Thanks for joining me from San Francisco today. I'm on a Zoom. I wish I was in a room, but here we are. And I appreciate any feedback and some of these ideas and just starting to scratch them down. And hopefully we'll both have a good time kicking this around. So hit me on Twitter. I'm at Waters James. If you watch this, let me know you saw it. Let me know what you think. Thanks so much. We'll keep it fun like that. Next slide here. So everywhere I go over Zoom today, I'm running into more and more teams that consider themselves essentially the platform teams of these organizations. So they're not pure infrastructure teams. And they're not, you know, if you were pure application teams, their reason for being is that they're connecting developers to infrastructure in a secure pipeline, typically using Kubernetes as the final infrastructure API. And I'm seeing, you know, a convergence in enterprises at least where security has always been a paramount value. Essentially, you know, the definition of an enterprise is you become an institution. And the first job of an institution is survivability, sustainability in some sense. And so this focus on DevSecOps has been really strong in these platform teams. And I'd say about 60% of the organizations I meet, there's now someone carrying a director of DevSecOps title. So in some ways that's a new and exciting thing. And I think it reflects that organizational patterns have changed. Our security culture and methods are evolving to meet modern applications. We want the continuous delivery of features. We want to be able to respond to a user need in days or under a week versus on a more waterfall six month, three month, two month schedule. And we'd like to see those changes, you know, make their way to production for feedback to the developers as rapidly as possible. I'm going to talk a little bit about how I think security as part of DevSecOps is really just coming along for that ride and how in the same way that as an organization wants to get a feature to production as fast as possible. If there's a vulnerability discovered somewhere in the world, as opposed to there being meetings about it, I think our modern cloud native software systems need to be responsive. And almost at the moment of that event of that vulnerability occurring, start to kick off a series of processes and control a reconciler patterns that bring it to production as rapidly as possible. So this is a time of great adaptation to this era of microservices, continuous delivery, containerization. And there's a ever-growing focus on concepts of things like zero trust. Now that we've got these distributed microservices and you're suddenly adding all of this networking into the core business logic of an application. Well, how do we build our application level networks? Before a Java program, 1200 functions running in one JVM, you understood the privilege model of that application because it was all inherently one application, but now you've introduced networking. And so the idea of the zero trust, heavily identity-centric network has come into play. And in some ways that feels like a new fresh take on how we should do networking. But in some sense, I think that's also not true. And we've been on this trend of least privilege for a long time. In fact, if you go back to, you know, ACM journals in the early 70s, there were people articulating this idea of least privilege then. The idea that every program and every privileged user of the system should operate the least amount of privilege necessary to complete the job. And I think while in some sense, the internet was really not about least privilege because the internet was built for collaboration and sharing like HTTP, SMTP. These were protocols really meant to say, here's some content I want to share with you. And that's a great quote from the woman who founded Ubiqui where she said, hey, we're now trying to retrofit, you know, kind of identity and access management and controls into an organization, into a series of protocols built for sharing a collaboration first. But if you think of the cloud really as a modern at scale continuously delivered model of what the mainframe really was providing in the 70s, this articulation of least privilege starts to make sense. And you can start to look at some of the zero trust networking DevSecOps, a lot of these modern security practices as bringing cloud computing back into that era of design. And I think as I think back over the last 10 years that I've worked in computing, I've always seen security and especially designs of enterprise systems that favor least privilege to be highly attractive. And I like to think about this quote from Jeff Bezos where he basically articulates that everyone talks about what will change over the next 10 years. But what you can really build on is what won't change. And I think as I think over the last 10 years that I've been working on cloud native systems, the idea of least privilege and high security has been something I consistently bet on and our organization has consistently bet on successfully. We took, you know, I'll articulate it more. We took one bank from, you know, on average a six month wait for patching of their core systems and platforms. So about an every three day pace because we made it a first class object of the system they were using of the platform they were using. And they were so excited about it. The CIO is excited about it. Everyone was excited about it. And someone asked me once they said, well, you know how did you know to design for security? How did you know to make security a focus of that microservices platform? And actually it was pretty inarticulated at the time. It was almost like a fish in water. I had been so close to enterprises that always favored this model that I wasn't able to be crisp about why. But I think this idea of least privilege coming to cloud native is an important articulation of why enterprises really want to bet on this for the next 10 years as well. And what we saw with the first generation of our cloud native designs was that we were able to articulate and expose the right set of interfaces such that we achieve what we called at the time the three Rs. And those are still really important, I think for the cloud native community design around. I'll give you an example of the three Rs in terms of repair. If a CVE came out, we would automatically do a rolling update of that system. So one note at a time would be replaced declaratively, a manifest would inspect version one versus version two, see the diff and apply the diff. And we did that the entire way from the operating system up to some of the application runtime vulnerability. So anytime a repair event hit the system, it would be replaced. We would as part of that repair also recreate those immutable images from scratch. And so organizations were much more comfortable that the platform they were consuming was free of malware because we were always rebuilding from sign source. And people as high up as CIOs and major banking organizations now swear by this repaving model where they're like, every week we rebuild every note in the system. And I think this is a really important part of it of modern application platform security designs. We'd also build as much as possible of the controls right into the standard developer experience. So as you went to execute a pipeline, say 10 out of 12 controls were embedded in the process already. So while the developer might be responsible for ensuring some of the controls were still met, a lot of them were automated and part of the developer experience. And finally, if anyone who's seen some of the post mortem on the Equifax study knows that letting secret space credentials languish in the system or be exposed in plain text or persist is a really dangerous thing. A lot of the exploits we see come down to the acquisition and exploitation and privilege and escalation of these credentials. So we really, you know, fashioned our platform after idea that constantly anytime a node would be touched you could rotate the credentials. So these were the three Rs. And there was incredible demand almost that Jeff Bezos like limitless demand to go as fast as possible in those three Rs. Just like an Amazon customer would rather have everything they order as a consumer to be cheaper and sooner. Enterprises really liked this model of lease privilege in terms of what any node in the system, how long it persisted, how long it kept credentials and how long it went without being updated and how compliant the pipeline was by default. And I think if we apply some of those Gen 1 platform designs to our modern systems that we're building now as a next generation in Tanzu I think of the checklist sort of like this and a baseline of course, immutability and manifest based deployments so that governance and controls are very clear and explicit. So that's a baseline, but I don't think it's enough. I really think this trend towards a high more highly ephemeral system is part of modern lease privilege. I think time has entered out as a dimension of how long something should even exist is almost in a sense part of the metaphor of privilege. The shorter something is available the less time anyone tried to exploit it could exercise its privilege. And so the idea that nodes should be rebuilt constantly replicated from sort of a sign source model of the original intention is important. The identity of that short-lived node is also important. And I think in Tanzu we're tilting away from this idea of the shared secrets sort of like the aftermarket secrets model versus more of an inherent strong ephemeral identity baked into the platform with things like Spiffy Inspire. I'm very excited about some of the demonstrations I've seen where more of an event driven vulnerability management I'll talk a little bit about build packs but as a vulnerability is found the build pipeline is automatically updated in some cases the application is automatically updated to remove that vulnerability. So ideally just like that Jeff Bezos statement we should be converging to zero time between vulnerability discovery and vulnerability patching in the system if possible. Enterprises are always going to want a shorter and shorter time between the discovery of a vulnerability and the replacement of it in a safe way. And finally one of the biggest things we've seen is this merge of DevX and control is super powerful. So by paving the path for developers by giving them a set of conditions by which they can get code to production quickly that also meet compliance and security needs. It's an incredible one plus one equals five. So these are some of I think the modern principles of least privilege that I'm going to keep riffing on and looking to encourage all of our teams building Tanzu around. Let me give you some examples of where I think this is going to take off and I'll close with that. I'm super excited about the ephemeral node model of Knative that scales to zero because as you start to articulate an application as more of the serverless model where you've got an API or a route and then you've got a series of revisions and you can constantly restart that node based off of traffic. Well, that gives us the opportunity to refresh the node to make it more ephemeral to make sure that its identity is short-lived. So I think building applications that fit the serverless Knative model first when possible is super exciting. And we're looking to bring a modern DevX the whole way to this Knative model. And I think this application pattern this modern microservices pattern mixed with modern security practices together is super powerful because it allows that three hours model of security to come into the next generation of platform designs. And we can start to say shorter and shorter time to lives for all of the nodes, identities, secrets, access, et cetera on the platform. We're also going to bring a modern software supply chain to the Knative experience. So the tons of build service and the modern software supply chain we're building with it. Let me just give you a quick highlight of why I think that's so important. By default, a developer should not have to craft a Python microservice or a Java microservices Docker file. In a sense, that's a real violation of least privilege instead of just having the application to be deriving the Docker image through the build service the build service runs a process in a build pack called detect compile. It detects what's in the application what it needs and it compiles in a safe and secure way that's constantly updated for vulnerabilities a fresh image and runs that in the Docker registry of your choice to me that's right on this idea of least privilege is that we're converging more and more on throughout the DevSecOps pipeline by reducing the privilege of the developer themselves. She no longer is crafting her own custom Docker image and