I'm stuck. And the bunker. This is Martin Herfoot, who will introduce himself. Hi, my name is Martin. I'm with Salzburg Research Austria, and I'm mainly concerned about the presentation and demonstration today. So it would be nice if you switched on your Bluetooth if you have it. So we have a little more statistics to show you in the end. We won't have you on this. Okay, today I'm going to go through some definitions of terms. I'm not sure Bluetooth is taken off in the same way over here as it has in the UK. And then we'll look at the devices and the various attacks we came up with. The responses and defences from the industry, and by defences I mean not how they defended against the attacks, but their defensive position. Some legal issues are rising out of this whole stuff. It's not as simple as, you know, that it's illegal. It's quite interesting some of the legal stuff that comes along. So we'll just go straight into that. I'm sorry. Is that better? Okay, so Bluetooth is basically a wireless replacement, or wire replacement technology.  It's low power, short range. It uses the same frequencies as Wi-Fi, and the data rates about one megabit. It's owned that the trademark Bluetooth is owned by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, who are a trade association, and they basically license the IP and the trademark. Now, what's nice about that is you can go and join as an individual at the SIG, and that gives you the right to use the logos and the trademarks, so if you were to release some kind of useful tool, for example, you could have the SIG stamp of approval on it, which is nice. Other people get to pay, you know, the bigger members who are actually making Bluetooth devices have to pay various fees to get their devices qualified. There's two websites. The Bluetooth.com is the consumer site, and Bluetooth.org is the technical site where you can go and sign up as a member. So the three issues that have come up recently are bluejacking, blue snarling, and blue bugging. Bluejacking is a bit of a misnomer.  What they're actually doing is just sending you harmless messages. Of course, like any good new technology, it's immediately used for the pursuit of sex. So this thing called Toothing has come along, which is basically setting up casual liaisons via Bluetooth messaging. People sitting on trains or in airports waiting, they're bored waiting for a plane. They'll send each other a message, and if they like the other guy or whatever, they'll go and do something. Yeah. So because of bluejacking, the fact that you're visible makes you vulnerable to blue snarling, which is the thing we discovered back in November. And basically, we just took the sort of geek slang SNAF to steal or take an unauthorized copy of some data, stuck it with blue, so you get blue snarling. And what that gives you the capability of doing is copying data, your phone book, calendar, IMEI, which the GSM networks doesn't mean very much anymore. It's the unique identity of your phone, but I guess on networks where you don't have a SIM card, it might still be useful for cloning. If you've got images associated with entries in your phone book or your calendar, then we get those too. Bluebugging was discovered by Martin when he was trying to reproduce my work at CBIT.  But because I hadn't published any of my data, he had to independently discover it. So he discovered how to do it, but actually found some more problems as well. And then we teamed up and have done some interesting things since then. Now, using his attacks, we're able to actually take full control of the telephone, make calls, read and write your SMSes, your text messages, as well as the calendar and phone book entries, and send SMSes and set diverts. Okay, so the devices we've looked at on the whole are mobile phones. And the reason we looked at those is because, well, my job as security officer for the bunker, my job is to protect my perimeters. And what I was finding is those perimeters were actually becoming wider and they were leaving my building because the network or gateway of last resort for my CIS admins, for example, they have GSM mobile phones. They want to be able to dial in from anywhere, so they have potentially set up gateways into the network. The sales teams have all of their contacts in their calendar entries, business appointments and so on. So there are potentially a lot of issues with allowing staff to use network-enabled phones. And in particular, it was becoming something they needed to do because the law changed in the UK to do with using mobile phones while driving. It's now no longer legal to actually hold the phone to your ear while you're driving. You have to use a headset of some kind, so Bluetooth is a good solution for that. Now over in Europe, it's absolutely massive take-up. There's two million devices per week worldwide, but I think most are entering the market and I think most of those are over in Europe. And in fact, if I go out in London, it's pretty much impossible to get out a range of a Bluetooth device. If I scan for Bluetooth, I will find something no matter where I am. And Bluetooth seagulls are claiming that by next year 30% of all new phones released in the States will have Bluetooth. So when we first publicise this, the responses, or when I talk to people about it, the general public response was, usually, well, I don't care, there's nothing special in my phone, you can have my address book. But in practice, if you go and look at what's in your phone, you'll probably find there's a few entries in there that you might not want the whole world to see. And everyone I've challenged on that, I've actually gone and they've let me pull data off their phone. We have found stuff like