I mean, I respect Levi's. They're like the grandfather of everything, but I don't know how you could be the iconic American brand and take everything you do out of the United States. My name is George Wilson. I'm originally from Florida, and I've lived in LA for almost 40 years. There was a contest, the U.S. Open in 1977, and everyone came, Alba, Jay, Shogo. Like basically all the top pros from California came to Florida. We got busted in a pool during that time, so Shogo ended up staying for three months because he had to go to court and stuff. So that's how I ended up moving out here with Shogo and started riding for Z-Flex in the 78. Being accepted in the area, like around Dogtown and with, you know, the Z-Boys and all that, that's one of the highlights. And then just the friends I made and, of course, the dream is to make it in California, man. Basically what I do is I'm mainly a denim manufacturer taking designs, getting the patterns made, sourcing the fabric and putting it all together. I have like 30 machines in the back, so I put it all together here. Okay, this is basically, this is sort of a unique denim. This is a 16-ounce. It's from a Japanese milk called Nihon Menpu, and this is like a pretty rigid, but it also has like a lot of texture on it. On standard denim, like the edges are all cut off, so when you do a selvedge, you actually, it goes right to the edge and then it's cut from the center. And what that means, that's the original way the denim was produced. It's a lot more labor-intensive to cut a selvedge. This is like a, this is a decent specimen of like a subtle vintage wash. So, most of all, this work's done by hand. These are, like, you have to have kind of a talented guy to make it look good. It's called the dry process, so they do the, they do the whiskering, the sanding. This is hand-sanded, a little bit of grinding with like a Dremel Drill. This is way less time in the stone, how to see it's darker and then this is lighter. And when you say stone wash, they're actually done with stone. They see what this is like a replica wash of like a 70s or 90s, you know what I mean? So this is just a basic stone for a long time, over an hour, with maybe a little bit of potassium to drop the color. The good part about it is hopefully, like I say, like I call it, it's like a pie. Like, so hopefully every, everyone involved in an expensive garment is getting a slice of pie. Where cheap clothing is definitely not being made ethically at all. I've been producing for 27 years and I've never made a piece out of LA, not even a sample, you know? And I've done well for that and I've suffered immensely for that. People could say things about me, but no one's going to say I f*** them over ever, you know what I mean? I just, I live true to myself and I try to treat people the way I want to be treated. This is the worst garment I ever bought. I don't know man, I have such great taste, I don't know if I've ever bought a bad garment.


Internal Revenue Service, IRS Tax News, IRS Advisory Council Issues 2022 Annual Report. Advisory Council, you know, I'm a little suspicious of advisors, counselors, and therapists these days, to be honest. I mean, like, if these IRS advisors are anything like by grade school kids, social advisors, we're gonna end up talking to IRS agents with like, blue hair and green lipstick demanding we refer to them as some kind of porpoise, for some reason. I mean, the dang counselors, they'll probably try to convince them that the country born as a democratic republic is actually some kind of tyranny. And so we need to take like, tyranny hormones or something, administer through the required viewing of MSNBC. Just kidding. The IRS Advisory Council has often actually had some good advice, let's check it out, but first a joke. How does one truly show compassion in America these days?  Of course. If you do wish to stay, well, we have just a job for you. And all that. But wait, isn't it cruel to put somebody in a position they can't possibly handle? I'm picking up your sarcasm. Answer, no! Standing them at a podium, asking them questions and then nodding at the gibberish coming out of their mouth. Well, I should hope so, because I'm laying it on pretty thick. Like a mother might nod at a five-year-old child, expressing his thoughts about the decline of Rome, is the truly compassionate thing to do. Oh, that sounds good. Melt the chocolate inside the bag. That really ups the resale value. We're like, you're right, little leader. Large wooden horses are bad. And yes, we can lower inflation by spending massive amounts of money to like burn all the large wooden horses in the world and display the spectacle on the public square of Twitter. I think you're gonna be okay here. They have a thing. That's why you didn't know that.  That'll fix stuff. Your brain has the shell on it. Are you talking?   Fortunately, you now have the unchecked power of the pen. In place of a dark lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible at the form. Checked, trusted to see. Wait a second. Hold on, sir. That's not a good idea. I think you're overreacting. I know, sir, that it is a really big wooden horse that they left on the White House lawn, but it's just a pinata. Do we really need to hit it with a nuclear weapon? Is that really necessary, sir? Seems a little extreme. Yeah. Oh my God. He just entered the new nuclear codes. So the combination is one, two, three, four, five.   IR 2022-200, November 15, 2022, Washington, the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council, the IRSAC today issued its annual report for 2022. There's a link to that here, including recommendations to the IRS on a new and continuing issues in tax administration. The 2022 public report includes recommendations on 21 issues covering a broad range of topics, including IRS business and information technology, modernization, reduction in electronic filing, threshold for information return, filers, alignment of electronic signature requirements on withholding certificates, accelerated issuance of IRS Form 6166, certification of US residency. There's a link to that here. The Examination Customer Coordination and Innovation Office, quite the title, quite the name to that office, Series 8038, Form Redesign and Updates Business Master File BMF Transcript Delivery Service, that's the TDS. In addition, the report, quote, emphasizes the need for consistent and multi-year funding for the IRS to achieve its goals of providing efficient, effective modern service to the nation's taxpayers, end quote. It also, quote, provides targeted feedback to improve the taxpayer experience while supporting crucial enforcement efforts and navigating a rapidly changing digital environment, end quote. The IRS AC Service as a Federal Advisory Committee to the IRS Commissioner that provides an organized public forum for discussion of relevant tax administration issues between IRS officials and representatives of the public. IRS AC members offer constructive observations regarding current or proposed IRS policies, programs and procedures. The IRS AC is administrator, administered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act of the Office of National Public Liaison, part of IRS communications and liaison and draws its members from the tax paying public, the tax professional community, representatives of low income community, small and large businesses, tax exempt and government entities, the payroll industry and academia. So quite a broad reach of folks in this group here or that's the goal at least. Five subgroups report to the parent council. You got the information reporting, large business and international, small business, self-employed, tax exempt government entities, wage and investment. Acting Commissioner Doug O'Donald and IRS executives thanked 10 members of the council who terms end this year. So I won't read these. You can go through and check them out if you want to see who has been commemorated here. Otherwise I'll just butcher their names. They don't look like very difficult names. I probably could have done it, but no, I won't do that. And then there'll be a link to this in the description. So if you want to see what the recommendations were in more detail, check it out. Sometimes they have some interesting recommendations. We'll see what the IRS, then we can see what the IRS actually does with them if anything going forward. And there'll be a link to this in the description.


