My name is Philippe and I have the honor to moderate our today's panel. And ladies and gentlemen, this is a very important session. Why? If you open today the newspaper, if you look into the media, one thing is unfortunately pretty clear.  And we know that people are worried. Worryed because of rising of populism, the question of future of the jobs, facing new technologies, and back in times there was always a promise of the economic system that the life of your children will be better than your own life. It was always motivating for the people. But now we do see a strong deterioration of trust, trust into our societal, political, but also economic system. However, we should not leave this room in these very bad mood and scenario. So we are the World Economic Forum, we are first optimistic and second always solution-oriented. And therefore allow me to turn now to our today high-level panel. We have here on my left side Dominic Barton, Dominic Barton, this global magic partner of McKinsey and company and at the same time our co-chair of this Middle Eastern Africa summit, Dominic, a warm welcome. We have here Majid Jafar. He's also co-chair of our summit this year and he's CEO of Christian Petroleum, UAE, Majid, warm welcome to you as well. Hayat Sindhi. She is the CEO of ITU institution from National Geographic Society in the US, but I think we will hear quite a lot more. And we have here Excellency Ghassan Hasbani, Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister in Lebanon. And last but not least our friend Basem Avdala. He's the CEO of Tomo Advisory, but at the same time our respected chair of our regional strategy group for Middle East, North Africa of the World Economic Forum. Ladies and gentlemen, please a big hand to our today's high-level panelists. And our founder and executive chairman Professor Schwab recently shared a call with the global community that we have to discuss the global economic system. So let's start and allow me that I first ask his Excellency, Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon, Ghassan Hasbani, what are your thoughts so that we can seek together towards human-centric growth? Excellency. Thank you and good afternoon everyone. Well, if we look back a little bit just to put things into perspective, the world has gone or had gone through major shifts between the 19th century and the 20th century. The world had many economic models and political models prior to the second and the first world wars. They all competed together. They had liberalism, socialism, royalism, nationalism, all sorts of different models that were competing. It was characterized by empires and large global governance systems and ruled in different with different models. In the 20th century with the two major wars, there were mega shifts in the way society organized itself and learned from past mistakes. And those systems converged into two major opposing and polarized ideologies and systems competing with each other throughout the century. Capitalism and communism to a large extent, calling them with the two extreme names without getting a dilution in between. And many forms of them manifested themselves around the world in governance models, in economic models, in ideologies, etc. Both systems exhibited to a large extent certain failures. They failed to address the aspirations of the people. Nation-states also characterized the 20th century from big empires to nation-states to cross-national collaboration. So these models were all competing. Now we're seeing a shift, a correction to a large extent and that correction is manifesting itself violently through shifts towards more populism Globalization, telecommunications, communications created a much, much higher degree of visibility and accountability. So the reaction to the existing systems that did not fulfill the aspirations of people have become also extreme and this is what we're witnessing today. So it's very likely that the world is converging towards a new system. What will this system look like with post-globalization era, with fourth industrial revolution coming along, with the visibility and accountability increasing? We are certainly facing a high probability that the system will continue to be based on a free-market economy model but it has to shift much strongly towards a socially responsible and socially inclusive free-market economy beyond the cliché and more into action to be able to achieve a sustainable development through inclusion going forward. Thank you, Excellency. Let me turn now to the private sector, Dominic. So having heard now the Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, and talking about economic system and social inclusion, is there sometimes warning for the private sector? What does it mean for the economic system from your perspective? Well, thank you and just maybe building off the Deputy Prime Minister's sort of mosaic of how the house systems have changed. I think that there are some very significant implications now for business leaders. I think we've always had a view that we should just focus on the business of business, right? Milton Friedman had this phrase in 1971, which was very powerful at the time, the business of business is business. Do not spend an iota of your time on anything else. Your job is to create products and services and hopefully pay as little taxes. That was kind of the hardcore, if I could call it, capitalism. And that system doesn't work. I mean, I think we're just in that capitalist side, it has to change. And I say this, I've joked to you about this before, we're called a lot of nasty names in McKinsey and we deserve them, but one of the ones I like is we're known as the Jesuits of capitalism, right? So I actually believe in the system, but that system has also gone through changes. It's not being one system. And if I might say, my punchline, because I want to talk for too long here, is basically the capitalist system has to go back to its roots, which actually was a much more inclusive long-term model, some colleagues like Alain are onto. It is a inclusive long-term system. What's happened over the last 30 years has become very short-term. How am I doing on the quarter? It makes it very difficult to invest, do the R&D, build the human talent, think about trust in the community that you're in. So it's become very short-term and it's become very selfish. And so while globalization and Professor Schwab has been wonderful and lifting literally a billion people out of poverty, what we forgot about are the people that were dislocated in that system. So it's easy for people like me, McKinsey, we benefit from globalization big time. We're helping organizations do it, but there are people displaced from it. What I worry about looking ahead is that the challenges are going to get worse. With automation coming in, we believe that 40% of all jobs today in the, if I could call it, the developed world will be automated in the next 10 years. So the displacement from that is going to be much more significant than it is from globalization. If we just stand by and go, oh well, that's what happens, I don't know what the new system will be. It'll probably be some new system which I don't think any of us will like. So the long-winded view is that we have to be more inclusive and we have to be more long-term or we won't have this system around. Thank you for this really clear statement. Let's move from the global perspective to the more regional perspective, still talking about responsibility of business. Margie, you're well known as a very responsible leader and against way beyond your focused business model. So what is your thought in terms of towards human-centric growth? Thank you. So I think that it's actually a false dichotomy to think about what's good for the business and what's good for everything else in society because it is about our businesses being sustainable. If we don't address these other issues, we don't have a sustainable future because it's not just our employees and our customers and the whole society in which we operate. Here in the region, we have some major issues and they're well known. We've been talking about them for quite some time. Some of them have become even more acute crises because of conflict and it's the type of growth. I mean, it's notable that countries like Egypt were growing at 5-6% per year before the Arab Spring, but it was not trickling down. It was not actually inclusive growth. The difference in our region, unlike Southern Europe or other places, we don't have a social safety net. We have 60-80% of formal employment in our region is in the public sector. I mean, that's just staggering and unsustainable. And then the female participation in the labour force is one-third that of the male. And this is not a moral issue, it's an economic issue. That's more than half the workforce and the more productive half as well. And you're not going to tackle other demographic issues like the high population growth rate unless you tackle that as well. Turning to our role, so the Regional Business Council of the World Economic Forum, it's 40 or so member companies, very progressive and proactive from across the region. And we've looked at the key challenge of youth unemployment from both directions, from the bottom up and the top down. So what is it? I mean, like everywhere, it's