Good morning, my beautiful friends! I realized I have not told you a very important story. If you follow me on Instagram, you probably know part of it, but I want to tell you the story of my ankle in the days, weeks. I'm not working so great with words today as that past sentence just proved yet again. What I'm attempting to say is I would like to tell you the story of my foot and ankle and the days leading up to my invitation because I thought, you know what? I'm gonna give it a proper goodbye tour. We went driving in the mountains and then I went walking in the dirt and felt leaves on my feet and then came back and a couple of days later it was snowing and I walked outside in the snow and even though all of those things caused me pain, I knew that it was gonna be the last time I felt non-fantum sensation and pain on that part of my body and it only seemed right to try to experience things that I wouldn't experience again. And I sat at my friend's house in a window trying to calm some of my fears before surgery and her cat jumped up and rubbed against me and again. That did not feel great but I got to feel his fur against my skin and part of me feels like it's like way too over dramatic or whatever the word would be like to give your leg a goodbye tour but whatever that's what I did. And then the day before surgery I called my friends over, my good good good friends who most of whom have known me since all of this started basically like back when I was 13 and they wrote goodbye messages on my ankle. Again that did not feel good and I had them you know not right on the part that was super super painful to touch but I felt like it was only right. And also it serves as a great protective measure against the doctor chopping off the wrong foot like I drew you know a dotted line with a scissor on it because I'm you know I have a dark sense of humor like that. My friend Maggie wrote bye little piggies which is just fabulous and my friend Abby wrote a angry poem to it which was awesome. I think Brian just wrote bye and I wrote a breakup letter to it on the top of my foot saying listen had some good times together and I appreciate everything you've done for me but this isn't working out. And then my mom signed it right before we went into surgery I went into surgery and it felt honestly really cool to be like surrounded I felt like so many people oh I'm gonna like get emotional felt like so many people were like going into surgery with me you know damn it I just put makeup on for the day anyway so I was able to take a moment to say goodbye and I know that a lot of people don't get that and I was very grateful for it. I was also really grateful that the permanent marker stayed on Brian and I stayed in the hotel right by the hospital the night before and then we got coffee on the way to the hospital he got coffee I wasn't allowed to drink coffee which is such a bummer and then we showed up to the hospital about 5 a.m. because my surgery was at 7 and got ready and got it done. So the weird thing though is that I have a friend who actually had surgery by the same doctor had amputation with the same doctor I got connected up with her because she's an amputee she's so awesome and so helpful and answers so many questions for me but she did the same thing she did the same thing before surgery and I had no idea and so I here I thought I was being all original and stuff walking into surgery with cool pictures and messages drawn on my leg nope my surgeon had seen it all before she had done it 3 years prior so that is the story of the last few days with my leg and kind of how I said goodbye to it so hey again this is editing Joe as I am going through this footage I uploaded like all of the footage from pre-surgery last night and I didn't take a look at it before I recorded the video that you just watched and as I'm going through like editing it and splicing it together it is really weird to like see it I think the weirdest thing is that I remember all of the sensations like as I'm watching myself walk through the concrete right outside as it was raining outside and I remember what it feels like to like feel that cold as it mixed with how my foot would feel pain because the nerves were so screwed up I remember what it felt like when people wrote with markers on my foot and again because of like how many surgeries I had the nerves in there were so messed up that everything felt different and weird and numb and painful and just like I remember it all very vividly and it's weird and weirdly uncomfortable not bad just like weirdly uncomfortable watching all of this back because it wasn't that long ago that I this was a part of me that like that was that was a part of my body that was attached to me and man it's just it's really fascinating I think I'm kind of realizing how important of a thing it was to do that silly goodbye tour and how grateful I am to have had a chance to say goodbye because it actually is kind of like an emotional thing to go back through this and I didn't really expect it to be like I thought as I was doing it I was like this is dumb whatever it just seems like a good thing to do and I guess I'll film part of it but I'm really glad I did I'm really glad I have this and it's weird this is weird it's weird guys weird to look down and see two feet attached to me side note I trimmed my toenails last night and it's so weird to just have to do five and not ten isn't like the first time in three months that I trim my toenails just to clarify that like I have done it before it just registered like oh this is so weird I'm done like it takes half the amount of time anyways Sadie and I bid you a lovely rest of your day and I'm sending my love and light your way bye guys so if you watched many of my previous videos you know that I like living in a sea of blankets and you'll notice I'm not the only one this puppy right here also is a big advocate for sea of blanket living she is by far the laziest big angry shepherd you've ever met and the sweetest thing ever unless you're anyone aside from me she will try to eat you


in the revolutionary cause of the Vietnamese people. Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom. The great truth underlined by President Ho Chi Minh is still echoing in the consciousness of each Vietnamese. The Vietnamese people continue to reconstruct their country in spite of the enemies embargo. The government and people of Vietnam will never forget the assistance from their fraternal and friendly countries all over the world, including that from the government and people of India. In September 1976, Vietnam officially became a member of the non-aligned movement. The meeting between Prime Minister Pham Vandong and Prime Minister Indira Gangdi once again confirmed the relations of solidarity and loyalty between the two nations, which were established by President Ho Chi Minh and Prime Minister Rao Lan Ne Ru. The Vietnamese and Indian governments signed an agreement on bilateral trading on 26 February 1978 to open the Indo-Vietnam cooperation in the views of economy and commerce in the post-war period in Vietnam. The Vietnamese government utilized the regular credit granted by the government of India for import of locomotives and upgradation of the railway system. The Vietnamese government imported equipment to modernize the Nam Dinh textile factory and established a jute mill named after Indira Gangdi in Ho Chi Minh City. After Vietnam promulgated the law on foreign investment, India is the first country that signed a contract to explore and exploit petroleum in Vietnam. The multifaceted economic relationship between Vietnam and India started to develop in the 90s, especially the establishment of the joint working group has boosted the fruitful cooperation between the two countries. Adam Gangdi also presented the Vietnamese people 500 mura buffaloes and some other species of poultry and assigned some good scientists along with some equipment for research as gifts to assist Vietnam in founding the mura buffalo research institute located in Song Bae province. The Mekong Delta is one of the two downsides providing stable food for Vietnam. However, due to long exploitation, the production of rice in this region became low. To surmount this weakness and to bring into reality the desire of the late Prime Minister Pham Van Dong to implement a rice revolution in the Mekong Delta in the late 70s with the cooperation and assistance from the Indian government and scientists, the Kulong Delta Rice Research Institute was established. India is nowadays on the path of development and has recorded great multifaceted achievements with its economy ranking the fifth largest in the world and the second largest among the developing economies. The fruitful results of the green revolution has considerably increased the food grain production. At present, India is the second largest rice producer and the fifth largest wheat producer in the world. The success in its white revolution has brought about the production of 70 million tons of milk every year, the largest in the world. Nowadays, the industrial city of Bangalore is called Silicon Valley of India. Best centers, institutes, universities in the field of information technology are located there. Especially the Indian Institute of Information Technology has become a location for training students from not only India but also other countries who are taking up courses in different branches of the Faculty of Information Technology. It can be said that it is very rare phenomenon that the heads of state travel visit and meet each other nearly every few years like the leaders of Vietnam and India. After these two countries gained their independence, each of their high ranking visits besides the contributing to enhancement and development of their traditional relationship also intensified their cooperative relations in the field of economy, culture, science and technology, education and training, etc. This remark underlines the steadfast relationship not only between the Indian and Vietnamese peoples today but also expressing the same hope for the next generations.


