Our next testifier will be Gregory Goddells and he is an author with ML today. Marxism Leninism today is the electronic journal of Marxist Leninist thought. Gregory, you got to unmute. Okay. You can hear me. Yep. Great. This is a great event and this is a needed event. I can't speak to how how needed this is. In my opinion, probably the greatest obstacle to progress in our time. Today is to overcome the 20 evils of anti communism and racism. I think they are the obstacles to our moving forward. I appreciate the invite. Too often when you study anti communism in the United States, it's relegated to the celebrities, the Hollywood 10 professors that were repressed, or liberals who were painted with the same brush and were unfairly treated as though they were persecuted and persecuted accordingly. Very few stays are devoted to the small people, the little people that in fact were communists. And they're often name was victims, there were thousands, maybe 10,000 of them in the course of the Cold War. And this work where I live is an area that was hit particularly hard for several reasons one reason because the Communist Party here had a large working class character. It represented many ethnic groups and had strong black membership and leadership in the area. In addition, of course, this is a center Pittsburgh's center of corporate America. And that made it a particularly hot area. For that reason, commentator like David caught in his book, the great fear the anti communist purge under Truman and Eisenhower described Pittsburgh as the epicenter of the repression and a chapter entitled Helen Pittsburgh. And among all the victims, I wish I could. Most along forgotten, I did have the privilege of meeting. Many of those victims, I came to Pittsburgh in 1969. They suffered job losses, public shaming, lost the friends in the relationships. Some went to jail. I can't mention more than a few but I'd like to give you the flavor I think their names should not be missing from history. Unfortunately, they, they, they have been. One was Becky Horowitz.  I'm going on for ballot status for the Communist Party in the, in the 30s. The Pittsburgh press, one of our then local newspapers, I competed for this kind of activity, printed the names the addresses and the occupations of all the petitioners. And that was put in out to the public, in order to embarrass these people. She was arrested for falsifying petitions because the authorities had then gotten people to attest that. They offered things if they would sign a petition, they were threatened bullied to sign a petition. The Communist Party in Western Pennsylvania decided not to contest these arrests because they did not want to embarrass, or bring forth charges against the people that were making them even though they were victimizing people Becky and her case, she had a young son in school, went to jail for six or eight months, based upon the this this anti communism. A couple of wonderful, wonderful people that I met when I moved here that had the most integrity that I've ever experienced Alan Thomas and Joseph Sonny Robinson. They both worked at crucible steel in Pittsburgh, they're both steel workers, both elected union officials. They had, they had things planted in the lockers, the police came in, they arrested them, they fired them, they lost their jobs. They were left to find some kind of other employment. In the case of Alan, funny, funny incident, the appeal this to this union. And he petitioned the union on a third occasion. They asked him if he supported the second front. If you follow World War two politics you know the second front was when most people in this country wanted to see the US attack the Germans and form a second front is to fight the Germans, when the Soviets were carrying the burden of the war. And of course he says he was really for a second front in Mississippi. And that went over like a lead balloon and he was not allowed to get back his job. Another old comrade was Leon swimmer a baker. He was a young man, and along with a number of progressives and communists decided they were going to integrate a pool in Pittsburgh pools were all all the public pools were segregated. And I went to Highland Park a small area in Pittsburgh, and they jumped in the pools were chased out. Leon was beaten beaten badly as a consequence of this, but but that's it was one of the shiny moments of his life in his fight. And maybe the most egregious example is Lou Bortz. Absolutely wonderful human being a veteran of Spanish Civil War veteran of World War two that is living as an appliance repair man. And it's called before the McCarthy hearings, not you act not the House on American Activity Committee, but the McCarthy hearings appeared without a lawyer was charged with planning the assassination of Senator McCarthy. The same day he appeared Jewish American, the Rosenbergs were executed. So you can imagine the atmosphere at that time. As a result of this, of course he lost his jobs. He tried to lost his family, alienated his friends, hacked out a living. These were all victims of other personalities in Pittsburgh his name should never be forgotten forgotten. And they were the snitches they were the, they were the informers hardy Matuso Joseph Masai, Matt's vetic. As time proceeded as these as the courts generated and went through these, these cases, they are all identified as liars alcoholics unreliable and so on, but the damage was done to these people and hundreds of other people in Pittsburgh. I had the pleasure of meeting them. I had the pleasure of knowing these people and they were some of the greatest people I ever met, but what they went through was unconscionable, but more and conscionable is the fact that the legacy their legacy and the legacy of others remains undefended, unnoticed, unacknowledged. I'm reminded of a Pittsburgh songwriter folk singer that you all know I'm sure Anne Feeney, a people singer who died recently, and she had a song she has a song she's dead but she has a song about what she asked, who was jailed for justice. And she had written another stanza and that stanza would have been who has been persecuted scandalized, who has been lost their job lost their family their friends, who has been jailed for for and surveilled by the FBI, who has an FBI number. I'm very proud to say that, having known these people. I got my own note FBI numbers so I am a moralized to, and the files of the FBI, and proud to be. And I asked that people now so called progressives today, who are seeing the FBI as heroes. Seeing them as heroes, revisit this era revisit this history, and learn who the FBI really is. Thank you. Thank you so much, Gregory, and it's great to see you. We've chatted and I really love your writing on ml today. Thank you. And yes, I'm asking you in the chat if people would do this if you have a brief comment you want to make if you have any stories like the last couple that we've heard we want to hear just get the flavor of McCarthyism. And of course it wasn't just in Washington DC they took it on a road show and it was all over the United States be persecuting. I want to I'm not sure ladies running the show. If you have pictures to put up right now. But in case you don't I'm just gonna. Okay, good. Ladies are good. I don't even need my book my copy. This is an amazing, amazing book I just spent three straight days reading a conspiracy so immense. And it was one of the things that spurred me to, you know, to a few of us to start this a few years ago so it's a frightening frightening book.


Truboelectric nanogenerators, Tengs, harvest ambient mechanical energy and convert it into electrical energy. Here, the authors couple surface polarization from contact electrification with dielectric polarization from a ferroelectric material in vacuum to dramatically enhance the Teng output power. This article was authored by Jia Wang, Changxing Wu, Yijing Dai, and others.