Hey man, so Joshua chapter 22, we're not going to go through the whole chapter tonight. We're only going to go up to verse number 9 this evening and I'm going to tell you, I preached a lot against the prosperity gospel and I preached a lot against, you know, we had some fun with Joel Osteen and things like that in this church and there's even a drawing contest at one point amongst the kids.  So it's going to be a prosperity sermon this evening but, you know, the caveat there is that I'm probably going to end up insulting most of you this evening so I don't mean to do that but, you know, even Nehemiah when he, before he built the wall, he had to tear down the old wall first so we're going to talk about some things that will bring prosperity to your life tonight and we're going to look at Joshua chapter 22 and the first part of this is just a great story in the first part of Joshua chapter 22. Look down at the Bible. We're talking about the Rubinites, the Gaddites and the half tribe of Manasseh and the first few verses here and look what the Bible has to say. And let's see what we can learn from this this evening and the conclusion of this just this great story in the beginning of Joshua 22. Look at verse number 1. The Bible says, then Joshua called the Rubinites and the Gaddites and the half tribe of Manasseh and he said unto them, ye have kept all that Moses, the servant of the Lord commanded you, and ye have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you. ye have not left your brethren these many days under this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the Lord your God. Keeping the charge means that they were under a covenant of some sort here and they kept it. They did what they were supposed to do. Look at verse number 4. And the Lord, and now the Lord your God, have given the rest unto your brethren as he promised them, therefore now return ye and get ye unto your tents, unto the land of your possession, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you on the other side of Jordan. But take diligent heed to the commandment and the law, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, charged you to love the Lord your God and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cleave unto him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. So Joshua blessed them and sent them away and they went under their tents. Now we're seeing some blessings here in verse number 6, verse number 7, and verse number 8. Look at what the Bible says in verse 7. Now to the one-half, half of the tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given possession and evasion, but unto the other half, thereof gave Joshua among the brethren on this side of Jordan, westward. And when Joshua sent them away also under their tents, then he blessed them. Again, we see that Joshua blessed them. And we're not talking about like a Catholic priest blessing here. He didn't go up and make some weird sign on their forehead. He actually blessed them with things. In verse number 7, he blesses them and look at verse number 8. He's baked unto them saying, Return with much riches under your tents and with very much cattle, with silver and with gold and with brass and with iron and with very much raiment, raiment meaning clothing. And you find this foil of your enemies with your brethren. And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan to go into the country of Gilead to the land of their possession, whereup they possessed, according to the word of the Lord, by the hand of Moses. So we see these three tribes, Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, that, you know, they're just having all these blessings poured upon them, turned to numbers chapter 32. So if you remember what happened with these three tribes before the wars even started is when this deal, this covenant, this agreement was made. Look at Numbers chapter 32 and verse number 1, and let's look at what happened here at the beginning. And what we're seeing in Joshua chapter 22 is the end of what started in Numbers chapter 32. Look at Numbers chapter 32 and verse number 1. The Bible says, now the children of Reuben, now they had not crossed over the Jordan yet. They had not gone into the promised land and even started taking possession of the land and starting the wars. Now the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, had a very great multitude of cattle. When they saw the land of Jaser and the land of Gilead, then behold, the place was a place for cattle, but they looked at this place and they said, these pastures, these are great pastures. It was great, there must have been green grass, there must have been water everywhere, and they were like, why would we want to go anywhere else? This is perfect for us. We raise cattle. And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses and to Eleazar the priest and unto the princes of the congregation saying, Adaroth and Daimon and Jaser and Nimrod and Heshbon and Elegia and Shebem and Nibiu and beyond. Even the country which the Lord smoked before the congregation of Israel is a land for cattle. And thy servants have cattle. Wherefore they said, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession and bring us not over there, Jordan. And Moses said unto the children of Gad and the children of Reuben, shall your brethren go to war and ye shall ye sit here. So first of all, they said to Moses, they brought this to Moses and they said, we don't want to go. They said, we would just rather stay here. Can we stay here? And Moses, right away, right away Moses says, what you think that you're just going to get off easy?  Because look, they had done some fighting up to this point. They had already done a little bit of fighting to get the land that they had. And they said, this place is good for us. So of course, Moses' first reaction is that these guys are just trying to get off easy. They're saying, we don't want to fight anymore. Just give us this land. It's good enough. But that wasn't the case with these tribes. Look at verse 16 of Numbers chapter 32. So they make a commitment and they ease Moses' mind on what Moses thought their motives might have been for just wanting this land. Look at verse 16, and they came nearer to him and said, we will build sheepfolds here for our cattle and cities for our little ones, but we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel until we have brought them into their place, who there, them, in that case, is the other tribes that are going across the Jordan and are going to possess the land, which is basically all the wars in the book of Joshua that we, or all the battles in the book of Joshua that we have read about so far.  And then with verse 18, they said, we will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. Now, I mean, obviously Joshua will let them go, but we know that they didn't really completely conquer their inheritance, so Joshua could have kept them there forever. But basically Joshua is releasing them in Joshua chapter 22, because they kept this commitment that they made in Numbers chapter 32. These guys, they said that we're going to leave our families here, we're going to go, we're going to fight for a land that we're not even going to possess. They said, we will go with you and we will help you. And look, they did it. They did it, and in Joshua chapter 22, we see the conclusion of that. So the way I want to talk about this evening, and what's worth spending some time on, is this idea of keeping your commitments in your life, as we see that these three tribes did. You know, the importance of keeping your word, as you would say it, doing what you say, doing what you say. So the first thing to realize here is with this commitment especially, with this commitment that these three tribes made, Gad Rubin and the half tribe of Manasseh, commitments are not free. Commitments cost you something. The commitment will cost, look, it may cost you a commitment that you make in your life. It may cost you more than what you originally thought it was going to cost you. But this is why, look, think about this for a second. These guys, these three tribes, they literally went to war for this commitment. This commitment that they made for a land that wasn't even theirs cost some of them their lives. They died to keep this commitment, some of these men. Lives were lost. I mean, look, these were battles. Yes, they won the battle, but it's not that people weren't killed on both sides. Look, this shows you that you should think long and hard before you make commitments in the first place. You should think about the cost of commitments up front. I think maybe this is why a lot of people just don't keep commitments in their lives. Because they make a commitment, and then they get into a commitment, and then they decide that you don't like this just, it's just more than I want to pay right now for this commitment.  Their feelings change. People are driven by feelings, unfortunately. And their feelings change. They're really fired up about something. They make a commitment.  And then, you know, I don't want to spend time on that. I don't feel the same about that. Maybe my feeling has changed to the point where I would rather do something else at that point in my life. Something else comes up. Something else comes up. But here's the interesting note on these three tribes. They never did that. And at the cost of their own lives, go back to verse number 16 of Numbers 32. Numbers 32. What does it say? Go to Numbers chapter 32 and look at verse number 16. Let me turn there myself. Numbers 32, look at verse number 16. These guys, these guys committed and they came here and said, we will build sheepfolds here for our cattle and cities for our little ones. Do you realize that these three tribes, when they went into battles, at least the other tribes had their families with them? At least their other tribes had their families when they went to settle the land? I mean, these guys then left all their families back then. They built cities, they built sheepfolds for their cattle, and they left all of their families behind as they went to war for land that wasn't even theirs. And they stuck to their commitments. So the first point I want to make tonight is this. On just this idea of keeping commitments, turn to Matthew chapter 23. Not keeping commitments. If we look at Joshua chapter 22, not keeping commitments will cost you. It will cost you. See, the problem is, people don't look out far enough. And people don't necessarily see this in their life. And we'll talk about that in a little bit more detail in a few minutes. But look at Matthew chapter 23 and look at verse number 1.   Look at Matthew chapter 23 and verse number 1. Then Jesus spake to the multitude and to his disciples, saying the scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses's seat. All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do. But do not meet after their works, for they say and do not. These guys were saying one thing, but they kept no commitments.  And Jesus says, hey, the words that they say are not bad, do those things. It's like, but don't do what they do because they don't do those things. Those guys talk and they don't keep their word. They tell you to do things and they say that they do things, but they don't. They don't do those things.   