Hello everyone, Andrea Mayesca here with Dental Tutoring. So let's talk about student debt, student loans, student debt.   So this does depend, of course, on the program you're taking. Dental hygiene is more than dental assisting, but the same thing still applies, where we don't have 20,000, 40,000 or more for schools. So we all had to take out that loan of some kind. How did that work? How did you pay it off? So I can't speak for anybody else, but I can only speak for myself and kind of how that worked for me. So a quick recap was I became a dental assistant first. I became a dental hygienist after that, but I did take the hygiene program twice because the first time I took it, I was three weeks away from graduating and my school shut down. So I did have to take it twice. I did have to pay for it twice, not the entire program twice, but pretty close. I did have to move away from home the second time when I took hygiene because that program that I was taking the second time was in Toronto and Toronto is very expensive. Living away from home is expensive when you have no money to begin with, right? So I'll be talking about a little bit about that as well. I also took restorative hygiene about three years ago. So a question that everybody asks me is, well, did you have to get a student loan? How did you pay through school? What I did was I signed up for a student line of credit. If you're able to do that, if you have that where you live, that's actually less of an interest rate than getting a loan. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was something like a student loan is 6% interest whereas, or sorry, no. The student line of credit is a 6% interest whereas a student loan was 10 or 11% at the time, but things could have changed now, but I'm just kind of letting you know why I did that. Plus for me, a student loan was just easier to access. No, sorry, I keep on saying the wrong one here. A student line of credit, not a student loan. A student line of credit was just easier for me to access because as long as I was paying, I believe it was $50 a month, I did not pay interest until a year after I was done school or when I was done school. I can't remember the exact, but you get the idea. You don't have to pay interest right away on a student line of credit. If you have this where you live, okay? Student loans are different. Depending on where you live as well, you might have what's called OSAP. I don't know what that stands for, but it was just pretty much where the government gives you money to pay for school. They usually give you a lot of money, but you will only qualify if your parents don't make a certain amount, but you do of course have to pay all of that back. As with any loan, you have to pay it back, but I liked my student line of credit because as long as I was paying, and I do remember this, it was $50 a month, which I could afford. I didn't pay any interest. I believe it was until I was done school. So as long as I was making those minimum payments, I didn't pay interest. Of course though, as soon as I was done school, I paid a lot of interest per month depending on how much I was able to pay back. But my case was a little bit differently where I worked all the time, okay? I had a job all throughout school where I worked all the time to help to pay off my student line of credit quicker. So I never paid a lot of interest. For dental assisting, that was a good case for me too, because I was always saving my money. Since I had my first job at age 15, I worked at Subway. I saved nearly everything that I did earn to pay for a dental assisting school because I knew that I wanted to be a dental assistant first. And dental assisting at the time was manageable. I went to a private college where we had to pay, and I do remember this, all we had to pay was $1,000 a month for 11 months. That's how long my program was. So it was about an $11,000 course. It's a lot more expensive now. But that, to me, was manageable. I did still take, though, out a student line of credit because I was, you know, I was probably able to pay from my own money, $200 a month, which still helps, right? But I did still take out a student line of credit, but I was able to pay off my entire program before I was done school. So I didn't owe any interest, which really helps. Hygiene, of course, was different because at the time it was a $45,000 program, plus living expenses, all of that, right? So I did have that student line of credit that I did very much rely on, but I did still work all the time.  So that's what I did, but that was the easiest for me. I was so happy that I was able to save up some money before I went to school. I was so happy that I was able to make those minimum payments. It's a lot harder if you have a job throughout school, but just I couldn't afford not to.  So if you don't have to work, that's amazing, but just remember you have that, you know, student line of credit, student loans, pay that off, okay? Seriously, but also having that said, even after my dental assisting program, even after dental hygiene, I worked like 10 hours a day every day, but I was young at the time. I'm not old now, but I was a lot younger 13 years ago, right, where I worked 10 hours a day, but I loved it. I did, I loved it because I was just so happy to be able to work in a dental office. I was so happy to say I'm a dental professional. I was making more money than a lot of people my age because I did work so much. I started assisting age 19.  And that helped me so much pay off my student line of credit sooner rather than later, okay? Plus I lived at home until I was about 26, even when I was tutoring dental assisting students. So I was actually tutoring dental assisting students when I was 19. So for all of that time, I was living at home, even when I was in the dental hygiene program, I was tutoring dental hygiene students who just wanted the extra help because I was always very good at my classes, my, you know, being able to explain things, right? So even then I was at home, like it was hilarious. I was at home. When I lived in Toronto for my dental hygiene program the second time, I was tutoring people from my like little crappy condo or sorry, apartment in Toronto, like on my kitchen table, like the place was a dump, like literally. Now that I'm looking at it, a place was a dump. At the time I didn't think it was a dump, but you know, people didn't care because I was helping them pass, right? But I did everything that I could to make the money. Once you're done school, work hard, work 10 hours a day, if you can, I did and didn't think anything of it. I loved it. I wanted to actually work, you know, Saturdays, everything because I loved it. I felt that I was good at it too, so that kind of made me excited to work and I was just happy to work. I was just so happy to be done school that I would have done like anything, right? But working those 10 hours a day won't last forever. So do it when you want to, you know, do it when you're young. Pay off those loans, student line of credit, all of that because you have to remember school's expensive, but that's okay. It is an investment into you making more money. Those who don't go to college don't typically make the money that they want to make. They lead their lives always saying, always wishing they went to college. So yes, it's expensive as heck, but once you start working in our profession, we do make good money. So, you know, do it, work hard. Paying off those loans won't be forever. So just think about that. As I say all the time, school isn't forever, but so is not having to pay those student loans. It's not forever. I hope I did answer all of your questions. Just a quick recap. Is I signed up for student lines of credit, not student loans because student line of credit has less interest rates. So that's what I did. That's what worked for me. I did work all throughout assisting hygiene, restorative hygiene, all of that. And save your money. Yes, it sucks, but I saved almost every penny that I pretty much earned at the age of 15. I just saved all of it because I knew that I wanted to become a dental assistant and then a dental hygienist after that. So if I left anything out, please make sure to comment below. And if you haven't yet, make sure to hit subscribe because I do upload these types of videos often. And this way, if you guys do have questions, I've been checking the comments now at least once a week because things are getting busy, which is good. But I've been tutoring a lot more lately so I might not be able to get to your comments as quick as I would like to. But just make sure to comment because I love seeing them. I love answering them, the whole works. I am always happy to help. So thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you in the next one.