a supply and demand problem. So the demand issue, we don't have enough investment and growth. What are the things, and governments in the region keep asking the private sector to do more, invest more, employ more. So we did a one-year study and there was a lot of interviews and analysis. What are some key things that the private sector from the region needs which can be done more easily than generational reforms like education, making it easier to register a company, a bankruptcy law, dispute, contractual dispute resolution, capacity in governments for managing them. And six of them in total. It's called the Actionable Policy Reforms Initiative. It's on the forum website. I invite you to see it. We launched it at the annual meeting in Davos. Here we're having meetings between the CEOs and the ministers from the region to look at how to actually measure performance against and implement these. Then from the bottom up, actual investments by companies in upskilling young people. It's called the New Vision for Arab Employment. Every company pledged, our own company pledged to start with 10,000 and then we've doubled that young people with English language skills which is found to be a key driver of employability worldwide, the number one factor actually, despite what the French might say about the English language. And we did that with online platforms. Actually from Jordan, the Queen Rania Foundation's IDRAC platform for MOOCs. And we're scaling that out beyond just our own areas of operation like Iraq and Egypt across the region. As a group of companies, I mean the whole regional business council, we've exceeded now the original target 100,000, we're close to 200,000 and we're going to half a million and then one million. Pretty quickly and then different companies are doing it in different ways. So that's how we've been engaging on that core issue. Thank you and thank you for giving us some hope here. Are there actions in the region? And we do have some other actions which gives us hope on a global level. Let's talk about the SDGs for a moment and I would like to ask Hayat really as a well-known expert on this area what can you say us to give us more hope based on the SDG process on a global level? Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, salam alaikum. Thank you. Actually so far I heard the very encouraging words from all of you. I heard inspiration, globalization, sustainability and public sector. A few years ago the future of Global Citizen was written by Michael Adam. He considered many responsibilities that would change our behavior, especially the world is becoming smaller and also we connected 24 hours, especially our responsibility as women. For women it's getting tougher for globalization. I know globalization has its fruits but also it has a problem. One of them it will be too many needs, too many choices, too many wants, make it very tough to choose a lifestyle and a career. And also with globalization many companies now are outsourcing for and granting competition for low income labor and that's not good also for developing world. So I believe science, technology and innovation is the solution for ecosystem of growth and this is not my saying only, this is the whole world after STG's last year, two years ago in September. Whereas the new path was illuminated by the painting of STG's sustainable developing goals with asking STI, Science, Technology and Innovation to be its core. Yes we have a business part of it, political but without STI we cannot face our conquer hunger, poverty, clean water, agriculture for security, empowering of women, climate change, good health and we have the history to prove it, we need scientific data, we need an ethical mind and out of the box type of solutions. For example now we tend and STI is good for our planet, for our as a human and also for business now we're tending sand to a silicon chip. We have paperless technology so we are really looking after a forest. We have now technology from atoms without radiation. We have now a new industry 4.0 automated artificial intelligence to do many things cleaning, cooking and even cars. And also one of the most important things how I can link society with science, social innovation, we need to embed it, the tool of science and technology with the endogenous people so they can be their own creative for their own problem and you know because science was born to solve problems. Thank you. And last but not least Bassem, so you are out of the region, out of Jordan. You are an observer of I guess the reform course here and bringing this together with a global perspective, the global discussion as well again, regional, how can we achieve more human centric growth? Thank you for the question. Globally as you mentioned, since the end of the world, the second world war we have witnessed unprecedented global development and progress. Yes of course one billion people were lifted out of poverty, better health, education and services were globally availed and many lives were enriched and improved. But the truth is that many were left behind, way too many were left behind. This debate has intensified obviously over the last ten years with the focus on the most appropriate ecosystem that would promote growth and progress and as you asked I would like to concentrate on the Middle East and North Africa region as it pertains to this question. For the last 30 years at least the Middle East and North Africa region has failed to devise and sustain a system that promotes development and growth. This has left a huge citizenry out of the system feeling that it has neither access nor opportunity and has left them wanting to have a stake in the system. If you look at three factors, first of all with political and economic participation this has been largely concentrated and largely restricted to everybody. This has resulted in this general feeling of alienation and disenfranchisement. Second of all the levels of services provided by governments in ranging from health to education to housing to other services have been far from adequate. 57 million Arabs are illiterate. 33 million Arabs live under the poverty line. Half of women have not attained any form of secondary education. We spend half of the global average on health and half of our eligible workforce is in the labour force today. So when you look at this situation you draw lessons from the past and you try to think of ways for the future. You really need to think about devising a new economic paradigm for this region. We do have our structural challenges which are very characteristic of other regions other developing regions in the world but I think this MENA region is also particular in terms of the severe cost that we are paying as a result of wars and terror and the severe human cost of dislocation and refugees who are dislocated from their houses. 65 million refugees who live in this region. So it is incumbent upon us to devise a restructuring transformational plan that would lead us to inclusive growth in this region. One that would actually bring back the people of this region to become active contributors, positive contributors to peace, development and prosperity. When you think about this reconstruction plan some estimates put it at over 800 billion dollars. In fact I would dare to venture and say it needs multiples of this figure because we are looking at growth not just mere sustenance but if I may I should say that this plan this reconstruction plan needs to also address other issues. The region and the global community must accept that the pillars of any plan for this region for inclusive growth, for social cohesion needs to address creating an inclusive fair democratic government system that guarantees freedoms and provides good quality health, education and housing. Second of all you need to promote a private sector that can sustain this growth through innovation through technology, through entrepreneurship and through market access because we cannot live and the private sector cannot actually thrive without market access. And third of all you need to establish an economic block in this region that is built on linkages of trade of shared infrastructure of energy and water and technology. These are three pillars that must be addressed when you think about inclusive growth in this region and there is really no time to waste because the fragility of the economy and the problems that we face right now regardless of the debate taking place globally on which choice to make we need to devise our own new paradigm for this region. Thank you Bassem, thank you for your engaged call and that leads again back to politics. Excellent to the Deputy Prime Minister but coming from the private sector before now being the role as a Deputy Prime Minister and at the same time Health Minister just listening to Bassem. So what would you say health and inclusion no one left behind? What are your concrete ideas the role to play as a politician in this context? Well I would go even further back to my engineering roots. Look at basically engineering models and model them onto economic and social models. To bring stability to a system you get a period of instability and you shift from one direction to the other violently and extremely by adjusting the extremes all the way down to finding the stable point in the