that. So a friend of mine who's a coffee shop manager, I read her phone book and I found the full-street addresses of three coffee shops, plus the door codes and the alarm codes. So, you know, she didn't care when I first told her. It wasn't a problem, but actually it probably is a problem. And Bruce and I's comment on this was the people that are treating their phones as kind of data wallets now, believe that they're secure, so they put a lot of stuff in there. And they believe that, you know, it's a device you carry around with you. If you don't lose it, you can't lose your data. So, clearly with this technology, you can. Second response is, well, you're supposed to enter a password or something. So, yeah, well, that's the whole point. You are supposed to, but we're bypassing that. But people kind of dismiss it because they believe the industry claim that it's secure. You're telling me you can get in, but I know you can't because I have to pair, so I'm not going to listen. And finally, you're selling a fix. Okay, well, we can't fix it. The mobile phone companies need to fix it. This is closed-source proprietary technology. We can't just go in with a fix and say, okay, we've taken your stack and we've fixed it, so this is something they have to do.  Okay, the specific attacks which Martin will demonstrate. It's an offing. We can steal the calendar appointments. Some images, we won't do that now because it's too slow. Your phone book names, addresses, numbers, as I've said, you can get pins and other codes out of there if people have put them in there and SMS text messages. The other attack is actually probably more serious is turning a phone into a bug. Because we can initiate a call, what we can do is connect to your phone, tell it to call us back, and then we have an open mic on your person. So you're walking around doing your thing and we're listening to everything you say. And that's now coming over the network, so we don't even have to stay in range anymore because it's a GSM call. The other method of bugging is we could set up a man in the middle attack where we change an entry in your phone book, so your office entry no longer phones directly to your office. What it does is it phones my gateway, which then phones your office, and we have both sides of the conversation. So what I'm going to do, the organisers here suck, so we're going to have to change cables. I'm supposed to have the video switch. Now when we tried to do this over at Black Hat, somebody dosed the phone we were going to attack and was bluejacking it. I don't want to worry on duty, but I think there might be a hacker in town. Maybe. Have you broken it? No, it's fine. So as always, some of you already attacked our Nokia. Thanks. So what you see in the right hand corner of the screen, is a secure phone. But what which is ours, it's totally untouched so far we didn't modify anything. But we have to do that for legal reasons just bugging a phone which is ours. Which we had for this and hopefully it's working. So we try that. You know, this is not how it is supposed to be in the wild. People are passing by. I'll try it again. So if this move on to the next demonstration we have about the Nokia phone book and SNS, so we move on and try this again later. So we have another script on there which is called GSNARFI. It's both using the Gnaki application which is for Nokia phones and it's even having front-end which makes it even nicer to work with. So it said connecting to Charger. Charger is the name of our machine. We called it this way because people would get maybe some funny ideas of what is going on if there is something else than Charger. So the only indication we see there is a little headset symbol on the display. It has not made any sound so far so people won't know if it's in the pocket and even if it's not in the pocket they won't know what's going on. So what happens next is that I open up the contacts reading them out from the phone. So it's reading the phone memory and the sim memory. In fact there are some more phone books to read out. It's about the dialed contacts and missed contacts and stuff like that just to start homework information which is enough to play with in the end. So what you see here is just a list of the phone which has kind of obfuscated the numbers so you won't have anything of them. And I'm looking for a specific entry called Honey so this is supposed to be the girlfriend of the boyfriend of the owner and I'm sure you know those. You can't see it anyway. So that's what we're going to do. So taking that out modifying the entry which is done with that little icon so we have the Honey and we just modify the number which we have on here other way around 702 so maybe you want to copy that number only 47 bucks probably yeah it's cheap oh thanks don't forget the one so it's a plus one or one I think it should how do you know it's right this is used to save it to the phone again so we changed that number of the Honey so anybody calling Honey will probably call somebody else you know if that number would call the person Honey would show up if the person is intending to call the entry with Honey the person will call this number on here but yeah if you examine the entry you will see that number so another thing to do is next don't leave the room please phone's still there yeah our bug is still here stay there it's okay see you later so whatever SMS messages we can read them out of the phone you probably could have your own application doing that but it's PDA encoding of the messages so we use G Gnaki again for reading that so what you see here are the stored or the received SMS messages and we could also use the phone in order to send SMS messages without even knowing of the