Thank you so much, and thank you, Ambassador Forbes, Ambassador, Mexican Ambassador, for joining us today. Great pleasure to be back at the Institute and speak about our vision of economic progress shared by all. Ireland will soon celebrate an important centenary, 100 years since the proclamation of the Irish Republic in 1916, which declared, I quote, to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally. Now, this is a crucial mandate for equality, which is the focus of what I'd like to talk about today, not only in Ireland, but in practically all democracies, certainly in all OECD countries. Unfortunately, this is an objective that we have failed to achieve. During the past 50 years, our countries have created remarkable levels of growth, remarkable levels of wealth, remarkable levels of progress. But the benefits have not been evenly distributed. The current crisis has exposed the greed and the privileges of a happy few, but also the great vulnerability of the many. We're heading into the sixth year of the economic crisis. We're fortunately seeing important signs of improvement in a growing number of countries. Some emerging economies are facing new headwinds, but their average growth rate is still more than quadruples that of the developed countries. Yes, we were recently in St. Petersburg in the G20 summit, and of course, where they said, oh, well, we're very worried about the deceleration of the Chinese economy. I said, yes, poor guys, they're only growing at 7.6%.  But they are going through a rough patch for the first time. I think China kind of starts on the side a little bit, but if you look at India, if you look at Brazil, if you look at South Africa, if you look at Mexico, many of the large emerging really are going, for the first time, coming down in terms of the growth. Well, now some of the larger economies, developed economies are pointing upwards. So the lines are crossing for the first time. Now, the problem, however, is that regardless of whether you're in the upswing or in the downswing, all the countries are facing daunting social challenges and problems have to do with the equality in the societies. The global employment crisis is a very dramatic, a bit crude, but very illustrative example. Worldwide, there are more than 200 million people out of work. In OECD countries alone, the number is about 48, almost, you know, which 48 you say, so what, you know, 48 million? Is that high or low or whatever good, bad? Well, it's 15 million more than before the crisis and we haven't caught up. In Spain and Greece, the unemployment rate exceeds 25%, and although the rate in Ireland is now under 14%, it's still three times the pre-crisis level and clearly, unacceptably high. The average for the OECD is about eight, so the fact that Ireland is at 13.8% or something like that, now low 14, still is about 15%, you know, more than 15% higher, so. Now, the impact of the crisis also has hit some groups harder than others and it has hit young people the hard-dest. Youth unemployment rates are alarming levels in many countries, around 63% in Greece, 56% in Spain, 30% to 40% in Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, and at 28.6% in last July, youth unemployment in Ireland remains around twice the overall rate. So we said that you are at about 14% average when you're talking about youth unemployment, double, and I have to say the average in the OECD of youth unemployment is about 16, the average unemployment is eight, double for the youth, 16 in the case of Ireland, you have 14 for the average and 28 for the youth. So you can see these are large numbers, you know, 12 percentage points above the OECD average. This is why initiatives like the European Union's youth guarantee adopted earlier this year during the Irish presidency of the European Council, by the way, a very, very successful European presidency, it's almost a given that the happiest moment is when you're designated to be and the second happiest moment is when the six-month period expires, you know, and everybody goes and takes a long vacation because there are about 2,000 meetings throughout the six-month period or something like that. But I also have to say that not only the youth guarantee, it's sort of the question of budget, question of the launch of the TTIP, the negotiations with the United States, a number of very, very meaningful, actually flagship successes that were achieved by the Irish presidency. So a good job and congratulations. Then there's also, of course, after the youth guarantee was proposed, each country now has to come up with its own version of the youth guarantee because not everybody is in the same situation. The ECD is currently working closely with the Department of Social Protection with Madame Burton, we just left her a moment ago, to develop a national action plan to implement it and thereby guarantee that every young person is offered a job and a further education or work-focused training that's an alternative to a job soon after leaving education or after becoming unemployed. The conventional number is being used for months. The longest delay is with the four months to either get a new job or get into training. Actually, we're going to sign tomorrow with the formalities. Structural reforms to boost growth and create jobs are another important policy lever. These policies need to be chosen carefully. In the context of fiscal consolidation but also because there's particularly weak demand in the economy. When you're talking about structural reforms to boost growth and create jobs one has to be mindful of the balances here, the equilibria. These are exactly the kinds of issues we deal with in the 2013 OECD Economic Survey of Ireland. Does anybody have a copy that we can just show it? Today, we launched the Economic Survey of Ireland and basically this is focusing on jobs. Well, it's focusing on every aspect of the economy but basically it says we have a special chapter on jobs and then tomorrow I was saying tomorrow we're going to be launching local job creation, how employment and training agencies can help and then there's going to be the signing of an agreement about how to define or design the Irish version of the youth guarantee. Now we're going to be working the Irish Government, the OECD on this. So now, thank you. We recommend in the survey, for example, focus the limited fiscal resources on policies which improve employability, not necessarily in creating a job because then you never stop. The governments cannot be creating the jobs directly but upscaling the skills and improving the employability. The greater evaluation of labour market programs we're not only doing this in the case of Irish, we're also doing in the case of Spain. We were asked by the Spanish government to make an appraisal of the reform program on the labour markets. The Italian government also asked us, we're also working with Korea, with Norway and some others. We also stress that priority should be given to the engagement with long-term job seekers and an increase in the number of case workers supporting them through internal redeployment, really more personal support to the people who are seeking jobs and who are out of jobs. We're also launching a report, this one that I said, Local Job Creation, How Employment and Training Agencies Can Help that explores the scope for the bottom-up job creation led by some local authorities that of course would have to be reformed in order to be able to do this job. It addresses, among others, the crucial issue of mismatches between the supply and the demands of skills. One often listens to this paradox of the entrepreneurs who are saying that they can't find the talent and there you have millions of people unemployed. Obviously there's a mismatch there. Those currently unemployed in Ireland require support and retraining but they do not drift into social exclusion and that they are ready to apply for jobs as the recovery strengthens. So from now on, all our policies have to be carefully tailored. They have to be synchronized to promote social inclusion. We cannot go back to the policies and frameworks that produced such high levels of inequality. Now, in OECD economies, the gap between the rich and the poor has always been important but the problem is that it has widened in the last three decades. According to our latest study on inequality, three years ago, actually five years ago, we put one out that was called growing unequal question mark. We've now removed the question mark because unfortunately the numbers suggest absolutely yes, growing unequal. So it's called divided we stand. Why inequality keeps rising? This is the subtitle. Why inequality keeps rising. It says that the average income of the richest 10% of the population in the OECD countries is more than nine times the income of the poorest, 10%. Nine to one. Again, is this good, bad, small, short, fat, whatever, what is it? The ratio, unfortunately, was around seven times a generation ago, 25 years ago. So we're clearly moving in the wrong direction and the problem is we're moving pretty fast too. The speed is accelerating. Now for some countries like Chile, my own country, Mexico, this ratio is 27 times. In Brazil it's 50 to one. South Africa, 100 to one. In Ireland as a crisis struck, your ratio increased from 6.4 to 9.1. Actually, in a year, it was very devastating. It was very, very, it really hit hard here. It went to 9.1, which is the average. But it was way below the average until very recently. Irish inequality is now around the EU average and has been in gentle decline in more recent years, but the long-term trajectory is of concern. So how did we become so unequal? Well, the factors fueling inequalities are very diverse and they're complex, but the profound transformations that societies have undergone in recent years through globalization and technological innovations have caught many people unprepared to reap the benefits. While regulatory reforms have spurred growth, tax and benefits reforms have hampered an equitable sharing of the wages. The values of inequality go beyond income. Today, employment in non-standard work arrangements, non-standard work arrangements is obviously a very elegant way of putting it. This is part-time, temporary work. It now represents about 40% of total employment in the OECD. We're talking about the OECD, which is most prosperous, most advanced, most legislated, most regulated countries in the world. 