There are countless ancient sites found all over the planet that are not only far older than current academically claimed by individuals funded to come up with specifically permitted dates for their creation, selling one's integrity in favor of financial securities and an authoritative position within society offered to them in return for their obedient deceits. Like a mule guided by a carrot, these individuals not only fear losing such reputations and handsome incomes if one were to tell the truthful story regarding said sites, but they unquestionably turn a blind eye to the many areas that I cover, which are often not only implausible to state where the work of the particular permitted re-inhabitants placed much closer to us within history, but to suggest that such ancestors were capable of said feats is simply a preposterous claim. They often knowingly and deliberately overlook such features, due to their lack of any plausible explanation for such accomplishments. As such, with many ancient sites simply ignored or are disguised as closed book cases with a dull, deliberately disinteresting tale of origin. These academics have some of the most intimate access to these ruins, yet deny the world's population a true account of said relics. For to suggest that a civilization less advanced than us accomplished the placement of megaliths far into the thousands of tons precisely atop one another with awe-inspiring stonework details and polygonal brickwork seemingly created like a puzzle of unique pieces among many other baffling features, I feel, is a proof of a deliberate agenda-driven conspiracy concealing said site's true origins. These unexplainable anomalies, the main reason why said individuals perceive me as a threat, not only to their funding but also their positions of trusted authority within modern society. For the truths I tell, due to the inexplicable nature of their existence and their lack of exposure within academic studies, exposed the field as a funded organized group of deceivers. These features are simply impossible for them to explain, yet they continue to claim that they were built by people who were undeniably incapable of such feats. This is why many unexplainable artifacts simply vanish, and why many ancient sites are not only brushed under the proverbial carpet but said features overlooked, ignored, and not mentioned at all. And our next relic is no exception. Many people have heard of the Great Wall of China, one of the only ancient ruins which is so large it can be seen from space. A very famous wall, yet an even greater number of people are unaware of another Great Wall which can be found within India. Successfully overlooked by modern historians and antiquarians alike, this wall, known as the Kumpalgar, has been claimed to be merely a recently created ruin. Yet I feel, just like the many other ancient ruins found around the globe, is far older than currently claimed. It is of an astonishing size, and a number of alternative so-called fringe researchers, which academics like to derogatorily call them, have found substantial evidence that not only is the upper layers far older than claimed, but the entire wall sits upon a foundation immensely older than the wall we see today. A foundation that many have concluded is so old that it had simply turned to dust through the eons, rebuilt at a currently unknown time within antiquity. The wall stretches an astonishing 22 miles, and once protected hundreds of extremely ancient dwellings, and measured at over 40 feet thick, to suggest that such a feat could have been accomplished by our more recent ancestors, who the founders of mainstream academia permits is a tough posit to agree with. For if such claim were true, why is the wall seemingly ignored by modern history? I feel, the reason the wall has been successfully kept largely unknown is due to the fact that if openly studied and widely known of, more people would research such site, eventually realizing, like many before them, that the wall is far older than currently claimed, and possesses such enormous amounts of stone, along with an immensely older foundation, that current claims of its origins and age are simply incorrect, and a clear attempt to shrug off this astonishing structure as a reasonably modern creation which they hope will not be looked at closely. An attempt to close the book on a possible antediluvian ruin, which many people as a result told with a dull deceptive history for its existence, which not only stifles one's interest regarding the wall's origin, but deters the curious from ever investigating the wall's truly astonishing nature. A motivation which I feel is the main driving force behind its lack of public exposure. Who rebuilt the Great Wall of India? How old is its far older, highly eroded foundation? The Great Wall of India was an astonishing feat of ancient engineering, a feat that academia would prefer stay largely unknown. A reality which I find highly compelling. If you enjoy our content, if you think our battle worthy, please help us to continue our voyage of discovery in unraveling the mysteries of history. Links to donate can be found within the description. Without you, we cannot survive. Thank you.


Hello everybody, my name is Aksana, and today I will present our work with Ron Kanetian-Sanu Park about fully-deniable interactive encryption. When we talk about public key encryption, we usually have an eavesdropping attack in mind. However, in this paper, we are looking at a stronger adversary called a cursor, who has an additional power. After the communication happens, this adversary can come to both parties and demand to see all their randomness used to transmit a plain text. Most encryptions are not protecting against this kind of attacks because they are committing. For example, in El Gamal encryption scheme, the first component of the ciphertext uniquely determines the randomness of the sender, and therefore the sender has no other option other than to truly disclose its plain text and random coins. To mitigate this kind of attacks, the notion of deniable encryption wasn't reduced. And this is the main purpose of this work, we are asking whether it's possible to communicate deniably, potentially with many rounds. Note that coercion attacks capture not just coercion per se, they are actually applicable in any scenario, where parties have some incentive to disclose their true coins and randomness and the plain text, for example, in a bribery case. It is instructive to look at the case where parties have a pre-shared secret key. When this is available, deniable encryption can be very easy, just send a one-time pad of the message, and it's easy to set up the fake key key prime to match any desired target fake plain text m prime. However, the question is how to come up with such a key to begin with in a deniable manner. For example, if Diffie-Hellman key exchange is used, then the key is committed to by the transcript, and thus we are back to the same problem. Therefore, in this work we are focusing on the notion of a public key deniable encryption, which was introduced in 1996, and the idea is exactly to mitigate this kind of attacks where the adversary can demand from the parties to see all their random coins. More concretely, deniable encryption comes with two additional algorithms called sender fake and receiver fake, where sender fake algorithm takes as input everything the sender knows, this includes its true random coins s, the communication transcript, the true plain text and the desired fake plain text m prime, and this algorithm will output fake sender coins s prime, which is consistent with a given transcript, no matter what it really encrypted. In a similar fashion, receiver fake will produce fake coins of the receiver consistent with a given target fake plain text m prime. Security requirement roughly says that the adversary cannot tell whether it sees true keys or fake keys. More concretely, it shouldn't be able to distinguish between the following two distributions. In one case, it sees an encryption of some innocent message like a cat, and the parties disclose their true random coins. In the other case, the adversary sees an encryption of a sensitive message, but the parties give it fake random coins consistent with the innocent message. In particular, if the adversary tries to decrypt the given cipher text with a given key, in both cases, it will get an innocent message. And moreover, these two distributions are required to be indistinguishable. The original paper considers three different cases of deniability, depending on which party gets coerced. In this work, we are considering the strongest case when both