owner the only time the owner gets to know that this happened is when he receives the bill and maybe there's some premium service numbers also on it right so when we disconnect from the phone you see it again in the display we disconnected from the charger and you didn't hear that the phone so people probably would look to the display and would see okay I disconnected from the charger so what I'll try now is again to blue bug our test device which has nothing to do with the Nokia phone here so it didn't work out so far that's what happened so no bad response it's supposed to be dialing a number you know what we did is just calling the phone which is here in the table but it's not ringing so I'll try it again this is a little embarrassing so no reaction on the display so it's supposed to work usually anyway we could bug this phone haven't got the voice channel on that okay well with the Nokia the attack profile is slightly different we would have to set up the Bluetooth to capture the set profile on the Sony Ericsons we just get a straight open mic back through to this phone but basically if this had worked what you would get is the goon that's holding that phone would be walking around with an open mic and he could go out and leave the room get in a cab go to the other side of town and that GSM connection would keep working and we would hear everything that's going on around him and in fact that connection could be anywhere so we could just be local operative setting up the bug but the actual connection is going back to Tokyo or somewhere because it's across the GSM network and of course he's paying for it because he made the call so yeah he will have a record that he made a call to my throw away pay as you go phone you would have to take care to obfuscate your phone number yeah so what you see here is an application I used for the seabed and also for several TV demonstrations so you were nice and switched on your bluetooth so what you see here is basically a listing of all the bluetooth devices on the left there's a manufacturer which is guest from the MAC address or the hardware address of the phone so sometimes I don't have an entry but mostly it's Nokia at least in Europe we have some strange I never saw a T-con so far IPACs are here you know you get pretty much guest which device is vulnerable by having the manufacturer and sometimes in this case the T610 we know it's sometimes vulnerable didn't even change the name so this is still set to the default and you could pretty much guest it's vulnerable so on the right side of this table there's a red dot the application is not set to attack any of this device of these devices now because of legal issues so what usually happens is that it turns green this spot and if it turned green we would have gotten an SMS from this phone including the number and the phone book of the respective device and not only the SIM and the telecom the phone device phone book but also the dial context and stuff like that which is pretty interesting to know you know who did the person call last that would be kind of interesting for any spouses to know well we try the blue book once more somebody connected again I switch blue to thought better okay we have to skip that demonstration we're sorry but yesterday and all the people who attended Black Hat would know it right anyway that was the demonstration for there's a question when the phone is turned off and the battery is still in I don't believe it's vulnerable because the Bluetooth stack is part of the operating system which has to be up at the time of the attack so I don't believe it's vulnerable at that point doesn't make sense we're not going to share that at this time until the phone companies have actually got a mechanism for dealing with the issue which Nokia announced last week that they are actually rolling out an upgrade program where you'll be able to walk in and get your firmware upgraded what models are affected if you go to the bluesnaft.org site you'll find a list of models there oh by the way the presentation is not done maybe we shift the questions to the end okay so if we move on so the potential attacks you've got with the calling, voice calls you can call premium rates you don't care where the voice is going you just want to establish a call initiate a call from the phone and you're charging per minute for the outgoing call in the UK at least the costs per minute are completely open-ended there is no regulation you can set up a company that charges £10 for the first second of the call and that will be charged to your bill and you only need access as I say for the initial call setup you don't have to stick around long distance calls you do need the voice channel basically you want to use somebody else's phone to make a phone call yourself so you need the voice channel so if you're doing it with the voice channel over bluetooth you basically need to act as a headset so you have to stay within range the alternative is you set up a call forward so that the phone you're calling actually calls the number you want when you dial it and connects you onwards and that's only worth doing if your local call is cheaper than the long distance which it probably is and if you're on the network where you get free calls in the evening whatever you can listen to voice mail because most voice mail systems accept the CLI of the incoming call as authentication it doesn't require a pin if it recognises the incoming call so if I use bluetooth to connect to the phone and then dial your voice mail it will just send me straight into voice mail and I'll hear your messages can delete your messages and so on with SMS you've got again the same problem with premium rate which is to cost per drop systems