Hey guys, Shaber 1000 here. That's a pressure washer. It's a little electric one. And it says it's 2000 PSI. I don't even know if it works. It was for dads. He had a gas one, but it got stolen. So we're gonna try this out on the patio over here. If it works. So first thing we need to do is get it out of the box. Let's check it out. Hey guys, let's pull this thing out. Looks like it's all here. I don't know where this came from. Let's see here. Tornado, Kinnit Pressure Search, or Kinnit Research. It's made by Kinnit Research. Kinnit Research, all right, whatever. Couldn't see you real well for some reason. Probably couldn't get home. Okay, let's get this stuff out. And, still got the book in it. Cool, right in there for now. Okay, so, this is part of the wand here, okay?  All right, so now, let's get this untangled. Let me get this untangled and I'll come back with you. Okay, I wasn't really tangled. Let's put this in here, screw this on, then our inlet water will come in here, 2,000 pound. Hopefully this thing works. Now, this is where our water hose is gonna hook into. I gotta go get it and bring it out here, but I'm gonna put this over here for now. And, we'll hook the water into it. All this does is just screw on to your garden hose, so, I don't know, looks kind of flimsy to me, but we're gonna check it out. Okay, so I got the water hooked up to it. I've got the water on. Now, we're gonna turn the pump on and see if it works. Okay, it came on and stopped. Let me go see if I popped a breaker or something. Okay, guys, it does work. It just kicks on and off when you squeeze the trigger, so.  Man, monkey will take turns, and I'll get back with you. That's how we do it here. Here's what we ended up with. It did pretty good. I'll show you the difference. I'm not real worried about that up there. We can't move this car. It will not move. I can hear it when you put it in neutral. You can hear it clicking, but damn, it just acts like it's in part. But anyway, I was wanting to roll it back there a little closer, but. So here's the difference. This section here from this crack, you know, up to here, this only took about 20 minutes to do. Then we hand washed the vet. Looks a little better. But here's the difference that it made. So I don't even know. I forget what I called this thing. There it is. It does okay. Excuse me, it does okay. And up here, did that. Different from here to there. So yeah, worked out pretty good. I don't know where we got it. I don't know who makes, you know, I mean, I don't know, but I'm kind of impressed with it. You know, so yeah, it does all right, man. So anyway, just a quick review of that thing. Keep zooming in, because up here on the front, I can zoom in and out when I turn you. I'll turn that. But anyway guys, so there it is. I think it did pretty good. What you guys think? So yeah, I think it did all right. It's good for washing down houses. Things like that, washing your, I don't know what that was about. Washing down your sidewalks and stuff. So yeah, all right guys, there it is. Just a quick upload for you. Tomorrow's Friday, yay. Monkey's got to work. So we're, I may finish that driveway up through there. We'll just have to see. Sunday, I got to rip the cabinets and countertop out because Monday, our new cabinets and countertops are coming in. So stick around for that guys. All right guys, thanks for watching. Appreciate it. Shae Berry, the myth man legend. Gone for now. I just wanted to upload something for you real quick. And we'll see you soon. Bye-bye guys and take care.


Nadira, thank you very much. Welcome to what I think is a very exciting announcement. It's a project that we call Uplink, and in a week when we've seen calls for actions rather than words, this is a real action aimed at engaging the global public in what we think will be a very exciting platform. I'm delighted to introduce a stellar panel. We're joined by the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Amina Muhammad. We are joined by the founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, Professor Klaus Schwab, the Global Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte, Puneet Renjen, Mark Hawkins, Chief Financial Officer at Salesforce, Kate Benken, Vice President and lead of Microsoft Philanthropies, and also by my colleague Dominic Waray, who heads our Center for Global Public Goods at the World Economic Forum. We will be hearing from all of them on what they think this platform can deliver, and then we'll have a chance for questions at the end. It's being live-streamed, so welcome to everyone joining us online. I'm going to start by asking the Deputy Secretary General to come to the podium and share her vision and expectation for Uplink. Thank you very much, Professor Schwab, our partners, ladies and gentlemen and many friends in the room, welcome. This is going to be really exciting, and I've been waiting for this since Professor Schwab told me about it in South Africa a few weeks ago. It's been four years since we had the groundbreaking adoption of the SDGs and a few meters away right here in our halls, so this really is, for us, a memorable stock-taking event as well as we go four years into the SDGs, look at what we're birthing still after the goals. The past two days we've gathered again to take stock of the SDGs, and although we know we're not where we ought to be, we are in fact off track. With some of the more tragic news of global hunger being on the rise just when we thought that we had been able to do something about it, and almost half a billion people remaining in extreme poverty by 2030, we somehow just don't change the way that we are addressing some of these issues to get back on track. We've also heard, as we had the climate change summit, the greenhouse gas emissions continuing to increase. One thing that's abundantly clear is that a just globalisation that's really inclusive will need technology. The accelerating emergence of new technologies offers the potential to advance our SDGs and to meet the needs of a fast-changing world, but there are also risks on the horizon, and that must be navigated, particularly around labour dislocation and the exacerbation of existing inequalities. We're already seeing that many new technologies and services based on artificial intelligence mainly benefit those who have the most, leaving behind many who are already worse off and even putting them at more risk. With this in mind, the SG and I both echo the call from the UN High-Level Panel on Digital Corporation for innovations that are people-centred and aligned with the SDGs. So it's heartening to see that many young entrepreneurs are already finding new solutions to help address the world's increasingly complex challenges, going beyond borders into some of the exacerbating situations we have with conflict, migration, and climate change. Indeed, the world has got no shortage of creative ideas. In fact, in the last week, its young people have not only advocated for climate action, but they've also bought the solutions to the table. We still lack pathways that would enable us to go to scale and that would include youth in a really meaningful way as we scale up. The value of platforms that connects companies and citizens, young entrepreneurs, and technical partners, students, and venture firms, startups, and universities is now greater than ever. There's a huge momentum and a deep thirst for it. Initiatives as GenU, the UN Global Compact for Young, SDG Innovators Programme, Saps Next Gen, and now Uplink are particularly critical to support innovation for the SDGs, including leveraging our youth initiative and the private sector investment that we need so much of. With an initial pilot of Uplink to be ready in time for the United Nations Oceans Conference in 2020, your initiative offers a huge opportunity to support young people's engagement and it has been. Everybody speaks to the COP, the Ocean COP, nature-based solutions, a lot of excitement around this, more than a thousand four hundred voluntary commitments on ocean action that have been made since our 2017 conference. So innovation can further support this. We will need more initiatives