40% of the job market is part-time, temporary work, et cetera. Informal jobs are widespread in emerging and developing countries, which puts workers, especially those holding what we call the 3D jobs. This is not unfortunately three-dimensional. It's dirty, dangerous and demeaning. At a serious disadvantage, differences in education and health also play a huge role. The problem is the system that we have in place now tends to either perpetuate or perhaps even accelerate these differences for those that are at a disadvantage. So the system is not now creating a convergence. It's creating actually a divergence. The perpetuation of inequalities is not only a moral issue, ethical issue. It is also a very serious economic hindrance. It's a hindrance for economic growth because these fixed disparities have become an obstacle to improve productivity, to improve competitiveness and widespread innovation. You have to understand, in Japan, in the United States, or kind of like Turkey or Italy, 40% of the workers are either informal or short-term. They have no loyalty to the company. The company has no interest in their training. By definition, they are going to be maybe fired in the next round, in the next three months, the next two months or whatever. Or they are always susceptible to be fired even if they're being rolled over all the time. Basically, they are condemned to be low productivity workers because they're never going to be given the tools to improve their productivity and to be more competitive and more productive for the company itself. So there's this arms length between the company and the worker, which is devastating for both. The worker doesn't get trained, doesn't get improved in his capacity, doesn't get employability. The company, of course, gets a bad result. So how can we address this global challenge? Well, the most powerful mechanism for reducing income inequality is, of course, to create more and better jobs. This is kind of obvious. But this has to be complemented with investments in high quality education to promote the developments of the skills that are driving innovation and economic growth. Tax policy reform should also be part of the equation to ensure that the tax system is progressive while minimizing distortions. This is important not only for economic and social reasons, but also to restore public trust in the tax system as a social equalizer. The public is today absolutely cynical about the capacity of governments to address their problems. This question of the tax area is one of the reasons. The richer don't pay, the larger companies don't pay, so the burden is on small and medium enterprises and the middle class. And, of course, this feeds this cynicism, this lack of trust. Let me give you one example. Under the current tax regime, multinational enterprises are often able to shift their profits out of the countries where they are earned. This results in very low taxes or sometimes even what we call double non-taxation. We refer to this as base erosion and profit shifting, BEPS. Please keep this in your mind. You're going to be listening a lot about BEPS in the next few months, in the next few years. Actually, at this week's G20 summit, leaders endorsed the OECD action plan for BEPS, base erosion and profit shifting or rather to fight base erosion and profit shifting. And we're grateful for the ongoing support from the Irish authorities in this area. Your prime minister actually since June when we were together at Loch Erne in Northern Ireland in the G8 meeting that was hosted by Mr Cameron, he said, before anybody tells me, I will tell you, we're going to be working on this initiative, we're going to be joining the initiative and we're going to be helping to put out the results of the initiative. Which, by the way, is not meant to equalize taxes in every country. It's a question of how not to use kind of bigger-dye-neighbor mechanisms in that same time. If a company does not operate in a particular jurisdiction, the question is how to avoid that jurisdiction can help that company that doesn't operate there in exchange for a few fees for lawyers or whatever to actually avoid paying taxes in the jurisdiction where it actually operates or in the jurisdiction where it actually resides The OECD is also helping countries reduce inequalities through new and innovative tools. We have something called New Approaches to Economic Challenges, which explores new economic theories, weights that combine strong growth with a better distribution of earnings. And also an initiative called Inclusive Growth Initiative which aims to renovate the concept of growth to go beyond income and encompass different aspects. You know, aspects of life that play a critical role in the well-being of our people and even the well-being of our planet. Ladies and gentlemen, I quote, we are not simply a credit rating or an economy, but a history and a culture, a human population rather than a statistical phenomenon. These words by Seamus Heaney are a dire reminder of where we've gone wrong. But also of where we want to go, in which direction we ought to take. As our countries struggle to exit the crisis and implement reforms to build more resilient economies, we have a unique opportunity to tackle the inequalities and create fair and inclusive societies. We must achieve these objectives. At the OECD, we have made this our battle. I have made this my battle and the battle of my team. At the OECD secretariat we stand ready to help you. We stand ready to help your leaders to design better policies for more inclusive growth. It's not so difficult. It's not rocket science. It's about better policies for better lives. Thank you.


Thank you everyone. Can you hear me all right also in the back rows? Okay, nice. So yeah, I'm Martin Pitt. I work in a Red-Heads cockpit team and yeah, I'm glad that so many of you made it here at this early hour Even though I'm competing against then wash so welcome to deaf con if I suppose So I want to start this With a 10 second history of cloud computing at the beginning. We had infrastructure as a service Aka my other computer is a data center Then later on we got platform as a service So this was stuff like open shift or open stack to manage all these extra computers that you had And on top of that then we got software as a service So for example, we don't host our own repos anymore. Like everyone just uses github but ultimately Undeniably the pinnacle of evolution is cockpit continuous integration and deployment as a service And obviously it cannot get any better because you would just run out of graph trying to pronounce it And this is what I this is what I want to introduce today But let's start with the with the first world cockpit. So I hear that there's still people around who don't know what it is So let me quickly introduce that Conceptually cockpit is a linux session that runs in your web browser So technically is very similar to what happens when you log into your machine with ssh Or on the virtual machine a virtual terminal or if you have a desktop and log into gdm into gno So this is like yet another way to work with your server And it is aimed at administrators which are neutral linux. For example, they come from the windows world and they are familiar with the Like with the concepts of system administration, but not necessarily with the linux terminology But it's also appealing for experienced administrators particularly for Doing Infrequent tasks like if you only set up a radio way once a year Like you're really not going to remember all the command line for it And it's much simpler and safer to do it in a graphical you are in a guided way And thirdly it is a great troubleshooting tool. So whenever you have a bunch of machines You can drill down into the cockpit interface and into all the details and see what is wrong with this machine And then it's just an apt or yam or dnf installed away from like all the major distros fedora atomic rel devian ubuntu arch and others So what does it look like so this is the system page Gives you summary information about your system Of course, you can drill down into a lot of extra details here And the menu on the left that shows you like the available administration pages And you can also switch between multiple machines here For example, this is a sub page Anyway, this is the sub page of networking which allows you to control the firewall. That's a ui for firewall d Or you can interact with your local libvert or overt virtual machines And get consoles and configure disks and so on And the cockpit team maintains all of these pages that you see in the menu here But of course there will always be things that are missing for your use case So cockpit was designed from the ground up to be extensible Then we do this by offering a javascript api which you can include in your page and this offers your apis to And to do stuff on the connected machine like run a program or connect to adiba service Or open files and sockets and like all the things you need to implement functionality So a very little example often cited we want to create a ui for ping So we could whip up a little address So we set up an address input vine and a button to while actually do it And here we have a little summary status whether it succeeded or failed and a little pre where we can watch the output And we can wire this to the cockpit api So this is the interesting bit here. So we can use cockpit spawn to run a program And whenever something happens and standard out you can output it to our Like streaming element and whenever the process finishes Then we set like the status field Of course, this is slightly simplified. So for of course the error handling case is missing Uh, but this is the gist of it And so there's a very similar structure for like doing a divas call or opening a file, for example So initially it looks like this you have a new menu entry here You see our input line you click on ping And you see the result And yeah, so it's mostly what you expect And it appears in that menu with a very little declaration thing which we call the manifest, but it's not terribly interesting here And this is actually good enough if you want to set up like a little page for your own personal environment Like you have a company specific page or you want to have a very cheap way of monitoring or controlling your service in your household or whatever But as cockpit has become more popular Like and there is more and more extension projects Which are public These projects they become much larger than this little toy example For example, there is now a ui for potman Or we have a user interface for building installable images Operating system images, which is called cockpit composer Or there's user interfaces for setting up an ipa server or fleet commander There's been ideas floating around for Setting up an nfs server or certificate management and so on And if you do this scale then just tossing all of your code into a single html is just not good enough anymore So in such like public public and officially supported projects You want to have a clean separation of html and css and javascript Put split them into multiple different modules And of course, you don't want to couple together the ui by hand You want to use modern frameworks like react and pattern fly And once you do this then you need a whole javascript toolchain to compile all your files into Essentially a blob that the user can understand And these build systems they get very complex very quickly and even for experience developers It's a big annoyance to set up set them up And once you have this you also want automatic browser tests to make sure that your Your project keeps running over time and you want to test it on various operating systems And Also, you want to make sure that doing a release is very cheap so that it can do it very often So essentially push button release process And putting all of that together is a daunting task and we know that and it might help might prevent you from Like starting this project So we came up with a project to help you with all this which we call the starter kit And this does all the glory that I was just talking about with you having any with you not having to do Like a thing and without having to learn about all these gory javascript toolchain projects So it is essentially a collection of best practices for modern javascript and for cockpit development And it provides a little example ui Which you can just clone and then rename and you can start hacking on the react pages and the code without having to worry about all the boiler plates And so for example, you can run make develop install to run it straight out of your build