the vulnerabilities are automatically updated. I think that fits that modern model of least privilege at DevSecOps. So it's super exciting and we're seeing people almost debate what build service is. Is it a security layer or is it a DevX layer? Is it a speed layer? We have some organizations calling it all three and all three are right. And that's that magic convergence of developer experience and controls that I think are made possible through this new serverless model of applications and platforms. We want to bring that same OS patching speed and alacrity in a declarative fashion that we had in generation one platform designs to Tanzu and to our next generation of systems. And so we're working with some of those same customers that did that continuous rebuild of their operating system to bring OS management and OS update to cluster API. So now we've got the Kubernetes native cluster API way of articulating configurations. We've got that declared to config. The OS is just baked into it. So as the IaaS rolls a node you're rolling the OS and building the event and alerting model around when that OS needs updated and patched right into our platform is an important part of this modern security posture. So imagine the one plus one here of a K native style serverless application and then a cluster API managed OS. Anytime that you want to update that OS your application is always ready for a restart because it's inherently scale out, scale to zero. So applying these updates becomes really intuitive and proven operational model for the platform team. So that DevSecOps team can say if there's a vulnerability in either the application in the build pack or in the OS and in Kubernetes between cluster API and the build pack model we're going to patch that and update that immediately. And I think we'll see that same convergence to as the event happens, it can be updated. And I think that's really this long standing demand in the market for more and more security over time. It's never fast enough. Really quickly touching on this there's some things that aren't custom applications for things that aren't custom applications for things that are packaged open source. We have a secure pipeline that builds something called the Tanzu application catalog to give you proven proof of testing open source deployed to production with confidence. We have so many people are saying, Oh, we used to go out and just grab any open source off the web, compile it ourselves. We're now trusting this proven software supply chain from the Tanzu application catalog to surround our custom applications with that code. The last thing then though is that, you know these microservices running in containers or apps often apps. And so we're building into the spring framework more and more out of the box, DevX around security. And I won't cover it all today but I'll give you a quick preview of where we're headed there. If you think about that K native serverless application it starts to expose an API and you really want to mix the best of API management and microservices management. And in the past, we saw that there were separate teams one that was running the application another was running the API security team. And if you wanted, you know strong authentication rate limiting, routing or security controls on that application say anomaly detection of the application and API behavior you had to have one team separate from the other. So we're doing two things there. We think this lease privilege also applies to the applications models as well. We think that every microservices should have full API security both in terms of a micro gateway to protect it from DDoS attacks with rate limiting should have strong OIDC integration for authentication. And then we're taking that even further than just the spring gateway itself and we made an acquisition of a company called mesh seven and now we're starting to take what used to be the exclusive capabilities of these API security gateways and we're bringing that into the Envoy ecosystem into the cloud native ecosystem. And we're saying with the extensible Envoy model could we bring an overtime potentially even wasm compatible ecosystem of security and observability features to every Envoy such that every microservice can be protected as it's created within Kubernetes as opposed to that being a separate job of an API only team. And I'll just close with this example of why I think that's another, you know the endless demand for security within enterprises always bringing that closer to that DevSecOps model. We've talked to some organizations where they might have 2000 APIs but only 800 of them formally protected by their API management team. And the reason was is that that API management team wasn't as close to the SDLC to container management to that DevSecOps pipeline team. But now with mesh seven and the spring gateway we think we can bring all of the security and control and observability of those enterprise API management tools to every microservice. And what's a microservice? What's an API? They have the superpowers of each other immediately. So you can deploy with the speed of microservices and the security and control of an API all in one. So we're really excited about kind of that roadmap bringing this least privilege, this endless demand that enterprises want to be more and more secure every day to every application. So that's a little bit of my current thinking. You know, I'm pretty excited about looking to bring that model to our modern application platforms on Kubernetes. And I think it's an extension really of a trend we've seen for a long, long time but we're bringing to this distributed application model. So it's an exciting time to work on distributed applications container applications as we start to bring some of the security we might have had to consolidated monoliths and to consolidated systems to our distributed systems. So thanks for listening in on the talk. Throw me a tweet if any of this makes sense or is thought provoking. I'd like to continue to work on this kind of least privilege for distributed applications model together. Thanks so much.


EP didn't get hit by all of it though, so we're kinda blessed. And you know I got a Superhold on, OOOM! Let's go. I don't know if this is gonna kill the anime music is in the background, will we see our cutscene? That would be sick. OOOOH! The damage! How's it going everybody? Dot it away here, and we're finally back with some more Grandblue fantasy verses. If you weren't already aware, this game is currently going through its second season of DLC and has just recently released its third character UL. Now, even though it is still very early on in terms of getting to use this character, she does seem like one of the harder characters amongst the entire cast for me, because she's another character that operates with a stance system. Now, of course, with this stance system comes making sure you're switching in and out off counter hits to continue your combos, using it as a pressure tool because this stance is actually unique in the fact that if you're using it and standing still, it counters everything other than lows, and yes, that does include supers, which is really crazy. Counter that! Don't even try to super me! Oh no! And that's why in this video, we are going to be hopping into some online rake matches to try and see if we can get any wins under our belt with this difficult character. Now, of course, if you enjoy the video, let me know down below in the comments by letting me know or just by leaving a like if you want to see some more Grand Bleu on the channel. But with that out of the way, let's go ahead and get into the games. Okay, so here we are with game one. We are going to see if we are going to be able to put all of this into practice here. Good start by the opponent. I am just getting, I'm in the corner already. Block, looking out for any grabs, nothing to see. Just a couple of jab. All right, I'm out. Oh no, the far, I got the far square, that sucked. Woo! Didn't even get the jab either. Oh, block the DP as well. All right. Woo! I'll take a hit though. Hey! All right, now we're moving into the quarter. Oh, I didn't get the combo though, that would have been so sick. Nice. Ugh, don't know if we're going to block that in time. Okay, I don't know if we're going to live this either. We might get blown out by just the super. Oh, the damage on the super was insane. Not bad. All right, we have a lot we can improve on in that match. We kind of got bodied in the first half. Roll back, punish that with ourselves. All right, block the stance to him. That is plus for us. All right, can I see another jump in? Oh, nice. I'm going to have to back through that. I need to see a jump in. No. All right, we wasted a cooldown. I thought that fake out would work for sure. Nice, EX'd it. Oh, the damage, DP. I like to see it. Oh, I got countered. Didn't get the 2H. That's fine. Grab. Nice. We've got the lead. Yes, counter that. No, we should have just held the counter state. Oh, no. Grab. It's going to even us up a little bit. I tried to back step. It's fine. They didn't use any attacks. We're going to take round 2. Oh, that was sloppy, but we're game for a game now. Man, that was rough. I'm worried now. I can't believe that glass. That was so good for us, actually. Roll back. Give me that. Give me those legs. Ah, try to go into stance. You can't really rush the stance. All right. I'm trying to see you jump if I'm being honest, but I will take the damage when I can get it. Run up. Grab. Oh, nice. Ah, didn't dodge it. Tough. DP got me. If I... Oh, no, I didn't block low. Back throw into the corner. No. Please tell me I'm too far away. Oh, no. Danger. Danger. You know what? Let's sink. We take game one. That was really sloppy, though. We got a lot to clean up. Let me throw my swords down. Get a little comfortable. Oh, my opponent's in their promos, too. Oh, they need to win the... If they don't win this one, they don't promote. All right. Well, I know what I got to do. I'm going to read this. No, I got hit by lights. Tough. I'm looking out for grabs. I'm looking out for overheads. All right. I'm out. I'm not out. I wish I was out. I got to remember to keep that stance. And I always see danger coming and I get out of the counter stance out of fear because the stance does so much more than just counter. Oh, that was a low. Well, got blown up by that. Oh, nice DP. I'll give it up. Dodge that. No dodging here. Oh, back throw missed by a little bit. I keep missing the actual 2H part of that. No, the super doesn't kill. It's just the normal one, but it does do a lot of damage. No, it doesn't kill. So you know I got a super on wake up, then? You know if it doesn't... Oh, we didn't get the... Oh, we didn't get the cutscene to activate. I think because we missed the first hit, tough. I definitely... Wait. Okay. No, that was only game. I saw that they had a win in the court. I was like, wait, is it over? Oh, that didn't backstep far enough. Grab, get a little bit of damage. Counter that. I got to remember to keep that stance for the DP. I am missing that constantly. All right. Stop that. Let's go. I wish... I don't think that's plus, but I wish it was. That would be sick. Another grab. I'll take the damage. I got to remember to get out of that stance. Another grab. Oh, no. I think we're dead. Yeah, we're dead. We're gonna promo. That's fine. We still get another game to prove ourselves, though. We lost game two. That is fine. Man, that super was crazy. Congrats on the promo. I wish it wasn't against me, but we got to take what we can get. All right. Let's start with something. Not the DP. How do I get DP from that? I'm going for the jumping again. All right. Remember to read counter. Oh, he didn't DP. That time I was all about the read on DP. I wanted to get that done. Backstep that. Oh, too early. I'll take it. Read DP. It's fine. We got a bit of damage from the stance, folks. A bit of damage, but not enough. All right. Out of stance. We don't want to be in stance too long. I'm going to try to counter super. Oh, please tell me I'm not in the middle of, no, I was in the middle of it. All right. Fine. Tell me you're not blocking. Oh, no. I'm DPing. It was too late. They get round one. I keep trying to read the super with the counter, which maybe is a bit too brave on my part. I got caught switching to it that time. That was sick. The transition. Oh, the jumping. I should have been ready for it. I need to get out of here. Take what we can get. All right. We're safe. Why am I, why am I doing that? I don't know why I'm dodging. Give me that. Just get me out of the corner. I don't want to be here no more. Oh, no. Am I switching again? Oh, I got caught switching again. Oh, no. Are we going to get the cutscene? I hear the anime music in the background. No. Caught switching stances again. It's tough. You got to look out for that. What