I'm Adrian Monk in New York. Thank you all for joining us today for this special agenda dialogue on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine. This dialogue comes almost one month into the war, an unfortunate milestone in this ongoing tragedy. Each day over the past four weeks, we've seen pictures of the devastation, watched footage of communities destroyed, and read harrowing accounts of the lost lives. It's vital that we continue to bear witness to what's unfolding in Ukraine, but also that we take action to assist those in need. This is why the forum has brought together the heads of leading humanitarian organizations to walk us through what's taking place on the ground and share ways that the public and the private sectors can support the humanitarian response. With us today, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, David Beasley, Executive Director of UNICEF, Cathy Russell, Deputy High Commissioner of the UN Refugee Agency, Kaleen Clements, and the CEO of Save the Children, Inga Ashing. Thank you for joining us. Leading today's discussion is my colleague and President of the World Economic Forum, Berger Brender. Berger, handing the floor to you. Thank you, Adrian, in New York. Good afternoon from Geneva. Indeed, we are really, at the moment, a few of us could have imagined only weeks ago. When you look at the pictures of destruction of hospitals, airports, schools, cities, it's a tragedy. What is happening in Kiev, Harkiv, Mariupol, Odessa, and elsewhere is truly shocking. Since February 24th, our 3.3 million people have fled Ukraine for neighboring countries. This comes on top of the nearly 6.5 million Ukrainians that are no IDPs, internally displaced. As the UN High Commissioner, Philippo Grande, said the other day, he has rarely seen anything like this in such rapid, unfortunate development. In addition to the humanitarian crisis, the International Monetary Fund, IMF, warned that the global economy will slow as we feel the effects of rising prices on food, fuel, and other essentials. And we can just imagine what consequences this will have also on poverty and extreme poverty. If we don't turn this, we will be nowhere close to meeting the SDGs by 2030, eradicating all extreme poverty. So in response to the crisis, teams from the UN and aid organizations have been working 24-7 to provide life-saving support on the ground. This is crucial. But access is more questionable. And Russia is not, of course, complying with basic humanitarian law in this respect. And we have seen unprecedented, fortunately, support then from also the business community not only have over 400 global companies at the World Economic Forum. We're drawn from Russia. Hundreds are raising funds or using their networks to directly assist those in need. But there is so much more we must do. So I'm very pleased to have such a good cost of the leading humanitarians in the world with us. And let me start with the Cathy Russell, Executive Director of UNICEF. You know, UNICEF is dealing with the most vulnerable among us children. And there are 7.5 million children in Ukraine. 1.5 million of whom are no refugees. I know, Cathy, that you recently returned from the region. And could you give us a sense of what is taking place on the ground and share the impact of the crisis on the children and their families? Thank you for joining. Great. Well, thank you, Berger, for focusing your first question on children because I think the war in Ukraine is most definitely a child protection crisis. So I'd like to make a couple of points first here today. As you noted, the war continues to escalate in multiple locations. Some cities are completely besieged at this point. And we've all seen the pictures. Nothing is safe from attack and nothing is sacred. Schools, kindergartens, orphanages, maternity hospitals, water systems, power plants, theaters, unexploded ordinances and minds.  Dozens of children have been killed and wounded. The UN can verify 64 child casualties and that number is likely to grow at this point. Inside Ukraine, children and their families are hiding in basements and sheltering in train stations. Millions have little or no access to safe water or adequate sanitation and hygiene.  Food insecurity is growing even if food is available and it's not safe to go outside and buy it. And it may be the first day of spring, but it's still very cold in Ukraine at this point. UNICEF and our partners are doing everything we can to reach children and families in Ukraine. We have a Ukraine country office there and it remains operational under very difficult circumstances. I've been in touch with the staff there and they're doing truly heroic work. And there's no other word for it. And ensuring their safety and security is our highest priority. And I keep saying that to them. I know how important work is. I know how dedicated you are and these people are truly amazing, but please try to keep your safety top of mind. It's a very, very tough operating environment. Humanitarian access is limited with rapidly changing front lines, making it very challenging to deliver critical services and supplies. But we are getting things through. As of March 17th, we dispatched 85 trucks carrying 858 tons of emergency supplies to support children and families in Ukraine and neighboring countries. And just this past week, we delivered supplies across Ukraine to the war-affected cities of Kiev, Kharkiv and Sumi. So the supplies these trucks are carrying paint a real picture of the situation on the ground in Ukraine and in the neighboring countries. Surgical supplies, oxygen, oxygen concentrators, obstetric equipment and midwifery kits, maternity kits, family hygiene kits, diapers and disinfectants. Dignity kits for menstruating girls and women, bottled water, blankets, water and clothes. Around 34 of these trucks are already inside Ukraine and more are on the way. Outside Ukraine, the refugee crisis has grown so rapidly and exponentially and so have the risk to millions of women and children on the move. Half of the 3 million people, as you mentioned, have been forced to flee Ukraine or children. We estimate that 55 children flee Ukraine every single minute. And that's nearly one child every second. I was recently on the board, as you mentioned, out of your Romania where almost half a million people, mainly women and children have crossed to escape the violence. They're traveling with next to nothing, as you can imagine. The children have their little backpacks on. The mothers are usually dragging a roller bag behind them. Some of them really only have the clothes that they were managed to grab before they left. The women talked about the difficulty of their journeys and their concerns for their children's safety. The children talked about really being pulled out of school and mostly about missing their dads and the worry for their fathers. So the children have been traumatized already and we know that that's just going to continue. The women and children are vulnerable in so many ways, including to exploitation and abuse, which is one of our primary concerns at this point. The threat of trafficking is real and growing, especially for children who've become separated from their families. UNICEF and UNHCR are setting up safe spaces for women and children at border crossings and reception and transit areas in all the neighboring countries. These are things we call blue dot areas. You may have seen them in some of our work that we've put out around the social media. They provide information, psychosocial support and protection from exploitation and abuse among other critical services. And critically, blue dots work to identify and protect unaccompanied children, which as I said is one of our primary concerns. Our response in neighboring countries is focused on supporting the governments to expand their existing social services to women and children playing the crane. The generosity and compassion we're seeing in these neighboring countries is encouraging. We're grateful that so many refugee families have been able to find temporary housing and help, but I have to really stress this is not a permanent solution. I just spent a couple of days in Germany and the sort of longer term issues are very present in people's minds and I think we've got to be very mindful of that. I want to conclude my answer with two images. Some you may have seen on social media. In one image, empty baby strollers lying a square on the street, a brutal reminder of how many children have been casualties of this war and how many families have been shattered by what's gone on. In the other image, empty baby strollers have been left at the curb outside a train station and transit points in neighboring countries to help women fleeing the war and their children. One image is obviously one of despair of all the children who've been lost so far and the other is an image of compassion but neither is an image of peace. UNICEF and our partners will keep doing everything we can to support Ukraine's children and families but really what these children need is for the war to end and for there to be peace. So thank you so much, Bert. Well, thank you, Cathy. Thank you for what you're doing and UNICEF is doing. It is terrible to see that children are being attacked like this in a war in the 21st century. It's just totally unbelievable. So, and we know also that there is shortages in every way now in Ukraine being medicine but also food and we have David Beasley with us executive director of the World Food Program and we know, David, that already before Russia's invasion food prices jumped by almost 25% over the past year with wheat prices no hitting record high since the crisis started. So can you paint the picture of what this, what is really taking place in Ukraine in regards to the food situation and also why this will have such impact around the world because we know that both Russia and Ukraine are major exporters of food. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does. I mean, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, the food and fuel price spiking taking place, we were already hit and I'm sure UNICEF and UNHCR are the same thing. We were already hit right before Ukraine crisis with a $42 million increase in operational costs. We're already billions of dollars short for Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Ethiopia, the Sahel and let me just go around the world and so then when you think it can't get worse, here comes Ukraine. And the difficulty here is that Ukraine grows enough food to feed 400 million people on planet Earth. So when the farmers on the battlefields aren't planting or aren't harvesting, what impact do you think that's gonna have? 50% of our grain, for example, wheat comes from Ukraine and then when you start putting in the global context of Russia and Ukraine together, not even get into the fertilizer costs and the fertilizer access of base products, you've got a catastrophe knocking and looming on the door for the fall. That will be not a price issue, but a supply issue, availability of food for people around the world and that will be a catastrophe on top of a catastrophe. But in the meantime, inside Ukraine, the people that are making it to the outside in some ways are the blessed and fortunate ones because of the fact they are getting shelter and food in this miserable circumstance, but you've got 40 million people left on the inside that if we don't reach them with the support they need, including food and medicines, et cetera, you're gonna have it beyond anything we've ever seen before. We know we are dealing with millions of people on the inside that need support and how do we reach them? How do we get to them given the dynamics that we are facing? It's so bad. It's just hard to imagine what we're facing. We need, for example, just a world food program to reach 3 million people, about $160 million per month. We now have $141 million committed and to move the supplies in, you need to reach three, four, five million people. You don't do that in three or four days time. We don't now have the money to buy far the end of the month of April. So we're short of funding as well as what we're trying to do in addition to the Ukrainian government, Boris, particularly when you know how much grain, barley, wheat, sunflower oils, et cetera, that are produced on the inside of Ukraine, how can we maximize the consumption of those grains inside Ukraine? Because every grain we bring from the outside to the inside is compounding, not just on what's taking place inside Ukraine, but on the outside as well. So every bit of grain of value that is on the inside that we can use as we work with the government to see what they can do, what can we do? We're setting up distribution points all over the country because the incredible support from, especially Poland and the European community, where those that are making it to the border has been remarkable. Those that make it to Lviv and on the western side is quite remarkable. We're actually able to say, okay, we don't need to do much here. Let us make certain that we're setting up systems in place where hard to reach, besieged cities can't get into, what do we need to do to deconflict those areas so that we can get the foods, the medicines, and the sport that Kathy was talking about for children, et cetera, et cetera. I could go on and on and I know we don't have that much time, but you can see we're all hands on deck as we speak. I've been into the region already three times just in the last three weeks and we'll be there back again later this week, but I don't see it getting any better. I think it's only going to get worse. And all of us, coordinating, I know I see Kelly on the line, how we're coordinating with UNHCR, for example, at Moldova right now because Moldova is going to be gravely in the line of fire and it's going to be a very tenuous situation for the people of that nation. That's just another example of the ripple effect and we go on and on, but let me thank you to the European community how they've embraced and literally with incredible of your neighbor perspective have helped a lot of people that have come across, but we cannot forget about the 40 million that need our help now. And let me give this one little last anecdotal dynamic. We did this in Syria. It didn't reach the Syrian people. For every Syrian inside Syria that we at the World Food Program could reach for 50 cents a day, that same Syrian ends up in Berlin or Brussels. It's over $70 per day. So do the math. It is quite expensive. So we need to reach people that are not in harm's way in such a way that we maximize their hope and bring as much support as we possibly can. And let me just stop right there. Yeah, I can keep on going. So thanks for bringing this really important time discussion up. No, thank you for your leadership, David. And as you said, it is when you don't think it can get any worse. It does get worse. And with the multiple crisis that you're faced with being no Ukraine, but we had Afghanistan, we had Yemen, we have Ethiopia, we have Somalia and we have Sudan and other crisis too. So it's natural then to go to Kelly Clemens, as you already mentioned, Deputy High Commissioner at UN Refugee Agency. Kelly, I think you speak to us today from the European Humanitarian Forum taking place in Brussels. And what are you hearing regarding the unprecedented refugee flows from Ukraine into neighboring countries? What are the conditions they're faced with? And if you could also touch on the IDP situation inside Ukraine. Sure, sure. Thanks very much for having us on the program. And really just to take off from your opening, Borge, in terms of what Filippo Grandi said not too long ago, he called it a torrent of misery. Being there at the border, David's just described it, Kathy has described it. We have a situation where people are really pouring out of the country. Those are the ones that create safety. You mentioned the numbers. We basically have a quarter of Ukraine displaced, either displaced internally or they have become refugees leaving and going mostly to neighboring countries who have been phenomenal with their generosity, their humbling hospitality. And really in terms of the numbers that we're talking about, it's huge. So 6.5 million internally displaced now, 3.4 million who are refugees, mostly in neighboring countries. And to get to a point that David just mentioned, 13 million we estimate who are stranded or trapped in areas of Ukraine where they can't reach safety. And this is most troubling. Those are the people, of course, we can't get the food, the water, the immediate necessities to. So in terms of those people coming to the border, Kathy really set the stage and the scene for you. Most are women, children and the agent. 90% in many refugee situations like this, you already have the vast majority would be women and children. But this is an extraordinary crisis where really we do not see men coming across the border for obvious reasons. Now, what does that mean? It means that refugees want to stay close to Ukraine. They wanna stay close to their fathers, their brothers, their nephews, their sons. What does that mean, of course, for the neighboring countries? Well, that the local authorities, the municipalities, the volunteers, people who are really literally opening up their hearts and their homes to be able to host refugees in very large numbers. In places like Moldova, as David just mentioned, a country which of course has seen a lot of refugees come to this very small country. Many people then moving on to other hosts like Romania. In Poland, we have over 2 million Ukrainian refugees in Poland now. And obviously the needs for support and services are immense. Now, what the European Union has done and yes, as you mentioned, I'm here in Brussels today for the European Humanitarian Forum. They have put together something called a temporary protection directive, which basically means that for a period of time, Ukrainians and others that were in Ukraine can seek the protection, the residency, the ability to be able to access services in the country in which they find themselves. So this kind of solidarity, which of course for the European Union is critical right now, they are on the front lines of this, but also other countries are establishing similar mechanisms. Canada, the United States, Brazil, have all talked about this. And this will be absolutely essential for the long term and moving from an immediate humanitarian response to something that is more dignified, where people can take care of themselves and receive less from the international community. But sustained support is absolutely fundamental. No, thank you so much. Just imagine a country after a few weeks with six and a half million internally displaced people, two million people only in Poland refugees. And the solidarity and how they're coping with it also with your support is just so touching. Moving to Inger Ashing, Inger is the CEO of Save the Children. And I know that you have operated in Ukraine since 2014, when we saw the first destabilization, the occupation of Crimea, but also what we know from Donetsk and Lugansk. And I guess you still have colleagues in Ukraine. I wonder what they're reporting from the ground in terms of the changing needs and the humanitarian access and what children are faced with, just know. Thank you, Borget. Yes, we still have teams in Ukraine, in the neighboring countries, to make sure that we are responding to this crisis that we see. And as we all know, millions of children in Ukraine are in grave danger. And our teams and the partners that we work with within the countries are witnessing a major protection crisis unfold. Inside Ukraine, they report that children have started to show signs of severe emotional distress. Some children say that they have become afraid of any noise, feel terrified at all time and struggle to breathe when they think about what is happening around them. Children are seeing their schools and hospitals being destroyed. They are exposed to the devastating effects of explosive weapons in populated areas. And some are being separated from their families. And that's, of course, in Ukraine, as we just heard, if they are able to escape and flee the country, that they are separated from the fathers. And we are extremely alarmed by reports that bombs and intense shelling have damaged more than 460 schools across the country and over 60 now lay in complete ruins. Schools should be a safe haven for children, not a place of fear, injury, and death.  The streets of Ukraine are being used as a battlefield. And our teams speak of there being no safe places left in the country now. And we heard that at least one in five children in Ukraine, more than 1.5 million have been fleeing the country. And in neighboring countries, we are seeing huge number of children among these coming across borders, a significant number of them being under 14. And we are especially concerned about children traveling alone who are extremely high risk of abuse, trafficking, and exploitation. And in light of these spiraling needs, it is essential that in unpeded, a humanitarian response is able to reach families at the speed and the scale required, and that is incredibly difficult right now. Although some of our partners have managed to remain operational in Ukraine, the situation is volatile and the ongoing hostilities have severely restricted access to some conflict-affected communities, leading to accumulation and exacerbation of unmet needs. So yes, Berger, there's a lot of things to be really concerned about, but what we're also seeing, and we heard some of my colleagues talking about neighboring countries and the generosity and the way of seeing, but I'm also overwhelmed by the generosity and rapid reaction of business leaders and the public around the world. And there's a lot of important roles that they can play. And I think the task ahead is to collectively support these children, meeting the immediate needs and safety of each individual child and ensuring their long-term protection. Because the rules of law are very clear. Children are not the target and neither are hospitals or schools. We must protect the children in Ukraine. No, thank you so much, Inger. And I'm just wondering what it takes for someone to bomb more than 100 schools. This is supposed to be the safe place for children and children's hospitals. It is really, really unseen. This is happening