Welcome back to Watchin' Baseball. It is the 1999, only a couple more months before Y2K. Everyone's bulkin' up because the clocks are gonna attack the world. Life as we know it will end, but first, I think he's go for a championship. My name's John Boy, this is Jake. We're Watchin' Baseball. How about that? These, as always, are brought to you by TheShop at JohnBoyMedia.com. Jake, show him another one. Oh, another one. Wow, okay. Found it. You can always go there and get that. Yankee's swept in 1998, 1999. They look to do the same, Jake. They're playing the team of the 90s, the Braves. This is a cool world series, because I know we've been poking at our Braves fans a little bit. I think we're poking at Macarver when we do that. Yeah, yeah, and Braves fans, because they'll want to think that, or they did think that during the 90s anyways, to make Tim Macarver also say that, but we've got two awesome teams here, the Braves, Glavin, Maddox, Smoltz, Chipper Jones, John Scherholz, also in the Hall of Fame for them, against the 90s Yankees. And I know we've been poking fun, but if the Braves win this world series, it would be two-two in the 90s, and there would be all these debates, who's the better team, the Braves or the Yankees, blah, blah, blah. Is this one of the more talent-filled world series matchups? I am, oh, yes. And I think more so, it's kind of one of those weird things that there's so much that doesn't matter, that does matter. Like you said, Y2K and stuff, but this is the end of the decade. Like we're wrapping up the 90s, we're wrapping up the 1900s, we're wrapping up the 1,000 to 2,000. What do you call that again? The decade-decade decadence? Decadence, yeah. So yeah, there's some fun stuff going on, and I know this is something you don't care about. Unless you do. Okay. This is the first time that world series teams had played each other in the regular season, and then play each other in the world series, because in early league play it was introduced two years ago, but those teams had not played each other. What are you looking at? Let me see that side of your headphones. In the reflection it looks like, yeah, you got a big gap over here, and no gap here. Very interesting. This is like a crooked head. It's tough. That is cool. It's the first time they played each other. I wonder if like the Scouting Report's such small sample size, probably means nothing, but it's very cool. Yeah, it was definitely something first sports reporters to talk about. It'd be like they played during the season, somebody won those games for sure. All right, and we're going to game three. Three. Yankees are down similar situation to 1998. Up in the series 2-0. Won the series. Having thrown 72 pitches through 7. Glavin will start the eighth. Good hearing Uncle Bob in my ear. Well, Bobby Cox was optimistic, and Sandy wanted him to go 7. You're not good, Joe. Glavin said he felt so good he could go 8. Only one headphone for me. Looks like they've got an Olympics here. Yeah, for me too, I think. Just this side. But I'll guarantee the first sign of trouble, Bobby. That's the Bob. Remember we saw Bobby Cox coming years ago, and I was like, that's not the guy. The tough part about this is the hero in this game. He's a man. He's had two good abats against him. I used to like watching him play, too. And lined it deep right.  Big fan of Jordan. Jordan already is great. What's up, Phillies? Like that? Just go the other way.  No, your role. Gerardi knew solo home run doesn't tie the game up. So he didn't go for it. Got another fun fact from the series. Full of him. That's a good replay. That's a modern day replay. Yeah, that was nice. Look at this. Well, OK, so this isn't Fox. Are they still rotating? This is NBC. So NBC, I wonder if they stepped up their game. Because the last time they didn't even have the score bug on the screen. I think they were getting ready for the Olympics. Look at Soho. Soho's such a bench warrior.  But yeah, I just did a whole jump. Pathetic. Speaking of bad guys. Is it John Rocker versus Chad Curtis? Big. Jesus, a display of bad guys. Chuck Knoblock. Braves only hit one home run this series. Game one. Chipper Phillips. The Chipper kind of crazy. Scared of Chep. My favorite Chep Knoblock still is. The Yimps had gotten so bad. Which I think we mock it. But I think that's a terrible amount of trouble. Well, I think back then society didn't mock any of the lines and stuff. It's unbelievable. And he, at one game, I think, versus the White Sox, walked off the field doing a pitching change. And walked out through the dugout, put on his street clothes, and walked out of Yankee Stadium while the game was still happening. And so now I quit baseball because he couldn't figure out what he wanted to win this time. Just so depressed this year. Jim Larrick's back in this game, or at least. He's back now, right? So, I mean, that's so weird. In the air to right. Knoblock. Look at this, the watches. To the track. To the wall. That's tough camera work at the time. Got porch. The replay is falling. Big time porch, yeah. Huge for the Wiz. I mean, the Wiz thought this might keep them in business. Yeah. And it didn't. That short porch. I want to see the Yankees pricing of the ads. Because the short porch has to be more in center field. Look at that DVD right here. Get digital. Get digital. Oh, that was bad. Maybe, but he had such a bad angle to get to it. Just to pop up to right. That the ball bounces off and goes into the seats. Let's take a look here. I think it hit the top of the wall. Yeah, I'm not sure. I think it hit his glove. Well, he was looking at it. And he thought it got to some of the ball on it. Because it hit his glove. Yeah. That ball hits off his glove. Well, it was both. Yeah, he hit his glove. And then hit the top of the wall. Just wishing it's in there. Such an awkward position for Jordan to make the chance on. Imagine if he made that catch. And it hits off of his glove. Yeah. There's still down 2-0 in the series.  But I mean. Momentum. Glavin's gone. Knoblok's celebrated.  There's something. Yeah. That's the top part. But there's, you know, analytics people. Oh. Come at me. But there's something to momentum in sports. And there's something to. Look at that back there. The ball has been carrying very, very well. The right field. Now watch Jordan leap.  Watch this. It hits off the left side of his glove. They're acting like we haven't seen it. Yeah, a lot of times. I mean, this is the first time they've had good replay. So they're like, let's just hand this. All right, let's go. We're showing us some from the first inning. All right, Jordan. This was him in the first inning. And that kept him from closing his glove. This is him in the first inning. What was that, dude? Who was that? I'm hoping some got skipped there. Yeah. John Rocker, 17 days and 11 minutes. John Rocker, 17 days and 11 minutes. To allow Glavin to come out for the air. It's rocking. John Rocker, like, applied. John Rocker looked up to the next two boys. The Reds bullpen. But the Reds are like, no. We're good. We're good. This is a pretty big. And again, it shows how we grew up a little bit. Well, and John Rocker, all time bad guy. So Rocker comes into a tie game. But then Rocker versus Jeter.  Dude versus Jeter? I think he gets Jeter. That's a nice pick. Tied it up at 5. Braves are up 5-1 in this game. You think that's face jeter just gave? Just gave him a little cute face. Where's the feds? They're having a pretty good series.  And the eighth inning. And now you're in a situation. You know you're going to be looking at Rivera. He fists one in the shallow center and it drops for a hit. Fists one in the shallow center. All the round it looks. That's a little bit of a set. Well, it's baseball. Sorry, guys. I didn't mean to come out. We just had a sip of coffee. Oh, man. It's okay. Well, that was cool that we got to see Jeter do that. But we're going to skip ahead. We're going to skip to the 10th inning. We've just got a fun shot of someone on the Yankees bench. I want to look at. Thinking about it. Zimmer smiling. Zimmer and Spencer. It's a pretty good day. Relaxed and confident Yankee bench. They never panic. They just seem to know exactly what they want to do and how to do it. Just in bottom nine. There it is. That's a good run homer. That even did it five. Yeah, this is a good shot of him. I want to skip to just the 10th. So we see. Hit the ball out of this ballpark. As best that you get it in the middle. Tom Blavin did that. So it's five, five in the 10th. Let's watch a little Mariano. Andrew Jones, who's one for four. His second inning of work.  Two home runs allowed this season. And I think Mariano Rivera was hit by Andrew Jones in this ballpark in July. They've changed my perspective on it. Jackie Robinson. Strike one. Here it is on July 16th. That's the last time Rivera blew a save. High fastball up around his neck. So that's a fun story line from when they played in the season. The last time, we would have been talking about that. I still think that's kind of big. It was July 16th. No. Patience. Let's get this over with. Can't think about it. That's the home run. He hit off of Rivera. He gets this ball away. You see, hits it hard though. Good swing there by Jones. He hits it to the second base. And throws him out in first base. Nice grab. The DHS spot. He comes up now. So I believe every batter that's faced. Mariano was a pinch hitter in this area. I see Ayan. How about that? One for eight. It's an RBI. It's good. I mean, that's the pitch. That's all it was. I think when we watched the 96th World Series and they brought in a lefty to face one of those things. They did really good. He's a set up guy. He's going to be okay with the right. You can't even see the rotation. You're not going to be okay. I mean those back swings. Awesome. That was a shame. I don't know who was supposed to hit. I'm telling you, I think all three batters hit on the forehead. He was taken to the first aid room here at Yankee Stadium. He was able to walk and talk. He never lost consciousness. No bleeding, but a large welt on his forehead. So they took him to the hospital to be examined as a precautionary measure.  