shooting me with words but I won't let them lose even though it hurts I won't show it to you. It was a guys welcome to our training reviews so you're probably wondering these look exactly like the Apple Airpods but they're not these are the TWS i500 wireless headphones they are replicas for Airpods they are designed specifically that way so I'm just gonna give you a quick overview of the capabilities of this a bit of a comparison with what this can do and what the Airpods can do and then obviously give you a sound quality test to see if these actually are worth buying so let's just get straight into it okay so just starting off you can see the case I've bought this in black this is a glossy black it is plastic and it does have a charging LED lights on the front so compared to the Airpods on the Apple devices you can actually see the charging status light on the front rather than inside when you open the lid so just starting off giving you an overview of how much this costs this is just under $50 and you can buy them from multiple places but you can get this from a company called Mgett I'll leave a link in the description below and where you can buy it and get worldwide shipping on that now this is specifically designed for working well with iPhones and iPads so it is trying to replicate the Airpods for Apple devices but if you're an Android user like myself it works just as well now to pair this you literally just open up the lid you hold the button at the back for about three seconds and it will go into pairing mode and in your device you'll find it it is called Airpods so it does have the same name as the Apple Airpods so you just hit that and it connects straight away and you can also see the battery percentage on your device as well whether it's an Android phone or an iPhone and as you can see with the actual Airpod itself you can see it looks exactly like the Apple ones it does have a nice finish to it it is plastic now it does have sensors inside the Airpods themselves as well so much like the Apple Airpods you can actually take them out and they will pause the music and if you put them back in it will continue to play the music you can actually answer calls and end calls with a double tap as well and if you wanted to skip to the next track then you can triple tap either the left or the right depending if you want to go to the next or the previous track and just as well they connect straight away once you open up the Airpod and you put the Airpods in your ears they are connected to the last known device so whether that's your phone or your tablet they will connect straight away and when you put them back into the case and then close it then it will go into standby mode and it wouldn't use up too much battery now the charging case is 400 mAh which will give you approximately 15 hours of battery charge on this each of the Airpods is 30 mAh and you'll get around three to four hours of music playback time when you're using them individually without the case so the good thing I like about this compared to the Apple Airpods as you can see the charging light on the outside so if it is green which means it's 75 to 100 percent charged if it's an amber light you can see straight away that it is between 25 to 75 percent and then it goes red if it's under 25 percent indicating that it's time to start charging this up so that's very convenient otherwise with the Apple Airpods you have to always open up the case to check what the status is of the lights and it doesn't really tell you any indication of different colors if for any reason you wanted to reset the device and you wanted to clear the pairing information to all of your phones and previous devices then you can hold the button at the back for about 10 seconds and make sure the Airpods are inside and it should just clear out all of the information now let's go ahead and see how this sounds now I've got this connected to my Google Pixel 4 and I'm going to see how the quality is in the base it's not completely active noise cancellation but they do claim that it does have a bit of noise cancellation with the enhanced bass and some of the sound quality that they've put inside of these little Airpods just to see how it looks and it is much like the Apple Airpods is the same design the same length the width the dimensions are the same so as you can see there on the left hand side and on the right hand side they're pretty solid so it doesn't feel like they'll fall out pretty much the same as the Airpods if you were using them then obviously you'll see that this is the same amount of security in your ears as those as well so let me go ahead and play something and I'll give you some feedback now I'm going to put it to max volume that is pretty loud I can imagine if I'm using this inside the gym where it's also quite loud in the environment I would still be able to hear my music over anything else especially if I'm going out into the street and going shopping for example and there's a lot of traffic noise a lot of people noise then this would drain it out I can see the clarity in it actually for the price you pay this is actually quite a strong pair of headphones I can definitely see myself wearing this in the gym I can definitely see myself wearing this on my commute in the morning especially on the trains so this can definitely drown out a lot of background noise it does give you a little bit of ambient noise from the background as well so you're not completely shut off so it's the best of both worlds and for $50 I think that's a big win so for me the sound quality is excellent I would definitely use this I think it's very much similar to the AirPods I think the on the max volume it is quite louder than the AirPods that I currently use for my MacBook so that is a big plus from TWS and I will be taking some pictures and giving some feedback on the audio quality in a week's time to see how I found it on my Instagram page so do check me out on that if there's anything else you'd like to know about these then do drop a comment below otherwise I hope you found that quick review useful of these TWS i500 headphones and I hope you like this video I hope you subscribe now we'll catch you guys at the next one take care


Dude, I would have knocked her f***ing teeth into the back of her throat. I would have f***ed her up in front of everybody. Give me a 10-year-dude, give me a 10-year f***ing prison sentence, man. Give me a 10-year-dude, give me a 10-year f***ing prison sentence. Donovan will attempt to report this video and get it taken down and it's bullsh**t. And guys, and this is funny, when I lost my first of two YouTube channels, guys would tell me, go to Bitshoot, go to here, go to there. So there you have it. That's Donovan Sharp admitting that two prior YouTube channels were deleted by YouTube, terminated, banned, lost. Here is his current channel, over 110,000 subscribers, all these views. This is no less than the third channel he's had. The prior two were terminated by YouTube. This one by him and any YouTube employee can easily review this and find out that it was operated, run by Donovan Sharp. It was all by him, just like his new channel. This one was banned for severe violations with hate speech and this one was banned for severe violations with spam, deceptive practices, misleading content. Surprise, surprise, right guys? So any YouTube employees watching this, put another notch on your belt and knock this channel out. TRT is a game changer, guys. It is the X factor. The benefits are innumerable, more muscle, less fat, stronger sex drive, more energy, more alertness, better focus, the list goes on. Testosterone replacement therapy in one respect is quite literally the fountain of youth. The other half is HGH. It takes a guy in his mid to late 30s and turns him into what he was in his early 20s. So at 37 years old, I started to testosterone replacement therapy, one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life. But starting TRT, the acne came roaring back. Now, TRT is the first reason why I struggle with acne. The second reason why I struggle with acne is genetics. Devin weighs about 145 pounds, probably a little bit more, but she's very dense. She also has a lot of muscle and she's five six, so she's taller than most females. So she carries her weight very well, obviously. Those of you on the TSR primetime side will see how well she carries her weight. But also, listen, she she works out three times a week with a personal trainer and is on HGH. That's how she maintains her body. Dev is actually getting back onto HGH. She is getting back onto, she is getting onto human growth hormone. By the way, by the way, shout out to Phil Foster. Shout out to Phil Foster, man. Phil Foster, that's the guy. So his wife, I think his wife or girlfriend, I can't really tell. I don't know which one it is, but his significant other is on HGH.  