tree Or you can of course do make install to put in it to use a local or you can build an rpm and then install that And whichever way you decide to do if you do this then you get a ui like this Of course, that's like rather boring looks unspectacular But it already demonstrates like the core thing of what you want to do on a cockpit page So for example, this uses a cockpit file call to read etsy hostname and then show it on the page And so the idea is that it's ready to hack on react component and You can then build whatever you like without having to worry about the toolchain or testing And testing is a good Good keyword here because this is something that a lot of projects also struggle with And this is also why the starter kit contains one of contains a browse integration test So again, if you run make check here that looks very simple But it does a lot of stuff for you in the Behind the curtain for example it downloads an appropriate operating system image from our servers like in this case It's well 76 But we have like lots of images for debbie in the windhoof or dora centos you name it And it builds your code installs it into that virtual machine starts a headless chromium browser And runs your test there and then gives you back the result And this reuses the virtual machines that we use in the cockpit team ourselves to test our own product Yeah, own product and believe me. It's a halftime job to maintain all these So if you possibly can then reuse these images instead of trying to maintain your own And so of course once you have these tests you also want to integrate them into Your ci so for example when your project gets a new pull request you want to make sure that these tests actually run And you can actually do this. So we offer it to Projects to run your tests on our infrastructure Of course You have to go talk to us first so that we make sure that the project is reasonably sane And of course we need to control like what kind of workloads goes on our infrastructure But yeah, if you ask us nicely, we will figure this out for you And the next step would be the automatic release process So the idea of how we do releases in the corporate world is Essentially that you come up with a small list of changes And then put them into a signed tag on your project push it and then everything else happens automatically Like for example Building release tar walls putting them on github building a source opm pushing them to fedora or coper Or updating your project page for the latest documentation and whatnot or pushing an image to docker hub And we have a lot of little helper scripts, which Can help you with that So for example, this is and and this is controlled by a little like shell script Which you call copitches release and that needs to be in your project And with that you can tell the release machinery like to which targets you want to release your project So the real file has lots of comments, of course But I hope if you look at it you should get the gist of what is possible And just like with ci I mean you you are welcome to run this on our infrastructure If you talk to us and we can set this up for you So help you with set up the web hook for your project and as soon as you push the tag We split the release out for you But unlike with running the tests this part is actually relatively easy to self host if you prefer that Like in essence, it's just a container with a bunch of Tools that you need for doing all this and a bunch of credentials so that you can upload stuff to copo and github and whatnot And if you want you can just run this on your own laptop as well So push the tag and then just run like cockpit release runner point it to this control script and it will do that for you as well And if you do this you get also some extra bonus So in the cockpit team itself, we do a lot of routine maintenance tasks In an automated way For example, you want a regulatory update keep your npm dependencies up to date to pick up bug fixes and security updates Or you often need to upload the latest translation templates to zonata like the translation platform Or and of course download the latest translations into your project so that you can actually use them And we have bots for all of that. So this is an example That a bot did against starter kit itself So we see there was a new react package available And so the bot comes along and updates the version of react in our package jason And then runs the test against it and we see it's all hunky dory And then in the end the human person can come along and say, yeah, this looks sane Or maybe well, this was pattern fly. It might have a visual impact. So let's give it another manual test and then sign up and land So it's basically the the minimum human involvement to keep your your project alive and healthy So and this this is not a pipe stream So the we have a bunch of projects which are real life which use all this machinery For example, as I said copy composer or podman or s3 They all use that independent projects which make use of our infrastructure I come So and let's add your project to that list So the idea from our team is that we can only scale so much So we cannot become experts in like for all the subsystems and technology in the world But instead from building all the ui's ourselves. We want to help you with Building your ui for your project And so we work a lot on our ci infrastructure to make sure that it's scalable and generic to other projects And we do cross project testing And of course, we are very happy to work with you to set all of this up with you So if you want to talk to us, so we usually hang out in hash cockpit on freenote And our project homepage has pointed us to the main list And to lots of documentation and tutorials And of course while we are here, please come and join us in person So we have a hack fest That happens sunday 14 30 So it's not that long. So actually it's more like a meet and greet But still please tell us about your project and ideas and we can answer your questions there Also, uh, we are currently doing a user interface User testing So if you want to go down the hall and meet the lovely people there like mary and gen for example You can also help us with improving the The current user experience with cockpit and compositor itself and just say hello Well, thanks for your attention So we still have some minutes for questions left So are there any And Can I build something besides react? So for example, if my plugin would be written with view Would that be an option where I have to start changing my my packaging and my npm scripts? Of course, I mean You are not tied to any of the choices we make in the starter kit So if you use like angular or any or any other technology, you are of course very welcome to do this It's just the starter kit as an example react component But I mean it's like 10 lines of code So and even in cockpit itself we have like you see the history of javascript development there We have j query of angular. We have react and whatnot. So You can change the frameworks you work on you can also change the test frameworks you work on like if you don't want to use our test api for controlling the browser And the different ones so you are happy to help this to you're welcome to do this and in fact we also Have even tested this with a couple of other frameworks. Of course, we know our stuff the best So if you have questions about that, we are best able to help you But yeah, you have a question Is cockpit a Linux session in your web browser? Not only in mine also in yours, didn't I mention that? But thanks Steph So anyone else okay, well then if not then thanks for your attention and feel free to grab me an order


Well, hello friends and welcome back to my channel. Today we're gonna be doing a plan with me and I am working on October 15th through October 21. I am majorly back planning here. It is actually almost November, but you know, sometimes life gets in the way and we'll kind of talk about that in a few minutes. I am participating today in Ryan's planner trick-or-treat, so I printed this out because I wanted to just have it. This is like the little graphic that I believe that he created.  So the idea is, so there's three different groups and then in group one, it gives you like a list of things that you have to do in your planner. So it says pick a random number from each group. Keep two out of the three if you dare. So I'm gonna do like a little randomizer because that's kind of like more of the challenge I feel like. So we are on a random number generator between one and five and I've got my pen here. I'll just circle which one I get. So in group one, it's going to be... Oh, hold on. Generate number might be helpful. Ooh, number four. Ooh, colorful ink, ew, okay. All right, so that's the first one. All right, in group two, it's generated number five. Oh, free for all. Okay, I like a free for all. Okay, cool. All right, and generate and number four, one shop. Oh my gosh, this is so hard. All right, so colorful ink, free for all and one shop. So I have to pick two of these. Oh, this is so difficult, y'all. This is just like so incredibly hard. All right, so I feel like free for all is just a cop out. So I think I should do the colorful ink and the one shop, but I don't know what shop to use. Like I just love so many shops. It's so hard. Okay, I think that's the whole idea of this. So anyway, oh, by the way, Ryan is also, I'm going to leave his channel down below. He is also doing some like planner treats as well. If you use the hashtag planner trick or treat to be entered. So anyways, but I am kind of excited to do this even though it's kind of like scary. It's kind of scary and spooky, right guys? All right, so let me grab some things and I'll be back in just a second. Okay, so I have decided what I am going to do. I'm unclear in the rules if it means one shop of everything or one shop of just stickers. So I don't know where I got these washi samples. So I'm just going to go with I don't know. So I'm going to use them in my spread. I know you guys are probably expecting me to either use coffee break planner or Christian designs for my shop choice and I'm not going to do that today. I am going to use Aaron Condren stickers only, which means I've got all these little sticker books. I've got my little pouch that's Aaron Condren as well. So they just started coming out with stickers like not that long ago. So I am going to try to utilize as many of these as I can. I know that they have like washi strips, but I don't have like there's not enough washi. Does that make sense? Like for how long I want the washes, I've got my colorful bag of pens, which I don't use that often, but I'm going to pull out some of my more like autumn, October-y colored ones that I would want to use. Okay, I think we're going to go orange ink. All right, so I pulled out all of my orange ink and hopefully this will look all right. We'll see. We will see. The week is over anyway, right guys? So okay, let me pull these back because I don't think I need these. All right, so I am working with just for reference. This is a Pilot G207. I'm not a huge fan of these, but I still have them. They tend to smear on me a little bit. This is like the metallic gold. I also have a Papermate Flair in the orange, a Jelly Roll 08, which I love Jelly Rolls. These tend to smear as well, but you got to kind of like leave it alone for a little bit. I have a Sharpie Fine Point Permanent, and then this is one of my all-time favorites, which is the Papermate Ink Joy Gel in an 07. I love an 07 