in Europe in the 21st century. And based on this, I think we're all, Kelly, thinking about how can we, in the most effective way, for governments, business, and the public to support the refugees in the middle of this crisis? Of course, we're in the middle of the crisis now, but also, as you mentioned, it's gonna continue for a long time. So how are neighboring states planning to support these many refugees and also those yet to arrive? I think we all would like to know how we, in the best way, can support. Thanks, thanks very much for the question. This is critical. Inger just said it. We have seen incredible generosity and outpouring of support. And if we can say one thing and leave one thing with you, please let this not be temporary. We will need long-term sustained support, not just for this crisis, but as David said, for the many other refugee displacements, crises around the world that continue, unfortunately, to not receive the support that it needs. So there are about five ways that we would say that businesses can support the governments, the municipalities, organizations like ours. First and foremost, of course, it's resources. It's funding, it's money. Things that are as flexible as possible because we need to be able to move very quickly, depending upon where those pockets and access opens up inside Ukraine, but also where refugees move in the neighboring countries to be able to move with them and to be able to support the governments and the municipalities that are on the front lines of this crisis. Second is in kind. It's everything from mattresses to beds to blankets to sanitary supplies. All of that is required. Refugees, the Ukrainians, third country national students, they are leaving the country with very, very little. As Kathy said, the roller bag. There's not much that can sit in there. So really trying to be able to provide some immediate support in terms of that in kind, including lift support in some context, but also we are setting up very quickly a multi-purpose cash system so that they can then have a safe way to be able to move and seek accommodation. The third are for companies. Engage your employees. Lots of people want to help right now. And many companies are taking advantage of that opportunity to be able to channel the support in ways that assist organizations like ours to be able to deliver that relief on the ground very, very quickly. And fourth, many companies are also doing a matching competition, which obviously raises increased resources, gets people engaged. Fifth, the pro bono support we've seen from several companies in terms of adding their expertise, their legal advice, their technological answers when we need some help, particularly in trying to be able to put that cash system in place very, very quickly. We couldn't have done it without business. And then the final point I would make a bargain on this is use your voice. It's the advocacy. It's talking about why we should care as an international community and why we need to stand together with people in need right now and for the future. Well, thank you so much, Kelly. It is really heartbreaking to see the children and Kathy, we know that UNICEF is very, very engaged. And I would also like to post the question to you what are the most effective ways that garments and businesses can support the children, those in particular needs, the refugees, including educational, psychosocial and mental health needs. Because we know that there are scars with these children that they will bear the rest of their lives. And we really, really know need support in the best and most targeted way. Yeah, I think that's exactly right, Borga. And I would agree with Kelly. I think that the international response to the situation has been immediate and governments have stepped up so dramatically and been very responsive and so have local communities in the neighboring countries. But the private sector has stepped up rapidly as well, which has been very reassuring and greatly appreciated because these needs just continue to grow by the day. And as you said, this includes the needs for psychosocial support. Children living through these experiences are just experiencing traumatic events every day. And that includes not just the shelling, which kids have certainly heard hiding in the subway stations or traveling, leaving their fathers or whatever. It's just a lot of different situations that are very hard to sort of judge how that impact will last on these kids. Inside Ukraine, we're deploying 47 mobile units to reach children, which is important and valuable, but it's of course a drop in the bucket considering the needs. And we're trying to do that wherever these children are and provide them with supports. And in neighboring countries, as I mentioned, the Blue Dot Centers are also focused on child protection and support. We're also scaling up child protection hotlines for members of the general public to call when they see a child at risk. And that's particularly saying, if you see a child who's alone or it gives you any worry, as I said, people are, and Kelly mentioned this, the local communities are being very generous, but sometimes and inevitably in those situations, there are people who don't have good intentions at heart and we have to really be aware of that. So we're asking people to use digital and social media to help identify situations where children may be at some risk from trafficking and other dangers. We're also scaling up education support. The pandemic has really shown us how profoundly crises can impact children's education and how important it is to try to reach them quickly. The interesting thing about Ukraine is that much of their education system is digitally available. So we're trying to provide materials and support to prevent learning loss. Again, challenging given the circumstances, but at least if we can try to have some continuity for the students, I think that will be helpful. We're delivering education kits and early childhood development kits in Ukraine and neighboring countries. We're deploying 100 mobile education and early childhood development teams to urgently support children's access to education and we're encouraging governments to integrate refugee children into national education systems. And this is complicated as I think Inger and Kelly both mentioned because you have situations where the children and the parents hope and believe that the families are going back soon and they don't really want to move into a different education system. But of course we have no idea how long these kids will be there and it's important to try to make sure that they have some access to the local education systems. So we need to expand these services and all services because every day this war continues. UNICEF's first and foremost is appealing for funds, of course. We are appeal with for $349 million, $276 for urgent programs inside Ukraine and $73 million for critical efforts in neighboring countries. We're going to need all of that obviously to respond to this crisis in the days and as long as it takes. But we're also calling on the private sector. Companies, particularly those doing business and refugee hosting countries can help refugee families coping with displacement, for example, by providing access to decent work, especially for people supporting children. Global technology and digital media companies have a footprint in Ukraine and in neighboring countries can help us send real-time information to protect at-risk Ukrainian women and children from being abused, exploited and trafficked and that's incredibly important. We welcome support also from the logistics and transport industry to both transport and store critical supplies. We've already been working together on COVID-19 and vaccine distribution. So these folks know us and know our work with so many children affected in Ukraine and all over the world. Our partnership with the transport industry has never been more critical and we're so grateful for that. And we're calling on all businesses to engage with their staff, their customer base, their business community to push for a peaceful solution to this war and for more support for the children who are caught up in it. So thank you so much. Well, thank you so much and you can count also on the World Economic Forum to mobilize all our business partners. We had a meeting on Friday with more than 120 CEOs that just joined on Ukraine on a couple of days notice also at our annual meeting in Davos in May. Of course, the humanitarian consequences of the war will have major focus. And I'm thinking about the long term consequences also for children, of course, the IDPs but also the refugees. Inger, what can we do and what do you think? Well, we will see in the coming months and years here in Europe for these children. Thank you, Berger. So I think in all wars, children are the most vulnerable group and losing their protective and secure environments. They're exposed to a number of risks that may have long-term consequences on their development and growth, lasting well into adulthood. And I think that is regardless if you're an internally displaced person or if you have to flee your country. And I think it's important for us to understand that the nature of conflict has changed, putting children in the front line in you in terrible ways. Wars are lasting longer. They are more likely to be fought in urban areas among civilians, leading to death and life challenging injuries and laying waste to the infrastructure needed to guarantee access to food and water as we just heard. Attacks on schools and hospitals are up. We see all of this happening in Ukraine right now. And children are disproportionate suffering from the consequences of these brutal trends. We see many more children facing unimaginable mental and physical trauma. We see more children going hungry, falling victim to preventable diseases, being out of school, the risk of sexual violence, being trapped on the front line with no access to humanitarian aid. And the longer the conflict continues, the worse the situation will be. And the harm that is done to children in armed conflict is not only often more severe than what it is for adults. It has longer lasting implications for children themselves and for their societies. You can say that destruction, poverty, that comes from war and violence creates a vicious circus. And one example, just to illustrate what I'm trying to say is that the closure of schools not only leaves lifelong scars in education and employment, but it also deprives children of one of the most important protective factors. And the impact that we see in Ukraine now on children's health, both physical and mental, is devastating. But I want to say that children can also demonstrate extreme resilience, even in the most extreme circumstances, particularly if they are getting the right support to recover. So there is a real important role for all of us to play to make sure that we support them to be able to get to that resilience and come out of this without as many scars as if they are not supported. And it's about ensuring that children are safe, that the basic needs are being met, families are preserved or reunited, that alternative care is being put in place and that children have access to community level support such as school. Local and national NGOs will be critical and so will government and the business sector. And we know from experience in other conflict zones around the world that we have to start to planning now for supporting children's long-term recovery from the crisis. And we know that we need to make sure that we give access to education as we just heard both Kelly and Kathy talk about. And I think what will be key now is to make sure that there is a strong commitment from the international communities and business leaders to mobilize new child-focused recovery funding and prioritize investment in human capital, by investment in education, healthcare protection, mental health and psychosocial support. And I think it's key that this funding is long-term, that it's flexible and that we are putting children at the center and at the core of the responses to support Ukraine. Well, thank you, Inger, for that incredibly important reminder. We can't only focus on the short-term humanitarian catastrophe. We know that we will need to medium-term, long-term, follow up these children. I would like to go back to you, David, David Bisley. We know that the war in Ukraine is putting serious strain on the global food system.  