Julia, to get us started, talk about how a child gets started in life. The importance of good health, nutrition, a good start to life, and what is the basis in the foundation? What are the principles that have to be in place for a young person to have the best chance getting started? A child would be born to a well-nourished mother. I would actually amend that and say a well-nourished and well-educated mother having received adequate prenatal care and having a supportive partner who, ideally, would also be educated and well-nourished. Thereafter, the child would be exposed to education, preschool education, that focus especially on creativity and learning a lot of the soft skills that would make them relevant adults. Negotiation, interpersonal conflict management, sharing. It's very important that preschool education be supervised to provide these skills adequately for preschoolers. What tends to happen in some of the countries that I've worked in, in Africa, is that the government has said we need preschool education, but has not contributed, not even official guidance as to how those should be set up, and so people establish warehouses for preschool children, for want of a better term, where they're not being taught the prerequisite skills that are so important in this very, very vulnerable period. Over the past several decades, our educational services and our health services in much of Africa have attenuated because there's been a huge emphasis on hard infrastructure. If we were to look at human beings as soft infrastructure, the hard infrastructure, I will give you an example, would be what pertains in Ghana, where we have big hospitals, many clinics built by various foreign companies and agencies for the good of the Ghana people. But we don't have the human capacity to fill them with medical stuff, so they sit idle, unused, whilst there are people living in the communities around them without access, adequate access to good, basic health care, unless they can afford to go into the private arena. And the same thing pertains in the educational sphere. If you have the money, you can afford to go to some of the private educational institutions that are now being built by private entrepreneurs. But the majority of the country, the majority of the nationals, have to attend a very poorly resourced public institution, where of course, they get churned out, undereducated for the jobs that need to be filled once they come out. And so it was alluded to earlier, we have huge numbers of young populations in Africa, 65% of our population is under 25 years of age. We have huge numbers of young, undereducated persons that result from these poor investments, if you will, in health and education. And Julia, a lot of times there's even greater emphasis on education of girls. And early childhood education and primary education. Why is that? What's the greater leverage of investing in young girls? This is because within Africa we have very strong cultural traditions that disempower girls, particularly as they transition from 13 to 15 years of age, where they are considered now reproductive beings rather than girls or young girls capable of going to school and learning. And certainly the empowerment of young girls through education has enormous dividends. Somebody alluded to how high the fertility rate was as per Emmanuel Macron. But this is only in certain parts of the continent. Where you have high levels of young girls being educated, especially at the younger levels, you will find that the fertility rates have actually gone down and that they're delivering on average around 2.4 children per person, not eight and nine, as you will find in the areas where they're under or non-educated.


So I'm here to talk about the internet browsers and before we get started. We've got a bit of interactive stuff That's gonna happen. So I want you to get out your phones or laptops and visit this URL Which is bit.ly slash FSF BCN So and a bit of warning there's like so this obviously relies on like conference Wi-Fi Which is a really bad thing to rely on But so if you could maybe try not download videos or upload stuff too much That would be really cool because it's better if it works So what you should see when you visit that URL is a big green circle and above that you should see a four-digit hex decimal code and The most important thing is I want you to remember that four-digit hex decimal code It's gonna disappear in a few minutes so if you could Yeah, write it down tell your neighbor tweet it to yourself or whatever you want So that's yeah, remember that number and everyone's got a different number Right so So yeah, I'm Ben I've come over from the UK where I work in a company called white October in Oxford So we build stuff for the web and I head up the front-end engineering team there Which is a lot of fun Another thing I do in Oxford is I help run JS Oxford So we're kind of relatively small meet-up group and we have Yeah meetings every couple of months and stuff Actually by chance like the entire organization crew which is three of us are in here today. So yeah Hi guys One of the other things that we've done through the summer is this project called summer of hacks, which is basically very Practical hack days where we can kind of get together and just build stuff Which has been a lot of fun and we're trying to think of expanding this next year So if anyone wants to get involved with that give one of us a shout So that's that's me and I'm here to give this talk about internet browsers So this talk is a play on the term Internet of Things Which I would define as lots of devices that are connected together They're able to take input from their environment and Also made also able to make changes to their environment and they're connected together by the internet And I really love the Internet of Things I think I love it for a couple of reasons Firstly, we're seeing all these like really interesting new types of devices that are coming out like network connected bike locks or Fire alarms and just really interesting ways of interacting with technology and the second reason I like it is that I Think it's really changed the way that as a developer how we view problems and solutions and rather than having to be locked into a particular way of developing software we're kind of inventing new ways to kind of interact with technology and I think the key part of this is this word thing. So I'm going to read out this definition thing An object that one need not cannot or does not wish to give a specific name to Look at that metal rail thing over there And I like this I like the vagueness of this this definition. It's really kind of just whatever You don't actually have to kind of care about what it is and I think by thinking about things it kind of liberates us to Just not really bother too much about the implementation details so I'm here to talk about browsers and browsers Browsers are quite different from a thing. Okay, like we Know what to feed in and what we expect to get out the other side. We kind of know how it works and also The websites that we build are very much informed by the websites that we built in the past or the websites that we've browsed and so We're without realizing we're quite tied into a particular idea of how the web should be and Yeah, it doesn't have this vague notion of opportunities to have So what we're going to do is we're going to look at Our devices in this room as things and I need to refresh this because it's broken a little bit cool So every circle on this graph represents one of our devices that's connected to that URL that you first visited and So your screens that number should have disappeared and it will have turned great gray if it's not you might want to refresh Because you can do that because of the web So What we're going to do is we're going to look at each of these browsers and their capabilities and the kind of things that we can read from them So first up we've got meta information information about the device itself What data we can read about that so first up we've got battery so you can access The battery API and this allows you to kind of see the current level of the battery so you can see some here aren't as charged as the others and The pink ones are the ones that are currently charging as well So you can detect that through the battery API and see detect when that changes and the gray ones here don't Don't have access to the battery API so we can't pull out that data Every one of our devices supports geolocation through the web API So you can kind of pull out your latitude longitude the precision of that you can also Do it in