need them and only the people that need them. So I don't know where blockchain will be in five years, but I am optimistic that I think the mathematics and the fundamentals of blockchain are sound and I think more than anything, it's the community that will drive new applications of blockchain and really define and answer that question for you. Well, I know we'll be in New York next week for the blockchain for a consensus event and there's a lot of events going on. We've seen wealthy entrepreneurs donating Bitcoin and Ethereum, it's just a really great project. So, and a lot of young people love the blockchain and crypto. So who knows, got to be on that lab. We're definitely looking into it and we have a couple of experiments around the world that range from trying to do some smart contracts, you know, in country environments to taking donations in blockchain or I mean, sorry, in cryptocurrencies. I think that there are a lot of exciting applications for it in this do good space. I also think that there's a tremendous amount of hype and you really have to ask yourself the key question of like, does this need a central trusted authority or is there one that exists that already is great and do we need to record every transaction? If you can answer those two questions, then you may be going somewhere. And well, great point. The other thing I would answer that I agree 100% and that is that blockchain and crypto are token economics and not the ICO scams but is an efficiency, heat seeking missile. It targets efficiencies where there's inefficiencies and that's why I see a lot of the action going on and you know, efforts and for good are highly inefficient. So, hey, you knows. Well, we love blockchain. As you can tell, we talk about all day long, smart contracts, token economics. Thanks for coming on and congratulations on your project. Thank you. For good, good stuff there. Live coverage here, day two of three days. Live coverage here in San Francisco, the Red Hat Summit 2018. We'll be back after this short break. Stay with us.


Hello ACEs, welcome back to module two, lesson number eight, leveraging your mind space to dominate the crowd. In this lesson, what you're going to learn is how do you carve out your own mind space so then that way you can dominate your competitors so then that way you don't need to worry about that new guy around the block coming after you guys. You don't need to worry about that because you've occupied your own mind space. Mistake number one is that I see so many restaurateurs making is that they fail to occupy a single mind space. When you think about your restaurant concept or when you introduce your restaurant concept with your friends, your family or new customers, oftentimes people will be like, Hey, I have an ice cream bar or Hey, you know what? I have an American diner. I have a burger joint, whatever the case may be. And when you do that, you end up choosing to occupy an entire category over something very specific like a specific niche. So let me illustrate this for you. Your mind space should not be a category nor just a specific cuisine. That's not what we want to be. We want to fine tune the niche down even more. Now what is a mind space? Mindspace is solving a specific problem for a specific customer. So let's say you have an ice cream shop. Many, many times I see people introducing, Hey, you know what? Yeah, I own an ice cream shop. Come and check out my ice cream shop.  There's this new ice cream shop around the block. They just opened. You want to go check out the ice cream shop? This is the conversation that usually happens. That's an entire category that you're fighting against, not a single mind space. Specific solution to that is connecting people by providing a novel experience. So you're not selling ice cream, you're selling a solution which is to connect people. Specific customers are millennials. For me, I'm targeting the millennials with my ice cream shop. What they're really going after and why they're coming is not specifically just for the ice cream. They want to come and connect with their friends. They want to come out, be outside the dorm, be outside the parents' house, and actually chill with their friends. The mind space that we want to be able to occupy is connecting millennials through trendy desserts. Imagine this.  Where should I go next time for ice cream? You're basically competing against Dairy Queen, Baskin Robbins, Marvel Slab. We basically do not stand out because when you think about ice cream shop, you think about these big chains and these big brands versus if you're dominating a mind space of cool, trendy hangout spot for millennials serving delicious dessert, then that specifically the mind space that we're going after and that's the reason why 720 sweets would pop up.  