where you actually just send in a message and it charges you you could potentially use the phone as a spam gateway so you're sending unsolicited SMS spam from someone else's phone you can impersonate the victim so a message arriving on someone else's phone appears to have come from you so clearly from that victim so they may act on that message because they feel it's authenticated because of where it's come from probably one of the most scariest that the access to authentication secrets or being able to actually complete an authentication process in the UK we have some services where you can type a phone number into a website and it will then track that phone wherever you go and you can look it up any time day or night and if that phone is switched on it will draw you a nice little map of where the phone is and the way they authenticate is you type in the number they send a text message to the phone you respond from the phone with another text message to their center and then you're in so if I can connect my Bluetooth to your phone I can actually complete that process for you and this is one I did earlier so I don't know how good the writing is but basically for the civilian market they reduce the accuracy down to about 800 meters and if you can see just by the vertical bar where the avenue is there's a little number one and that's where I thought I was where I actually was is just above the tube station at Turnham Green where there's a little cross that distance is about 100 meters so it's much more accurate than it claims to be and that's certainly close enough that you could then drive to that location and find me with Bluetooth okay so other potential losses are service theft using the phone as a gateway to dial into the internet or as I said with the perimeters if you have a properly set up network that authenticates incoming calls with CLI then I can bypass at least that first stage of authentication because I'm coming in from a recognized number which I found in your phone book of course just again another kind of gateway free internet and potentially could be used as an end point for cracking or spamming okay so we found these problems and we posted to the industry and the first way we did that was we posted to the Bluetooth SIG on the technical website they actually have a security expert group and they have a forum where you can just go and post messages describing the outline and I expected various phone manufacturers to get in touch and find out what the problem was a couple of weeks later nothing had happened and I looked back at the forum and basically anyone else who had posted had also had no response whatsoever there were no replies in the forums to any of the messages or issues that people had raised so we posted to Bugtrap within 24 hours Nokia got in touch and their chief of security basically discussed the issue with us we shared the code with them they reproduced the problem in their labs they verified that it was a real problem and management decided that they weren't going to do anything about it because it only affected a few models of phone we'll come on to that later TDK published a very long explanation of why we were wrong and this couldn't possibly happen Sony Ericsson released a press release saying they had fixed the problems when we tried to get in touch with them they actually refused to talk to us we emailed them, we phoned them we wrote to them the only response we ever got was a letter saying we have our own security department thanks very much and good night six months on they were still taking that stance in response to any press that came along they were publishing that they had fixed the problems but they had never spoken to us so I'm not sure how they could be sure they'd fixed the problems when I finally got through to someone suggested that they actually send me a phone so that I could test it because we were working on old phones with older firmware at six months on they said if I want to test it I should go to the shop and buy one like I need a broken phone so they then got the idea that maybe there was a further problem and they finally allowed me to tell them what the problem was and sure enough they hadn't fixed it they had fixed Martin's problem but not mine so phones were still vulnerable and when they believed they had actually corrected the issue Siemens and Motorola on the other hand came to us unsolicited we hadn't looked to their devices they reported any problems with their devices they came along and said here are some new Bluetooth phones we're about to launch can you have a look at them tell us if there's any issues Siemens came up clean Motorola v600 actually established that something we believed may be true which was an escalation of privilege attack using one profile to attack another was possible and so we combined our attacks and actually managed to get into the Motorola so the industry then responded with a bunch of defences as to why this really wasn't an issue and they cited these things distance limited number of models but it's an implementation issue it's not an issue with Bluetooth per se you need specialist equipment you're going to look really suspicious doing it devices aren't vulnerable anyway you can change the name and then we won't be able to attack you because we won't know you're vulnerable you can steal or find a phone and it's far fetched and no risk so distance the actual published distance of Bluetooth is 10 meters so we have to be close well 10 meters is 30 feet that's from here to these guys here to you probably yes and it's a sphere it goes all around me behind me, beside me, above me, below me so if I'm sitting in a bus I've got everyone on the bus I'm in an office building