middle. And here going back to the bigger picture in order to get this kind of stability established and have this inclusion in place we need to start thinking slightly differently from what we used to think before in different ways completely out of the box. For sure you need to have a common denominator that sets the social and economic prosperity of people at a certain level. And that needs to be adjusted either through job creation but job creation requires economic growth automation it removes jobs you need to find new jobs. So basically what we're looking at here is simply the tools are changing. So there's a mass re-skilling and mass development required and it's a generational shift that we're looking at. Healthcare is at the heart of social inclusion here. It's quite important to make sure that people receive the right level of care particularly as the population starts aging. Secondly housing is also important as you rightly mentioned because of the youth population that enters into the productive years and needs to be housed and build families etc and this is the main social unit. So all of these are core areas that need to be addressed as an immediate need for social inclusion. How can you achieve that? Governments on their own cannot take full responsibility for that. There's a huge amount of value that is generated out of growth by the private sector. Partnership models, collaboration models thinking together, planning together acting together and spending together. So if we can't get to this highly collaborative approach between private sector, public sector and more importantly civil society that has also an equal responsibility to creating that inclusive environment. We won't be able to make the shift from a world that had been pushing for a long time for liberty and efficiency in economic model liberty in political models to dilute that back down to a more stable environment that has the community in mind and some kind of equity included in that at the basic common denominator for social stability. And we need to create that without having to go through a violent shift towards extreme community and equity which sets us back 100 years or more. We need to figure that out very quickly and minimize that stabilization shift to get to the middle stable point within the next couple of decades and that's the chance that we have. That's the chance that our parents had between 1914 and 1945. So we don't have much time to actually create that shift and stabilize the model. Thank you Deputy Prime Minister. We just heard from you the question of public private cooperation and Dominic you're well known and your company for advising even governments in the region here. Let's talk about Saudi Vision 2030 we do know it's about diversification of the economy but is it also about making it more inclusive having more participation of the people of the economy and society. That's my question to you. Yeah I think it's essential because it's about its inclusive growth and where it goes. One thing by the way I want to make very clear about the Saudi work which I think is I think the Saudi 2030 program that the Deputy Crown Prince and leadership have put in place is wonderful. We're a bricklayer in that building so I do not want us taking any credit at all for that vision which was done by the Deputy Crown Prince. It's very important to get that across. We'd love to take credit we don't deserve it. It's a system but what I like about that system is that it is what you said inclusive it's thinking about creating jobs. I think this idea of even thinking about growth we have to be careful about that. Growth to me is not the fundamental driver it's how many jobs are you going to be creating in the system. I think that's what leaders have to start thinking about in countries. How do we create more jobs? We're seeing this in Canada. In another region where we're actually learning from what's been happening here it's how are we going to ensure that 9 million Canadians who in 15 years from now may be automated will have jobs. That's the focus of what government needs to and that means you have to think about education education for employment not education for education's sake. It means that businesses have to think about re-educating and re-skilling their workforce. I think this is a it's extremely important I think for governments if they want to remain stable they have to think about job creation re-skilling over time and businesses have a really important role in playing that. We can't assume it's going to be solved and if we do we're in trouble. I fully agree and I think that was the right buzzword talking about jobs, education and skills and sake into mudgits. We've got mudgits well known as a spare head of asking always fighting for economic reforms in the region. You just mentioned your initiative of the regional business council in terms of education but facing the forced industrial revolution and what just heard from Dominic Robert, artificial intelligence so is there any way to speed up the region maybe to leapfrog entire economic and so vocational developments? Yeah it's a great question and I think you know this whole idea of the fourth industrial revolution and the technological advances and you know many people look at our region and say come on what are you talking about we have wars we have bigger problems it sounds like trying to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic but actually if you look beneath the hype there is that opportunity just take the refugee situation giving them credit for payment to be able to purchase things that's happening through technology now very effectively as well as biometrics and identification. Education delivery how do you educate a whole generation of millions of Syrian kids who have been out of the formal school system if you lose an adult from employment for a few years they can get a job again if you lose a child from education for five years that's it so using technology I mentioned the MOOCs and how we're doing the upskilling that's another area so I think there are government service delivery at the end of the day legitimacy which is key for governments if we're talking about inclusive growth comes from effectiveness of institutions as well as accountability there's no point having elections in elections if you're not actually good on the service delivery I have to give a plug to the UAE which is our home base for some of the innovations in that area so forward-looking future planning innovations ours and every government department embracing things like robots and drones with service delivery really infusing it into how even in the new cabinet I mean everybody found it interesting the minister of tolerance and minister of happiness the first ones in the world there's actually something core and critical behind that which is the UAE recognizing that even though it has great economic GDP growth and very low unemployment it has 90 plus percent expats and it needs to be looking at things like societal cohesion yes it has great tolerance but how does it achieve that and how does it continue to achieve that now with 10 million population and growing and the second biggest GDP and the most diversified of the major economies in the Arab world so it's really getting granular on what leads to that societal cohesion and satisfaction with citizens and residents thank you very much Hayat look into the room so we have here many business leaders policy makers, leaders of the civil society and now it's a unique opportunity for you maybe to ask them maybe one point out of the SDGs or what is top on your mind in order to really achieve some human-centric growth here and for the region before I answer this I heard a very good phrase today no one believed behind no one believed behind exactly is the vision and mission of the sustainable development goals if you have goals and touching every aspect of lives and you have science and innovation on its core for sustainability definitely no one will be left behind you will have entrepreneurship civil society private sector women government inventors every aspect of society so for me to answer your question I think as a here in Middle East or the world it's different country has their own priority in theme of SDGs and I would say the most important one for me is partnership how really we are going to partner together because some of us has certain needs and the other could help for example biotechnology, industrial biotechnology is an amazing opportunities for other like country can step in help other country good business, good infrastructure good connectivity by having good partnership I think one of the main key things that also is a universal it will die and he also is here any political or any conflict because we all here in one planet we have to really look after it and also I wanted to say we really need also to give the lead for women to be in a scientific leadership not just to be as head of institutions this is not what I'm after I'm talking here how we can direct innovation in different way you know we need to have the voice of a man and a woman for example if we have more women directing the innovation we will have less fast cars I know people won't say that but we will have less we will have nuclear weapon we will have cure for cancer