like this, but today let's just celebrate that this is happening in GA Week to give us greater inspiration to do the things that we need to do at scale, more in local areas, and in people's lives, particularly the young ones. We look forward to that reality starting yesterday. Thank you. Deputy Secretary General, thank you very much. Now a chance to hear from Professor Klaus Schwab, the Founding Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum. Deputy Secretary General, first I want to express our appreciation for the trust you are giving us and the confidence we all have that with this project we can make a real significant contribution with having two objectives in mind. So first what we have seen this week, multi-fold activities. We are walking the talk now, but maybe we walk not fast enough. So there are multiple initiatives and the question comes up, how can we integrate all those initiatives? How can we create a factor of aggregation and amplification and acceleration? But second, as you mentioned, how can we integrate all those young people who have great ideas, see startups, innovative universities and so on? How can we create a mass movement? So the project we present today, and I want to thank our technology partners, the project which we present today has actually as an objective. To be an instrument for mass integration, for crowd engagement. As you know the World Economic Forum is a multi-stakeholder corporation. For us this project is so significant because it integrates the missing dimension into the multi-stakeholder concept. The people on the ground who have great ideas, who would like to be not only enthusiastic, but to be co-owners and to be co-operators in the realization of sustainable development goals. So the idea is first to build such a platform and it will be operational in a first version in the next year and then during the next year to replicate this platform for all the other STGs. Thank you and I can tell you in the whole history of the forum, which is celebrating its 50th year next in 2020, I never felt so excited and I never was engaged so much into a project like this one. Thank you very much and bringing this initiative to life and powering it partners. One of which is Deloitte and lucky to be joined by Pinnip Rinjen, who is the Chief Executive Officer. Secretary General Professor Klaus, as you said it's really exciting to be here with you on this project and Deloitte is very honored to collaborate with you. Deloitte believes as an organization that business exists to do more than just earn a profit. In fact we believe passionately that business is a force of good and every day 300,000 Deloitte professionals do that in two ways. They uphold the public trust and they contribute their skills and capabilities to try and address some of the most difficult societal and client issues and we've learned a number of lessons along the way. One of the key lessons that we've learned particularly in recent times is that we can't do this alone. That is why a project like this is so important. And a great example of that in terms of collaborating, connecting for impact is the work that we do for the UN. We've been associated with the UN for about 25 years and we're very proud of it and it is a whole host of projects that we do for the UN both pro bono as well as paid and it has taught us the power of collaboration. That's why I'm so excited to be here to collaborate with WEF, to collaborate with Salesforce. Salesforce is a great partner of ours and also with Microsoft and others. To bring this to life as Professor Klaus said, this will be a great enabler to get the SDGs to come to fruit. And as has been said, we are committed as an organization to enable the SDGs to come to fruit but the path that we are on will take us to 2073. I'll be long retired and it will be my son's children probably that will take advantage of that. So to try and get it done quickly is where this project comes in, is to try and get in one technological solution the ability to get entrepreneurs, to get individuals working on some of the most vexing problems in society together to address them in a collaborative way. Deloitte is honored to be part of this team and I look forward to getting this done by WEF in January of this year. Thank you. Thank you for that. Also helping to make this happen, Salesforce. Very glad to be joined by Mark Hawkins, the Chief Financial Officer. Thank you Mark. It's such a pleasure here to be here today and talk on this very, very important and exciting topic, Deputy Secretary General, Professor Bruneet, it's an honor to be on stage with you and to talk on a topic I have tremendous passion for as does Salesforce. You know one of the things I have to say at Salesforce is we've always believed that business is one of the greatest platforms for change. It's always been at the beginning and the root of our thoughts of our company and this is a great opportunity today to begin this continued partnership in that way. The world needs action now, not someday, but now and the business leaders we have, we have this responsibility to the future to really take action and make traction and help reshape and rethink things in a way that will be more sustainable. We're excited to be a part of that and we're honored to be a part of that as well I must say. Salesforce has viewed the environment as a key stakeholder from the very beginning and we focused on creating a low-carbon future, we have a low-carbon product, we have a low-carbon orientation and this is one more opportunity to contribute and partner in a way that is so critical. And for example we just announced a sustainability cloud to help in another way where we bring technology to really help solve this equation and this incredibly important topic. I want to say that we're very aligned with the UK or this overall uplink vision which is to create a very globally impactful platform for action and for engagement for really engaging some of the new leaders, the new entrepreneurs, the new activists that really want to make a powerful difference and really help to address these 17 SDGs. We're very excited about that and to be partnering with them. I was talking to professor and we thought about how engagement is so important we've had the opportunity to engage but we've gone from an exclusive engagement with this capability to really an inclusive engagement around the world at a global global stage level and so that's super super exciting. It gives us a chance all of us to activate not just to contemplate but to activate in terms of making progress on these critical critical functionalities. So that is one of the things that I think is really really important. I also want to address a couple other comments. People ask like how does this fit into our strategy at Salesforce? Well the answer is sustainability and SDG topics have always been a part of our mindset as a company from the onset of the company in some form or another and this just feels so aligned to our strategy as a company and so we're very very excited to help on that. We expect uplink to help us make tangible progress and really clearing roadblocks that have been out there in terms of the ability to achieve these SDG goals and I always think about this the UN has put forward this amazing vision with these SDG goals and the vision is part way there but I think a pathway to the vision is when you really make traction and I feel like uplink is part of that pathway and I think that's exciting from my standpoint. So at the end of the day we think about this opportunity to partner we think about you know how we can support and what we can do because I I've been thinking a lot about this in terms of the topic of sustainability. I think everybody everywhere can walk out of every room and decide to activate and do something to help with sustainability. This happens to be something that we want to do and have passion for because it has so much global scale and leverage and it's so exciting and that way but I hope we're all making those choices to get the flywheel of progress going at the rate that we need to. We're you know we're incredibly inspired