is going on? Is this the anime cutscene? Usually these are like battle feats. Darn. Great first game though. All right. We are back with the third game here and it is time to see if we can't get anything done. Oh, I'm jumping in. Let me go ahead and sidestep. All right. Got a little too big there. I'm going in again. Really? All right. How about a grab there? Let's go. Oh, I didn't DP in time. Blocked that. That was sick. All right, dodge. That was nice as well. All right. This time we get a knockdown. All right. I'll take the damage. I will definitely take it. It's adding up. I'm in my stands. Don't let me dance. I am here to hit you. No standing normals allowed. Supers count two if I'm being patient. Oh, that was sick. All right. Back it up. Oh, why did I not expect that? All right. I'm a DP. No, never mind. I'll just take the heavy. Grab, back throw. It's really tough to use. You got to be, you got to be still. It's also tough remembering that triangle is the, I kind of wish they made that the command normal. That would have been cool too. Oh, the grab. I always forget it has a little dash up. All right, back throw yourself. DP didn't get hit by all of it though. So we're kind of blessed. And you know I got a super hold on. Let's go. I don't know if this is going to kill the anime music is in the background. Will we see our cutscene? That would be sick. Oh, the damage. Show me my cutscene. Hold on. Beautiful sky out tonight. Wait, what's going on? Hold on. Cut this. Wait, whoa. What is this? Dancing just like me. Let's go. Our rematch. I like, I don't really, since I don't play Grand Blue, like the mobile game or any of the, the other installments of the series. I don't know anything about these characters before they get into this game. I'm a grab here. And it's just always so, it's so weird trying to figure out the lore just by what they do in their after intras and stuff like that. Oh, nice. I guess I should also say that I don't play the story mode or anything like that. So that would also help. Oh, nice grab. Hold on. I'm a DP then.  What am I thinking? DP does it. I'm going to do, I'm going to do with the, oh, missed my input. All right. We are down bad right now. Oh, we are down so bad. Hold on. Hold on. I got to make this come back. I thought for sure they'd wake up DP. I guess was that on cooldown? Did I block that? No, I can't. Oh, combo piece. All right. Game one to them. We really got to try to get this game. We got to try to lock this game up. That's the goal. Do we roll back? Do we make a read? Reads. Oh, it was a little late. Overhead. I'll take that. I'm going to go for it twice. Why not? All right. Can I see a jump in? I don't think we're going to see a jump. I'm rolling back. Sick to grab. Don't talk to. Oh, nice. All right. Do we have enough time to go into our stuff here? No. Darn that hit low. Oh, damage. I'm a DP then. No, the DP misses. Oh, no. Won't kill, but this will hurt a lot. This hurts a ton. That did hurt a ton. I just went for it just in case. I had to cover up my tracks. Nice. Game two goes to them. So we're going to finish it off right here then. This is it. This is going to be the game of this set. This decides it all. Nice. All right. Let me jump in. Let me do some talking. Let me do some talking myself. Did not enjoy that very much. Oh, we hit the counter hit too. Just never ready to get that. Such a tough character. You got to react to those counter hits quick. Dodge that. Talk to me. Nice blocks. Nice blocks. I wanted the run up back throw. Not going to happen though. Sweep. Really can't afford to hit that counter state right now. Miss the grab. I just went for it. I went for it. I was sweating. I was sweating. I'll take it. That was a cheap way to get the game, but I will definitely take it. That was almost really, really bad for us. All right. We're up a game now. It's time to finish this off. A strong showing here wins this. I'm not going to make the read. In fact, I'm going to make the other read. All right. Drill in. Oh, wow. You tested the buttons. I can't believe it. The button check. All right. Got him into the corner. I couldn't make the most out of that jump in though. Nice. Nice. Damage is adding up. Do we DP? I'm a DP. Why not? Counter DP. I flipped back. Oh, that's damage. Okay. We're down. At least we didn't have to watch the cutscene. Oh, that hurt. Oh, that one really hurt. The fish in the background. How's he go? How's he doing? I just need to end this. The slowest lockup grab. I thought maybe if I was slow enough, DP again, I got to start reading that. I've gotten hit by that way too many times. All right. No jump in. I need to see that jump in. Sweep. Sweep gets blocked. We're in a danger state now. This is bad. So much damage. The grab as well. Oh, no. Oh, down, down. It worked. All right. Oh, no. Is that it? That's it. That's it. Oh, bring it home. That is a shame, but great games. Hey, pose. That is going to be it for this video, though. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this one. Let me know what you're thinking about the character down below if you play them while you're down there. Make sure to the like button and subscribe to the channel if you want to see more of this game. Other than that, you can watch some more videos that should be on your screen right now if they catch your eye. I've been Dr. Doya and I will see you in the next one.


Ladies and gentlemen, I should say colleagues, welcome to this lunch seminar, we're going to talk about sustainable development goals. Of course, this is for an institute like ours, a very important topic, not only as a subject of our teaching and our research, but also because the sustainable development goals provide a framework of all the activities that we do and how we prioritise them in our strategy. We're going to talk about sustainable development goals. We're very happy to have Professor Stefan Ullenbroek with us, who is the UNESCO director of the World Water Assessment Program in the lovely town of Perugia, Italy. Stefan is also a professor, a touch to us in the chair group hydrology and water resources, and I think I would like to invite you to give us the presentation. The title is already mentioned there, it's about sustainable development goals. How do they contribute to the 2030 agenda, what's the state of affairs, and more particularly, what are the knowledge gaps. So the floor is yours. Thank you, Johan. Colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, pleasure to be here. I put this literally this slide together this morning. We had a celebration last night because one of our PhD students graduated. I put, of course, that's my main, and I completely forgot to put IG there, which I don't know what happened there. My apologies, and of course I'm affiliated to IG Delft, and I will put that next time also on my first slide. I want to speak about the need for science, for achieving the SDGs, particularly SDG 6. What is the best way to click this? We do a few words, yes, of what WAP is doing, the World Water Assessment Program, it's part of UNESCO. And this little cartoon shows it all. We tried to look at water problems from different angles, different perspectives, and trying to shed some more light. And also tried to translate the signs that many of you in the room are doing for a policy and decision maker audience. All our reporting is largely not so much for scientists, but more for so-called policy and decision makers. We also developed a UNESCO program, a UNESCO temple with our strategy. And the three main activities we are doing is creating evidence-based knowledge products, like the World Water Development Report, the SDG reports we have been doing. Then we work in this transdisciplinary research projects or impact projects, including water and gender. For people working in that field, I would like to announce that next week, in two weeks, we will launch the next toolkit for this aggregated data measuring in water management. And that's a very interesting tool also for you to work more on social sciences in your dissertations. En nummer 3 is we work on science policy dialogues, where we bring together scientists and policymakers and discuss what needs to be done. That's also what I'm personally quite involved in. Our main product is the World Water Development Report. That's this annual report nowadays. I put the line there to distinguish from the first couple of years when it was a quite comprehensive review document. I think the last version had more than 900 pages. En then it was switched to an annual report, a thematic report, always on different topics. I got involved in this with the first report in 2016 on water and jobs. And since then we published a report on wastewater, which was launched in Durban, South Africa. And then nature-based solutions, where also IG colleagues contributed quite a bit. And also this year we launched a report leaving no one behind. Which we was actually launched at the Human Rights Council in Geneva in March earlier this year. But if you want, you have to write me again if you want to let me speaking about the World Water Development Report. Today I want to speak about the SDGs. I'm mainly speaking for the students. I see many, it's very nice to see so many colleagues, former direct colleagues when I was a staff member here directly. You know all this, but maybe for the students. I hope you're all kind of aware of these and which is the most important goal. Tell me. All of them. Good. Number one. Oké. Oké, nobody says water, that's already suspicious in this institute. What is the most important goal for kind of a development point of view? What would you think? If you are in charge of country x, which is one of the least developed countries, and you want to make a difference, what would you think? 16. Democracy sometimes works, sometimes doesn't work. The same question was asked to leaders. That was a study done by the World Bank. I haven't seen the final report. This is kind of a work in preparation, which I received last year from a World Bank colleague. They were asking leaders. What is the most important goal in multiple ticking boxes was possible for development priorities? Number one is quality education. Second was peace and justice. And the third one is a decent work on economic growth. These three were at the top, and then the others came. Water is here somewhere. And if you think that responsible consumption production, I believe there's also an important goal, but it's down there. And the last one is the ocean goal. Only 3% consider ocean as a development priority in that country. Interesting. It's also if you separate these leaders into different groups. They were asking leaders from government, development partners, civil society, non-governmental organizations, and private sector. It was always quality education first, peace and justice, and growth and jobs. For the private sector, also infrastructure was then considered a very important priority. Does it make any sense? Is that meaningful? I'm actually very critical, because consistently oceans is always the last one. Does it mean oceans are not important? Professor Rainer Rassinger, maybe he's not really in agreement with me. I couldn't agree more. Of course it's not about ranking goals. I really believe this is actually misleading. It is interesting to look at this and ask yourself these questions. I believe that, I followed this diagram that the Resilient Center in Stockholm was publishing a bit more than a year ago, I think. They call that a wedding cake. You know what a wedding cake is? When I got married in Germany, we got a big wedding cake. It's not only about the creep. No, it's about all the different lakes. And it's not that the one is more important than the other. You need a good basement. The basement is the goal for terrestrial ecosystems, oceans, climate and water. Based on that, they put the societal goals and the economic goals. And they're all interconnected. And the size of the slides is not indicating this is more important than the others. But we cannot afford to miss out on the one or the other. It's not that oceans are not important. Maybe for a landlocked country somewhere, it's not a development priority. It's the concerted effort to reach all of them. So that's, I think, the important part. And I believe this is a more useful way than ranking them, I guess. Good. After this, every year, I think one of the key lessons learned from the millennium development goals to the sustainable development goals is that they said, well, we need to continuously observe where are we with these goals. Where are we making progress? Do we need to readjust our policies, et cetera? To do that, they agreed on an indicator framework in the performance management system in the indicators. And some 230-plus indicators were agreed on, mainly led by statistical officers. The indicators will come to them later. And