maybe accelerated will be you have cure for many things who designed the bullet for protection a man but who designed the shield for protection for the bullet is a woman who designed the airbags as a man but who designed the side airbags is a woman so we need both mind to direct science to make it attractive for the new generation the empathy emotion as a compass is been missing from our society thank you very much so many colleagues have touched on this we are right to say that the Middle East Africa region is a hotspot of challenges so please encourage us is there even enough time to solve all the different challenges at the same time what is your day to day observation look first of all if reform was easy it would have been done a long time ago so it's not an easy task but I have to tell you from my own modest experience looking at Jordan Jordan started reform in 1989 as a result of a financial crisis so it's almost 27 years ago in my mind I divided into three periods each one of roughly about nine years and at the level of success achieved in Jordan were in the years between probably 1999 to about 2007 and the reason for that was because of reform was looked at as a comprehensive package it was not just limited to fiscal reform it was not just limited to introducing sales tax or to increasing revenue for the state it was a much more holistic comprehensive approach that dealt with educational reform allowing the private sector to participate in economic decision making and in ownership and in management that allowed for different areas of rural areas to come in and participate in the economic well-being of the state these are the years when Jordan achieved 7.5% on average of growth every year and these are the years when we actually started having social upward mobility for young kids who would go to the Princess Sumaya school and learn IT and enter into a new sector and then find a job afterwards and then get maybe 350 JDs as an entry level and then they would increase their salary two years later and they would be able to afford to get a car and then later to get a mortgage on an apartment and that's the way forward to give the youth this kind of hope that there is a better tomorrow and that they can actually have this social upward mobility through education and proper career so my point in brief is to say that yes there is a way out and there is a hope but we really need to make sure that we think about people first so it really is about human centric development and when we think about all these years and the lessons drawn from the past I think we need to focus on the healthcare that is provided to people the education that is provided to women and young kids and to allow everybody to have equal access you know people in public schools should have access to computer learning and should have access to English language and should have access to kindergartens and this should not be just for the bridge and just the people who can afford it so at the end of the day yes there is a way out we need the help of the global community but we also need to address ourselves to the issues that are extremely intrinsical and extremely structural in terms of the challenges the governance issue is very important but so is the comprehensiveness of the reform thank you very much Bassem so we almost come to an end but quite often people in the room or on the screen asking us a question okay that was a nice discussion but what is the impact what is the outcome so let's do the following I would like to ask each one of you one final question please make it pretty short what commitment would you make today what promise even would you like to turn into action turn into reality as soon as you are back in your office tomorrow or latest on Monday so let us start with a private sector from a global perspective Dominic well maybe just to get very specific to ourselves because we can talk about it but what do we do I'd say maybe two commitments one is we have one of the largest youth employment programs in the world we help mainly women single mothers in a three to five week period get jobs and I think what we need to do is scale that dramatically we're doing it in five countries in 47 cities I'd like to see us doing it in 15 countries and 100 cities that's on the first dimension a second as you said we do have a privilege of being able to work with governments on reform programs and I take the last point about the holistic side that we're not just focusing in one area but we're helping provide perspective on the whole because it's the whole system and I think the more countries that do that the better so in our small way of participating we should make sure we have that holistic view and again are thinking about job growth cool thank you Dominic that sounds good and maybe I forgot to mention that it's live streamed and recorded so we can make you all accountable what you're promising now the day after Majid so while I'm sitting here a colleague one of our executive directors member of our board is sitting in a meeting in the Marriott looking at the next phase of the new vision for Arab employment and our new commitment to increasing on what we've already done in new innovative ways so as soon as I'm done here I look forward to hearing what we've pledged and keeping them accountable sounds good hi Ed being believing in science and technology my promise I will always always be consistent passionate and proud David Prime Minister well it's I promise to start on Tuesday actually not Monday is that okay it's okay but then speed up we'll be done something we've been talking about in the healthcare sector that's quite important getting a sustainable healthcare coverage universal with the contribution and participation of individuals and the private sector together with the government each element playing an active role in the design the funding and the execution so to bring that model of collaboration together into implementation for something that can be sustained over the next 50 years because that's how we're seeing the generation shift happening with people requiring more and more healthcare support and coverage and this is an issue throughout the region but we need to address it in Lebanon particularly and that's something we're going to be putting a lot of effort in so that we can have this design done within the next few weeks completed great sounds really good well I would like to go to Riyadh tomorrow and to raise a plea to the US president and to the all the 57 countries who are meeting there and to basically say that as important as it is to fight Daesh with war and with airstrikes it is probably more important to rescue this region through an economic new model that impacts the lives of people that's what we need but then that's really a perfect closing so our commitment at the World Up with Forum will remain committed as your platform for shaping the regional agenda and yes we started more on the gloomy end of the discussion but having heard now here the panel having known what is going on in the Arab startup community with the business leader leader of civil society I'm pretty optimistic so again thanks to the panel thanks for your commitment and promises and thanks to you for your attention


Please don't underestimate how important friendships are in university, they're just as important for your academics as they are for your personal life. When you step into a huge lecture hall with a thousand unfamiliar faces around you, it can get quite daunting if you're all alone. I came into uni knowing no more than a handful of people, so it was quite difficult to start with. But then I found one really great friend in the same faculty and we just proven to be the best study team ever. Also make lots of effort to get to know your other classmates because they can share so much knowledge and provide you with so much motivation. Please don't be shy and say hi to the stranger you sit next to on day one because everyone's in the same boat fighting the same currents and the journey is so so much easier with someone beside you.


Hello everyone this is Amit Don of AmitDon.com 31st night 2020 and we are in downtown Toronto. So on a regular day this should be a lot crowded and busier but due to lockdown it's not that crowded but still I can see lots of people and traffic on the street. So we're going to just go walk around in downtown and we'll show you some of the night scenes as you are approaching 2021. So we're heading towards Nathan Square where usually all the action but there's no light show or anything today but still I see lots of people heading towards the reaction. So the format of today's video will be I'll talk once in a while and the rest of the time you can watch what's going on. So the temperature is around zero degrees celsius there's no wind so that makes it a very nice weather to walk out and it's not too cold so it's very gentle breeze and you can see that lots of cars on the street and people are still outside although there's lockdown. So we are on the corner of Victoria and Queen Street but I have a feeling that it's going to be even crowded around 12 o'clock. So here we have the Toronto Union Center all this closed and you can see again glimpse of Hudson Bay Christmas display. So approaching close to Nathan Square on the street first 501.