a way that you get Updates periodically as you're moving around so we can find out where our devices within the world which is huge right Our devices have a location, but they also have a position and we can read the orientation of our devices Like which way it's actually facing in its environment And we can kind of gather that together. It doesn't always work for laptops So, you know Yes, we can find out what orientation of the device has to like the center of the world. We're just gonna handy Proximity so a few devices support proximity API and this allows you to see How far away an object is from that device? So the standard use cases when you're holding your phone to your to your face to answer a call You can detect that through the proximity API But as far as things go it's quite cool to be able to see That another thing is close by your thing in your hand It's gonna handy. So that's data about the particular device itself but we can also pull in data from our environments and read stuff so Video and audio so using get using media we can access Webcam and microphone streams so we can pull out all this data from our environment and Yeah, do whatever you want with that You've got fairly good support here The ambient light API allows you to see The the lighting in the room in lumens So you rather than having to access it through a webcam and try and work out from that You can actually access the raw lumen value from the light in the room so you can attach your interface appropriately and touch like so our devices can see if We're touching them with with our fingers so we can kind of see We can do a lot with that right like that's a really kind of powerful thing to be able to do and This obviously drives the way that we interact with the web So that's the way that we can gather the ways as we can gather input into our devices Using the web platform We could also make changes to our environment with a number of different APIs so Some of our devices support the vibrate API so we can actually physically move our devices So if it sports your phone will buzz every couple of seconds And that's really powerful that like through calling a JavaScript method we can make something move We have access to the pixels on each phone so we can change the color of objects in a room Which is super powerful when you think about it like changing the color of things And obviously you can do this to a lot finer green control Another thing we have is audio So using the web audio API we can synthesize sounds So if you get turn up your volumes you can hear all these different tones Are being generated on your device itself and so it's kind of random tones between two different frequencies So we're able to kind of make sound waves from our devices and we'll actually kind of go into this in a little bit more detail in a bit That's gonna happen a lot cool So the other thing this we have with our devices is that they're connected to other things So we can connect our devices through web APIs to anything that is exposing that So for instance Sky is clear 25 point six eight degrees centigrade. This is the weather in Tokyo. So we're able to access this through just a fetch command and We can talk to another device that knows what weather it is in Tokyo And we can do this with the same ease that we might access a local property of the orientation of our devices This is really powerful Okay, so Why should we bother thinking about things on this level like input output and general devices I Think it's quite easy as a developer to get caught up in the implementation So to think that writing code is my job when actually my job Is about facilitating a user to achieve a task and I think it's quite easy to kind of get caught up in choosing the right framework or writing things with writing indentation and I Think it's it's hard sometimes to kind of keep focus on that That end goal of our craft So at white October we do we have multi-disciplinary teams and this kind of helps us get around this by working really closely with UX design and development together and so by kind of keeping like by Using user stories and wireframes it allows us to kind of align what we're trying to achieve Which is something for the user to interact with and I think we can take this even further by just Imagining a user trying to do a thing and seeing how the object they have in their hand fits into that so Maybe it's not about them Pressing a call to action or maybe it's not about them filling out a form. Maybe they They want maybe it's easier for them to like make a phone call or Move this wave this phone around I think it's really It can be powerful to to think of what we create on this kind of term to and how our solutions can fit around that and What I think it should something what I would like to think it boils down to is that people use things to do stuff and Working with this kind of like vagueness. I think that allows us to And create the best solution for solving someone's problem. Cool. And so what we've done is we've Looked at our devices as not just being browsers But being things and the things that we can kind of pull out from that But it's something quite interesting about all of our devices that can visit that URL And that's that we all they all share the same environment this space So we're gonna do is we're gonna play around with that a little bit And the way we're gonna do that is I want you to get your phones or laptops and you should see these three buttons a B&C And what we're gonna do is we're gonna do a really Very rudimentary positioning system Which will work By pressing these three buttons at very precise moments Cool If you've pressed any of them by accident press the X to reset it and then we'll get started Okay, so the a button What you're gonna do is I'm gonna in a few seconds move my arm slowly across the room And when it passes you I want you to press the a button. So at that instant And that's gonna give us obviously the angle through the room So is everyone ready does that make sense? cool Right here it comes right Okay, and we're gonna use the B button to work out our distance up through the room and The way they're gonna do this is like with this line along the top so there's gonna be a circle that travels along that line and When it passes where you are I want you to press the B button So there's gonna be some points. So this point here is the front row down here This point here is the back of the downstairs area this point here is the start of the upstairs area and This point here is right up at the back So this pink circle is gonna travel along really slowly along and I want you to press the B button when it passes you is that clear It's gonna be about seven seconds. So very precise Go ready So up at the back now Cool, right. So we've got those two kind of data points and we need to Have a third point that allows us to work out where they are how they relate to each other So what we're gonna do is we're gonna press the C button at exactly the same time So everyone's gonna press it and once you've done that Our devices should know where they are roughly in the room. So I'm gonna count us down and What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna count down Three two one and then say go and I want you to press it on the go not the one Right, okay, so get ready five four three two one go Right now, I want you to turn your phones to get in the center of the room on your laptops So everyone can see the screens So whatever you've kind of got on the URL and hold it up high and it should have gone white Yeah, perfect, and yeah point it towards the center so that everyone can see and we should see first using the Angle through the room it will kind of use a hue so you can see it goes from blue over here to three to green over that side and Now we're using the y-axis so it will kind of should go into strips Which are kind of seeing the green strip over there it kind of works This is good enough. Yeah, that one's a bit sketchy and now They're all going white and we're gonna play a note as it travels around the room. So it's gonna go this way around Yeah, that's worked, right so That what happened so all of our devices Kind of calculated themselves where they are in the room, but because we're all connected together We should bear to visualize we should bear to gather that information in the same way as we gather any other information, so This is everyone's devices in the room And me in the center so you can see there's some people behind me Which is kind of interesting But you can see like the kind of front row here Yeah So these are our positions in the room and now