And the reason she gained a bunch of weight is because she wouldn't work out. Shortly after that, I decided to hire her a personal trainer and it's been pretty much smooth sailing from there. But she hadn't been on, she hadn't, she hasn't been on anything. Hadn't been on anything, you know? And listen, man, like she's not getting any younger, right? Obviously. And so she's looking for something to, she's got a nice flat stomach. But she's like, she's like, I gotta get rid of this pooch. I gotta get rid of this pooch. Oh my God, I gotta get rid of this. And the reason why she's, the reason why she is hyper-obsessed about her figure is because she's getting older and my value is going up. Like we'll be out and about. And Devon, listen, Devon sees how women respond to me. Women love dangerous men. Men with criminal records get better treatment and hotter women than men without them. That's how it is. That's how it is. And today's f***ed up dating market. Your criminal record actually works in your favor. If you have a criminal record, a violent criminal record, or if you serve time in prison, women are more attracted to you. He is not good at keeping his emotions in check. And listen, listen, I'm not one to talk because I have some of those same issues, so much in fact, that it is, that it has been diagnosed. There is documentation. And that documentation may or may not have been the difference between me being a free man and possibly, and possibly being sentenced to five to seven years in prison. Possibly. There is documentation. And that documentation may or may not have been the difference between. And that documentation may or may not have been. And that documentation may or may not have been. And that documentation may or may not have been the difference between.  And before I even had my tattoos, I said, dude, I sound like a white guy. Before, dude, before I started running a foul of the law, dude, I used to get pulled over all the time, treated unfairly all the time. This is just how it is. If it's real, I know I can somebody up. Why? Because I'm in good shape.  Right? We know that.  If it's real, I know I can somebody up. Why? Because I'm in good shape because I'm in good shape because I'm in good shape. This is one of the things that boils my blood is when people, people all of a sudden get very bold and confrontational when there are other people around. It is very easy to be confrontational with other men when there are other people around. It's another story to confront another man face to face one on one. Hey, you and me, we got a problem. And ain't nobody around watching. Nobody's looking. It's just you and me now.   Like real f**king talk. If you want to have it out now, let's f**king have it out now. I've had many, many conversations with mainly co-workers of mine.   If you want to f**king have this out right now, you're on Tropicana f**king Boulevard, let's f**king do it. But you ain't going to talk to me like that in no way. F**k that. So what's it going to be?  It's up to you. I'll whip your a** down here. I'll whip your a** up there. Your choice. Oh, man, you know, it's just being cool. No, no, no. No, that's not f**king cool. You're not going to f**king talk to me like that again. Are we clear? Yeah, yeah, man. We're cool. I didn't mean any harm. Yeah, that's what I thought.  I think I broke his f**king nose. Just because you're in good shape does not mean I can't f**king curb stomp your a**. Like I'll f**king do it. I'll break your orbital bone and two ribs. And I have done that on the same person in one fight in less than 15 f**king seconds. Motherf**kers are always confrontational.   Now see, I'm not that guy.   I've gotten into fights before like that.  You don't step in and tell another man to stop talking.  I'd f**king dude, I'd break his f**king face right then and there. Tell me to stop talking now, f**king. This f**king went up. Is it now I finish a conversation? Honestly, man, if that had been me, I would have f**ked him up. I'm dead f**king serious. I would have, dude, I would have got up. Oh my God. Yo, as soon as he walks up here, I was like, bro, you need to step off.  Ain't nobody here for that. Ain't nobody here for that.  I would have f**ked his dude. I would have f**ked him up.  I can't stand when n****s do s**t like that. That is some bull s**t. Oh my God, I would have f**ked that dude up, man. Dude, I would have f**ked that dude up so bad. They threw me in jail, man. I, dude, I cannot stand that kind of s**t, man.  That was some bull s**t. If you want to go outside and try and whip my s**t, that's cool. Like I ain't got no problem with that.  But you're going to go down swinging. Is that all this guy to f**k talk?  I would whip his s**t. I would, dude, I would stomp his narrow s**t. Real talk. There ain't nothing too key. Now, if Keith fought me, I'd break his f**king face open. I'm tired of hearing you talk. Now, what you're going to say to me, n****? Like, oh no. See, I couldn't be on a TV show like this, man. I'd get locked the f**k up because I can't stand n****s like this. Dude, Cassie is absolutely hot, dude. I would pound her six ways from Sunday. And yes, David, I said that s**t. What are you going to do about it? Nothing. David, I don't look at the comments, bro. Listen, I don't go back and forth.  Not in that way.  I am not hard to find, my friend. And dude, I am not back in the f**k down.  If you want to go mono or mono, I- Dude, I f**king dare you. Now, here's the thing. David is going to come out with some pithy statement about why he can't or won't. But what it comes down to is that you're f**king afraid. That's what this is, David. And I will never endorse hitting a woman, right? Oh, well, this is sharp stream and I'm not going to endorse it anyway.  I had to gave her a f**king shiner. I had to call my f**king lawyer, Paul Powell. Yeah, Paul, I just gave my f**king- I just broke my f**king girl's orbital bone. Yeah, you're going to need to get on down to the station.  I would have made damn sure that she never talked that way to me again. Whether we're back together or we've broken up, I would have decked the f**king- Dude, I would have broke this f**king face. Real f**king talk. Dude, f**k that.  This is the problem with women.      Real f**king talk.    He's a better man than me. I would have punched the f**k. I would have been like, you what? Dude, me? Dude, I would have caught a charge. I would have hit Kelly with a f**king left, then hit her f**king friend with a right, and then I'd be in the f**king handcuffs. Dude, I would have cracked her right in her cheek.  Dude, I'd have f**ked her up.  This f**k has now called him motherf**ker twice. Oh my god.  Dude, I'd have decked her like Ray Rice did Jenae Rice. Dude, I would have dropped that hoe.  Good f**king god. Oh dude, I would have- Dude, I'm not a violent person, but I would have knocked her teeth out for that. Dude, I would have knocked her f**king teeth out. B**ch, you're gonna humiliate me? Dude, I would have knocked her f**king teeth into the back of her throat. I would have f**ked her up in front of everybody. Give me a 10 year- Dude, give me a 10 year f**king prison sentence, man.  Before I started running afoul of the law, dude, I used to get pulled over all the time, treated unfairly all the time. This is just how it is. There is documentation. And that documentation may or may not have been the difference between me being a free man and possibly being sentenced to five to seven years in prison. Like, oh no, see, I couldn't be on a TV show like this, man. I'd get locked the f**k up because I can't stand the f**ks like this. Dude, I would have f**ked that dude up so bad they'd have threw me in jail, man. I'd have called my f**king lawyer Paul Powell. Yeah, Paul, I just gave my f**king- I just broke my f**king girl's orbital bone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're gonna need to get on down to the station. Dude, me? Dude, I'd have caught a charge. Give me a 10 year- Dude, give me a 10 year f**king prison sentence, man.  Listen, don't get it twisted. 30 months in prison? That's a long f**king time. Guys, I've spent a total of two weeks in jail. F**king hated it. Never been to prison? Definitely been to jail. Prison is- Oh my god, no, uh-uh, no, no, no, no, no. Absolutely, dude, absolutely not. My results speak for themselves. Speak for themselves.