every year, they meet at the high-level political forum in New York where the senior representation of government is meeting. And they say, oh, are we making progress? En last year, the water goal, our goal was on the agenda. It was one of the goals to investigate. To inform that process in 2018, quickly talking about the millennium development goals to the sustainable development goals, the focus on the millennium development goals was very much on water supply and sanitation. Therefore, you see a pittler tree there and a well, and on developing countries. Well, the SDG agenda is a much, much more comprehensive, much wider agenda. It's not only water supply and sanitation. It is also other aspects, water use efficiency, water quality, water management aspects, ecosystems, water-dependent ecosystems. So it's a much more comprehensive agenda, including aspects of cooperation and participation. So it's not only the wash part, which no doubt it's important, but that was very much the focus. Now we have a much more integrated agenda, but I believe it's a game changer because the complexity of water is considered in a much better way than just focus on water supply and sanitation only. I mentioned this meeting in New York last year. The governments were discussing where are we with water. To inform that process, we put together the so-called SDG6 synthesis report. It was a UN Water Task Force that put that together. I was coordinating that the last three years. And there were some 14 organizations put together. I manage a family with three children. I found this is challenging, but 14 UN organizations agreeing on one report. That is really, I think I lost some sleep and some gray hair. But it was an interesting exercise. And that was also then the only report from the whole UN system was presented to the member states in New York and was discussed there. It's summarizing with all these different indicators. We had some 90 plus maps with all sorts of indicators. Some you will see in a minute showing where we are with SDG6. Are we making progress and are we making progress in the right direction? And also what are the interlinkages between water and all the other goals? Ecosystems, climate change, gender equality, et cetera, et cetera. And what are the key policy recommendations? What can we offer to the world? What needs to be done to achieve this important goal? So I was standing there in New York and we were proudly holding up this report. 200 pages, lots of statistics and maps and I don't know. Some 70 people contributed as co-authors to this report. You know what the most popular was? It was a two-pager. We called that the highlights. It's a two-pager and very much in lay person's language. Trying to summarize what does the report say. That was the most popular document. Really, I saw everybody taking it. It was also helpful if you have a camera in front of your face. And sometimes you need some wording for a general public. And I found this a very useful document. Everything is on the internet including my slides and all these reports and highlights in many different languages, by the way. And the main message is the world is not on track. If we continue as we are doing now, we will not achieve SDG6 by 2030. It's a beautiful objective, but we will not get there. That's the main message. Sometimes we are making good progress, but the progress is not fast enough. We run in the right direction, but we don't run fast enough. Sometimes we really run in the wrong direction and we really need to completely shift what we are doing. If you look at the degradation of ecosystems, it's really going in the wrong direction. It's not a question like in water supply and sanitation, we connect more and more people, which is a good thing. But sometimes we really go in the wrong direction. In the next 20 minutes or less, I would like to just share a couple of main messages of this report and always illustrate that with a couple of key figures while we say that. The first one is for you colleagues, maybe a bit tricky. Achieving SDG6 is essential for all the others. Water isn't an enabler to make progress in economic growth, in climate action, in gene quality education, gender equality, sustainable energy, et cetera, et cetera. It's a bit trivial for you, because you probably understand that. But if I speak to non-water experts like yourself, this is kind of a hard alipness. We call that in German, like somebody, oh yeah, it's actually true. The critical role for water in job creation, for instance, is often completely misunderstood and underestimated. We illustrate this with a couple of facts and we show why water is so central. A couple of illustrations on that, that's the connection between water, energy and social equity. You see the situation in 2000, and we plotted on the y-axis the access to electricity, access to basic water. In 2000, in 2014, at the end of the Millennium Development Goals, countries developed. Every country is a bubble. The bigger the bubble, the larger the population. You see India and China as two of the bigger bubbles because the size of the population is so large. It's kind of a movement to the top-right, which is good. More and more countries are better connected to water and sanitation. But there's a race to the top, but on the other hand there's certain countries left behind. All these are the blue. One are Sub-Saharan African countries where we are still lagging behind significantly an access to electricity as well as basic water. We plotted that for many other parameters. All how everything is connected is the virtual water. To produce the products which we consume, which we eat, which we wear, the clothes I'm wearing today, all the cotton. The growing of this cotton was probably much more water was needed than I was drinking the last 20 years. So it's really the footprint we have to our consumption pattern in water is very significant. This is illustrated in this map with virtual water trade for the Latin American region. And you see how different commodities are also having your virtual water trade from the Latin America to the region. Again, this is for people just to illustrate how everything is connected. Second main message is while there has been a lot of progress during the millennium development goals when it comes to reducing the inequalities, we have to conclude that the inequalities are on an all-time high at the moment. In the example what you see there, we plot the GDP as an indicator for the size of the economy of a country versus the population connected to safety managed drinking water. En it's always the same, the richer countries are bet much better connected. If you plot basic drinking water or safe drinking water or sanitation or whichever parameter, it's very clearly the message is very clear. It's very unequal around the world. While water having access to water and sanitation is a human right, it's a benchmark decision by the General Assembly from 2010, which really defines the human right. Dat was a game changer as well because it clearly defines the role of the duty-bearers, the states, to provide their people with water and sanitation. It also defines the rights of the right holders. Every individual has the right to clean drinking water and sanitation. Well, having a human right is a good thing but it doesn't mean in reality that this is the case of a safety managed drinking water. It's 2.1 billion who lack safety managed drinking water. It's 3 out of 10, lacking that. 160 million use directly surface water, scooping surface water for their basic drinking water supply. This is the map for basic drinking water and you see the yellow countries which are lagging behind. If you do safely managed drinking water, which is the objective of the SDG, you see many countries became grey because we don't have data but you still see where the problems are. This is for drinking water. Inequality is also related to gender. I think this is well known in this. We from the UN, we often have these global maps and the colour code countries. South Africa is yellow and I don't know Mozambique is light green but having that, it is also very important to look at the inequality within the countries. Example from sanitation, what you see is the distribution of basic sanitation and what we see here is that 70% of the world has access to basic sanitation. The shared facilities. If you look at Latin America and the Caribbean, you have everything between 30% and 100% depending on which country you look at. If you look at Panama, a relatively industrialised country for Latin America and the Caribbean, the average is 80% between 30% and 100%. There is a huge difference for the urban and rural population, for the rich and the poor and for different municipalities. It's not about giving Panama or any country a number. It's really about understanding the inequalities within the countries, understanding the regional and societal differences that are there with access to all these things. The inequalities are at very close proximity. This is an irrigated golf course near Durban in the Chantitown with hardly any access to, or no access to safe water and sanitation. So the inequalities is a huge thing. Not having access to water and sanitation is a bad thing. It's also very unhealthy and it really impacts development in many ways. What we plotted here is the proportion of children stunted so they are physically behind in their development and the proportion of children stunted under 5. We talk about, this is an important thing. In India, it's more than 30% of the children under 5 are stunted. We plotted here against the GDP, obviously the richer the countries, the less children are stunted. Stunting depends on many things, not only on water supply and sanitation, food security, on the deficiency of nutrients, micro-ludions, health care, on many things. But also on water supply and sanitation. What we color coded here is the access to basic sanitation and the lower the access to basic sanitation, the larger the proportion of children stunted. We have more or less the same pattern if you plot other parameters as well.  So it's not only that they are shorter, it's also that their human capacity is already limited in the development. So how can you ever get out of poverty in all these problems even that the brain at the very early child age is already impacted. And it has huge implications for society. Often the number of people affected by conflicts is making it to the news. We have 65 million who are directly impacted by conflict directly. We look at the people connected, excuse me, affected by droughts and flooding is much more. It's twice as many people are almost by flooding directly impacted, indirectly we all are impacted by flooding. Or if you look at the people killed, 75,000 people every year on average die because of a conflict situation. 75,000, that's too many, it's terrible. Look at the people dying because of inadequate water and sanitation. It's more than ten times as much. It's a silent tsunami. Every day more than thousand children dying because of diarrhea. Like a very preventable disease. These are dramatic numbers but they don't make it to the headline news anymore. We are kind of, I'm sure you had this in your first lectures and we just accept this. And also our society. We're looking at the European Parliament again. It's exactly that slide. This does make it to the headline news but these are the real problems as well which you are too accepted in our society. Economic damage is also dramatic when it comes to water. I don't need to explain that further here while the numbers are difficult to assess. Last message. No, I have two more. Open defecation. The objective in the sustainable development goals is to end open defecation. Open defecation is maybe not only not a nice thing to do. It is terrible for the health. People are much more exposed to health issues through open defecation. And it's also a question of dignity if you don't have access to any toilet. And in particular for women in some southern countries it's also a question of security because if they have to go out in the middle of the night to do the business they can be exposed to violence or other problems. The objective is to end open defecation. Are we doing fine? Will we end open defecation in the coming years? What you see here is different regions and the largest burden is for Central and Southern Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. You see that the numbers are going down. It's kind of almost a linear trend. Over the last 15 years there has been progress in reducing open defecation but it's always embarrassing because there are so many professors in PhDs and master students. I did a very simple thing. I didn't have the numbers. I did just linear interpolation on the PowerPoint slide with some dotted lines. Students don't do that. Your professors were not