And we know that this food system already was failing nearly 800 million people who are living hunger globally before this crisis. And it has become more urgent than ever to transition food systems so that they are more resilient and also more inclusive. So Ukraine and Russia, we know, as I already mentioned, jointly supply nearly 30% of wheat worldwide. So I'm wondering, what can the public and private sectors do to prepare for the next harvest and to strengthen the food system over the longer term? So we don't move to a situation where those that had food shortage end up in famine and those that had no problem before are ending up in a food situation that is serious. So what can we do? Well, I talked with the G7 secretaries, ministers of agriculture on Friday and said, the question is, do you have enough time right now to offset what could be a substantial reduction in the availability of grains, wheat, barley, oats, the idea around the world because of what's happening in Ukraine. And this is one of the reasons we need to get the farmers in Ukraine back into the field so they can plant and harvest over the next few months. Otherwise, can the G7 countries and all other nations around the world make up for that supply that needs to be offset from the literally hundreds of millions of metric tons that will not be available? Because as I said earlier, it's not gonna be a pricing problem in the fall or a year from now, it's gonna be an availability problem and that has extraordinary consequences. The other thing is while you're focusing on Ukraine, you cannot neglect the Middle East and let's say, for example, from the Red Sea to the Atlantic, the Sahel, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, because if you do, you could have millions upon millions of refugees heading your way as we saw in Syria. You cannot neglect this region of the world just for Ukraine. We've got to deal with both and all of this at the same time because right now because of lack of money right before Ukraine, we were already cutting rations, just say for example in Yemen, from eight million people down to 50% and now down to zero percent in the next week if we don't receive monies. The same thing in the Sahel, we've already cut in Niger and Chad and Ethiopia, et cetera, down to 50% rations. How would you like to tell your child, I'm sorry, you're only gonna get at best half the food that you need. So you're running into these issues all over the world. And so we can't neglect those other areas. Area that's really critical though is export bans. The private sector and the government's got to minimize export bans. The private sector has got to be very careful not to get too speculative in a constrained market. Transparency's gonna be critical so we can stabilize the market because we're not just dealing with the 125 million people that we may be feeding on every, on any given day or month, but we're dealing with 7.8 billion people on earth that need and rely on this supply chain systems. Now, one last thing, Morgan, this is extremely important because the long-term answer in these fragile places, not just giving food. I mean, I think all of us would like to put ourselves out of business where we're no longer needed. And this is where the private sector has got to be engaged in countries that may not be at war right now. Yeah, we need your money right now in the short term, perfect storm. But on the long term, we need your engagement in reducing dependency upon government programs that would just hand out food versus creating resilience, sustainability in ways that when shocks do happen, people can take care of themselves. And we've got these solutions. They do need to be funded. But I've seen an incredible shift in the United Nations in the past few years that in my opinion shun the private sector. But you see, I think it's a great awakening that many United Nations will never solve hunger, will never solve poverty unless the private sector is front and center working alongside. So thank you. No, thank you, David, for that important perspective. One thing is to bring food in acute crisis, a humanitarian crisis, but you shouldn't kill the local markets at the same time. Of course, it's different when there is a war zone compared to a natural disaster. But these are very important reminders. Kathy and Kelly, as David just underlined, the crisis in Ukraine is taking place as part of a global crisis. We know that at least 82 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes, 82 million people. And among them are nearly 26 million refugees, and many of them children. So maybe you could share also with our audience what impact this crisis in Ukraine has on Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Sotsudan, Ethiopia, and other conflicts around the world. Who can we continue to support in Ukraine without letting people in, for example, Yemen or Sotsudan paying a price for this? Well, Borget, we just have to. We have to not take our eye off of those other crises. For 2022, the global humanitarian overview asked for a record $41 billion for 274 million people. Those, if you combine that with the requirements now that we're seeing in light of the Ukraine situation, the needs, as all of us have said, are going through the roof. And the requirements that we have to continue to meet those needs are also increasing. Last year, we were only half supported as an organization, as the UN refugee agency. Already this year, we are tremendously worried that resources not be deviated or diverted to Ukraine. This needs to be additional. We need to continue to support Venezuelans, Sotsudanese, Sudanese, Yemeni, Somali refugees, and all in pockets around the world, global humanitarian need is acute and we cannot take our eye off of those needs at the same time. Cathy? You know, I think it's certainly challenging. The world's attention is now on Ukraine and that makes sense, right? It's a terrible situation there and we can see every night on the news what's happening. But as Kelly said, the problems continue in other places. And I think someone gave me a statistic that last year in Syria, nearly 900 children were killed or injured. And that's, when you stop and think about it, it's a devastating number. I was in Afghanistan a couple of weeks ago and I was shocked at the humanitarian crisis that is happening there where so many children, I mean, we're worried that a million children are at risk of acute severe malnutrition. And I've seen a lot of things in my career but I visited a hospital where babies were suffering from that problem and it was devastating even for me to see. And as I said, I've seen many situations like that before but it is terrible there. And it's a situation where you drive down the road and you see carts of vegetables and fruit on the side of the road. They did have a drought last year so the food is more limited but there is some food in the country but there's no money in the country because of this banking challenger. So the international community has got to still be able to focus on other problems at the same time because if we don't, people, children in particular will suffer and are suffering in these places. I did a call the other day with people from Yemen. Again, people are suffering, children are suffering from acute malnutrition. That's a very horrible way. I mean, I don't know about you but if I'm hungry, if I miss lunch, I sort of notice it, right? And these people are suffering in such a devastating way.  How are they supposed to concert? How are they supposed to get through the day? And it's really a horrifying situation and as a world, we can't let that happen. We've got to be able to do more than one thing at a time, not just not detracting at all from the crisis in Ukraine because it is a serious problem but there are children suffering in many other parts of the world and we've got to be able to focus on that as well and do something about it because we have the capacity to do it. And I always say at UNICEF, we know what to do, right? We know how to address these problems, we just need the resources to do it. Thank you so much, Cathy. Adrian, what's strong messages from these humanitarians? Incredible testimony, I think, from everyone across the humanitarian leadership sector. And I think from David as well and from Inga and some of the colleagues that you brought on a really important message for CEOs listening that their businesses really do need to have plans to tackle this crisis and that business has a really important role to play in making sure that we can both meet the needs of the people who are suffering and also that we can help them to integrate and rebuild their lives and actually manage through this horrible crisis that we've seen in Europe in the last few weeks. But really, yes, it's been a profound and fascinating insight into the challenges that we face and also into the solutions that present themselves, particularly some of those points. And I think anyone who's watching from any forum partner company can get in touch with their engagement manager and really understand how they can help, what they can do, and what their company needs to do to have a plan to tackle this crisis. Back to you, Borger. Well, thank you so much, Adrian. And thank you to all of you for joining. Thank you for the incredible work you're doing. I also send our warmest thoughts to all the brave humanitarians out there and also I'm thinking about all those that are suffering under war or natural disasters, but we also have to not get paralyzed. We have to roll up our sleeves and really know, support everyone in need and get back on track so we can meet the sustainable development goals by 2030. We cannot give up on this because it is possible to fight poverty. It is possible to eradicate all extreme poverty by 2030, but it will take a lot and these crises are unfortunately historic. So thank you very much for joining us and all the best from Geneva.


Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 2019 film the highly lauded 2019 film parasite Now is this a horror film because I mainly do horror film reviews. I wouldn't say it's a horror film Does it have horror elements to it? I would say definitely does and that's no big surprise because Bong Joon Ho Sorry, I had to look down. I get the order of his name mixed up from time to time Bong Joon Ho He's actually done horror before so it's not a big surprise that having horror elements in it and pulled off Well in this film is the thing. So there will be no spoilers in this review since it's a newer film I would encourage people to actually watch it Obviously a lot of people said it's a very good film. It is a very good film. So check it out I watched it on Hulu streaming service. So it is available there if you have Hulu This was written and directed by Bong Joon Ho Who did the host memories of murder mother? Okja and snow piercer now. I have not actually of all of those I know of all of those. I've only seen the host before I actually own the host that somewhere back in there Good film. I really like the host now watching This film parasite reminded me a lot of another director who is also from South Korea Who I love and is actually my favorite director of all time Chan-Wook Park or as other people say Park Chan-Wook I say Chan-Wook Park, but you know, it's a US versus South Korea name order thing. So but Yeah, so this film actually reminded me a lot about that but a lot of his stuff I'll talk a little bit more about that later But no spoilers on this one, but thematically Maybe a little bit of thematic spoilers in a sense, but it won't ruin anything about the film really It has Kang Ho song in it who is recognized very recognizable to me. I've seen a few films. He's been in He's in joint security area, which I also own. That's a really good one. That's a Chan-Wook Park film He's also in sympathy for mr. Vengeance also a Chan-Wook Park film lady vengeance also a Chan-Wook Park film memories of murder the host those are Bong Jun-ho films thirst, which is also a Chan-Wook Park film howling and Snowpiercer once again Bong Jun-ho So he's worked with those two amazing filmmakers Quite a bit. So he's very recognizable to people who have been watching the stuff from those two filmmakers And he does a great job in this overall the acting in this is very good I did not have any moments in this film where I was like, ooh that acting is a little rough Top-notch acting now maybe part of that being the budget for this film was eleven point four million dollars US equivalent eleven point four million dollars now What did it make though it became so popular with so highly-lotted two hundred and sixty six million Dollars that's a lot so the the company that put this out was probably like Ching Ching Ching we made crazy amounts of bank Let's make some more of these films So it won the Palm Dore at the Cannes Film Festival for people who don't know that that is like the Primo film that's shown there That's the number one award. You can get it at Cannes It was the first South Korean film to ever do that Well first Korean film to do that because I don't think a North Korean film has ever done that either I think it's safe to say It was the first South Korean film to be recognized by the Academy Awards to even be nominated for things And then it was the first non-English language film to win Best Picture for the Academy Awards. That was like a huge thing um And some people were like, oh my gosh, it's a foreign film, you know, it should have been an American film Come on I was happy that it ended up being a foreign language film because I have seen so many amazing foreign language films and I would like people to understand that You know in order to experience these stories We don't have to just do American remakes of these films Just see the original because there have been so many instances like let the right one in or old boy Old boy originally a chamber park film my one of my favorite films of all time Um, let's just let's not remake these things. Just watch the original Uh, it was in the film was influenced by the 1960 korean film the housemaid Which I have not seen don't know a whole lot about but that's what bong Junho said he also said it was a little bit influenced by Some tutoring that he did for a rich family when he was younger And he just took some inspiration from that and kind of built the story out out that way The first floor of the the main building in this film And the garden area of the of that house were actually constructed on an actual lot of land The basement portion and the second floor were actually done on a sound stage like at an actual studio So it's very interesting that you know, their sets weren't all in the same place It was we're going here for for first floor and outside. We're going here for second floor and basement It's just kind of a weird thing But you know, that's what they do When building on the outside lot they took the sun into account for how they would want to use the light At certain times during the day. That's crazy. That shows a lot of attention to detail And I will say the lighting is used Magnificently in this film now not just the natural lighting which is used very well But the lighting inside and and because they built The house The inside of the house they were able to set the lighting up a certain way and it looks beautiful It lights things beautifully. It is and that's just another thing about this film overall It looks phenomenal Wonderful directing wonderful cinematography. The sets are great. The house was constructed Amazingly it looks sleek. It looks beautiful. It looks expensive Amazing Yeah, the look is great There was a black and white version of this film. It was actually done in limited release I don't know if that would be you know, I don't know what kind of impact that would have Like there are certain times where like I feel like black and white Is an important thing when you're doing more low budget stuff, especially like horror low budget because you can hide a lot of practical effects issues or CGI issues or lighting issues as well, but you know I don't know if that mattered much So they do a good job of establishing Something important to this film in the beginning, which is kind of like a financial hardship. Now. This isn't really a spoiler It's something that's immediately done in the first like minute of the film, but they did a really good job of very appropriately conveying financial hardship because At its core, there's a lot of kind of rich versus poor going on in this and you know societal Upper status versus lower status in this, um, which you know, this has been done in film a lot It's been done in horror film. It's been done in tons of different films. It's an age old thing But they did a good job of establishing the you know lower income situation But they also had comedic aspects to it to kind of lighten it up It's not just all depressing when it comes to that stuff And that's one of the great things about this film too is the comedic moments are actually funny They're kind of paced throughout the film. It's not like they're trying to be like comedy comedy comedy consistently It's kind of sparingly put in but when it happens it actually works Now none of the stuff really lands flat. I actually laughed out loud a few times, which is You know hard to get me to do because you know films usually don't make me laugh out loud um Yeah, the cinematography look really great. Yeah, like I was saying they had some really interesting shots Interesting looking shots and they really used the architecture of the building to great effect when framing a lot of shots Like I was saying it looks so good and you know The lighting looking really great Justification for doing things that are wrong in this film is actually done in kind of a funny way at least initially There's always a way to justify what you want to do and that's kind of established very very early in this and it It's kind of a reoccurring thing where it's you know, should you do this? No, not necessarily, but can you justify it to yourself kind of easily? Yes, and here's how it gets done. So in certain instances, it's kind of just glossed over like that's just what they do in other instances It's rationalized in a funny way and It works There's a clear message of how the rich treat others as not quite human and not civilized like them Um, that's one of these other age old things where you know, people say like the rich They don't live like us the rich. They're not us And that's that's very much on display in this film because like I was saying rich versus poor And you see that Definitely in the way that those richer characters treat people. It's kind of a Yeah, like I said, not quite human everyone else is not quite human The issue of trusting what you are told without verifying is very much on display here now. This is a current societal issue that a lot of societies are having including where I live the United States of just Taking what people say as fact Making assumptions that if someone sounds like they know what they're talking about They know what they're talking about and this is kind of a byproduct of our, you know, online age where You know, you can google information like you can get information pretty easily But the question then is where are you getting the information? Is it from some random blog and you're just like oh because it's on the internet It's got