I've got people on the floor above and the floor below and in practice actually just with a normal dongle you get a range of about 40 meters well I found with a class 1 device I get a range of about 90 meters now this gentleman sitting here from Flexilis they have a really cool toy with them which is a Bluetooth sniper rifle and do you have it with you while they're getting a range of half a mile pointing at a normal phone and they've done copies of data from a phone half a mile away by pointing this device at so get a look at that if you can it's really cool okay so a limited number of models well yeah I put my hands up here they were right there are only a limited number of models affected unfortunately they are by far the most popular models on the market if you go out in London 70% of all the phones you see will be one of these models the Nokia 6310 and 8910 series are the standard businessmen's phone so corporate contracts will have thousands of these things Sony Ericsson T610 is the sort of trendy lifestyle phone those two models are pretty much the main models on the market as far as implementation issues go you don't care whether it's Bluetooth is the problem or it's the actual implementation on that model of phone and in fact at stake have probably found some fundamental flaws which would lay a lot more devices open to attack anyway and there's more detail on their website that we need specialist equipment advanced knowledge of Bluetooth technology well again that's not the case we used black box research we didn't know anything about Bluetooth and we just poked around with the protocols that were available information we could find on the internet standard laptop generic dongles which you can see on the table software stacks downloaded from the internet and slightly modified and even if this is all too bulky in theory there is software available on PDA's and mobile phones in development but in practice you just have a laptop in a bag that's fine which brings us onto suspicious behaviour I can do it from my laptop in a bag hung over my shoulder reading a newspaper in fact I entered the house of parliament went through the security handed in all my crap they sent it through the x-ray machine they let me in I spent 15 minutes walking around with my bag over my shoulder looking at the nice paintings statues seeing some MPs milling around and I left the attack was running all the time I was in there not actually attacking of course just gathering statistics devices are not always in vulnerable mode well they have to be discoverable that's not necessarily true some devices are actually vulnerable to attack even if they're not discoverable if you know their MAC address or BD address


Back in 1985, Nancy Jenkins wrote an intriguing article for the New York Times titled Exploring the Etruscan Mystery, and the world was captivated by one of the most enduring and intriguing mysteries for the past 3,000 years. Very few stories still have the power to captivate us more than the ones that remain unsolved. The mystery in the detail and the intrigue of who they might have been often opens up our mystical attraction in the hope that we might just find answers unwittingly at any turn as to who we are as a collective people and indeed with this culture. Cryptographers are yet to decipher exactly who they were, but stunning conclusions are being drawn and the results are echoing across the world as a new age of understanding sweeps across our entire civilization as a whole. The culture known as the Etruscan civilization existed in the Italian region of Tuscany and Lazio for over a thousand years before vanishing into the mystical lines of time in the historical context. The fascination of these people not only lies in who they were, where they came from, and what exactly happened to them, but also in the stuff they have left behind. Earlier this year French archaeologists unearthed an Etruscan tomb containing a skeleton and dozens of artifacts in Corsica, a rare discovery that could shed new light on the wealthy civilization. The Etruscans are remembered for their striking features, this attracted trade and curiosity from far and wide, including trade of precious metals with the Greeks, and it is possible that these peoples were quietly assimilated into the Roman Empire at some point. Later we see an influence in the Roman Empire that is seen in this culture, though no clear consensus exists on the matter. This civilization have left an enormity of funerary artifacts that are being discovered all the time. They also had a complex written language that is still mostly undeciphered to this day, though this language is very sparsely found and they also left behind engineering marvels that were later adopted by the Romans and in fact in Turkey. The Romans replicated the engineering achievements of these people. This shows signs that the brilliant engineering marvels of the Roman Empire may have been born here with this lost civilization of the Etruscans. New discoveries and developments in the last 30 years or so have done much to change our ignorance, yet the popular image of the mysterious and primitive Etruscans persist. In 1985 when Nancy Jenkins wrote her popular article, it was the year of this civilization and in the Tuscany region of Italy, many events were organized as a celebration of this people's cultural heritage and in this year we saw projects launch that are still remembered fondly to this day. D.H. Lawrence reports in letters from his travels to the region in 1926 when he writes, I saw 6,000 tombs cut into the rock, 200 of which are painted, the oldest dating back to the 7th century BC. It is as if the current of some strong different life swept through