parties can get coerced. Note that in this case, it is very important that both parties claim the same fake plain text, otherwise the adversary can easily tell that they align. Nevertheless, we also consider an additional definition of deniability, which we call off-the-record deniability, which exactly aims to capture some security even in inconsistent case. We are inspired by the fact that ideal secure channel will provide some protection to the parties even in this case. For example, the parties maybe didn't have a chance to coordinate on their fake stories, or maybe the receiver turned against the sender and decided to prove to everybody else that the sender has sent a particular sensitive message to him. It can do so by revealing its true secret coins of the receiver, even though the sender can make a counterclaim by giving fake coins consistent with different plain text, it could be that the combination of receiver true coins and the sender fake coins still reveals what the true plain text is. Deniable encryption doesn't give any protection in this kind of scenario, however, in the ideal channel case, the parties would still be protected. Off-the-record deniability exactly aims to capture this kind of protection. Note that the standard deniability and off-the-record deniability are incomparable, however, together they give the protection akin to secure channel. Let me briefly mention the definition here, so the adversary should not be able to tell which world it sees. In all three worlds it will see that the sender sent a kitten and the receiver received a dog, however, in one world the true message was the kitten, in the other world it was the dog, and in the third world it was yet another sensitive message. It's important to realize that deniable encryption won't solve all your problems. If your fake plain text is not very believable to begin with, then creating keys will not make it any better. Deniable encryption doesn't tell you how to pick your fake plain text. Indeed, this is a problem even in the ideal world. Rather, as long as you have some fake plain text, be it believable or not, deniable encryption tells you that the keys will not degrade the level of how believable it is. Let me briefly mention some related notions. Non-committing encryption has a similar flavor as deniable encryption, meaning it allows to open some cypher texts in arbitrary manner to different plain texts. However, this fake opening can be only done with respect to simulated cypher texts. Said otherwise, non-committing encryption only allows to fake as part of a mental experiment. True cypher text cannot be faked. A more relevant notion for us is a notion which came up under different names in different papers and with slight variations of the definition, which I will call a flexible deniability. This deniability gives a weaker form of deniability, which can be called a plausible deniability, and the idea there is that parties can use a special fake entrapter in order to come up with fake coins. However, the adversary does not learn this fake entrapter because parties claim that they have never generated it. Security of the schemes is crucially based on the fact that the adversary believes the fact that this fake entrapter was never generated. In contrast, in this work we are considering full deniability, where the adversary is fully aware of the fact that parties are running deniable encryption scheme. In particular, if this encryption instructs parties to pick any trapdoors, the adversary expects to see these trapdoors as well. Let me talk about some prior work. So the original paper which introduced the notion of deniable encryption also gave the first construction of sender deniable encryption, however the detection probability there was not negligible. It was inverse polynomial in the size of the cypher text, which means that to get negligible advantage you have to send super polynomial large cypher text. The study of deniable encryption came with first an impossibility result by abandoning it all, which said that receiver deniable encryption is impossible in two rounds. This automatically means that the by deniable encryption in two rounds is impossible as well. A couple of years later in a beautiful paper The High End Waters showed how to build sender deniable encryption from obfuscation. This settles the landscape of two-round protocols and shows that deniable encryption is basically impossible in two rounds. However, does this mean that we have to give up? No, maybe we can build something in more rounds, maybe we can build deniable encryption in three rounds akin to key exchange protocols. And indeed, if we move to the three-round setting it's very easy to combine prime work to get a three-round receiver deniable encryption. In fact, it's very easy to transform it into a sender or receiver deniable encryption where the adversary can adaptively choose which party will get corrupted. However, all these approaches crucially rely on the fact that some part of the secret state of parties remains secret to the adversary. It's not even clear a priori whether it's possible to get a fully deniable encryption in doesn't matter how many rounds, because the adversary can see all the transcript of the communication and all the state of the parties. Nevertheless, in this work we show a positive result. We show that it's possible to get deniable encryption which satisfies both the standard deniability and our new notion of all the record deniability and does essentially emulate secure channels in the presence of coercive adversary. This protocol requires only three rounds which is optimal given the impossibility result. And the protocol requires pretty strong assumptions of sub-exponentially secure obfuscation. Our scheme also requires a setup in the form of a CRS which consists of a bunch of obfuscated programs. These programs can be reused many times. Before going into the construction, let's look at why deniable encryption cannot exist in two rounds. Intuitively, the problem is that once you start lying, you have to keep lying and remember all the lies and this is a problem. More concretely, assume the adversary sees the challenge transcript and the challenge secret key. Let's say that this secret key was already fake with respect to this transcript and I will denote this by the edge on the picture. Roughly the attack goes as follows. First, the adversary has to generate multiple related transcripts. I am not defining what exactly related transcript means but it's very easy to generate them in a two-round case by simply producing fresh ciphertext under the same public key. Then the adversary should take the challenge secret key and fake it again with respect to the second transcript it generated. Now the resultant secret key should remember the lies about two transcripts. Now the adversary can keep doing this and eventually it will get a secret key which is fake with respect to multiple transcripts. Now the secret key is a fixed size string and it can only remember that much information theoretically. Therefore, as long as we keep doing this for a long time, eventually the resultant secret key will have to forget some lies. The paper of Bentley net all shows that eventually it will have to forget the lie about the very first challenge transcript and therefore this eventual secret key can be used to decrypt the challenge transcript honestly. To build a scheme in three rounds we need to avoid Web of Lie attack in three rounds. As I said in two rounds it's inherent that you can reuse the public key and therefore generate multiple transcripts. However in three rounds we can try to avoid this by essentially letting the sender commit to its random coins in the first round and the hope is that then there is only one valid third round message from the sender and indeed our first attempt follows this paradigm. So the first two messages exchanged by the parties will be basically the hashes of everything the parties know so far. Concretely the sender will send the hash of its sender randomness s and the plain text m and the receiver will send the hash of the first message message 1 and its random coins r and it will be the third round when the actual plain text will be transmitted to the receiver. Concretely the sender will encrypt under the key which I'm not talking about yet the plain text and the history of communication so far. Then the receiver can decrypt it again I'm not talking about how and learn the plain text and the question is why is this deniable or how to make it deniable. Indeed the first message for example depends on the plain text and therefore to make it deniable the sender should have some way