to be true because there are people who do that or are you looking at it and saying Yeah, I don't think this is a reliable source. Let me make sure I find a reliable source So it's kind of changed the thinking of people to just be like Oh, if it looks official or sounds official or both, then I'll just believe it but that's very much in display in this in this movie and A lot of things that end up going wrong in the film could have been avoided Very easily if there was some a little bit of questioning and looking into things done The highlight this highlights how ridiculous society has become when people have become accustomed to making assumptions about so much in life It speaks to our internet driven world where since information is available Everyone present everyone presents themselves as experts on everything. That's another aspect of this People also want to present themselves as they know everything they can do everything But then it's that question of do people buy into it or not and you got to be cautious people need to be cautious especially in this movie Sometimes appearances are everything and all you need that also becomes apparent with some of the characters in this It's all about an appearance. How do you project yourself and you don't need anything else? You don't need anything to back that up The music matches scenes very well in this and it actually feels very very restrained at times which is hard to do but Used great effect and and being restrained in certain situations can have a huge payoff and I think it does in this film There's a point made that rich people have the ability to be nicer and better people Because they're comfortable in life and don't have to make compromises to get by That's a really interesting point that I thought was pointed out that I think for the most part is Pretty true if you think about it Someone who is super rich, you know say just for the sake of this story I'm telling Inherits a bunch of money from their parents and they never have to work a day in their life because they're billionaires They're just born billionaires basically That person will never have to make a decision about Stealing from anyone or you know stealing food to to feed their their family or whatever Meanwhile, someone down, you know much lower on the economic scale May have no money pretty much live paycheck to paycheck They lose their job Then the hard decisions start to be made they get put in those situations where they don't have the financial comfort In order to necessarily always be nice always do the right thing and it kind of presents that in a very interesting way of by financial security People are put in these different situations And with the people who are rich They just end up not Usually not having to be put in in the same situation as people who are not rich So they have the luxury of not having to compromise or be compromised in who they are as people You know morally or ethically The pacing is very good The main heart of the story plays best if it's done slowly But not so much that the audience gets bored now This is a very fine line that's kind of that you have to tread with what the story is Because the nature of the story does need to be done a little bit slowly Otherwise, it's not going to feel natural They hit it pretty much right on so that it it's slow enough not too slow and it feels natural So that's a a big testament to how great the screen the script writing was So uh bong june ho very good on the script writing with that There's a good surprise that opens a lot of possibilities for the story when you think you figured out where the film is going and I know a lot of people have probably said obviously i'm not going to say much about it But there is a twist to it Where you you've settled into the film at this point and you're kind of like Oh, I think I have an idea of where we're going with this I see no the morals to the tail and what where we're going to go and what we're going to do And something's introduced that changes everything and at that moment it's this it's this immediate just recognition in your brain of Everything's potentially out the window right now Because this one thing opens an unbelievable amount of possibilities Got to find out where this goes and that's the thriller aspect of this film There's a great talk in this about cockroaches that ends up becoming a great metaphor that actually plays out They talk about cockroaches how cockroaches act and then there is A metaphor in it that you then it comes to life and you kind of see it in a different way So just you know, if you haven't seen the film and you're watching this just keep that in mind and you'll see what i'm talking about There's good tension executed in this film actually quite good tension It keeps you engaged the entire time because like I said the script writing is very very good There are also good comedic moments already talked about that A scene is painted of how ignorant the rich are of the trials and tribulations of others They're insulated in their fake worlds. Yeah, and that kind of ties in a little bit to the whole thing of You know, you're so financially secure. You're so comfortable. You don't have to make bad decisions, but it's not just that It's even further that these people happen to happen to be end up being so Isolated from the rest of the world and how other people live that they just don't even have a A clue that people get put into these situations or have to deal with these things That they that they never have to or even think about so Sometimes things start a domino effect of bad events and you can still feel for everyone who's involved Now that's one of the biggest strengths of this film And I think one of the reasons that people have reacted to this film as strongly as they have saying oh my gosh It's amazing. It's unbelievable. It's the best blah blah blah Is because a lot of people have probably not been introduced to a story told the way it's told and what I mean is there's a I'm I I wasn't as shocked with how the film went And how the story is told as a lot of other people seeing it for the first time And it's because I'm familiar with the films of chamois park in the beginning I said that this film reminds me a lot of the films of chamois park Now chamois park has a tendency when he does his films Especially with this revenge trilogy that he did consisting of the films old boy sympathy for mr vengeance and lady vengeance Where he creates characters and he fleshes out the characters and gives them enough screen time That you feel for each character you understand all their motivations and you understand that they are not one thing They are not one action that they take with a lot of films It's this person's clearly a good person this person's clearly a bad person Maybe you have somewhere these are the in-betweeners so that when things go down you are like i'm rooting for this good person Chamois park and this movie it's not that situation It's a situation where you understand all the characters you can feel for all the characters because you Get their back stories. You understand why they do the things they do You understand that they're not doing things purely because they're evil or because they're doing malicious stuff It's different motivations that you get And so when things go wrong when the domino effect happens and bad things happen You can feel for everyone involved And that's I think what was such a Impactful thing for people who are seeing this film for the first time and never saw chamois park stuff Um, and that's why people reacted so strongly to it And I get that because when I saw my first few chamois park films That's how I felt. I was I was just like, oh my gosh, you can tell stories like this This is crazy because in my opinion You're an amazing filmmaker if you can make people feel things they don't want to feel And by fleshing out the characters properly and having everyone not black or white, but all shades of gray pretty much When things happen you remember the good in that person in all those people And then bad things happen and you can feel for everyone who something bad happens to And it's tough to deal with because you want to be in that situation That's a little bit safer where you can be like, well, this person was a bad person They got something bad happening to them. I'm fine with that. That's all good. This is the good person They're okay now. It makes me feel good. We're great It uh, it feels kind of bleak, you know, and um, but that's reality That's real and and those are the types of stories I like and that's what parasite does and that's what I like about parasite so That said it actually reminds me in its feel a lot like the film Sympathy for mr. Vengeance by Chanwood park So if you've seen parasite and you have not seen sympathy for mr. Vengeance, you should definitely watch that Actually, if you're going to do that, you should actually just see the whole revenge trilogy by Chanwood park once again consists of old boy sympathy for mr. Vengeance and Lady vengeance. I believe in that order as well. That's the order you should watch it They were all available streaming at the moment on the shutter streaming service So if you have shutter, they're there now. They are the same as parasite as in I wouldn't call them horror movies They're the same thing. They have horror elements, but they're kind of like drama thriller There's a little comedy kind of peppered in but not as much as parasite. So anyway, uh, I