that we're all connected together. We can do some interesting stuff with this So what we're gonna do is we're gonna get a sound that goes from one side of the room to the other and Our phones are gonna change color that yeah happens a lot Our phones are gonna change color Based on their position through that so we're gonna start over on this side And then we're gonna go right up to the back Don't go behind me And then over here And back over to this side Cool, so in about like 10 or 15 seconds if you hold up your phones again Then we should be able to see the transition of Hugh going across from as well It's gonna start low. It's gonna go high So you should be able to hear moving through the room Yep, and I'm not sure where it is actually So it feels like it's over here So that's it gone over to this side I think that's gone up the back. So that's us synchronized so we're using the the time stamp of when you Last press that C button to kind of synchronize our devices together for the time of that But this can be when you've got several devices together Synchronizing the timestamps can be quite a difficult thing to do So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna Send out a message To play a single note at the same time. We'll see how this works So you can hear that kind of is not will happening at exact the same time And what we're hearing is the latency of our particular devices to their their network So I'll try that again So it's not just one single note and then this gets a bit harder when we're playing Several notes together. Yeah, so that's not very musical It was really interest by this is you can actually hear the latency Happening like that last note was more delayed than any of the others I guess because the Wi-Fi hotspots got saturated or something So a way around this is instead of Relying on a single point in time instead of expecting something to happen there We can kind of embrace this sketchiness And instead of playing a single note to put a single time We can distribute our note playing over a longer period of time and make it fade in and fade out So what we're gonna play is we're gonna play that same note, but It's gonna increase over time and get a bit louder and a bit more Notey, and then it's gonna fade out again Okay, or not. There's a lot of things going on here Turn the Wi-Fi off Cool, right. Okay, so we're gonna play this note and it's gonna come in Hopefully yeah, so it's gonna come in slowly and quietly But then get a bit more intense and then fade out a little bit So instead of playing a note at a particular time we're kind of embracing this The way the networks Not allowing us to do that that limitation So what we can use this to do is we can combine these two things together So we can use this this idea of not relying on a particular timestamp but fading it in in a kind of distribution and our position in the room So what we're gonna do is we're gonna get these two like we're gonna get some ricks, and we're gonna get them to Play right up in the back of the room and move down towards the front. So it's gonna sound like a Flock of ricks, hopefully It might be quite scary I'm sorry for that. You can feel it kind of moving down, right? Yeah, so that's like Yeah, so basically we're kind of rolling that wave of frequency down through the room and the volume is going up at the same time So we get a bit more of a notion of movement in the space That's basically gonna happen for the rest of this talk so Yeah, I don't really know much about birds but In kind of like looking for bird sounds I I Found this the sound of a rook So we played like a one like core of a rook But when a rook plays when it when it makes its call It does several of these same calls and then the last one sounds really interesting. It sounds like the rook's been surprised So as a bit of a side note, we're gonna listen to some ricks So watch out for the last one when it sounds surprised I love ricks Um King fishers, so these are like little tiny birds that are native to the UK. They don't usually Swarm around the place, but if they did They might sound something like this, so we're gonna get some King fishers So this is a higher pitched noise Which better for the so it's gonna move from the front to the back and you can hear it getting a bit more intense as that kind of waves coming in They're a bit cuter than ricks, but So Yeah, the interesting thing about this is that we're utilizing the environment of our devices together, so we're not Playing media on a particular device We're playing it in the space between devices, which I find really interesting and it's only by thinking about how The sites that we create how they are used that you can start utilizing that kind of thing so we've talked about Our devices as things and we've talked about our things as sharing an environment in which with us but the last thing I want to talk about is how we actually How technology is related to us our kind of relationship with this virtual world because I think Yeah So I don't know if know where that came from That's really interesting So, yeah, so what I'm gonna Talk about is This which is so this is my favorite bit of archaic technology. This is a storage unit from uni back to The way this works what this is called is a mercury delay line Storage and it's a really interesting bit of technology and the way this works. It's like you've basically got a line in on one side Which turns into a speaker and then you've got a line of mercury in that square And then you've got a microphone on the other side that with a line out And what you can do is you can feed input down that First line it gets converted into sound waves and travels down that line of mercury And then get picked up at the other end by that microphone and converted back into a signal And Critically this takes a little bit of time to To travel down so that's the delay through this mercury And what's interesting you can you can feed in data through this you can encode binary signals and You can feed it in one side and it will travel along that mercury and it will get converted back into a Signal on the other side after a delay And when this gets interesting is when you add a feedback line So as it comes out the other side, it's feeding back into the first input and so by this method What we've got is we've got persistent storage, but what's really beautiful about this is The actual data is stored in ripples of mercury Right, so it's like it's a very physical Physical thing Rather than being a virtual thing And I think this is like can be quite tempting for us to kind of treat our devices as being some kind of virtual Magic object when actually they are fundamentally of our physical world like I Think if we remember that we can Interact more with it. So inversely We Are part of that physical world too. So we are kind of connected to technology in a much more profound way than Then we sometimes actually cater for so the way that we interact with Websites isn't necessarily doesn't have to be constrained to a keyboard and mouse it can be touch or it can be much deeper ways a way of understanding the technology and feeding into So rather than that mercury delay line storage, I'm gonna show you something else Which is a lot crapper but we're gonna do it anyway and so What we're gonna do is we're gonna store some data and that Data is going to be in the format of a four-digit hex code And we're gonna map this to a particular point and the way that we're gonna do this is we're gonna subdivide an area into 16 And then we're gonna just pick the first digit and pick the the relevant Square of that subdivision And we're gonna subdivide that and then pick the next digit out of that and then do this again and Do this again and what we've done is we've taken that four-digit hex code. We've mapped it to a particular point So what I'd like you to do is scroll down on your page and you should see a text input field and I want you to put in that four-digit number that I first asked you to remember Remember so what we're seeing here is we're seeing all that data that everyone here is memorized and there's a few wrong ones but Kind of not too bad And you can see that it's kind of aligned in this circle which we've kind of re-encoded as these four-digit hex codes And what I really like about this is When you consider where this data for this image is stored Right it's kind of stored in everyone's memory. We kind of like distributed that storage And it's actually pretty good. This is like probably the best I've seen So I've kind of talked in a pretty literal sense about our relationship with technology and how we can