Zoro and Swords, possibly the greatest love story in One Piece, and whilst he has come to the possession of many, it seems he still hasn't met the one made for him. Hello my Nakamotachi, this is Joygirl and today we will be discussing our Straw Hat swordsman in relation to his greatest love interest, Swords. But before we begin, I do want to take a short time to urge you to subscribe to this channel if you haven't already, so that you can join our discussions of One Piece, which happens to be my greatest love interest, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way about the series, right? Anyways, back to today's discussion. Whilst there are other shounen sword fighting series, such as Ruroroni Kenshin, Bleach and Vagabond, amongst others, I have to say that when I think about Swordsman, Zoro is still the first to come to mind. One of the greatest aspects of One Piece is the diversity of unique fighting styles within the series. However, One Piece doesn't fail when it comes to portraying the beauty of swords and swordsmanship. In fact, One Piece contains its own range of exceptionally classified swords, known as the Mato, and let's quickly recap these graded swords in the series before we get to Zoro. The Mato grading system actually heavily resembles the Wazamono, a classification used in real life Japan of exceptional historical blades. The Mato system contains the same four categories used in the Japanese system, which starts from Wazamono, the Great Swords, of which there are an unknown number of swords fitting into this category in One Piece, though in real life there are a total of 80. And whilst these are the lowest of the Mato blades, they are still far superior to normal blades as they possess exceptional resilience and strength. For example, Zoro's Sundai Kitezu is one of the two known Wazamono grade swords, and we have witnessed its formidable first hand. Nevertheless, outclassing this category is the Ryo Wazamono. 50 skillful grade swords of very high quality blades, which yield exceptional strength, durability, and sharpness, as well as a lightweight which allows its wielder faster speed. Of these, we have only seen or heard of three named blades, two of which are now in Tashiki's possession, the Kashu and the Yama Orochi, and the third, Yubashiri, which is no longer in existence. Next, the O Wazamono, known as the Great Grade Swords, are 21 of the highest quality, as the second category in this system of exceptional blades. Out of all the sword grades, we have been introduced to more swords from this category than the others, all of which are currently in Wano, the Nidai Kitezu, Wato Ichimonji, Shizui, Enma, and the Amino Habakiri. The O Wazamono are known for their incredible power and an incredible balance of strength, sharpness, and durability. Indeed, these Great Grade Swords are known to be able to stand up to the superior grade swords when in the hands of a capable swordsman, speaking of which, the highest of the Meito is the Saijo O Wazamono. There are only 12 Supreme Grade Swords, of which we have seen two, the first being Mihok's Yoru, and the other being Whitebeard's Murakumogiri. And we also know of the Shodai Kitezu, the first of the three cursed swords created by the Kitezu Swordsmith. And why is all of this relevant? Because our badass swordsman himself has previously or currently been in possession of five of the Meito. And this could be also illustrative of what swords he may come to wield in the not-so-distant future. Of the Wazamono, Zoro acquired the cursed blade, the Santai Kitezu, in lockdown, overcoming the blade's curse through his own luck and will. At the same time, he came into possession of the Yubashiri, of the Ryo Wazamono class, which has since been laid to rest after being rusted away during the Aeneas Lobby arc. And of the Old Wazamono, Zoro wielded Shizui for quite some time after acquiring it from Ryuma to replace his fallen sword Yubashiri, which he has recently traded in in exchange for Enma of the same class. And also, he possessed another Old Wazamono, the Wado Ichimonji, since the beginning of the series. This sword, which previously belonged to Kuina and her Shimotsuki family, is the only sword which has survived throughout all of Zoro's intense battles, a testament to its durability and strength. Whilst we have seen our swordsmen wield these various swords, we still have yet to witness the glory of Zoro possessing a sword that has been made with his abilities in mind. We could argue that out of all the swords he has owned so far, Enma may be his best fit. As Zoro specializes in Armament Haki, the distinctive trait of Enma in drawing out Ryo from its realder makes Zoro an apt swordsman to handle this legendary sword. However, we could still say that even Enma wasn't made specifically for Zoro. The sword was formerly owned by Odin, who was the only one able to tame Enma. So whether we will experience the delight of Zoro coming into possession of a sword of his own is a question that often comes to mind. And if this was to happen, then I can't check the feeling that there would be no better place for Zoro to acquire his own special sword than in Wanokuni, the home of Samurai and the home of many highly esteemed swordsmiths. Arguably for Zoro to fulfill his dream of becoming the greatest swordsman in the world, it is necessary for him to acquire a sword fitting of this title. Furthermore, it seems even possible that Zoro will have a special sword specifically made for him in Wano, considering the history of esteemed swordsmanship of this country and going further, Zoro's own personal relationships with the Shimotskis. I have already discussed Zoro's relationship to the Shimotsuki family and the possible deeper significance of this in another video, which you are more than welcome to go watch after this discussion if you would like. But for the sake of this video, all you need to know is that Oda revealed in SBS 96 that the town in which Zoro grew up was founded by Shimotsuki Kozaburo, the highly esteemed blacksmith who forged Enma and the Wado Ichimonji. Considering this deeper relationship Zoro has to the history of Wano, it seems possible that this will come into play where we will witness Zoro receiving a sword that has been made for him specifically with his ability in mind. Tenguyama Hitetsu is an exceptional swordsmith who is hailed to be as skillful as Shimotsuki Kozaburo as the one who forged the Ameno Habakiri. Furthermore, Hitetsu once mentioned that he has been awaiting someone for a very long time, perhaps an individual such as Zoro as either possibly the descendant of the Shimotsuki clan or someone just of his caliber when it comes to strength and swordsmanship. Perhaps Zoro is the individual that the swordsmith is waiting for and once Hitetsu realizes that perhaps he will forge a new sword for our straw hat swordsman. On the other hand, when it comes to the Hitetsu School of Swordsmiths, it is known that each new generation of swords are weaker than those of their previous generations, implying that the skills of their ancestors are much greater. Which leads me to think that rather than a new sword being forged for Zoro, we will see Zoro attain a sword of his own. Not because it was specifically created for him, but because through his own strength and will, Zoro has tamed it and made it his own. In fact, I think it's possible that we will see this more than once. Zoro's current swords are the Wado Ichimonji, Sandai Kitetsu, and Enma, none of which come into the highest grade of Meito, the Saijou O was a monoclast. However, it was said that when a blade is turned permanently black, the sword may increase in rank, suggesting that it may move up a grade in the Meito system. For anime-only fans, we will be briefly discussing some manga-only content, so please do skip ahead to the time shown on the screen if you do wish to remain unspoiled. But for everyone else, we have recently seen that Zoro hasn't quite mastered his use of Enma yet. In Chapter 1002, whilst he showcased his incredible might and strength in cleanly slicing off the horn of the Onigashima Skull, this wasn't his original target, and the swordsman missed in damaging Kaido. With the legacy of Enma as one of the only swords to have been able to cut and wound Kaido, we are being set up to witness Zoro use this sword to achieve a similar feat. Perhaps it will be during his battle against Kaido that we will see Zoro tame the unruly sword, in which case, Zoro would come to master Enma and turn it into a permanent black blade, possibly raising its rank to the Saijou O was a monoclast. It's possible that Zoro will also be able to achieve this for the Wado Ichimonji. Whilst it has never been explicitly stated, it seems the Wado Ichimonji is also yet to transition into a black blade. If the Straw Hat Swordsman is able to achieve this, then that will be two of the Shimotsu Kozaburo swords which he has mastered and