Now let's take a little time to consider scintillation detectors, another major type of instrumentation. This is a zinc sulfide alpha scintillator. Alpha scintillation detectors work as follows. An alpha particle deposits energy in the scintillator. The scintillator then emits a flash of light, and the flash of light is converted into an electronic pulse by a device known as a photomultiplier tube. One alpha particle, one flash of light, one electronic pulse, and that's how it works. These pulses are then registered on the meter as counts per minute or CPM. Now for some specifics about alpha scintillators. For an alpha particle to reach the zinc sulfide scintillator and cause a flash of light, it must penetrate a very thin window of aluminized mylar. The light is then reflected to the photomultiplier tube, which is located in the handle of the probe. A major advantage of the zinc sulfide alpha scintillator is the fact that it only responds to alpha activity. It does not detect beta particles or gamma rays. And since there is relatively little alpha activity in the background, the alpha scintillator should read zero, one, or maybe two counts per minute in an uncontaminated environment. If you have a higher count rate than that, you need to determine what is happening. Because of its low background count rate, the zinc sulfide scintillator is the instrument of choice for locating alpha contamination on people or other surfaces. As you might well discover, the major problem with alpha scintillators can be the false counts that occur when there are tiny holes in the aluminized mylar window. These holes might be hard to locate because they can sometimes be too small to be seen. Fortunately, once you know where they are, the holes are easy to repair. All it takes is a tiny dab of black paint, so don't forget to have a bottle of paint on hand. The sort you can get at any store that sells hobby supplies. Black nail polish is an even better choice because the bottle will come with an applicator. As always, you need to make sure that the instrument is working properly before you try to use it. By now, you should be reasonably familiar with how to do this. First, examine the device for visible signs of damage. Dense in the probe or damage to the window, for example. Next, check the batteries. Again, your meter will either have a range switch that you turn or a button that you push to check the battery condition. If the needle on the meter does not move to that position that indicates the batteries are okay, go ahead and replace them and then repeat the battery check. Next, rotate the knob to the appropriate scale available and determine the instrument's response to a check source. As I mentioned before, a thorium containing gas, lantern mantle, or a plastic button check source can be used here. When checking the Alpha Centrelator, be sure to remove the plastic cover from the probe, assuming that it has one. And if the check source is in a bag, remove it because Alpha particles cannot even get through a piece of paper. The next step is to check background. Turn the meter on in an area where elevated radiation levels are not expected. And using the most sensitive scale, record the reading on the meter. As mentioned before, a typical background for an Alpha Centrelator would be zero to two counts per minute. Finally, if you're going to use a zinc sulfide Alpha Centrelator, you need to check for light leaks. With the audio on, point the face of the probe towards a source of light. An open window or an overhead light, for example. If there is a light leak, the meter will register many pulses. Then you need to locate the hole in the window and cover it with paint.  Once you have determined that the instrument seems to be working properly, you are ready to survey.


So I would like to provide you with an example of some glacial facies, and I want to take you to Greenland and in particular this area that I got to go to last year that has some very old rocks and it's an area called Isua, but I also had the opportunity to observe a lot of glacial facies. So I'm going to show you photos from right in this area at the edge of the ice cap, plus some photos we took from the helicopter as we flew to and from Nook to this area. Okay, so this is a view of the ice cap from the helicopter and out in the distance here you're looking into the interior of Greenland. This is the ice and it's flowing over some rocks and it's got all these crevasses in it from the strain. The brown color is from rock and debris and this is the edge of the glacier that's melting back and this area is a marine, be a lateral marine that is composed of diamnetic type. So we can also look at the ice cap end on and so the ice cap again is at the horizon here and the ice is spilling over this area. Parts of it are scoured bedrock as shown here and then parts of it are marine, these grayer areas here and you can see the debris in the ice sheet. So the next image shows a closer up view right here and you can see that there's a lot of debris in the ice itself and as the ice melts it leaves that behind and it's piled up in this lateral marine because it's at the edge of the ice on top of bedrock. And there's a lot of debris here as well. The front of the glacier and ice sheet is on this lake and you can see a few small icebergs in the area there and so the icebergs break off, we often say cab off the front of the glacier and then once they're floating in the water they continue to melt. The next photo is going to show an area that's off to the left side of the screen here and this is an area where the glacier is melting but it's not melting directly into the lake and so it's depositing a lot of sediment and the liquid water is flowing out and forming this braided river and the braided river is sorting out some of those sediments and you can see that the topography and organization of that depositional environment is significantly different than the moraine which is just the debris released from the laminar flow. So here's another view that's a little bit to the north and west. Again the ice cap is at the horizon and there's a lateral moraine coming down here. The front of the ice used to be out at this area in here but it is melted back. This area is melting very quickly and it has these areas with ponds in it here and there are all these ridges each represent a time when the ice probably flowed to that point and maybe pushed some sediment ahead of it and left a ridge of debris and then melted back. One of the things I like about this image is it shows again water, melt water coming down in through here in a braided river and it's flowing into the lake and it's creating this large delta and that delta it was just like any delta going into a lake. It's building outward and a lot of the sediment is accumulating right at the front here. So both when you have a delta from a braided river flowing into a lake and when you have a debris coming in directly from the glaciers you can end up with a particularly steep slope off the side of the delta. So for example in here and you can get turbidates coming off because the slope is so high that it fails and then you end up with a sediment getting deposited further down slope. I mentioned earlier that the glaciers have and form icebergs and so here is an example of one that shows a significant amount of sediment. And so it's floating over the water which has a very low flow speed and the fine grain sediment will just settle from suspension but as the iceberg melts it drops the sediment irrespective of the grain size down into the bottom of the lake creating lone stones or drop stones. The other thing you can see here are these brownish areas represent parts of the water that have a lot of rock flour and that's that mud sized lithic clasts that come from grinding up of the rock in the glaciers. And so most of the sediment below this area will consist of that rock flour that settled out from suspension but it will have these larger clasts from the melting of the icebergs. So if you go back to the till deposits this is looking down from a helicopter and we have a couple of people here for scale and there are large parts of this that are outcrop but a lot of these, all of these boulders that I'm like putting dots in here, different types, there's one over here, over here, these were all dropped by the ice as it melted back. And so when the ice is just straight melting back you end up with this huge mix of sediment, different sizes, different shapes and just a jumble of grains that would form a dyed migtite if it's turned into rock. Now there's a difference in this upper part of the image here, above the line you note that the rocks look much more closely fitted together and you're seeing mostly large rocks whereas here it looks like there's a lot of dirt in between. The difference is that this part has actually experienced some of that melt water flow over it and the very fine particles that get deposited by the glacier just staying in place were actually washed away here and the next picture will show that those boulders also have some rounding to them. So this is looking in the same valley but looking along it and from the ground and what the sediments are really showing is that they have a more uniform grain size, there are still some much larger boulders and then there's some plants have established in this one here but the rocks are relatively rounded, I guess I should probably say they're subangular, a few are very angular, but this rounding relative to the very angular rocks is evidence that these were exposed to transport in a river system sometime in the past. So the reworking by water both sorts the grains at least to some degree and it rounds the grains at least to some degree. Another feature that's very characteristic of glacial deposits or processes is the development of pavements. So there's a mechanical pencil here for scale and this surface here is a smooth pavement from the glacial erosion. Now it's formed on a schist which had a fabric to it already and so some of these color variations in here are related to the actual fabric of the rock but the next image I'll show that some of these ones that are going diagonal and some of the ones that are sort of parallel to the schistosity are actually carved into the rock by the glacial flow. So here's a close up of that same surface again with a pencil for scale and you can see the scratch marks running along here and each one of those represents a place where a rock inside the glacial flow was scraping against the bedrock, smoothing the bedrock and the class that was in the ice. So these very big zones in here are actually called chatter marks and they're from the interaction of very large rocks with the surface below the ice. So we talked a little bit about the rock flower and suspended sediment and I wanted to talk a little bit more about that. So all of the tan area in here is melt water directly from the ice cap and it has a very high proportion of that mud sized rock flower and in contrast this island is bedrock and there's a lake of accumulated snow melt on that and so this isn't fed by the glacial melt itself. This just has some windblown fine sediment but this is what the water would look like if it wasn't being fed by as much rock flower as you get with the melting glaciers. And that water with all the rock flower flows downstream and this is a river that's flowing off to the left and it has this milky look to it because of all that suspended sediment. So the rivers can move all grains smaller than I think these are boulder size. This was taken from the helicopter so it's a little hard to tell but it can when the flow is high it can move these large grains and when the flow is as it is now or flowing much at all it can transport the rock flower. So downstream eventually these rivers flow into fjords or flooded valleys from the marine water and this is an inner tidal zone at low tide and a lot of that rock flower has accumulated on these mud flats. And so one of the interesting things is that usually mud flats have a lot of mud but it's composed of clay minerals. In this case because it's being fed mostly by melting of the Greenland ice cap with glacial processes it has mud sized grains but they're mostly composed of lithic fragments that aren't chemically weathered. And icebergs can get out into that zone and that far. I actually saw some that were grounded on the inner tidal flats and so even in marine waters they can melt and release some of the sediment like you see here. Okay well thanks for watching.