use our browsers and devices to Make changes to our environment and to read information from our environment to And But by creating things for the web we actually have the opportunity to do this in much more deeper and more profound way So this is a blog that my now colleague Jared put together and This documents his bike rides around the Oxfordshire area and this particular page is a route from Oxford to London And I found this and ended up cycling that route from Oxford to London So this web content Changed my life in a physical way in that I got on my bike and cycled 80 miles and that's a huge Thing to have happened for from Jared just putting that blog up there This is our JS Oxford community thing which helps us bring together a community and helps people learn stuff and Is a lot of fun and having this website Allows us to physically get together and meet This is a project that one of my friends works on which is to Find out the water levels in the Oxfordshire area by these sensors that he's been putting under bridges And this website allows you to kind of see if something's flooded. It's very It's a very kind of real thing that you're able to kind of get out that and in this site I like to think that this site is part of why we're all here today together sharing this these talks and learning all this stuff together and To change the world, I think there's only a couple of things you need to do Firstly to consider What a person is trying to do when you're actually building Building a site and secondly it has to exist Okay, so it doesn't really matter if you've got a kind of a perfectly architected Tool and it never sees light of day You want to get something out there to be able to make a difference to people no matter how hacky no matter how ugly just Make it exist So, yeah, thanks


I am Sandhagni. I am the author of Malignan Self-Lover, Narcissism Revisited. No one should feel responsible for the narcissist's predicament. To him, others hardly exist. He is so enmeshed in himself, and in the resulting misery of this self preoccupation that he notices no one else. Other people are subjects on which he projects his rage, his wrath, his repressed and suppressed and mutating aggression, and finally, his ill-disguised violence. How should the narcissist's closest, nearest and nearest cope with his eccentric vagaries? The short answer is by abandoning him, or at least by threatening to abandon him. The threat to abandon the narcissist need not be explicit or conditional, for instance. If you don't do something or if you do it, I will ditch you. It is sufficient to confront the narcissist, to completely ignore the narcissist, to insist on respect for one's boundaries and wishes, or to shout back at him. The narcissist takes these signs of personal autonomy to be a harbinger of impending separation, and he reacts with anxiety. The narcissist is tamed by the very same weapons that he uses to subjugate others. The specter of being abandoned looms large over everything else. In the narcissist's mind, every discordant note presages solitude, the resulting confrontation with his own self. The narcissist is a person who is irreparably traumatized by the behavior of the most important people in his life, his parents, role models or even peers. By being capricious, arbitrary and sadistically judgmental, these people molded the narcissist into an adult who fervently and obsessively tries to recreate the trauma in order, this time around, to resolve it. We call this a repetition complex. Thus, on the one hand, the narcissist feels that his freedom depends upon reenacting these early experiences. On the other hand, the narcissist is terrified by this prospect. Realizing that he is doomed to go through the same traumas over and over again, the narcissist distances himself by using his aggression to alienate, humiliate and in general to be emotionally absent. This behavior brings about the very consequence that the narcissist so dreads abandonment. But this way, at least, the narcissist is able to tell himself and others that he was the one who had fostered the separation, that it was fully his choice and that he was not surprised by it. The truth is that, governed by his internal demons, the narcissist has no real choice. The dismal future of his relationships is preordained. The narcissist is a binary person. The carrot is also the stick, in his case. If he gets too close to someone emotionally, he fears ultimate and inevitable abandonment. He thus immediately distances himself, acts cruelly and brings about the very abandonment that he had feared in the first place. In this paradox lies the key to coping with the narcissist. If, for instance, he is having a rage attack, rage back, this will provoking him fears of being abandoned, and the resulting calm will be so total that it might seem to you eerie. Narcissists are known for these sudden tectonic shifts in mood and in behavior. Mirror the narcissist actions, repeat his words. If he threatens, threaten back, incredibly try to use the same language and content. If he leaves the house, leave the house as well. Disappear on him. If he is suspicious, act suspicious. Be critical, denigrating, humiliating, go down to his level, because that's the only way to penetrate his thick defenses. Faced with his own mirror image, the narcissist always recoils. We must not forget that the narcissist behaves the way he does in order to engender and encourage abandonment. When mirrored, the narcissist dreads imminent and impending desertion, which is the inevitable result of his actions and words. This prospect so terrifies him that it induces in him an incredible alteration of conduct. He instantly succumbs and obsecuously tries to make amends, moving from one cold, bitter, cynical, misanthropic, cruel and sadistic polly to another. He becomes warm, loving, fuzzy and gulfing, emotional, modellin and saccharine. The other coping strategy is of course to do abandon, to give up on the narcissist.  Very few people deserve the kind of investment that is an absolute prerequisite to a life with the narcissist. The cope with the narcissist is a full-time energy and emotional draining job, which reduces people around the narcissist to insecure, nervous wrecks. Who deserves such a sacrifice? Definitely not the narcissist. No one to my mind, not even the most brilliant, charming, breathtaking and suave narcissist, has the right to demand such self-sacrifice. The glamour and trickery, worth-in and underneath them a monster lurks, which irreversibly and adversely influences the lives of those around him for the worse. Narcissists are incorrigibly and notoriously difficult to change, thus trying to modify them, to heal them, to cure them with love, is doomed to failure. You should either accept them as they are or avoid them altogether. If one accepts the narcissist as he is, one should cater to his needs.  Would you have ignored a physical handicap in someone? Would you have not assisted a quadriplegic? The narcissist is an emotional cripple. He needs constant adulation. He cannot help it. So if one chooses to accept the narcissist, to live with him, to remain in an intimate relationship with him, it is a package deal. All his needs, demands, requirements included.


TLO what's poppin We are on twitch. We are not live, but you can leave a like comment subscribe turn on your post notification But let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK Right behind me.  We do got the Patreon we post things we can't post on YouTube and we also got you know merch. Yeah get me This is jolly Brits tried chicken and waffles with Try Guy Keith now I Been waiting for them to try a real hood struggle meal. Don't like don't think that this is not a struggle meal It's been gentrified But it is a struggle meal waffle is a batter.  I'm Josh. I'm Oli. I'm Keith and today We've come to the home of chicken and waffles rasko chicken waffles an LA staple I used to come here all the time for lunch when I hope y'all went to the right one for the bus week So we write down the street. Hello. Wow So I looked at this menu every single thing is like a person the stubby Yeah, the Oscar big mama special. It's more than just chicken and waffles. It's a breakfast menu. Oh look at this That's good I bet that's sweet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's Kool-Aid. You ain't never had Kool-Aid. That's sweet That tastes like I'm in here literally. Yeah, I think I might get a beer as well. Just to wash all that down. Yeah. Oh My gosh. Oh Holy here goes delicious giblets right here. What is a giblet? It's the chicken dessert. They eat this in Korea with fried chicken Yeah, and I really like it. You know they call them dong chip. Oh, yeah, it's true. It means house. I'm sorry I'm not eating no good. Let's I'm eating breast thigh wing leg. That's about it Yeah, tak tak dong chip tak dong chip. Yeah Well, I'm so excited And this is the chicken liver right here. Okay, it's bigger than I thought it is very no sir breast thigh wing leg brought a Lot, this is a huge portion. We start with your favorite the hole. I believe you Excuse my language.  