accept, but if you're a professor yourself you can do it. What we see in the numbers are going down and if you assume a linear extrapolation it's not zero. It doesn't go now. We really reinforce our efforts if we want to end open defecation by 23. The numbers do not go to zero so it's really time to act now. It's not a question. We're doing beyond the right track and we just continue doing. No, we have to speed up. We really have to accelerate our action. I can give you many, many more examples. This is a bit complicated. This is a figure from the GMP program that we plotted the countries that do not have basic access to water less than 95% coverage. En dan, if you assume that the last 15 years, the rate of change of the last 15 years is a good indicator for the next 15 years to be extrapolated linearly and say, well, the rate of change continues for countries like Laos, Morocco, Mongolia, Sri Lanka they will have 100% access to basic drinking water. But if you, globally, only four out of five countries are not on track. They're not providing the access fast enough if they continue with the same rate of change as in the last 15 years. If you look at basic sanitation there's only one out of ten countries that is actually on track. So there's improvement, but not fast enough. Urban drainage, a number of colleagues are working in that field and what is plotted here is the connection of sewer systems over de last 15 years. En you see on the right access there's an increase in urban sewers in all these countries. Which is a good thing, better urban drainage including wastewater management, so it's a good development. On the Y axis we plotted the degree of urbanization in different countries. You see the green countries are doing well they improve the urban sewer network and they do that at a much faster speed than the urbanization. The yellow countries they have more urban sewers but urbanization is at such a pace to speed, it's outpacing the increase of connecting people to urban sewers. The red countries are going in the wrong direction anyway because they have less and less connections. So it's a negative connection. So maybe some of you said urban sewers Stefan is that the right thing so maybe we have to think of decentralized solutions other ways to manage wastewater as well. Urban sewers is is not the way, if you look like cities like Laos you have 20 million people and only 5% of the wastewater is collected and treated. 95% is discharged somehow. So having this kind of European centralized urban sewer system will never work there to retrofit that city will not work and that's true for many developing countries. So maybe other innovations from you are more effective in these? I think I should stop in 5 minutes I don't know We have some questions I think this is well known. I want to come to water use efficiency which is one of the indicators I promise some world maps this is an indicator to measure the water's use efficiency for countries with all the wisdom we came up with we can say that but it's the gross value per unit of water if you use an additional cubic meter of water what does it mean for the economy and that's the way to measure that and then you come up with a map like this countries who are super water use efficient according to that are Luxembourg or Qatar but these are countries that are not very much dependent Luxembourg is hardly irrigating at all but it's basically getting its wealth through service sector banking in particular Qatar through oil and gas so water use efficiency if you average that for the whole economy is not a very good indicator but that's the official indicator of course we reported that but we also critically discuss what are the war meaning for indicators and I'm happy to share this result from a colleague from Italy who is invested with a ruster based model globally and simulates water use efficiency and you see then the country of India on the left side is then a much more diverse pattern and you see water use efficiency and varies a lot per pixel scale and I think we can do that with more advanced water accounting and other tricks from Professor Salomatini and others to have a much more distributed approach to that as well and the lower is even separating agricultural left hand side sector and industry so you see it's super important to separate different main economic activities and not just put that all together I closely come to the last part of my talk and my job is to of course overseen the production of these products these reports that we are doing but also disseminatings I often give lectures also at parliament we had now four times at the European Parliament session on the World Water Development Report and others dissemination policy outreach is I believe an important part and so instead of only talking the talks or walking the walk what needs to be done and I promise some reflections on research directions and I'm very much looking forward to discussing what you believe what needs to be done better and I believe these interlinkages are very important en we need to quantify them much much better we need to develop better indicators I think for the water use efficiency that's very clear and there's others as well but I really believe we need to understand beyond the storytelling that water and gender is an issue we need to be quantitative and also be deterministic models be able to describe that I also believe that we need truly transdisciplinary projects transdisciplinary is defined and I believe that this is this is an important step what we need to do well by putting a lot of data together I still believe we need more and better data we really need to utilize the latest earth observation technique citizen science etc private sector data there's so much which the UN is not utilizing some of the colleagues say oh no it's not coming from the statistical office of the country we cannot use this data maybe it's too but on the other hand we need to inform policy decision making it's not only about which we are allowed to use we need to come up with better ways to inform what is the situation but just color coding countries and giving them blue or yellow or green is this part of the story therefore I believe research from your colleagues is very important I also believe that new methods are analyzing all this data big data maybe trade data and other data which we usually don't use in water so much some blockchain technology we don't understand the math but maybe Dimitri explains me that one day understanding transactions of water maybe in a much more distributed fashion than we were able to monitor maybe these type of developments really help us to gain much better insights in water and I would be very pleased to listen to you if you work on these topics internet of things is another one more data I said that and that hopefully leads to more integrated science for development which I believe is an exciting part which IG is working on I'm happy to be a part of it to support evidence-based policy and decision-making and then to make a difference in my last graph this was a study from a rainwater harvesting study in Eastern Africa, I think Ethiopia they were mapping the effort in terms of time and money going into that rainwater harvesting study and you see how much is spent on future work and how much is spent on data analysis, technical reports and knowledge sharing and the last one is advising the client what you could call policy outreach think about your own project how much effort do you put on that last bar and don't take it as an afterthought that you feel like now I did my research and I started talking to policy makers to actually do something with it so we really have to rethink research plots also like this maybe your impact could be improved with this I would like to thank you for your attention thank you Stefan for the interesting presentation I read we're still in dire straits let's see if there are some indications of what could be good directions forward or other questions from the audience you may throw the microphone I can do it so who has a question for you Stefan was I not clear enough of this we cannot throw so far we should just shout we stand out in the grammar could you stand up this connection about STG number C everything that we have to achieve with the finance change agreement because the parties agreement are there some other countries the big countries that are in the bubble so how do you see that in this scenario of achieving this goal because water availability is affected by climate change how do you see this in the big picture well I have 15 minutes to answer the question isn't it it's very important climate change is changing a lot but often there is these stereotypes now it's getting more water and getting less water I didn't expect her question but I recently talked about climate change and I still had some slides I found this a very interesting figure this is the average of 18 GCMs some of the best GCMs we have at the moment GCMs simulate the climate model Professor van der Singen can explain everything about this and then it's one of the scenarios and it's the trend to 2100 you see some areas there is a good agreement that it gets wetter like parts of eastern Africa or the human tropics in southeast Asia according to this graph and others become drier for instance the Mediterranean in some other areas parts of sub-Sahin Africa seem to be drier what I found most interesting if you take one of the GCMs you always get a different pattern where 80% of the models are in agreement with the direction there are some areas which is not at this shaded area where we don't know it's getting wet this is only the annual mean precipitation not talking about interesting parameters for hydrology like the daily maximum drought number of dry days and dry spell this is only the annual maximum excuse me the annual precipitation and you see in 30% of the globe we don't know in which direction it goes even with the annual rainfall so there is a lot of uncertainty in this on the other hand we do realize that the climate is changing and we need to advise governments and we need to work in our own countries or other governments to adapt to something which we don't know in which direction it goes so there is a lot of uncertainty I also don't say that we don't know anything we shouldn't do anything we shouldn't have a more better agreement but it shows a lot of uncertainty and it shows the space in which we have to work with adaptation measures but to answer your question climate change is absolutely critical and it gets too little attention in the water sector and also we had a core meeting just earlier today at the hydrology group I believe we need to connect much better and also utilize in climate change adaptation we talked about many billions that was a long answer to a short question maybe you just shout or so thank you very much interesting talk I would like to connect however this to our discussions at IHC that will happen so we around a year ago we had the first version of the strategy that was devoted purely to one SDG6 and SDG6 is called clean water sanitation however it was renamed it goes with many of your slides into water sanitation because the original formulation is about water based clean water and sanitation so it's about how humans consume water it's not about floods infrastructure it's not about hydropower so it's about quite narrow however very important aspect of water so discussion we have now that perhaps we should sort of better connect to SDGs as their formula however our structures are different from SDGs the question is should we need sort of restructure into more SDG related topics or since our topic areas are serving many SDGs practically say hydrology serves many of SDGs and if you take other research areas or educational areas they also serve many of SDGs and so we form a matrix where we work along research lines and we serve many SDGs in the same time so could you reflect on this should we indeed sort of think of restructuring along SDGs or we better simply think how our existing research areas attribute to this SDGs and help thank you I think as former vice rector I should stay away of giving advice or restructuring my IG I had this discussion so many times but I so I avoid making comments on the structure of IG but in length times of core groups and departments I avoid that but in terms of research lines and activities I believe what you call the matrix structure if I understood your question right is very true take flat warning a number of groups work in that field here at IG, the river basin group the hydromanics group, the hydrology group and others as well but that contributes to a number of SDGs so it's of course SDG6 and different aspects of SDG6 but also the city's goal there is something on victims and ecosystems en also preventing damage of infrastructure then economic