raised to the Saijou O was a monoclast, which brings us to the third sword for the Santori Swordsman. Whilst Zoro currently holds the Sundai Kitetsu, it's possible that by the end of Wano, he will leave with either of its predecessors. We have seen that the Nidai Kitetsu is present at Wano, currently owned by Hitetsu who forged Zoro's current Sundai Kitetsu. Witnessing Zoro's finesse and strength, and especially if Zoro is the man Hitetsu has been waiting for, the swordsmith may entrust his ancestors superior sword to the swordsman in exchange for the return of his own creation, which the swordsmith seemingly forged as an imitation of the Nidai Kitetsu. Moreover, ever since Zoro laid his eyes on this sword, then in the possession of Luffy, the Straw Hat Swords enthusiast was very keen to get his hands on it. Annoyed at Luffy's incorrect use of the blade, Zoro was frustrated and very eager to take control, which made me think that by the end of the arc, we will indeed see this happen. Or is it even possible that Zoro may come to possess the Shodai Kitetsu? As already one of the 12 Supreme Great Swords, this masterpiece is on par with Dracula Mihawk's Yoru and Whitebeard's Murakumogiri. Considering Zoro will one day have to challenge and defeat Mihawk for his title, it's only fitting that he has a sword of a caliber able to do so. Plus, Zoro being able to tame and overcome the curse of the strongest of the Kitetsu blades will be an awesome moment which would catapult him much closer to the title of the world's greatest swordsman. In saying that, we have little to zero information regarding the Shodai Kitetsu or as to its whereabouts, so it is hard to picture how Zoro will come to own this legendary sword. One possibility is that Hitetsu's famed katana, which he was also unwilling to lend Luffy, is the original Shodai Kitetsu. Although considering that Hitetsu didn't wish to wield the Nidai Kitetsu due to its curse, it seems unlikely he would be currently wielding the more superior Shodai Kitetsu which is likely more dangerous than the second generation blade, but that does bring us to the end of today's video. Please let me know whether you think Zoro will be attaining new swords in Wano and if so, which ones you think he will acquire by leaving a comment below. If you enjoyed today's video, please like and share and please subscribe and join us on our journey of discussing the expansive world of One Piece. This is Droid Girl and I'll see you again soon.


I want to take some time to revisit the races that are taking place in Massachusetts. We have two really important Democratic Party primaries coming up. We have the race between Ed Markey and Joe Kennedy for the U.S. Senate. And then we also have the House race between Richie Neal and Alex Morse. And I think that these gentlemen are running really, really good campaigns. And if they are both successful, then I think they are creating a sort of blueprint that the left should follow going forward to defeat the more entrenched establishment favorite candidate. The first person that I'm going to talk about here is Ed Markey, because he was one of the most outspoken advocates for net neutrality. And he just proposed something that I think is necessary and long overdue and something that I was hoping any politician would adopt. So he tweeted this out. The internet is not a luxury. It is an essential service. I am fighting to guarantee internet for all and to keep students and educators safe. He then released this video. A return to in-person instruction is the ultimate goal. But educators and students' safety isn't an acceptable cost. We need to be smart about how we return to school. We need to base this decision not on a date, but on the data. Even once school is back in session, students will rely on the internet for homework, socialization and exploration, except many students don't have access to the high speed internet that they are going to need. Up to 16 million children in the United States struggle to complete school assignments because they lack home internet access. Let's be clear. The internet is not a luxury. It is an essential service students need for their academic development, social well-being and future success. That's what my E-rate is all about. It's all about guaranteeing that every child, every child gets what they need, that every family gets what they need. So I obviously think this is a phenomenal idea. If we are already agreeing that the internet should be classified as a public utility, then I think that it makes sense to understand it as an essential service. Because if you think through this, that's common sense, right? I mean, if you want to participate in the economy and society, if you want to look for a job, you really need to have a stable internet connection. Like it's part of daily life in 2020. So if it's something that's essential for human beings to thrive in the United States, then I think that it should be something that's guaranteed. Like you shouldn't not have the internet because you don't have the money to afford the internet or you live in a rural area where you can't get good internet. Like I think that this is something that very quickly is becoming essential. So I like that he actually is being really forward thinking here. And he's saying we need to guarantee internet to everyone. I love this idea. Now he's running a really good substantive campaign talking about policy. Like I have my issues with Ed Markey, but what he's doing here is masterful and it's paying off because at the start of this race, when Joe Kennedy announced that he'd be challenging Ed Markey, I mean, it looked like he was going to get defeated by Joe Kennedy, the third. But now look at this poll, a mass end poll found that Markey has a seven to eight point lead over Joe Kennedy, depending on whether or not you include leaners. Now, to overcome what he did in this race, when Joe Kennedy was just automatically presumed to be the favorite because he had more money, he was the establishment's favorite candidate, even if, you know, he wasn't the incumbent.  He ran a phenomenal campaign. And if he does win, then we really have to study what he's doing here because I want the left to be successful. So whenever we see a progressive who ran a campaign that was effective, you know, like Paula, Jean, Swaraj and Corey Bush, we have to really look at what they did specifically and utilize their strategy, their tactics in future progressive campaigns. Like I want us to learn and grow because however many victories we already had in the cycle, I want there to be even more victories. Now, looking at Alex Morris, like it seemed like his campaign was dead because of this fake scandal that was manufactured by the College of Democrats of Massachusetts, but he has completely turned it around. He's had a phenomenal week. He's had a great fundraising week. On top of that, he got endorsed by Carmen Eulen Cruz, who is the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico. He got endorsed by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's Courage to Change PAC, which I mean for her to endorse him over one of her colleagues. Again, that shows you why AOC is such a valuable person to have on our side. And what's a really good sign is the fact that, you know, now that Alex Morris is in striking distance, you know that Richie Neal's internal polling data is matching what we see from other polls because now they're spending a lot like dark money groups are spending a lot of money all of a sudden to try to stop Alex Morris from beating Richie Neal. And what's interesting to me, like what I kind of get the sense of and I'm not sure about this, like it's hard to confirm this, is that the smear attempt actually backfired and ended up hurting Richie Neal because it looks really suspicious, right? Like he knew the student who helped orchestrate the smear on Alex Morris, Timothy Ennis, that guy wanted an internship with Richie Neal. And then we learned that the State Democratic Party, which obviously favors Richie Neal, was, you know, trying to help them follow through with this smear, try to help them cover it up. So it looks really suspicious. It looks like Richie Neal was part of this homophobic smear campaign against Alex Morris. And now it, you know, elevated Alex Morris to a national platform. Like I knew of Alex Morris, but I really started to follow the campaign once this smear came out, because it looked disgusting. Like it made me want to rally behind Alex Morris and supporters campaign. So at this point, like what we're seeing, it just might be too late for Richie Neal to stop Alex Morris's momentum. Like once you get the ball rolling, it's like a snowball effect. That momentum just builds. And he released a closing ad, which was honestly just stunning. My oldest brother, Doug, was born when my mom was just 17 years old. Holyoke was struggling as factories moved overseas. But my family never