Welcome to Finding Respect in the Chaos. I'm Cynthia Sinclair. It's wonderful that you've joined us today. I have two very special guests that I'm very excited to introduce. Jasmine and Jade Baker, thank you so much for coming. Now I've had you guys on my show before and it was when you were doing the human trafficking stuff.  I'm really proud of you. So proud of you. I loved watching you over this last year as you've just gone on to do so many wonderful things. So right now you have a new initiative that you're working on and I want you to please tell me all about it or tell us I should say all about it. So for one I am your 2019 teen Miss Pacific Ocean and I had the opportunity to represent Hawaii in Vegas this past month and I work with diverting crayons from landfills. So not many people know but it actually takes 90 years for a crayon to biodegrade in our environment. Wow. Exactly. That was everyone's reactions at nationals. Yes. And whenever you go to iHOPs or Denny's, a lot of the places where they use one time these crayons, people don't automatically think about what happens to these crayons after your children are done coloring or playing with them. Right. You've been to Denny's and I have you saw the kids coloring right? Oh my gosh. I just spent three weeks with my granddaughter. Everywhere we went. Everywhere. That's what they do and I didn't know that was one time use but of course because then otherwise germs go everywhere and so they have to just throw them away. Oh my gosh. So we coordinate with working with these restaurants and hotels to divert the crayons from landfills and we work with two organizations, one being crayon initiative and their focus is to again set up boxes all throughout iHOPs and Denny's and to collect the crayons from the children that are broken down and we remelt them to brand new ones to give them to children in hospitals.  I think we've got some pictures of the crayon initiative too, right? We can look at it and yeah, there you go. There's one of the boxes. This is crayon collection. Yeah. This is crayon collection. So there's actually two different ones. Yeah. Okay, so tell us about both of them. The second organization is crayon collection and of course we also focus on diverting crayons from landfills and we get the crayons from the restaurants and we get the crayons that are still usable and not broken and we give them to low-income schools all throughout Hawaii. Yes, which is super awesome because yearly teachers spend about $900. This is what statistics tells us. Wow. Out of their pockets to make sure that their classrooms have things like crayons. So when we go in and we take those one-time use crayons from places like iHOPs and Denny's like we said, we're able to give those teachers crayons for their students. Right, then and there. Yeah. Which is so important for kids. All of these are everything. I know I was playing with crayons all day for the last three weeks. I've been playing with crayons. Absolutely. And they're so much fun and it's so important for kids especially in hospitals that have nothing to do. Exactly. It's a creative outlet to express themselves and how they're feeling. Right. A lot of the times we grow up and we don't really know what new emotions we're experiencing. So crayons can be that outlet to you know hopefully for therapy. Oh absolutely. Statistics shows that crayons in coloring is very therapeutic for younger children. So I could only imagine if my daughter was in the hospital that those crayons would help her as she goes to her world to recovery. Sure and not just hospitals I would think in therapy settings too. Definitely. For I know working with kids like I did for many many years and half the time they can't you know verbalize what they're feeling. But you can hand them a piece of paper and some crayons and they can draw what they're feeling. Absolutely. And it's a lot easier for them to get that you know outlet which is such an important thing for kids to get. Oh yes. So locally one of our one big hospitals that actually gets those crayons is Shriners. Oh nice. And they get it from the crayon initiative. So it's that's like super awesome because we know that what we're doing is not only something that we're doing globally but it's something that's impacting Hawaii locally because our concept is really to what act local. It's think global and act local. I like that. That's one of the models for the entire time. Okay I like that. Yes. Wait think global act local. Because it all starts with us if we want to make a difference in our environment. Our saying between us is that there's no planet B so there's no plan B. I love that. Exactly. I get about that when we were going back and forth a little bit. There's no plan B. There's no planet B. Exactly. No plan B. We gotta take care of what we got. And it takes everyone coming together as a community to make that global effort to cut down on straws and make the effort to make our environment a better place. Right. No more plastic bags. Exactly. All of those and every little thing that each person does goes together and then yes it does builds up and then pretty soon everybody's doing it. And we can really save our earth and that you know out there I'm always talking about how we're not alone no one's alone and and this is a perfect example of how each one of us can do that little bit to help and once we do that it all adds up and then pretty soon we're golden right.  Oh it's real. It's real. We say at the Miss Earth organization and that's the organization that I'm with and I have a privilege of serving with our president Laura and her heart is to change the world one day at a time and that whole global act local it came from them this summer to allow our girls in the pageant because I am an executive director for Hawaii, Guam and Alaska. It allowed those girls to come together and put their voice on something that's actually changing the world which is an awesome way to do it. Another thing I wanted to tell you was our model at Miss Earth is beauties for a cause. Oh nice.  It is changing the world. So does each girl have her own cause is that the way that works then? Yes. So like you're okay so what made you pick this one? You said did you just hear about it and go wow that's for me or what? Well it's interesting because I again my background is working with anti-sex trafficking and that was my platform for four years. I was going in strong and I still do participate in it but I was googling okay I know I want to join this pageant but I want to broaden my expertise and I decided to just google platforms you know and crayons connect with me because when I was younger I wanted to be a fashion designer for the longest time and I was she already knows I had my own company launched. I was going to be on the market at New York Fashion Week and I would sketch my designs with crayons so I automatically connected with it I decided that as a teen I can not only inspire the youth but I can also connect with adults and through this platform I've gotten the opportunity to connect with managers at Denny's iHops outback steak houses and as a teen it's a little bit kind of nerve-wracking but it's also learning experience to just network and get out there. You just have to like walk in cold and go excuse me how are you doing?  