more than an 05. I'm a broad tip kind of gal. All right, so I am going to start this off. Wow, I feel like I've already spent way too much time. Babbling on about stuff. So let's lay the washi down, and then I feel like this might get easier as I go. Maybe it won't, I don't know. And I have so much Halloween washi that I just really want to utilize as much as I can, you know, during the month of October, because isn't that the whole point is to like use what you got, but it's so freaking cute. All right, so that washi is down. We are good to go. And then I'll put in my work washi in a minute, but I want to do some of the like stuff up front. Let's see what I can find in here. All right, so to be honest, I don't really know what's in all of these. So I'm going to just kind of pull out the ones that I think I might use for certain things, but I'm not, I don't know. I'm not really sure what I want to use just yet. I don't know. Okay, so that was a lot of time doing this. So I think first thing I'm going to do is put in the vlogging situation, but I need to find the camera I'm looking for. I know I had a camera in here. Yes, I do. It's right here. Um, here I'm going to use, since none of the stickers that I have pulled out at least are glossy, I'm going to use my PaperMate Flare and write vlog. And to be honest, some of these stickers have come from like seasonal surprise boxes that are not available anymore or some of them, you know, might be from certain things that they don't have anymore. I'm just not sure. So I'll leave a link below to the website. So you guys can check it out for yourself, but you know, not everything is still available. I just keep stuff because I like to use what I have. And then I think the videos should be on this, I think is what my goal is. So let's see here. So I kind of broke up my videos with like regular content and then the vlogs. So I will put these up here. So don't cook with me, which was awesome. I did that with Ryan from A Man with the Plans, which is the person that is doing this challenge, which is kind of fun. All right, so day 13. All right, so then work essentials. I posted on Wednesday. I'm going to put that right above here. And then my day 14 was also posted then and then my October monthly view was posted on Thursday. Oh, I have another video I posted too. Okey-dokey. I usually like to post them at the top, but it clearly didn't happen. All right, so my CAD collection happened that day and then day 15 was also posted on Friday. Not planned with me on Sunday. Day 16 was also on Sunday. All right, cool. That works well. So let's put in some things. I'll work on that in a little bit. All right, so I've been trying to keep track of my work because I have a flex schedule, so I kind of work whenever I work. I've been going in just at different times. It just kind of depends on when I wake up in the morning. So this day I worked from 8 to 5. I'm going to put that right there because that's actually a work thing. Then let's see the next day. I worked from 8 to 4.15. And sometimes there's just like a good stopping point within the day that I can't really start another project or so it's going to take like another two to three hours. So sometimes I do leave a little bit earlier just because I'm going to be there until like 7 if I don't just so it just becomes a little problematic. So you just make a choice and decide, okay, do I want to be there for another two or three hours or is that just not what I want to do? So, and then Wednesday I was there at 7 and I worked till 3.30. And the next day, this was a long day, 8 to 5.30. And sometimes those days happen where you just got to get it done. Fine by me, I'd rather have it done and not have to deal with it the next day, you know? Because it's on my desk. I'm the one that has to deal with it, not anybody else. And then I worked from home on Friday and then I had about an hour break in between and I had a doctor's appointment to go to. So I worked from 7 to 4.30 that day. I remember, right? So we are good. I actually saw in this sticker book, which is new so they still have them. I saw these like appointment or meeting. Yeah, okay. So I wanted to put these in and just like put in my work because I thought these would be cute. All right, I'm not gonna do that. I thought I would have enough stickers to go with my color theme and I clearly do not. But I do have, did I have a couple of meetings this week? No, I just had the one meeting. Okay, all right. So I had a meeting and it was from 10 to 11. And we call that a town hall meeting apparently. And we just talk about some of the stuff that's going on and all that good stuff. So I'm just gonna put this up here. And you know, they talk about like benefits and things that are changing for 2019 and also like kind of where we're at and things like that too. So that was kind of good. But let me look through this and see if there's any other, I don't know, things I might want to use. I don't know. I feel like there's not enough of what I want to use. That's my problem. Okay, so let's look at some of these books and see what's up. Oh, look, I can use this. Ooh, and I can use a little bat too. Sweet. Ooh, and a spider. Yes, please. I'm gonna like make it extra fancy up in here. I can pull that off. All right, still looking for things. Sorry, sidetracked. I'm like, ooh, something shiny. Let's look at that. Think I figured out what I'm gonna do here. So I'm gonna use these ones in the gold and right in work. All these guys off and place them accordingly. I'm gonna kind of mix them up a little bit. I do have yellow ink, but yellow ink doesn't really show up very well, unfortunately. So all right, let me move some things around. PS, Ryan, if you're watching, this is like way harder than I thought it would be. Just FYI. Just letting you know this is a lot more difficult than I ever thought it would be. All right, so I'm gonna kind of mix these up a little bit. I just don't want like the same, I don't really want the same design like next to each other. So all right, so then there's that. There's that, okay. And then I was working at home that day. So I will put, and actually working from home went really, really well. I was very surprised and I'm actually, as I'm filming this, I am working from home on the day that this will be live and published. So that's exciting too. All right, and my friend Jamie from work had a party. It was a pampered chef party on Friday. So I'm gonna write that in and that went super late, but it was super fun, no regrets. So that was a really fun. So I have these food ones and I figured I would use some of these. Let's see, hmm, hmm, hmm. What to use? I don't know, I'll use this sort of like spatula because you know, it's like a chef-y thing. I'm gonna cover up this little heart though.  Okay, so that was good. All right, and then there was someone that had purchased a lamp from me and they came and picked it up right about five-ish, which was awesome. And I sold it on the Facebook Marketplace, which went well. I'm gonna use one of these for my little budgeting. What is it? Budgeting ones, I don't know. So I gotta like, everyone likes extra money, right guys? Okay, so Friday, oh no, Friday is not done. I had a doctor's appointment as well. And let's see what I can find for a doctor's appointment. Doctor's appointment, I'm worried about here. It's hard to see, but I did. And here I'll put a little, little spider on that one because it's cute, right? All right, so that works out good. All right, I think for when, sorry, not Wednesday. I'm gonna use this, or like this, so busy. I'll use that one.  All right, so on Thursday, I had to run to my P.O. box. I got gas, I picked up some wine, and I also had to do some email stuff when I got home. So that was exciting, here we go. And I got a tattoo on my finger, if you guys don't know. So I did that on Wednesday with Miss Jody. So we had a really, I don't know, I had a fun time. I don't know if she did, I think she did though. All right, so I'm gonna write tattoo. And I think it was at four o'clock. Yes, I enlisted Jody's help for some moral support as well as a two video me. And that is on my day 17 of my vlogging series that I'm currently in. So that was kind of fun. And then we also went out to eat after that. All right, so we went out to eat at Acapoco, which was really fun.  Whoa, let's see, I don't like that. Cool, looking good. And then I went to Ulta and Cub after work. So I'll put this little guy in. I'm just gonna write these ones in. Goodness. This coil, I swear. All right, so I got that done. And I edited, but YouTube was broken. So that really sucked. The rest of my day was just editing. And this is us, which was good. Let me put, I don't know, like little asterisks. I don't really like this little hashtag that's right there, but again, making it work, y'all, making it work. All right, and then I did some things on Monday. I did some searching around for my dad so that like my dad isn't missing. That sounded like my dad was missing. He's not missing. He's in Florida, but he had forgotten a few things in Minnesota, so I did a little recon for him and found what he was looking for. And I also stopped at Marshall's because I needed something. I think this side is now done. And we gotta do the rest of this.   So boo, right guys, boo. All right, so I'm just gonna put in at the top here, sick. And I did have a planner event to go to, but that did not happen. So I'm not even gonna put that in because it doesn't matter anymore. So that was like a very much lazy day situation for sure. And then I did some filming and I can check these off because I filmed them. That's like, makes my life feel so good. All right, and then I also did some editing. So maybe I'll use this. I don't know, I'm just kind of using what I have. I don't really have too much rhyme or reason besides I'm just trying to use oranges and yellows. Kind of more of a burnt yellows. It's kind of my kind of my shtick at the moment. And then I did laundry like all day. And laundry all day, never stops, always laundry. So guess what? I think I'm finally done. That took a while, wow. So I completed my challenge from a man with the plans. Thank you, Ryan, for coming up with this. This was such a fun idea. This was definitely very challenging and kind of good to get out of your comfort zone once in a while. Sometimes it's difficult for me to get out of the comfort zone, but this was actually kind of fun yet very challenging all at the same time. Again, Ryan's channel will be down below if you all wanna watch. Thank you so much for the idea for this planner trick or treat. It was so much fun to do. Erin Condren's information will be down below as to her shop and this is the planner that I use. I know I don't really say that in many videos but this is my Erin Condren life planner and it's the on the go life planner and I use the hourly layout in the colorful version. I always get the 12 month, which I do the 12 month from January through December. That's just what works for me in my brain but that's what I like. So if you like this video, make sure to give it a thumbs up. Make sure to go follow Ryan as well as I believe that Jodi over at Life's Organized Chaos is participating in this as well. So I will put her channel down below as well. I just said as well a lot. Okay, let's end this thing. But thank you guys so much for watching. I really appreciate it and I will see y'all in the next video. Bye guys. Well folks, it's time to kick it off school. So you can feel cool. Give it to me baby. Baby.