They just got them in a bag. Like you just get them Just nice. Cheers. Good Mmm. Yeah, this is a great pairing with some beer. It's a lot of work to eat this. It's nice and chewy, you know It's kind of satisfying. Yeah, it's good. The flavor is great. Oh, I love it biscuits Oh, wow, we make them with love here. Is there anything you make with hate here? Oh You can expand your menu So move on the livers. Yeah, let's do it. I'm a bit scared chicken livers. I've had before very small. That's what I was thinking These are huge. Yeah, alcoholic chicken. It's a nice little one over here. I found the smallest one I'm just these are like a bundle of lives on massive. Cheers guys No for me I love the texture though. Hmm. I wish it tasted like that. Yeah, let's chew it like this It's less slippery than I thought it was gonna be it's quite livery. It's pretty livery I went to California one time And I think the Roscoe's was down the street from the house the place who was staying at and I'm good, you know I didn't go because it was too many people outside And too much be happening in California. This was like seven years ago, too Okay, yeah Now I'm confused because to me this looks halfway between like what we would call gravy in England. Yeah, and like American sausage gravy Yeah, but I can tell this is just a lighter.  Okay. It looks delicious A couple years ago. They really showing out for y'all Roscoe's be hit or miss at the pen which one you go to Is what I've heard Hmm, it's good. Okay. It is good. It's fatty. The flavor is fairly mild the biscuit tastes really buttery The biscuit is super buttery and kind of flaky thick and buttery flavor. Yeah, I want to say ain't enough seasoning so bad Now this is quite weird for me because this is very similar to the gravy my granny makes on a sundae roast Having it with a biscuit. It does work, but it's also kind of odd So don't you guys have this kind of biscuit? At all we we have scones That's the closest we got like I don't know how that was something that we created because it's it's really rudimentary and it's delicious And it's simplicity. It's so good. It's butter flour Okay, I'm gonna get stuck involved in this chicken this chicken looks Fantastic, that's why it's a single chicken breast. I just started putting um Um gravy on my chicken uh at jollybee I know y'all know what jollybee is if not look it up And that's when I started to know that you could put gravy on chicken and it's fine.  Okay Because our chickens are like Chemically enhanced y'all not used to that out there talking about huge Okay, this is the number eight Okay, the number eight mix the country got the country girl. Yeah, beautiful. Wow. Thank you so much. Okay. Wow Okay, definitely wasn't and this is how big the portion sizes were That's a side. Can we just talk about that for another side a little bit of an exaggeration even for us All right chicken, let's go Oh, yeah, the gravy makes this incredible Holy moly And the gravy so good. I mean we had the I did have you put the biscuit into the grave. That's true. Did you did that fly straight up? It don't hit the same from pop eyes with a biscuit in the gravy. Yeah, divina makes you get the gravy part Oh, gosh, where the biscuits go the chicken must also this is also this is a common american thing to do That's the thing that we've been doing since ever since whenever there's the opportunity. Oh a hundred percent It does work Because the biscuit adds so much butter buttery So Keith you've been busy man.  Yes You're touring like heck with lube burger still making the videos we have without a recipe Which is our biggest season when we're doing our live special without a recipe where we're doing chicken and waffles Oh, wow, and the head chef here is actually going to be one of our judges. Oh, wow That's cool. And are you still digesting cheese cake back? Are they drinking a cider from millers? I've never even seen that cider before is that a cider that they're drinking Can you believe it 250 items? Yeah, that was a lot at first one to the second one There's two weeks in between but the second one to the third doing there's only one week in between And in between doing those two I filmed the breakfast lunch and dinner steak video that I did So I had steak all day for a video like the day before the cheesecake factory finale So that was a tough month for me. That's a lot. I have started exercising again That's good. I wasn't for the few months that the kid came into our lives trying to like figure out What other type of food formats we want to do what types the audience likes I honestly could eat chicken every day. Like there's nothing that I can like It's a great meal not all like gizzard and chicken foot and liver and all that but like breast Or thigh. I'm good all day. I know plenty of american chains. I've never eaten that. I've never eaten it Denny's chain what I did what a burger I got in trouble Oh Because I did need it at a texas what a burger I ate it at an arizona Like I just said like only denny's is good in florida outside of florida denny's is trash Texas like newspapers and websites where it kind of got like meaner and meaner as different publications covered it The first one was like keith on the try guys doesn't like what a burger and then it was like youtuber slams What a burger and then it was internet quote star. Yeah. Yeah classic. It was like getting more and more I heard what a burger was trash though. It was open in chicago downtown for a little bit and then it closed Siv of me, but at the end of the day they kept putting my video for more people to watch We need to try this one for butter it just that's butter. Yeah, why is it so white? It's whipped butter whipped So you should just try it just with syrup with syrup. Oh tough. It's the serious warm. Yeah, it's your form Oh Yeah, oh Yeah, I need to go to waffle. It's a little more dense. Oh my gosh. It's not as fluffy as like a belgium waffle It's perfect. It's nice. The texture is beautiful. It's got a good chew.  Keep leaving y'all to the promise land Now you like that That's yeah Heck yes, heck yes. I actually like it so much better with all of it in the gravy I like the sweet and the savory together. I also like savory savory savory as well. I like just living in salt town Okay, okay. Okay. I don't know the waffle also has sweet It's a good mix between both for me like I could do either or but like If I'm like at breakfast time, I'm gonna go sweet Like lunch or dinner like we can go savoriness. That's true.  Yeah I wasn't expecting it to work. I was talking to him the other day that a fried chicken dinner It's like a cheat meal, right? Yeah, but it's like an affair meal Oh, wow, like very serious. You're really cheap. I gotta drink some water Fried in different fat after being breaded and covered in a third fat Are these the tenders over here? Oh, I forgot about them entirely I didn't even see them. They look good I'm under the problem. I feel like tenders is a waste. Like just give me the breast. It's the same And what's this? This is come with like a little dipping sauce. That's ranch. Probably. Okay. Yeah, ranch. We don't have ranch We don't we don't I know it's your accent, but it is not pronounced wrong It's pronounced ranch. It's ranch. Okay, ranch. I go hard in the ranch. Ranch is Oh, wow. This sounds super posh Oh, the ranch is good. Sorry, ranch. This is really good. Yeah In the gravy yeah, the gravy is also very good extra gravy and get in there Oh, wow You know, you're really eating unhealthily when everything is beige, right? We have a variety of beiges at the table. You're doing it, right? This looks like a clandestine clothing line. Yeah, okay But it all it tastes absolutely incredible. It's good. And they all they all taste different They're all different flavors of beige. That's true. 50 shades of beige. I mean it really truly is. It's that sexual as well Right, I'm gonna pour this syrup into Into the batter It's like an ice cream cone. Wow Did you just shot that? Yeah, he did. It's like a that's good I love the excitement on Keith's face. Yeah, he did We're enthusiasm from that really sounded like Mary and