growth because I don't need to explain so I think you can take a number of boxes with this kind of one example of working on flat forecasting for instance and that is true for probably everything so it's very important to demonstrate first be cutting edge, be very good what you do in high impact for development and then demonstrate how that links to quite a number of other goals would be my recommendation I hope I understood your question right the data that the joint monitoring program from WHO and UNICEF is using is coming from the large part from the what is called domestic health survey and there is some other data and census data from countries there are surveys done in many things and also the sanitation behavior so it's not only counting toilets it's also having access to toilets as a shared facility what kind of is improved or not improved it's kind of a fairly detailed monitoring of what people do so I don't think it's only counting number of toilets that's maybe one response to you and the second one I also don't believe that certain technology like the toilet which we enjoy here in western countries is necessarily replicable around the world or just something you parachute some toilets and then the problem is solved it has much more to do with cultural social acceptance it's a much more complicated thing than just toilets so it's the whole sanitation behavior including its cultural societal aspects oh it's from 2018 it's Fred Hartman from PIC in Potsdam Climate Institute the number it disappears thank you I'm very interested in that we are putting together the word and climate change with what a development report as we speak it will be published next March and first draft is ready in June and I would be most interested to see the latest data but this is a one year old publication it's not okay Michael I think it's fascinating that you've come from the IHE community and now you're leading this part of UNESCO and you've told us you're out in the world you're talking to policy makers, decision makers I know you're also really circulating among the highest levels of water expertise and leaders in different countries I just wonder if you've had any observations about the capacity at that level and strengths and weaknesses I'm not sure if something stands out from your experiences but do you have any sense that what would help most is greater technical expertise in particular areas among the people you interact with or is it more of a more integrated higher level understanding of water and development among the people you're interacting with when you're trying to communicate simplified but still complex ideas in your presentations no, it's a very complex question, thanks Michael well just more specializations or more integration is the question what is needed more or what do I observe in my counterparts what you observe that could be improved I think we need improvements everywhere but what I call it before a game changer that be from this pure focus on water supply and sanitation have a more comprehensive looking at water as a goal with many aspects, water quality scarcity even some aspects are missing flooding is not explicitly there I agree but it's a kind of there is a development but probably these simple messages that water is an enabler goals and also progress and so many other things is important to make progress in water development that is too little understood and it's even I am often on story telling examples we need maybe more research is needed, applied research is needed to really quantify that what does that mean for a late chart or for a reforestation after in Ethiopia or for a mangrove system in a delta somewhere in a complex in showing how ecosystems, water jobs for the people how that really connects quantitatively not only in storytelling I think that's missing and also that people get this integration is often not there maybe because of all the education most people at that level are from a classical education they don't have a t-shirt they have just the eyeshift this was an insider joke a very classical education in civil engineering or in ecology I think that the integration I think is underutilized people need to the lectures I feel I would like to thank you very much Stefan for the presentation there were a lot of interesting links that we have in our minds internally in Aichi so I hope that it is also fruitful thought and further deliberation thank you very much for joining us thank you


Item No. SCP-2571 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures A Foundation-operated bot, I.O. Mandela, is to monitor online communities for discussions regarding SCP-2571. MTF-57, the Laughing Stock, is to investigate these discussions and make a determination for appropriate action on a case-by-case basis. SCP-2571 is a recurring childhood memory of a non-existent theme park, Craglewood Park. It is estimated that 0.05% of the world's population is affected by SCP-2571. However, recent evidence suggests this number may be growing. The primary vector for SCP-2571's spread is not yet known. Notably, it appears to be most common among adults raised as an only child. Afflicted subjects are initially responsive to amnestics, but memories regarding Craglewood will typically resurface once treatment ceases. Although descriptions of these memories vary, several details remain consistent. Subjects were between the ages of 4 and 12 when they visited. The park featured numerous characters, primarily centered around anthropomorphic variants of trees and plants. No adult supervision was present. Calliope music played throughout the park. Subjects attended the park with numerous other children, none of whom they knew. The park featured only one ride, a carousel or merry-go-round. Although children accompanied the subjects boarded this ride, the subjects themselves did not. Investigations regarding the precise nature of both SCP-2571 and Craglewood Park are ongoing. Addendum 2571.1 Interview Logs Date 06-16-2002 Interviewer Dr. Reiner Subject Rupert Dukasue Begin Log What do you recall about Craglewood Park? Jesus, is this what this is about? It's just this nightmare I used to have. Can you elaborate? I mean, I think it's… it probably based on some actual theme park I went to as a little kid, you know?  What happens in the nightmare? I enter this theme park. It's like Disneyland but smaller. There's no rides just as long winding road through the woods. Everything's bright and colorful like in a cartoon, and there's these trees all around me but… Tell me about the trees. They've all got faces, and they're singing. They've got these dopey, cheerful looks, like at one of those old time cartoons, right? And they just sing and laugh and sing. Can you tell me anything else? There's this music that's playing everywhere. It's like organ music, but not the kind you hear in a church. More like the sort you would hear at a carnival. You mentioned before that there aren't any rides. Oh no, wait, no, I'm wrong. There's rides. There's one ride. Just one ride. It's that thing with horses that goes around in circles. You know what I'm talking about? A carousel. Right, that thing. It's where the organ music is coming from. Were you there alone? No, there's other kids with me. They're not happy to be there either. We're all smiling and laughing, but we're just doing it to stop ourselves from crying, you know? To fool the trees, so the trees don't see how scared we are. To keep the trees happy. Keep them happy. Yeah. Is there anything else you can tell us? Um, fuck, I don't know. I haven't dreamed about this place in ages. Uh, I think there's one bit near the end. Please relax. Take as much time as you need. Subject closes his eyes. Just as I am getting ready to leave, I see something. A tiny tree sprouting up near my foot. It looks up at me. It's smiling. Smiling with that big, dopey, happy grin. When I see it, that's when I start screaming. That's when I wake up. Why does that tree make you scream? Subject opens his eyes. Because it has my face. End log. Interview log. Date. February 9th, 2003. Interviewer. Dr. Rainer. Subject. Janine Yeerling. Begin log. Did you ever ride to Carousel? What? Hell no.  You reached it then. Some of the kids got on. Not me though. The ones who did. Some of them were smiling. Some of them were crying. Some of them hugged the ones who didn't get on. Some of them hugged each other. What happened then? They rode to Carousel. Then we left. What happened to them? How should I know? We left. You left them behind? Yes. We left them behind. Boy, you think we should have stuck around? See how this is all going to turn out? I'm sorry. I didn't mean to accuse you of anything. You were just a child. No one would have expected you to. That's right.  Subject shakes her head. I just… You have no idea what even talking about this is doing to me or how it's making me feel. I don't want to talk about it. I just want to forget it. Why can't you just let us… Subject lowers his head in the hands. I'm sorry. I just… I'm sorry to apologize, Mrs. Yerling. You've clearly gone through a deeply traumatizing experience. Subject sobs. I just… I just… I don't understand. I can't imagine you would. Nothing about this experience makes much sense. Not that. It's just… It's just… What is it? One of the kids… One of the kids that got on… Yes? Why… Why did he hug me? I didn't… I didn't even know who he was. Subject continues to sob. End log. Interview log. Date. June 12, 2004. Interviewer. Dr. Rainer. Subject. Randolph Blair. Begin log. I'd like to talk to you about the videocassette. Christ. I understand that this is… You people just don't get it. I don't want to discuss any of this with you. Fuck.  Please Mr. Blair, I need you to focus. Get on with it. This cassette. Where did you get it from? I don't know.   I thought it was just an old copy of Ghostbusters or something. Do you recognize any of the images on it? I don't know. Yeah. From nightmares. Bullshit like that. Maybe someone showed me the tape of the kid. Have you lived in this house your whole life? Yeah? You were raised in this house by your parents? Yeah, just going somewhere? The front bedroom?  I understand, but we need to understand what's going on, Mr. Blair. Why is the front bedroom? I don't know.   That's why I keep it locked, okay? I don't think about it. I understand, Mr. Blair. I just need to ask… Are we done? I just need to ask one more question. Whatever. Mr. Blair, have you always been an only child? Subject refuses to respond. End log. Note, the subject has refused to conduct any additional interviews. Addendum 2571.2 Video log Note, the following log describes the contents of a mini-video cassette found in the possession of Randolph Blair. The word cragglewood is written across its label in black felt tip marker. Begin log. One second. Heavy breathing. Five seconds. Shaky image of a gravel path heading through a forested region. Ten seconds. Distant Calliope music. Twenty-one seconds. View swivels to focus on other children walking down the path. Some move hand in hand. Thirty-two seconds. View points towards the gravel. Thirty-six seconds. Voice sobbing. Voice one whispering. I'm scared. Voice two whispering. Shhh. It's okay. It's okay. Don't cry. You have to smile. You have to. Fifty-five seconds. Distant singing. Voice two whispering. Smile. Smile please. Just smile. We'll be okay, I promise. I'll take care of... One minute. Two seconds. Static. One minute. Nine seconds. Blurred images. One minute. Ten seconds. Distorted singing and Calliope music. One minute. Fifteen seconds. Deep, cheerful laughter. One minute. Twenty seconds. Singing and music intensify. One minute. Twenty-five. Voice two whispering. Oh God. One minute. Twenty-six seconds. Static. One minute. Thirty seconds.  One thirty-two. Voice one whispering. What's happening? One thirty-five. Voice two whispering. Shhh. Just. One thirty-nine. Singing intensifies. One forty-two. Voice two whispering. Oh God. One forty-five. Voice one whispering. What are they? What are they? One forty-eight. Voice two whispering. Listen you have to. One fifty-two. Few lowers to the gravel. One fifty-eight. Voice two. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You have to go. You have to. Two oh one. Voice one. No. You aren't. Two oh five. Singing intensifies. Sounds of children sobbing can be heard. Two oh eight. Voice two. Go. Please. I'm sorry. I'll be okay. Just. Two twelve. Static. Two twenty. View bobs frantically racing down a forest path. Two twenty-one. Heavy breathing. Two twenty-two. Distant singing. Two twenty-five. Voice one whispering. No. No. No. Two thirty. View lunges up then drops to the ground. The view is now centered on a face. Two thirty-five. Voice one. No. No. No. Please no. Please no. Two thirty-eight. The face looks up and smiles. Two forty-one. Voice one. No. No. No. Two forty-two. Voice two begins to sing. End log.


