Jasen Bracy always wanted to play football, but retinal cancer he developed as a toddler took his eyesight by the time he was age 7. How could he play a fast-paced contact sport like football if he couldn't see?

This was the question before him. Yet young Jasen would not be dissauded. As he got older, he began calling around to different youth leagues to see if there were any teams that would take a chance on a kid who was sold out to following guidance and direction to make his dreams come true. He found just such a in the Modesto Raiders.

"The way he was on the phone, I just said, 'Come on we'll figure it out,'" coach David Nichols told CBS News.

Jasen started out as a running back, but soon advanced to ... wait for it ... quarterback!

"It's all memory," Jasen said. "It's all about having trust in the player, the receiver and the team. I have to trust them 100%.

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Bracy's teammates guide him into position on the field and his dad coaches him from the sidelines using a walkie-talkie that transmits to his helmet. "After the play starts, I may tell him, 'Hey, run to your right, let's get upfield,' or 'Watch out, somebody's coming to hit you,'" Bracy Sr. said.

All that trust, all that deep leaning into guidance and direction seems to have paid off. Not long after, Bracy led the Raiders to a 33-6 win.

In the past, only one piece of metal could be cut at a time with a saw or other metal cutting mechanical process. It took a lot of time and was expensive. Then came the invention and use of waterjets.

Low pressure waterjets were first used for mining gold in California in 1852. Steam and hot water jets were used in the early 1900s for cleaning. High pressure waterjets were used for mining in the 1960s. During the mid 2000s waterjets started to be used for cutting. 

A waterjet is a tool used to cut with a (very) high pressure stream of water. Think of a waterjet as something with about 30 times the pressure of the power washer wand at our local car wash. Power washing at car washes is an example of a dirt film being “cut” off the body, wheels, and tires of our vehicles. The key to cutting metal with water is to keep the spray coherent. Waterjets are able to cut because the spray is channeled through a very narrow jeweled nozzle as a very high pressure to keep the spray coherent. 

Waterjets can cut marble, granite, stone, metal, plastic, wood, and stainless steel. They can cut a sandwich of different materials up to four inches thick. 

Unlike metal cutters, a waterjet never gets dull and it cannot overheat.

Hansel and Gretel are the young children of a poor woodcutter. When a famine settles over the land, the woodcutter's second wife tells him to take the children into the woods and leave them there to fend for themselves. The woodcutter opposes the plan, but his wife repeats her demands until he reluctantly agrees. They are unaware that in the children's bedroom, Hansel and Gretel have overheard them. After the parents have gone to bed, Hansel sneaks out of the house and gathers as many shiny white pebbles as he can, then returns to his room, reassuring Gretel that God will not forsake them.

The next day, the children's stepmother gives them small pieces of bread before she and their father take them into the woods. As the family walks deeper, Hansel leaves a trail of white pebbles. After their parents abandon them, the children stay in the woods until night falls and the moonlight reveals the white pebbles shining in the dark. The children then safely follow the trail back home, much to their stepmother's rage. Once again, provisions become scarce and the stepmother angrily orders her husband to take the children further into the woods and leave them there. Hansel attempts to gather more pebbles, but finds his stepmother has locked the door.

The following morning, the children's stepmother gives them smaller pieces of bread, before she and their father take them back into the woods. As the family treks, Hansel leaves a trail of bread crumbs for him and Gretel to follow back home. However, after they are once again abandoned, the children find that the birds have eaten the crumbs and they are lost in the woods.