to watch this next generation of leaders entrepreneurs and activists really mobilize to save the world that is powerful and that's why we're proud to be a partner with the world economic forum we're proud to participate in this and to help develop a more inclusive vision of stakeholder engagement and generate impact on these SDGs. We at Salesforce our leadership team is committed we have a development team dedicated and that way to the uplink mission for achieving the SDG goals. It's exciting to have this opportunity to help design this platform that will help global digital communities scale and on that note I'd just like to thank you for being a part of it. And uplink also wouldn't be helping be happening without the help and collaboration of LinkedIn Microsoft very grateful for the presence of Kate Benkin. Kate could you come and join us she's vice president and lead of Microsoft Philanthropies. Thank you very much it is a pleasure to be here and Microsoft is really honored to be part of this initiative being launched today. Our partnership with the world economic forum and partners on uplink represents an incredible opportunity for Microsoft to participate in co-creating a platform that can really serve as a catalyst for engaging entrepreneurs around the world community leaders and most importantly the next generation of leaders to all help build solutions to support the sustainable development goals. We are excited to partner with the world economic forum and partners to bring the full digital capabilities of Microsoft to help expand the global engagement and awareness of the sustainable development goals and solutions. The sustainable development goals represent an effort to create a better and more sustainable future for us all and this is something that speaks directly to the mission of Microsoft to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. So we at Microsoft are committed to helping empower countries UN agencies and other organizations that are also focused on the SDGs. We believe in the powerful role that technology can play to transform the world transform the world and help create better opportunities in a more sustainable future for us all. So thanks very much for the opportunity. Lastly I'd like to invite my colleague Dominic Waray to come and say a few words on behalf of the forum on the unique aspects of this project. Thank you Adrian. Thank you esteemed panel members audience. How many of you out there are kind of interested in working on those solutions for the SDGs? You kind of got an idea. Think it's going to be pretty good. Very good. Lots of you are very good. And how many of you think God if only I could find a direct connection to those people with power and influence who can really change the gearing because my idea could really make something happen out there. There we go. You see that's why it's called uplink because it will connect you to those who actually are at the moment in charge of these big issues across those SDG topics whether it's food or forests or climate action or indeed the first one that we're going to start with oceans. Oceans has captured the public imagination of many and yet those who have the power and the influence know all about the problem. As you know you've read lots of reports you've seen lots of podcasts and videos and such and they will say things like this is what we need to do to stop illegal fishing. If only we could do this to make sure that marine protected areas are properly protected. If only we could scale up aquaculture in a sustainable way. Imagine if we could create those as use cases from those who can make those decisions but need solutions and push them out there globally through the great partnerships that we've just seen here. And you could reply and say this is how you would do it. This is how you would do it in my region. This is how you would do it in my country. This is how you would do it in my neighborhood. The connection is collapsed. Suddenly you can connect right up to those people who say that is a really good idea. And in this uplink network not only are those who have decision making capabilities across all of the organizations that we know and love who would love those new ideas but also people who are not so expert about the issue but do have a lot of money. Which is also a very, very interesting and attractive arena because there's lots of people who have a very strong desire to solve these problems and are fortunate to work in an organization or to personally have created some wealth but need your ideas. And how do you get those? You hang around in a tent like this. You hope to meet people. You'll go to conferences. Imagine a digital platform that can collapse that gap and allow you that access. That is the vision of uplink and we will be starting with the ocean agenda. We will have a first product of this at our annual meeting in Davos. If you want to go to the June ocean summit which the United Nations is putting on in Lisbon be there with your ideas because that is where the full uplink version for ocean will be launched. And about this time next year we hope to have five or six other SDGs up and running. So if this tent exists this time next year, SDG action, we will be delighted to kind of see how far we get with this project. So thank you very much indeed and thank you for all of the great partners on the panel and we're very, very excited about how this can open up the networks and delivery and solutions and effort of you and many others who can't even be here in New York today. Thank you. We started a delay. We have a very, very brief window for questions I'm afraid. I saw lots of hands go up when Dominic asked about ideas for what they'd like to see from uplink. One of those hands was from someone I recognize, Milati Wiesen who was also the co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Sustainable Development Impact Summit earlier this week. Milati, you lead a youth activist network aiming to ban plastic bags. Can you tell us what you'd like to see from uplink? Hi, everyone. My name is Milati. I'm 18 years old and I had the honor of being one of the co-chairs at the World Economic Forum's event the past two days but also for the last six years I've worked on banning single-use plastic bags in Bali and finally this summer we saw the ban come into play. So I'm very excited to see uplink up and coming but I think also one of the key things here is with our next project, Youth Topia, you know, really seeing how we can empower young people further having access to a platform like uplink would be super helpful because it opens doors to a larger network but also financial opportunities and also allows us to tap into this unplugged wealth of knowledge. So I think that that's my three expectations especially living in a world where you know it's becoming smaller with Wi-Fi and smartphone accesses but the urgency for action is happening at a much faster rate and so there is a huge need where we need to connect the dots and I think young people when we are at the forefront can really have this incredible momentum to create change happening. I think what my takeaway and my last comment would be it's been mentioned in Professor Schwab, you said it as well. This platform I really think needs to be done not for us but with us and I think that that's where you can count me and Youth Topia and the younger generation to really be the first ones to sign up and partner and collaborate as best as we can. Thank you. Manasi, thank you very much. I'm looking at my watch and seeing that the time has come to return the room to the UN SDG folks. I'm very sorry to cut people off if they had opportunities to ask questions. I know each of our panelists will want to speak to you individually if they're able after this panel but I hope you'll join me in thanking all of them for introducing uplink and be as excited as we are about the opportunity to see it in action in Davos next year and then at the Oceans Summit in June. So please join me in thanking all of our panelists and I hope you get a chance to follow up with them each individually after this session. Thank you very much.