What did we miss? One and two. What did we miss? And then we're going to get two more pinch hitters. So they emptied the bench. Yep. He's going to take the rocker out for a couple of reasons. One, he's thrown two innings and if the brazen score runs or win this ball game he's going to take the top head games. He's standing so far away from the play. Because I feel like he's trying to make an adjustment. I don't think he can go far away. He didn't cover the outside. I think that's what he's trying to do. Another good pitch there by Rivera. A jump skip and a hop. One high on. Oh, I love that. Ozzy. Firecracker Ozzy. Good energy on him.  I want to see the back flip and then slap. Slap. What was he throwing? Scutter. What was he doing inside? Watching Mariano pitch. It's such a weird thing.  But I don't know. You can't follow the count. There's no point in knowing what sequence of pitches he's playing. Especially at this point. Later on. He started throwing two seamers. A little bit. At this point, he's throwing one pitch. What's that? That's a good fake attempt. He didn't have his eye on the ball at all. If you show the side angle. He might have been close, but he wasn't looking at it. Let's see. It's a good jump to let the standing go. You don't want the drunk guy in the upper deck saying why didn't he jump for that? And you get a big aww. Nice pitch.  Yeah, his stick. I think if you tightened up the hair. Like you had Mary Alice there and it was just baseball hat and ears. I think you'd look pretty similar. No. I used to go down to like two. I'm pretty pinned in. There's not a lot of gap. I keep you for the whole thing. Yeah, all the lefties are hoping. I know that. That's a good choice. Oh, he doesn't do so. Well, he finally left one over the plate. Yeah, but he can't even cover that. I think that was the whole design. They're standing so far away. He's like literally in the middle of the plate. Watch where it is. But it's far there. And Myers misses it probably because he had two strikes and he's protecting a little bit. So that's like what that's why they're standing far away from that right there. All right. Atlanta has out hit the Yankees. Not the most intimidating bunch. No. Probably got that year wrong. So So Oh It doesn't matter. I just said I'm good. Should have just left it. No doubt. No doubt. No doubt.  Craig. Good job, kid. Yeah, a lot of guys got into the game just to have a bad memory. Here he comes. Future. You remember the other at first base? You made an error right away. Yeah, this is the first play. That's what Bob was just saying. They got a bad glove. And What do you think he's going to have in there? I thought first pitch homer. Maybe a second pitch. Ramling. Good baseball. I wouldn't want But I'd want a teammate to have I'm playing football.  Pitcher left field. You're not playing basketball. Remlinger. I like Remlinger. Remlinger's better. Remlinger. I was just trying to help him out. A bit sweat at. Kind of weird in the out. Looks like you're paying with a sweat on your mind. It's deep. 3-0 Yankees in the series. Do you like that call about? I'm surprised more people haven't clicked that and used that in the silly way. It's deep. It's very deep. It's 3-0 Yankees in the world series. I like that it's deep. I don't like falling in with it. I think you've got an audible from something. Dude, why is Tori and O'Neill always professionals? He almost stops Mel. And he's like, I was like, no, no, no. I get. And then they're face-hugged by Joe. Joe's worried about palm. Because Chad Curtis. This one. They pick him up? Oh, no.  Tori with another face-hug. So is he hunting off to be here? Is he his ally? I don't know. Come on. Don't celebrate him as a bad guy. He's in jail. I think it's a pretty good deal of oil rules right there. Yankees have won 11 consecutive World Series games. Because you lost to at home. You're in the stadium. You're up 5-1 with Glavin thrown the pill. And then to have it end on this.  Make sure he doesn't beat us. I can't do it. There goes our season. Because of what happened with Pete, we're not going to talk out here on the field. I do want to say that was for you, though, grandma. Thanks. What? Thank you very much, Bob. Chad, tell us about that pitch. I can't do it. As a team, we kind of decided that because of what happened with Pete, we're not going to talk out here on the field. I do want to say that was for you, though, what happened with Pete? Back upstairs to you. All right, Jim, Chad Curtis is the Chevrolet player of the game. His homers started the comeback from 5-1, made it 5-2. What? And then in the bottom of the 10, the first and only man faced by Remlanger, he drives one over the fence and left to win it 6-5. What was that? What was that? They had to be 5-1. That's so weird. Do you have it? Oh. Okay. I'll pause this. So there was a Pete Rose interview after game 2. Yeah. It was with Jim Gray and it was at the article I'm reading, contentious two-and-a-half minute interview with Pete Rose. And, yeah, they, so their shot fired back was damn. Hold on. So what was the interview? We kind of decided because of what happened with Pete, we're not going to talk out here on the field. That's so weird. I'm googling you. I'm trying to find it. Curtis said it wasn't personal with Jim Gray. It's just something the team decided. And then, yeah, I guess Pete Rose, I guess Jim Gray didn't apologize after it because he was like standing behind it and then after this, he was like, okay, I'm sorry baseball fans. Oh, so after this, he apologized? Yeah. After viewing the video, I can understand the reaction of many baseball fans. Gray told NBC audience before. I thought it was important to ask Pete Rose if this was the... This is about the Yankees. That is so weird.  Because he was super religious and would put his religion on people and then it turns out he was a pedophile at the end so maybe Jeter had some good instincts and all that stuff. I don't think this is related to it. I want to see, is this the combative interview? All right, thank you very much, Hannah. Pete, congratulations. It was my innovation. All-century team. Let me ask you now. It seems as though there is an opening. The American public is very forgiving. Are you willing to show contrition? Admit that you've been on baseball and make some sort of an apology to that effect? Not at all, Jim. Not at all. I'm not going to admit something that happened. I know you get tired of hearing me say that but I appreciate the innovation. I appreciate the American fans voting me and I'm just a small part of a big deal with the overwhelming evidence that is in that report. Why not make that step? I'm going to go fast at night to worry about that. Because I don't know what I'm actually talking about. I'm going to show it to you. We don't want to make that, Pete. Well, why not? Why don't we write what he says? Why don't you sign a paper acknowledging the ban? Why didn't you sign it if you didn't agree? Do you have it at all? Yeah. If you hear another prepaid a press conference you might find my statement was I came here from my little girl a year old so I could apply for real estate at my press conference. So you forgot to add that clause that was in there. You have applied for real estate in 1997. Have you heard back from Commissioner Sealick? No, and that kind of surprised me. It's only been two years though. He's got a lot of things on his mind but I don't do something. Pete, it's been 10 years that you've been allowed on the field. Honestly, the approach that you have taken has not worked. Why not at this point take a different approach? Well, you say it hasn't worked. What do you exactly mean? You're not allowed on baseball. Yeah, I'm against Jim Gray and Pete Rose did bet on baseball and there is evidence but like... There's no place for this. This is not the time nor place. It's an all century team.   Like, let's do it. This is Jim Gray trying to create the story. This is like the term sandbag reporter. Gotcha. That's got your journalism. We joke about it. Good for the Yankees if they actually decided we're not going to talk to you because of that.  The universe... They vote him to the all century team and that's what you do with your two minute interview. We'll get off on that situation, Jim Gray. Streamers are already down. This is the last out. Barrel it up, Keith Lockhart. I'm glad Amstel weren't red anymore. Mix it in.  Fly Balls. Fly Balls are the best last out. Showing the ball. Same of the decade. Changed his tone. Play Ritz. So, Mariano kept his legs about him this time. The story is just being held up. There's Donna. We just made stadium meetings. I mean, this is their third in four years. Do you think you can tell by the celebration or for a lot of these guys does it look like first time again? It's a loaded question.  People get hurt in those dog piles. I think that's part of it. But exactly, that's part of being a team that's done it before. Someone do the stats on dog pile in ratio to times one. Crunch those numbers for me. Do we get any post game here? Is Jim Gray going to get up? Who is that? I think it's Lairitz. Get that camera out of here. We don't want you here. I think someone's in there having like a crazy emotion. Is it Mo? O'Neill. All it was really getting after it. And the New York Yankees. This team may be better than the team last year. Statistically, it's not going to let me down. That's emotional. And I'm with Jim Lairitz. Get that camera out of here. Those Rockets kids. That's cool. Cash. I like the idea of Cash just clapping and welcoming him like he's not on the team. Oh Harabu. Aduke. Dono, Young Dono. I think that's all. The amount of like kind of backstories that we know, I'm sure there's tons for everything, but a lot going on there. A lot of guys. A lot of stuff happens when you have 25 guys. Yeah, a lot going on off the field. That's cool. Mariano Pitching is still just insane to me. There's one pitch that can't get him out. What do you like about our series, TVH? Yeah, you would have liked the Braves to take it seven. If any matchup should have went seven. Come on Braves, do it. Braves, Chad Curtis. Chad Curtis. Bad guy. And we buried the lead with Jim Gray.  Thanks for watching. See you later.