And look, it can ultimately ruin your testimony. And we're gonna talk about that in detail in a few minutes. But look, most people don't see the cost of not keeping commitments. That's the beauty that I'm gonna show you about Joshua chapter 22 in these first nine verses because here's the thing, opportunities missed, offers that never come. Most people don't see that stuff. Most people don't see that. Turn to Proverbs chapter 22. Turn to Proverbs chapter 22. See, somebody that keeps their commitment will end up with something. They will end up with something. And Proverbs chapter 22 talks about something, is something that they will end up with. Proverbs chapter 22 in verse number one, it seems like a very simple verse in the Bible, but I wanna just really break it down for you tonight. Look at Proverbs 22.1. The Bible says, a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches and loving favor rather than silver and gold.  The Bible says a good name. So we know that if the Bible is saying a good name, it must mean that the good means a good according to the Bible. A good name, meaning somebody that does the right things. A good reputation, a good testimony is rather to be chosen than great riches and loving favor rather than silver and gold. So many of you think, a lot of people think that the Bible teaches that silver and gold is bad and riches is bad. But here's the thing, the Bible here is saying a good name is better than these things. So if the Bible is saying that a good name is better than something that's bad, that wouldn't make a lot of sense, right? I mean, think about silver and gold just for a minute.  You know, silver and gold, most people I would think, you know, if I just had more silver and gold than I have now, that could solve some problems for me. I mean, look, couldn't money at least solve some problems for most people? I mean, just money by itself. I mean, couldn't it be, you know, a good thing? Look, the problem with riches is this. Let's just go off on this riches part of this for a minute, because the Bible is saying that a good name is better than great riches. Implying that great riches is, you know, is something that's at least desirable, then something that's good. But here's the thing. It's not the silver and gold that's the issue. It's not the silver and gold that's the issue. I saw a guy on Monday, I was driving to work and I saw a guy walking down the street and the guy, I mean, his shirt was like, I don't know if it was a pajamas he was wearing or what, his shirt was half off, his pants were around his knees and he was stumbling down the street, scratching a lotto ticket. Looks like he hadn't taken a shower for a month. The guy's scratching a lotto ticket, I'm just, I'm driving to work and I'm shaking my head looking at this guy and I'm saying, what are you gonna do with 300 million dollars? I mean, this guy, you know, he's thinking this is the answer for me. But here's the thing. The reason that that guy is broke is the reason that he's always gonna be broke. Does that make sense? It's not, look, the riches aren't the problem. The riches aren't the problem. Turn to 1st Timothy chapter six. So don't be so hard on riches because Proverbs 22.1 is saying, look, it's saying that a good name is better than riches, meaning riches is something that is at least desirable, can at least do something for you. Here's the problem with riches in general. It's the love of it, that's the problem. It's the love of it. Don't be so hard on the riches. It's when you start to love it. That's the issue. But here's the thing. Turn to 1st Timothy chapter six because here's the sad thing. Someone who needs money. This is kinda sad. Someone who needs money to pay bills, to buy food, to live. I mean, I walk around California now and I'm just like, how can anyone afford to live here? I think about that all the time. Things have doubled in price since I got here. Just a few years ago. And I'm sitting here and I'm thinking, you know, people could use more money. I mean, people could use more.  But here's the problem. When they become so obsessed with it, when they do get it, look at 1st Timothy chapter six and verse number 10. They already love it for itself. This is, that's the sad thing. For the love of money is the root of all evil. Let me say money. It says the love of money is the root of all evil. Which while some come at it after, they have aired from the faith. Look at that. It says the love of money is the root of all evil. Why? Why? Because they aired from the faith. Because it took them away from their faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. So the sad thing is, is that by the time people get the money, by the time people get the money to pay the bills, to pay the rent, to pay the gas, to buy food. I mean, but what good is it if by the time you get it, your spiritual life is ruined? That's the sad thing. I mean, it's the people that get the riches that are the problem. Not the riches. That's why the Bible can correctly say that a good name is better than great riches. Because great riches by themselves, there's no problem there. It's the people that are the problem. I mean, riches by itself, without the simple person that loves the riches, riches by itself can solve some problems for you. They can make some issues go away. But the Bible says, so that's just a little, you know, just going off on riches. But the point is, the Bible says, let's go back to a good name, back to a point in the sermon. The Bible says a good name is better, is better than riches. You know, how can that be? You say, how can that be? You're like, riches would solve every problem. Look back at Joshua chapter 22. Look back at Joshua chapter 22. So here we see these guys. We see these three tribes and they kept their commitment. They kept their commitment. They had a good testimony. They had a good name. Look at verse number six. Look at verse number six. Look what the Bible says. So Joshua blessed them and sent them away. They went into their tents. I think it gives details of what that blessing was. Now to one half of the tribe of Massa, Moses had given possession in Beishan, but under the other half thereof, gave Joshua among their brethren on this side of the Jordan westward. Look at verse eight. And he spake unto them saying, return with much riches under your tents, much cattle, silver, gold, brass, iron, raiment. And he said, just go divide and spoil your enemies with your brethren.  Give all this to the people who didn't come with. Look with it, the point Joshua, the point Joshua 22 is making here is with a good name. Here's your prosperity sermon for you. With a good name will come great blessings. And if you don't think that that's true, well, I don't know what else to do to convince you, but today, here's the thing. Today, people are taught to not care what people think of them. Isn't that true? Aren't people taught, you know, just not care? Like, what people think of you? What people, if people look at you and they judge you for what you're wearing, what you look like, whatever, you know, that's just wrong. Look, that's not true. That's not what the Bible says. The Bible says a good name, a good reputation, you know, will bring you great blessings. That's what Joshua 22 is showing us here. I mean, look, people teach this for Washington today. Just be true to yourself, man. Isn't that not what people are taught? Be true to yourself. You know what that means? Whatever you want. Why do I come up to people so many that tell me that? Just like, man, just gotta be true to yourself, bro. Gotta be true to, I mean, that just means like whatever you feel like doing or looking like or spending your time with or your life at is just fine. That's what that means, but that's not true. That's not what the Bible says. Look, this is why, this is why, if you ever wondered why people don't care about their name, this is why. Because they're being taught that their name doesn't matter. That a good name, they're saying, you know, they're just saying that the world is teaching the exact opposite philosophy of the Bible, once again, is what we're seeing here. Haven't you ever heard of somebody saying, you know what, I'm gonna make a name for myself? You know what that means? That means they're gonna go and make a good name for themselves.  But here's the thing, here's the thing, here's the funny thing. Everybody goes, you know, you might have some really ambitious person that goes out or some young guy that goes out or some young lady. I'm just gonna make a name for myself in this company. I'm gonna make a name for myself in this world or whatever, and they're just super ambitious to make a name for themselves, whatever that success factor is for them. But here's the thing that people, and this blows my mind that people don't get this, but you're making a name for yourself. Whether you think you are or not.  You're making a name for yourself. Might not be a good one. And if you have no plan and you're not this kind of person that's like, you know what? I'm gonna make a name for myself, and you're not focusing what those characteristics of that name are on the Bible, you're probably not making a good name for yourself. But look, everyone is making a name for themselves, whether they know it or not. That's what the Bible says in Proverbs 22. Hey, make a good one. The Bible's saying make a good name for yourself. And we see in Joshua 22, we see these guys, they did it. They made a good name for themselves. Look, a good name is gonna be worth more to you. Listen to me. If you make a good name for yourself, it is gonna be worth more to you. It will do more for you, for your life on this earth than all the money in the world. Yes. If you make a good name for yourself, it will be more valuable for your life on this earth than all the money anybody can ever give you. That's what the Bible's saying. That's what the Bible's saying. Wow. So let's go back to this idea of commitments and what these guys did in Joshua chapter 22. You know what that really means?  That's kind of what I was taught.  When you get three reasons tonight, you should keep your commitments. Whereas, you know, as you probably hear it said today, that you should keep your word. The first reason is this, turn to Matthew chapter five. Matthew chapter five. Matthew chapter five. Actually, you turn to first Peter chapter two and I will just read for you Matthew chapter five. Matthew chapter five, I'll read to you. Turn to first Peter chapter two. Matthew chapter five in verse number 37, Jesus says this.  And Jesus says, he's like, hey, let your communication be yay, yay, nay, nay for whatsoever is more than these come of evil.  He's like, just say what you're gonna do and do what you're gonna say. Well, look, if you don't keep your word, Matthew five 37 is gonna do nothing for you. Jesus's advice is gonna do nothing for you if you just don't keep your word.  What did I say yesterday? Then that doesn't even apply. The first thing, I mean, three things.  