gave up. My dad worked at Corondo Meatpacking Plant. My mom started to daycare my child at home. I won a scholarship and became the first in my family to earn a college degree. Back in Holyoke, jobs kept leaving and drug overdoses went up. Growing opioid epidemic here in Western Massachusetts. My entire life, the same politicians were in office and life just kept getting harder. So I ran for mayor when I was just 22. We're going to change the way that Holyoke does business. We're going to change Holyoke politics. People told me to wait my turn that we couldn't be an incumbent who had been involved in politics for 30 years. In Western Massachusetts last week, a 22 year old landed his first job and became the youngest openly gay mayor in the country. Together, we brought Holyoke back. When a local coal plant closed, we created jobs with a new solar farm. After drug companies poured dangerously addictive drugs into our town, we sued Big Pharma until they paid for the opioid crisis. But we can't do more without leadership in Congress. Our representative in Congress, Reggie Neal, is Wall Street's favorite Democrat. He's accepted $700,000 from Big Pharma over his career. He killed a lot, stopped surprise medical billing after health insurance lobbyists donated $54,000 to his campaign. And when the economic crisis hit, Neal opposed funding paychecks for working Americans but supported Trump's flush fund for corporations. In Holyoke, we're doing everything we can to save lives and save jobs during this crisis. We deserve a representative who does the same, who goes to Congress to represent us, not Wall Street, not Big Pharma. We deserve a representative who will fight for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal and economic and racial justice. After 32 years, Richard Neal knows how Washington works. But I want to change how Washington works. I'm Alex Morris, and that's why I'm running for Congress. That was great. That was a phenomenal ad. And these ads that we've been seeing from progressives, like the fact that they're all substantive, not only do they talk about the policies that they want, but how their corporate Democrat is being bankrolled by certain industries. This is the blueprint. This is what you have to do to win. And now that we're talking about Massachusetts, I would be remiss to not talk about Issaan Lecky, who is running for Joe Kennedy, the third's old seat. Like, she actually has a lot of momentum. I brought her on the program. I interviewed her and was thoroughly impressed. And she could also end up winning the Democratic Party primary and taking over Joe Kennedy's old seat. So imagine the scenario where Joe Kennedy loses, gives up his seat and then a true progressive takes his seat. Ed Markey holds his seat and then Alex Morris ends up defeating Richie Neal, one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress. That would be incredible. That would be incredible. And we know Democrats are horrified because how many primary campaigns of incumbent Democrats have been successful? We had Marie Newman defeat Dan Lipinski, Jamal Bowman beat Elliot Engel, Corey Bush unseat Lacey Clay. And that's not even naming all of the other progressive victories we've had with Paula Jean Swaraj and when her primary, Cara Eastman, when her primary in Nebraska, Kossum Rashid, Adam Christensen. There's so much victory that it's even difficult to keep track of them, which is a problem that I love having. So if we can add these wins, I mean, we're looking really good. Like we're really able to flex our muscles as a movement. So I'm watching this race very closely and I'm rooting for Isan Lecky, Ed Markey and also Alex Morris. This is shaping up to be a really interesting race. If we win, I'm going to lose it.


Hello, hello, everybody out there. It's time to talk about how we can get stuff in and out of the cell membrane. We've already dealt with the structure of the cell membrane. We've dealt with the cell, stuff we've got inside the cell. Now we've dealt with the cell membrane, which keeps that stuff inside the cell. And now, hopefully at the end of the last lecture, we started thinking, you know, if we're packaging things inside the cell, we probably are going to need to export them, or if you prefer, barf them out of the cell and into the extracellular space. And so how are we going to do that? Well, we're going to start out by looking at the process of diffusion because diffusion fuels an unbelievable amount of transport. And it's based on a few key principles that are pretty important to make sure that we understand. Then we're going to look at the kinds of molecules that can simply diffuse across the cell membrane. Some things can, not very many things, but some things can. And then we're going to look at, okay, if you want something to diffuse across your cell membrane, if we can't go directly through the cell membrane, how can we get it across? And we can actually use proteins to facilitate the diffusion. And that's another whole process that we'll look at. And then, every now and then, you want to pump things basically against their concentration gradient, and that's going to be active transport. We can do that, too. Sometimes things are too huge to go through the cell membrane in the ways that we're talking about, and so we're going to deal with bulk transport, and we're going to end the whole conversation with the idea of osmosis, which might seem to be pretty straightforward, but if you think it's straightforward, it's because you don't understand it. Okay, so let's start with the concept of diffusion. First, diffusion is based on the fact that all molecules have kinetic energy. Remember, they bounce around, all of them. If they stopped moving, it would be because we reached the temperature of absolute zero, which we never have done, and someone hypothesized that if we did reach absolute zero, we'd all turn into a neutron protoplasm, which, of course, I know exactly what that is. Molecules, because of random molecular motion, are totally random. They tend to spread out until there's equal concentration everywhere. It's random. I like to think of, here's a whole bunch of molecules that are on one side of the cell membrane. I like to think of them being like, dude, it's crowded over here.  They slowly start passing through the cell membrane, and eventually, when the concentrations on both sides are about equal, they stop. They're like, oh, it's cool now. That is not so. They are constantly moving. They are constantly moving like, yes, it looks like there is a lot of them over here and not very many over here, so they are going to be moving this direction. Yes, there will be a net movement to spread out, mostly because they're running into each other when they're randomly moving around, and as they run into each other, the act of running into someone is going to push you farther away from them, right? And so that random movement is going to cause them to spread out, but in this state where now it's equal, there is still random movement that brings this guy over and brings this guy back, but the net change is now zero. Now the concentration on both sides is equal, and we've reached what's called equilibrium. Let's write down the concept of equilibrium because it's something that, I think it's one of those things that I am hoping someday when you take chemistry that you'll be like, boom, we got equilibrium down. Equilibrium is this idea that forward motion, and by motion that's totally a windy-ism. I mean the forward direction of the reaction, the forward movement of the molecules like across the cell membrane in one direction, is equal to backward motion. Keep in mind, motion, like what the hell, and backward, all of that is just really, those are words that I'm using to help us visualize this concept. Forward motion, the movement of the molecules in one direction is equal to the movement of the molecules in the other direction. The net change, right, so the net change equals zero. The molecules are equal on both sides. They're moving forward across the membrane at the same rate that they're moving back across the membrane, and so the net change is zero. That's equilibrium. Things can reach equilibrium and not be in equal concentrations. That totally can happen, and this concept is worth spending some time kind of getting your head around. So if we go back to our visual here, you can see that, okay, I want to draw on this, I don't think I can, but this guy might come across, but every time one comes across, another one is going to go back. And it isn't like, I mean, you could randomly end up with five of them across before one of them goes back, but eventually, in the big picture, they're going to even out. There's going to be a net equality of movement. Whoa, did you follow that? Diffusion is actually really slow, and it's all random. Okay, let's look at the kinds of things that can directly diffuse across the cell membrane.