customization. Who doesn't like to change the way their software looks? Blender is well known for it because you can not only change the layouts in crazy shapes but you can also change the colors and people have done that for many years now. You can change basically everything in Blender, all the property, everything has a property of color and now in 2.8 even more options that you can change. So for example in 2.7 I made over the years I worked in this one called Flat T Light which is a light very flat and a bit bright to work during the day and I quite liked it actually. Then I made a dark version of it that it was a bit tinted, it was a bit more contrasty but I kind of liked it over time. This actually got picked up for being part of the Blender 2.8 default then we removed the coloring. If you follow these videos you probably are familiar with it. So over time we ended up with this, the default Blender theme. It's a dark theme with a blue accent and that's pretty much it. The thing is that all the previous themes from previous version they're still there. They're still available but there are widgets for example that are not defined in these old themes because they're old because the Blender has new things like a toolbar, active tool is new or here the top bar is new. So everything pretty much has to be fixed to the new layout. So why not taking the opportunity to just make new ones? Ask the community you to contribute and post their best themes, the coolest themes they can make. So how do you do this? Well I made a thread here in the developer, the forums devtalk.blender.org is called for content themes where you can read the instructions, how to do it but basically it's pretty straightforward how you make it. It hasn't changed that much from 2.7, there are a few new settings. So in the user preferences I would recommend you in order to make a new theme is to reset to default because there are new properties that we already set up. They didn't exist for example the roundness of the widgets or they are not defined in the old themes because this option didn't exist in 2.7. Now it does, now you can change how round a widget is going to be. For example there is a new editor outline which is a line between the editors that makes it a bit more clear to read which editor you're in and that wasn't in 2.7 for example so you also have to change that. The icons, they are now monochrome icons, they have one color which is response to the text in the regular for time being in the regular kind of button. So this is how you can change it. You may want to change that as well and the icons now have a context color. So if there is an object we color it in orange you will probably see that in the add menu for example or in the outliner. So if you want to change that you can make it also monochrome or you can just give it another tint and it will reflect here. I wouldn't suggest changing it that much because for people actually following tutorials it's probably good to get familiar with at least one tint. Yeah of course you can do whatever you want is your theme but maybe it's good that some sort of convention maybe make it less saturated more saturated but it's like changing the color of XYZ right like you can you can make X pink if you want it looks amazing but just to give it a bit more consistency. Gizmos also have their own colors for example when you have a lamp sorry a camera or a lamp type spot you have this Gizmo for example there this you can change the colors out as well here that's a new thing. Overridden for states on the you know when you press I and it becomes keyframed well there's a new state also for overridden which you should take into account so there are so many little things here and there that were added that I will recommend you to start with the default and then start changing the settings per widget it's like a million settings that you have to change so I will recommend once you're done there are even new editors now once you're done like picking up the color the accent color that you want for example you should save this this theme by just clicking on plus and then use like my awesome theme. Climation mark it's gonna get renamed to a more sane name you save it and it should now show up on your config folder so where you save your your 2.8 settings so scripts then inside scripts preset where your startup the blend file is interface theme and then there will be an XML file right here where you can just basically drag and drop in a comment in DevTalk and it should show up there so it's pretty straightforward once you have it I would recommend instead of just going here and change it change the same color everywhere try to make your life easier by editing with a with a text editor find the color that you want and then just do like a search and replace I would do that that's that something I like to to do because then that way it's easier once you change it in your text file you can just apply it again it's like my awesome theme and it's gonna be applied here so you can test change use a text editor to change it and then come back and reflect it I think that that's easier the theme editor in blender could have so many so much improvements could be just one total but it's work that it hasn't been done yet there is a few new editors that you have to take into account as well there is the top bar and the status bar so the status bar is this thing here at the bottom is very simple it has a header color which you can just change and a header text color which is the text so very simple and other editors are not so simple like the top bar for example this is just the heads up that if you want to change the top here this is the header color so the background is the header for example then the tabs themselves they're somewhere else they're tab widgets now so if you change the tab here you won't find it this because it's a working progress at the moment how the tabs get their name before they were per editor but we're thinking of moving it into a widget the same way the color pickers and everything else works but for a time being you just don't spend too much time trying to change this the tab active and inactive background are the currently are the ones that you can see for example in the other editors for example the 3d view if you change the tab color here it it does change here so for this kind of tabs yeah it works but for the tabs up here and in the new navigation sidebar you would find it in the user interface tab here tab item tab inner and inner selected so inner selected is basically the background of the active tab text selected it's the color and this is how you can change it the background itself of this navigation bar is actually per editor so for example in the properties you should go here and you change the background navigation bar background and then that way you can theme it so yeah the theming of blender could use so much work but we are close to the beta very close we have one week and it would be nice to shift with some cool themes so bear with us until this system gets fixed and go through the thrid just to make it make it a bit more pretty it's a lot of work it can take hours to to make a nice theme but I would suggest you to open complex files with it go to the graph editor the dope sheet the text editor house look just just go through all of them and change it accordingly but remember to use a text editor just so you can more easily search and replace once you're happy with it I would also recommend using for example a checking for contrast in your text there is this very nice website web you aim where you can basically give colors give it the colors to the text and the background and they will give you a rating for the accessibility so if it's actually visible for people that yeah maybe have some visual impairment or in general actually it's really good that the contrast is good enough for everyone and do not get tired and yes so I hope you are as excited as I am I am I am very excited because the themes are really what make blender different for everyone so please contribute whatever you have in mind you can also if you feel nostalgic that you can just grab the 2.7 theme and just fix it for 2.8 if you want if you don't like change some things will have to change for example the the roundness is new and other other items the color the icons but there are ways to make it work so thank you for watching and I will see you very very very very soon


His bio is too long and too important to spend many minutes on, read it, I will only say this. He shares with many smart people the very good observation that, you know, your spare time is also important in order to get creative ideas. So he shared with us that he might, the only other place he would rather be today is on his boat. But we are a very good second and he actually chose us. And there's also a secret. He works with Tim Berners-Lee and part of the excitement the last few weeks, actually it was a little sad, has to do with a joint project that the two of them are doing on web science. He's not here to talk specifically about that but just to give you a tip, he is one of the guys behind this very exciting concept of web science.


Hey, what's up? Welcome back to the channel today. I have an awesome case study with a coach that we have been working with for a while now and This coach in particular was running a ton of one-on-one sessions In his training business every single week I'm gonna show you how we pivoted him from running a lot of one-on-one sessions to a scalable group model and How we trimmed his sessions by 70% so he's doing 70% less work And how he started to make more money per month than the old model All right, so stick with me here.  All right Now here was his situation. So I want to try to be really clear with this a lot of coaches that I deal with Are in pretty similar situations. So this coach had been up and running his own coaching business for years And these are kind of like his old stats. All right, so first He was running on average 30 to 35 sessions per week, which is a hundred and twenty to a hundred and forty sessions per month All right, it's a lot. That's over well over a thousand sessions per year All right 90% of his clients that he was working with at the time They were enrolled into his one-on-one training program and here was his prices So for one-on-one, he was charging $75 for one-on-one and he was charging $50 for group sessions And we did the math. So if he had a group of five there, he was making $250 per hour with group training So with how he said it had it set up one of the issues that we were facing was Most of the people that saw his pricing they just wanted the one-on-one because like for 25 more dollars They were just getting him All right, so that was one of the problems that we ended up fixing But that was how his pricing is set up pretty Normal for a lot of coaches that run one-on-one to charge 75 maybe a little bit more sometimes coaches charge less But for someone that had his experience pretty standard, all right On average, he was doing about eight k per month. Some months were better Some months were worse, but on average. That's how much he's doing. So If you look at all the numbers here for him to make a hundred k per year like with his model He had to run 30 to 35 sessions per week and he had to do that consistently throughout an entire year to hit that number. All right The good thing that he had was like he had big demand So he had more clients that wanted to work with him But he didn't have the space To take them on and the only way he could free up the space is if he started adding more time slots for one-on-one Because that's what people wanted. All right, so it was good that he had the demand But it was bad with how he had the business set up. All right Like I said, everyone wanted one one-on-one sessions And he was a one-man army doing everything The marketing the selling running all the sessions Talking to all the parents like he's doing everything and he was really really burned out And that's at the point, you know, he had married Kids no energy when he gets back from from sessions. No energy on the weekends constantly running sessions And he was super burned out and he wanted to make a change and that's kind of where we came in Was at that breaking point. All right So this was his dream outcome that he talked about Before we start working together. So first he wanted to make the same amount that he was making or more Money per month but drastically cut down on his session. So he was happy with how much revenue was coming in The problem was he was just too tired and burned out And he didn't feel like all of that time energy and effort of running those sessions was worth it at this point Because he'd been doing that for the last couple years Like he wanted to spend more time with his family He wanted to go on vacation two times or more per year hadn't been on vacation and forever He wanted to reverse How his business set up so at the time before we start working together He was doing about 90% one-on-one And 10% group and he wanted to flip that number