I used to be a normal person. I worked an average job in retail, I had a girlfriend and apartment, and I had a good relationship with my parents. Then it all came crashing down on me like the sky. I was laid off my job due to budget cuts, my girlfriend left me, and my parents died in a car wreck.  But I tried to stay optimistic. I was a young man with my whole life ahead of me. I wasn't going to let this ruin me. I was my parents only child, so I got their house and money in the will. But instead of moving in, I sold the house. I can't say if it was just stress or stupidity that made me do what I did next, but I'll let you choose. I decided to hike cross country. I don't know why I did or what I expected, but I guess I figured I needed some time to clear my mind, get things organized emotionally, you know? It actually went really well. I met all kinds of interesting people and got to see all kinds of amazing sights. But that changed when I went to the Appalachian Mountains. I'd been walking for so long, I thought my feet would fall off. I checked my map for the hundredth time inside. It would probably be a day or more until I made it to the next town. I looked up at the sky and realized that the clouds were so full and heavy, I thought they'd fall on my head. That definitely worried me, none of my camping gear was strong enough to survive a rainstorm. I started looking for shelter when I came across an old cabin. It was hidden in the shadows of the trees and I almost missed it. As soon as I noticed it, though, the sky let loose a massive crack of thunder that felt like it would shake the world apart. And I swore I heard another sound mixed in with it, like the screech of some kind of bird. I shook my head and chuckled a bit of the thought, all this time by myself might be getting to me. As I quickly made my way into the cabin, as if on cue, the sky let loose. Sheets of rain crashed down from the sky. The wind picked up out of nowhere and blew so hard I thought it might uproot the trees or tear the cabin to shreds. Lucky for me, though, it held. The old wood creaking and the windows rattled, but it held together. I surveyed my surroundings and quickly realized that this place couldn't have been inhabited. A thick layer of dust covered the floor and cobwebs filled the corners. I pulled the flashlight from my backpack and wandered around. Pictures hung from the wall, depicting a smiling man, woman, and young girl. There was an old kitchen and dining table, but not much of interest. I found stairs leading to the second floor and decided to check it out. I might be here a while and I didn't see the harm in exploring. Upstairs, there were three doors, two on the left and one on the right. I also noticed that one door on each side was slightly ajar. I assumed it was the parent's room, their daughter's room, and probably a guest room. I went to the one on the left and tried the door. It swung open with an ominous creak.  It looked like a crime scene. The bed was ripped to shreds. I saw dark stains that I can only assume to be blood and there were massive claw marks on the floor.  Had a bear got in and attack them. As I looked around, I saw something poking out from the other side of the bed. I went around to investigate and saw it was a rifle. I picked it up and looked it over. It was old and dusty but didn't seem damaged. I checked to see if it was loaded and was surprised to find that it was. Only one bullet was missing. I decided to take it with me. No telling if whatever did this might come back or something worse. I stepped back into the hall and made my way to the next room. I was worried what I'd find but morbid curiosity compelled me to keep going. I found that this door, unlike the parents and the third, was shut. I slowly opened the door and was surprised to find it was in much better condition. There were no claw marks on the floor or blood or anything like that. As I surveyed the area, I figured that it had to be the daughters. The walls were painted pink and there were several old dusty stuffed animals laying on the floor. I felt relieved that she seemed to evade or maybe escape whatever had taken the parents. But if she had, then what happened to her? The beam of my flashlight landed on her nightstand where I saw a book resting. I picked it up and realized it was a diary. Oddly enough, I was hesitant to read it. I didn't like invading anyone's privacy. But in this situation, I thought it was appropriate. Maybe there was a clue as to what happened or who they were. Eventually I caved in and read the last few entries. They were written in a hasty mess handwriting that was due to be expected of a child. What I gathered was that the family that lived here got snowed in during a blizzard. They were low on food and one day a stranger appeared at the door. Then the entry stopped. The strange man been responsible. Did he kill the parents and kidnap the girl? I stepped back into the hallway and looked at the final door. I'm not sure what I expected to find. But I took a deep breath and pushed it open. I let out a sharp gasp at what I saw. This room was just as bad as the parents. Inside stained the floors and torn bed, there were clear signs of a struggle as well. But two things stuck out to me. The first being that unlike the parents room, there were no claw marks gouged into the floors and wall of this room. The second was a large rusty butcher's knife laying on the floor near the bed. I quickly walked out and made my way downstairs. I was deeply unsettled by what I'd found and unsure of what to do. I could leave the cabin, yet the storm was still raging hard and it was nearly night. I made my way to the kitchen and decided to sit on the floor against the wall. My eyes began to grow heavy. I figured I'd take a quick nap and rethink things when I woke up. Maybe by then the storm would dissipate and I could make my way to town and tell them what I found. I slowly drifted into sleep, the sound of the wind and rain, which I almost thought sounded like the wingbeats of some massive bird slowly lulled me into unconsciousness. In my dreams, I was running through the woods. I was being chased by something, something dark and evil and old. I was running to safety, but I didn't know what that safety was. The storm still raged overhead. The rage so hard I thought I'd blow the world to pieces and force it all back together. I felt that evil thing grow closer. I couldn't let it catch me. I had to run faster. As I ran, suddenly the forest around me opened to a clearing and at the edge, I saw a cliff. I don't know how or why I knew, but I could somehow tell that that cliff dropped off into the storm, into the same clouds that hung heavy and dark overhead. I knew that those clouds were the only way to escape whatever was chasing me. When I made it to the cliff, I felt the claws of that dark thing brush my back just as I flung myself off the cliff. I felt myself jolt awake. I quickly sat up and surveyed my surroundings. It took a moment, but eventually I recalled where I was. I considered checking to see if the storm had subsided when another massive crack of thunder shattered the thought. I suppose I didn't need to check. I laid back against the wall and considered trying to doze back off when suddenly another noise caught my attention. I wasn't sure what it was until I heard it again, a low scraping noise outside. Was it a tree branch brushing against the house? I heard the sound again and quickly dismissed the idea. It was long and drawn out and sounded like it was circling the house. I slowly got to my feet and lifted the rifle. Whatever it was, I didn't want to take any chances. I crept over to a window and peeked outside. It was too dark to make anything out and I was about to turn away when I thought I saw something in the darkness. I slowly leaned in and tried to get a better look. When a sudden flash of lightning illuminated a sight that has haunted my mind ever since that day, a face stared back at me, but I hesitate to call it human. It was pale, with sunken cheeks and eyes as though whatever they belonged to was suffering from the worst kind of starvation. The eyes were yellow and bloodshot.   