think I had one more closing statement Okay, so the title parasite is a dual meaning basically in bong junho um has Been interviewed about this and and he actually had to really fight for the studio to use the title parasite They wanted to use something else. I don't know what that was but he was like it's got to be parasite because there are kind of two sides and both are parasites And I don't want to talk too much about it So I'll just say think about that when you watch the film or if you have already watched the film Think about how both sides in this film are parasites in different ways Just think about it or you can look up what bong junho said about it. So that's another option But anyway, um, thanks everyone for checking this out. I'm uh, give it the star rating now So out of five stars with half stars in play. It's not Total perfection. I do think it could have been story-wise it could have Um been a little tighter actually because in the end There are numerous moments where you think okay, and this is where they end it Okay, no, we're still going and then this is where they end it. Okay. No, we're still going And it ends up having a very good ending to it, but it kind of gets drawn out a little bit And it it feels like it has many endings in a sense, but um, I'm gonna give it four and a half stars I think it's a very good film. It's it's not too far off from being Close to a perfect film But it is not old boy. I will say that I think old boy is like perfect film in my opinion and I need to review that at some point So four and a half stars for Paris site quite enjoyed it recommend it for everyone Uh, this is it's a good time Um, but thanks everyone for checking this out Do me a quick favor though hit that subscribe if you haven't subscribed already The majority of the views I get from videos are not from subscribers So if I could have those people subscribe would help me out a lot It's your way to repay me because I'm just doing this for free Um, hit that thumbs up though if you're already a subscriber Just let me know you're still watching put some comments down there for sure Especially if you've seen Paris site and you have feelings and thoughts on it Especially if they differ from mine Because I like to hear other people's opinions on this stuff But thanks everyone for checking this out and until next time keep it brutal


Tweeting well is a hard thing. Tweeting well is a hard thing to do. But I'm so pleased with my tweet about Guy Davies because it's got such a nice picture of him. Like, I officially don't care what anything looks like. And yet... User engagement. I know, exactly. This is why we make nice figures in our papers. I know, but there's also a sense in which we're serious scientists and we care about certain things. We're serious scientists and we shouldn't care about how things look. I don't care about that. I don't believe that. Like, that's a good sign. Oh yeah, I think that's the second time we've run that out today and we only have 35 people. Two things I want to talk to you about. Yes, hit me. Besides drink this last remaining coffee. I know, we've got the last of it. Talk to me about wanting to talk about the intellectual merit for hosting these kinds of factories. I do want to talk about that. I'm very excited about that. And then I want to talk about how we make satellite versions of these. That's a hard question. Well, let's do them in that order. There's this kind of growing community in astronomy who's become a little dissatisfied with the completely standard kind of astronomical meeting where there's a schedule and people talk for 20 minutes and then there's four minutes of questions and then you roll. Hands going up. I was inspired by a set of meetings called Dot Astronomy. Rob Simpson is a huge, like, hero. And inspired by that and inspired also by people kind of complaining about how the WAS meetings are just so... We started the hack day just as a respite from the meeting where you could just sit down, like we have so many talented people at WAS, can't they just get together and hack? But this meeting is really very focused around the scientific goals of a future NASA mission. What's the style of this meeting before test launches versus after it launches? That's a very good question. In fact, one of the things that's new about this meeting relative to the things we've done in the past is this is a meeting about future data. In my mind, one of the differences is, especially like junior people, if they sort of fall off the productivity wagon, it can be a little harder. If there's real data, I think that provides a safety net. It does. It does. And here, yeah, here you can get off to the side and not really know how to address the question you're interested in. One interesting and complicated thing about this meeting is in a week you can have some unrealistic expectations because it's very hard to predict how it's going to go down. I keep my expectations very low because I know I'm going to get distracted by tons of things. So in my own personal project, I only got a few hours in this week. I learned a lot more than I would have learned if each person here had just given a talk. I definitely can walk away from meetings like this feeling like I didn't accomplish anything. I have nothing to show front. What's the paper going to be? But the truth is, I actually learned a ton. There's a knob you can dial here about expectations. And the meeting that kind of has the knob furthest to one side is the guy sprints. Because the guy spends the explicit goal is that people will produce publishable science during the week. And so there we really encourage people to come into the meeting with mature ideas. We give people homework to make sure they get in with mature ideas. I think we learn a lot of things by doing. And when you sit and listen to somebody talking about astro-seismology, it's totally different from doing some astro-seismology side by side. Active learning. Active learning, exactly. And project-based. So a lot of these things are true of middle school. The connection between middle school and professional astronomy is very strong. People often say, I went to this meeting and the talks were boring, but I learned so much in the coffee breaks. So this is a meeting that's like entirely coffee break. For me, one of the best outcomes for these meetings is I made a toy example work where I took a new skill and I put my data through it and I made a plot. And now I can do that. It's huge. As opposed to I saw this talk where Dan turned some knob and magic happened. And then you have a little note in your book like, Dan made magic happen. Here, you made magic happen. Okay, so tangent from this, and totally selfishly, remote participation. So the upcoming guy sprints, I think holding a satellite meeting at UW would be really beneficial. Dan had the suggestion this morning why not open it up to West Coast people. Exactly. To get a handful people from California, then we've got a real satellite meeting. Exactly. How do we bottle this and ship it to the West Coast? I'm part of a project with the Moore Foundation and the Sloan Foundation to think about data science. And part of that project was to think about how you do remote engagement. And I really feel like this is an open question. And this is a question we have to answer. Right now, no remote interaction system like video or anything captures the full richness of human interaction. On the other hand, the idea that you just said of the satellite meeting is a very good meeting. A very good idea because you could have the energy of the group. The thing that for me does not work at all is there's a cool meeting like this and I'm in my office in another city like checking my Skype window. Right. Just watching it while you're grading. Yeah. Exactly. I end up always just end up muting it and taking phone calls. Breakout session. Livestream it. Discussion points. Have a little phone booth. But the human thing, the coffee thing, you need other people. There's been so much austerity in the university systems that there's a lot of people who are great colleagues who don't have travel funds, who don't have teaching schedules where they can slip away. Right. So there's teaching. There's life. And there's ableism aspects of this. Like if you just say, oh, everyone needs to come to New York. There's certain people who just travels a really hard. I'm open to exploring anything we're going to need to. And frankly, we could change the world for the better. So I didn't even apply to come to Guy S. French because life, but I can take the week to do it.  The point of these meetings is to do experiments. We're not running these meetings to have the best means ever. We're running these meetings to learn how do people learn and how do people work together. And that means we should be using these to do experiments. So let's do the experiment of having a parallel sprint. And if it doesn't work, let's make it a learning experience. We'll fail fast and try a different thing next time. All right. So I forgot to ask you, when did you start wearing cowboy boots? It's funny that you ask because it actually relates to astronomy, which is that I used to work on the London Digital Sky Survey. And when you went to the observatory, I had to fly in through El Paso. Guess what? Cowboy boot capital of the world. So I bought a pair just because it was funny. And then it turned out they were just the most comfortable shoes I've ever had. Amazing.