whereas 90% group and 10% one-on-one That was what he wanted to do and that's how we were going to trim down on his sessions He wanted to raise his price for one-on-one and he wanted to better package it into a higher ticket offer At the end of the day if you ever Work with me That's one of the things that we end up doing is we show you piece by piece how to raise your one-on-one offer And how to better package it so only Really committed people buy it And it weeds out everyone else right so that's something he wanted All right, and he wanted a simple structure for group training and still offer premium service and group training That is something a lot of coaches don't know how to do they might have group training But it's not a premium service not a premium offer. It's just group training So we wanted to make his business set up to where like there were qualifications to get into group training There's a commitment to get into it. It's not just this thing that anybody can do it. All right Next is he wanted to run and this is really important He wanted to run max three sessions On three or four days per week and still generate 500 or more per day profit profit not revenue, right Uh, next is he wanted to completely take off in the weekends. That was a big problem that he had in the past was When he would get to friday, he would be tired and then guess what saturday rolls around he has sessions Sunday rolls around he has sessions like there was zero Kind of restrictions on how he had his business set up like people could come in and schedule sessions whenever they wanted and This guy ultimately didn't have a life with his family. He was just working and I know a lot of coaches that listen to What I just said like you may want to run a lot of sessions and that's great Like that is one way of making money in this business But like when you do that year in year out for years you get tired you get burned out Your energy level is just off the charts bad and you're not able to be Like at the end of the day, you don't you can't be the type of dad You want to be with your family or the type of husband you want to be with your wife When you have zero energy like it's just not fair to them All right The next is he wanted to stop manually scheduling sessions with clients So a lot of this was just back and forth text messages It was just constant Hey coach, when you can you train this week? Hey, I can do it at this time. Oh, we can't make it then Can you do it on this day? Sure. And then like there's rescheduling There's all this stuff happening in the background outside of just the sessions which is causing more time on the business And he wanted clients to be on a legit contract so he could expect Money month after month That was something he didn't have all right didn't have that set up And he also wanted to have one time per week clinics For clients who couldn't afford his new pricing. So these were the things that he wanted And this is what ended up happening. This was was the results So first we set a proper deadline Of when the upgrade of his business would change.  This is what's happening All right So the way he did that which is the way I recommend is he called every single client to person notify when the upgrade would happen And led them on the best package. That's what you know for them And we have a script on how to do that how to upgrade from one program to the next And notice like he didn't text everyone. He didn't just send everyone an email He called his customers. He either did that or he talked to them in person after his sessions Um, next was we we completely restructured his business with his offer With the price and how to funnel 90 of the people into his group program for $200 per month or 2k per year So we turned his group offer into a higher ticket offer Not just hey come pay for this Session when you want to come. All right, so it was a commitment that we started selling not just this one off thing Uh, next is we turned the one-on-one Into a high ticket offer now the way it's set up. It's $4,000 for a six month commitment Now most parents that come across that offer Would rather join his group offer because it's way more affordable. All right It's drastically more affordable to to join the group So the one-on-one is for really really committed people that want desperately that one off or that one-on-one attention And with this new model like if he has one month that he sells two paid in full Uh one-on-ones that's an extra 8k of upfront revenue that he's getting again He's not going to be getting that over the course of time He's getting all that up front and that's how it's set up for one-on-one now You can only you can only get it if you pay up front All right The cool and here's a couple of other cool things that have happened So now he has the capacity to bring on new clients into his group model Without working more sessions And the thing that he recently did is he set a limit on how many groups and clients he will take on So his model is he loves to have five players per group All right So the way that we set that up is he wants to run nine total groups per week Each group comes once per week. So that's nine total hours of training And the way that we figured this out is if all the spots are filled It's going to make 9k per month, which is more than what he was making But the best part is that 9k is consistent Income and that's just with group training that is not counting any one-on-one training So if he has zero one-on-one clients, he's still making 9k a month as long as we have 45 players enrolled into his program And again, that's working nine sessions per week three days total Instead of 30 to 35 sessions per week So we drastically cut down on his workloads working 70% less now he's making more money than he was And he's got the weekends off because now you can't work with them on the weekend It's only offered during the week after school. And like I said, he has training three days per week He's totally refreshed Recharged at his sessions Um, he got his energy back at his session. So he has a better product now And he has more time with his family, which is what he wanted with his dream outcome Now if you watch this video and you're like man, like I want to make these types of changes All right It's really really simple. I offer a one-on-one coaching program The same program that I offered him and it's four series coaches who want this type of outcome that we just broke down All right, and the cool thing is I deliver this and it only takes us Roughly 90 minutes to maybe two hours takes two calls Two calls to do everything that I just broke down In this video. So if you want to explore and see if this one-on-one option is a good fit Then text me asap at this number here 2 1 0 9 6 0 5 7 7 1 And my goal is to give you a similar outcome, but we customize your outcome based on what you want. All right Text me there I'd love to jump on a quick call with you see if we're a good fit and then just in two calls We can set this up for you. That's it. Have a great day. 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Imagine being able to engineer an artificial leaf that can harvest light to produce electricity or biofuel. To fully understand processes like this, we need to see what is going on at the super-small, super-fast scale of electrons. I will show you now how autoscience and science can help. All matter from molecules to subatomic particles is in constant motion. We know the state of a molecule before and after a reaction, but we don't know how and how fast the transition occurred. These transitions are dictated by fast electron movements, but we cannot see them. Microscopy has made enormous progress in the last century. We can now routinely image on the atomic scale. But the imaging challenge is not only being able to see small, in order to see motion, we need to see small and fast. At the speed of electrons, we can no longer talk in micro, nano, or picoseconds. We need a new unit now, the autosecond. So one autosecond is to one second, like one second is to the age of the universe. Being able to image at autosecond speed matters. Imaging at the nanosecond speed helped us to engineer modern computers. Imaging at the picosecond speed allowed us to develop new, ultra-strong materials. But increasingly, to make further progress, we need to see at the autosecond speed. The problem is that even our fastest cameras are too slow to directly observe atoms and electrons in motion. This is like trying to capture a photo of this maglev train. The problem is with a regular camera, we just see a blur. In my lab at Imperial College, we are taking a different approach. If we can't speed up the camera itself, what if we instead use a fast flash of light that illuminates our scene? And now rather than trying to film a continuous scene, we take individual snapshots from hundreds of reshoots. And afterwards, piece them back together to make a microscopic movie. We already know this can work. In 1872, Edward Mybridge used a combination of trip buyers and powder flashes to capture the motion of a galloping horse. Proving that all four legs to leave the ground. This freeze frame technique allowed us to visualize motion that was previously too fast to see. If we can prove that horses fly, with a few tweaks, we can also use this technique to observe ultra-fast changes in matter. Even chemical reactions in progress. The key is to produce a bright enough, fast enough light flash. And to do this, we need to use lasers. Lasers can bundle a large amount of power into a precisely controlled beam of light. In our lab, we had to engineer laser light to a degree never seen before. We compressed the entire visible spectrum of light and more into a short part lasting only 3 film per second. So in the very moment we fire our laser, it contains the power of 100 nuclear power plants. To see electrons, we have to use extremely short wavelength light. So we convert our powerful, visible laser pulses into X-rays. But above all, we have to be very fast. Through careful engineering, we can now produce X-ray pulses lasting less than 300 auto seconds. Auto-second laser pulses are the fastest man-made events in history. Our technology now means that we can start to explore some of the fastest events in nature. By combining static images captured using our ultra-fast camera, we can now use the freeze-frame technique of Mybridge to make movies of electrons. Using auto-second lasers, we've already discovered that electrons do not instantaneously escape from atoms. But instead they come out at different times, dependent on their initial state. This was a very surprising result, which forced refinement of theories dating back to Einstein. We're also starting to look at larger molecules, where electron dynamics are kicking off chemical reactions. We're also starting to observe electron dynamics in solid state matter. So who knows, perhaps more of our theories need to be refined in the future. The frontier of imaging is also the frontier of science in multiple disciplines. Understanding auto-second electron motion will lead to better understanding of chemical reactions and processes like photoemission. Ultimately, this fundamental understanding will lead to improved machines for light harvesting, better understanding of radiation damage, and might also have an impact on future optical computing.


My name is Professor Sosten Tuota, I'm the Regional Director for Leeds in Southern Africa. I am here at the marketplace presenting a project that we had done from 2010 to 2017 addressing problems of resiliency to climate change. We targeted communities but as well as addressing ecological issues. So in terms of communities for example we noted that the way that the traditional process fish they are exposed to dust as well as flies and also rainfall which they can't control and the loss in fish was estimated to be about 40%. The solution was to introduce solar dryers which is kind of like a greenhouse which allows the fish to dry much quicker and also with a higher quality and fetching more money on the market. The other issue we addressed is the fact that the way they smoke fish traditionally you can only smoke a few but with the same amount of wood with an improved kiln where the fish are stuck on several racks you get more fish smoked from the same amount of wood so you are saving time, you are also saving the wood that you have been using.


What's unique about Universal Hydrogen's approach to hydrogen aviation? Well, we've taken a look at the problem on an ecosystem level. So we're not looking at individual point solutions. We tried to look at all the different gaps that existed along the hydrogen value chain. So the two main ones that we identified were you can't get hydrogen airports today. There's not this wide distribution network for hydrogen as a fuel. And so we're solving for that. And the other thing that we saw is that there really aren't aircraft that are designed to fly or large aircraft that are designed to fly with hydrogen. So we're working on a relatively large aircraft powertrain to solve that problem.