I want to hang out with my friends. I want to try something new and trendy that I haven't seen before. Automatically you would think about 720 sweets over DQ over Baskin Robbins over all the other brands out there, mainly because you're dominating a very specific mind space. If you are just another ice cream shop, then people will compare you with many other different ice cream shops. And here is why you are stuck. A lot of people at restaurantiers and mentees that I have, they are always stuck because they want to appeal to the masses. Once again, it's very intuitive for us to be able to want to appeal to the masses because it's just the right thing to do. However, by niching down, we're able to really talk to our customer and by doing that, that's when you gain traction and that's when you're going to have lots of people come through your doors because you're niching down. You are too broad if you really just focus on the whole category, the whole cuisine.  You're afraid to take a stance by narrowing on a specific problem for a specific customer because it's just counterintuitive. You want to speak to everyone. And when you do that, previously what we said is that when you do that, you speak to no one.  That's a mistake you make if you don't have a proper mind space statement created and communicated to your customers. However, when you stop making this mistake, when you have a mind space that you're already dominating, then you can position your restaurant as to go to spot for your customers.  And once you occupy this very distinct, this very niche mind space in your customer's mind, they'll always come back to you when they're thinking about cool, trendy hangout spot. Hey, 720 suites. That's the response that we want to be able to elicit whenever they're thinking about this moment. We come to mind first and foremost. Now that you figured out the golden trifecta, now that you figured out basically how can you create a very successful and profitable restaurant? We talked about the concept. We talked about location. We talked about customers. And in the middle right here, that's the golden trifecta that we want to be able to occupy and be in. Time to carve out your own mind space, guys. Go out there, identify your specific customer. We already done that in lesson 2.4. Second, identify the job to be done and the solution, your specific solution to that, which is in lesson 2.5. Third, declare the mind space that you're occupying. Go out there and start declaring that this is the thing that I want to be known for. And this is the solution that I want to be known for. This becomes your guiding light to all the communications that you have moving forward to your customers. Because when you do that, that's when you can train them to introduce your shop and your concept to many other of their friends using that same tactic. The difference between a mind space and a value proposition is completely different. Value proposition. For example, ours in the lesson previously to this, I talked about creating memorable moments. When your customers refer your ice cream shop, they would not be like, hey, you know what? Do you want to create memorable moments? No. They are not going to introduce your restaurant and your concept to their friends like that. Rather, they'll be like, hey, you know what? There's this cool trendy ice cream shop. You want to go check it out? They have really cool desserts. That's the difference between a mind space and a value proposition. And you need both to be successful. One is what you portray out to your customers as, hey, you know what? Come and expect this. The other is something that allows them to actually share with all the friends and family. And that's what mind space we want to be able to occupy. In the lesson below, there are links where you can download it and work on the worksheet together with me. So make sure you download it and go out there and start creating your mind space statement. In this lesson, we talked about how do you carve out your own mind space to dominate the competition. In the next lesson, what we're going to be talking about is how do you validate that the mind space you're creating is going to be able to outbeat your competitors. So make sure that you guys go to the next lesson and pay attention. Do not go into the next lesson before you craft out your own mind space because you need that in order for you to move into the next lesson. I'll see you guys in the next lesson.


All around the world, large changes to both Earth's climate and the stability of its crust and tectonic plates has been observed for years with building alarm. After a series of devastating earthquakes hit Mexico, killing hundreds of people, and volcanoes all across the plate boundaries rumbled back to life, many experts and scientists are becoming increasingly worried that the Ring of Fire has awakened. The first and most important place to start is by understanding what the Ring of Fire is and how all of this is connected to our current time. The Ring of Fire represents a series of large tectonic plate boundaries in the Pacific Basin, covering more than 25,000 miles, which includes 75% of all the active volcanoes on Earth. Roughly 90% of all earthquake activity on the planet occurs along this dynamic boundary, showing the extreme instability and dangers associated for communities living near them. The Ring of Fire is created from numerous plate boundaries interacting against one another, either from being subducted or uplifted. This collision is the trigger for what causes both earthquakes and volcanoes. Millions of people live in close proximity to these faults and often forget how