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Once everybody chasing for jazby's case breaks calm this sells out the mystery crate where we're giving away one spot Which is a $1,500 value with this 2020 optic choice one box break random teams number 28 And first we do the break round of eyes customer names and teams distribute the hits out then at the end of the break We'll randomize all customer names top name at number one will win a spot in the mystery crate hit draft style Which will be coming up next after this video So let's do the break first guys. Let's roll it and we got ourselves a four and a three for seven times one two three four five six seven seven times Burke down a Terry and again it was four and a three seven times one two three four five six seven Seattle Mariners down to the Chicago Cubs All right, so there you go Now stick to what you got guys. We're just gonna alphabetize the customer are the teams And I'll quickly give you like 10 15 seconds to look at your teams Again, you can still get some really nice hits out of here guys remember. This is a Luis Robert rookie here boba shit You still can get some water Franco Prospect autographs Jason Dominguez Get some pretty cool stuff All right, let's do the break guys All right, we got you Chang to 88 or his solar 10 out of 45 kettle Marte Out of 88 Buster Posey 13 out of 88 and Michael King for the Yankees All right guys. Good luck. First we need to tie around Taylor and Charlie Morton Tempe Bay and no walk Andres Eminus Rated prospects for the New York Mets to 99 Mets that'll be Burke to 99 Zach Collins Chicago White Sox That's Joel and Also, there's a rated prospect. How about a little Bobby with junior eight out of 99 very nice Thanks a little blue color match as well. All right, there you go. Well Let's switch scenes Giveaway the spot in the break guys. So good luck. Remember name a number one gets it. Here's a dice roll. Here's a customer names Good luck everybody roll it It is a three and a one for four times four times. Good luck everybody one two and fourth and final time guys boom four times Burke at the top Played the Afghan got half of the spots four times boom Congrats, man. So appreciate it So Burke you just won the last spot in the break coming up next is the mystery created itself


Gweithio. Dwi'n ddiddordeb i chi o ddullwch gweithio'r dweudio ar y cyfroffinio eich mynd yn Gweithgaredd. Oedden nhw'n Christopher Cramer, a hefyd yn y gallig dros ymgyrch yn y ddîm ar hyn o'r ddeunydd. Mae'n blaid yw bod nesaf i fe bryd i gweithio'r cyfanol ac ymgyrchu'r ffordd Wittaker. Felly mae'r ffordd, mae'r ffordd, yn gweithio'r gweithio'r cyfanol. Mae'r ffordd, rheswm, yn y blwyddyn o'r ffordd yw'r bod. Mae'n swyddfa'n bwysig o'r ffordd. In 2007 he received an academy award for best actor for his portrayal which probably most of you have seen of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, a performance for which he also received a BAFTA award, a SAG award and a Golden Globe. You may well also remember him from Good Morning Vietnam, from Clint Eastwood's film about Charlie Parker, Bird, from the Jim Jarmusch film Ghost Dog or even as the voice of Ira in Where the Wild Things Are. Forrest has also produced several award-winning documentaries that touch on a wide range of social issues. Through his production companies, Significant Productions, Significant Productions and his other company Junto Box films, Forrest aims to support young, talented filmmakers. His belief is that film can enlighten people across the globe and can start meaningful dialogues about important subjects. He's dedicated to cultivating young people's artistic talents and as a member of the president's committee on the arts and humanities, he's working closely with schools to demonstrate the limitless power of the arts. Forrest is also founder and CEO of the Whittaker Peace and Development Initiative, an organisation that empowers young people in communities affected by violence to become forces for peace and voices for change. He's also co-founder and chair of the International Institute for Peace. He's UNESCO's Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation and a member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Advocacy Group. Tonight, he will be in conversation with the director of SOAS, Baroness Valerie Amos. Baroness Amos joined SOAS as director in September 2015. Before that, she served as Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the UN. Their conversation this evening will focus on how youth in conflict affected societies can be trained and equipped to transform their communities from within, and I'm sure you'll all agree that will no doubt be an interesting and very stimulating discussion. Now, before I move on, I'd also like to say a few words about SOAS's 100 years celebrations, as this evening's event is in celebration of our centenary year. First, I hope many of you saw coming into the building today, SOAS's Brunei Gallery exhibition, Academics, Agents and Activists, a history of SOAS from 1916 to 2016. The exhibition offers a fascinating insight into the history of the school from a very human perspective and it highlights SOAS's wider impact on the world. Second, our centenary lecture series, of which this event forms a part, is also in recognition of our first 100 years. The series features lectures by high-profile guests speaking on subjects close to the SOAS mission. Next year we'll be hosting the food writer and author Claudia Rodden, Palestinian legislator Hanana Shawawi and human rights lawyer Hina Jilani. Our history and events such as this tonight in many ways demonstrate the important space that SOAS provides for debate, for discussion and for asking the questions that matter. And that is why for our centenary year SOAS has launched the Questions Worth Asking campaign, so our students and academics can keep on asking and trying to answer today's most important questions. So for example we ask, is there a solution to the world's refugee crisis? What happens after war? Should we all be speaking the same language? What makes a global citizen? And will there ever be equality? It's true to say that for 100 years we have been asking, searching questions and through this campaign we seek support to carry on doing this. We seek support for scholarships and student experience initiatives, for academic projects and endowed posts and for transforming the SOAS estate. And you can all learn more about this campaign on the internet at soas.ac.uk forward slash questions and please do all take a look. Now finally please could I ask you to have a look at these things, check your phones, turn them silent but not necessarily off. And if you're tweeting, which I'm meant to encourage you to do, please use the hashtag SOAS 100. So thank you very much and I would now like to join you in hoping that we enjoy the rest of the evening's discussion and to welcome on to the stage Baroness Valeriemos and Forrest Whitaker. Forrest, welcome to SOAS. I feel slightly jealous because I never get a cheer like that. What is it I have to do? I don't know you've done so much. But I'll cheer you now. Thank you. Thank you. Forrest, welcome again. It's really fantastic to have you here and we're going to start off the conversation. Then I'm going to come to the audience and take a couple of questions and we'll talk some more. We have a hard finish at 8 o'clock so we'll do our best to get through quite a lot of issues by then. And I wanted to start, I know the focus of our conversation is going to be very much around the work that you've been doing in countries like South Sudan. But I really wanted to start with America. Well, there's a certain election happening today that you were born in Texas. You grew up in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Can you tell us a bit about what those places were like then and how they've changed? I was born in Longview, Texas. My mom and my father, they had actually moved to Los Angeles and my mother would go back home to have her children. They left Longview, Texas, which is in East Texas because there was very few opportunities. It was really difficult for people of color in that region and my mother and father wanted to give an opportunity to their children and to themselves. There was always a line in the city was the river and they would say those across the river. And at that time on this side of the river would be the black community and on that side of the river would be the white community. My folks went back, I was born. I came back when I was about six weeks old to Los Angeles to South Central LA. I think Longview has shifted some quite a bit. That disbursement of different people of different cultures is more apparent, more clear. But there's still undercurrents of the similar things that are going on. I remember particularly, actually I come from a family of teachers or preachers. My aunt, she was a principal in school. In the school, predominantly it was an all black school but there was one white kid there. So they actually bussed him across, sent him away to another school far away. I remember my aunt fighting this proposal and talking about it. But that wasn't so far removed from where we are today. Was it 10 or so years ago? So it's different, but I went to LA and I was raised there. I don't want to keep talking too long. I can talk about Los Angeles and South Central as you like. Please do. We want to hear. My folks moved to 49th Street in South Central LA. I guess I know what we're supposed to talk to about lessons in life. I guess I learned a lot from my mom and dad because they made this journey. It was a big trip. I come from a family where you have land and you can put a trailer on it and your other relatives live there. So for them to do that was a big lesson for me to think about facing your fear but to try to strive for a better life. So they went to South Central and for them that was an upgrade where they were. I was raised amongst a lot of changes during the civil rights era. I touched some of that stuff because at the corner of my street wherever I would walk home, the Black Panther office was around the corner and they would pick me up and play with me during the day. I remember one of the big lessons I learned there too was one day I walked there and they weren't there. I went by their building and it had been blown up. It had been shot up and blown up. As a little kid it changes your perspective so you try to understand. So I was constantly trying to understand my place and I was trying to understand conflict in a way. I think that's why I'm working in conflict now. The SLA was destroyed behind my grandmother's apartment. For some reason it was like the zealog-like effect where I was in these different places where things were going on. Then the birth of the gangs, the Crips and the Blood, so I was constantly trying to understand that. I was trying to search for something. One of the things, I guess the lessons my mom told me was that she wanted me... Well, she used to go to church on Sunday and I would argue, why do I have to believe what you believe? My mom would say, you don't have to. You can get up. You just got to find something to believe in and you got to follow it. I think those things were things that were kind of dictating some of the next movements in my life. What's that something for you? Your mom said you have to find something to believe in. What's that something for you? I believe in connectivity. I believe that we're all connected in some way. I believe that in the annals of time at some point we'll realise that we're all moving towards trying to be good and be in this space together. I'm willing to try to be a part of connecting myself. If someone wants to open the door for them to connect deeper to me and to others and to other things. So these last few weeks and months in the US where we've seen a lot of anger and a lot of hate unleashed. Why do you think that's happened now and what are your hopes and fears for your country going forward? I think that the tinder under belly has been exposed. There was always problems with this nature. You talk about some of the issues with the Black Lives Matter and the death of people of colour and police officers who have been killed and all this stuff. Those things have been going on since I was a kid. I know that I've personally been touched by friends who have passed away from that type of thing. I think it's unfortunate that there's some polarity between people and this break is making me a little concerned. People are talking about isms and against immigration, against sexism and all these different things that are about hatred and not about people coming together. The country itself, I think in order to address issues that are already there you have to see them. I think unfortunately this has opened up a giant wound. You can see that people are unhappy. You can