Thank you, Julie, and good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, colleagues. Thank you very much for joining us as we come together to kick off the GPC and Global Protection Forum for 2022. It's really my great pleasure to welcome you to what I hope will be a very lively discussion today, as well as to kick off the forum more broadly. It is fantastic to see so many participants with us today from all over the world. We've registered more than 3,200 people, the majority from Sub-Saharan Africa, but also many colleagues joining from Latin America and the Caribbean. These numbers reflect more diversity in registration in terms of region and organization type than ever before. It is a strong sign that the forum is designed for and with protection colleagues and practitioners in the field. Thank you very much to everyone for joining us and taking the time from your busy schedule to attend these events this week. And many thanks also to the colleagues who have worked very hard in preparing for the forum. This year, the Protection Forum will focus on a truly foundational aspect of protection work, that is access. Access remains a major and key approach enabler and tool that helps advance protection outcomes for communities affected by conflict and crisis. Over the past year, the Global Protection Cluster has felt increasing urgency of this topic. Looking across the 32 protection cluster operations, we see the very real challenges facing communities in terms of their access to protection. We also see the challenges facing us collectively as protection actors and humanitarian actors in delivering the needed protection services. These challenges related to access are not new. However, there has been a marked deterioration in the degree and quality of access over the past few years. This is particularly true for protection responses like access to gender-based violence support and legal aid. Protection actions require sustained access that enables protection and human rights monitoring, engagement with communities and leaders, and the delivery of targeted services to vulnerable groups. Across our 32 protection cluster operations, we estimate that protection actors reach 25 to 50% of the affected population, I would say only. And in some of these operations, access is even lower than that. That's why as a sector, we have met tremendous strides over the past several years in strengthening the quality and the impact of our collective efforts, sustained access and support for more inclusive and community-based protection measures has never been more imperative. We need sustained access that enables relationship building, nuanced analysis of diverse needs, experiences and barriers, and responsive advocacy grounded in local priorities and leadership. During last year's forum, with all of you, we took a very strong focus on localization and our focus now on access that protects really builds on the work that we have done over the past year. We want to dive into how we as a sector and as a system can better enable the ongoing leadership of communities and local actors to sustain and strengthen the kind of access that enables responsive protection services and outcomes in complex humanitarian settings. The Global Protection Forum that we launched today aims to provide a platform through which key protection and access partners, field practitioners, donors, member states, academics, and many more people engaged in this field of work can come together to find better ways to move forward, to shift behaviors, policies and practices in ways that can advance access that protects. There will be 12 sessions throughout the Global Forum this year and I really hope if you have not yet done so that you'll register for them. Now to turn to our program for today, I'm very pleased that we are joined by guests from UN agencies, international organizations and national NGOs as well as colleagues from the protection cluster in South Sudan, who will all contribute to what I believe will be a very lively discussion on how to move the needle on access that protects. To kick off this discussion, it's my pleasure to pass on the floor to Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, Director of Coordination at OSHA. Ramesh, thank you so much for being with us today and for offering us your perspective from your work with OSHA. OSHA has long flown the flag of humanity and access and ensures protection is at the core of what it does, providing extraordinary leadership, not only across operations but also in high level policy discussions in both places like New York and Geneva. Ramesh, the floor is yours. Thank you very much, Bernadette. Thank you very much also for the invitation to give some opening remarks today. I also recall that there was no Global Protection Forum when I was previously in this, my previous incarnation, but I was in a similar setting with the Global Protection Forum group I think in about 14 years ago, so it's good to be back after all these years. As you know, supporting and facilitating humanitarian access is a core part of the work of the emergency relief coordinator Martin Griffiths, the humanitarian coordinators around the world and of OSHA in general and all of our humanitarian partners. Access, humanitarian access mandated by General Assembly Resolution 46182, which helps set up the Department of Humanitarian Affairs in OSHA, refers to a two-pronged concept comprising humanitarian actors' ability to reach populations in need and effective populations to assistance and services. Safe, rapid and unimpeded humanitarian access is a fundamental prerequisite to effective and safe humanitarian action for all the work that all you and our colleagues on the field do, especially without surprise in situations of armed conflict, but also however in context of disasters, for example the very recent Pakistan floods and civil unrest in other areas. Humanitarian access is a principled and negotiated business. In Resolution 1894, the Security Council underscored the importance of upholding the humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence. Compliance or non-compliance with these principles affects ourselves, humanitarian actors, their acceptance among the local communities and also the ability to engage in negotiations with state and non-state actors with the aim of reaching affected populations. Yet, and no surprise to all of us, there are multiple constraints which impinge on humanitarian access, including bureaucratic restrictions imposed by state and non-state actors on personnel and humanitarian assistance. This includes donor governments' funding restrictions on engaging with, for example, Shabab in Somalia or Hamas in Gaza and domestic legislations which criminalize the provision of material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations. Biocratic impediments can also take the form of delays on visas, for example today Myanmar, conscription of humanitarian staff as we see more and more in eastern Ukraine or delays in getting humanitarian projects approved, which we have seen in Yemen. It also impacts and impinges on, brings about in situations of insecurity and conduct of hostilities. Threats, arbitrary arrests and attacks on humanitarian personnel, premises and assets such as the recent looting of humanitarian warehouses in Haiti, which we all know, but also I think the increasing ultimate price paid by many humanitarian actors in conflict situations with the interference in the delivery of humanitarian assistance and also with restriction on movements. So at a global level, OSHA advocates for the safe, timely and unimpeded access to people in need. In 2007, the emergency relief coordinator committed to establishing more systematic monitoring and reporting on access, reporting instances of grave concern to the Security Council and supporting efforts to increase access on the ground. Since then, the ERC has repeatedly emphasized the critical importance of improving access in the Security Council and other fora. Under the leadership of the ERC, OSHA's played a leading role in documenting the various types of impediments that counterterrorism measures and sanctions generate for principled humanitarian action and advocating for systemic solutions with all stakeholders, including the Security Council, its counterterrorism and sanctions committees, member states and donors. Today, there's broad acknowledgement of the humanitarian issues related to the implementation of the sanctions and counter-agenda and the need for measures to preserve principled humanitarian action in counter-terrorism and sanctions contexts. This is reflected through appropriate language and relevant Security Council and GA resolutions and most recently, the adoption by the Security Council of a sanctions carve-out for humanitarian operations in Afghanistan, which indeed is a step forward. The ERC also actively facilitates through negotiations if needed, the access by operational organizations to emergency areas for the rapid response or provision of emergency assistance by obtaining the consent of all parties concerned with dialysis such as the establishment of temporary relief corridors or temporary relief days and zones of tranquility and other fora were needed, for other forms were needed. At the country level, humanitarian coordinators and OSHA play a critical role in facilitating and coordinating efforts to establish and maintain principled humanitarian access to and by or for people in need and to overcome factors that inhibit access. OSHA develops tools and provides guidance and support to HCs and humanitarian counterteams to address access-related issues, including humanitarian engagement with non-state armed groups and respect for humanitarian principles by both warring parties and the humanitarian community, those principles being our main source of protection. OSHA also facilitates efforts to monitor access in order to identify constraints and their implications for affected populations. This data can then be used to build common approaches to resolve issues and to inform advocacy and negotiation processes. Turning to the focus of this year's Global Protection Classes Forum on Access that protects, I'm keen to frame the discussion at the outset on a collective way forward by emphasizing three points that are crucial for OSHA's perspective. First, just as humanitarian action has both a relief and protection objective, so too humanitarian access speaks to enabling both. Humanitarian access is not an end goal but a means to fulfill the broader objective to make people safer, protect their ability, dignity and rights. It's not a simple case of either or. Often a shortage or