active they can become. More short lifetimes as humans pales in comparison to that of the geologic record of time, which shows devastating events that occurred 12,000 years ago, leading to the rapid end of the Ice Age and the disappearance of ancient civilizations long ago we now only consider just a myth. During that time period, evidence suggests that the tectonic plates of the planet became disrupted by a possible pole shift of the magnetic field of the Earth, which led to enormous tsunamis and volcanic eruptions that changed the entire climate of the planet for thousands of years. This time period, known as the Younger Dryas, featured rapid warming within the planet and disruptions to the oceans and plates from some unknown gravitational force not yet acknowledged by mainstream scientists that seems to be periodically affecting the Earth every few thousand years. After years of record global temperatures across the planet, with melting glaciers and ice caps, this rapid warming cycle of the Earth and the building pressure within is once again leading to great instability of the crustal plates, climates and oceans and is raising alarm bells with many scientists. Over the last several months, thousands of medium sized earthquakes known as swarms ranging up to 8.1 on the Richter scale have been affecting the entire ring of fire plate boundary with increasing intensity. Most of this activity has been largely ignored by the media out of fears of panic to society. These earthquake swarms along the fault lines have been accompanied by increased volcanism with more than a dozen active volcanoes along the ring of fire boundary and others threatening large eruptions such as the 10,000 foot Mount Agung in Indonesia where thousands of people have been evacuated with the highest threat level issued. So the big question is, what is this all leading to? Most should all remember the destructive events of 2011 when large earthquakes set off a series of deadly tsunamis which wiped out entire coastal areas across the Indian and western Pacific basins. Before that event occurred, very similar signals began appearing with several months of intense earthquake swarms and volcanoes across the entire plate boundary. This cycle seems to repeat itself over and over and there are strong indications looking at all the evidence around the planet that the events that are occurring now may be leading to something much larger. This information is not meant as fear mongering but to inform society of the truth of what is occurring around our world and to warn of much more serious events that may come. We must as a global collective stand together during these challenging times and stay informed of what is happening around the planet and not allow fear and greed to rule our world. Just as we are changing, the earth is in a constant state of change and we must either adapt and get smarter about our actions or disappear just like the past civilizations before us.


So in this first video here, we're going to take a look at some electric field examples for point charges. And this video is going to explain how they're made and talk about single point charges. So I wrote a program here that does the calculation and you can place any number of point charge, set their positions and the amount of charge, and set whether those charges are positive or negative. And then the program calculates the electric field at all points in this region, which is what we call a vector field, meaning we've calculated both how strong is the field and which direction the field points. So for our cases here, we're first going to look at just a single positive charge, something that's in a region all by itself, where I place the positive charge in the center of the region. And then we're going to look at a single negative charge, where the negative charge is set in the center. So the program then outputs a graphic here showing this electric field. Color is showing you how strong or weak the field is, where red is always going to be where the strongest electric field is and purple is where you have the weakest field. And for this case of the positive charge, we see the strongest field is surrounding, immediately surrounding that point charge. And the purple out of the edges is where the field is the weakest. Now direction is sewn by the arrows. So for a single positive charge, it's a nice sort of uniform field and it might be a little hard to see on the video depending on your screen size, but the arrows are all pointing away from that positive point charge. In comparison for a negative charge, we see that it's still the red strongest color right near the negative charge and the purple out further away where it's weaker. But now the direction arrows actually point in towards the negative point charge. And so wherever you have a negative charge, the arrows are going to point towards it versus when we had a positive, the charges pointed, the arrows pointed away from the charge. Now these videos were created as part of our upper level ENM course for our physics majors and we're going to be showing you not just single point charges in isolation but combinations of point charges and how the electric field varies for each one of those cases.