them, different from our shallow current today. Lawrence wrote, as if they drew their vitality from different depths that we are denied. Their tombs were often elaborate structures, many chambered and decorated with terracotta reliefs and vibrant wall paintings of balls and banquets, athletic contests and mythological scenes. Along with the large terracotta sarcophagus and other valuable grave goods, these might include simple bronze votive figurines or extravagant gold jewelry or ceramics in a variety of shapes and styles. They gave us the word person and invented a symbol of iron rule which would later be adopted by the fascist and some even argue it was they who really molded Roman civilization. Yet the Etruscans have long been among the great enigmas of antiquity. In a recent study it proves that DNA passed down from mother's two daughters, pointed to a direct genetic input from western Asia and in 2004 a team of researchers from Italy and Spain used samples taken from Etruscan burial chambers to establish that the Etruscans were more genetically akin to each other than to contemporary Italians. The findings confirm what was said about the matter almost 2500 years ago by the Greek historian Herodotus. The first traces of Etruscan civilization in Italy date from about 1200 BC. About seven and a half centuries later Herodotus wrote that after the Lydians had undergone a period of severe deprivation in western Anatolia, their king divided the people into two groups and made them draw lots so that the one group should remain and the other leave the country. He himself was to be the head of those who drew the lot to remain there and his son was one of those who departed. In 2008 a local resident named Salvatore Foskey rediscovered a monumental pyramid shape altar in the region. The enormous peperino rock was hidden by vegetation on the slopes of a deep canyon and was only discovered for the first time in the 1990s by two local archaeologists who didn't go on to excavate the site, only mentioning it existed and would later be found by the local resident. The pyramid is believed to be an altar dating back to the 7th century BC. Thought to have been used by the Etruscan soothsayers who practiced divination by inspecting the entrails of sacrificed animals. The art of divination was a key element to the Etrusca disciplina, Etruscan religious scriptures which had a significant influence later on in Roman culture. According to Columbia University's Advanced American Studies on Italian Culture, Daniela Maras, an Italian Academy Fellow, addresses the mystery of the Etruscans which rests on three major issues attached to their perception by ancient authors, their inscrutable origins, their unparalleled language, and their peculiar religion. While he shows interest from ancient Greek sources and modern scholars, the features of Etruscan religious practices are a reoccurring motif of Latin literature. In fact, in the Roman world, the Etruscans enjoyed a long lasting fame as clever seers, especially regarding their ability as horospices. That is to say, priests able to read future events within the entrails of sacrifice. The foundation of this ancient religious tradition was the so-called Etrusca disciplina, a collection of original knowledge and perceptions which had been revealed, according to tradition by the mythical child genie Tejas at the very beginning of Etruscan history. For generation after generation, the horospices handed down by the disciplina, writing new texts in order to modernize its contents, applications, and rituals to meet current cultural conditions. There is ample evidence that this steady scholarly work was still being carried on in the late republican and early imperial periods, supplementing the corpus of Etruscan books than in Latin translation. The increasing information on the activity of Etrusco-Roman horospices and the high interest on the part of emperors and public institutions in their prophecies demonstrates the constant penetration of the foreign disciplina into the Roman mass majorum. In the last centuries of paganism, the so-called Etruscan horospices were among the most vigorous opponents of new religions, as in the case of early Christianity. This caused a reaction on the part of the Fathers of Church, who blame Etruscan superstition with special regard to divination. Therefore, the last remains of independent Etruscan culture were eventually destined to vanish. The altar, which by the way echoes the Mayans in many fashionable details, is positioned toward the Northwest. Facing the direction of the Etruscan underworld gods in the heyday of this civilization, it must have represented a very important sacred site, though very little is known about it. And in fact, this lost civilization in general is a big mystery that is only now being uncovered and indeed their history rediscovered. The Etruscan pyramid at Bormatzel is the largest rock altar in Europe. According to several scholars, it could be used with an astronomical calendar. Astroarchaeology studies say the pyramid is linked to stars Sirius and Antares. When the discoverer of this place met this rock for the first time, he must have felt like those explorers who discovered temples and houses in the jungle. From his words, he merges the story of an object hidden by large roots and vegetation that had to be removed with great care to permit the extraction of the rock with much love and respect for the place. It has a magical charm which also fueled by the mystery that still surrounds this people and all those who today come close to their artifacts, do so with great respect. What do you guys think of this lost and great civilization? Comments below and as always, thank you for watching.