So my name is John B. Zoa. I'm the senior advisor to the Clinton government, which is an Aboriginal government in the Northwest Territories. One of the things that we're doing is we need to know a lot more about ourselves because the modern way of doing business is really a corporate model. But that corporate model is for the exchange of finances and exchange of thought without having to give up and erode any rights that you've always had. So the traditional knowledge of governance is still there, which is land-based, and to teach about our own systems we need to start right from the beginning. And that means working with schools, working with the community to do on-the-land programs to get young people to step out into the landscape for the first time and get used to it. And to do harvesting and method of harvesting and processing and the stories that go with it. And so you can start off very early, especially if the schools are doing it all the better. And then you have your community activity, which would happen in the summer where you have on-the-land programs again. And at the same time you have all these games and activities, celebrations in the communities that need to be enhanced all the time. And then the larger ones are annual canoe trips, annual hunting trips where you encourage people to go back on the land and learn as much as they can from the landscape. And then there's a bigger picture now that if you have a claim, we need to start teaching our community members and our workforce to talk about the history of our own history and how we got into a settlement of our land claims and what we end up with, jurisdiction, and how do we work with other governments without compromising further what we had before. So those are done through clinical agreement courses as well as staff training and their participation in collecting information like digital archives. They manage all the websites and all the Facebook pages and newsletters that are developed. We have genealogy. We have our membership records. So it's constant and all these are new. They're not recognized anywhere else except eternal. And there's lots of other first nations across Canada that do similar things, but now it's time to share how we do things so that we don't have to spend too much time developing ourselves when there's models out there that might work. And they might not be uniform all the same, but there's some elements that are common. And the common things are land-based activity and land-based training and land-based knowledge transfer and building characters so that when we're moving forward, we're doing it with some form of protection from further erosion. Well, in a day, a lot of the things that we do is exactly what we're doing here. Sometimes it's a one-on-one and sometimes it's a group activity and sometimes it means networking with other organizations to see not only the territories but across Canada and even international to find out what's the latest trend, what's the best way of maybe streamlining or how to make it more effective. That there are other people working in this area that we need to know about so that we're not spending too much time creating something that might already exist out there already. Well, the successful of the programs is that if somebody starts speaking more than English and is able to read in their own language and even speak some words in their language, and then you see that they have bush skills, they know more about their genealogy and their family tree and even their traditional names, that's how you measure it. It's that you see some evidence of what was there before that has kind of been under erosion for such a long time. Indigenous education is just get to know your own history. If you have that interest in getting to know yourself and where you came from, that's the beginning. And once you get on that trail, then the rest will follow. A lot of these original information and laws of the land was always expressed in the language itself and can never really be fully translated into English because there's no terms for it. And so we need to know about our own heritage, the way we do things and how decisions are made. The best way to retain that information is to learn or make an effort to learn that language. The most important part is the storytelling because that was one of the ways of knowledge translation. It's all based on activity and real life, but the telling of the stories and that it's just people communicating. Communicating a lot more in the old way is probably the most important part. The history of Indigenous people in Canada has to make it into mainstream curriculum. That's another important door for other people to know about the history that is over 10,000 years old and even older. And all we're being taught is what happened in the last 150 years. So Canada is losing a lot by not accepting Indigenous studies. Well, one of them is recognition or changes to regulations or laws to allow for the history of First Peoples to be in the curriculum from preschool all the way to your doctor.


Hey I'm Ryan. And I'm Jared. And we are talking the 2018 Oscars. What a year it's been! There's been some downs. People missed out. Some people got awards. What's your favourite part about this year's 2018 Oscars? I don't know. It was a hard one. It wasn't a very exciting award show overall. No, it wasn't. It was kind of Oscars so bland. Yeah. It was like the intro of Jimmy Kimmel's live show. Then he vanished. And then it just got to big air of boredom. So anyway, the Oscars in 2018. It did happen. It did. And we did watch it. Yeah. There was some big winners. Francis McDormand won. Yeah. And she stepped on stage and I said, I've got something to say. And then basically said nothing. Like, really, in reality, she just had this huge cackle. The big winners for me was Great Super Mirror Tauro Take Out the Best Director and Best Picture, which I didn't expect. The shape of water is great. So well deserved. Splash 3. Oh God. In reality, it's the remake of Splash. Let's talk about that, mate. It's the highbrow Splash. Yeah. The highbrow Splash. I didn't know if I'd go that far, really. It deserved a win. Why all the shape of water? No, it's not so much hate. I think people would call it an original movie. It's not necessarily an original movie. But there's a lot of people that I felt like got snubbed.  They never really get nominated or win. The Logan, for instance, was nominated a few times, didn't win anything. Even Lady Bird with Greta Gerwig. Nothing. Nothing. It's a shock. Considering she broke so many barriers to even get nominated, I think she was the first woman to be nominated for directing that had also written her movies. It was a big one of people breaking down barriers. So there was the first female cinematographer, but she ultimately lost to Roger Deakins, who actually broke his own barrier because he won in his 14th nomination. That's right. Finally deserved a win. He was like Alina de Caprio. And of course, Gary Allman. There you go. Finally gets a two. Yeah, but he's only been nominated once before. Pretty deserved to be nominated all the way back to Tiptoes. And in the role of a lifetime, Gary Allman. Tiptoes. In fact, going back to Greta Gerwig, she was featured so many times in the Oscars. I was shocked that she didn't win. Every cutaway from someone who was speaking on stage or cut away to Greta Gerwig, just like, it's so beautiful. And then she didn't win anything. It's almost like the Oscars are throwing it in her face. It's like, I don't care that you've been nominated so many times. I don't care that all the actresses have been nominated for spoiling and best actor role. It's not giving you anything. It's giving you nothing. Are the winners included Jordan Peele for the original screenplay? Yeah. Which I personally didn't think was an amazing script. No. But I really dug the movie. It was amazing. I think he did an excellent job. And for a horror film that was released almost a year ago. Yeah. Like January of 2017. To still be in the conversation this far along is amazing. So it's a brilliant achievement. So I think it's an award for that. Yeah, it's almost like you've been talking about so much, we'll have to be something. We'll have to be something. You're following the best picture, the best director. We can give you the best screenplay. Who remembers that in the next set? I enjoyed that. I enjoyed that he was super stoked to be there as well. Thank you.  Hold up. I didn't enjoy the endless quips back to the jet ski though. There's one really awkward moment that I really liked, which was the winner. And he was talking about when the woman camera person started talking all about her winning and stuff like that. Then it cut to him and he got this like two seconds of brief interaction of the camera where it was like, you know, and I gave this film to my and they start putting the music up. Then he said, dying mother. But this is not for you. This is for my mom who passed away. Everyone who knew her will always remember her. And then it instantly went, we got finished speaking. It was so awkward though because he could just tell someone went upstairs and he said, he's talking about dying mother, cut the music, cut it. And for me that was just pure gold for teammate. They also did the same thing with the producer for the shape of water at the end.  That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just wanted to say this. There's swelling strings and then Jimmy Kimmel had to come and say, so what did you want to say? This movie. What did you want to say? I'll tell them. I just wanted to say that this Guillermo, this is his heart and it's everything. We thank you for letting me speak. That's right. Guillermo del Toro everybody. So many awkward times. Who's in charge of the music? We're going to get that person up on screen right now. And we'll just take a moment of shame in this guy. For shame. Let's talk about Sam Rockwell. He has been trying to get to the Oscars, even trying to make a name for himself almost. He's been in a lot. He's been that guy. He has been that guy. He's been a sidekick the whole time. Chris Pat even got past that. But Sam Rockwell hasn't been able to do it. You know his name. You know where he's from. He's been in an Iron Man movie. Love talking about. Most people shouldn't know his name by now. Yeah. But yeah, just hasn't been able to make a name for himself. But he has now. Best supporting actor going to get big things. I hope. Just don't choose a terrible movie like JB Fox did after Raid. Or Halle Berry did after Monsters Bowl. Yeah, all those bad news films. Just don't do it. Just look for a good film. Yeah. Lock it in. Run with it. Cuba Gooding Jr. Anybody? So what did you think of Jimmy Kimmel? I think he has probably got the talents of doing almost a Billy Crystal. This guy is probably going to come back from multiple Oscars. He's already done his second one. He does pretty well, I think. What do you think? I think he was inoffensive. He touched all the points that he needed to. But I don't think that he really handled the... No, but he was really good. I think everything he did was just great. But if we can get more people like Jimmy Kimmel... No!