The first one is this, you know, give you credibility. You're like, why do I need credibility? Look at first Peter chapter two and look at verse number 12. Look at first Peter chapter two. Look at verse number 12. The Bible says, having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may be made by your good works which they shall behold glorify God in the day of visitation. Here's these people, think about this. Here's these people and they're just speaking all this evil. They're speaking all this evil. They're the Gentiles and the unbelievers.  They're seeing your testimony and by that, by that you turn them. By that you turn them. They glorify God because of that. Because of your testimony. Think about like an expert witness in a trial. Ever seen a trial where they bring in like an expert on forensics or whatever? They bring this guy in. He's got 30 years experience, just like being right on everything. He's written like several books that are correct on things. Imagine bringing an expert witness in who's just like a drug addict off the street. But that guy, that's not gonna do good for anybody. Imagine, imagine, imagine this.   Is that guy gonna be profitable to you? Like all he does is lie all the time. Look, he'll be no profit because he is what, he has no credibility. He has no credibility. So look, keeping your word and keeping your commitments will give you credibility. It will give you credibility, which guess what? That brings me to my second point. You will become a great profit to other people. Not a profit like speaking the words about it. Profit, like profitable. You will be not profitable if you have no credibility. But look, if you keep your word, you will be a great profit to those around you. To your friends, to your family, to your children, to your brothers and sisters in Christ. I mean, look at some great examples here of this. Like look, just think of the church. Think of the church. We're gonna have, think of the volunteer opportunities at the church. We're gonna have some new ones coming up. We're gonna have like a new cleaning signup sheet. Look, I'm telling you, the people that come here and faithfully clean, they are a super huge blessing to this church. It is a massive blessing to this church. It's a massive blessing to me. It's a bigger blessing to my wife. It's a huge help to people who have made a commitment and then keep the commitment. But guess what? People that make the commitment and then keep it sometimes, I would rather they don't do it. I would rather they not commit to it. Because guess what? Makes it worse for us. Well, here's the thing.   And so as far as the church goes, here's the thing. You don't have to volunteer for things. You don't have to volunteer for the different ministries in the church of all the different things that happen here, whether it's cleaning or audio visual stuff or whatever. You don't have to volunteer for that stuff. But if you volunteer for that stuff, you're either a huge blessing or you can put yourself in the detriment category. Because guess what? If we're, when somebody volunteers for that stuff, we're counting on them. We're counting on them. We're rearranging our schedules. We're doing things. And when things just don't happen or people don't show up, it's like we have to drop everything. We have to rearrange everything. It would have been better if we would have just done it ourselves the whole time. Instead of counting on people that we don't, we can't, we don't know if they're gonna keep that commitment or not. So the second thing is you have the ability if you keep your commitments and keep your word to be a massive profit to other people. I mean, look, it's easier, like it's easier for church management if you literally, if you're like, I just don't know if I can make it every time if you just don't volunteer. No one's gonna be mad at you. Seriously. But if you volunteer and then you show up when you feel like it, that's bad. Because everybody has to try to fill gaps at the last minute. Now here's a big one. Here's number three. So the first one is you'll have credibility and keep your commitments. The second one is you'll be a big profit to other people. And the third one is this. And listen close to this one because this is what Joshua 22 really described to them. The third one is this. You will miss opportunities.  And look, look at verse seven and verse eight of Joshua chapter 22. Look, verse seven, look, they got more land. They got more land than they bargained for. In verse number seven and in verse number eight, they just got all these riches and all this spoil and all this clothing and all this stuff to bring back to their families. All these blessings, if you don't keep your commitments, if you don't have credibility, if you're not a profit to others, you'll miss all those blessings. You'll miss all those blessings that will be no opportunity given to you. As a matter of fact, you will probably find yourself at a point in your life where you just don't have much responsibility at all if you're this type of person.  I should be farther in my life. You know, I'm telling you, it's because you don't have a good name. That's why. That's why it is. On the other hand though, if you do have a good name, I'm telling you blessings will flood to you in this world. At least the world I'm living in. You are living in the same world that I'm living in. Look, if you're credible, reliable, profitable to others, blessings will flood to you. You see, you say, you say, but you know what? This is not me. It's like, what you're describing is not me. I just, I can't commit to things. I commit to things that I don't feel like it next week and I can't show up on time to things because I'm just like, I'm a train wreck every day and I'm late to everything all the time. What? Don't be shocked because that's most people. No, don't be, I mean, don't stress about it. That's most people. Most people don't keep commitments today. I am sorry to report to you, but that is against, but look, there just aren't many people about the type of people that I'm talking about in Joshua chapter 22. That type of people that would make a commitment and no matter what, no matter what it costs them, will keep that commitment to the end, no matter what, there's just not many people like that. So I mean, don't feel bad.  You're just like, I'm just not good at it. I just can't get it together. But guess what? This is the opportunity of a church right here. This is the opportunity of a church. You can sit here and you can, look, you can hear the truth and you can at least have the opportunity of following the truth. I mean, you can at least have the choice. You can at least sit there tonight and listen to this and say, you know, this isn't me, but you at least have the choice. I'd be like, you know what? I'm gonna change this. I'm gonna make this difference. I'm gonna change my mindset about this. I mean, as far as the blessings go, the problem about not having a good name or a good testimony is this. You most people will not miss the blessings they never received. Think about that for a second. Most people, the blessings that they never, the chapter, the verse number six, the verse number seven, the verse number eight, most people will never miss that. They're just never gonna get it. And it's because they don't have a good name. But guess what?  It's not like they come to you and then you lose them, they'll just never get them. They'll just never get them.  Many people miss the curses. You know, much less the blessings that they never receive. Many people have God just cursing their life and they completely miss it. And you're standing here as a pastor, you're just like, what in the world? What are you doing? The blessings that they never receive, it's like, but guess what? A pastor sees that too. This is one thing at the level of a pastor that's very easy to see. That's why it's always good to be a person that goes and asks for a Godly counsel. You know, it's always good to ask that because many times others will see things that you don't in your life.  Think about that. There was a story, this reminded me, right in the center, it reminded me of this story of this guy. I don't know if you guys have heard this. There was a story like, it's a true story. It's a sad story, it's a ridiculous story. In like 1990 or something, there was this kid. He was like from a middle-class family. His name was Christopher McCandles.  He was in his mid-20s and he like walked off into the wilderness in Alaska. He wanted to just like, just live off the land and be in uncharted territory.  And he couldn't get off of charted territory because he had this map, there was roads everywhere, so he threw the map away. He throws the map away, and what happens to him? Well, he starts to death. He goes out and he lives off the land from, I don't know how long you lasted, but he starts to death and he was literally, like some hunters found him, he was literally half a mile from a busy road. He was, you know, less than half a mile from like a geological station. He was just, he just didn't know where he was. He threw away the map.  And you talk to the locals in Alaska and they're like, yeah, you know, what he did was he committed suicide. This is what he did.  Like, he committed suicide. But that's what it reminds me of.   No one's gonna glorify that story. But, you know, instead, people continue. They miss blessing after blessing after blessing that they aren't receiving. And then, you know, maybe some people would think to completely fall apart, then they ask, you know, better, better late than never, I guess, but it's better to get on the right path before the train comes off the tracks. So look, folks, Joshua 22 is such a great example of keeping your commitments and what can come from that. I mean, it's a great, it's such a great example it's an extreme, it's an extreme. These guys kept their commitments. You'll never have a commitment that will probably cost you your life. But these guys kept their commitments in extreme situations and you know what they gained? They gained credibility. They were extremely profitable to their brothers and their sisters that they were fighting for. And you know what? They were just poured with blessings at the end. I mean, this is, here's your prosperity right here. Here's your prosperity story in the Bible. You're like, how do I get prosperity? You know, it's not gonna get you to heaven. But prosperity keep your commitments and you will get prosperity. That's what this is telling us. You know, have a good name. The Bible says a good name is priceless. Why?  Especially today, folks. Especially today where nobody does it.  You will be like this huge flashing beacon, somebody that keeps their commitments no matter what. And you'll be a huge blessing to other people and you get blessings, it's a win-win. Every time you have a win-win in your life, you gotta take it. When other people win and you win, why are we not doing that? Whenever you find win-wins, you have to do it. So this is a great story of these guys. They made this commitment. You read about the commitment in Numbers chapter 32 and you're just like, wow, wow.  They're just gonna go fight for these people just to get the land. These are some decent people. You're like, they're never gonna stick to that. They did. They did stick to it. And it's a great example for us to look forward. A good name, folks. Keep your commitments. Look by our heads and have a word of prayer.