Pippin and Lord of the Rings like when they've gotten away with stealing something That's good I watch a lot of the Lord of the Rings by the way. Oh, I love Lord of the Rings too When I'm on tour we watch it every day. They legs and you Toss me Over to the drawbridge because they're about Some greens now these if you don't like them, that's normal. Okay. Okay. They're really an acquired taste in the south They're stewed. No, they're not greens are you gotta put half sauce on there put half sauce Normally with pork of some kind whether it's bacon or ham. They're very very salty They're kind of an earthy flavor kind of bitter and it's very vinegary if you're like, wow, that's not for me No one will be surprised Oh, it's quite intense. I like that. You know, it tastes not too similar from nettle soup. We're getting in the UK No, it is offensive. That sounds like something they eat in the Lord of the Rings. Yeah, that doesn't sound real Sit and try the nettle soup for three stinking days Don't get me wrong, I've seen you on the radio Uh, Keith, this has been a real Yeah, thanks for having me you said. I'm always down when you guys are in town to have fried chicken somewhere Yeah, a lot more All right, till I leave a like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post and I'll do the Every time I see a struggle meal on here. I'm gonna click it man. Salute to Jolly. I'm gone


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Hey there lads and ladies, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here and welcome to PS viewer news. A bit of a roundup show of all the PS viewer news that's going on, you know, breaking them updates and what not. So let's just jump right in. Audica, the rhythm-shooter game from Harmonix has got a release window for PS viewer now. It is coming in the fall and we got some details courtesy of Harmonix and the PlayStation blog. So basically this game is like Beat Saber with guns. It's coming this fall and it's going to have 30 plus soundtrack and it's going to have a campaign that carries you through those songs if you know what I mean. The genre of music then is like pop and electric dance music and the game will feature customization. Now there's no solid set release date yes and there is no solid set price so we have to wait to see for that but for those who are interested in Beat Saber and those type of games you want to keep an eye out for this one. That might be a good idea. Speaking of Beat Saber, Beat Saber is releasing a new DLC today, OST3 it's called and it's going to have tracks from Morgan Page, Pegbeard Nerds, Pixel, Slippy, Boom Casey and Juro Slav Beck. This update is going to be completely free and it's expected to drop today at 9am Pacific Standard Time so that's about, it'll probably be up by the time this video goes live. So a good news day if you're interested in those rhythm games on PSVR. And lastly we got a bit of a firewall zero hour Q&A type situation from CEO Hess Berber himself. Wasn't an official Q&A just I was streaming last night firewall for the it's one year anniversary and Hess kindly joined us and then a bunch of people asked him a bunch of questions including me and he was kind enough to answer them so I've written some of them down here some interesting stuff here and I'll just go through them. So when Hess was asked about new modes coming to firewall he said that when or if new modes do come to firewall what they wanted to do was put them through private matches first so the idea was to have like filters that you could toggle. So he didn't say that's not what I imagine a given example would be friendly fire on or off or chevrons over people's heads on and off stuff like that but the reason it's not there yes is because they got to have their priorities in order so they have to fix everything that needs fixing before they can think about putting this kind of stuff in next question Hess was asked why are the animations removed that you used to be able to used to be able to control your character in the lobby screen if you know what I mean make them like wave their hands and stuff like that with the amp controller and has said there was two reasons for this. So reason number one was because of how expensive it was now not money wise but in terms of taking up as CPU usage or you know whatever the technical terms is for that that I can't think of right now basically when that new update came they introduced a brand new UI system into that game and that was more intensive than the old one and so those animations had to go as a result and the second reason then had to do with the puppet system has said in the game so basically in firewall you're kind of able to make their arms bend backwards and go through themselves and do weird stuff like this and the team first contact entertainment wanted to get rid of this they wanted to have it so that arms and stuff would only move in a believable manner so when they went to look through all that stuff they found that it was actually going to be quite complicated or quite time-consuming rather to get that stuff done so that's why it's it's just been sitting on the back foot and they might not go back to this but instead Hess did say what they might do is add new animations so that when you equip a new gun or a new piece of camouflage or whatever that the character you're playing as might play a canned animation where he's like checking out his his gear and stuff like that just to make it a bit more just to make it a bit more detailed in that lobby screen so his next question then he was asked would voice over be happening in loading screens so the way it works now is that once you go into a loading screen voice chat where your team cuts off until you load into the map or back into the lobby whichever way and so Hess has been saying that they wanted to do this updates for a long time now and they actually even advertised this update was going to be coming back in December or January like that was on their list of things to do and Hess really really wants to he's been pushing for it with the team but for whatever reason it's not there yes but it has his saying that it probably will come not definitive of course but it's a hopeful answer so Hess was then asked about weapon fire rates would they be ever able to toggle them during gameplay and Hess says no and the reason for that is that the way they have it now where different weapons have different fire rates is done to make each weapon feel unique so if you take the tailor cqb for example if you're able to change the fire rates on that to three bursts then it's just going to be the same as your standard tailor and so that's kind of why they changed the cqb to follow also anyway to make it more different from the standard tailor that was already there so then he was asked about incendiary grenades and flamethrowers and stuff like this and he said the team and himself have been thinking about this but the thing with fire is that when you use fire in a game like that you're expecting the flames to spread so what the problem there is is when i throw a fire grenade or whatever it explodes the flames that i see on my screen need to match the flames that my teammates see on their screen and the enemies so that if someone runs through us that they get burned correctly and this all is very apparently it's very taxing or expensive i should say on the systems so that's why that's not there Hess was asked about clans in firewall and he says it's something that they want it's just not one of the high priorities but maybe further down the line and might be something that comes into the game Hess also explained why the join on friend feature was removed from the game he says it has everything to do with matchmaking basically when you go matchmaking the system or the algorithms or whatever that they have in place it looks at the average of your players in that squad and it matches up against a team with other averages that are like similar to the average of that team so basically if a random friend can join on you at any time then that friend could be like a way higher level or something like that and could unbalance us and could be unfair on the other team and that's how Hess worded that anyway if i understood that correctly so there's a reason why that's been removed next Hess was asked about seasonal leaderboards is that something that will be happening and he said that they will possibly be coming finally Hess was asked would the max level cap ever be increased and he says it's something that they want to do and it's something that might come in the coming seasons so we'll just have to wait and see