I had started playing Roblox again in October of last year. It had been quite a while since I've been on the platform, since I quit and ventured out onto other video games. Recently I was like, hey, why not try this out again, and logged on for the first time in a long, long time. I saw tons of the old games I played back then, most of which were either Typoons or Obbies. Some adventure games here and there. Surprisingly, save progress for some of the games I played back then still existed, which surprised me a bit because I would have expected all of this save data to be gone. You should see all the things I grind up for back then, tons of things. Shows how much I loved Roblox in the good old days. One game I remember playing, and loving, the most was Cole's Admin House. Man, trolling people there all time always made me laugh. Of course, that would backfire occasionally, and karma would serve its justice toward me, so in order to avoid that, I just had to join a different server, haha. I felt like the coolest dude ever, also had the permanent admin game passed to, exploding other people, rocketing them into oblivion, and also spamming commands. After I had finished drifting through the games I liked to play in the past, it was time to play Cole's Admin House. I joined the game a few hours before the major website outage happened for about 3 days, so I noticed that there were only about 1-2 players online. I remember the website was spazzing out again at this point, I assumed at the time it was just some casual site issue. Keep in mind, this was mid-afternoon, Eastern Standard Time, before Roblox would go down. Anyway, a few connection issues later, I had finally got into the game. However, things seemed really sketchy right off the bat. The whole entire map was literally covered in bright green, with the house walls eerily looking corrupted like, don't really know how to describe that. Anyhow, I noticed there was just only 2 players in the game, me, and a player called, 283,892. I tried chatting to the user but to no avail, as chat was somehow not working for me. A few seconds later, I noticed 283,892 communicate using the name me command, I think. I couldn't see chat, but yeah I'm pretty sure that's what that person was using to chat with me. The first thing that appeared above the user's head were a few random symbols, then numbers being cycled across the head and then, 283,892 was back as the user's name tag. My character suddenly froze up, and keep in mind, I could not reset myself because of course, chat would refuse to work. My game had then suddenly spiked in like for about a minute afterwards, and then various off-putting creepy music would start playing from volumes ranging to faint, or extremely loud. I instantly left the game, right after the music started playing, asking myself, what in the hell is going on? A few minutes later, I noticed there were zero players on the game, and I decided to rejoin again. The same user was there. Everything was green and weird from the previous server. I am telling you, this was a completely new server. A few seconds later, I was teleported to a game called, 283,892. The skybox was some type of rotating storm, with a dark greenish hue to it. My character was literally just in the air, no ground beneath me by the way, looking hopeless whilst the entity. Yeah, let's refer to this thing as an entity, started talking to me in numbers and symbols in chat. I couldn't decide for a thing it was saying, but I am sure those numbers and etc had a meaning behind them. The off-putting music from Cole's admin started to play again, and then I was kicked out to an error message, music and all gone as I disconnected. At the home page, I clicked on the game that I had been teleported to, which redirected me to a bad request page. I would continue to do this numerous times trying to visit that game page, until something significant happened. 5,761,746,368,696,E67,596,F75,283,892,Top left center on the web page, which background was all white and that text in black. For the third and final time, I could hear the music that was being played numerous times earlier very faintly, and my computer would suddenly shut itself down. I assumed it was because of this. Really unusual. I would turn it on a second later to be welcomed to a blue screen. I noticed my files were luckily unharmed, as I rebooted my computer. After all of this had occurred, I had decided to play other games on my PlayStation 5, and attempted to forget what had just happened. A few hours later, I opened up Google Chrome, as soon as I woke up my computer from sleep mode, and tried going on to Roblox.com. The outage had just begun. I was dumbstruck, and tried to process on what the hell had just happened to me earlier. Did this just happen to me? Or did it happen to anyone else? I took screenshots of this situation while in Cole's Admin House, right before the outage, so this is pretty much the only proof I had of me encountering this anomaly. I also did manage to take a screenshot of the error page very quickly, as shown to your right. The number, 283,892, returns to me in the form of an error on that page, spooky stuff. I also tried searching up if this anomaly ever interacted to anyone else during this ordeal, but I'm pretty sure, somehow, there was absolutely nothing to be found about it. A few days later, the outage was then finally over as November began, and I rejoined Cole's Admin House to a normal server, with just people using commands. I have not seen anything suspicious ever since the day of the outage. This may sound cliche, but who knows what in the hell that entity was trying to convey toward me. Personally, I think that thing may have had something to do with the outage, but it's all speculation from this point.


The National Coordinator of the Amagbein Peace Movement, Comrade Ocardi Abraham, has stressed the importance of giving and love the season of Christmas. He stated these when his group donated backs of rice and cows to members of Ibu-Motoru, one and two communities in southern Ijo Local Government Area of Bajasa State. If you are a director of a company or whatever or government, this is time for you to show love, give back to the people. And Amagbein Peace Movement is out here to wish out to the common people, especially the women, the elderly women and men. We are here, you can see that backs of rice, we are distributing the first set of it to different communities in Nigeria Delta, not just Bajasa State, but to other communities in Nigeria Delta. The cows are also here, so many cows are here, you can see them. All of them are made for the elderly, the common people, to show love, to share them up. Even this year, it don't bring out no books for small children, maybe they can't go to school, because some children, they don't even get books to go to school. May God bless them all, provide for them, as self, anything, wherever they ask for God, may God give them, may they learn self-blessing. Meanwhile, a football match was also played between the youths of Ibu-Motoru and the neighbouring community. The chairman of Ibu-Motoru One uploaded a group for the initiative, saying that it will foster peace in the area. I don't appreciate the immigrant peace movement for also changing this idea of having this peace mass in this community. The youths are happy, the men are happy, the men are happy, even boys and girls are happy because peace is priceless. And peace has brought us together today to be in this community. And the price for the mass here today is $400,000 for the winner and $100,000 for the loser. All in the name of bringing peace among youths in this season.


Welcome back to my channel guys. It's your girl Coco styles and on this channel We talk about beauty fashion lifestyle and styling guys. So today. I just wanted to chat with you guys about me Coco, how did I get the name Coco? Where I'm from just a few things about me why I started a YouTube channel and why I started styling Okay, so first I'm Coco and My real name is Sinaya. Okay, most of my friends call me Coco though, but I grew up being called Sinaya Also, I'm from New York City Born and raised there.  I'm a tall woman My parents are well my mom was American and my dad is from the island to make up So that's a little background there. Let's see what else. I also moved to Georgia in 2013 I've been wanting to move out of New York City just took some time to do it I just wanted a different pace and things you guys know New York is like super super super uber expensive So, but it didn't seem that expensive to me until I got here Also, let me see what else. So that's my New York run went to school there work there my whole life Got into corporate America very very young. My first job was in Chase Bank and You guys know working in a bank and in financial the financial industry. It's very formal. So just imagine a High schooler working in the bank. Well It wasn't an actual bank it was in the corporate side of the bank, right? But he was very very formal And then I also worked in planning very young. So that's how I started now how I got into styling So Work Okay, my mom was very stylish. She always Looked nice And I think I've mentioned this before on my channel My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer and some years ago and then she kind of waited and stuff She always put other people first But she ended up passing away So this is another reason why I am vegan I just choose not to eat a lot of the stuff that my mom ate my grandmother ate So I decided to like do the whole switcher room But she always looked good and she always told me make sure you look good wherever you go Regardless of where you're going doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have on makeup But you have to look presentable right because people are always judging So working in an office as a young adult. I I noticed some things And it seemed like it was a lot easier for me to kind of Dive right in with you know, just in a certain way just to kind of like fit in at first But I did have some colleagues of mine that had trouble And we're all around the same age and then there was women and there were women who were older Who've been at the company for a really really long time and they struggled so Sorry, I'm just sitting so they struggled a lot But I remember them they used to always ask me questions, you know How do I style things and you know, what do I find these things one thing about me? I'm super good at finding something online in store shopping. It's cool But I always feel like you can find so much more on line so My first I Guess you could say client because back then I didn't know it was client She was just my friend and she wanted me to help her change her style she was at the company for a really long time and she hadn't moved up and She kind of watched people that she started with move up and she didn't really know why but it was her image She was kind of wearing outdated clothes and stuff things I really didn't fit her and it looked like she really didn't care how she looked when she got into the office So I Started back then But I didn't take it serious because I didn't know if it was like a career in it or it was real money in it until 2017 where I launched my boutique and I launched my styling services and I Launched some interior interior design services But the styling services, I guess I didn't really have a good setup for it Like I do now just knowing the business side the styling part was easy I could always make something look good. I could always make a person feel good whatever it is that they have on and All that stuff. So it was the business side So what I did was I had to invest in myself hire like a Coach to help me through the business side of it, right because that's the hardest part a lot of people end up losing money in The long run or owing money because they don't really know how to handle the business side of their Company so That's the other part of it So I did get into it just from working in corporate America and this is why I chose to work with those types of women It doesn't mean that I won't work with a Celebrity but I would prefer Someone on film opposed to someone in music. I just feel like I would connect a little bit better And it made me less drama Who knows let me not say that but That is why I got into it and so what I want to do now is I want to work with women who really want to Stand out in their jobs Get the job. They've always wanted and start showing up like a boss So I just wanted to jump on here and give you guys a quick little story about me and what I do and why I do it and Let you guys into my world just a little bit. So if you like videos like this, please comment below Even if you say to the end of this video, please comment Coco We see you and don't forget to follow me on Instagram my Coco styles and why and my website Coco styles and why that come and my blog Coco styles and why see Dot com and I will catch you guys in the next one. Bye