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I should Jack and Troy really, but they have some other names to some other good ones All right all card ship in this And we get back to 2020 and 2019 I'll slow down with the paper and find out the bigger paper names Are we're looking for? Fine green rookie Jordan Diaz the 399 a's on the paper Martin Gonzalez, I hope so KJ. I hope so Plaza romantic is on the first Edward Julian. So my my fantasy football draft is next Saturday Yeah, my my dynasty draft. Okay. Yeah, big. It's a big weekend. It's a big weekend, dude Now really in Sedanio Padres first woman blue lunar crater auto to 150 Padres I have six overall pick I don't know. I'm gonna take no idea Spencer Jones there is a keeper Yeah, dynasty we keep 16 or 17 every single year only draft rookies and then Whatever readings are kind of in it, too So, yeah, so the Celtics are they're actually doing it be funny to heat one tomorrow purple first moment for me They own a 250 for the Red Sox They won't but they'd be funny Although it'd be very like spot-on with the Celtic season for them to come back from three down and then lose at home Atomic to 150 Ellie De La Cruz Reds top 100 insert nice Ellie That dude is gonna be so good. Here it is. So good Justin Crawford blue pattern paper to 125 Billy's in the first moment Who should I root for Jake Celtics or heat? What I guess because I'm a fan of the other teams there or do you Do you like you do not like the heat? Yeah, it's it's a rival. I mean it's like a big rivalry, but I guess it's like a rivalry It's the only like geographical rival they have But that's not like Like I'm never like circling the heat games in their calendar. Atomic first moment auto Adam cramped into 100 for the Orioles Most my lifetime the heat had been better at least at least a past decade plus But when I was younger the magic were better than he gets the heat stunk till they got de-weight and he turned Yeah, weren't good for a while after they won the first one and they got LeBron and they snuck again and they got and they got Jimmy because Dumb teams they don't want to keep Jimmy Long answer short. I don't hate the heat for being like the magic's rival Aqua shimmer first moment of horror. Hey, we ease the 125 for the angels. It's a gunner spotlight Lunar glow Davis and De Los Santos de-backs Like here at coffee, it's gonna be any good. So let's hope Jacob a berry Marlins first moment base auto Fish with the hits fish on the berry Moreno rookie to your favorites. What is serious to come out? Not too far, right? No, I think it's always in June. I think serena says like June 6th. Oh So like The Wednesday after would be June 6 or 7th. Yeah, 2022 Bowman now Yeah, usually since you guys I never remember Where it normally comes out like in June I'm excited though. Masa Masa rookies Maybe a little bit here because Adley can't win it Possibly possibly I think because he's gonna be so consistent He's also just such a good hitter Love that guy. I'm glad I'm I was like, oh man, I shouldn't give him this No, no, they if anything they might have gotten a bargain on him Or how good of a hitter he already is and can become so trace weenie chrome Let's see an alley for the red spot Victor press the auto first moment auto creed willems for the Orioles It's one of Jake's favorite bands is creed I need a fortnight to come out with some cool dances that I can buy Kalia Watson chrome and a Colson Montgomery as well That's that's what I mean. I need them to like release more Since I started playing to have released anything good, but I got that. This is the way I got that emo Gold Nick York top 100 scouts to 50 for the Red Sox number 15. You had a tough season last year He can bounce back Moncy chrome rara. It's a cross solid Has Cabrera had a rookie card yet No, he's gonna be in serious to him. I think he's gonna be big-time chasing. That's the one I said earlier Wolf and Cabrera Carrera is okay. Like I'm not saying he's a very good, but he's Yankees rookie He's pretty sore. Here's the Yankees first woman auto of Randy Vasquez. He's solid. He's never gonna be like He did well yesterday like a perennial all-star anything like that, but he's a good. He's a good player They could use youth like that on the Yankees right now. Do you see him pitch it all yesterday? No That's this piguero Elliot Ramos You also are Garcia Roberto Campos because everybody's chasing series too. There's a lot to chase There's a lot to look for in series Taylor walls All right, Jake, I recommend not ripping any boxes and just buying those then Waiting for someone else to the shop to rip. I'm gonna you just ask me. That's probably a good record Jakes rip a jumbo case like for Taylor walls base cards Serda Kero Bayez purple first woman Dustin Harris nice card for the Rangers there. He's a one of their what top five prospects Dustin Harris You'll Rangers they have a good form Jared Ran rookie insert triana Benjamin Bailey Is everybody at man raise out doing stuff. It's a holiday weekend Garrett Mitchell on the Invicta Guzman PA for do go Nora Rivera Jackson choreo first Lime green paper landing so set of 399 white socks again Jackson choreo only has base first This one he his first auto was 22 chrome Delacruz is chasing this one. Well, they're solid names, but he's like V chase Your Jake get get say something to get the people going in chat. Tell him what's up, man Dodgers went to Tampa you believe that the Dodgers with Tampa that just sounds weird the first Sunday play since the 24 Really purple first woman auto Brandon Valenzuela out of 250 Padres Padres second numbered auto of the break both first moments Oh class a first woman shimmer Aqua shimmer to 125 Victor Liza Raga Padres I could have sworn we went off to LA one here. All right, Jake. Mick pick two or four four four four Can't beat it Wendy's leers McDonald's I agree unless we're talking about The breakfast bagel sandwiches, yeah Wendy's breakfast McDonald's never had Wendy's breakfast I'm not saying it's bad, but this the the steak egg and cheese bagel sandwich and McDonald's is like maybe the best fast-food breakfast item That isn't like that isn't like a Chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A or something What up from Mars 2021 Bowman now 2021 Mars, what's your favorite breakfast item for McDonald's? Like what's your go-to? Do we just have sausage McMuffins for a dollar? I'd be hammering those like sausage biscuits or whatever Like high school if you should pay for an all-in-our-not to the 299 Rockies My go-to top refracto de la rosa Nats to 499 first Bowman chats quiet. They're just they're resting They're saving their energy to be to be chaotic later. I know it Nick Maiton No, I'm not a big McGrido guy The girls are good. They're they're a lot though. That's really you know, I make riddles though I think they're really good, but once they brought back the bagels. I'm with Sam The the bagel sandwiches McDonald's are fire whatever that the sauce they put on the bagel sandwiches I don't know what it is. I think it's literally called breakfast sauce. It's amazing First Bowman auto Jose solace. That's a nice one for the Marlins Marlins do a well here solace and Barry Vogel What's up Twins have some pretty underrated prospects as well They don't have a lot of like elite guys, but they have like I feel like a pretty deep farm You got depth purple first bowman auto. Yolkley sesame. It's a 250 white socks. Nice There we go. That's solid In 2021 not the biggest chases boat a couple of solid names in there, right so far fuchsia chrome to one out of nine Pradomo D-backs What's loco moco? Is that a restaurant? We certainly don't have that for there's no chance we have never heard of it But whatever it is it sounds amazing and we need it They got a underrated group of guys though for sure Yeah, I want that though that sounds good Christopher morale first woman chrome there he is We're trying to tell y'all when this product came out Yeah, I think his auto is in 2021 Bowman chrome though do that every year every year Always have dudes first chrome and Bowman and then Bowman chrome has autos. It's confusing Atomic Josiah Gray Dodgers I saw I Don't think the possums need tickets dude. They own the stadium. They live there, bro. Yeah, they don't need they don't need tickets I'll play a nice ace car Save that. Oh Robert Hassler fractured on a 499 dude What a good box at 20 21 Bowman jumbo Padres very nice. He is their top prospect currently. I believe in a blue paper first woman junior Severino out of 150 for the twins Yeah, Brian, we are not close to Miami We are not close to Miami Like we're close, but we're not like swing by the shop close Unfortunately, unfortunately, we're not even that close to Orlando airport about half hour 45 minutes from that Maybe longer depending on when you decide to drive over. Yeah Atomic Manoa d-backs or not d-backs blue jays. Otherwise it d-backs Haha He's pitch like one reason got an aqua pipeline to 125 is the Rockes here Rollison Welker and Bowden Bowden Bowden right Bowden Salas Chrome de la Rosa Instead, expect to see Lane at that. It's gotta he's got a big day ahead in the morrow. All right y'all 2020 time 2020 time Interesting who to go on bowman's best now again those teams are on sale It's just the Brewers and the Giants now y'all just the Brewers and Giants. Oh nice lane Heck yeah, appreciate that you got this lane and again Brewers marked a good bit down chasing Jackson choreo and then wasn't Giants are affordable They got a few hits and the products from what I remember It's been a while since I've been bowman's best though. It's 2020 here We'll go slower through the paper and pull out any Volpe and panion with even Dominguez, I know Not hitting no pit the best right now, but Still a big name Maybe some chair and a ran chrome in here. Hmm. Hmm. There's Dominguez Volpe on the paper purple paper Grant Levina 250 Rockies color match Refractor Christian Javier to 499 Astros Sheriff's here. Who's the sheriff me? Jake the sheriff. I think he's referring to himself. Dude. I went to the rodeo roundup the new Toy Storyland restaurant. How was it? There's a lot of food.  