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Welcome back to another animation buffet rig review and today I'm gonna take a look at the Dana rig This is a companion Rig to David. I'm gonna review both separately, but today it's gonna be Dana Also, I've posted these a long time ago on my site when I restarted my Reviews and my postings look at that all the way back here So and it was a request as well in the comments. So let me go back to this Alright, so in classic fashion when you open the rig, you can see that the textures are missing So there are multiple ways to get those textures back Boom textures are back. I went through the hypershade to bring it back I also added the geometry layer here and added all of this so I can set this to reference and nothing It's selected just in case. Alright, let's dive into the rig and why not as always I don't know why I start with the feet and you can see all of the Classic controls, which is cool. I'm always a big fan of all the added controls of there. You got your roll You can see how far this goes. You also have your separate toe Roll angle Stretchiness doesn't do any here But just to show you anti-pop length options there and volume you also have manual control obviously for all of this Pivoting like that and you can see that it takes the knee with it And of course you have your knee pole vector here to bring it back. You also have this control here and You also have the toes here and that will be Your ankle here and you got two pivots here all of that so lots of options for the feet I like that detail with the arrow pointing here, but that does makes a crazy difference But I like it then like I said, you got your pole vector here, which is cool You got your follow and your lock Then you have your benbows Ah You have that all over the place so you can reshape your rig to your heart's content All the good stuff is there. Just checking if you look in here. There's nothing else Sometimes some controllers are hidden like that here. You have the IK FK switch for the legs So you can switch to your FK legs like that all classic standard stuff. That's good Here you have your root Root control in here all the way up again. You have shapers here on the side. You have hip swingers hip swingers will do this and you can see the effect it has on IK and FK legs. This is all kinds of Rotations interesting that this is on the side here, but it does what it's supposed to do just for hips Doesn't affect the rest of the body, which is cool. And then you have your Rotations here the head is not on a world Setting there, which I'm always a big fan of you want to get rid of the IK look You can also transit these by the way and you can do all kinds of stretchy stuff, but that it has any volume Changes just yet. I don't see anything here And you also have leg lock and center between feet option on here then going up on the chest You have breast controls left and right Global and global translate options here as well. And then you have the shoulders you have rotational options and translates There is also a breast drag speaking of which for added deformation control and you can see here Bembo options all over the place These are your rotations the elbows and you can go here and you have your risk control and selecting this gives you Quick selection on the hands so you don't have to do this manually when you some quick Blocking and this goes all the way to all the curling But you do have separate options here obviously if you want to do this all the way back to this all Standard stuff, which is good. This must be the IK FK blends and then it switches to this red controller for your IK arm you can see that the wrist does not Follow the forearm, but there's a follow Anti-pop options again length options to go all kinds of crazy volume stretchy and follow I still would love for rigs to have a an option to do a change here Because it's not this here just in case you're wondering this follow is for if you change the route It does this and if you select it and put it back to zero and then select your route It's stuck like a proper IK that is a cool option But if you're looking for a forearm oriented IK arm that is not the case here going back What is this must be hair? It is hair. Yes So you have all kinds of shapers for hair, which is cool all the way to here This is a box another circle. This is your squash middle. All right, you have head squash options So this must be head squash top fantastic. Look at that. Nice information. It's very cool This goes all the way back into here. What is that? We are into the eye Region here might as well look at that here. This must be this lower part here. Let me select this here So you have shapers all over the place. This is free eyebrows inner eyebrows Lots of cool stuff and lots of detailed control over This as well and if you go back here, this has Some limitations as it follows somewhat geometry you can go super crazy and break it which is always good This goes all the way up to she controls which is good too big fan of Overall nose position and you can rotate and translate but also nostril all of that built in that's very cool And she controls so lots of options for details here Then we have the lip control to move the whole thing around Which is also cool And like I said lots of options, then let's go back here actually just to see this is your chin and Your jaw so as you open this So I'm gonna check this out first before I do that and then you got your controls here All kinds of shape options is very cool, and then we have a tongue control Let's go do it back here right this guy Yes, and then you can bring it out which you can and you can see all the different controllers all of this It's very cool Back here is it's there so big must be more hair. Yes, it is This is your head All right, this is the top part of the head makes sense, and this is the lower neck Part and of course with global options just in case same thing on the upper controller face upper Lots of ricks have this to where it is all separated Into top and bottom which is cool Let's check this out. You have your Quick facial controls here very handy quick options again for your Corners you can do all kinds of things like that Then we have nostrils here We have cheeks interesting