of inverting this hash with respect to a different plain text. Here is where obfuscation comes in. We will let the CRS contain all the programs of deniable encryption in an obfuscated form and in particular now the parties do not have to perform any computation on their own. They should only run obfuscated programs and send over their output. To make the programs deniable we will use the beautiful technique from Sahay and Waters which basically enables the deniability of arbitrary algorithm. This is not very important for the stock but roughly their idea is that obfuscation can hide where the program is doing the actual computation like a hash or whether it's running some special trapdoor execution which will simply output any output you wanted to. Moreover they show how to come up with special algorithms sender fake and receiver fake which can let parties find the proper randomness which will trigger this trapdoor execution. Now the question is okay at this moment we have a scheme which doesn't allow for web of lie attack and where every message is explainable. Aren't we done? Don't we have already deniable encryption scheme? And the answer turns out to be not yet. What we've gone so far is a local consistency meaning if the adversary looks at every single algorithm on its own it will be deniable. However this doesn't mean that the adversary who sees all the values in the system cannot tell the true plain text and in fact it turns out that our scheme so far is not secure. So we wanted our web of lie attacks to not go through by saying that we cannot generate related transcripts anymore and indeed this is why we came up with all those hashes. However reality turns out to be very different from our expectations. And indeed one of the contributions of this work is to show that in any three round scheme there is always a way to come up with related transcripts. This is what we call a chain in attacks. Since related transcripts are unavoidable we need to make sure we protect against web of lie attack. And it turns out that in three round case you can protect against this attack as long as the scheme follows a special decryption behavior. We call this a comparison based decryption logic. Here is what it says. Assume the adversary generates a bunch of related transcripts and then takes say the transcript number four and uses it to generate fake randomness r of the receiver or think about it as a secret key of the receiver. Then it takes this result in fake secret key and tries to decrypt other transcripts. What should decryption algorithm do? We say that it should do the following. If the target decrypted transcript is ahead of the chain, say it's transcript number five, six and so on, then decryption should decrypt honestly. However if it is before transcript number four on the chain, in particular if it is the challenge transcript, then decryption should refuse to decrypt. It turns out that once this behavior is in place, the resulting scheme will indeed be secure. However the question is how to enable this behavior? Indeed, decryption algorithm has no idea about the chain. It only takes as input receiver randomness r and the transcript. It has no idea where they are positioned in the chain. Thus we need to enhance the scheme to make sure the decryption has all the information it needs to make a proper decision about the decryption process. In particular we do the following. First we change the scheme so that every transcript in the chain actually knows its own index in the chain. What does this mean to know the index? It means that the transcript will have an encrypted index inside it for the message. I am not telling you how to produce how to set up this change. However once this change is in place, it is very easy to set up the scheme so that every fake r also knows the index of its parent transcript in the chain. Indeed the receiver of faking algorithm can simply look up the index of a transcript and then copy it inside the resulting fake r. Once these indices are sitting inside the proper values we can have a decryption algorithm which looks at these indices, compares which one is bigger and based on that makes its decryption decision. To set up this kind of information we need to modify all the major programs of our deniable encryption scheme to make sure the proper information gets passed around in different values such as fake s, fake r and the transcript. Let me conclude my talk with the final overview of the scheme. So as I said the CRS will contain all the obfuscated programs of deniable encryption and then parties will simply run the proper program and send over the result of this program. As I said before the first two messages are essentially hashes of everything parties know so far and in fact we implement them using very special prfs which have to be IO friendly. The third message of deniable encryption will actually carry the plain text and in addition it will also encrypt zero. What is this zero? This has nothing to do with the plain text this is the index of this transcript in a potential chain which the adversary can try to generate. So this is always set to zero in an honestly generated transcript. As I said all the programs should be set up in a special way to make sure that the proper flow of information is ensured within the scheme. In particular the third program of the sender should make sure that the proper index gets inside the cipher text and the decryption program of the receiver should make sure it follows the decryption logic and decides whether to output the message or return an error. This concludes the high level overview of our scheme. I encourage everybody to take a look at the paper we have updated an imprint and the section two should give a very good overview of the scheme in fact it's almost complete overview. If you have any questions me and my co-authors will be happy to take them over email and thank you very much for your attention.


Hey, this is Brett, and this 2013 Ford Taurus show is stock number 12618Z. We're here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and use car headquarters. This 2013 Ford Taurus show has the 3.5 liter V6 twin turbocharged engine in it. It puts out 365 horsepower. This car has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this car is 100% ready to go. We're going to go all the way around, inside started up. Take a look under the hood in this video. Tuxedo black metallic is the color and we shoot all of our videos in 1080p. 60 frames per second, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options, and cleanliness of the car before seeing it in person. 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Welcome to INSIGHT, produced in partnership with Lakeland Public Television, serving North Central Minnesota. Today we are chatting with Sandy Hennem, Executive Director of Village of Hope. Sandy has generously agreed to share some of her experience with us. I'd like to thank you Sandy for joining us today. Thank you for having me. Let's talk about Village of Hope. What does Village of Hope do here in this area of the country? Village of Hope is an emergency shelter for families experiencing homelessness. So we provide support services and actually 24-hour emergency shelter for families. And families are kind of defined loosely. So however, our clients identify as a family. We have grandparents raising children, nieces. We have dual parents, single parents. As long as children under 18 are part of the family, we serve them at Village of Hope. So you deliver hope to people who at that moment in time are looking at a path with only barriers, with no hope. And hope is actually the first ingredient that we try to give people because families come to us and they're exactly what you said. They've had so many barriers, they don't trust people, they're exhausted, they've tried everything, they've tried strategies and nothing works. And they're pretty much ready to kind of give up. And so the very first thing we really try to bring back is their sense of hope. Because if you don't have that, it's very hard to continue to get up and go and go and do the things that you need to do for your future. So how do people come to you and what does that initial conversation look like? People come to us in many different ways. We have a lot of people that come to us self-referral. We're a smaller community and so people know about Village of Hope. Maybe they've had a family member or a friend that have gone through a program. And one of the things that I teach when they leave is who can help me with this problem. That's one of those strategies. And so they kind of take that with them and they say, I think Village of