so we're here in a Hong Kong fair and hi so who are you hi so we are from super g team we have kids gps watch but we don't call it gps watch we call it the first kids mobile phone so there's a sim card yeah so as it is main function mobile phone it has sim card inside nice you can you can 3g 4g you can put any sim card this particular model is 2g but we have 4g version upcoming in in next two months yes so what you can do with this watch so it's have phone book inside phone book inside voice messages magnetic clip charger and then there is no games just main functions which need it for you can you turn it and I will change language for example for example Denmark it's okay have Danish let's check Dutch it's okay all the kids in in Denmark and speak English let's make English now but yeah if you if we can we can we can make in in Dutch also so you can change interface only and it's only one game let's call it has because parents don't when don't want to have games because we are buying this device as a substitute to mobile phone we don't want to buy a smartphone for five years old kid because they're playing too much yes healthy right that's right yeah so we're playing too much and but but parents still need to know where they are and they don't want to know where so we have a mobile app yeah where you can always so this is all five devices I have and you can see all them in the map you have some children over there I'm joking but okay so you can track your child yes yes so you can you can just click on here and it sees it shows the last location the last location what it was when it was online you can check the what network here is on GPS Wi-Fi so you can click on the next one switching off so this is the main the main screen is just for the location the other one is for the calling it shows the and it's an easy calling it just works and there's no chance that the child doesn't hear it right it vibrates also yes it does and this is the settings so the settings you can put all the telephone numbers you can see the how many steps the kid was walking today and one interesting thing that phone book which you put here is the phone book kid kid having his numbers so that means that the parent is checking is doing the phone book for the child and this is remotely yes and it's like white list numbers it means that only only only these phone numbers can can call to to your child so it is safe it's safe to use but no stranger can call your kid so only this who numbers who are nice so that means it's basically a parents are controlling the watch and they are checking where the child is and the child is happy and this game yeah why is one game to do what yeah it's I call it game because parents don't want games yeah no kids kids ones game but parents don't want so so kid is happy because he can speak like James Bond on the watch yeah be James Bond be James Bond be be super agent have super powers to but there's one problem right what you do about all the other kids in the class they will be jealous everybody's one that's that's that's that's why after one kid boys all class starts to buy them is it already happening now it's already happening in bold with what we're we're selling we're selling in Baltic countries starting in Germany and and having some discussions in Scandinavia yeah and Scandinavia but Denmark still not in our target is the most important Scandinavia okay so keep keep us in keep us in touch and we will organize to have it in Denmark so are you the coolest company from Lithuania or one of the software too yeah we make a software this is our from base totally from scratch we created our own servers we encrypted everything integrated into Amazon so because all secure and you can use it you know yeah there's a lot of kids watches in China but maybe they're not so cool they're not so smooth yes and one one most important thing we are not so safe as we are European company we are GDPR compliant the personal data all personal data is stored in Europe it's encrypted and we are not transferring it anywhere all Chinese GPS watches they send data to Chinese servers and most of the cases the data is not encrypted yeah so that's cool about the price or price range to end consumer price range is something like 119 euros 119 that's totally cool right it should be affordable but still should be cool and good quality how soon as you have the 4g into in two months what they will change the video call that's why that's because 2g do is all necessary stuff you don't need to go to 4g camera here it's no camera but if you use only for calling it's okay it's still one of the best solution for this kind of stuff but if you want video call you can talk with your video messaging and video calling so you need LTA networks nice and batteries good we say let's teach our kids to charge it to charge it each night each day but the battery stands for something like two three days easily all right cool are you also checking about other display technologies to for the future have along yeah like ink ink technology it's also also on our target but you know for for kids it's a problem we want to have nice nice image they like they like no colors yes that's why ink technology not always better for the kids I maybe better but they love more to have good quality have one week battery right no it's not it's more but it is good for activity trackers which don't have GSM modules yeah because this if we would change that to ink it will increase maximum half day it will not change even memory LTD ink is only not it's the most consuming part is GPS and and then GSM network nice so do you already have many kids customers yeah so it's it's growing the business each year I think something like a hundred percent and it's possible to buy it and supermarket and most we're selling most 80% of our products are sold by telecommunication companies like tell a scenario group or tell it to directly in the store so you can go just to visit any any telecommunication store in Baltic countries in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and you can find nice our product


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Welcome back everybody to AWS re-invent. You're watching theCUBE, the leader in high tech coverage. My name is Dave Vellante with my co-host David Nicholson. We're here all week. We got two sets, 20 plus thousand people here live at AWS re-invent 21. Of course, last year was virtual. We got a hybrid event running. We had two studios running before the show, running a lot of prerecords. Really excited to have Ninshad Bardhuliawala who is the chief product officer at DataRobot. Really interesting AI company. We're going to talk about insights with machine intelligence. Ninshad, it's great to see you again. It's been a while. It is great to see you as well. And I'm so happy to be on theCUBE, I think, eight years since I first came on. Yeah, that's right. When you launched the company that you founded back then, Paxata on theCUBE. Now part of the DataRobot family. Now part of the DataRobot family. And of course, friend of theCUBE, Chris Lynch is the executive chairman of DataRobot. So a lot of connections. I always joke, 100 people in our industry, 99 seats. But tell us about DataRobot. What's the scoop these days? So thanks very much for the opportunity to speak with both of you. I think we're seeing some very interesting trends. We've all been in the industry long enough to recognize that hype cycles, they're cycles, they go in waves. And the level of interest in AI has never been higher. Every company in the world is looking for the opportunity to take advantage of AI to improve their business processes. Whether it's to improve their revenue, it's to lower their cost profile, or it's to lower their risk. What we're seeing that's most interesting is that we spend a lot of time working with companies on what we consider applied AI. That is, how do we solve real business problems with the technology?  It's very tempting for a lot of us, Dave and David, to spin up a spark cluster with 10,000 nodes and slosh a bunch of data through it. But the question we always ask at DataRobot is, what is the business value of doing this? Why are we using these AI techniques and in order to solve what problem? So the biggest trend we see at DataRobot and one that we feel we're very well positioned to solve is that companies are coming out of that experimental phase. There's still a lot of experimentation going on and they're saying, okay, we stood up a cluster, we got a bunch of Python notebooks running around here, but we haven't really seen a return on our investment yet. DataRobot, can you help us actually make AI real and concrete in terms of achieving a specific business outcome for us? Well, and I want to test something on you, Nenshott. Something we've talked about a lot on theCUBE is a change in the way in which companies are architecting their data. When we first met, it was like, okay, create a Hadoop cluster and then Spark came along to make that easier, but it was still this highly technical, highly centralized, hyper-specialized roles where the business people who have a really good understanding of the outcome had to kind of beg to get what they wanted because it was so technical and success was defined as, hey, it worked, we ran the experiment and it looks like it has promise. So now it seems like companies like DataRobot, you're democratizing AI, allowing organizations to inject AI into their business processes, their applications, and it seems to be more business-led. I wonder if you could comment on that. I think that is a very astute observation. We launched this concept a little bit earlier this year of AI Cloud, and the idea behind AI Cloud is if you want to democratize AI, which is in fact has been DataRobot's vision since 2012, we were the first company on the cloud, the first AI Cloud that ever existed was DataRobots in 2014, and the entire idea was that we knew that data scientists would always play a very important role in an organization, but yet the demand for AI would vastly outstrip the supply, and so in order to solve that challenge, we built AI Cloud, we've actually spent over a million engineering hours in building this technology over the last decade, and put this together in a way where all of the different personas in the organizations, you have people who create AI applications, those are the folks we usually think about, but those are the data scientists, those are the analysts, those are the data engineers, but then you actually have to put it into production, you've got to run this system, so you also have to democratize this capability for the folks who are going to operate the system, for the folks in risk and compliance who are actually going to ensure that the system is operating in accordance with your policies and compliance regimes, and then the third wave of democratization, which we've just embarked on, is then how do you bring AI into the hands of the actual business people? How do you put on a mobile device or a web browser or in context in an application with a decision the ability for AI to drive a decision in your organization which leads to an action which helps drive you towards the outcome you're trying to optimize for? So AI cloud is about this pervasive tapestry bringing together the creators, the consumers, the individuals who operate these systems into a single system that can lower the barrier to entry for people who don't have the skills, but allow you to plug in and go deep underneath the covers and modify whatever you need to if you have that level of technical skill, and that ability for us to kind of slide the slider in one direction or the other, I can slide it to the right and say, I want all automation, something DataRobot has pioneered and is absolutely the leader in. But we can also, especially in these last couple of years, say I want to be able to use as much code as I want to bring in, and the beauty of the model is that customers can choose how much they want to let the machine drive or how much they want to let the human being drive. David, I love that idea of a slider because now you're talking about generalists getting access to really powerful tooling. Yeah, now exactly, and I'm curious, what's your view on where