see that people don't have their needs met. You can see that people are frightened for their own security. We have to address that. I've been trying to address it in my way but I think that the country is about to go through something that I'm not quite sure. If I was looking at it, if I was in another country, certain places I've been I would think are they on the brink of a civil war. The breaks and ideologies are so strong. I'm not sure what's going to happen. Certainly we'll wake up and we'll have a new president. Either case, unfortunately we're just going to be a schism between people. We can talk more about it too as we go along. Very sobering. I wanted to ask you, Chris in the introduction talked a lot about all the different things that you do in your life and we'll come back to that. But you first went to university on a football scholarship. American football. I can't play soccer too well. Not soccer as we know it. Then you went back to your first love classical music and then you ended up acting. How did all that happen? I was playing football and I showed some aptitude. I was pretty good at it, I guess. I decided I wanted to go into the arts or I was thinking about it when I was graduating from high school to go to college. I took a football scholarship to college to play and it just wasn't working out right for me. I had been singing too so I got a scholarship to sing at USC Music Conservatory there. I was accepted to music program and had a scholarship to the acting program at the same time. So I decided to switch. I was only playing to be able to afford to go to college. I didn't really have the money to go so I needed a scholarship so that's what I did. They both taught me something. I think playing ball taught me a lot about playing as a team, pushing myself to my limits, passing my limits, trying to reach a goal. I guess singing started me to move towards the art that I do as an actor. So they both led me to different things. I read in an interview, the interviewer said that you've been described as inhabiting roles, not just playing them. Now the film that we probably know most about, although I'm sure that people in the audience have seen many of your films, is Last King of Scotland. How did you manage to fully embody the character of Idi Amin in that film? I think when I first started I started to study in the history. I was trying to study the history of the man and what was going on in the region in East Africa. I started to study Kiswahili because I had this notion that I needed to feel like English was my second language. So I wanted it to be the first thing I would think of when I was about to say something. Then I went to Uganda and I started doing interviews and meeting with people. I met his brothers and sisters. I went up to the area up there. I met with ministers, different people who had been dealing with him. I traveled and went down rivers that he went in and went into the moss that he used to pray in. I just tried to acquire this understanding. My assistance, the guy who was driving me around was really helpful in that. He was like giving me experiences, bringing me to go eat here, to go see this place, to go on riding through the streets on the back of motorcycles. All these things. At a certain point when you keep hitting it and you keep allowing yourself to be open to it, something starts to happen energetically. You surrender. I think in a way you surrender to what it is you're doing and you allow that to inhabit. Because I had this belief structure anyway that I went into acting because I thought it would help me understand my connection with others in the universe. So I felt like if you took away the different layers of a thing or a person at the bottom of it was, was an energy or a light that connected me to everything. So I was searching to find inside of myself that molecule that would vibrate enough to become him, the part of me that was him. And so I was continually trying to do that. And I continued to do that work up until the last moment of the movie. Even when I was continuing to do research, I would continue to go to different places, I would continue to try to understand. And I remember I asked Daniel, I said, you know, what else can I do? What else can I go? How else can I understand? And he said, well, you haven't been to the reserve because I was more concerned with the people. So then I went there and it actually opened up something for me to understand the beauty of the place, understand the power of it. And I had seen videos of him talking about it to this crocodile saying hello and all these different things. So, you know, it was, that's how the process went. It was interesting when that film came out because so many people saw Idi Amin as a monster.  I still, I remember one time I had to do an interview while I was playing Idi Amin and I kept telling him don't let me do an interview. Don't let me do an interview because I have my belief structures in place around him, you know what I mean? But I think that his deeds and his acts were, some of them were atrocious, horrific. But there are reasons that built him. There are reasons that they helped him become president. There are reasons that he did brutality or expressed himself that way. And so I was looking to take away all those different things, whether it be his boxing, whether it be fighting the Mao Mao's, whether it be, you know, his cabinet, whether it's the 11 groups around him that's, you know, surrounding him that wanted to destroy him. Until I got down to the bottom and at the bottom of him, he's just like everybody else, you know, at the core. And then his experiences and his life and different things like that molded him into what he is. Does it mean that I agree with what he became? I just had a different point of view on who he was.  Was that deliberate? No, maybe deliberately for me to make sure I could play the part. I remember one time I was, they had this, I had been working on him and I had his speech and his movement and stuff, and they had this meeting in this hotel where they wanted the social gathering. And I went down there and I had to kind of drop some of that to try to do this meeting. And then when I left, I was like, oh my God, I've lost him, he's gone. I couldn't find, I couldn't speak like the way I thought. Daniel kept saying, but you're wrong, I can still hear you. I was like, no, I'm telling you it's gone. So I needed to do that in order to play the part. It was a requirement for me to try to surrender to it. And you went on Oscar for that role. Only the fourth African American ever to win an Oscar.  I guess it felt like really special. I was electrified when it happened and when it went on. I guess when I was working on the part, I wasn't thinking that at all. I wasn't thinking about those kinds of things. I guess afterwards when people really speak about it in that way, then you start to recognize the true, maybe historical significance of what it is. So that came as I went along. That is a goal in the beginning.  And then that's what happened from it. We've talked a bit about you as an artist. I want to talk about you a bit now as a social activist.  You founded the Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative, which does a lot of work in places like South Sudan, in Mexico and elsewhere.  You're a member of the UN Secretary General's Advocacy Group on the Sustainable Development Goals. You have a whole range of things that you do.  How do you find the time? I don't know if I've had that solved. I've been lucky at times in my life where everything just fell into place, where it was meant to be, I guess, that I would be able to be at this event. During my work in South Africa, maybe I'm mediating some conflicts that are going on from a conversation that I had before. But it aligned itself unfolded as naturally as it could and I tried to, of course with me, try to force pegs in the holes and stuff. I'm always thinking that I don't have enough time and I'm not able to do things in the way that I really want to do them completely. As fully as I should, but I try my best. I wanted to quote you something that you said about the work that you've been doing to try to stop the recruitment of child soldiers around the world. And you said, I first became really passionate about this issue a little over 10 years ago, this is at the time of the interview, when I was in Uganda shooting The Last King of Scotland. As a father, I was horrified to hear the stories of what these children had to endure. I was also moved beyond words to see their resilience. Was this part of the motivation for you to form the Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative? Yeah, it was. I think I started working with people in the States, gang members and different things, but I think when I met them and I realized that there was a connection in what was going on with them, I wanted to see if there was something I could do. So I started working with them first at Hope North, in the north of Uganda in Girondonga, and working with the student stare and stuff, and working with the child soldiers that were there. And then it just grew from there. I was very privileged to have the opportunity to travel with you to South Sudan when I was working at the United Nations. The depth of your knowledge and expertise, the number of times that you've been to the country, the way that you almost faced yourself when you were with those communities, really listening and hearing what people had to say. There are many people that will set up foundations, they care about something, but not enough to be right there in the middle of it actually doing the work. What motivates you to spend so much of your time, given the other things that you're involved in, and given that you have a successful career, to spend that time in the middle of South Sudan two, three weeks at a time working with young people? I think I recognize that other people's pains are also mine. I've met them and you can't help but be motivated by the struggles. I had an idea about how to do a methodology that would hopefully work, and then we started to implement it and that started to work. We started to train them in conflict resolution and ICT computer technologies, trauma skills and entrepreneurial skills. I think working with them because we're working with the community and they're guiding us. I think I start to see the door opening for them to be able to together with others resolve different issues just because we were allowing the tools to be available. I felt an obligation in a way to try to be a part of what was going on there and many places that I've been and work in. Have you seen it make a difference? What's been the impact? The impact has been massive. The Great Eastern Equatorial State, we've trained and used there in South Sudan during this conflict, during this war. They've become the mediators for the state itself. Two of them have become members of parliament. They have been mediating conflicts with the SPLA, had their forces in schools and they've went and mediated to get them out of school so that they can bring the children back to be able to bring the environment back. They're building projects and developing projects. They're working together to build roads. It's been quite impactful to work they're doing. I'm going to bring the audience in for a couple of questions right now. The hands are going up everywhere. We have one here. Have we got some mics? Thank you. Just along that row there's a lady just... Thank you. Hello, there we go. I thank you very much for being here and thank you for holding this. I saw you at the World Humanitarian Summit and it was very pleasant surprise to get to hear you speak there. My question is, do you see yourself as part of the African diaspora? Does this influence the work or the amount of work you do in Africa? Certainly I consider myself part of the African diaspora. I'm African American and I consider myself a citizen of the world. As far as influencing my work, I guess it was there when I first was working in Uganda where I got my first feeling of Africa and understanding it and trying to let that seep into me to make me feel what that is. I was in Awakening and I think it started the work that I was doing. We're working there in Uganda, in South Sudan, South Africa. We also work in Mexico and we also have programs in the United States. We have programs around the world. I can see the rubber hands. Hi, really lovely to have you here. My name is IO. I'm really interested actually, as someone who's very famous and who's done some great films, how aware are the people that you work with of who you are behind the humanitarian and social activism and how hard or easy is it to break down those barriers so people actually understand that you're here to do something completely different. In the community, the acting community, I don't think that