Hope can help you with these problems. So you have 15,000 people in the immediate area. Is that your service area? Are you localized in the city of Bemidjin? Pretty much northwestern Minnesota. And so how many people would fall within your service area? Probably 70,000. And it's a considerable geographic range that you're covering. It is. Just to be able to communicate with people is going to be difficult. This is not, very often these are people who don't necessarily have access to telephone communication, cellular communications, and so on. So you have the distance issues. And then you also have these issues of pride and you have the issues of respect and you have the issues of self-sufficiency and trust and all these. So when you have your first conversation, your first conversation is very often not about the specific services that you're providing. The first conversation is really about creating some sort of a communication, some sort of a personal connection. There's three values that we have at Village of Hope. It's respect. And so everything that we do surrounds respect. Respect. And you see the person. You see the person. You listen to the person. And we listen to each other as team members. I mean, we practice respect first with each other. And then the next one is family first. Family first. Keeping the families together, honoring their culture and their family culture. And then the third one is collaboration. Give us some insight of the type of stories that you experience in serving people. And what you learn in the course of your service. I would say, by and large, in this area, because poverty is such a huge factor for us in this area, generational poverty is something that really breeds that homelessness. And talk about the generational piece. What do you mean by generational poverty? Steminal poverty is when you've had at least two or possibly three generations that live in poverty. And so when you are raised in poverty, it's really hard to get out of poverty. And so many of our, I would say the majority of our adults that come to us were homeless as children. It's not a mountain to climb. It's a vertical ascent without a ladder. Exactly. And so you're looking at this and you just don't know where to go. Start. Exactly. So once you have gotten so far as you've established some sort of basis for trust, and now you're ready to talk about some sort of concrete service, you've listened to your client, what type of services do you offer? How do you initially do your intake and what is the first kind of thing that you provide? We have a wide variety of services and it's really based on that environment. We work hard on not re-traumatizing and to making sure that when people come to us, they know that they're in charge, they're in charge of their decisions. We do have rules. When you live in society, you have rules. And re-traumatizing means that you're not taking somebody and just sort of dumping them into an unfamiliar environment and telling them that that's good for them. And just do this, right? I know better. I know better than you. You seize control from somebody who feel like they're losing the control that they've had over their lives and then you make it worse by then imposing certain solutions. Exactly. Right. Instead of listening to what they do. So talk about the different ways that you serve under those circumstances. The first thing we do is we do a tour and so people really get an opportunity to look at their environment. Village of Hope is a unique service in the fact that everybody has their own apartment. So you're not in a big room with many other different people. With bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. You have that opportunity to be a family. And so you're able to go in and close the door. Everybody has their own bathrooms. Everybody has their own bedrooms. So you really have that opportunity. We had a little boy that we were just showing the family to and his eyes got huge and he looked at me and he said, I get my own bed. I mean that's the kind of thing that families don't even have the experience with a little boy having that opportunity to have his own bed. And one of the things that you're doing there, particularly for people who have trans-generationally lived in poverty, is you are basically starting the process of showing how to build that ladder. Strategies. Strategies for building that ladder and the possibilities that might be accessible. And so that's just the start of the process. So once you bring people into that place of safety with all the mixed emotions that people who have accepted this type of support will be feeling, how do you then proceed? We have a two-generational approach at Village of Hope and we use that very specifically because we know that you just can't work with the children or you just can't work with the adults. It really is. If we want to really break that cycle of homelessness, we have to start with the children. So we have something really unique and amazing at Village of Hope called PEACH. And it's physical and emotional awareness for children who are homeless. And on the ground we say for children's health and happiness. And we have a master's program teacher that comes in and spends time with them. They do different kinds of things. A lot of times they do coping strategies. She gives them different kinds of words to use, how to interpret their feelings, a lot of healthy lifestyle kinds of things that they might not have had the opportunity to learn because their parents never had that opportunity to learn. So we start with the children. And so we have a program with that. We also have what's called the Youth Achievement Program where as children they go to school, they brush their teeth. They help their parents with their chores. They have the opportunity to earn tokens. And then they go to the store and they can pick out whatever they want out of these. So we're helping the children kind of get some control over their environment as well. One very often hears the parable of the fish where you don't want to give somebody a fish. You want to teach them to fish. But when someone is hungry and in distress, they don't have time yet to learn how to fish. So you give them a fish and then while they are benefiting from what you have provided, you teach them skills. And that's essentially the work that you're doing. You're doing both simultaneously, neither neglecting the immediate need nor the future learning that is required. Yes, it's a balance. We're putting in a balance. So you approach the children first. The parents are probably focused on the immediate need whereas for the children you can actually deal with the longer term question. Does that inflect at a certain point in which you are then helping the parents in a way that deals with their long term need? Are you helping the parents to learn how to fish? Yes. Absolutely we are. Every morning at nine o'clock you will find every adult at Village of Hope in our main dining room and we are, we're coming to class. And I have the opportunity to teach what's called power hour. And it's not your traditional class where you learn, you learn to fill out a budget or you learn how to interview or they can get those things other places. But we're really teaching people how to think about themselves for the future. What kinds of passions are they thinking about? Just give them that hour to really step back and think what do I want for the future? What kind of job do I want to have? So we talk about the power of positive thinking. We talk about goal setting. We talk about budgeting as it, as it intercepts with poverty and abundance versus the scarcity mindset. And we talk about the power of speaking positively to yourself and other people. And we also do a parenting class, our, our same person that does our peach class comes in and does a support group just for parents in transition. And that has been so popular that we're actually opening it up to other people in the community. So we might have social workers that will call and say, I hear your support group is really powerful. Can my client come? Or we might have people from a judge or the courts might court order somebody to come. And they're not happy when they come. But after the first 10 minutes, they're like, I am so glad I came. This is something that adds value to their life. That's what we want. I want them not only to get a house when they leave, but I want them to experience value, value that they can take with them and use these lessons for a lifetime. Sandy Hennem, thank you so much for sharing the work and the details of the work of Village of Hope. And thank you so much for your insights.


