Hi everyone, my name is Brenda and I'm going to be performing What's Up by the Four Non-Blondes. What's Up is a song of resistance against conformity and silence. um ethical norms and standards are dissolving more each day and uh we're urged to ask the question what's going on and fight for a change.So if you know this one please sing along with me. 25 years in my life and still trying to get up this great big hill of hope for a destination. I realized quickly when I knew I should that this world was made u ...

Has anyone heard of the children's book by Charlie Mackazi. It's called The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and the Horse. >> Yes.Or perhaps some of you may be a peaceuilder and you felt lost. Has anyone felt lost. then this story might just resonate with you.In the novel, we begin with a boy and a mole. And the boy, he's found himself lost in a land. When he meets the mole, the mole, he says to him, "I'm so small. Hello." But the boy turns to him and he says, "Yes, but you make a huge difference." So the boy, he p ...

In 2009 at the Sasquatch Music Festival in Washington State, a man named Colin Winter stood up on a grassy hillside. Everybody around him was seated quietly enjoying the music. He started to dance making a complete fool of himself.People were giggling, looking over their shoulder until someone else joined him. And then the third person joined and a fourth. Within a few minutes, almost everyone was on their feet dancing in complete joy.By that point, it was the people that were still sitting that looked out ...

Two years ago, I took an 18-hour flight from Brazil all the way to Azerbaian to attend the 29th UN Conference on Climate Change, or COP 29 as it's better known. That year, that hot topic was climate finance. The parties had the mission to update the owed 100 billion target for supporting developing countries in their climate actions.According to calculations done by UN trade and development, the number couldn't be any less than $1 trillion. The countless stories of mourning and displacement that echoed in t ...

Another round of communication this got confirmed and we all applauded. But did you pay attention to your breaths while this was going on. I don't know.But you know, for me, it kind of eases the breath. It it makes for more relaxed breathing, especially the notes which don't make a sound, the spaces in between the music. But what is this uh string of life. This spring of life is uh something very simple.When we all were in our mother's womb, we were connected to her body through one string. The moment we ca ...

Thank you, Mr. . Chairma So the Fed h been plagued by deeply disturbing ethics scandals in recent years involving at least six Fed officials. So it's critical that the next chair have no financial conflicts, none.You have more than $100 million in investments that you have refused to disclose to ethics officials and to the public. So let me ask, do the juggernaut fund or the T .H .S .D .F .S. L .L L .L .C.in any companies affiliated with President Trump or his family, companies that have facilitated money l ...

In between these bookend experiences. I served quite a while ago as a governor at the Federal Reserve. At the at the birth at the onset of the financial crisis, as Senator Warren said, our central bank played an indispensable role and we benefited enormously from the credibility that our predecessors had built up and passed down to us governors of the Fed at the time in these unusual and exigent circumstances, I saw the Fed and its people at their very best.But I also witnessed an institution that was tempt ...

In big disputes, there's an old saying that lawyers are the only winners. That's because regardless of the outcome, they will almost always get paid. However, you don't often get much insight into exactly how big a law firm's payday is.So, when a judgment published in London this month laid bare the fees for US law firm Wil as part of a cost dispute, it made for interesting reading. Brazilian billionaire Alberto Saffra is challenging Will Mahel over $35 million worth of legal fees. The firm build him for ne ...

Sometimes life gives you sentence that has a profound impact and will change your life forever. And it happens when I went in Cameroon with my friends in 1999 and I had to take the antimilaria prophylaxarium and we went in there with the sesnas in very small planes in the middle of the jungle without any problem I was sitting in the back of the plane and when I came back because of the loam I even didn't dare to go into a Boeing 747. 7 anymore.And I thought when I was walking on the street, I would die on t ...

What is the last day you remember being a child. Not just young, not just small, but wildly and unapologetically free. Melted popsicle all over your mouth, reaching all the way up to your nose.Dirty knees from playing in the backyard, chasing and probably tormenting some poor creature that you just couldn't love enough. the absolute certainty that you were a wizard or a rock star or even a dinosaur. Take a moment, think about that.Lying in the grass, looking up at a cloudless summer sky, blowing the fluff f ...