a lot of people necessarily know the work I do. There's a big period of time where I just wanted to do the work quietly so I can try to make it to see if it was successful and if it was really working before I would go out and even speak about it. The only reason I would go out and speak about it is if the model was working that could help others to do other things. For me, I don't think they're that aware. I think the question was about the people. For example, when you go to South Sudan, are the people aware of who you are and does that have an impact on how you're able to work with them? I would say in South Sudan, in many places I work, they don't know who I am at all. They don't necessarily haven't seen any films, they haven't been to movies necessarily. We're working in cattle areas in different places. Certainly, some of the people on the political side might know my work more specifically because I have to do also advocacy, also policy-level issues. We spoke with the President of South Korea to speak to him about what was going on in the country. I spoke to him with Children of Armed Conflict. I tried to get him to sign a document that would allow the children to child soldiers to be released. I do have to operate on that level. I will meet more people that meet me than know who I am. But on the ground level, probably not. Can I say that the way that Forrest behaves in those situations means that nobody would have any idea whatsoever. It was great travelling with him. I'm going to take you guys in the next round. I'm just going to deal with Dan here. There's a lady here. Thank you. Dawkins goes to working global health in Africa. Impressive philanthropic profile, which I don't think many people know actually. So to hear this is impressive. I'm going to ask an unfair question but I'm going to ask it anyway. That means you don't have to answer. There's a whole lot of debate around aid in Africa and our dependency on aid. A lot of that budget will be coming from the US. That's debatable on whether it's going to be cut. I wonder what your views are on aid in Africa. I say that because you're sitting next to Berners who has quite a global profile. Hopefully maybe Valerie will speak a little bit more about it too because she's been dealing with humanitarian aid a lot. That's the question, but I'll answer part of it. That was such a bomb. I think directed aid can be very helpful. I think that my limited experience because she's much larger perspective than me. On a grassroots level when you specifically target aid that allows people to acquire skills or to be able to activate change in their own communities I think can be very effective. In case of the health situation I think training community health workers can be very helpful. It's also a job that deals with the economy. It deals with eradication of poverty. It deals with a lot of things. So I think that's very good. I think trying to raise enough money sometimes to build certain facilities. Those monies don't always get utilized in the way that we would like. But certainly it's necessary. I mean, fortunately it's people that are living in abject poverty at times in different places in the world, not just Africa all over the world. Indonesia everywhere, you know what I mean? I think as human beings we have to try to lend a hand. But for myself the programs that I found in my program works most specifically with the people themselves and giving tools that allows them to take control of what they want through education. That's in my experience. I think it's a very mixed picture. When I was at the UN and going to places like Sudan for example and seeing what was happening in camps like Dadaab where people had been there for years and years and years with no opportunities for employment or anything else that this sense it was keeping people in a sort of forced dependency which I think is highly problematic. I also worry that there are governments that become dependent on the aid and aren't necessarily managing or controlling how it's being spent. In the sense of this is a priority of a government that is a donor not a priority of the government in terms of what the issues are in their country. But like Forrest I've also seen people right at the grassroots level who have been able to transform their communities particularly women when they are able to have access to some resources. I think we need to learn a lot more lessons from the way that we have done aid in the past and think about how we can better utilise it in a way that brings positive not negative benefits. But I mean there's an entire conversation that we could be having about this. I wanted to go back if I may to the work that you're doing with young people because you're very much focused on working with young women and young men and it's not easy to find models that work particularly in terms of trying to prevent young women from becoming sucked in to violence on a large scale. So what are the particular things that you feel that you've been able to do through WPDI that have made the difference and that you think others need to learn from? I think a lot of people know, I mean at the core of a lot of these things it's like education and different things of that nature but in our case it's by buying in with the communities and buying in with the different power sources in that area. Training a group of individuals or working with people in that area that are willing to commit to going out and helping in others. So what we've done is we've trained a group of individuals, that group becomes trainers of trainers and they go back into the community. We chose to choose two from every single county and they've chose to choose two from every single village and they go back into those places working with them, creating peace councils and then going into development because I think the understanding of how to develop, of creating jobs, of creating opportunities is at the core of a lot of the problems when needs aren't met then there's conflict that's going to arrive. So what we've done is worked with those communities, financed those projects and those projects grow out as economic sources of income for the community and also sources of pride and empowering those youths and individuals to take control of those things and make them continue to grow. These are young people, so they go back into their village or community. I mean how do they persuade the elders in that community to actually hear what they have to say and to actually understand that they have something to offer? I think I've made a mistake because I didn't really describe all of the methodology. Initially, before we even chose to use, we have gone and we've talked to the elders, we've talked to personality types, the economic sources, the churches, the religious leaders, all these people become a part of a group that help us even choose to use. So they're a part of the project from the very beginning. So as a result, they help move the project forward. Once we've trained the individuals and they go back into their communities, they create another group of the people in their particular regions of elders and different people that work with them to be able to move forward. So their voices can be heard. It's worked very well. The elders have brought them in to even mediate conflict. They brought them in to mediate the problem of moving those kids, moving the SPLA out of the school. But there was already a buy in a communal circle that surrounded the actual work. From there, on the outside, there's also another group that's supporting from a larger scale, from the outside scale, but this is the group that mainly allows things to happen. And you've gone on record expressing disappointment with what has happened at the leadership level in South Sudan, the fact that peace agreements have been signed and not been adhered to. What is your sense of what the future looks like for South Sudan and for these young people that you've been working with? South Sudan has been really difficult. I mean, there's been so many different peace agreements that have been overturned. And I think guys, some of the conflict inside of racial issues or tribal issues, I do think though that the people themselves will have to fight forward towards a solution. The outside, it hasn't worked when you talk about aid and things of that nature. A lot of the organizations, a lot of the countries are pulling their aid out. To force the issue amongst the community to make the need clear so that they'll make a solution. I'm not sure that that deprivation is affecting the upper echelon to the political powers. It only affects mainly the people. And I think the people themselves are going to have to take a stance to step forward. In terms of what we've been doing, things have gone really positively. We continue to grow. We have people coming to our learning centers. In the process of when they go into the villages, different community learning centers are being built by us to allow access to the community for education and learning and to congregate. So those things have still been in place. People have been so respectful of them that they've left them intact even during this conflict. And again, I think that's because the people and the buy-in from the people and the people have to make the decision ultimately to say yes or no to what's going on politically in their country. That's very powerful because they leave it because it has come from the community themselves. You talked about working in the United States as well. What's the difference between working in a place like South Sudan or Uganda or Mexico to working in the United States and working in your own country? I think there are core issues that are dealing with violence. We've had violence in our schools. Almost every day of the year there's a new point of violence in the school in the United States. It's not publicized, but it is. So what we've done is we started a program there to create a CRE or conflict resolution education to be infused inside of the core curriculum of schools. So when they're working in classes, conflict resolution training is inside of their math class, their history class, their English class, their science class. It's completely integrated to be able to start a dialogue to be able to create peer mediation groups and things of that nature. We're doing that in the middle school because we're trying to go at a younger level so that it can help when they move into high school. We're planning on taking that model across definitely the city and the state and hopefully the country to try to affect violence in the country and a grass roots or a seed level with the kids. Are you having the same impact in the U.S. as you can see that you're having in somewhere like South Sudan? It's a new program. I can see it in South Sudan clearly because it's been a number of years now. Mexico, the youth that we train, they go into prisons and train other youths to get ready for going back out into the world. They've created all kinds of businesses in Uganda where they train others so I can see it. I can only see the responses to the lessons themselves at this point because it's new. It's been very powerful and we've gotten a lot of feedback from the youth that it's really helping them in their school and being able to communicate and deal with things of that nature. I'll take another round of questions and I promise to go up here this time. So there's a gentleman here and then there was a gentleman. Do you not want to ask your question any longer? Hello Mr Whitaker, my name is Jay. I'm a PhD student here so last first year. I'm from Virginia by the way. Do you vote it? Yes I did. You can ask your question then. It's a quick question. I'm studying the first Liberian civil war, the mechanics of the war and there are a lot of child soldiers in that war in Sierra Leone. Just out of curiosity, would you ever consider working with child soldiers in that region? Sure. We've worked with child soldiers in Uganda and South Sudan. Actually one of my favorites is Simon and he was a child soldier and we worked with him for the last four years. Originally he couldn't even be in a room but now he has his own business and he's training other youths to start their businesses. So that was there when we worked with child soldiers in South Sudan. So we'll be working with child soldiers probably next in Miramar but we'll see. And there's a gentleman along. Thanks Baroness Amos but there's a job for you as an invigilator or interviewer with the other task force apart. Basically the question I wanted to ask was actually to you Baroness Amos and I wanted to take the liberty of doing a two-prong question for Mr Whitaker also. For Baroness Amos, as someone who's witnessed Mr Whitaker's work on the ground in South Sudan, what would you describe as the component that he brings to I guess what is a team effort that