Why do you care? You're 16. Yeah but she's actually made a huge difference as she's been collaborating with multiple restaurants locally like iHop we mentioned that earlier Denny's it'll be Tuesdays. Outback Steakhouse Applebee's all those places here locally have been really joining in the effort to make our footprint bigger in saving the earth which is like really big for me right now is because what if there's nothing there for our children to experience in the future who's going to come to Hawaii if Hawaii is just the beaches aren't as pristine as they could be because we're not taking care of them or the land. The Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch is literally right in between California and Hawaii so a lot and it's twice the size of Texas so a lot of the trash winds up on our shores and that's why I constantly promote on my Instagram hey participate in a local beach cleanup you're going to the beach anyway might as well clean it up oh yeah leave with the bag always leave with more than you bring yes you know there used to always be signs you know always bring back what you bring out oh yeah never leave behind what you brought or whatever and those are like no no no i want to change those signs definitely leave with more than you bring yes because there's always extra you like my son has started a thing in Alabama on my shores down there you have to pick up at least 15 pieces of plastic every time you go oh that's awesome right that's awesome so it's he's just starting to get his friends and he's you know putting it all over facebook and wow it's like you go buddy I didn't know he's impacted at his level and that's exactly what we mean at Ms. Earth is that anyone I mean it doesn't even have to be just participants in Ms. Earth and you don't have to be a green activist yeah it's just having that attitude and that heart to care about changing the world and keeping it a better for the people that will come after us right or anybody who's a parent who's got kids absolutely crayons and they're just going to chuck them because they're broken crayons most people do chuck them we had a project this past year with girl scouts and I'll let jay talk a little bit about it we had about 200 local girl scouts they brought in their crayons they listened to her talk about reduce reuse and recycle and it was huge really big and those that little bit of information bringing them up to speed as far as educational and awareness allowed them to go out and even make a change and she was able to distribute what patches yeah so I after they listened to my talk they received a crayon initiative patch for their girl scout sash and me being a daisy back in the day yeah I girl scouts for life it felt good to give back to my history and my roots absolutely girl scouts for life I was a senior scout so I gave it to you on our program my brother is an eagle scout oh yeah I'll do my best yes and not only that when we give them the training they can receive a patch from crayon initiative but they also can receive a patch from crayon collection they both organizations have produced patches because they both are passionate about getting the word out concerning crayons and not allowing them to go to the landfill right both founders of each organization are super passionate and we love to support them and supporting both of them it's good that they're not like competing or no they have two different um mission sets you know one is focused on making sure the crayons that are usable get into schools that's crayon collection okay and then crayon initiative is focused on taking the broken crayons remelting them down and getting those out to hospital so two different organizations still accomplishing diverting crayons from land yeah right oh wow I think we have a video we can watch a little bit about this I think I think we have time to watch that crayons themselves are a powerful tool in the fact that everybody knows how to use them it starts with opening the box and that pop of the box and then you get the smell of a crayon and you don't have to explain to them what to do with this tool they just pick it up and they start coloring crayons seem to have that way with everybody that it either takes them back to a childhood memory or as a child they just know how to use them the idea for the crayon initiative came from out at a restaurant with my kids and they were coloring on the menu so then as a supply chain guy kind of question what would they do with these crayons afterwards and we figured out that they just throw them away so we wanted to figure out how we can take that resource that was being thrown away and put it into something else that was more meaningful we want to get restaurants and schools and individuals to give back their crayons to us where we work with groups to do the sorting break them down into colors and then from there we melt them and create new crayons we'll box them up into eight packs with six colors of the rainbow plus normally a pink and a brown color in an eight pack box and then those boxes get donated back to children's hospitals what i've learned about hospitalized kids kids with chronic illness is that they want to play they want to go to school they want to have friends they want to do their hair they want to paint their nails they want to be a superhero just like a normally developing child they're no different creativity in play is so very important because they're in an environment that is abnormal so when you give them the tools to sit down and really express what they're thinking and what they're feeling and what they're experiencing it's very powerful it means everything to them to actually have their own packet crayons with tips on them most of the patients take our crayons home with them because it's the one good memory of that hospital stay and remember that it brought them happiness there's an unlimited supply of crayons coming in and so if we can keep taking those crayons and making new ones we can make sure that every children's hospital gets the art supplies that they need and the resources that they need through these crayons that was amazing gotta love that people are doing these kind of programs for kids for the environment for all of this well we need to take a break but we're going to be right back so please don't go anywhere okay I'm Cynthia Sinclair this is Finding Respect in the Chaos Hi I'm Rusty Kamori host of Beyond the Lines I was the head coach for the Punahou Boys Varsity Tennis Team for 22 years and we're fortunate to win 22 consecutive state championship this show is based on my book which is also titled Beyond the Lines and it's about leadership creating a superior culture of excellence achieving and sustaining success and finding greatness if you're a student parent sports or business person and want to improve your life and the lives of people around you tune in and join me on Mondays at 11 a.m as we go Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii Aloha 各州月曜日 Welcome back to Finding Respect in the Chaos I'm Cynthia Lee Sinclair and I am here with Jade and Jasmine Baker two amazing women and we've been talking about the crayon initiative and the crayon collection programs and platforms that they have but I want to talk a little bit more about the exciting news that you have that gorgeous crown on your head and why you have it and where you got it and all the details and I know Jasmine you just were telling us in the first half about how you're on the board one of the directors yeah so not on the board yet so I'm not so much on the board but the staff and our president Laura she trusted me to take care of Hawaii as a director or what we call now a regional coordinator which is super exciting but not only Hawaii I've adopted two other locations which is Alaska and Guam so most of the Pacific territory I'm now responsible for and what I do in short is I come in contact with girls who really want to make an impact and change the world and that's why the model is again like I said earlier beauties for a cause these girls want to get their voice out there and they want to save our planet you'll often hear us as we chat here today we'll say earth moments that's our time when we had an earth moment to figure out okay I can help change the planet so that's pretty much what I do in a nutshell that is amazing so just recently you were in Vegas I was left with the crown so tell us about that all right came with a crown because it's a part of my regional stash so I represent Pacific Ocean all right okay I also live in Hawaii so I had the opportunity to represent the whole region oh wow that was pretty cool I competed against and with 27 other teens that were all beauties for a cause absolutely and it was just a really big learning experience because I've never been surrounded by that many beautiful ladies that just wanted to get out there and advocate for something and that's one of the many things I love about the system is absolutely it inspires and encourages women to just get out there educate themselves because I'm going to be honest before joining this pageant I wasn't the most environmentally aware but it's opened my eyes to the amount of change that I can produce all right just my age and level yeah but I took home best overall an interview and I'm not surprised I was standing there but yeah it was a blessing and then I also got third runner up wow that's awesome oh my gosh out of all of those girls yes that's remarkable so can you come up with any of the do you remember some of the other platforms that some of the other girls had um some people worked with