We know that 54 low- and middle-income countries during the pandemic could not invest more in global health in their health projects, I mean facing the pandemic, because they had to pay their debt to creditors. We also know that if all the debt of the most indebted countries had been, you know, released in 2020, 40 billion dollars would have been liberated. They would have been 300 billion dollars if also the debt of 2021, we're talking about the two topical, you know, peak years for the pandemic had been released. So you can see the, you know, enormous gap between the 10 billion of the World Bank, which are not faintly achieved yet, and the money that could be liberated through debt cancellation. Hello and welcome to People's Dispatch. As you know, we are covering the Executive Board meeting of the WHO and bringing you stories, reporting, and a lot of perspectives and telling you what's going on really at the EB in Geneva at the WHO headquarters. Today we have with us Nicoleta Dentico. She is the Global Health Lead of Society for International Development, an Italy-based organization, and she also plays a prominent role in G2H2, which is a shot for Geneva Global Health Hub, which is a network of civil society organizations who follow global health governance closely and talk about it and do the real activism to ensure that there is more democracy within the global health governance arena. So, welcome Nicoleta. Thank you very much. And so today we are going to talk about health emergencies and this is one of the major topics which is being discussed at the EB this time, which will also be discussed in the World Health Assembly and in between there will be some meetings. So as we all know that it has become the issue of the day to talk about primarily because of the COVID-19 and the pandemic and what we saw as people of the world, the way things unfolded. So it is recently on 31st of January that marked three years of COVID-19 we declared as a public health emergency of international concern. So, but what we need to see is that are we really responding to the future crisis and the current crisis with those learnings or are we really working as business as usual. So coming to what is happening exactly at the EB, so the Director-General has produced the report which is for Global Architecture of Health Emergencies which will fall under the larger umbrella of Pandemic Treaty, which is being discussed at the WHO. There are 10 proposals that the DG Tedros makes in that. So what would you say what are those proposals and what are the kind of contradictions that the proposals within themselves have? Of course the WHO emergency agenda which has developed over the last two years and which has had a huge boost after the Ebola crisis because we shouldn't forget that this has been a turning point for the emergency, for the emergency agenda of the WHO and also for the restructuring of the WHO and its sense of purpose. So to speak is as we speak the topic of the discussion at the EB as you said is the main chapter of this complex agenda in the 75th year of the of the World Health Organization itself. So there are lots of lots of interesting coincidences as well as the one you mentioned that this is the third year of the declaration of the public health emergency of international concern. A lot of documents, maybe we should also look at the two lines of emergencies. One is the pandemic, post-pandemic kind of structuring of the WHO with all these 10 points and this proposal, 10 proposals that we will look at in in a minute. The other one is the emergencies that the WHO increasingly has to face in an increasingly turbulent world. We should also a little bit separate the kind of a humanitarian emergencies, you know Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, of course Ukraine and Ethiopia, you name it, the many emergencies that are coming to the fore and that have not been solved from the past and then you have of course the flow of document production, debates that derives from COVID-19. This is the bulky thing. Has WHO, has the international community learned from COVID-19? I have my serious doubts because first of all we should not remember that we should never forget that in fact the WHO has an international community having trusted the two entities of private jurisdiction, foundations, basically the management of COVID-19 and this has consequences in the way in which solutions are now being designed even through the pandemic treaty because we have to recall the fact that the pandemic treaty is something that for example the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation cherishes very much even the IFPMA, the International Association of Pharmaceutical Producers, they see it as an opportunity to set the rules for the future and there is a big risk that the rules of the future will be tailored according to this multi-stakeholder model meaning that all of society, all of government with various actors no matter where their vested interests are in a totally deregulated scenario. So this is for me from a governance perspective the really least promising arena for the future. The 10 proposals, the 10 proposals are very complex of course setting a pandemic scenario for the future is a complex exercise. What I think is really worrying if words count is that the notion of prevention is literally disappeared from the acronym of the health emergency preparedness and response. Her prevention is no longer there which should be the first lesson of COVID-19 and also that there are many ambiguities and many proposals made with no specification of how they will be implemented such as for example the health council with heads of states to be placed, we don't know where, how many heads of states. The other contradiction we I think is very glaring is how you think of preparing the preparedness and response financially to the pandemic of the future through a World Bank pandemic fund which basically replicates the weaknesses, the frailties and the inconsistencies of donor driven financing which has never really worked well for a single individual infectious disease. Can you imagine for a systemic exercise of even response and preparedness to the future pandemic? So there are many elements that need to be discussed that will have to be you know questioned and investigated further. Great, so I think what you are talking about is also the structural changes which are required and health systems is strengthening also required which we are seeing that many developing countries are talking about even when the rich countries are not really emphasizing much on that but taking off from here you recently worked on a report for G2H2 which talks about debt and the health crisis and health emergencies that how the debt that the developing countries are in has impacted and will continue to impact everything health, wheat emergencies or otherwise. Can you just talk to us and tell us a little more about your findings and the drain of wealth from one side to the other? Of course we don't yet know what the pandemic accord will be, what it will be containing, how it will be framed even if it is going to be a framework convention, a treaty we don't know. So it's a bit anticipatory to now enter into these projections but what certainly will be a pillar of any agreement, binding agreements that the WHO and the international community will strike is the financial part of it. Who is going to finance, who is going to support this enormous engagement commitment for pandemic prevention preparedness and response and even if they take the word prevention away it'll be a major commitment anyway. Well it cannot really be a pandemic fund, it cannot really be something that at the moment imagines a commitment of 10 billion per year and it has only a few hundreds of million actually in the pot at the moment with 1.4 billion pledged and not seen yet. So you know 10 billion per year according to this donor driven logic and this idea which is very colonial to have the countries from the south asking for money from the countries of the north is not going to make any difference in our view. You cannot really treat such an exercise in the ordinary fashion. When you talk about health systems there is a lot of discussions about national public funding for health. How can these countries especially from the global south but even more from the global north too how can countries take the money that is required by the WHO to invest in public health and what should they do with that money? So these are two hordes of the question. We know that 54 low and middle income countries during the pandemic could not invest more in global health in their health projects I mean facing the pandemic because they had to pay their debt to creditors. We also know that if all the debt had been of the most indebted countries had been you know released in 2020 40 billion dollars would have been liberated. They would have been 300 billion dollars if also the debt of 2021 we're talking about the two topical you know peak years for the pandemic had been released. So you can see the you know enormous gap between the 10 billion of the World Bank which are not faintly achieved yet and the money that could be liberated through debt cancellation. Our point in this research and in this report is that actually debt cancellation is a global health issue that you cannot rely on you know postponement of the debt service as the G20 has proposed because these are measures that don't work. Three countries only applied two of which were refused. So it doesn't work COVID is actually urging us to look out for not new solutions. 