you think is most valuable to that team effort for what he's trying to accomplish. And for Mr Whitaker, the burning question is that we've heard that you're in the cast of Black Panther. If that is so, what role are you playing? Thank you. So what do you think about that? I will just rattle off some words. First of all a huge amount of commitment, understanding. I hope that what has come over this evening from Forrest is the depth of understanding and reading. Forrest really delves into a situation to get an understanding of it. Enormous humanity and a huge amount of compassion. Zuri. It's a shamanic aid to the Panther. There was one gentleman there and then I'll come down here. Thank you. It's two parts as well. What is this? One question. I'll blend them together. I know that you traced your ancestry to the Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria. And I wondered what did making that connection mean for you, for your kind of identity as an African American? And how that kind of impacted your perspective. And the slightly second part of the question was... Completely lost control here. I wonder what your thoughts were on the kind of prison industrial complex in the US and the kind of impact that has on African American communities. Particularly going off of Michelle Alexander's recent work. Just a nice easy ball there. The second one was the impact of industrialisation and particularly prison on African American communities in the US. Sure. And the first question... What was the first question? Sorry. You see what happens when you ask a two-part question? It was the fact of you having had your DNA done. I'm nervous. It's a very friendly audience. It was very powerful to me to understand where my origins were and where I came from. I think it's very powerful to be able to recognise your ancestry and ancestors that walk with you. And so I think it shifted something inside of me that affects everything I do. I was fortunate. I know I was fortunate to get a chance to visit and spend some time with some of the leaders there from different parts of the nation. It was really powerful. I think we have an extremely damaged prison system. We have more prisoners from than any place in the world.  And we have to figure out how we can change this complex, as you say. We certainly have to change it with the laws. We certainly can't allow some of the... I don't know if I'm going to say that. I did a couple of documentaries in prisons. I did one down in Angola prison in Louisiana. 90% of the prisoners in that place will never, ever leave. And some of them for crimes of selling... Maybe they did or didn't sell drugs once or twice. The evaluation of what they did or didn't sell drugs once or twice. The evaluation of what they did or didn't sell drugs once or twice. The evaluation of what they did or didn't sell drugs once or twice. The evaluation of whether or not someone should be able to spend their entire lifetime behind bars and die. This actual documentary that I did was actually about prisoners who care for prisoners. We don't even think about when aging prisoners are in the prison.  Then you got prisoners who are going to be there for the rest of their lives. Cairing for them. Then we have to look at, you know, and see the humanity inside of that. That care. And then decide to these people, to everyone, should it be allowed for these people to be in there. And our law is biased culturally, racially, you know. And then we have to do that. It's a big question and it's a big problem in the United States. Here. Thank you for your time this evening. It's a big question and it's a big problem in the United States. Here. Thank you for your time this evening. My question's open to both of you. Earlier tonight you talked about inhabiting roles. And it sounds like you've both been to some dark places. I'm curious how you get out from underneath the evil and violence and terror of conflict. What are some mechanisms you use to protect yourself and I think the loved ones around you. And hopefully extend the longevity of the good work that you seek to do. Well you've been to so many places. I've been in so many conflict areas. So I think... Thank you. I think the first thing I would say is it's very hard. So the thing that I realised when I left the UN, having spent five years doing this, was that I'd worried a lot about my staff and what they saw, and making sure that they got counselling. And I never got any myself. So I left with this kind of huge weight that I had to deal with. The thing that always keeps you going is the people that you meet. I mean they are in the midst of having absolutely nothing. People are incredible in terms of the support that they give to each other, the way that they just come through these very difficult times. And that always just takes you through. And the way that I protected family is a way that they didn't like, which is that I never talked about it. I had a sort of schism between... And I had to do that because I couldn't bring all of this stuff into my other relationships. But it does make it difficult to travel between places where there's nothing and incredible inhumanity. And then to end up basically in a supermarket with endless choice, for example. It's very hard to deal with that disconnect. Well, I think it is difficult to try to resolve and clean yourself of that kind of pain. I think some of the UN workers that I've met, they say that some of them are retired. Many of them die not so long after. I think from the adrenaline, from the chemically changing their body and their system as they go through these different spaces and periods. So I think for you, I mean you've been so many amazing things and so many powerful and ambitious things that continues to move forward. But for some it's I think they haven't been there not able to cope with that and have to find a way to wash yourself of different things.  With nothing but like a tent. To start a hospital and start a place where everybody can come to. In the middle of a place where there are no one. He just builds a tent and people start to show up. This guy's been living like this for months and he turns into a year and then all of a sudden what does it mean? You remember that. And he was relentlessly cheerful. They used to hold their meetings under a tree and they slept in tents, the sort of size of this table. But then when you compared that to what the people that they were working with were going through, then for them, you know, what they were doing was nothing compared to that. There was a, okay, there's a gentleman up here. There are two gentlemen here and I think those have got to be the last two. Oh, sorry. Okay. No, sorry. There's just one. So you, the gentleman behind you and then one here. And I have a final question. So please. Good evening. Thank you both for tonight. My name's Kareem. I'm a master's student here. We've seen some of the horrendous images and videos coming out of the States towards people of colour, particularly black men. And my question would be what lessons or message can the Black Lives Matter movement teach us here in the UK or globally and how does that relate to Africa? Thank you. I think certainly it teaches us that we have to speak up and when we see injustices get on, we have to stand up and fight to change them and shift them. I think there's still a connective tissue that still has to happen between all the different organisations that are working towards dealing with this goal. It's been happening. Really, honestly, since I was a kid, now with social media you were able to see things that you couldn't see before. What does it teach you in Africa or other places? Again, I think it's a determination towards advocacy, a determination to effectuate change, the courage that it takes to actually speak up and to stand up and to do something about something, to recognise that we each have the individual power to make a difference. Each person in this room could do unbelievable things that they choose to. And doing that session of working on these losses, these deaths that happen to people of colour that we recognise that we can step up, we can step in between, we can speak out, we can videotape. There's a million things that we can do and they can do that in different ways. around the world. OK, I'll take the gentleman behind you. Yes, I know. I'm going to come to you. This will be quick. My name is Mervyn. Really interesting talk tonight. I'm just wondering how we can link with you over here because we've got issues in the inner cities and whether or not we can link in with your organisation to do some work with some of the gang members over here and how would we go about doing something like that? No, no, no. Gang members in quotes. I'm open to discussing it at one point. I think when there were some problems that we were witnessing going on, we were thinking about coming in some way. But I think we also like to always partner with organisations on the ground, people who are working already to create a structure with us. If those organisations were to reach out to us or we would reach out to them if we made a decision to come here to see if there is a synergy between us to be able to do some work and we would. OK. Final question from the audience. It's coming. It's your turn. Just in relation to that last question, I think if you go on the website and look up the Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative, through that, make the links. Thank you for your patience. Got there in the end. My name's Sophie. I'm the youth advocate and engagement officer, advisor for War Child UK. So a lot of the stuff that you've been talking about is engaging young people in conflict zones. That's a lot of what we're doing. I've met with you guys in South Sudan. Fantastic. My question was related to the fact that people affected by conflict at the moment, children and youth represent 50% of that population of IDPs, of refugees. They are continually silenced. We don't really have it. It seems to be something that's not really acknowledged very much that children and youth constitute. There are such large numbers of these people that are affected, yet they don't really ever speak up about their experiences or get an opportunity to voice their opinion on the services, the interventions, the humanitarian aid, the policy that affects them. So I was just curious, particularly thinking about the population bold that we have in so many countries at the moment, what your thoughts are on the kind of scalability of what you're trying to do and whether you've really kind of thought about pushing to make that something that's a bit more standardised approaches to this kind of work? Yeah. We have a curriculum that we've been working with and a methodology that we feel works. We're just now discussing, after we've seen some of the movement, some of the things happening, how we're going to be able to scale. We have a lot of great workers in the field that have helped us with that. We'll be doing that. I think the next thing that we're going to be doing is a refugee camp in Uganda. They're in the Kyrgyn Longol. The scalability of it is based on funds as well. I think if we are able to acquire the funds to be able to scale out, then we will. We were talking about that with Carolyn Discompriese earlier today and talked to Dagu in the field about it. A lot of our people have been working on it. I was on calls about it all day today. You're right. 60 million people are out of their homes. 30 million are kids. 20 or so million of them are refugees. 10 million of those are still. It's a major problem. We're hoping that byscaling, as we raise more money, we'll be able to be a part of the solution with people like your organisation and stuff. Forrest, I wanted to ask you one last question. You've been incredibly generous with your time. One of the things that you said in the past, and I'll quote it, is you said, if there is inequality and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it. So my final question to you is, what would you like your legacy to be? I would like to leave a legacy that concerns connecting with other individuals, making and filling this world with a space for people to have a decent life, to speak about those things, to illuminate those things, to illuminate the connection between those things. In that way, to truly be a part of humanity's movement towards oneness. I know it's abstract. You want it to be more like, but the fact is that I want to, and I'm hoping to leave a mark that just means that I was involved with everyone, moving towards human race, towards a better humanity. A credible body of work, both as an artist and as a social activist, you've allowed us a glimpse into some of that tonight, and for that, we thank you very much indeed, and I don't think that one round of applause was nearly enough, so we're going to give you another. Very nice.