What's going on everybody welcome back to another breaking news story and we have some big names from the top ten seeds That are out of the competition quarter finals are starting tomorrow So that would be a good time to wrap up the first week and some of the big seeds that have fallen so far Let's get straight to the list starting with the men's competition We have Dominic team the number three in the world he lost in the fourth round the number eight Diego Schwartzman he lost in the third round gay on my face lost in the first round number ten seed Of course the number eleven seed Shapa Valov He lost in the third round the number twelve seed Batista a guru He lost in the first round the number thirteen seed Goffin also lost in the first round the number fourteen seed Milosh Rionich he lost in the fourth round and the fifteen seed Karina Buster lost in the third round jumping over to the women's side and the top ten Have been absolutely decimated starting with the defending champion and the number four seed Sophia Kenan She lost in the second round the number five seeds Federlina She lost in the fourth round today number six seed Pliscava She's out lost in the third round the number seven seed Sabalenka lost in the fourth round the number eight seed on Drescu lost in the second round also the number nine seed Kovitava she lost in the second round as well the number eleven seed Benchich She lost in the third round and the number twelve seed Azarenka lost in the first round So some big names on the men and the women's side. We've got the defending champion Sophia Kenan She's gone the men's finalist of last year Dominic team He's also gone and then some contenders like Schwartzman, Svetlina, Andrescu, Pliscava, Sabalenka, Shapovalov They are all out of the tournament now. So the quarterfinals especially for the women We've got a lot of unseated players, but let me know down in the comments below Who's the biggest shock for you losing in the first week before the quarterfinals stage? So quarterfinals start tomorrow and it's going to be missing a couple of big names


African needs to be built by African. We need to believe in our natural assets that we have, which is the landscape, the minerals, the rich culture. A lot of non-Africans are profiting from African resources, but us, we are not because we don't believe in Africa is African. Good morning. Still on November land. Believe me or not, this has been one of the best experience ever. And I just want to tell you all that, if you ever come to Namibia, please try and explore the northern part of Namibia. You know, the last time I was here, I loved it, but it was just a day, but this time I ended up spending like almost 10 days in here. Oh my goodness. This is a Angola homestead. This is how the Vambo people used to live and one person decided to, I mean, transform the homestead into a lodge. It's crazy. I mean, people who do something like this are super crazy because there is no tourist attraction in here, but she felt like doing something like this to celebrate its own people so that other people will come and experience their own culture. This is not a show. This is a live homestead where I was born. When you come to Angola homestead, that is how we live. It's not a show set up for the tourists. This is an authentic. It's the first lodge in November land located in the middle of a village in the homestead. And the idea is to offer authentic village homestead experience and to promote and preserve our culture. A lot of youngsters and our kids are growing up in town, but they are missing out on our culture. I think the person behind this deserves a round of applause. This is where I slept. You might think that, oh, that's a madhouse. Now, if I take you in there, you will definitely be shocked. Dimey. Good morning, ma'am. Ah, I thought you would be sleeping. No, I'm in the early bed. Early bed. Oh, wow. Actually, you're not lying to me. I'm not lying. So I came here with timing to get out with the rest of the team. Yeah. And how has the notice been? We experienced the different cultural activities. I think for me, it was the authenticity. It was so authentic. It was very real. I'm a bamboo myself. I belong to the bamboo culture, but I've never seen this type of activities in depth like that. Wow. So yeah, this was insightful for me. Very insightful. And I think I encourage everybody to have experienced this, even just once in a lifetime. Even once in a lifetime. Yeah. I just read on the internet that the person who owns this is a woman. Yes, it is. Can you believe it? I'm so proud of her. She's empowering the youth. I've seen so many people walking around this place. She employs all those people. I'm proud of her. And one thing that really shocks me is the fact that even this is, yeah, this is a lodge, right? Yeah. But in the day, her house is just right behind her. Yeah. Right. So she built the lodge behind her house. Her parent's house. That's her parent's house. Yeah. And the house is still in its authentic form. Yeah. Which I think it's incredible. And one thing that really surprised me, the fact that when she established this lodge, she felt like she knew to educate or empower the youth in this community. With the academia, of course. And that's when she set up an academy. Yeah. The only economy in the rural area is the shebeens. Shebeens is the only thing that was there to do nothing else. Then we thought, let's start an academy called Shebeenscape so that the youth escape shebeens, come to a safe hub, learn skills. When they go back, they must start running their dressmaking shop or catering businesses, but in a more professional and hygienic way. And I think I'm so, I'm so happy that she, she also allows the guests to, you know, perusal through her parents' house. I mean, it's private space, but she said, you know, guys, I want you to have the full on experience so you can definitely go through and have an actual village tour. The one running. It's amazing, man. I've never seen anything like this before. But to be honest, for me, I feel like this is one of the best places I've ever been because I've been able to enjoy myself in my own authentic way. Listen, I mean, this is my kind of place.  I think even yesterday, the conversation we were having about, it's so cool how we were in our element. Yes, we were creating, but we were having so much fun and it felt so free. It just felt like, you know, so peaceful. We were really in that element. Exactly. Yeah. So I'm just going to tell you, choose Angula. Village Homestead. See, it's a village, you know, and it takes a village to raise a child. But when I was growing up, I never knew that in the evening you have to, like, sit somewhere and then have meetings. You know, when we came here, we have two people in our team that loves having a meeting in here and they have a meeting in here with alcohol. So if you love alcohol, my brother, this is actually the best place for you. Imagine sitting in here drinking alcohol, fire is on. Whoa. Believe me or not, this is the best experience ever. Many times I have to say this on this channel and I don't know how many times people have been trying to discourage me from putting Africa on the map. I don't know how hard you're going to try to stop me from telling the positive stories about Africa because anytime I try to preach about the positives of Africa, so many of you come at me, especially Africans, telling me that, yo, Africa is not perfect. And I don't remember the last time I stood in here to say that Africa is perfect. What inspires me to do more of what I do is the fact that Africa got its own challenges, but few Africans are carrying Africa on their back, taking control of their own narrative, just to change the Africa that we all know. And this is why I am here to celebrate them. I am here to let you know that people like this exist despite their challenges. The woman that I'm going to celebrate today deserves a round of applause from all of us. Good morning, Madam Thilia. Good morning, Namibia. Left this country, came back, saw the problems that most of us have been seeing, but she decided to solve the problem in her own way. This is what I stand for and the best way to clap for her is to hit the like button. Subscribe for more stories like this. Thank you. Oh, wow. You know, I guess you have many Ghanaian friends then. Yes, I grew up, I did my high school with Ghanaian. Wow. Were you born and raised in Namibia? Yes, born and bred in Namibia, but I did part of my high school in Cuba, and we were sharing one high school with students from Ghana. How did you end up in Cuba then? Long story, I, with a group of young girls in 1988, we decided to