20 years ago there was a huge campaign on that relief on debt cancellation actually and I think we need to resume that because the situation is getting worse by the day. It is not me saying that we are you know at the eve of a debt crisis of a huge it's a huge time bomb it's a World Bank saying this and even we found during our research that a London School of Economics paper was proposing debt cancellation for households in the UK. So now the situation is really global. The same goes with illicit financial flows you know countries from the south send a lot of money to the north in this uncontrolled unregulated modalities. We needed to change this narrative. We really would like to see governments from the global south take this window of opportunity of this pandemic treaty conversation to really start asking for new rules. In other words now I think it's a golden moment to really decide for the global south countries whether they want to stay being donor dependent or if they want to develop a different track and they should do so because Africa the Africa group at the UN has managed to pass a resolution on a major tax reforms to be discussed at the global level. This is time for new rules. This is time for a new financial justice and we really needed to bring it here and stop all this you know mantra about innovative financing mechanisms a fiscal space and all these all kind of mantric locutions that really don't bring any more funding to the south. I think you also indicated some point that the way money is flowing from the south global south to the global north actually and and how that also impacts and it is not that the global south does not have the money. This is actually related to that we should actually disrupt two narratives that are really interiorized by everyone countries in the north and in the south. The first narrative to be broken debunked and deconstructed and completely dismantled is that it is the global north that gives the money to the global south. This is not true in fact we know that through that through that payment through you know unpaid taxes of multinational corporations in the global south through illicit flows through tax evasions and tax dodging cities actually the global south that is sending the money to the global north. This is the first you know I'm saying it in this way which is a bit sweeping but I can you know we have numbers and figures the report does bring numbers to demonstrate that the Marshall plan goes from the south to the north. The second narrative that we need to break is that the countries in the global south are indebted. Well this is a really odious debt that was created in the past it's actually a very colonial financial trap and if they were indebted countries from the global south have certainly paid that debt in so many ways in so many fashions but the reality today let's face it is that who is really indebted whose debt are we talking about once again if you look at the climate catastrophe the north is the northern countries the industrialized countries the global the north global hemisphere is the one that is indebted towards the global south. Global south countries are paying the price of climate disasters that they have not provoked so I think we really need to you know get rid of all these major narratives and really think with a reality-based approach on how we want to discuss this pandemic treaty negotiations here in Geneva how we which kind of lenses do we want do we want to have to look at reality in this respect the fact that we are only looking at medicines and access to medicine for me is a bit of a missed opportunity we should really widen the glance and look of course at access and look of course at equity but develop a broader perspective that embraces the environmental aspect of the pandemic treaty that is not there yet and the financial measures that we need the two we need to introduce in a in the pandemic treaty negotiation for the future that actually have to put financial justice right at the core of the pandemic treaty negotiation. Yeah thank you so much I think this was really good and one could understand where are is WHO at the moment going wrong and how can we expand the entire perspective and bring more in and and and at one level the whole discussion about finances is important because beat health emergencies beat other agenda items that WHO is discussing there we are facing the problem of money because the governments are not spending on health or they cannot we are facing that WHO itself is facing a different kind of a crisis so probably financial justice is something which is at the root of it all. I really think it is and of course it is also fiscal policies it is also de austerity measures that are being implemented now I mean this is yet another way to leverage privatization of health marketization of health you know the the role of the private sector so there is a very important rather wide spectrum of ways of looking at a financial agenda but what I want to say if you allow me is that after three years of this pandemic three years after the declaration of the pandemic emergency of international concerns now we see health systems even the ones that exist in the north like here in Switzerland or in Belgium or in Italy in France they are devastated after three years of the pandemic all health systems the strongest and the weakest they are coming out of these three years in a they really in a collapsed state from a structural point of view because of the burden of diseases that have not been treated and really have been neglected for three years and also because the huge price that the health workforce has paid for facing and you know the facing the contagion of COVID-19 who are now working in really desperate conditions underpaid insufficient numbers and underemployment in the health structures and those that are employed are also facing an important mental health issue because they have been stressed and have been under you know under stress for three years no stop so the conditions today are not the cozy conditions that we which were not cozy of 2019 they are really desperate conditions the WHO has counted 84 countries in which strikes and you know legal appeals have taken place in the last two years because of the injustices applied through the management of the COVID pandemic on the health workforce you have strikes everywhere in great Britain in France you have in Kenya 10 days you have reported yeah you have so yeah we cannot negotiate a pandemic treaty without looking at this complex reality for which money is not the only solution but certainly investing more in health dedicating more you know commitment to health there would be such a beneficial vision to look at how to reconstruct society after three years absolutely and we also have reported before where in Italy because of austerity measures since 2008 the number of beds to treat pulmonary diseases which is lungs related diseases they had gone down majorly in the in public health sector and when COVID hit that really came to hit the common people really badly and that is when Italy also had a lot of Cuban doctors helping so all of that has happened so of course there is a lot of learning the only unfortunate part is that the the international actors the leaders at the international level are not really behaving as if they have learnt anything and as Nikoleta had pointed out once before to me that the agenda of this year's EB and probably what will guide the WHO in May that looks like a pre-pandemic agenda it does not look like as if we have gone through so much in the last three years in terms of inequity and the number of sheer devastation and death that people have faced but hopefully the discussions will become better sometime and the civil society and activists will keep pushing for more pro-people policies and thank you so much Nikoleta thank you for joining us and yeah we will keep coming back to you for more interviews and insights thank you thank you so much thank you


Hey, what's up everyone? Today we're going to talk about Google Lighthouse. What it is, how to use it in order to improve your website's performance. Also, to go over why anybody out there who is building a website today should know how to use this tool in order to improve their client's websites. First off, my name is Jeffrey. I'm the founder of Lightbox Digital. We're a custom web design and development company and we love building websites. All right, so let's get started, Google Lighthouse. It's a free tool by Google and it's super easy to use. Now you got two different methods on how you could use this. You could either install the extension directly into your Chrome browser or you could use Inspect Element. Let's start off with the easiest of the two, adding the extension to your Google Chrome browser. I will leave a link to this inside the video description and you're gonna find it in the Chrome web store. Now this is like super easy and straightforward. You just go to the extension, you click on add to Chrome, then add to extension and there you go. You'll see it right here on the top right hand corner, the little red Lighthouse icon. So let's go ahead and use this now. We're going to practice this and try it on one of our client's websites that we are currently working on optimizing.  Now first you wanna check out your settings right here and you have a few selections for your categories. You have your performance, accessibility, best practices, SEO and progressive web app. We're gonna click off the progressive web app since we're not testing it but basically you just click on what you wanna test. Next, select if you wanna test mobile or desktop. For this one we're gonna test the desktop first, then we're gonna jump over to mobile. So now that we have our setting set, just go ahead and click on generate report. It'll open up a new window and give it about a minute or two. While this is testing, let's go ahead and show how to find this and to use it inside InspectElement. Now if you don't like using Google Chrome extensions and if you are a developer that's more comfortable using InspectElement, this method might be better for you. So first go to InspectElement, right click, go ahead and go down to Inspect and then inside the top tabs you're gonna go over to audits and right here you will see the settings and the selections. Once you have your settings selected just go ahead and click on generate report and it's gonna do the same exact thing that the extension is going to do. So let's stick with the extension and go ahead and check out a report. So here's our report. It gives us our score for our performance, accessibility, best practices and SEO. And as you can see, there's a lot of work to do right here. It's not terrible, but we got optimizing to do. And what I love most about this is it breaks down everything and lets you know exactly what you need to do to get it to a 100 score. We'll go ahead and look at performance for example and everything has a dropdown to it that gives you more information. Now in order to fix these, that's gonna take a lot more work on your part. We'll go more into those later on in another video but for right now, this is just to get you started and to show you and just inform you that there is a free tool out there like this that is available for everyone and this will help you improve your website's performance. That's it for this video. I hope this is helpful. We're a new channel so we could use all the support to get started, all that good YouTube stuff, you know, subscribe, like, comment. It's much appreciated. That's all, thank you.