we are culturally with AI at this point? What I mean by culturally is the idea that, okay, that's great, you put powerful tools in the hands of business users. Do most of us still need to have a lot of visibility under the covers to understand the inner working so that we trust what we're being told? I'm fine pulling a lever and having a little biscuit come out of slot, as long as I've gotten a tour of the kitchen at some point in time. I mean, where are we with that? Where's the level of trust? Absolutely, fantastic question, and it's one that's actually pervasive to the way DataRobot operates. So trust gets engendered by multiple different capabilities that you build throughout the platform. The first one is around explainability. So when you get a prediction from a system, just like you mentioned, if the stakes are not very high, you know, we're here in Las Vegas, so of course I'm thinking of slot machines. If you get a biscuit at the end of it and it tastes pretty good, hey, great, right? When you're making a mission-critical business decision, you don't want to be in the position where you don't understand why the system is making the decision it does. So we have historically invested an enormous amount of effort in explainability tools. Having the system actually at a prediction level explain to you why is it making the recommendation it's making. For example, the system says this customer has a high likelihood of churn. Why? Because their account balance has been declining over the last five months. Number two, because their credit score has been going down, and what gives you the trust is actually the machine and the human able to communicate in the same language and same vernacular about the business value. So that's one part of it. The second part is about transparency, right? So one of the things that the automated machine learning movement that DataRobot pioneered has been, I'd say rightfully criticized for, frankly, is that it's too much of a black box. It's too much magic. I load my data set, I press the start button, and DataRobot does everything else for me. Well, that's not very satisfying when you have a 10 or $100 million decision coming on the other side. Even if the technology is actually doing the job correctly, which DataRobot usually does. So where we've morphed and evolved our position in the market, and where I have driven our technology portfolio at DataRobot is to say, you know what? There is a very important aspect of trust that needs to be brought to bear here, which is that if somebody wants to see code, let them see code. And in fact, the beauty of AI Cloud is that on the same platform, the people who don't like code, but are very good at understanding the business domain knowledge in the context, they now have the ability to do that. But when they're at the stage, before they're going to deploy anything to production, now you can raise your hand at DataRobot and actually use our workflow and say, I need a coder to review this. I want the professional data scientist who has all this knowledge, who understands and has read up on the latest advances in hyperparameter tuning to look at the model and tell me that this is going to be okay. And so we allow both the less technical folks and the very deep technical data scientists the ability to collaborate on the same environment, which allows you to build trust in terms of the human side of, hey, I don't want to just let anybody throw a model into production. Yeah, I like, I mean, I see those, the transparency and the explainability is almost two sides of the same coin. That's right. Because, you know, if you're going to be accused of gender bias, you can say, no, here's how the system, it's not like, you know, you think about the internet, it tells you it's a cat, but you don't really know how the machine determined that. Right. You're breaking apart, blowing away that black box. And the other thing I like what you said was, you have data producers and data consumers. And you also talked about context, because a lot of times the data producers, they don't necessarily care about the context or the data pipeline people. That's right. They don't necessarily care about the context. So, okay, so now we're at the point where you're democratizing data, you're doing some great work. What are some of the blockers that you see today that you're obliterating with data robot? Maybe you could talk about that a little bit. Sure. So I think, you know, one very important concept is that in a democracy, we talked about democratization, you still have rules. You still have governance. It's not a free for all. But the free for all version of that is called anarchy. That's not what any company wants. So we have to blend the freedom and flexibility that we want businesses to have with the compliance and regulatory observability that we need in order to be successful. So what we're seeing in our customer base and what companies are coming to Data Robot to discuss is, okay, we've tried these experiments, now we want to actually get to real business value. And one of the things that's really unique about Data Robot is that we have worked in our system on over one million projects training models inside Data Robot. We have seen every type of use case across different industries, whether it's healthcare or manufacturing or retail, we have the ability to understand those different data sets and actually to come up with models. So we have that breadth of information there. If you aggregate that over time, right? So again, we did not come to AI. This is not a fad for us. We didn't start as one kind of company, then slap the AI label on and say, hey, we're an AI company now, right? We have been AI native since day one. And in that process, what we have found is working on these million plus projects on these data sets across these industries, we have a very good sense of which projects will actually deliver value and which don't. And that gets to a previous point that you were making, which is that you have to know and partner with an organization who it's not just about the technology. So we have fantastic people who we call our customer facing data scientists who will tell the customer, look, I know you think this is a really high value use case, but we've tried it at other customers and unfortunately it didn't work very well. Let's steer you, because you need with a technology that is largely at the early stage and the maturity that organizations have with it, you need to help them in order to deliver success. And no vendor has delivered more successful production deployments of AI than data robots. Yeah, so you can tell them, don't count down that path, it's a dead end, it's a cul-de-sac, so just avoid it. So we talked about transparency, explainability, governance. Can you get that to the point where it's self-serve? As you put data in the hands of business people where the context lives, the domain experts, can you get to self-serve and federate that governance? Yes, you can. That's one of the key principles of what we do at Data Robot. And it comes back to a concept that I learned, you both will remember, we were in the Sarbanes-Oxley crazy world of, I don't know, was that 15 years ago? Save data warehousing. Everybody wanted to talk about socks. My wife would hear me on the phone, she'd be like, what is your sudden obsession with socks? I'm like, no, no, it's not what you think. But what came from Sarbanes-Oxley are these long-standing principles around the segregation of duties and segregation of responsibilities. You can have democratization with governance if you have the right segregation of duties. So for example, I have somebody who can generate lots of different models, right? But I don't allow them to, in a self-service way, just deploy into production. I actually have a workflow system which will go through multiple rigorous approvals and say, these three people have signed off, they've done an audit assessment of this model, it's good to go, let's go and drop it into production. So the way that you get to self-service with governance is to have the right controls and policies and frameworks that surround the self-service model with the right checks and balances that implement the segregation of duties I'm talking about. And you get that right and then you can automate it and then you can really scale. That's right. We've got to have you back because it's such a great topic. We barely scratched the surface. It was great to see you again. Congratulations on all the success. And as I say, anytime, let's do this again. Fantastic, thank you so much. All right, you're welcome. And thank you for watching, we're watching theCUBE's coverage of AWS re-invent 2021. Dave Vellante for David Nicholson. Keep it right there. 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And right now, if anybody were to ask me what are my two areas of work, it is basically the two areas of work that are covered by the landform. So essentially that's forestry and that's rye. And in the context of where I work right now, also very much lough and the regional countries as well. What we're talking about there is really about the interface between forestry where people are basically the only real widespread effort to manage forest as well as people coming in from the investment side. I am working in this area for some time and what's really interesting for me is to look at that interface between the two groups, investors and forest. I would like to take the example of what I'm currently interacting with in lough and the landscape is such that there is a big investment happening. There are a number of big investments happening in the region but I think one is very outstanding and that is the Belt and Road Initiative, URI, from China and specifically in the context of lough, they are building a railway. So this is the first railway that lough has. This is the railway that has opened lough's many new tunnels and a new way of transportation and alongside that railway there is also a new highway being built under the VRI initiative by China. What does that mean? That's just the background but what does that mean? It means that there will be a host of new investments coming in to capitalize on that transportation and infrastructure and who is right there connecting, being connected by this Belt and Road railway in north of China, this railway will connect China with the capital of lough, China. And when these investments come in, what that means is that, obviously, investors will be looking for areas to invest and in lough that's predominantly about land-based investments and as agriculture or forestry, the investors are coming in looking for good opportunities and that's often, that's first and foremost a pretty positive scenario for the country as well as for its people, communities and farmers. It provides an opportunity for income generation and a market to sell their products towards. So it's first and foremost a positive development. Obviously there's areas that we need to be careful of and a lot of that is to do with how land is accessed and be it in the form of concessions for land leases or contract farming for the farmers during their own farming and selling directly to traders. So there's various forms of how land can be accessed and how farmers community can be engaged in the investment scenario. And obviously the legal framework is one way that can manage such conflicts to some extent. It's also about the capacity of the central government to work with local governments to ensure that certain legal frameworks are implemented effectively. It's also the role of other stakeholders including civil society to help communities in negotiating contracts to understand and to help to position themselves better. And all of these actors are going to be present in the land forum and I think it would be an interesting opportunity to discuss around this context of investors coming in pulled by a big infrastructure project happening in Laos. And I'm quite certain that similar discussions are happening also in all of the Lomecon countries where we can really learn from each other and exchange. So really looking forward to some productive, constructive, and useful, insightful discussions at the land forum. See you then.