Hi, Liam. Thanks for joining us today and also your participation in the webinar we hosted in February on suicide ideation in primary school aged children. Thanks for having me. So this is a chance to really get your reflections now we're a few months after the webinar and did you have any key takeaways from the discussion? Yeah there are a couple things I've been thinking about since then. I mean one of the biggest things was the level of interest so it was a really popular one of the MHPN's most popular webinars which was great and that didn't really surprise me I suppose but I felt relieved that people are taking it seriously so for a while now I've been thinking about children and suicide and and that kind of began over 10 years ago when I was working in schools so I've been reading and writing and doing some some sort of research around it and I felt concerned and then felt concerned that why aren't people worrying about this we're hearing a lot about suicide at the moment we hear a lot about youth suicide and various groups at risk but we don't hear about children so I felt relieved that people are joining me in this concern which was great. The other thing I've thought about quite a lot was people anxiety around it and so people feeling like they don't know what to do so this feeling like it's something different to what I normally do I'm not necessarily able to deal with that and that came through in some of the questions on the night but also some of the questions leading up to the registration process in the webinar and something I hear about in other work that I do around this topic as well so so that I guess got me thinking about what else do we need to do and I've been writing and doing some other work as well so one of the things I did as a direct result from the webinar was to write an article for this edition of this strange psychological society in psych so it was an addition that I really was was prompted to do because of the response but I wanted to follow up so that's an article that's available online. Oh great and we'll put a link to that in the article alongside so folks that are watching this can check that out. Yeah great. Well we do have some questions that the participants provided in the exit survey and I'll get to those in a moment but one of the key takeaways from the webinar overwhelmingly participants mentioned was around collaborative approach and using you know a multi-discipline routine to identify protective factors work closely with family members and the importance of taking the time to explain suicide risk, the assessment goals and referral pathways. There's a lot to hear. Yeah there's a lot and as with all of MPHP and webinars with these are the sorts of issues that come up all the time so the importance of working collaboratively and the benefit and we see that in the panel we see the benefit of different perspectives and different disciplines having different ways of working or sometimes some different ways of thinking about what we're doing so doing this work you can't do it on your own really so people watching if you're sort of thinking about what the work is if you're working in a school you've obviously got people around you but they won't all necessarily be on the same page and if you're working in private practice you really need to think about who are the people that I can consult with who are the people that I can be with what pathways what are those referral pathways if I am concerned how do I how do I sort of make some decisions around where to refer people so that I'm not sitting with this on my own it's really important and of course parents so my focus in the webinar was very much around role parents when we're talking about young primary school aged kids we can't think about them without thinking about about parents so that was a big focus for me in the webinar and something that I'm really continuing to be interested in and doing some more writing about as well. Yeah great thanks Lynn and those are linked to the recording on MHPN's website as well. We had a few questions for them from the participants in the exit survey so things they were sort of still reflecting on after the discussion and one of the participants asked about child protection and how much they should be involved. Yeah I think the question that came up was maybe assuming that if there's child who's suicidal that child protection is automatically needed to be a report made to child protection and I think we need to think about them as two different things so if a child discloses something as part of the conversation of which suicide is part of it and child protection in normal concerns and belief that you need to form a formed well then you contact child protection as part of that but suicide alibi on its own doesn't necessarily warrant a child protection report so I think it's important to distinguish those two things. We do know that one of the biggest risk factors for children in relation to suicide is child abuse and parent issues with parents so it may well be the case that a child protection report is required but that shouldn't be our starting point we shouldn't start with that we need to work through what's actually happening and go through a process to understand what's happening and then if we find that there's something of concern relation to child protection we then use our usual process but the suicide alibi in itself is not its own issue. Okay and someone else asked about how about the assessment of risk was their question. Yeah the assessment of risk of suicide is a really big one and people really struggle with it I think not just in children but across the whole board so we've had over the years we've had a lot of concern around how do we actually predict risk and we know that we can't for a whole lot of reasons we can't actually predict risk but as mental health practitioners we need to have something that helps us to feel like we've got the information and that we can feel confident if we're living that person leave us that they're going to be confident and so a tool can help us sometimes do that but it can actually be a very false sense of confidence so it may not actually be accurate and we know that from decades of work around that so the suicide risk assessment is much more these days around planning understanding the needs of the child and planning and safety planning is what we're really needing to focus on so understanding listening what's going on for them and how can we help them resolve some of the issues that are happening and then keep them some work on the safety planning around that which will obviously include parents and teachers in schools as well so that's that's the focus rather than getting low or medium or high risk is not helpful at all but I know it's out there people still looking at that people still have policies that talk about that so we have to really keep working on helping people understand the formulation of risk and the safety planning that comes with that. Yes so you mentioned tools for practitioners so and another participant asked are there any specific therapeutic interventions and how do we manage these when there are limited services available? Yeah this is always an issue as well in terms of what what do we do you know we find out that there's a concern around suicide what's what's our next step and of course with something like suicide for children particularly it's really understanding what's going on for them and it's often things that are happening in family or within schools or with friendships so if we sort of understand suicide and talking about suicide or acting around suicide is a way of communicating some distress that telling us that something is not right or there's something that's worrying a child well rather than thinking about what's our therapeutic approach to that our best thing is to listen take it seriously and then work with the child to understand what's actually happening for them so what's underneath this what why is this happening now why why are we talking about suicide at this point in time and sometimes if we can work out what that is well then we we can resolve that we work with the child and work with people to to resolve the actual issue so then the talk about suicide naturally kind of dissipates or isn't needed anymore sometimes it can be part however of an emerging mental health issue that may not have been picked up or a neurological issue like ADHD or just some spectrum disorder so it can be part of something else and so again that's where it warrants further assessment beyond the suicidality itself but normal sort of mental health assessment and then there might be some therapeutic treatments to do with that so it's working at what's what's underneath it what's the meaning of the suicide talk or this at the moment so another participant asked to the majority of these young children overtly express their suicide ideation suicidal ideation or is there a substantial group that don't express themselves so is the first recognition only after they have acted to self harm it might be and this is the trouble that we have with suicide across the board but particularly for children we have very little research around children and suicide it's a very difficult topic to do research on children are often not included in research for a whole lot of ethical reasons and other reasons so a lot of that we don't actually know I think it's concerning to think that if we don't sort of know the risk and we're not aware of it then children can be trying to tell us and this is what we know from the kids help one research that children were trying to tell adults around them parents and teachers and other adults are in contact with and weren't being heard so I think and my interest in this topic is to try and raise that awareness so that adults are actually ready to hear and open to hearing so that we can see the signs and we do take it seriously so that we don't actually get children having to escalate and then act on that before people then start to say they were serious so I think even with adults it's very difficult people don't always tell and share their intent and we know that from research it has been conducted we know people go to GPs and don't don't always share that they're suicidal feelings or thoughts or even actions so even for adults it can be very difficult for them to to tell and to share what they're actually thinking feeling and we know from adults that sometimes they had thoughts of suicide that began in childhood that they've carried with them and that they've been a constant part of their way of coping or the way of thinking about about problems and about life so we need to keep opening the doors I think and being aware and ready ready to hear and then knowing what to do if we do hear to take it seriously so we'll link to the kids help one research thanks for mentioning that Lynn and there's obviously a lot that got discussed on the night of the webinar and you know we can see from the practitioner comments that you know they're really engaged in the conversation another participant asked you know do you manage the case of a child that repeatedly brings up suicide and the parents feel like the child is just being attention seeking yeah I hear that a lot and it really bothers me that that we can dismiss that as attention seeking I know one of the comments that after the webinar that I've read through later was someone I'm talking about working in school and being really frustrated by that and people hearing it but not really taking it seriously and that attention seeking idea that they're just saying it they just want attention so for me it's if a child's continuing to talk about it it's telling us they want to hear something and it may be you know distressed or maybe something is bothering them and so they're trying to tell us and communicate with us so the more we don't take it seriously the more they can escalate that which can place them a greater risk and I think if we are thinking about a child or anyone talking about suicide as attention seeking I think we need to think about that but what is it that they're needing to get our attention and why isn't that being met in in other ways so I think we've got to be very careful about that and I do hope that people looking at their the kids helpline research will see that this is this is quite serious and there are people that will adults as well who do have chronic suicidality who do just keep talking about it's very difficult to work with that but they certainly need additional support and that is something that psychologists and other mental health practitioners do help people to to work with but even then even if people it's very common for people you're looking for changes in that so you're looking at if that kind of escalates or if there's a change in that because it can still be at risk even if they're talking about it seems quite normal so we do need to take it seriously particularly children because there's a lot of concern if they're talking about that to other children that can be concerning it becomes part of who they are becomes a kind of a way of talking about feelings when we should be helping them open up their conversation and open