live in Namibia without the knowledge of our parents. We went to Angola and we were fortunate to be the group of students that were sent to Cuba to complete the high school. Hmm. You left just like that or you left because of a particular reason? At the age of 15, that particular year, 1988, most of the schools in northern part of the country were being closed in protesting against or in favor of the implementation of the resolution, UN Resolution 435. We wanted as a country to be given an opportunity to conduct a democratic election. And because that was not granted, a lot of youth in the country started demonstrating and closing schools. And I read in the church newsletters that all the kids that are crossing into Angola, they are in safe hand and they are being sent to school. And a best friend of mine left earlier and I thought there's no way Monika is going to complete grade 10 earlier than me. I'm also going to join the reparation movement. So we ran away from our parents at the age of 15 and I ended up being sent to Cuba. How because you want to be educated? Yeah. Yeah. That's amazing. But you know, I just came in here for the first time and I just want to commend you for the great job that you've done in here. This is incredible and someone coming from Ghana, I never knew something like this actually existed here. And I know and believe that there are so many Namibians who are going to see this video that don't even know that something like this exists in the northern part of Namibia. In the beginning it was difficult because they were in the north central region which used to be called Avambolene. It was a war zone. There's no animals. So tourists exited Tosha using Avambolene as a drive-through to Pune or vice versa. So we started and every tour operator that brings tourists there, they never stop booking us. And in the first year when we started, maybe we'll get a guest one in three months, the whole village is running. They can't start there, they can't start there. The road that we have used now, it was in there, we used to use a feeder road and we put arrows to say this direction, on Gula this direction. And the kettlehead that will come and turn the arrow on the other side and then it will get lost in the village. But everybody was so helpful in the village. The moment they see the tourists, then they say, no, these are looking for the lodge. Then they say, Gula is that side, Homestead is that side. So that's how we started. When I grew up, when I started in London, I had a lot of friends from West Africa. What good thing that I like from West African is the culture. They even send their kids to finish high school first in Ghana or Nigeria and then they come back for the university. Why? Because they don't want them to lose out on the character. But at Namibia, we're losing out on the character because we're growing up in the urban area. Our kids don't come to the village because there's nothing, there's nothing. So Gula Village Homestead is suitable for the international guests, but also to the Namibian boys and girls that are growing up in town. But when they come back home in December, they are bought, they can come to us and learn how to cook the traditional food, mulled in pots, raiting donkey. I swear this is faster than Mercedes Benz. So this area was big under the war area. So this is where they grew and then the villages started developing from here. Oh wow. So that's what we do there. So tourists coming to Angola, they are making such a huge difference to the young boys and girls in rural area, township, and those living in the outskirts of major national parks. And that's how we, when we started, there were no skills. And we thought why don't we also start a center so that the young boys and girls that are just sitting in the shebin because the only economy in the rural area is the shebeens. Shebin is the only thing that was there at Angola, nothing else. Then we thought let's start an academy called Shebin Escape so that the youth escape shebeens, come to a safe hub, learn a skill. We're not saying they shouldn't go back to the shebin, but when they go back, they must start running their dressmaking shop or catering to businesses, but in a more professional and hygienic way. So Angola Academy started with two programs, Hospitality and Swing. So tell me more about this academy. Okay, Homestead Academy, it was established in 2019. So now as it's growing, it's also to improve the rural areas people. So they tend to know that okay, if I go out of school, there's a second chance for me. Yes, I want to improve my people's life of living whereby we have that belief of people saying I know if I'm to go to school, I want to work in the government. For me, it does not work like that. For me is I want to teach them to do something better for themselves and for the next generation to come. Yes.  Yes. A big round of applause man. Okay, thank you. That's so beautiful man. How do you feel when your students graduate and they start having their own farms? It's like I created the world for them. I'll be feeling proud. I can't wait even to go to their farm, visiting their farm and here comes with a plate of tomato or something like that. So definitely that's what I want. In the next two years that's what I want to see. I'm even planning in case one of them will not even have maybe starting capital because in agriculture you don't expect to, people think you need a lot of capital for you to start, but then it's not like that. You can start with a single chicken, but then in the next two months it can give you more than what you expect. Where we are right now is the clothing production of Homestead Schools and Technical Institute, right? Isn't it an institute, an academy? Yes. It's an academy. And who are you and what you're doing here? Labrinha Kanana, I'm doing clothing production at Homestead Schools and Technical Education Academy. The training is according to NTA curriculum, but our training is not limited. We are being trained extra mile. They look for us visiting instructors, not only the ones that are from our country. Visiting instructors like from SA, Philippine, then they train us more. It's not limited. If it's about fashion, we can do anything. I heard you guys are designing what you call the reusable sanitary pad. Are you the one in charge? I'm the one in charge of the group from the construction of the patent for the sanitary pad until the whole process of sewing, I can do all the tasks with the help of the other trainees and our instructors. There is this project that you're working on, which is under the team, Restoring Girls Dignity. Yes. Can you tell me more about that? Because our center is so well equipped and in the evening the machines are underutilized. We thought less start producing things that are needed by the community in our surrounding. And then we also started doing washable sanitary pads because the number of young girls in Africa missing school days due to menstruation because they don't have anything. I grew up in Cuba and in Cuba we used to use cotton and newspaper. So I know, I know it's a problem and more so in the rural area where predominantly the majority of the people are dependent on social grant or income and from running a shipping and selling alcohol. So a number of them are going to miss school days because they don't have the sanitary pads. The project you are talking about of sanitary pad, I was part of the patent making for the sanitary pad from the scratch. All the sizes, we have small, medium and large. I'm part of the everything that is happening here in the home state. You are once a student. I have been a student but I'm also an apprentice. Apprentice means you are you are learning and working at the center. I have been working in the production hub and also attending classes. After attending classes, I come and join the production hub. And later we realized the students that are coming to our center are hungry because some are walking 10 kilometers. Then we thought let's start a garden so that we can give them maybe a vegetable soup or salad. Later we realized this garden is growing and the community are now coming to buy things and then we started offering agriculture. Do I teach her? Yes, definitely. What do you teach in here? So here I teach agriculture. This echoes in the school but now this one is under production hub. So whenever you are teaching people, so there should be something on the ground to show an example that this will what you are doing.  