They have a cocktail there. You would you would like this you might know you're 21 They have a cocktail there. It is like a peanut butter. It's like a frozen peanut butter and jelly It's vanilla vanilla smoothie mix with peanut butter screw but screw ball peanut butter whiskey and they have this like Grape boba on the bottom of it dude. It is so good. I gotta go back and see if I can just order that and leave Yeah It was very sweet. It was it was like a dessert like drink like a frozen thing and I don't normally do that But I was like dude PB and J Yes, it was very good. I love it. You're gonna pretend to be sheriff They saw Adam Hill Brewers Bobby Whitt. He's on fire now. He's been hitting really well recently He's so good Giants are a very good affordable team and best People just sleep on Giants prospects. What did I say for us? What did I say? You think it's gonna be Renfrow? Tie it up puzzle.  Oh Man, look what if they put Renfrow on? Look Marlins are are walking the tightrope right now.  That's a run, right? No, not too slow Well, that's a they could tie it here with the that's a double right there They could definitely tie here with the single control. Yeah. Well, when you when you become employed by Playing sports card chain.  Yeah, you made me one like the last time I was in chat.  He would have been in after 2019 draft So this is the first one after drafts. I should say so a second product very nice Adley base prospect auto That guy is very very good at baseball. Let's catch her Maybe already. Yeah. Yeah, he's it's kind of it's kind of insane He is like I know he was got all the comparisons the Buster Posey. He's basically Buster Posey We could definitely carry a franchise like that man Number one overall catcher draft. I mean, yeah, exactly. It's Who knows Maybe the Orioles are on their way to win in some real series. Look at how well they've been playing since he's been called Look at he doesn't know Orioles losing. He's literally been called. They've been good It's not a coincidence. I mean there's other pieces there obviously, but it's not a coincidence You know our responsibility to fun parts. Yeah Yeah, but it is fun to be employed here Yes, the the Rangers are real the Rangers are for real I don't know if they're like the other they're probably the best the American League, but they are they should make the playoffs this year You got MVP candidate you got good young players their pitching is while they got let's see Martin president of all the you don't need anybody else. You got Red Sox legends there of all these men insane Maybe he's either to get home to Texas Trout for the win oh too. Oh man. That's not good. Oh my god. How did he lay off that and why did he lay off that? That could have been called a That was nasty if sure Quad is not get out of this. He's got he's gonna be like, oh my god I can't believe rookie gold paper more. I honed the 50 for the Padres. Oh my god, dude It was game over and now it's two and two I Man umpire could have called game right there man Jaren Duran Yes, he'll tell a cruise man What a what a ninth inning jam to purple first woman auto Vidal Bruhan to 250 for the Rays Future Vidal Bruhan purple solid card there Exactly never looking forward with good stuff for the Rays Ron can I see own and on to 19 I Think the range is real though. I When you're two months in and you're like leading the division still They're real. I think they're real. How just how good I don't know. I don't know When semi-native when semi-native see you're a both healthy though. Those are your offensive leaders Outfielders are pretty decent and then you got Josh young now. He's also doing well. I'm is apparently amazing What's hitting catcher when you join a high models ace the pole and like nobody would say anything about them I pulled John Hyme rookie autos for the A's All right 19 jumbo Jake's gonna get you guys links for Bowman's best Bowman's besties Fracture to 499 Brent Rooker for the twins which team just Giants left at 49 bucks That's it Thompson Bannon Yeah, I'm down with the Rangers. I just want to see someone other than the ashes on the division rookie Aramis Garcia paper to 499 for the Giants Where do you what are you laughing at right now? We're missing out aren't we? Jake they're leaving us behind all guys. That's how it is when you break nights though. No, dude That's how I feel every night though. Oh, they're playing for Luciano first bowman chrome. Go Giants base First bowman purple auto for the raise Nate low to 250 What if um, I would have screamed if that was a wander That's still pretty decent And Nate low. He's he's an MLB player That's another like underrated player on that ranger's deep team Nate low Nathaniel low His brother isn't playing out as much see you play third or short Short play short third is just josh shone, right? Didn't know if it was like a full-time josh shone playing that Well, they also have the ran white blue paper whiner to 499 dbecks Ezekiel What's your name? Ezekiel Classic Second baseman A monster this year. He's an animal. He's back on that uh last season with the blue jays vibes Maybe he's in I mean, yeah, just had an off year. That's it. Come on Come on Yeah, tigers can have a winning record before the all-star break. They're a game under 500, right? Sold out. Thank you very much everybody. We've got what bowman inception now Bowman inception two to go last baseball spots of the night until tomorrow And then the only two breaks after that are origins football eight box mixer That's four box to 21 and four box to 22 and then sunday fun day is at 21 now Yeah, that's for real y'all That's for real. We're in it. We're in the sunday fun day holiday weekend edition Jake with the world's my winning division Oh Oh Dude, how funny would it be if they just like turn into the o1a's The problem with the o1a is they had good players the whole time this version of the a's They don't have scum ahead of her Yeah, no uh, no no chris pratt. No star lord at first base But david jessus paying for stuff at the vending machine Welcome to open DJ rookie refractor auto luisa rios to 499 for the Padres decent one there There's a paper wander Joey Bart Luciano paper Yeah, we're doing breaks tomorrow for all the schedule So you guys matt's the morning, uh baseball and then i'll be here in the evening for the breaks. Yeah, we don't do uh We don't we don't do holidays. We got like christmas new year's Thanksgiving. That's what we got Maybe fourth of july. I don't I don't know some sometimes that changes You know chat Bradford in the bullpen Speckle Royce Lewis twins I met chat Bradford. Oh, yeah, I served him drinks at the bar that I worked at He's a uh, he's a johnny walker black label kind of guy. Hey, he doesn't drink the expensive stuff I talked to him too I was like normally I don't if there were like celebrities or whatever I wouldn't talk to him But I was like dude, it's chat Bradford. You're probably barely gets recognized. He looks like the dude that's there with his family I mean, he obviously is like six three or six four or whatever But I was like I saw the name. I'm like It's like that is chat Bradford. That's the only chat Bradford there is What's cool chatting them up for a bit I like dude you were on the you're on the o1a's. He's like yeah, it was I didn't I didn't ask him like oh, how did you feel about your portrayal in the movie? I didn't ask him that I should have asked him Tipped well though. So that's why I was like, yeah, I'm talking this I'm talking Yeah, he tipped well Ordered the easy string dude He would just order a double johnny walker black on the rocks every single time and he would tip like almost 50% Where was this at when I worked at a royal pacific at universal. Oh, yeah Does he live? I don't know where I don't know really Yeah, I mean a's have Poison in 2020 and they have some other decent names here and there Come on see Usually we'll get the marlins are a little upset, but they hit barry and solace. So The rickabrara chrome First woman auto is dairy and cruise for the braves Still no big hits in like 19 man. It's crazy What kind of cold cases that we get? There's an atomic. Come on. Let's see a big name atomic here Atomic rookie brennan lao to 150 rookie to your favorites big card for the rays Jake called it a big card That guy does hit tanks He makes con yeah, yeah, he doesn't make contact every time, but he does hit tanks I would say a good second baseman and he doesn't do that a lot right now. All right, let's do a recap MVP Um, how about all remember miguel tahada is uh home run derby champion that one year He was orioles tahada at the time Or was he a's the hot I can't remember. Anyway, he won the derby one year Yeah, well good up. Look up derby winners. I forget what year was like 05 or 06 or something All right, we got autos adam hill dairy and cruise hosay solace randy vasquez creed willams jacob barry Refractor hassle the 499 padres Refractor orias padres rias Purple natelow to 250 for the rays purple brujan rays cespidus white socks is a nice one Valenzuela padres sedanio padres blue lunar crater Atomic adam crampton and a bay sadly rushman from 2020 bowman The second product he signed in Very nice adley. Thanks again, everybody. We're on to woman's best