When people are selecting their jobs in the Navy, there are a lot of things they're told, and some things they're not. The Navy Munitions Command in Missowa is one of those things. I was expecting to go to a ship, conduct minesweeps, search for mines. It seems easy to have an idea of what your job is based on your job title, but sometimes the experiences you don't know about can tell you more about the career you choose. You know, mines were part of our job. I didn't know anything about the bombs in regards to converting them, being able to convert the bombs into actual mines. NMC Missowa is just one of those chances a sailor has to experience a different aspect of their job, but both sides are needed to complete their mission. Petty Officer Dean Cates, Missowa Air Base, Japan.


proudly we hail from New York City where the American stage begins here is another program with a cast of outstanding players public service time has been made available by this station for your army and your Air Force to bring you this story as proudly we hail the pioneer spirit of Oregon a true story of the pioneer spirit that is America our first act curtain will rise in a moment but first young woman how about your future does it include an interesting and important job a job that will take you to the exciting places of the world places where tomorrow's history is being made today right now young women like yourself are urgently needed to serve their country in the women's Army Corps here's your opportunity to secure your future go to your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station and get all the facts today and now your army and your Air Force present the proudly we hail production woman of Oregon in 1836 America's foot rested uneasily on the threshold of her West the Louisiana Purchase had extended the frontier of the United States to the Rocky Mountains but beyond layer disputed region the southern half of which belong to Mexico and to the north was the Oregon territory to become the prize of the country which settled at first in perfect purple state the silent mountains waited for the contest to begin and in the shaded valleys unseen and hidden Indian drums beat restlessly waiting to it was the lifelong dream of a young physician Marcus Whitman to settle a portion of the great Oregon territory his first trip into this region had convinced him it could be done many scoffed at the idea others warned him against it but there was one who listened to his dream who longed to share in its realization her name my sister Whitman I can tell you about her I'm Joe Bonner for a trapper in the Nebraska territory nothing much surprises me but that spring 1836 you can bet I was surprised seeing a woman heading for the Oregon country come all the way from western New York earn a husband not far out of st. Louis dr. Whitman had stopped to give medical help to some settlers and that's how come they miss the river crossing with a wagon train and how come I offered to guide their party through the Indian country ahead we were deep into Pawnee territory when we come you say we must cross the river before nightfall Marcus much as we have to get on dearest we can't risk taking the livestock and cattle across at night half a day loss when every hour is vital bonners scouting along the banks hope finding a safer place to cross if we don't catch up with a wagon train at Fort William we'll have to turn back we aren't equipped to travel through the Rockies now sister we must catch up with them before Fort William every day our danger grows greater here in Pawnee territory I look at you bearing it so gallant have you forgotten the girl in Pratt's burger wanted to share your dream oh don't you imagine she wants to share your dangers to honor something wrong what is it man what's the matter party up river caught in the current it's sweeping them downstream they point ease yeah except for their leader he's a white man what can we do to help them if we stretch your rope across the river they'll be able to clean that we can't save their ass they're too heavily loaded and put every available man to work we must try and save them here come the ropes across and secure on the other side they only hold when those rafts even if they snap we'll be able to pull the men ashore why don't they jump from the rafts don't they see the rope I afraid to jump he's making them stick to the rafts he can't hope to save the cargo doesn't he know that way those rafts are loaded jump you're man to jump and hold the rope you can't save it jump yes mr. Birken that was a good meal you prepared well thank you you'll be glad to know that my husband is tending to the Indian who was injured tending to him Marcus is a doctor Indians are very strong I just assume you can't mean that after asking them to risk their life I didn't ask them to take any chances I wasn't willing to take myself to save that cargo must have been very important it was man works hard for something all his life then sees it lost in a minute you see you plan to settle in Oregon thought of that myself want to be some nice little places springing up along the Willamette River before long we plan to go deeper into Oregon than that deeper my husband met the chief of the Kayu's tribe last year the Kayu's has he told you anything about that tribe I'm well aware our task won't be an easy one but the first step in settling peacefully among the Indians is to bring them to an understanding of the white man's ways and they're the white man's God you won't get very far playing missionary among the Kayu's the chief has asked my husband to return and teach his people and you were brave enough to come along this is Whitman I admire you I'd like to join your party your plan seemed to be changing abruptly with the loss of your car on the contrary this fits in very well with my plans matter of fact I could be very helpful through this stage of your journey you never know what the ponies are going to do next not to war like still not predictable either I've done a few favors for that she was your cargo intended for the chief of the pointy the cargo is at the bottom of the river and I'm no further concerned Mrs. Whitman what was your cargo Mr. Birken everything ready for the crossing barney everything ready first let me show you something where where did you find that followed a hunch took a little trip down river during the night sounded washed up in the banks a gun so this was the cargo Mr. Birken was taken into Pawnee territory where is Marcus is it wise to let him see that we know this is Whitman is right but knowing this can we let him join our parties he says he wants to refuse him and we may have trouble on our hands especially here in Pawnee country why is he arming the poor knees and have anything to do with his plants settle in Oregon and attack by the poor knees on one organ tribe would mean that the feet of all of our hopes wouldn't Indians would know the weapons came from the white men all chance of settling peacefully among them would be gone yet what mr. Bonner says is true if we don't permit this man to join our party we may never reach the wagon train alive less more time is lost Bonner promises me we'll be at Fort William by sundown tomorrow Marcus Mr. Birken spent another night away from the camp probably holding another of his night meetings with our unseen Pawnee escort does he intend to stay with us even after we rejoin the wagon train being associated with us gives him the disguise he needs that way has a chance of winning the confidence of the Indian only to sell them out to the poor knees oh it was our hope to carry a promise of peace into the Oregon country now we're like the carriers of a disease that could spread through the whole west made good my promise to the Whitman's got them their crew and livestock to Fort William by sundown of the next day Jim Birken was now a member of their party nothing you could prevent that but at least the wagon train was waiting for him at the Fort and their journey through the Rockies would be a safe one so I left him on the stony doorstep of the Rockies and though I was never to see them again I was to hear more much more of Narcissa Whitman I can tell you about Narcissa Whitman I'm Captain McLaughlin at the time commandant of the Fort at Walla Walla the first stop in Oregon country I remember Mrs. Whitman the day she walked into my office very tired from her journey across the Rockies nevertheless she was anxious to get started with her work our Mrs. Whitman I presume you're aware of my reasons for suggesting the trip your husband's now making to the Willamette Valley well I imagine because the mission there's well established and running it would involve no hardship for a woman Mrs. Whitman you proposed to go among the Kaius Indians one of the trickiest and cruelest tribes in all the Northwest last year my husband talked with the chief of the Kaius who asked him to return to instruct his tribe we want to believe that control of the savages can come through peace and love alone but we've learned some very hard lessons Mrs. Whitman our men never travel into that country except in groups you propose to go unprotected well perhaps going among them that way we'll show them that we wish to live peacefully with them as yet they've had no proof of this Mrs. Whitman you're a very courageous woman but I'd be in the next room waiting to see you the door was open I couldn't help hearing I have to tell you may help out with your concern over Mrs. Whitman safety among the Kaius Indians you see last night a white man attended the sickness of chief from Tippi's wife a white man yes and they expected to get better the white man is going back tonight to make an agreement with chief from Tippi about the right to settle in Kaius country this white man was yourself Mr. Burkhan that's right Burkhan this sort of unofficial action is what causes trouble the very forced to think the patient lived does not give us the foothold we need among the Indians it gives us a footing based on the white doctor is a medicine man well when Dr. Whitman returns he can explain to the chief that things sometimes go wrong Captain McLoughlin I think there's some things I should tell you about Mr. Burkhan along a journey has Dr. Whitman several days through some unhealthy country what will you about to tell me Mrs. Whitman nothing only what a help Mr. Burkhan has been to us and how gratefully we would accept any assistance he might be able to offer Dr. Whitman it's good to be able to welcome you back tell me is your decision still unaltered I must go among the Kaius even in the light of what has happened what are you referring to well I I wonder if you're prepared to hear it what is it Captain McLoughlin last night the wife of the Kaius chief died Burkhan who tried to heal her is also dead Kaius justice Dr. Whitman sort of thing it makes me ask you to make no decisions till you consider the dangers no system perhaps Captain McLoughlin right well isn't a promise a consideration above all sort of danger isn't there too much work ahead to undo the harm that's been done and shouldn't we begin that work at once you are listening