It's one thing to talk about how everyone else failed, but Corey, what about how you failed? I used to think that I was the toughest, no matter what. I was the best, no matter what, that nothing can stop me. Part of that came, this little competitive nature came from having all these brothers. I was the youngest of all the boys in the family. I think there was one boy cousin that was younger than me, but all the other boys in the family, brothers and cousins, they were all older than me. So in order to hang around them, I had to do what they did and there could be no excuses. And I made it in my mind that I'll do what they could do and I'll beat them at what they can do. Sometimes I had successes, sometimes I didn't. That was part of the problem. Now, it helped me, but it also hurt me. Why? Because when you feel like you're invincible and then you get some successes, then guess what? Who do you give the credit to? Especially if you're not a Christian, you give the credit to yourself. Now, let's be clear. That word that I'm describing, that thing that I'm describing, that's called pride. That's called arrogance. I would boast in myself. I would think about how I could accomplish something, that there could be nothing stopping me. To some degree, there's something positive about that in that you want to have confidence and you don't want to be a, you don't want to have a self-defeating attitude, but there can be a thin line between confidence and sin. And here's the difference. Confidence becomes sin when the trust that you have is in yourself and not in God. It's okay to believe that you can do it if God is working in you, but that's not what I believed. I believed that it was all me. Now, obviously I thought that before I became a Christian, but that carried over. Once I became a Christian, I still believed that I was, when it came to sports, the fastest, the best, I could jump higher. Even if I wasn't the strongest, you couldn't stop me no matter what I had more heart than you. That was kind of my thought. That was my mentality, whether it came to athletics, whether it came to something in the classroom, whether it came to something just in general, I was going to win. But Paul makes a statement. He says, don't think too highly of yourself. Don't think more highly of yourself than you ought to. He also says that if any man thinks he stands, take heed, lest you fall. As a matter of fact, not even really lest you fall, you will fall. And the reason why I fell is because, well, I was just proud. I thought that I was strong enough to handle whatever. And the Bible says, Paul says that when I'm weak, that's when I'm strong. Why? Because when you weak, you lean on God. But what if you don't think that you're weak?  And so if you think you're strong, why in the world would you ever lean on God? Paul says that if we're going to boast, we should boast in the Lord, but not me. I was boasting in myself. And the truth is, guys, I didn't start off thinking that way. Even as a Christian, I didn't think that I was boasting in myself. As a matter of fact, I didn't think that I was really trusting in myself. Looking back on it, it's clear as day, but at the time in the middle of it, I couldn't see it. When the Bible says that pride comes for the fall, without question. The problem is, though, you don't realize how proud you are, even if people say it to you. You think that it's them. They're just either kind of weak or emotionally soft, not very strong themselves. But maybe they see something that you see because truth be told, none of us, none of us can see what others see. And a person that's arrogant, boastful, strong, they don't see the weakness that other people see because, again, they think they're strong, such as it was with me. I had amassed some successes in life and felt like that, you know what? I accomplished this. I accomplished that. Even when I messed up, I could overcome these mess ups and turn those mess ups into successes and who got the credit? God, God, even when I was a Christian, I would, you know, kind of in passing, which is easy. It's easy to in passing say, God bless me, but God bless me because of who I am. I gave God something to bless. And that is a dangerous attitude because you don't realize how close you are to being destroyed. In Opah 1, the prophet is speaking about the arrogance of people, the arrogance of their heart. And they'll even say in their heart that who will bring me down. You don't think that that's what you're saying. But the truth is that really is, in essence, what you're saying. When people pat you on the back. When I say people pat you on the back, I mean men and women. Obviously someone of the opposite sex, when they pat you on the back or they say nice things or flattering things, well, that goes to your head. You might even say to yourself, I'm glad you see what's obvious, right? That's the arrogance side of you. Because, listen, it makes you feel good when someone of the opposite sex does take a notice, even if you have no intent on doing anything or being with that person, it just feels good when someone notices. But can I be honest with you? Even more so when someone of the same sex. Because ever since we were little, who have we competed with? Who have we measured ourselves against? Someone of the same sex. So men would measure themselves against other men, women with other women. The truth be told and someone might disagree, but it's a fact. You can take it to the bank. I don't care if you disagree. If you do so, it's because you are just not willing to accept the truth. The