lack of essentials like food, water or health care is closely linked to a lack of protection corresponding human rights. At the same time, it is important to acknowledge that a lack of access and proximity to affected populations may have specific implications for protection activities. We need more robust analysis to better understand and address those specific constraints and implications when they arise. At the recent humanitarian coordinators retreat, many humanitarian coordinators pointed to the imperative to have a presence and protection through a presence there, and this is a vital component of access. Secondly, we must also strengthen our attention to the protection impact within existing humanitarian access arrangements, mechanisms and tools at a global and country level. Evaluating progress towards securing or sustaining access must be looked at in terms of the extent to which our approaches have led to improvement in protection of affected people. Creating additional or separate protection processes risks overburdening country level colleagues and diluting our efforts. At an operational level, for example, this should translate to protection clusters strengthening inputs to existing monitoring efforts by and collaborating with access working groups. Third, we must tackle the assumption that addressing protection concerns or advocating for rights will inevitably hinder humanitarian access or result in negative repercussions for the delivery of programs. One aspect of this is enduring is that ensuring that leadership have political backing from the headquarter level and from the leadership level, the headquarters and support. Humanitarian coordinators and HCTs must be given great incentives to focus on protection as part of their core responsibilities and indeed accountable and be accountable for it. This is a key takeaway of the recent independent review of the implementation of the ISC protection policy. From Afghanistan to Ethiopia, Ukraine and Somalia, protection is very much at the forefront of the missions conducted by the USG-ERC Martin Griffiths and in his engagement with parts of the conflict, including on access. And we've seen this in Afghanistan, Ukraine, everywhere. I will cut short my presentation here, just very short, very quickly. Archie remains fully dedicated to support this and facilitate access on behalf of the humanitarian community. We will work with all partners and all stakeholders in helping to do so in a transparent way as possible. And this is a major part of our strategic plan for 2023 to 2026. And we look forward to doing it in a much more strategic way, more transparent way, but also doing it having more consistent standards applied in all contexts throughout the globe. And we look forward to working very closely with you, with UNHCR and the Global Protection cluster partners to take this forward. Thank you very much again. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Ramesh. Thank you for joining us and thank you for sharing these remarks with us. We are, as always, very grateful for the strong partnership of OSHA and the invaluable advocacy expertise and coordination that you are leading when it comes to humanitarian access. Before I turn on to our panelists today, I'm very pleased that colleagues from the protection cluster in South Sudan have prepared a video for us demonstrating both the challenges and the opportunities for access in their operation. I'm Atsiga Patrick. I work with Danish Deputy Council in South Sudan. But in most emergencies in South Sudan, the biggest challenge in gaining access to protection activities are ongoing security concerns and inaccessible terrains. More frequently flooding and extreme weather conditions combine with poor infrastructures and limited means of transport, completely hinter access to some locations within the country. Simultaneously, areas with active public and frequent classes, particularly hard to reach areas, make it very hard for our protection team to access some locations. As humanitarian access is hindered, delayed or denied, and protection needs increases over time and vulnerabilities are often exacerbated. With DRC Mobile Response Program, DRC is able to try and mitigate access challenges and deliver timely protection services to the most in need. My name is John Gahir. I'm the ponder and excerpt director for Mobile Humanitarian Agency, which is a national venue. The successful negotiation of the access to the southern unity is the unity state inventive. That was 2018 during a very active conflict where we need to access both locations, which is being controlled by different administrations, the opposition and the government. And we had to negotiate that successful. What we used to do when we have a demand signal from our people, we do what we call the contact analysis and the stack order mapping. That is to give us an idea of who we should be talking to to negotiate the access. And we also do what we call environmental scanning to identify the threats and then the vulnerability. The second thing that we usually use to do as well is to recruit within the area of the foreign excite, local recruitment. That gives us an advantage of a situation whereby it happens that there is an active conflict again, that our critical staff can be relocated. But the local recruited staff can remain. That gives us leverage of being able to get the information from the ground and we're still going to continue with our activities as well. My name is David Hattar and I'm the Roving Protection Cluster Officer in South Sudan. As we all know, funds are ever decreasing, which is leading to a lot of competition between humanitarian actors to deliver results. I think there are two key things that need to happen. The first thing is stakeholders, specifically donors, need to be more lenient and understanding when it comes to results. Because we're seeing a lot of competition, we're seeing a lot of attitude that if a certain actor does not deliver results to the donors, then this means no future funding. So I think this is quite a challenge actually coming from the top down. Another thing that I think is vital is that we need stakeholders, donors alike, senior management to encourage collaboration, not just between agencies, but actually between clusters. And I think one way to go about this is to ensure MOUs, for example, between clusters, we've seen this already happening with certain clusters. So that if someone is going to the field to do any negotiation for access, that they keep protection in mind. Thank you colleagues for these very impactful clips and for taking the time to record those for us. I think your messages will resonate throughout the week during the different sessions and discussions. To build on both the comments made by Ramesh and our colleagues working in South Sudan, I'm pleased that we are joined today by three actors leading on protection and access efforts from a wide range of partner organizations. Tiffany Isham, Executive Director of Non-Violence Peace Force. Samira Nuri, Deputy Director General of the Citizen's Organization for Advocacy and Resilience in Afghanistan. And Hishem Kadrawi, Head of Operations at Geneva Coal. I couldn't think of a more fitting group to have a discussion on how we can further place protection at the heart of access and particularly zooming a bit more on the role of negotiations. Thank you for being with us here today.  Across humanitarian action, while an invaluable focus on community empowerment, accountability to affected people and local leadership has grown over the past several years, there remains a tendency to frame the role of civilians as one of beneficiaries of aid. However, in situations of violence, civilians and communities, and we see that every day, they engage in self-protection actions to keep themselves and their families safe. You are working with Non-Violence Peace Force, an organization working on a daily basis to strengthen community self-protection. Tiffany, what can we do better at global level to further support and enable community self-protection and turn this into a cornerstone for access negotiations? Thank you, Bernadette, and thank you so much for inviting me and representing Non-Violence Peace Force and all the colleagues to this forum. It's a great opportunity. I was really moved by what you said in the opening statements. Bernadette really recognizing the importance of things like relationship building and really focusing on those who are most impacted by violence in the work that we do, and that being the cornerstone of both protection, protection outcomes, and to be part of what we want to do for access negotiations. Taking a little moment of inspiration from the video we just saw, starting from the question about how can we support and enable local communities to best support themselves to do local protection strategies. I was reflecting on a time and a situation in South Sudan that I think is such a great illustration of what that we can learn from. We were working with a group of women in what we call WPTs, or Women's Protection Teams, which are local South Sudanese women, looking around the room and seeing who's not present, who is not at the table, and who's most impacted by violence being a starting place for that question. Before being in this role, I was country director in South Sudan for a number of years, and when I was leaving South Sudan, I did a little tour around to say goodbye, and I went to northern Bargazal, so many people I'm sure listening are familiar with South Sudan, and to a little village in northern Bargazal right on the border between Sudan and South Sudan, so very remote, very far away, in a place where a group of women who had been really dynamic and really stating that they wanted to become, take stronger leadership roles in peace and security in their remote location, and what they said is, we're really far away from everything and everyone. We depend on ourselves first and foremost, and that's what we need help to be able to do. So as I pulled up, of course, in the Land Cruiser, and the leader of the group came running over to the vehicle, her name is Mary, very excited to see us come in and ready to tell us about stories about what they had been working on, and they had set up within their community a series of safe houses. So in an effort to address situations of sexual and gender-based violence without any service providers very close by, they realized that one of the things they needed to do was to be able to move to safer locations, and then they also needed a process on how they were going to deal with perpetrators and survivors and so on and so forth, none of this language that they use, of course, but the language that we would use in the humanitarian community. So this was great. They were very excited. It was really impressive to see what they were doing on their own. The thing that really has always stood out for me from this moment is that while I was listening to Mary and the women's protection team tell their story, I noticed around the edge of the circle there was a gentleman and his name is John. He's a local police officer, the one police officer that's available in the area. And I'd recognized him from previous trips, and when we'd first started working there, he'd been very skeptical. What can women do? What can women do for women protection, protecting themselves? All of it just didn't sound right for him. And he had a bit of a smirk on his face. So after they finished presenting, I went over and I talked to him, and I said, hi, nice to see you, and I'm really grateful to be here. And he said, I need to tell you something. And I said, what? He said, you know, I didn't believe that this was possible. And he said, you know what's happening? And he said, normally, all these disputes would go to the local chief's court. And the chief's court would organize and they would arbitrate what was happening and they would come up with some sort of decision. Somebody would make a payment and that would be considered justice. And he says, now what happens is when people bring their problems to the local chief's court, the chiefs now say, we can deal with your problem here and we'll do what you know what we're going to do.  