to the proudly we hail production woman of Oregon we'll return in just a moment for the second act here's an opportunity for you young women of America an opportunity to get in step with the smartest today the rapidly expanding women's Army Corps needs qualified young women between the ages of 18 and 34 this is your chance to do an important job the pay is good with excellent prospect of rapid advancement why not check with your local United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station today you'll find that it's easy to get in step with these proud American women who are serving their country in the women's Army Corps you are listening to proudly we hail now we present the second act of woman of Oregon at a time when the future of the United States in North America lay in the peaceful settling of her West Narcissa Whitman came with her husband to live with the Kaius Indians in the heart of the Oregon country the story of this first white woman to cross the American continent continues as it is told in the chronicles and memories of the time Captain McLaughlin continues his account yes I can tell you about Narcissa Whitman though I was to see her only when I visited the Kaius village of Wailat Poo means the Kaius tongue place of the Rai grass it came to me much more than that to people familiar with the story of Narcissa Whitman and her husband they had surmounted tremendous odds to become the first white settlers in a hostile country I remember the day of my first visit a day marked by a foreboding quite a welcome for you Captain McLaughlin Marcus has prevailed upon the chief of the tribe to come and meet you today she holds himself aloof which is certainly more than these people do Marcus do you think he'll come think he will look out the window they just ridden out of the clearing and that waterfall of feathers could only belong to a chief so that's chief I'm tippy huh Marcus why do you look so troubled yes what is it with what's wrong take a close looking at sister they're closer now can't you tell that isn't dumb tippy but it is son wearing the chief's headdress let's go outside to meet him very well Marcus come Captain McLaughlin I can understand this that was rash and hot-headed surely they've not made him chief of the tribe greetings to look I regret of my father who no longer has place of chief in our council you are now chief in his place to look I look I is young in years but old with wisdom of chiefs before him then you believe as your father taught wisdom of tribe older than length of years my father ruled I come to meet white man from fort to learn what his visit means chief to look I this is Captain McLaughlin is a friendly visit learn of your progress he's happy to see your church nearly complete he wants to hear the voices of the children humming the hymns they've learned children sing only in praise of chief to look I this day may I offer my congratulations chief to look I I hope the same harmony will exist between you and your white friends that existed when your father was chief chief to look I show same friendship if white men pay for work Indians do hey what's that we have no funds chief to look I pay for work which your people seem to do gladly it is their church they build in exchange for the care my wife has shown the children who come to our kitchen your father promised a nurse for her child soon to be born chief to look I give all this if white man pay Mrs. Switman when I return to the fort I'll see what can be done the way of raising money can't let your great effort die here already word of it has reached the eastern seaboard more and more people are coming to settle in the west we must do what we can it's useless to meet this threat and only find another means of blackmail no I must talk to chief to look high as I talk to his father and in the meantime in the meantime take no word of this back but Dr. Whitman I'll have to alert the fort and word of this incident will discourage the migration you speak of only by encouraging people to come west can we hope to settle it for the United States and Captain McLaughlin this is a plentiful reward for the spending of a few uneasy hours now sister Whitman spoke only of the hours not of the months of unrest and uncertainty months of waiting for the new chief to lay aside as arrogance and feeling of hostility waiting for the help that they would need as the hour approached for her child to be born Alice Clarissa Whitman was the first white child born in Oregon date was March 14th 1837 a week later I was present at her christening in the church that still stood in completed and open Marcus look coming slowly in at the front of the church standing along the walls yes Indian women with their children they're standing so quietly almost in awe and reverence can it be they feel a spiritual bond with us today look at their faces so full of wonder you know I feel that somehow with the birth of our child is born the understanding that something universal and wonderful works for the white man and for the Indian alike oh this day may be the birth of new hope now sister was right the feeling grew that the place in which the child was christened was the home she wished to share with others the kiosk gave the house of God a roof they gave the child a nurse chief to look I talked of mutual help and cooperation with Marcus wasn't long before Narcissa Whitman stood with her husband at the door of her home in the tall rye grass and saw the first immigrant wagons from the east go by into the waiting land of Oregon but her happiness was not destined to last when tragedy struck it came swiftly with an aftermath of trouble thank you for coming captain I wonder why doctor I I had to know if you felt anyone was responsible for what happened no I'll tell you exactly how it happened you'll see that there's no one's fault really perhaps mine for it leaving my family well it was necessary for you to be away those three days my wife always carries on my duties in my absence so she went yesterday to care for an Indian child sick she returned to her evening the house was empty Indian nurse was gone so was our child she called frantically for both of them finally she could think of only one thing the lake and that's where she found the child yes too late to save her I learned this morning why the nurse was gone brave came carried her off seems this was the woman destined to become the bride of chief to Kai and the child wandered out of doors and door the lake Narcissa at least of all would wish the place to place the blame for the child's death on anyone but I fear our understanding with the Indians has reached another crisis because of this see they fear reprisals from the forties another wall goes up but tell me will you stay here dr. Whitman Narcissa would not want to go not want the death of our child to be in vain she'd want the tragedy to bring us closer in feeling to the kai use people there may be possible I can't be sure on September 30th 1839 Marcus Whitman left for Washington to talk to President Van Buren about the lotting expenses for the aid of settlers Narcissa faced the winter alone preparing to stay in the home she and Marcus had built there were nights of terror for Narcissa Whitman moments when her great courage was almost bound to fail like summer Marcus returned at the head of a large train of missionaries they went to all parts of Oregon when I took my leave of the Whitman's I left them in their home though I was never to see them again I was soon to hear the ending that fate wrote to her story me tell you about Narcissa Whitman I'm Catholic and sage the oldest of seven orphaned children who lost both mother and father on their journey through the Rockies but our brother John kept us alive and in good spirits all the rest of the way to Oregon till our cart drawn by too thin and weary oxen brought us to the doorstep of Narcissa Whitman Marcus Marcus come quickly dear help me lift these children from the car oh these poor poor children this boy must gather he can't be over 13 he's varying your exhaustion ma'am ma'am I I'll let them out of the car we must make them clean and comfortable and find places for them to sleep Marcus this little girl her legs broken we must make it well again we stayed with the Whitman's in their home and it became our home and we grew to be healthy happy children as Oregon gradually came to be settled around that Indian village for the silk and grass grew tall and where the Indians grew restless at the fear that soon the settlers would trample that tall grass in spite of the repeated promises of the Whitman's distrust reached giant proportions and then it happened it was unforeseen and sudden and perhaps nothing could have prevented it for when it broke out case of measles among the children care was taken to keep it from spreading to the Indians but when it did evil stories spread about the doctor who had brought disease to kill the members of the tribe Dr. Whitman was at the foot when the news reached him he hurried back to his home Marcus oh Marcus you shouldn't have come dear I had to are the children all together in the other room yes keep them there dearest don't let them know no matter what happens what are you going to do if they've come to take a life perhaps mine will do oh no let me stay here and see it's the only way Marcus I like together has been rich while our arms embraced each other our dreams have embraced to come go quickly to the children yes my tears what is it Mrs. Whitman what's wrong nothing Catherine nothing and we mustn't let the children think there's anything wrong we must get them to sing there is something no no help me rocker we just left to me all they've broken in Marcus Catherine take the children up into the loft at once she killed white woman if she reached for gun of husband what chance have we if I don't reach I killed catch her before she reaches we brought no evil the blood flow to her arm and the life from her body she died protecting the sager children and though they burned the house no harm came to us we were soon released and taken to the fort and offered a home in another part of the Oregon country the others went but I prefer to stay close to the monument erected that year above the graves of Marcus and our sister Whitman who had brought a hope to Oregon a hopeful field and a dream come true have you noticed the new trim whack uniform worn by the young women who are serving in the women's Army Corps this new uniform not only stamps the wearer as being smartly dressed it also indicates that she is doing her part to keep America strong if you are a young woman between 18 and 34 and can qualify you are urged to do your part in making unity strength freedom a reality go to your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station and enlist in the women's Army Corps today this has been another program on proudly we hail presented transcribed in cooperation with this station by the United States Army and the United States Air Force recruiting service this is Kenneth Banghart speaking and inviting you to tune in the same station next week for another interesting story on proudly we hail