on that one if level caps will be increased it seems like it's something that could be done but the thing to think to highlight there is that he says in the common seasons so sounds like there's going to be a few more seasons to come not just the one and that's basically it that is it for this video lads and ladies thank you very much for watching these psv or news videos i'm making are just very quick very dirty just to get them up get the news out there and then in touching tips which 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The Rock took your slap like a man, it's a bad fact that Rock started smiling. Yeah, cause the Rock likes pain, but that's a whole other conversation. Hey, yo, what you mean by that, bro? What were we talking about? Are we still talking about wrestling or we talking about something else? That's all I'm trying to figure out. What's good, George Boros back again with another video. So we got to check out what the Rock just recently said. He dropped a video and he posted a tweet to his official Twitter page. This should be very interesting. I love what he's been doing. I know some people feel like it's long winded promos and stuff like that outside of the show, but I love what he's been doing with every week so far before the Smackdown, like the same day that he's supposed to be on Smackdown, he drops like a little message, a little promo stuff that he would want to say on television, but can't say or they don't have enough time for him to say. So I'm very interested to see what he has to say this time. We're going to get right into this one. A lot of you guys are tagging me on Instagram and Twitter to check this out. So that's what I'm here to do. Let's get right into this three tweet first. A message from the hottest heel pro wrestling has seen since the 80s.  If you guys saw Cody's very emotional promo talking about he wanted to bring the championship to to his mom since his dad's not here. Oh, this is this is already starting off rogue. Mama Rose, you're now in the Rocks crosshairs. Oh man, your son's blood will be on the Rocks belt that I will personally deliver to you at WrestleMania.   People's champ, final boss. All right, Cody, bro. Yeah, you slapped you slapped him last week, but that's not enough, bro. He didn't win after the your dog. He not already talked about your father, even though he didn't disrespect your father, Roman did, but he's mentioned your father in a way of, you know, saying that you were a mistake. So that's already a foul.  That's three. Come on, three strikes out. Cody better than me.   That's just me person. That's just me. You're going to need all the J.A.G. security. I'm coming after you, bro. You know what I'm saying? You may get attacked in the parking lot. As soon as you walk into the arena, what happened to the Rock? Who knows? All right, let's see what he has to say, man. Because snigger Rock is a menace, bro, but I'm here for it. Good morning. Good morning on this Friday morning. Do you guys have a good week? Do you have a productive week? I hope so.  I hope so.  I hope so. Motivational. It's been a big week. It has been an exciting week. It's a big week here in the world of professional wrestling. Because once again, professional wrestling is cool. Once again, professional wrestling is relevant. Once again, everyone's talking about professional wrestling. Why? Because of one man. And you're looking at him because of the Rock, because of the People's Champion, professional wrestling is happening because of the final boss, the Rock, and it feels good. It feels good. Selling out everywhere from Dallas, Texas, Glendale, Arizona, Salt Lake City, Utah, Memphis, Tennessee. Tonight after this workout, the Rock is going to jump on his private jet. He's going to fly down to Memphis, Tennessee and get ready. Live Smackdown. The Rock is coming home, baby. You cannot wait. Should be interesting. Can't wait to see what you got to say. That's good and lighted. That's good and lighted. It's been a big week though. A lot to celebrate. Ratings are up, sellouts. Everyone on Friday night Smackdown audience of 16% in a demo as the Wayne, the Rock Johnson makes his return to the ring. The Rock has been heating up, heating things up for WWE since the Wayne Johnson's return to the ring in January Friday night. Smackdown has seen some significant audience growth. I mean, that's, that's kind of expected.  It makes sense. No matter where the Rock goes, wrestling is cool again all because of the Rock. It's also been a big week because everyone is talking.    Take a look. Probably going to have to cut this out. So if there's a jump cut. I mean, you've seen the slap. So I might have to cut this out for copyright reasons. They're going to end up trying to block the video. But yeah. Well done, Cody Rhodes. The Rock has been waiting for you to man up, giving him a challenge that's worthy of the great one. That was a good slap too. What did the Rock do? He didn't pretend like he was angry.  No, no, no. The Rock took your slap like a man. It's a bad fact that Rock started smiling. Yeah. The Rock likes pain, but that's a whole other conversation. Hey, yo, what you mean by that, bro? What were we talking about? Are we still talking about wrestling or we talk about something else? That's all I'm trying to figure out. We still talk about wrestling. Oh, we still talk about wrestling. Yeah, I think we still talk about wrestling. And Cody Rhodes, the Rock couldn't wait. The world couldn't wait to see how you were going to react and respond after that Friday slap on Monday Night Raw. Two days later, what were you going to do? And you get on Monday Night Raw. You get in the middle of that ring. The world is watching. And here's what you did. Here's how you responded to the biggest moment of your career when you slapped the Rock. Take a look.  This thing is a business, bro.    This is great.  That's how you respond.  I knew this was coming. Crybabies, no wonder because they're Superman. They're hero. He's not crying, too. You will cry. You will cry. I can't give the belt to Dusty, but I can give it to my mama. I can give it to my mommy.  Give it to your mommy. Cody, this is this is fun, bro. Not the goose bumps. This is how real it is to the Rock. Chills. This is how real it is to the Rock.  You ain't given the title to your mama. You ain't given that title, the universal title to your mama. That title is going to remain around the waist of Roman Reigns. Here's what's going to happen at WrestleMania. Uh oh, here's a new disrespect. The Rock wants your mama to have a front row seat. Mama Rhodes, the Rock is talking to you. Uh oh. Now you're in the Rock's crosshairs. Here's what's going to happen. Mama Rhodes, you're not going to get the universal title handed to you. A night two, WrestleMania, no, no, no. You're going to get a title handed to you. You're going to get a belt handed to you. It's going to be the Rock's belt. It's going to be something like this. Oh boy. Something like this. Leather, brommable, blood, sweat, respect. The blood part, that's going to be your son's blood. Oh, it's out. It's going to be all over this belt. Here we go.    I'm going to whoop the blood out of him. I'm going to get all his blood on this belt and all his sweat on this belt is what I'm going to do.  Now I'm going to take this belt, mama Rhodes.  It's not about wrestling no more. It's definitely not. Full of your son's blood.  And I'm going to say, here you go, mama Rhodes.   Why are you so mean to my son, Rock? Give you this belt, mama Rhodes. And I'm going to say, mama Rhodes. Here's your belt. Now down is the direction you can sit. And look at your son, who's going to be in the middle of the ring bleeding. Wow. Down is the direction you can sit. All right, here we go. He's having fun at this point.  And that's how you end a story. And that is how Cody Rhodes, your story, is going to end at WrestleMania, boy. Crying in the pool of your own blood, this belt sitting in your mama's lap. And mama Rhodes, don't worry. There's two things that you could do about it. Nothing unlike it.  Your nightmare, that was a nice line. The Rock, I like that. The final boss. Is he going to say it again? Yep. Now mama Rhodes. Uh-oh. Don't go crying too much now.   See you, WrestleMania.  To what?    