This was really moving. And when we think about communities doing self-protection, and what can we learn from that as humanitarian service providers, as protection actors, as the system, what can we do to support that? What do we do there? We do long-term investments. We have to park our own ideas of what success is, where from different parts of the world, what does justice mean in those situations, it's really important that that is what we're imposing on local communities. They were making those choices for themselves and that we make space for it and we have the patience for it and the encouragement for it and that we use our presence and our solidarity and provide accompaniment for when things get difficult and stay in a secondary role for those local protection strategies. And when Bernadette said in her opening remarks and really talked about relationship building, it sounds very simple but it is indeed the most important thing that we can do, build trust, to be present, to be in solidarity with. And when we think about what do we mean about gaining access and accesses for everyone, we need it for our work and there's access for protection for the people that we're working on. And when we really look at it from the focus of investing first and asking later, investing with communities to support the capacity for local protection and self-protection, then opens up the space to be able, in more difficult circumstances, to be able to do other things. I think one of the key lessons that we've taken away is that access and protection is mutual. I think of another occasion also in South Sudan and Northern Zhongli in an area that was getting quite cut off. This was during the start of a couple of years into the war, but the fighting had not quite reached there, but resources were getting very limited. And we were one of one or two maybe other small organizations that were in a very remote location. And what was happening was a local group was starting to steal from the compounds and they were stealing the fuel at this point. So the community knew, the NP was the last organization in this community that hadn't had to evacuate yet because we had not yet been robbed. And so community leaders came to us and said, we've heard that you're the last fuel storage available and we know if your fuel is stolen, you will just have to leave. And we really want and need you there. We need you to stay here. So we're going to the local commissioner and we're going to ask him to help us. And this is what they did. They went to the local authorities, they pled their case and the local authorities went and made it clear to whoever would be stealing that they would not approve of having our fuel stolen. So it was important and a humbling moment that at that moment in a very remote location in a very, very, an area that was being targeted, it was our, us being protected by that local community. And I feel when we think about this cornerstone piece, this is where we need to come from is looking who is not at the table, looking at inclusivity as our primary motivator and then we build and we take it from there. These are words that are easy to say. We all get busy, we get focused on the work that we need to do and to remember that when it comes back, when we come back down to the foundation of doing it from a values-based perspective and building those relationships and that trust and being in solidarity with one another, it's not just who is making, who is going to be safe in the moment, but in a more integrated world, we will all be safer. Thank you. Thank you so much, Tiffany. I think your experience resonates certainly with me and I'm sure with many, many, many colleagues who are listening to us. Samira, you are joining us online and I would like now to turn to you. Through your experience working in Afghanistan, you are very well placed to share with us some insights on advancing advocacy in support of access for protection. In many crisis contexts around the world today, advocacy continues to be perceived and assumed as a risk that may undermine access to protection, access and protection. Many operational organizations are wary of speaking up for fear of having their operations shut down. Can you share with us from your experience if there are also examples of how advocacy has contributed to expanded and better access for protection purposes? Thank you so much. First of all, I'm also thanking the organizer of this event for inviting me to speak on behalf of the national and local NGOs in Afghanistan. And the organization that I'm working, the Citizen Organization for Advocacy and Resilience, is a national NGO that's working in Afghanistan since 1989. From the past 34 years, the organization has been able to implement more than 800 projects across the country in both development and humanitarian sectors and has been able to join and form different platforms and groups for advocacy for protection, for humanitarian, for all the needed sectors and areas who are able to jointly work with the international NGOs, with the UN agencies, and to respond to the affected people in the humanitarian crisis across the country. Coming to your questions, as we all know that in Afghanistan, like the recent complex situation, like political situation in Afghanistan is quite critical because of the complex history. And if we say that there isn't one formula as a remedy to this conflict, but, you know, these kinds of conflicts and different political agendas in the country made the situation quite critical for the actors to do the advocacy. However, in the country, like before the fall of the government and the hand of Taliban, there were some platforms and groups that they were working for the advocacy for the protection purpose. And after the incident of the 15th of August and the country, many other groups also formed for the advocacy purposes, like individually or as a group, everyone has done differently to do the advocacy for the protection purpose and to somehow, like to some extent, these groups individually or as a group are able to speak the voice of the affected people on defending different sectoral or cross-cutting issues in Afghanistan. Besides that, like in the country, we have an advocacy working group that formed with the support of the ACBA, which is a coordination body that all national and international NGOs are getting together and doing the advocacy for the protection in the country and some other challenges that we are recently facing that access of the female humanitarian worker in Afghanistan, which is a quite challenging nowadays that humanitarian female worker do not have access, even though the access to or to each area is now easy for the international NGOs to go there and implement some project under the protection, while the marginalized group like women and girls are deprived of these protection programs. So this is another challenge in Afghanistan that we are facing in this area, even though the advocacy is going on, but it's not as much effective as it should be to path the way and to solve the solution and to have access for all the different type of the affected groups. But we are, like to some extent, be able to negotiate with the de facto authority to solve these problems. But again, like there are some challenges that we are facing. But the important point in here is that when we are doing some advocacy with the coordination with the international NGOs or donor agencies, union agencies and donors, there should be like, we should understand and everyone should understand who is doing the advocacy, how it's done and who is doing these and who are the audience. If we are doing the protection programs in the country, does the audience understand, really understand the protection? Because I have, like I'm working in this area from past 13 years, most of the programs that coming to Afghanistan like implementing or the donors are bringing some models from other country and they are implementing in the country. Like it's quite different because in some of the activity of the protection, the model which bringing from other country is not quite a resultful to be successfully implemented in the country because it's not according to the context of the country. That's why some of the programs which is under the protection are not much, the result is not much effective. If these kind of activities in the country like handled, managed well with the collaborative or coordination with the national and international NGOs so it will have a positive impact. So these are the situations that we are facing in the part of protection and the as an individual or as a group doing the advocacy and the result is also good to some extent but still it needs more support of the international community, the donor to support the local NGOs because when the 15 August incident happened like all the international NGOs left the country all the donors stopped and suspended their project. The only NGOs that were in the country were local NGOs, national NGOs that after three days of the incident we started our operation while other international NGOs where there's a