opinions of men matter more to a man than the opinions of a woman. Same thing with a woman. We compare ourselves with others and what they think does matter. And the person says, I don't care what you think. That's the person who doesn't want you to know that he does care what people think because that's just the way human beings are wired. If the attention that we seek is negative and we do seek it, we all are insecure. Let's just be honest. Every single person on the planet is insecure to some degree. It's the truly insecure people who will say that they're not. But we all are. We are emotionally fragile. And when you start having some successes, it builds up that it builds up a wall, a hard shell around your emotionally soft side. And so when things were going well, what did I think? I'm not going to let anything fail. As a matter of fact, my pride would not allow it to fail. Matter of fact, even more so, my pride wouldn't allow people to know that things weren't going as well. So my thought was, since I can fix anything I've done in the past, I can fix this, even if it meant to resort to illegal means. Why? Because I'll eventually fix it. I'll fix it. And then guess what? Covered up, no harm, no foul. And guess who still looks like the hero? Me. Because guess what? I don't mess up. But again, pride comes before the fall. Even if you don't think it's pride, God knows what it is. First of all, God is not going to get any glory out of your sin. He will get glory out of breaking you because of your sin. And that's what he did. Now, the good news for me is it's better to be who you are after being broken by God versus on your way to being broken or in the process of being broken. After you've been broken, and you can kind of look back and see how things were, where you failed that, and know the mistakes that you made, and decide that you're not going to do those again, it's much better to be in that position. So I'm thankful that I'm on the other side. Do I boast? I boast all the time in the Lord. I boast about His work. There's nothing good or great about me. And I make that known. I am $5 worth of dirt on a good day. And guess what? That's YouTube. But for me, I recognize there's nothing good in me. There's nothing of value in me. As a matter of fact, give me the opportunity to do the right thing. Lead up to my own devices to do the right thing. I'll do the wrong thing. Why? Because that's just how flawed and fallen I am. And I wish I could have had that idea before, but I put too much stock in me.  Not wanting to share with people my weaknesses, not wanting to let folks know, not necessarily the particular weaknesses, but just that I am weak, that I'm frail, like everyone else, putting on this tough outward appearance. That's what will get you in trouble. Now, there are people who fall in ministries, specifically, who should never have been in ministry. Any of the other positions as well. But specifically, ministry, who never should have been there in the first place. If you're in a position that you should not be in, that God knows you should not be in, well then a fall is soon to come. Now, hopefully the fall won't be as great or as graphic, but depending upon how proud, how both of the individual is, then he's gonna have a great fall. God has no problem. And I mean no problem making an example of you, whether you are called or supposed to be in ministry or not. And that brings me to me. I believe without question that I should be in ministry, that I wanted to devote the rest of my life in serving the Lord. But I can't do it under my own terms. And so what will God do to get you to see? He will break you. Ask David, did God wanna use David even after his fall? Sure, but he wanted David to have something that he didn't have before. A broken and contrite heart. Because guess what David didn't do? David did not suffer great defeats. David grew up kind of humbly, but he would always have successes. As a matter of fact, he would tout his successes. How he touted his successes previously was how the Lord would use him to deliver the sheep out of the hands of a lion or the paw of a bear. But after these successes, what ends up happening is especially when people sing praises to you because you've defeated Goliath and so forth and won wars like the people of Israel were doing, singing great songs, it goes to your head. And so what happens, you fall. But like David said, a broken and contrite heart, that's the sacrifices that God is looking for. A broken and contrite heart. He wants a clean vessel to work with. And oftentimes it takes a breaking and a putting back together by God to do so. And so guys, if you don't ever hear me say anything else that's of value, hear this. Do not let pride go to your head. But Cory, I'm not a proud person.  I'm sorry to say you are on your way to a fall. Why? Because you're being proud. And that is an abomination to God.  I cannot. And so for me to say, to think, to act like, to pretend like that I'm in control, no, I'm not. I'm not. I'm barely hanging on. If it were not for the Lord, who knows where I'd be. And so even though it's a thin line, it's a steep fall from confidence to pride. Confidence though, and that in and of itself can also be a sin, as long as the confidence is in God. Don't trust or lean to your own understandings, but acknowledge him and all your ways. And he will direct your path.   And so how did I fall? Why did I fall? Pride. How would you fall? If you're going to fall, pride. Why? Because pride is the root of sin. Me, me, me. Don't fall victim to pride. Amen.