But the mouth? The mouth is what froze the blood in my veins and assured me that this thing was not human. Its mouth was devoid of lips as though they'd been chewed off and its teeth were long and jagged. They looked yellow and rotted and I was sure I saw bits of meat stuck to them. I only saw that thing for a fraction of a second before the flash of lightning faded and I was plunged into darkness and silence once more. I slowly stepped away from the window, afraid that thing would leap through when the door suddenly shattered inward and the creature entered. And I got a good look at the rest of it. Its body was emaciated like skin draped across a skeleton, scraps of what had likely once been clothing clung to its body and I saw no marker of the creature's gender. Its limbs and whole body looked stretched and elongated and its massive hands ended in claws where fingers had once been. The thing focused its gaze on me, letting out a screech that nearly drowned out the sound of the storm outside. I winced and immediately aimed my rifle at it and pulled the trigger. The monster shriek was cut off by the sound of the gunshot and the bullet caught it in the shoulder. It flung its body back against the wall with a spray of black blood. I quickly turned and ran past the creature and into the waiting storm outside. I was unsure if my shot had killed it or just wounded it and I didn't want to be here to find out, though I got my answer a moment later when I heard that demonic shriek once again. I didn't bother to turn and instead just ran faster. The wind tore at my clothing and the rain pelted my face as I blindly charged forward. I'm not sure how long I ran before I felt my foot catch something and I fell face first to the ground and felt the wind get knocked out of me when I landed. I managed to roll over, gasping for air and trying to see through the rain when my eyes fell on the creature chasing me still. It stopped when it saw I'd fallen and began to slowly creep towards me. I desperately fired at it blindly, two shots getting it in the chest and the third missing. The creature lurched back and more black blood flowed from the wound, but it didn't stop. It let out an enraged hiss and prepared to lunge at me when suddenly the world was consumed by a blinding light. I blinked my eyes and managed to see what had happened. Lightning had struck the creature. It lay on the ground unmoving, smoke coming out of its blackened body. I almost smiled as I slowly made my way to my feet and considered what to do next when it let out a heaving gasp and began to move. I'd shot that thing twice and it had been struck by freaking lightning and it was still alive? What chance did I have? I desperately searched for anything nearby that would help my situation as the creature painfully moved each limb individually as if testing that they all still worked. My eyes soon came to a cliff and I remembered my dream. I recalled how I'd escaped that dark thing chasing me. Had it been a message? A prophecy. Before I could talk myself out of it, the creature shrieked once more and focused its yellow eyes on me. My body switched to autopilot and I immediately ran to the cliff. Even if I couldn't escape that thing, I didn't want to give it the satisfaction of tearing me apart. At least this way, it'll hopefully be quick. The creature chased close behind me but was luckily still recovering or else I have no doubt it would have caught me. I hesitated for a moment at the edge of the cliff wondering if what I was about to do was a good idea in any capacity when suddenly the creature shrieked and my fear made up my mind for me. Closing my eyes and swallowing hard, I stepped off the ledge and into the darkness below. I heard three things before I lost consciousness, a screech from the creature, the sound of thunder, and what sounded like a bird with massive wings. I awoke in a completely different environment than where I was. I seemed to be in the middle of an empty plane. I was soaked to the bone and wandered in a daze until I found a road and luckily I made it to one almost at the same time as a truck was passing by. I waved them down and they pulled over. A woman rolled down the window and she asked where I was heading. I must say she was very polite for someone speaking to a soaking wet man with a dazed look in his eyes. I asked if she could give me a lift to the nearest town and she happily agreed to do so. Once I got in, it struck me that I had no idea where I was. I asked the woman who introduced herself as Amber and she let out a laugh that brought a smile to my face. The smile quickly faded when she informed me I was in Colorado. That was clear on the other side of the state and I seemed to make it there in a single night. I calmed myself and did my best to simply chat with Amber, telling her I'd gotten rained on last night and was just out of it because of the heat. She seemed to accept that and we talked more until we reached a nearby town. It took me a while to recover from that day. I'm still not sure what happened or how much of it was a dream or reality. Believe it or not, I still travel, although now I carry a handgun with me at all times. I even bought a small silver knife just to be safe. I did some research on the internet, trying to find clues as to what happened. Of course, I suspected that the thing which attacked me was a windigo. I've heard enough stories to figure that out. But what about the thing that saved me? Have you ever heard of a thunderbird? Beings that are storms made sentient, thunder and lightning given life forces of nature personified into protectors with their own sense of justice. I think that's what could have saved me that day, though I do wonder why. Maybe I just got lucky and the thunderbird took pity on me or maybe there's something else that's too great for me to understand. Either way, I always find myself looking up into the storm clouds wondering if I'll see a shape soaring among them and hear the flapping of wings among the thunder.


So since we're coming up on that time of year again when we start giving gifts, I thought that I would do a curated gift where, you know, sometimes you just grow out and you get the flowers, you get the candy, you do that kind of thing, you know, potted plant, blah, blah, blah. But isn't it more fun to be able to find curated things, things that go together, things that fit their personality. So I've put together a few little things that I think would go really good for each person's personality that I can think of and I wanna get into those with you, but first we're gonna take a look at my outfit and what I have on, we always do that on this channel and also we have a numbering system that goes one through ever many products we get through today and all you have to do is go down to the description box, remember the number and shop that way. So let's see what I have on that you guys might enjoy.  I've shown you the tank top before. This comes in a set of three and they're kind of a crop tank top.  There's really nice double lined which helps out as well as far as keeping you modest. The other thing that I wanna show you is this shirt. This is a long sleeve shirt. I've cuffed it today and it is so pretty. It's just a chiffon see-through shirt. I think it's just gorgeous. It has the rounded hem right here and you can do just any amount of anything you wanted to. If you wanted to, go ahead and tie this up. You know, everybody I see right now, they're tying it into their jeans which I think is such a cute look as well. I personally just had it down today because it was a little lazy but I just think this is so pretty and the jeans I have on are my favorite jeans of all time, no distress, sorry. But I don't wear distress jeans because all my fat comes out of that stressing. So these are Levi's signature. They're the skinny fit or the straight fit and they have a ton, an absolute ton of stretching them and that's why I love them. Also, I just thought it would be so cute to just pair it with another cream purse. I think I've shown this to you before but this is one of my very favorite purses because it's lightweight, you can wear it cross body. You can also cinch up this handle so that it's a lot tighter. It comes with a little bag that's right here that you could put just about anything in. It's got the envelope top to it, a single pocket there and it also comes with a little wallet that has the accordion style in there. So cute, I just absolutely love it. I almost forgot to tell you about these shoes and I wanna tell you about these shoes because they are so nice. These are Skechers walking sandals. I love these, they are so comfortable. They don't pinch me at all, they run true to size. They have the cutest styling on there. Little wedge heel with a platform of an inch. So you've probably got a heel of about an inch and a half when you actually are wearing them but they have the form to the foot. These are so comfy and I thought they were so stylish. Comes in a couple of different colors and I thought you might like those as well. Okay, so one of the things that I was really excited about and I wanna talk about it is that if you're thinking about giving somebody jewelry, one of the things that is really nice is this Lifetime Joy Company. I know I've talked about it a million times before but they really do have some beautiful pieces. This is one of my very favorites. It's hearts and they're all rhinestones or cubics or conians but what's beautiful about the Lifetime Joy Company is you just register your jewelry piece on Amazon that it takes you through the whole entire process. It's very easy and then you can go ahead and get anything replaced. If this were to lose a stone, I could get it replaced. So I also have one of my very favorite bracelets that I wear all the time and it has rose motifs all the way around in the link bracelet. So I like that too. The gold is very pretty. I mean, it's not like a fakie looking gold. It's a very pretty gold. And then after we talk about Lifetime Jewelry with the bracelet and that, these aren't Lifetime Jewelry but I love these earrings and they're just kind of a swirl gold dangle earring with a couple of pearls inside of them that they're really pretty. All right, let's get into the gifts so that you can see what I thought was awesome to be able to get somebody.   