dire need for the protection all left the country stopped their operation and after five or six months later on that we received emails from our international partners that still like local NGOs are working so we said yes we started our operation. So this is the challenges that we are facing or maybe sometimes the coordination is lacking there or sometimes the support is lacking with the local NGOs and also in the part of protection and the recent and I'm also sharing another experience that recently because we also have lots of challenges with the de facto authorities because recently the de facto authorities brought some changes in the NGOs law while that is contradicting with the humanitarian law so UN agencies international NGOs and local NGOs along with ACBA doing advocacy for this that how we can convince the de facto authority to support us to do our programs or do our protection programs and do the advocacy. So these types of things like make the barrier and make the the barrier and to not implement the project that we receive somehow some funds from the international community or donor but unfortunately we received from the ACBA that they had reported around 30 million of the fund that was allocated for the protection program refunded back and that fund allocated to Ukraine. Why? Because most of the IT implementing partners that they wanted to do the protection programs they were avoided or they were the de facto authority made the constraint able to come up with that to implement the project so these kind of challenges made us to not implement the project correctly to not have access to marginalized groups and to not have a good result from their protection activities. Thank you. Thank you Samira. Thank you for sharing these very concrete examples with us we all have lots to learn from your experience and your call for continuous support was loud and clear Heisham you are also joining us online and I'd like to turn to you now in your capacity as head of operations at Geneva call while there are multiple drivers contributing to constraint access it is clear that armed groups have crucial role to play when it comes to efforts led by humanitarians to gain and expand their access the ICRC estimates that between 60 to 80 million people are living in territories exclusively controlled by armed groups including countries such as the Central African Republic South Sudan we talked about Mali and Colombia and yet a significant gap in the protection sector tends to be the lack of systematic engagement and negotiation with armed groups and parties to the conflict Heisham what in your opinion are the biggest challenging facing those operating in places under the control of armed groups and what can be done to better support engagement for access for protection thank you very much I don't know if you can hear me yes great so thank you very much and thanks for the GPC for organizing this event and reminding us that protection is at the heart of any humanitarian engagement we at Geneva call strongly believe that any engagement with parties to conflict should be protection driven with a focus on the needs of people most affected to better highlight and identify challenges of humanitarian and protection actors when it comes to access we first need to know in which political and conflict settings we are operating conflict settings are extremely fluid with multi-layer situations communities, armed actors meditarians are all interacting between these various scenarios with scripts that change continuously and sometimes there is no script at all there is no one size fits all one country has often various layers of conflict I would still try for the sake of the discussion today to distinguish between three main situations first of all areas under the full control of armed groups here we see armed groups that are acting or seeing themselves as de facto authorities as my colleague Samira talked about the Taliban in Afghanistan for example at Geneva call we engage them in their new role because you have specific and new obligations when you control fully a territory issues such as law and order human rights delivery of services that will not have in the second setting that I talk about where areas are under the influence of armed groups here we talked about guerrilla armed groups they cannot control territories so they conduct warfare around hit and run attacks for example here at Geneva call for example we engage them around topics such as conduct of hostilities then you have the areas under the full control of governments but even in this particular setting states are increasingly supported by pro-government armed groups and militias as we see in the Sahel region and in Iraq with Hashad Shabi the Shia militias supporting the Iraqi governments and in all of this context or sub context as you want to know you may find criminal armed gangs that are sometimes allied or foes of armed groups and regular armed forces so this is just the level of complexity that you have in a given conflict so I will not talk about the Malian conflict or the Avaran conflicts but the Malian conflicts or the Avaran conflicts and unit engagement needs them to be tailored by type of context even if you are in the same country populations are moving between those values sub context because of violence lack of economic opportunities and sometimes issues to tribal or religious affiliations this needs to be included in the engagement as key actors and vectors I would then add another important factor that is sometimes ignored perception and reputation of humanitarian actors and actions armed groups know us more than we know ourselves I will quote an armed group leader without mentioning his name he told me you come, you go but we stay and observe you lack of organizational memory high turnovers are big challenges when it comes to create the good conditions for systematic engagement the way parties to conflict perceive you actions on the ground is critical even if you believe it's unfair you have to understand their own realities or did several field based studies on the subject and it all comes to the same recommendation when you ask armed groups on the ground principle action and not deviating from the proclaimed mission and mandate are seen as key by local actors civilian and armed groups to conclude I will share a few examples of what I consider the biggest challenges based on what I just highlighted one of the challenges internally are the lack of conflict analysis skills by staff working with organizations and the lack of updates I mean a conflict is very fluid it can show up to six months, one year you need to have a constant updates as well profiles of senior staff of organizations need to include capacity willingness to engage and to engage anyone who is important to engage even if he's someone who is not an official actor the understanding of type of armed groups de facto, guerrilla, coalitions, religious criminals is as well essential if you want to make sure that you have a strategy which is fitting the realities where you work and then comes with this you then have a coherent and holistic mapping of key actors streamlining of humanitarian access as part of a protection and prevention activities is essential for example we consider enabling access as part of legal obligations of armed groups we developed recently the first ever written code of conduct for all Shia militias fighting in Iraq and this includes points around access and their legal obligations and the we're reviewing local rules and regulations created by de facto authorities such as in the Donbas for example training on new year's and norms includes always a day on written access and perception of written actors we need to engage the armed groups on this particular topic how do you see us how do you see our action and then that's it we should accept critics and feedbacks trust building exercise needs to be done as well as an early step before intervening it's too late to start creating the trust at the moment you launch your protection intervention it has to be done way before as you know I call sometimes we engage in groups for 15 years it's only after several years that you can see the results of our engagement and reputation of staff and organization is as well needs to be as well included in the modus operandi of the relevant organization. In addition, communication activities in and out of the country need to be aligned with protection objectives that include sensitive negotiations and that includes senior managers Twitter accounts that sometimes are putting in danger the very action of the of the staff on the ground. Negotiating and engaging are not part-time jobs that you can do on the side. They should be the backbone of a protection and material strategy. Strategic and systematic engagement needs to be done with a mid-term and long-term approach. We consider three to five years the mid-term strategic engagement that we have a particular group. Designing, implementing and streamlining a strong and holistic engagement strategy should be done by organizations that are willing and able to access those hard-to-reach areas. And to finish, bringing on board your governance and top management to make sure that there is a political and institutional buying that you want and need to engage with armed groups on the ground.  