up and find other ways of expressing themselves as well and not impacting on other kids too yeah so was there anything that you didn't get to share on the nightly of the webinar yeah there's always lots more the time goes really really quickly and you feel like you've got a lot of information but there's always more to share and more that comes up I think there are a couple of things one of the areas I guess that for me and children is around teachers and schools being aware and and certainly even when I worked as a school psychologist which was over 10 years ago when I was working in schools it was starting to emerge then and I remember in primary schools people being really concerned and not not really ready for that it was something that they thought older kids would talk about so it was often quite difficult for teachers to hear that and of course teachers trained in mental health they're they're part of it and they're very important part of mental health and well-being of children but it can be very difficult for mental health practitioners who have some training to to deal with children who are will respond effectively and be sensitive to children who are who are suicidal or talking about suicide for so many teachers it's even harder so I think helping teachers and supporting teachers is something that we need to do more of and I know there's initiatives like BU that are out there to help teachers to keep working through this and have it as part of their overall work that they do but I do think in terms of suicide risk it is really important to make sure that we are supporting teachers who are hearing this and exposed to this it can be really confronting and difficult to hear and the other part of that is self-care for all of the adults and workers who are working with with children and families that risk suicide and I do some consultation with people in relation to suicide risk and you see the impact on people it really the weight of it sits with people and often mental health practitioners haven't had specific training in suicide and there's various courses and things that are that are there professional development events and things like the webinar but sitting with it is really hard and again that self-care that that ability to feel like you've done as much as you can that you've had support and that you're actually able to look after yourself and that you're using this as a chance to reflect on what you can do and the the capacity that people have to get through difficult times I think is really important as well so that notion of self-care and sitting with with what this means I think is really important one and helping people find opportunities to do that yeah and that's really important it's suicide prevention day today and are you okay days is coming up so having you know keeping an eye on your colleagues and those in the community you mentioned teachers are such an important part of the conversation as well yeah well given it is well suicide prevention day what's your advice to practitioners yeah that the theme this year is shine a light on the suicide prevention so I guess that's what we did this webinar I did get a shiny a light on children and the risk of suicide so I think that's self-care message I think continuing to find out about it so engaging in conversations about it I think trying to understand it as part of the work that we do it's not something that you come across and then you have to refer out there's a lot of things that people can do through their listening skills through their their basic core skills as a health practitioner and that you can do that will be really helpful because if you don't have that in place all the strategies and all the all the tools in the world aren't going to make a difference so trust in yourself get support in yourself and look after yourself but engage and and keep learning about it I think it's very important very advice Lee and we hear that you attended a conference recently or perhaps a couple of conferences you've been pretty busy so since the webinar I've been to a couple of conferences I went to the suicide prevention Australia conference and I did present about this topic I've just had a 15 minute slot and in the audience were the researchers from Boys Town who did the kids helpline so they came up to me that research they came up to me afterwards and said that they were very pleased and I'd shared that so I think they're happy with what I shared I don't think I misrepresented it too badly so that was a nice connection to make so that was great and then I did a workshop at the 20th international mental health conference which was up on the Gold Coast which is very nice it um at the golf resort up there not that I got outside very often but it was it was nice to be there and I had a workshop and it was an hour and a half workshop and that was really popular I had we were turning people away at the door so we had capacity in the room for about 75 people and people were lining up the door so I know the interest is there which is which is fabulous and I'm heading off to the Congress the 30th international Congress in Derry, Northern Ireland for that period of time September as well so I'll be heading heading off there and I've got a poster about this topic as well. Excellent well hopefully a bit of self-care time if you as well. Yes yes for the holiday. That sounds great and we also hear that you've got a book coming out. Yes so I spent last year writing a book for parents so it was built on in many ways it's it's my life's work so the work that I've done with parents work I've done communities and then my more recent focus explicit focus on suicidology so I've pulled all that together and it's a parent a book for parents of teenagers called keeping our kids alive parenting suicidal teenagers so that's going to be coming out it's going to be published by Australian Academic Press and it's with copy editor apparently so fixing up all of my little typos and grammatical errors that is a few of and should be out later in the year and I'm working on a similar version for parents of younger children now so that's my little project at the moment so hopefully that'll come out next year. Yeah and one for practitioners to look out for. Yes I hope it's useful. Yeah well thank you so much for your time today Lynn it was just great to reflect and hear your thoughts post webinar and also just get your thoughts on some of the practitioner questions so I hope that some of the practitioners that we answer their questions hopefully they're watching this along today and well we can announce that next year in early 2020 we're looking at continuing this discussion and mhpn are pleased to announce that we'll be hosting a webinar focused on suicide risk assessment which you're going to be a part of Lynn you're helping us tell us. Yes yes looking forward to that. So thank you it'll be another interdisciplinary panel discussion so look out for that and check out mhpn.org.au for all of the details and keep up with our upcoming webinars and of course our practitioner networks but thanks again Lynn. Great to chat with you today. Great to be here thanks.


Well, as Dirk Willem alluded, this is a very different sort of a paper, and a very modest paper in a way. A lot of the recent writing on industrial policy, largely led by Danny's work, but also summarized in the very good survey by Andreas Rodriguez-Claire and Ann Harrison, leads us to a conclusion that there's probably less controversy about the what of industrial policy today than there is about the how. How do you actually implement industrial policy as opposed to what should be the major themes for interventions or lack of interventions? And what I wanted to do today was really to just talk about one unintended experiment in the implementation of industrial policy. And the reason why I say it was unintended is that it's actually the result of the odd couple tour of Africa by Horst Kohler and Jim Wolfenstein back in 2001. For those of you who aren't as old as I am, you may not recall why they were such an odd couple, but believe me, they were. If for no other reason than the conclusion of this tour resulted in a major recommendation that governments in Africa, presidents in Africa, should create something called a Presidential Investors Advisory Council. The reason why I say this was already evidence of the odd couple is that Jim Wolfenstein was heard to grumble in the halls of the World Bank where I dwelled in those days that what the hell is Horst Kohler talking about industrial policy for? After all, the IMF should confine themselves to macroeconomic management. So it was a tour that was somewhat fraught with conflict, but also resulted in this one widely shared vision of both the bank and the fund. The councils were essentially on the face of a good idea. I think both of the principles came away with the notion that business-government relations in Africa were often difficult, that there was a good deal of lack of communication between business and government, and that getting a group of corporate champions together with the head of state bringing experienced and successful business leaders to bear on this question of what should you do to expand the private sector was a fairly good idea. It was also intended, at least in the view of the staffs of the bank and the fund to do one other thing, and that quotation is important, to identify constraints to foreign and domestic investment, to generate recommendations for concrete action, and to reinforce and accelerate policy reforms. So the councils were created in 2002 by the hosts, Ghana, Tanzania, Senegal, Mali, and Uganda followed in 2004, as we heard from Lilly yesterday. Following that the IFC basically took over the program and there are now similar kinds of mechanisms across a broad range of countries, both in Africa and in Asia. There are at least 10 more councils in the cases of Asian countries. Ethiopia, which is an interesting case to which we'll return, launched a public-private consultative forum, more or less modeled on these presidential advisory councils in 2010. The unintended consequence of this, I would argue, is when the management of the World Bank, and especially the World Bank, got involved in the outcome of the deliberation of the councils. Remember, the councils were originally conceived by their originators as a chat shop. Put the heads of corporations together with the president, let them build trust, let them engage. But the World Bank management immediately moved in and linked progress in the councils to their own private sector development programs. Now keep in mind, again, that donors in Africa are a very important actor in the management of the economy and that the outcomes of the councils were suddenly to have operational consequences for the programs of the World Bank. In addition, both the Bank and the Fund wanted to link the process of the councils and the outcomes of the councils deliberations to the poverty reduction strategy papers. These, as you'll recall, and being one of the guilty parties in having originated the poverty reduction strategy papers, were intended to demonstrate domestic ownership of the reform agenda. What happened, I would argue, is that these then went from being public-private deliberation mechanisms, chat shops, if you will, to coordination mechanisms. Suddenly, the public and private sector were supposed to meet together to identify obstacles to investment, to come up with actionable solutions to the problems, and to embody those in policy. And there was real money to be had if one did that in a way that was acceptable to the Bank and the IMF. So suddenly the bar was raised quite substantially in terms of the expectations of the outcomes of the councils. So the question that I want to ask is a fairly straightforward one. To what extent have these councils succeeded as business government coordination mechanisms? It draws on case studies that I convinced my colleagues in the African Development Bank to do of Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda in 2012. And I use a very primitive framework, certainly much more primitive than the one we've just heard about, reflecting the Asian experience of coordination mechanisms. Keep in mind that these are an East Asian import into Africa. To say, well, how well did they seem to work on a number of dimensions of good performance of coordination mechanisms? The first possible mistake, instead of seeking the views of the countries as to what their coordination mechanism should look like, the bank and fund staff in their wisdom came with a one-size-fits-all approach. Every council was to look the same. It was to consist of 15 corporate champions, five from the domestic private sector, five from foreign investors present in the country, and five from potential foreign investors. It was intended to identify obstacles to investment, focus on a limited number of issues, generate concrete recommendations, et cetera, et cetera, and so forth. To do the heavy lifting, a secretariat sponsored by the World Bank, funded by the World Bank, was to do the basic analysis. Maybe that's the pocket of excellence that they were looking for. What do we know about what the councils