So this one from Conair, this made it so easy for my mom to be able to do her hair. Now what is great about giving this as a gift is it's a one and done tool. They also come with other heads on them. This is kind of an oval head as you can see right there. So this gives you really big waves or it even straightens for you but the heads are easily interchangeable. You can also take this off and use this as a hairdryer. Although what comes out of there is not quite what I would use as a hairdryer but still I think that it's great to have this. It has three different settings.  I think this would make anybody a great gift. Do not go buy that Revlon one. I'm just gonna say that. And am I really getting in trouble with Revlon but that sucker is way too hot for my fine thin hair and it burnt the crap out of my hair. So I won't even go near that one. So if it were me, I would go ahead and include a wet brush which is one of my favorite things of all time. You know this, I talk about these all the time. It's got my hair in here from this morning and then I would put in here some Color Wow Dreamcoat. I know that this is all over social media but really is a great addition to anybody's hair routine because not only does it tame the frizz if you have frizz, I have very fine hair. So my hair can get all over the place. So I love it to be able to just help my hair look smooth and shiny. It's also got a heat protected in it. So what a great gift if you did these three together. Next, do you have somebody that loves to be pampered by having a pedicure?  And you guys have seen this before from me but this is one of my top sellers from Amazon that I have ever brought to you and it's for good reason. This is a glass foot file with very sharp serrated edges on here. I caution you to be very careful if you use this yourself. Be very careful because this can cut very easy. And what I do is I will take this and go ahead and go over my feet after I've gotten out of the shower or if you wanna do it when they're dry, it works either way. But man, it takes your calluses down. If you have those cracks, you know what I'm talking about. Those cracks that get on people's feet and they're deep and they bleed sometimes and they're just painful, this is gonna help you so much.  Like mine is right in the middle by that toe nicks to the big toe. That's where I always have to get mine. Now, I also think it would be a great gift to put in here this callus remover, extra strength, low beauty, professional grade formula eliminates dry dead calluses, giving you salon pedicure feet in the comfort of your home. Okay, this works so good and I'm gonna insert a picture here so that you can see that. It works amazingly good. So if you were using this, now I would say that I would probably use the foot file before I use this, just because you're gonna get a lot of the dead stuff off and then this is gonna take the rest of it down. It just works so quickly. And then afterwards you wanna pamper yourself and put some great lotion on your feet that's going to be really, really good lotion. This is the Alpha Skincare Renewal Body Lotion. It has 12% glycolic acid in it. This is hyper, hyper moisturizing for your feet. This is one of the best moisturizers I think I have ever found for feet or hands or anything, especially if you have that crepey skin. I will caution you that once you put this on, you're gonna lock in all that moisture, which is what you wanna do. However, don't do it right before bed because I usually are really hot at bedtime and this will make you a little bit hotter too. You can do it on your hands, you can do it on your feet, just don't do it all over your body like I did one time. So what a great gift to be able to put those three into a bag as well. This next one is for the woman that you really don't know what to get her, but you know that she always smells really good or you love the way she smells. That is these two from Sol de Janeiro. This is the Bella Floor Elasti Cream and then this is the spray that is Brazilian Jasmine and Pink Dragon Fruit. Now I can tell you from my experience with these that I could just bathe in this all day long and I absolutely love it. It's got a lot of fruity scents in it, but it's also got that balance of floral in it. This is so good and the cream is just luxurious and it really does help all of my creepy skin. I really like this cream for that. It's one of those creams that you feel like, okay, it doesn't go away within just a few minutes. When I put on creams, they just feel like they go away so quickly. So for me, this one is just huge, wonderful, luxurious experience to have that. And to layer them together, you put on the cream first and then you put on the spray and it lasts so much longer to be on top of there. So this is a little bit more pricey, but it's so worth it, especially if somebody really wants pampered and you know that they deserve it and this is a really great gift. Okay, this next one is for the gal that loves to decorate her home. And I really have been a candle person and you are always seeing a candle burning in the back of my little displays here. But you know, they're electronic candles or battery operated candles. So yes, they do use some batteries. So make sure you give them a pack of batteries when you give them this gift. It uses two batteries per one and they come in the gradated size. The other size is right up here and you can see that there. What is so cool about this is that they just look like they're flickering on their own. But here's the other really cool thing about this particular set that I got and I sure hope that you're gonna be able to see this. I'm gonna hold it back so that you can hopefully see it. If you just use this little remote right here, like I just made that green and you can make it blue, you can make it purple, you can make it pink. The pink is what I had on. But there's that green again. You can go with red if you want to. There's orange, yellow. I love these because of the color changing that they do. As long as you're just a little ways away from them, you can turn this. It has a timer on them for how long you want. This is a really great gift. I feel like I would give this for anybody for a home warming or somebody that love to decorate. You can put these anywhere around your house and how great if somebody has little kids that they're actually not gonna get burnt by any wax. The other nice thing about it is this feels like real wax. It doesn't feel like just a plastic-y, nasty candle. And the other thing is right here, there's just a beautiful amount of intricate, like embossing or detailing like it's been carved out. So I love these as a gift for somebody. I think it's such a good idea. My next gift-giving idea comes from my own problems, which is that I always have a few rogue hairs that I cannot see to save my life. And I am telling you, it drives me insane. So what I did, first of all, is I invested in this really nice set of tweezers. And I have found a use for every single one of those. Even the little pointed ones, my husband's slivers that he gets, it works so good. These have been really great. They grip, I haven't had any of them lose their grip yet. So I think that this set of four is just so nice to have on hand. But this does me absolutely no good unless I can see them. And so I want to, again, I've mentioned this before but I want to again mention this particular mirror to you. It is a round mirror and it's about the size of your face. So that's really nice.  