Include all the people that need to be included in this in this fight. Thank you very much. Thank you very much Hisham. And thank you for highlighting so vividly the importance of principled actions and relationship building that Ramesh, Samira and Tiffany also highlighted in their interventions. For me, this conversation sets the stage and tone very nicely for the week to come, examining access that protects from various points of view and also from various context perspectives. To bring together some of the ideas that we've heard here today and to give us a bit more sense of what's coming this week, I will now pass the floor to my colleague Samuel Chung, the Global Protection Cluster Coordinator. I would like to thank again all of you for your contributions today and over to you Sam to close this opening ceremony. Thank you very much Bernadette and thank you for moderating such a lively discussion today and a perfect opening for our week's Global Protection Forum. Also a huge thank you again once again to for all those who have joined the conversation both online as well as in the room Ramesh. Thank you Tiffany. Thank you Samira Hisham. Thank you very much again for your insightful words today. As the last part of this opening ceremony, maybe I can try to wrap up a few of the key thoughts from our discussion that we've heard today. I mean starting globally we've heard that there is a commitment globally on humanitarian access starting from the Security Council all the way to the field, that we need more humanitarian access, that we need systemic solutions around this. We've heard about a commitment regarding the humanitarian access mechanisms in terms of how we can enable this to happen. We've heard that leadership requires political backing also for more and better humanitarian access and that all of this access is again for one purpose and that is really to improve the lives of people including through protection. We've heard great examples regarding community self-protection about communities and people on the ground not being beneficiaries but being agents that can achieve their own protection outcomes. We know that people in communities living on the front lines of crisis and conflict today they negotiate protection every day. It's not an abstract concept to them. Every day they organize themselves. Every day they understand the community norms and values around them. They leverage what trust they have in armed groups and duty bearers around them. They do protection. They make sure people have access to critical services. They provide needed support to vulnerable persons. They are the agents of their own protection and in this we are accompanying them. Community self-protection is the core component. We need to rely on these communities who are able themselves to even deter perpetrators of threats, avoid exposure, mitigate their severity, and even bring some of those protection threats to an end. Let's not underestimate the power and ability of communities and for us to enable them in this venture. We've also heard about access in terms of advocacy and negotiations. We know that across operations images of trucks reaching locations that have been isolated due to insecurity, these are the lasting images of humanitarian access and they serve as a candle of hope for many communities. But we also know that we can do much more on this. That access is not just necessarily about geography but is also about allowing and ensuring there is the freedom and the ability to act, particularly by civil society and local groups, to address the norms, to address the rights violations and ensure that protection happens on the ground. Protection must be at the core of these types of advocacy, at the basis of these types of negotiations, to open up this type of space that, once again, not just geographically but in terms of influencing protection outcomes. We've heard about the importance of engaging with armed groups, being able to successfully influence their behaviors, ultimately securing their acceptance of protection norms, and we know that we've heard clearly that this context is multi-layered, it's complex, it's fluid, it's dynamic, and our challenge today is to influence what is a changing script and ensure that that script results in better protection. Overall, we know that access is not a new concept nor is protection. But rather by putting these together, by placing access that protects as a core element of our collective agenda, my hope, our hope across the global protection cluster and all of our members, is that we can bring some much-needed attention to this matter. We can trigger a collective discussion on how we can make the needed shifts in policy and practice, especially as what we've heard today in terms of the increasingly constrained context that we live in. It's critical to achieving meaningful protection outcomes and ultimately to improve the lives of the people that we're working with and that the people who are living through crisis each day. In closing, I'd like to share three possible lines for consideration, for discussion, and I hope that, and I invite all of you participants to consider them through all of the sessions to come in this Global Protection Forum. The first is, how can we change the narrative such that access is not just about trucks, but is about access that protects? Do we believe we can do much more on this matter? In order to do this, we as a sector need to move towards a more comprehensive understanding of access, access for what types of response, access for what services, access for what outcomes, access that protects. We need a much more ambitious approach in terms of what is needed to strengthen protection outcomes. Can we change this narrative? Second, how can we tell the story, and in this case the story of protection, we need access in order to be where it counts, so that we can tell the story. What is really happening in terms of protection violations on the ground and where appropriate, how can we get that story where it needs to be told? Robust advocacy on protection issues from the ground up is critical. It's needed for protection actors, it's needed for states, it's needed for all of us to call attention to and help stop human rights abuses. Third, how can we be more present? Protection by presence, whether by internationals or by community-based programming, this that supports community self-protection, how do we further support and enable community self-protection action, this types of protective presence that mitigates violations, that allows a sense of solidarity on the ground? How do we make sure that we can be more present as a cornerstone of all of our access negotiations and advocacy across the humanitarian sector? And fourth and finally, how do we negotiate protection outcomes? Through frontline efforts, through collective humanitarian diplomacy, whether it be with armed groups through member states, security council, we have an opportunity now to look into the existing humanitarian access systems and processes, to further integrate protection lenses into these, to gear our focus of these access discussions on the protection of people and the protection of civilians, humanitarian country teams, donors, embassies, coordination mechanisms, all of us have a leadership role in supporting and complementing such efforts. So on behalf of the Global Protection Cluster, all of our areas of responsibility, all of our constituencies and our members all across the world, I am very, very pleased to invite you to join us this week at the Global Protection Forum. We invite you to see for yourselves the inspiring work that is done by partners. We also invite you and encourage you to contribute your ideas on the way forward for sustained access that protects. Thank you very much and enjoy the week.


Hey Psych2Goers, welcome back to our channel. Before we begin, this is a disclaimer that this video is for informative purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat any condition. Please reach out to a qualified healthcare provider or mental health professional if you're struggling. With that said, let's begin. Are you familiar with obsessive-compulsive disorder? Many who are unfamiliar with the disorder often associate it with purely perfectionism. Some individuals may even think they're so OCD due to perfectionist traits, which can be harmful to those who actually suffer from OCD. OCD and perfectionism are two very different things. The National Institute of Mental Health defines OCD as a common chronic and long-lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable reoccurring thoughts, obsessions, behaviors, and or compulsions that they feel the urge to repeat over and over. While perfectionism is often seen as a personality trait, where one feels the need to be perfect in what they do, often being more detail-oriented and critical of certain projects, tasks, or oneself. Unaware of the differences, many see OCD and perfectionism as one and the same, but they are very different. For one, OCD is a mental disorder while perfectionism is a personality trait. Perfectionism is not considered a disorder. An article in the journal Frontiers of Psychiatry describes a mental disorder as a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbances in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental process underlying mental functioning.   So how exactly are they similar, and how do they differ? The difference lies in the level of rationale one has in regards to the thought or action. A perfectionist may have their own morning ritual or organizational habits, for example. This often does not get in the way of their life. Many perfectionists simply enjoy being thorough and detail-oriented. A perfectionist may enjoy organizing their closet by color, or they may have high standards for cleanliness. On the other hand, people with OCD may have intrusive thoughts that cause them to enact compulsions repetitively. Whereas a perfectionist may wash their hands extra thoroughly, someone with OCD may feel the need to pump the hands up dispenser dozens of times until it feels right. This acts as a compulsion and can be debilitating for those suffering from the mental disorder. In fact, many who suffer from OCD don't relate to compulsions that involve washing their hands or organizing. Many with OCD suffer from intrusive thoughts that are constant, which often lead them to carry out compulsions. Examples of common intrusive thoughts among those suffering from the disorder are thoughts of causing violent harm to loved ones, causing sexual harm to others. The thought that simply thinking about something terrible will make it more likely to happen, or even hyper-awareness of bodily sensations, often called sensory motor obsessions. This is only to name a few. There are several ways OCD can manifest itself. Common types of OCD include checking, contamination, mental contamination, intrusive thoughts, ruminations, and symmetry and orderliness. If you'd like to learn more about the types of OCD and how they manifest, be sure to check out our video on the topic. Do you have constant intrusive thoughts and or obsessions? Do you feel an ongoing urge to enact repetitive compulsions? Are your physical and mental functions being disrupted due to obsessive thoughts and compulsions? If so, we encourage you to reach out to a qualified healthcare provider or mental health professional to get a proper diagnosis. So, do you know the differences between OCD and perfectionism? Are you a perfectionist? Or do you suffer from OCD? Feel free to share your experiences with us in the comments. Or maybe you're just here to learn more about mental health and psychology. Well, welcome. And thanks for learning. Consider yourself a Psych2Goer. If you found this video helpful, don't forget to click the like button and share this video with someone who could benefit from it. Subscribe to Psych2Go and hit the notification bell icon for more content like this. And as always, thanks for watching.