Definitely. Doesn't mean that you have the theory aspect too. You go to the class to teach. Yes, we go in the class, we teach, we come out, we do practical outside, then we show them how things are being done. For example, like yesterday we did transplanting there. So after now having the theory, so we come in the field, then we demonstrate how do we transplant. So which one is suitable for transplanting and which one does not suit for transplanting. Why is this course so important? This course is very much important because in Namibia, so we are not self-reliance when it comes to food security. So now we want to teach everybody so that everyone can able to have its own food. So we don't normally train for to work in the industry, but we train so that everyone should stand on their own because now currently now we don't have a lot of work in Namibia. So for example now, if you have your own land, you can grow your own tomato, own green paper so you can make a business out of it. Are you a student here? Yes, I'm a student here. What are you studying? I'm studying agriculture, hot culture. Only hot culture? Yes. You're not a big fan of poultry? Also poultry is additional. It's additional? Additional. Oh okay. But how long have you been in this school? I have been here one year, two months now. Oh, but how long is the course? The course is one year, six months. One year, six months? Yes. So you're not done? Not yet. Three more months to go? Yes. And after three months, what are you going to do? I just want to have my own farm, plant my own vegetables and provide my own food and help my family make my own money. Wow. Before coming to this school, what were you doing? I was just home doing nothing, but then I came up with the idea of having my own business and the head of this school that there is also agriculture and agriculture is very good in our country. You can make plants, plant anything and sell to the nation. Wow. You want to feed your family or you want to feed the nation? The nation and my family. But myself first. When the tourists want to go in the village, they want to be guided and then we thought, why can't we also offer tour guiding program? So now we offer for discipline, hospitality, clothing, agriculture and tourist guiding. What drives you? It's the passion to support. Everybody is saying, you know, the government is saying we want to create 121 youth rural enterprises. Where will these enterprises are coming from if all of us are just building businesses in urban center? It's fulfilling for me. Everybody's coming to Ongola ask me, you don't make money, but what drives you? I'm busy 24 seven, but that is fulfilling for me to see a young boy or a girl that come to our center with absolutely no hope or nothing. And they work out of our center to become one of the most sought after employees in the industry. So that gives me the drive. It makes me excited to wake up every morning to do what I'm doing. If you're not making more money, or if you're not making a lot of money, or the vision of the company is not to make money, how do you find a project? We it's not to make money, but is to make sure that we run it sustainably. We run it sustainably. If you ask me during COVID, if we were not in rural area, I would have sold Ongola. I would have sold Ongola because it was tough. It was tough, but I met one of the successful tour guide in Uganda and he said, Ilya, don't give up. I have four lodges in national parks in Uganda and I'm happy. Even up to now we are thinking, can we also not maybe get a partner overseas who will be marketing our lodge and send the traffic to us because we're not making it. We're not making it. But yeah, I spend almost my whole time looking for opportunity for the center to be sustainable because the tuition fee alone from the college side of the business will not make us break even. I'm also working on a concept to make Ongola a deep place. If you come to Namibia, any tourists coming to Namibia looking for African cuisine, you don't need to go to Ghana to to have shiitou. You have to come to Ongola. So if you come to Namibia and you are looking for real African cuisine, so we want Ongola to be a place known for the African cuisine. What has been the biggest challenge since you started this? Okay, you also supported the project because the courier shop is supporting the project for the sanitary place. Tourism side of things being located in an area which is not among the classic Namibia tour. I don't understand who came up with classic Namibia tour or I don't know who came up with the 10 top destinations of Namibia. Who said if you don't have animals, you don't have the sea, you don't have the landscape, that's not tourism. That is my biggest challenge that the government is still stuck in the colonial ways of marketing a destination. So being located in off the beaten track is a challenge. So that to me is one of the biggest challenge that the government, we are not in a conservancy, you are not in the classic Namibia tour, you are not in the to me that is a challenge and it keeps me awake every day of my life. And to you, the new dawn of tourism is beyond wildlife and dunes. Yes. That's incredible and I hope and believe that this video will change so many minds for them to choose this destination as a place to sleep. I think I've been here and I know that I will tell the story better than anyone else. If you had a chance to change one thing in Namibia, what would it be? Is to inform the world out there that Namibia is not only about animals and sea, but Namibia is about people. And when you come to Namibia, you need to come and meet people and one of the places to meet people is a mullah of St George. I want to say thank you so much for talking to me and I really appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you.


Freedom, today I want to talk to you about the footage you may not use on a daily basis. So I'm not necessarily talking about your blooper footage. What I want to talk to you about is maybe something that you either shot or maybe gameplay that you filmed and you decided later, maybe I don't want to post this. A great example from me recently and a great way for me to also update you on some of the things that I'm working on is recently I filmed this video which I decided not to post because I didn't think that it stood on its own well enough. Roll the clip! Freedom, today I wanted to ask your opinion on your preference between virtual versus real sets. The reason I'm asking this is because I believe I'm going to start working on a pilot for a show that utilizes a real set. Of course for me that means that I'm gonna have to face some different editing challenges than I'm used to but I'm curious what you have to say on the matter. So which do you like better, virtual or real? I don't know, I kind of feel like I'm split on the issue. Till next time, I'm Anthony. Like, subscribe, comments please. Assume we probably leave it this way rather than every day read.  So as you can see it's kind of a strange short video and also while I was experimenting with backgrounds I also kind of filmed these. This is an early test of a pure white background. Look behind me. This is a test of a pure white background. This is a test of a pure white background. This is a test of a pure white background. Look behind me. Now normally speaking these are not things that I would have released or even shown off because they're testing footage and they just don't jive well. However, the reason that I wanted to share these with you is because there are occasions where you can put these together in short videos almost like this one and you can still utilize them and a lot of times your fans, your followers, your whatever you call them, will enjoy being able to see maybe what they missed out on. Maybe some interim steps. It's also a great way for you to maybe foreshadow other things coming up. I'm not saying that that's what I'm doing with this video or anything. What I'd like to challenge you to do even if it's on, unlisted or private or on a second channel I'd love to see the cool things that you have decided not to post over the years. You can edit it into a small montage. You can link just blooper videos down below.  A lot of times it can be a great exercise just in showing either how far you've grown or whatever the case is. I don't know. Use your imaginations because this is YouTube. That's what this is all about. It's about using your imaginations. And I don't want to hear anybody say that this wouldn't fit their content because I can't really think of anyone whose content this wouldn't fit because it's just fun. So have fun with us. Have fun with your audience. And worst case scenario, if you really believe that it wouldn't fit your content, unlisted is perfectly fine. Anyways, until next time, I'm Anthony. Like, subscribe, comments please.