But what's really great about it is not only does this regular side the non-magnified side, but the magnified side also has a mirror on it. Game changer, absolute game changer for the way I do my makeup. And I absolutely love that about it. So it has the cooler, the warm, anything you want to do like that. It also has where you can make it go dimmer and then you can make it go all the way up on high. It also has this little round easel that pops out of here that you can use to set on a vanity or you can use just to look in the mirror itself.  If you have somebody in your life that's always plucking their hair, my sister did this and my mother does it too. So this was a great gift. I gave this to my sister. She was overjoyed. Just these two things. You would not believe how excited this woman was. She was really excited about it. So I wanted to make sure that I brought this to you too. Now maybe you have somebody that you have no idea what to get them.  This right here is a facial washer or a facial massager and it has three different settings on it. It vibrates and it's just so good to be able to get down deep in the pores and to really, really get you clean. Now I will say that the PMD one is, it's an excellent one and I love it, but I know that there are ones that are a little bit cheaper on Amazon. So below this one, I will go ahead and I will list the ones that are just a tiny bit cheaper than this. This does have three settings as far as that goes and it does have a pulse setting. So I really like it. It's one that I have really enjoyed, but if you feel like that's a little bit expensive because sometimes it can be a little bit expensive, I think they're on sale right now, but they're so good for helping to just really get in deep with that any makeup that you have and really cleansing your skin. So that's kind of just a side one. But one of the things that I put in this little baggie is the Avino Daily Moisturizing Body Oil Mist that you can use in the shower. This is phenomenal for me because I can skip a step when I get out of the shower and that to me is huge when I'm not feeling well and so it's very, the oil does not get transferred onto anything, the towel, the clothes, anything. I love this oil. It's really good oil. And then again, I'm gonna tell you about this compact mirror and it's got the five-time magnification on one side and then the regular magnification. But again, I wanted to tell you about this because both sides of it light up. And this is a big one as well. This is almost five inches, which is unheard of for a compact mirror and this one travels really easy. So I wanted to tell you about that and how fun again to be able to give a gift like this. So this right here.  Why would you ever give anybody a wallet, right? First of all, I love this wallet. I don't have it full right now because this particular blush color just came to me a couple of days ago. I do have one of these in white, which I absolutely love, but there's your accordion for all of the credit cards that you have. And then on this side, you have a coin purse. If you need it, you have more cubbies that you, cubbies, it's not cubbies, pockets that you can put stuff down in and then you have the ID one on the front. Now, why would I give this as a gift? I'll tell you why when I was young and my baby's always needed diapers and I didn't know where I was going to be able to buy diapers from or how I was going to be able to afford diapers. And I was really having a hard time and it was after my second baby was born and a good friend of mine brought me a wallet like this. It was an inexpensive wallet that she had picked up like at Fred Meyer or maybe Mervins, if any of you remember Mervins, ZCMI, that kind of thing. But she had picked up a very inexpensive wallet like this. It was a cute wallet. And I love this wallet, by the way, just for myself. But she had taken and she had put some coupons in here, free baby sitting coupons in here for her girl. She had teenage girls. So there was like three free baby sitting coupons in here, which was so, so sweet. But on the other side, she had put in here a little note and a $50 bill and it said for diapers for baby. And then in the front right here, she had put because mommy's needs spoiled too. And I just thought that that was the cutest gift. So I wanted to mention that, even though it doesn't look like much when you open it and you see how heartfelt it was inside of there, it just made this so special. And I've never forgotten it to this day. She was just such a sweetheart and what a great gift. Those are my picks to be able to share with you all kinds of different gifts for her. I hope that you did enjoy seeing this and I hope that you're doing really well. Let me know down below. If you're picking up anything specific or if there's anything in here that you're thinking about trying, I would love to know that. I hope you all have a wonderful, wonderful day. Please take care of yourselves and I'll catch you very soon in my next video.


Item number SCP-043, Object Class, Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-043 requires no special containment. Although it is recommended that SCP-043 not be used for purposes other than testing, a turntable is to be maintained in the same room for testing. Description SCP-043 appears to be a vinyl copy of The White Album by The Beatles. However, upon closer inspection, the record has no grooves. In spite of this, the record will play from start to finish regardless of the starting position of the needle. When the 29th track is reached, instead of playing Revolution 9, the disc stops spinning and faint breathing can be heard. Occasionally, the entity responsible for the breathing will speak in a male voice. The entity will respond to questions and shows a profound encyclopedic knowledge of the music industry, musical theory, and obscure trivia about many bands and artists. However, the entity refuses to answer questions regarding The Beatles or its own personal details. Inside the jacket, a small handwritten note was found, reading, limited edition, one out of one. Thanks, John. XXX Site-42 is able to continue broadcasting and move up to making live-action SCP adaptations thanks to support from our viewers, subscribers, and especially our patrons. Special shout out to our Level 5 researcher-level patron, Andre Becher.


Can we talk about the massive labor uprising that was 2021? 10,000 John Deere workers went on strike for five weeks, winning a raise in bonuses and cost of living adjustments. Thousands of Nabisco workers went on strike for four weeks. They beat back the company's attempt to force 12-hour shifts with no overtime pay. Thousands of Buffalo, New York nurses went on strike for five weeks and won a landmark contract that guarantees safe staffing ratios. And this doesn't even begin to cover all of what's going on. Kellogg's workers, whiskey production workers, bus drivers, sanitation workers, graduate student workers, minors, flight attendants. The list goes on and on. And it's not just strikes. The first Starbucks stores in the country to successfully unionize. The final first round of the expanded child tax credit kept 3 million children out of poverty. Two big lessons from 2021. Poverty is a policy choice and organizing works.


Benway State Government has commenced the distribution of food and non-food items to internally displaced peasants at various camps in the state while calling on well-meaning individuals to support the gesture. Governor Hyde sent Alia, who stated these while flagging off the made-in-distribution exercise at the premises of state emergency and management agency in Makodi. Governor Alia, who emphasized that Benway State is peaceful despite the mindless killings he called on all sons and daughters to work to support and unite the state. All the IDP camps that are said to be unofficial by this mention alone have become very official and must also be reached. And let me quickly invite the public to please see how you can contribute your quota either materially or financially. Please ensure that what you take out to the camps is never diverted at all. I'm going to speak with our security apparatus, whoever you see these donations for the IDPs, be it in Kano or any other place as it was done in the past, your folks would be in danger. We have rice, 1,500 bags of rice, 1,500 quatans of Hidomi, 995 bags of gari, 995 bags of beans, 497 quatans of maggi, 300 bags of salt, 530 gallons of red boye, 500 gallons of vegetable and 150 eggs, bags of sugar, this is what we have for this month. The insecurity, heartlessness to our fellow man, Benway remains a very peaceful place and we cannot allow a few ingrates, a few who are non-progressive of heart and mind to destroy this image of Benway. We are peaceful people, all those in the IDP camps, it remains my priority to get them back home to their ancestral front lines.