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What's going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here So let me talk about scream 7 in this video here today now We're talking about screen 7 it hasn't even freaking been green lit officially by Anybody associated with paramount at least to my knowledge and we haven't heard anything from deadline We haven't heard anything from bloody disgusting nothing from variety nothing from spy glass nothing from radio silence nothing But now viewer Anon has come out and echoed a little bit What we were hearing was the rumor about scream 7 and that is that they want to have this movie Shooting by the end of the year viewer Anon has chimed in to say that they might as well say this publicly with this kind of info They said they have a source at paramount who tells them that they want scream 7 to be shooting by October at the very latest Now the reason why this is very exciting is because it seems to kind of highlight That while screen 5 may not have been intended to spark a new trilogy the writers involved with it No matter what you think about them negatively They have been cooking up things just in case they needed to be ready for the next sequel They have mapped out something if they're doing these movies this fast I don't think that they're necessarily rushing in the sense of sure when I see the movie like I have with the last Two I could have my gripes with the script and say all you could have done better in certain departments But in terms of what you want to tell as a story I don't think that they're rushing they've had plenty of time to cook up these stories and they're doing that seemingly With no issue because of the fact that one They want to do scream 7 by at least October at the latest according to viewer Anon That's when they want to have this filming anyway And then we know that with scream 6 that was already written prior to screen 5 even being released They literally already had a Blackmore office registered in Montreal prior to 5 even being dropped They were ready to go for 6 because they had all that time in between filming 5 waiting for it to release to prepare and write up 6 and now of course when you have that done you can map out an outline for 7 and as the release of 6 gets closer You can flesh out an entire screenplay for 7 and I think they have done that I genuinely think they have done that and I think that we are going to see Scream 7 filming by the fall at this point when you have not only screen geeks reporting it Which I was a little bit skeptical about you now have viewer Anon chiming in now all we need is somebody From variety deadline bloody disgusting somebody at Paramount spyglass somebody directly involved with the project to tell us flat out That scream 7 will be filming this fall now It doesn't say that it will film this fall It says that this is the latest they wanted to be filming by I think that they could have some complications They end up filming in the winter, but I think one thing is for certain even if it's in the fall winter or even Well, because that's still winter early 2024. Let's say it starts filming early 2024 Scream 7 can still release in October Halloween 2018 did it Halloween ends did it I'm not sure if Halloween kills did it But yeah, the movies that were shot in the same year and released in the same year that can be done Shit saw X is about to do it. Um, I'm really excited about this. These are exciting times to be in as a screen fan I do want to say this though I think that after scream 7 we need to dial it back a little bit Let the franchise go away for a little while let some new trends and tropes come out about the genre Bring it back a few years later focus on Sydney's kids if you still think that's the appropriate direction to take I'm not saying Sydney doesn't need to be in scream 7 Although I don't really see a necessity for her to be in the final film My selfishness would love to see her in the movie. I just don't want to label that as a necessity. However Going into scream 7 I have been thinking about an opening sequence Related to Sydney inviting everybody over for like a dinner or something in this way This is kind of borrowing elements in a way from a scrapped screen for opening I believe because I didn't just think of this out of thin air There's something that I'm trying to recall where this came from I think it was a scrap screen for idea where you have the survivors gathered at let's say a dinner or something Sydney's Sydney can cater hosting ghost face strikes somebody out of the survivors dies You have a survivor killed in the very very beginning of the movie now because of where this happens It's in Sydney's hometown everybody has to stick around and that's how you get all your survivors back You get the core for back you get Sydney can Kate involved Kirby can be there as well and They all have to stick around to try to figure out who ghost faces you can throw in your new characters to Whatever the case may be and I think we still need to have Christina Carpeter in here I know people are like Christina Carpeter seems like they are planting seeds for Christina to be the killer in scream 7 if anything I think they might just be planning to cease for something big to actually play out with her in 7 not necessarily making her the killer because I Just think that Christina in a lot of ways She might be holding on to a very big secret that I don't think could be a complete Complete disaster to do and it again parallel scream 3 But in my opinion in a lot of ways it actually comes off a little better than scream 3 and What I'm thinking about that I believe could be done better than having a long-lost brother is Finally introducing Christina. She's not ghost face because I think that's what people are expecting Don't make her ghost face. I think you can leave that for a newbie character. You can still do this same exploitative motive I'm tired of this.  They hate Galway's yada yada yada You can apply that to a new character But with Christina what I think could happen is you could have her come in and she could reveal That not only was she carrying the daughter of Billy Loomis I've seen the idea tossed around that she was involved in the death of Marine Prescott is maybe like she was the one driving the Getaway car or something. I don't think they need to do that What I think wouldn't be too complicated though is The fact that Christina Carpenter was indeed involved in these sprees in some capacity in the in the sense of one Yes, she did indeed know that Billy killed Marine But she always had a crush on Billy. We knew this. She was in love with the guy And not only that that's not the only thing she knew She knew about him committing the murders in the original screen She knew about what him and stew were doing now in between messing around with Sydney Billy is hopping to Christina Christina telling her hey when I'm done with Sydney we can be together you and me now of course She's in love with the guy. She's eating this up She's going through that phase where she's in the bad boys this that in the third But this this guy is completely just unhinged of course, but she she's just so in love with Billy Loomis She's she's completely deranged just as much as he is in a way and She's blinded by love That's something I think you could do you could literally tell us she already knew what they were doing But she never told anyone now Of course, she literally couldn't tell anyone now because she was pregnant with the dude's kid That would open up a lot of questions She could have possibly had herself implicated in this and had her had her life destroyed As an ex being being mentioned as an accessory because she kind of wasn't it wasn't accomplished You knew what they were doing and you didn't tell anybody I think that her revealing this in scream seven could make for a very big twist without being something That's two hands on like oh, she was in the getaway car this then the third I don't think we need to see anything like that But you guys let me know what you think about this down the comment section below If you haven't already of course, make sure you subscribe turn on post notification I never miss a video in the description. I will have links on my social media accounts I'm on Facebook Twitter and Instagram you can message me there Of course they let me know if there are any movies news or reviews like me to cover in the future and with all that in mind Guys, I will see you in the next video


coupled with the fighting skill of the American soldier stand ready on the alert all over the world to defend this country you the American people against aggression this is the big picture an official television report to the nation from the united states army now to show you part of the big picture here is sergeant steward queen today we are going to observe a course of training which prepares men to take their place in the army and on the field of battle not with guns but with something else with words and thoughts we take you now to a school which trains these men to a small island not far from new york city david's island and fort slocum these men are soldiers in a special sense they are chaplains soldiers of god dedicated to a spiritual mission of answering to the religious and moral needs of men of the united states army wherever they are stationed wherever they may be called these new chaplains clergymen of all faiths have volunteered for military service their parish those to whom they will give spiritual guidance will consist of soldiers their ministry will require knowledge of military life and so before being assigned to a unit of troops they come here directly from civilian life to the chaplain school to learn how the army functions and how they will function with this their first army address they meet and as most soldiers do during the first days of military life become acquainted happened i've just graduated from the seminary and then after we get through the course here i go out to fort blitz as the assistant post chaplain how about yourself while we Catholics have a ruling that a man must have three years experience before joining the army i've been a pastor for the past three years at the same club and so is that so i have a pastor at a small one back in toller texas after i finish school here i'll have my reserve commission and i'll be attached to reserve unit in longview texas just where is long view is in east texas about 20 miles from town