But I like what you said there. What I've noticed with The Rock's promos is whatever he says, there's like the highlight. He kind of reiterates it, brings it back around and incorporates it into each and every promo. Some people may say it's repetitive, but I personally don't have a problem with it. He kind of just adds to, I guess you can say then, you know, the heel likeness, the heelness of the promo itself with everything that he's come up with so far. He just adds on a little bit to the newer promo that he ends up talking about. I wonder if they're going to actually have his mom at this year's WrestleMania. To be honest with you, the way they setting it up, yeah, they're setting this up for Cody to win this, bro. There's no, there's no reason to just dog this guy out only to have him lose still. The way they're setting this up, maybe having his mom out there, like, yeah, they are really trying to stack the deck. And I don't know if you guys realize that, but now he's coining himself as the final boss. Granted, he is one of, you know, considers himself one of the bosses. He's one of the board members, but it's very interesting. And I don't want to look too deep into it and create theories and stuff like that. But it's very interesting. We've always looked at Roman as the final boss, but he's calling himself the final boss. I don't know if you guys picked up on that. Maybe it's nothing to really think about and nothing to really look deep into. But the fact that now he wants to call himself the final boss is very interesting because we've all looked at Roman as the ultimate final boss in WWE. And now he's calling himself that. So it's going to be very interesting to see how things play out, looking forward to seeing what the Rock has to say on SmackDown. I did love Cody's promo. And the Rock makes a point. Went out there and started getting emotional. I just, I need Cody. I don't know if it's going to happen. I don't think it's part of the character that they want to tell with him. But it's something about the aggressiveness. I need that more. Slap was cool. We know you're doing it for your fam, but they're disrespecting you. I need more aggressiveness. I need a little bit more fire in the promos, you know? Especially when you're on Monday Night Raw, talk your talk.   I would definitely, now, granted, I don't know what he can and can't say. You know what I'm saying? I'm not sure what he's allowed to say, but if I'm the Rock, I'll let him go ahead, go crazy, make money, make some money out of this, even more money. Get it a little bit personal.  The only thing he hasn't came at is his wife and kids. Will that be the last straw? Like, I don't know, but I want a little bit more aggressiveness. I like the slap and I like some of what he did last week on SmackDown, but I need him to keep that intensity. I love the promo. Don't get it twisted. I love his promo on Monday Night Raw.  You would think you would come in a little bit differently. Granted, the questions that was asked to him, you know, kind of brought that up, but I do want him to get that, get a little bit angry. It's okay to be angry, you know? Try to, if you know you're in a tough situation, I would do as a smart baby face, which they tend to not do in WWE. I would find a way to build some type of tension between Roman and the Rock. He started to do it last week and then, you know, they went another direction, but build that tension between these two because you know at the end of the day, their egos will not allow them to truly be on one page for too long. The common enemy is you. Make the common enemy between them, each other. That's how I would have tried to book this story. Always pitting Rock against the Roman. Making Roman feel like he's less than. Simple as that. I would build that up. That would be one of my story, like one of my things I would say. I'm like, I'm actually looking forward to facing the Rock more than Roman. You wanna know why I'm looking forward to facing the Rock more than Roman? Because it's simple. The Rock is the biggest star. Roman is just a placeholder. And when I beat the Rock and I eliminate all his family member from a family member and bloodline members from being there. Roman, I can take care of him with no problem. Because y'all know Roman. Roman needs the bloodline. The Rock doesn't. The Rock is the better competition. So I'm glad this happened the way it did. You know, cause when I face Roman, we know Roman can't win without the bloodline. So you take the bloodline away. Now, now he's not as good. The Rock doesn't even realize he's actually hurt his own family member. Cause when I pack him up, I'm gonna pack up Roman. And there ain't gonna be nobody to save him. Like something like that. I don't know. There's ways they could do this or could have did this. So comment down below. Let me know, did you guys enjoy this promo segment from the Rock on Twitter or on Instagram wherever you watched it? And are you guys excited for tonight's episode of SmackDown to see what's gonna happen? Appreciate all the love and support you guys shown on channel Road to 150K. And I'm seeing you on speedy, YouTube, wrestling champion of the world. Appreciate y'all kicking in with me. See y'all next time. Peace.


Long ago, there was a small village on the edge of a river. The people there lived in harmony with nature and each other, and life in the village was good. One day, as a villager began his early morning stroll, he noticed that the once vibrant river was looking slightly murkier than normal and contained some sludge and pollution resting on the banks. The villager quickly went out of his way to clear the pollution and restoring the flow, but the next day, the same villager noticed two lifeless fish in the river, and both fish were scooped out of the waters. The following day, debris started to build up, and the flow of the river started to become constricted, cutting off water to the village. Naturally, the villagers organized themselves quickly, setting up watchtowers and training teams of swimmers and environmentalists who could resist the swift waters and dislodge the debris. Cleanup squads were soon working 24 hours a day to keep up with the increasing pollution. While not all the fish could be removed from the river, the villagers felt they were doing well to clean up as much as they could. Indeed, the village priest even blessed them in their work, and life in the village continued on that basis for many months. One day, however, a young girl was playing by the riverside and saw the pollution, and she looked off in the distance and turned to a grandfather, asking, Where is all of the waste coming from? She then said, Let's organize a team to head upstream and find out who's throwing all of their trash into the river in the first place. However, the logic of the community elders countered, but if we were to go upstream, who would take care of the rescue operation? We need every concerned person here.  The girl cried, but you don't see. If we find out who's polluting the river, we can stop the problem and no fish will die. It is far too risky, and we need all the help here, said the village elders. And so the numbers of fish found floating in the river continued to increase daily, and the river just got dirtier. Several days later, the young girl decided to go upstream herself to find the source of the corruption. Upstream, she found a mountain of plastic from the building of a nearby village that was releasing chemicals into the once beautiful river and blocking up the waterways. She smiled to herself and began to remove as much as she could, and as she removed the pollution, the river returned to normal, much to the confusion of the other villagers. This is a great little parable to consider when you're trying to explain the problem-solving process. To truly solve any issue, you have to come at it from different angles, sometimes multiples at once. It also speaks to solving issues at their core. Many times, like the flu or the common cold, once you start noticing symptoms, chances are the problem has been present for a while already. When faced with an issue, you can keep solving the consequences or effects that it causes and stay up to date with the issues. But unless you solve the root of the problem, it will keep producing more and more things that you have to deal with. Much like Western medicine, treating diseases as and when they appear, sometimes it's better to act in prevention and stop any foreseeable consequences in the first place. Perhaps we can even argue that treating the product of a problem isn't really a sustainable way of being. Since no matter how much energy we devote to them, our focus will always eventually be needed somewhere else. So the takeaway lesson from this parable then is to always look at a situation from every angle before making your decision on how to best act on it. Take into account every option and look for the root of the problem rather than just at its consequences.