did? Keep in mind we're dealing now with almost 14 years of experience. Two evaluations were conducted, as Lily told you yesterday, one in 2005 and 2009. The results were to say the least decidedly mixed. By 2009, the council in Ghana had completely disappeared. The president lost interest. He failed to hold a meeting for two and a half years, after which the private sector quite realistically, and I think justifiably said, this is not the way in which we're going to engage with the government on issues of policy affecting the private sector. Let's try to do something else. To come back to the politics of the story, the complication also arose that the preceding government in Ghana was the sponsor of the council. So when it was replaced in the elections, there wasn't much of a political champion behind it to look into the council. Uganda was judged to be far and away the most successful, and we'll talk a little bit about why that was the case. Senegal and Tanzania fell between the stools. In terms of general findings from the experience up to 2009, the first point that even the bank evaluators noticed is that the councils were much better at accelerating an agenda of previously identified reforms. Then they were at generating new ideas for reform or new ideas for other kinds of actions. So not too many public actions coming out that hadn't already been on someone's, and usually some donor's laundry list of things that needed to be done. The reason the bank attributed this to the councils was that it created, quote, an atmosphere of discipline and pressure for action in the face of government inertia. So already you can see there's a certain amount of capture going on here. It's our agenda, and the government is the inertial force, and the council is the tool by which we hammer the government to move in the direction we want them to go. But then they discovered that there was a limited amount of implementation of council decisions due they ascribe to capacity constraints in the public sector. Where are they now? Even greater diversity. Uganda remains the best performer. By far and away judged either in terms of the range of activities it's undertaken, the seriousness with which its recommendations have been implemented, or the durability of the actions of the councils. Tanzania is the laggard, mainly because even decisions that have been taken jointly by the public and private sector have not been implemented. Senegal is kind of muddling through, and Ethiopia really is too new to tell, but as I'll tell you, begins to show some signs of trouble. The councils have been best still at implementing a donor driven regulatory reform agenda. And my least favorite World Bank product of the entire 50 years of its, 60 years of its existence, unfortunately became the agenda for virtually all the councils. And that was the doing business laundry list of reforms. They've been somewhat useful, and this is important, in building public-private consensus around a number of important initiatives. Two that I'll just mention, Kalimokwanza in Tanzania, which is the agriculture first set of policies, substantial amount of private sector buy-in needed there, and some identification by the private sector of problems in pursuing the Kalimokwanza agenda. Also, ICT backbones in Uganda and in Tanzania have gotten substantial public sector, private sector partnership buy-in in those areas. They have been extremely poor at identifying constraints to firm performance or implementing solutions, finding broken wheels, as John Sutton would put it. And there's, of course, no quantitative evidence that they've succeeded in boosting investment, much less economic growth. So what can we do to evaluate it? Well, what I wanted to do was to go back to a literature that looks at the coordination process in Asia. Basically comes up with two themes that we see running through the new literature on the implementation of industrial policy. And the idea is that you need to have a process of consultation and coordination, a close relationship with the private sector first of all to identify the binding constraints. You need to know what's really the broken wheel, as opposed to perhaps what people in the basement in Washington think is the broken wheel. And secondly, you need feedback. And this is a very important thing I think we oftentimes miss, but it's a point that Danny's made in a number of his writings. You need to know whether the intervention that you've designed is actually working. This idea is very similar to the coordination mechanisms we've seen in Asia, ranging from Japan to Vietnam. It has different institutional expressions. It has different champions, but it's very, very much a theme that runs through it. I'll mention there are two exceptions. Thailand and Hong Kong are quite different in terms of these things, but otherwise you can find a thread that runs through coordination mechanisms. And in my simple-minded way I came to four elements that I thought were really the key drivers of success. The first one is a high level of commitment of senior government officials. And for that, I mean very senior. The one clear insight that Jim and Horst had, which was correct, is that the head of state has to be engaged. He has to be perceived to be engaged, and the private sector needs to know that he's following up. But beyond that you also need, and we can put different labels on it, senior members of the political administration and the civil service to be on board. And without that it simply doesn't work. The second one I think of is focus, and it's a simple idea, but it comes back to the broken wheel notion. Focus on a limited number of actionable issues actually deliver an actionable program and see that it gets done. And that may be the hardest thing in the implementation experience, not only of African countries, but Asian countries as well. A willingness to experiment, and this is something I think the Asians get too little credit for in a way. And it's partly our biases economists trying to interpret Asia's experience in terms of neoclassical economics. I once had the privilege of meeting with a man who had been the career vice minister for planning in Korea.  The first thing he told me was, you know what we're proudest of? We didn't have a single economist running the Korean economy during their rapid growth period. Well, how do you make public policy without economists? Well, you observe, you inquire, you find out where the broken wheel is, you try an intervention, and you find out whether it works. Closest science I can think of to this is not economics, it's pharmacology, right?  If it doesn't kill too many patients at the time you treat them, you put it out to the general population. 35 years later, someone wins the Nobel Prize in medicine for telling you what the biochemistry of it was that worked. So experimentation is important, but to experiment then you need to observe, to experiment, and to give feedback, and careful attention to feedback. So how did these councils perform on those dimensions? Commitment. Well, that's what happens when a president gets bored, right? Loses interest, council loses traction, private sector walks away. Not good for the World Bank's reputation, but you notice that they don't talk about that when they report on these things. Uganda, that's what happens when a president follows up. The important difference between Ethiopia, Senegal, and Tanzania, and Uganda, is that Museveni for all his faults, one, conducts the meetings twice a year. That's as rapidly and as frequently as anybody does it in Africa. Two, he actually asks his civil servants and his minister what went on at the meeting. Three, he says, have you followed up on what went on in the meeting? And he actually has a reputation within the private sector for demanding reports. So a president is actually showing interest. Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania, I would argue it's tepid interest. It's keeping the donors happy, it may be keeping the business community happy. Melis is an interesting case. Melis agreed to establish the council. Melis also has a reputation for dealing directly at the sectoral level with industries such as cut flowers, with exporters, with metal mechanical industries and plastics. He was far more enthusiastic and there was far more follow through at that level than there was at the level of the council where before he died a council was now actually held. So this is why I say it may be in trouble. Focus. Here I think the biggest issue was having the agenda of the council hijacked by the donor community. Let me spread the blame a little bit more broadly than just to the World Bank. But the point is the very easily quantifiable box tick regulatory agenda in doing business became not only something the World Bank was very proud of but also got embedded in the country like Tanzania into the budget support program. Which meant that it was a high stakes game for the government to make sure that there was follow through on the doing business agenda in order to stay in the favor of the donor community. What that does I argue is fundamentally contracts the rationale for having a public-private coordination mechanism in the first place. You don't want your agenda written in Washington.  By this process of having the private sector identify the actual constraints to investment and firm performance. There was certainly an attempt to address too broad a range of issues even if we think about the successes in terms of Kalimo Kwanzer ICT. A bit of a kind of dilution I think of the idea of a coordination mechanism and very very little evidence of homegrown analysis and action on sector industry specific constraints. Working groups were the idea for the generators of ideas. This was supposed to be where the experimentation took place. Here the issue has become largely membership of the councils. Because of the original design even though it's evolved small scale of this min size industries business associations are largely excluded from the council process so they don't get engaged in creating new ideas. It was also of course limited by the donor agenda itself. Outside of regulatory reforms we've seen a few attempts at innovation and they're quite interesting but they don't add up to very much. In terms of feedback this is probably where all of the councils get a failing grade even the one in Uganda. There hasn't been a systematic process of follow through call it secretariates were supposed to do that. Except using the doing business scorecard which I would argue is the wrong scorecard. There hasn't been an effort to quantitatively determine the outcome of council decisions. And it's been uniformly poor in terms of other initiatives to follow up so follow through feedback remains perhaps the most fundamental problem. Some lessons learned. This is kind of circular statement but it makes sense. Commitment depends on getting things done which in turn depends on commitment. Think of the two bookends. One of the reasons why before lost interest in Ghana was because the council didn't get anything done. Because the council didn't get anything done before lost interest. And of course the council didn't get anything done because everybody knew the president didn't care about it. So you have to have that sort of follow through of the leadership focusing solving and then getting the feedback. The donor dominance the agenda was unhelpful. The public administration in all cases takes its cue from the top that's why it works better in Uganda than it works in Senegal or Tanzania. And I would argue still Philanene blank you like for the country unlike Calvin Coolidge where the business of America was business. The business of any country in Africa of the political leadership the top leadership still is not business. This is part of the reason why there's lack of attention. I do not still believe that the kind of notion that it's the middle level firm that's going to drive the transformation of economy has yet really filtered through to the people who are at the very top. That I think is important. The donor driven agenda stifles focus and experimentation so a lesson here for the donor community if you want to create something and have it be a homegrown solution to coordination problems then back away and let them determine the agenda. They need to be more flexible and these coordination mechanisms need to be more flexible in terms of representativeness and improve an agenda setting. They certainly need to dump doing business. And use the councils that they were intended to identify binding constraints to investments. And remember it's not just these four that we're talking about. We're talking about 16 of these across Africa. So there is an important change here in the way in which I think the major actors who support them exercise self restraint finally focus on a few fewer things. Follow through get feedback and try to implement what you do in a way that creates that circularity. Higher commitment because you've actually followed through which in turn generates higher commitment. So with that thank you all very much. And a shameless ad for Finn and my project. Please visit our websites at Brookings and wider for learning to compete.