a clergyman may be here because he is entering on a career as a chaplain in the regular army or he may have joined a reserve unit in his town or city in either case he attends the chaplain school for his adjustment to military life and so the military life begins and the army way becomes a clergyman's way the adjustment is not a difficult one cleanliness is next to godliness and he readily accepts what is in essential harmony with his religious creed to be a source of spiritual strength to others his own devotional life must not be neglected at the chaplain center he attends morning devotions services are conducted in the memorial chapel by protestant students catholic chaplains celebrate their daily masses services are held at the chapel of the eternal light the chapel of the centurion is available for use by other denominational groups including episcopalian and Lutheran approximately 73 different denominations are represented in the chaplain say and provision is made for each chaplain to worship within the framework of church practice that is familiar to him as class begins the american principle of freedom of religion is truly borne out in practice here at the school where clergymen of all faiths meet side by side in a common belief in their country they come to see more clearly than before the true meaning of american religious freedom although they believe differently they work together in harmony without compromising their religious principles at the chaplain school it is assumed that the student is fully prepared by his church for his religious duties here the effort is concentrated on helping him to supplement his religious training with a knowledge and understanding of his future military pastorate he learns how a military headquarters operates and what his relationship is to that headquarters and other staff officers in it he becomes better acquainted with the numerous ways he can offer assistance to the soldier who comes to him when in difficulty he learns how he may help in the character guidance program he begins to think more precisely about the actualities of aiding and guiding the individual soldier there are many practical matters how to keep a council book the official record of the expenditures of his religious fund and many other details of the chapel and its supervision classes follow one upon another for the incoming chaplain providing him with all kinds of necessary and helpful information for those chaplains who have been in the field the school provides an advanced curriculum these are older men experienced in the problems of the chaplaincy yet eager to extend their knowledge they find in this return to the classroom a rare opportunity to deepen the quality and feeling of their role as spiritual counselor although many of these men have been in the thick of combat they have not forgotten to look lightly upon many matters that come into their province instruction on this pleasant island is sometimes conducted out of doors the basic student is familiarized with the unique conditions under which he may have to perform his service frequently a place of worship will have to be improvised with a few essentials this portable altar equipment is supplied by the army while some chaplains are supplied with needed items of equipment by their own church the chaplain's altar is often the hood of a jeep the tailgate of a truck or in an open field wherever conditions permit and sometimes where they do not wear danger is close by it is during periods of extreme tension that the chaplain must be prepared to make great sacrifices to perform long arduous and sometimes painful duties many chaplains have proven how deeply prepared they were spiritually also physically for the ordeals of battle religious and military subjects alternate throughout the curriculum a course in map reading knowing where his men are knowing where the enemy may be this is just as important for the chaplain as it is for the infantrymen proficiency in reading the compass is eagerly sought for and some of the chaplains attain a skill in leading their men over other than spiritual fields audio visual materials are widely used not only to aid in instruction in the courses of the school but to acquaint students with these devices for their future use in the many situations where they will be performing duties as teachers some equipment helps the chaplain to practice what to preach in order to know what either is however in the final control of our lives we must let faith control knowledge do not supplement faith with knowledge do not ever get beyond the simplicity in faithful living as everyone has opportunity to enjoy it students may work with a tape recorder to listen to just how they sound to others and they may try various types of speeches which they may soon be delivering to troop units we must mingle faith and true knowledge in order to know what either is however in the final control of our lives we must let faith control knowledge do not supplement but the machine is merely a tool nothing takes the place of the relationship of teacher and student when we speak of the spiritual roots of the american way of life do we mean that man is primarily a spiritual being yes chaplain assume when we say that the american way of life is rooted in the spirit we mean that the idea of man implied is that he is first of all created in the image of god as a spirit yes chaplain brown chaplain sullivan just what do we mean when we say that religion is at the basis of american life when we say that religion is at the basis of american life chaplain brown we mean that in the thinking of our forefathers especially the founding fathers that our judaeo christian religious tradition was foremost so to go on gentlemen with our our study of the meaning of democracy as we have in america let us remember the student's intellectual life has a place to grow here in the library which is an important focus of student activity at the chaplain school for research as well as leisure reading and some groups meet here committees investigating some phase of work discussing it thoroughly and coming up with the report for presentation in class the hours of study are long the material for study is truly endless and like all students the chaplains are motivated at least partly by a desire to get the exams like satan behind them working away at a desk is all very well but a chaplain's work is with human beings and so he looks forward to the opportunities of being with others he enjoys active games especially those like volleyball which require cooperation and teamwork soon the chaplain will leave the school to join his unit he will then become part of a great body of alumni scattered throughout the world men who have chosen to give their lives in the service of god and country each man is imbued with a desire to meet the challenge to bring god to men and men to god here in the chaplain's center is the gallery of remembrance a room dedicated to those chaplains who lost their lives in the service of their country the men whose pictures line the walls have brought honor to the chaplain corps to the army and to themselves and their beliefs perhaps one painting here expresses the sacrifice that each has made sir i see you're looking at our hall of remembrance yes sir sir what is the significance of this painting well this painting is a copy of the painting commemorating the sinking of the doorchester in the north atlantic in world war two when four of our chaplains one Catholic priest two positive chaplains and one jewish chaplain gave their life belt to enlisted men on board the ship and of course they went down with the ship it also is a copy of the picture that was used in the making of a commemorative postage stamp honoring the chaplaincy in the armed forces and who are the men in this book sir this book is carries has in it the picture of every chaplain since world war one and world war two and korea who have either been cured in action or have died as a result of the wounds of the enemy these are the men and their pictures also on the wall who have paid the supreme sacrifice for our country as chaplains serving in the ministry to men in the armed forces varied as their beliefs may be these men chaplains in the united states army are joined together in their complete devotion to god and country over 6000 miles away on a small rocky island is another kind of a story here men are already in combat men fighting an invisible enemy disease this is the island of okinawa 12 miles wide 18 miles long while it isn't very big its strategic location only 400 miles from the mainland of communist china has made it one of america's most vital military bases and earned it the nickname keystone of the pacific thousands of soldiers are stationed on okinawa ready to defend this island link in america's outlying perimeter defenses when the army first took over okinawa in 1945 it found a war shattered disease ridden island thousands of soldiers fell ill to malaria typhoid or cholera or one of a host of other tropical diseases it took a long intensive campaign to clean up the island today the combined medical staffs of the army navy and air force are working together to keep american troops here fit and healthy this is the okinawa joint committee on preventive medicine a policymaking group its job is to plan the necessary steps to stop disease before it starts using modern scientific methods they are operating a full-scale preventive medicine program these men know that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure preventing sickness takes a lot of planning military facilities on okinawa are first rate the men eat in cheerful family style mess halls one of the main jobs of the united states army preventive medicine teams is to make sure that all food is free of harmful bacteria to do this inspections must be made regularly of army kitchens daily visits by a preventive medicine officer helps keep kitchen personnel on their toes these inspectors know every step of mess hall operations where a hasty kp may grow careless where hidden food particles may be caught unnoticed and how to correct such oversight a single contaminated tray could give food poisoning to many soldiers all food is carefully examined before it is prepared for serving for in this tropical climate vegetables spoil quickly inspectors must be alert for tiny parasitical worms which are so common in this part of the pacific even the eggs are candle to ensure against blood clots or