recycling plastics others got more in specific with um microplastics on the oceans and the beaches and stuff especially in the california region invasive invasive plants and species and trees yeah one of the girls that I was rehearsing with she was in the elite division so there's through divisions that we um that were hosted in vegas so you have your elite miss you have your miss and you have your teen so all these age divisions were there I was rehearsing next to one of the elite misses awesome and she had poison ivy bite on her leg but like yeah and I moved up her arm because before pageant and this is how passionate these girls are and this is what just sparked my passion even more that I knew I was in the right place doing the right thing at the right time I'm talking to her as they're doing an environmental project so now they're in vegas competing but um again our staff set up this awesome environmental project for the girls to be able to give back so they've traveled out here I'm having this conversation with this awesome girl I've never met before because pageants built what they built journeys and memories and she's telling me how she worked in um the forest clearing out the hiking way so that these evasive trees that had grown in and messed things up they were there separating them before nationals and she's like I got poison ivy all up my legs all up my arms and I said wow they'll talk about passionate you know what I mean oh yeah exactly in heels and competing six inch heels yeah dedication I love it it it sparked something in me to say you know what we're doing the right thing you need to get out there you know and really make a change yes absolutely that's my that's my goal too is to make a change to make a difference to get my voice heard that people know they're not alone exactly hope absolutely and the chaos and the chaos exactly we can just find it and sometimes you have to look a little harder and then sometimes I meet women like you and I just go yes there's hope for the world you know oh yeah and I think that's an important thing to say to the world that there is hope oh absolutely and it's easy to get discouraged and to get downhearted about stuff and especially about climate change oh yeah sort of things but when I see people like you jade and I meet girls like you that that have such a spark and a passion for these kinds of things makes me know maybe the next generation will be okay oh yes because sometimes I worry about and then I maybe that's two of us that's two of us well you're doing all kinds of stuff too though with gems and I want you to explain what gems is oh absolutely so to our viewers oh yes so gems girls in part and mentor for success it's a sorority of girls who are focused on stem most people that know me know that I do a lot of engineering I'm an engineer stem science math no science technology engineering mathematics what do you know I got it because that is so important and it will be prevalent in the future right now most girls that are in school and ten percent of those girls are even interested in stem jobs highly technical jobs so what I do is by having this organization I'm able to make stem fun and I'm able to make stem girly you know and just put my creativity inside of it and those girls that join the organization learn a little bit more but not only that they give back to the community the way that they should so I'm able to really roll in to this the miss earth platform that I have personally because I have my platform she has hers but minds is the power of youth mentorship I'm able to make sure of you I think oh absolutely I think we do I'm able to still be beautiful as you are my goodness you are beautiful we have some pictures of the pageant too right I don't want to miss all these beautiful so that was teen miss west coast her name is Carly she was the bomb.com she helped me through everything because it was like my second national the bomb.com by the way she's the local girl and then Miss Washington and Louisiana we were all pretty close throughout the pageant too and it was just awesome to be surrounded by those girls. Nice I think we've got a bunch of we got some of you that was during runway so that dress is sponsored by Ashley Loren and so are the yeah it's just the dress yeah the dress she's our national yes our national sponsor yes and the earrings also was also everyone's dress got sponsored by the earrings yours is way better and I believe that I think that was when I got called for top 15 oh nice so I was shocked how composed you are though oh my gosh you look gorgeous oh my gosh we were excited yeah absolutely look at that no is that one sponsored to you by someone or did you get to pick that one out it was sponsored by true elegance my local store that is true elegance is right I wanted to go for a ball gown because I'm kind of petite and I didn't want to look so small on stage I was like I need some volume give me that thing you definitely got some volume exactly no I knew I didn't want to miss out on these pictures and stuff but I do want to hear a little bit more about gems so that that girls that are listening or moms that are listening or even dads too hey can help to get their kids involved in this their daughters can get involved in in gems oh absolutely how do they go about doing that okay so they can also go to our Instagram page our Facebook page is Jim's Honolulu and they can go to the website www gems honolulu.com and they can inquire and then they'll get me or one of my helpers on the phone talk about it and get their daughter or son enrolled that sounds perfect and it sounds like such an amazing program oh yeah that we really need since things are going towards technology now everything is going more towards technology absolutely so it's important to get women involved in it so that men don't dominate the field anymore exactly that's how it leads to women getting lower incomes and all of that getting paid less getting less opportunities yes so the younger you start right yes better your chances of being successful later on and also being that 80 of the jobs in the future will be STEM jobs it allows our girls to get ready for it in our guys and be on the forefront of the problem and enjoying it and hopefully they'll be giving back like I gave back to them and it'll just be that spiral effect right oh my gosh which is exactly what we hope for right yes absolutely that's always what we hope for I am just hoping that the crayon collection and the crayon initiative we actually have boxes oh look at boxes to show see that's what you're looking for people so this is the crayon collection box and you'll see these throughout low income schools that help us out in our initiative of collecting the crayons so and then you'll see these little babies along with the boxes my daughter showed you you'll see those at some of the local restaurants they have one-time use crayons and this is crayon initiative and crayon initiative is the one that does the melting down and remaking yes and these are the ones that they take them and they give them to title one schools and give them to the hospitals and things like that right they focus on low-income schools low-income schools and then this one focuses on the hospital and the hospitals and stuff that is awesome I know we're just about out of time oh yeah I wish we had more time it seems like we always have so much fun I know we do so in a little while you're gonna have to come back again and tell me how things are going keep us all posted yes on everything about I wish you just the best of luck the best of the best of luck thank you so I think you deserve every accolade that you get without a doubt you are gorgeous and you have your head and your heart in the right place absolutely that's important yeah and hit me up on instagram miss hawaii earth if you want to participate in our upcoming year pageant 2020 there you go 2020 thank you jasmine oh thank you for having us thank you so much jade thank you so much I'm so glad you guys came out and I'm glad that everybody out there joined us this was a really fun show to have and I really I hope that you guys will follow up on this and find out more about the crayon initiative and the crayon collection sorry and gems and miss earth this specific earth all of it it's all wonderful and I'm so glad you all joined us so I'm Cynthia Lee Sinclair and this is finding respect in the chaos please come and see me again next week