staleness the preventive medicine program of course includes much more than army mess halls every food handling facility is inspected regularly by army preventive medicine teams at local markets and the slaughterhouses wherever food is handled medical officers make their rounds the system is check and double check no germs will leave the slaughterhouse in this chop meat every side of meat must pass us government specifications and have a stamp of approval because vegetables pick up bacteria from the soil in which they are grown soil samples are taken for laboratory analysis in addition once the vegetables have been picked they undergo a further series of tests each new crop of produce is carefully studied they must be clean and free from chlorine wash insecticides every step of the way from here to the soldier's mess tray is carefully regulated two crops a year are harvested from the army regulated farms providing an abundant supply of fresh fruit and vegetables making sure that these foods are clean and safe is a must a different aspect of the preventive medicine program is the medical assistance given to okinawan natives by uncle san there will be no typhoid marries here today the okinawans enjoy health standards higher than any they have ever known before a small part of america's civil assistance program on okinawa even the island's domestic animals must comply with preventive medicine regulations if proper precautions are not taken a sick dog today may spread disease tomorrow keeping the island's pets in good shape helps protect all of the human population quarantine prevents newly arrived animals from bringing in disease any suspected pet must spend his first few days in here but the greatest single medical problem on okinawa is the mosquito the island abounds an ideal breeding places for mosquitoes known to carry malaria and yellow fever it requires a constant program of scientific warfare to keep the mosquito problem under control at regularly specified intervals preventive medicine teams are sent out to scour the entire island looking for breeding areas collecting water samples and studying the habits of the particular family of mosquitoes native to okinawa although these teams have been fighting this problem for many years they have never been able to eliminate mosquitoes entirely but they have learned how to control them samples taken from suspected areas must be carefully isolated for future study some breeding spots can be detected with the naked eye but as a rule military scientists prefer to put water samples under microscopic examination laboratory facilities are not large but they contain all the necessary equipment to do their job when american forces first landed on okinawa there was not a single unpolluted water supply on the island today men like these have succeeded in decontaminating almost every such source of disease scientific analysis reveals the exact content of every sample preventive medicine specialists then chart where remedial action is needed in their headquarters the army scientists are able to plot out the exact location of every infected area and then plan their attack spraying by air using heavily concentrated liquid insecticides is one method in this way large areas may be decontaminated quickly and efficiently where breeding is concentrated small teams using hand sprayers are usually called into action yes these soldiers can relax and eat in comfort they have no worries about their health keeping food supplies free from disease the natives happy and healthy and even the dogs looked after is part of this scientific war against disease operated under the supervision of the joint committee of preventive medicine even on okinawa the american soldier remains the best cared for fighting man in the world at play or on duty these men are kept physically fit here on okinawa keystone of the pacific american soldiers protect american liberties proud healthy fighting man part of the greatest military team in history the united states army preventive medicine teams like the one you have just seen are teamed with the other medical facilities provided by the army to make the american fighting man the best cared for soldier in military history now this is sergeant steward queen inviting you to be with us again next week for another look at your army in action on the big picture the big picture is a weekly television report to the nation on the activities of the army at home and overseas produced by the army pictorial center presented by the united states army in cooperation with this station you too can be an important part of the big picture you can proudly serve for the best equipped the best trained the best fighting team in the world today the united states army


What's up guys, I don't have a ton of time for this, my camera's about to die and I'm afraid it's about to fall over because I have it purchased precariously on my tripod. Now, the five of you that consistently watch any of the videos that I put out might have been wondering where the hell I was last week. Well, I was in Mississippi with my dad and if you couldn't understand that for whatever reason, I was in Mississippi with my dad. The two of us have never actually gotten really to do anything just the two of us and my dad was going down to Mississippi for a week to the family farm to like clean up the cottage, get some extra stuff that my grandmother had that honestly wasn't needed like extra trash and stuff that she just collected to kind of get that clean out the cabin or cottage that she stayed in at the farm. I get it all set up and I went with him to film stuff. I got some b-roll though I personally don't think it's very good. It's probably scrolling across the screen right now but I didn't film a ton while I was down there mostly because I didn't have a ton I wanted to film. I don't know. I basically treated it live vacation because that's what it was but I did a couple of things while I was down there. I tried to read Call of the Wild and put it down like after a chapter because the book is not my speed. I did not like the writing style of Call of the Wild. I might try and pick it up again at some point. I know it's a classic but it just didn't gel with me so meh. Well, the camera died so hopefully I remember where I was. But while I was down there I also did some other things. Running.  Just toured the farm a little bit with my dad. When I got home I decided to edit the clip of me running with the clip of me riding in the back of a truck to make it look like I was chasing myself. But the thing that I did that I enjoyed most with my dad was shooting guns. I've been shooting guns since I was about 8 years old so I've grown up around and I do find it a lot of fun. I don't think that everyone and their brother should on a gun. Even the people that do own guns I don't think that anyone truly needs let's say a .50 caliber sniper rifle. Now I admit that would be a hell of a lot of fun to shoot but I don't think that everyone and their brother needs it so I'm like, I don't know. I like guns. I like shooting them again. I don't think everyone needs them. I'm not here to get into the political debate about that whole thing. I didn't get a ton of footage of shooting. I've probably done a little bit of b-roll of me shooting the two guns that I actually got myself on video shooting. All of these guns that I'm currently showing you right now, I did shoot all of them while I was down there but the camera battery was about to die after filming the 8 minute clip so I didn't actually use a lot of the footage. But for the most part I'm going to show you the unedited footage of my dad and I shooting the .45 and the .22 rifle right now. But I hope that you guys enjoy it. I'll film you for now. How do I film you? I'll trade you. Is it working? What? Yeah, it's already recording. I'm going to load this thing. Push. Hold on. Oh. Yeah, you push that forward and then you slide this next one in. Put the bullets facing forward. Do I have to prime it again? Yes. And I'll trade you back. Now my dad's going to shoot two leaders of Dr. Pepper. Hey, Brian. Soda. Get mad at me for using it in this video. Now why don't you get kind of behind me where you can see me. I think that was the plan. Oh, I have the other mags in my. Hold up. All right, I'm as far as this thing will go. Huh? I'm zoomed as far as this camera will go. But can you see me in there? No. That's what I'm talking about. Here, now I'm like behind you. Yeah. Yeah. That's always fun. That's fun. What was that? Seeing where the empty went. I don't know where the empty went. Oh, do you want the empty? Yeah, I do want the empty. I like to reload them. I'm looking, Dad. I'm looking. I'm just saying it should go straight out that direction. I can't see it. Anywhere from five to ten feet. Oh, you're definitely not seeing it in this video. Oh, there it is. Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. Yeah, I am. Hold up. Can I do something with the 45? Yeah, 45? I want to do like an FPS camp.  Okay.  Like that. There you go. What am I aiming at? It doesn't really matter. I felt that. Next one in it. I didn't even know, okay, where did they go? I have the other two mags in my pocket. I understand. It brings my heart to why I hate doing it. The most fun part of every gun shoot. Looking for the spent casings. Well, you got to police your brass. What? Got to police your brass. Give me a shot. Your 45? Mm-hmm. Have I ever shot your 45? No, not that I know of. Because I've shot, I think I've shot every 22 pistol you own. Probably. Give me the magazines. I got, no. Put them down. I'm sure you had them with you. Sorry, I put them down. Okay.  No, I'll trade you. Gun them. Trade you. I'm sure you got to do it. Oh.  And it closes the gun. Then it's ready to fire. All right. Push down with your thumb. That's powerful. Yeah. Throw a brass all over me here. Sorry. That's okay. Here you go. Just leave it, just leave it like that. That was a lot of fun. So I thought it would be funny to just unload in the video. That was fun. But these gnats are really irritating.  All right guys, I hope that you enjoyed that video of me and my dad shooting guns.  I enjoyed hanging out with my dad for a week so I don't have a problem with not being on YouTube or making a video for that time. I am sorry, anyone who really, really wanted me to make a video, but I had a lot of fun last week. I hope that you guys enjoyed this video. 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