it does puffing and Cheek up and down interesting. I'm just double check what this does. This is just nostrils there You got eye control here, and then this must be eyebrows all kinds of man I wonder if this was that the Jason O'Seeper Method remember a book that came out a while back that started this whole Facial setup trend like that interesting though now as you select the facial controls on the side You have all the options here for visibility. You can move the box around You can always go in here and then unlock just in case you want to reposition this the David Rick has that on lock by default This is locked. So just in case now that being said if you go on here, you can see squeeze Up and down. It's a bit hidden by the hair, but you can see that you have blink options So for some quick blocking you have lots of options almost controls It's not all of them the cheek doesn't have anything but go back to the mouth You have lower rolls sticky lips upper rolls zips all kinds of things and then going down to The corner here. There's nothing there. So you have still different options lots of quick blocking options Adjusting case if I move the hair away Can I I can move this away? I just wanted to show You have options here, don't forget this eye mover is behind the hair here and you have ear controls Just in case you're wondering she has two ears and the ears have controls for Movement here as well Interesting to maybe in the future updates to have different hairdos that you can turn on and off that could be interesting But for now that is it you want to take these off manually and reshape that hair in whatever Way you want of course you can also if I take this off here You can select and hide and you can have a better look at the face and all the controls there But going back to the eyes You do want to go back here and then select this. This is your eye controller Interesting not on by default would it have to be aim?  So it just follows your actual Rake so when I select again eye control follows The rig and let me just double-check that I didn't miss anything. This is your main control all the visibility is on body Full and partial this in terms of full. All right Let's go back and do body partial and this is what I selected where it is in partial mode Well Yeah, you can see the change there. Yeah, super appealing. Love this rake I have unfortunately not yet animated with this rake But I really really want to Because all the examples that I see online are really really well done and this rake is just really well set up That is it as always I will pin a comment on YouTube if there are any updates or changes or notes regarding the rake And of course, I will post it here and I'll post a review here as well And of course link in description for the gum road link where you can purchase the rake and it's $15 Absolutely reasonable price for this awesome rake You


Let's look at the causes of leaves dropping and how we can help our plants. Overwatering. This is the most common cause for leaves dropping, especially if you see that the leaves are yellowing before they drop. So in order to make sure whether you're overwatering or not, you can check for example how often you are watering your plants. Remember, generally plants really like when we let the soil dry in between waterings. So are you letting the soil dry in between waterings? The way to check is with your finger. You can stick your finger inside the soil and if it feels moist, don't water. Once it feels dry and you don't see any moist soil on your finger, you can water. Of course, always learn the specific requirements for your plant. It is true that generally plants prefer the soil to dry out in between waterings. However, this may be different with some plants. Some plants like the alocacia, the calacia, or some ferns prefer that we keep the soil moist at all times. So we want to let it dry a little bit, but not completely. Whereas with many sockets, we want the soil to really dry completely before we water again. So always check specific requirements. Another reason why you may be overwatering your plant is because the pot is too big. If you have your plant in a very big pot, she will not be able to absorb all of the water in the pot. And hence we will overwater her. This usually happens when we rebut our plants. Remember, when you rebut your plant, you want the newer pot to be one to two sizes bigger than the older pot, but not bigger than that. That way you make sure that the pot is not too big for her and it doesn't retain too much water. Another possible reason for plants to lose their leaves is that they're not getting enough sunlight. Some plants really need bright sunlight, whether it's direct bright sunlight or indirect bright sunlight. If we don't provide the required light for our plants, they may lose leaves. This is especially if your plant looks long, thin and leggy, and if the leaves are really small. Another very good sign that your plant is lacking sunlight is if you see that the plant is growing towards the light. This is especially common with succulents, but it can also happen with tropical plants. So if this is the case for you, try to bring your plant to a brighter spot. If you're watching this video in the winter and you live in a region that doesn't get so much sunlight this month, you can also bring her closer to a grow light. That way you will make sure that your plant gets the required sunlight. One interesting fact I can give you is that one plant that really struggles with this is the Ficus Benjamina. We actually had this problem last winter with her. She lost all of her leaves and I didn't know why. And after doing the research for this video, I found out that this was the problem. She was not getting enough light. So if you have a Ficus Benjamina, make sure that she gets bright indirect sunlight and that way she should keep her leaves. Another possible reason for your plant to lose leaves is low temperatures. Most house plants that we get at home come from tropical warmer regions in the world and therefore they will like warmer temperatures. So if you have a plant closer to a window that has cold drafts or in a colder spot at your place, this may be a reason why she is losing her leaves. So for plants that require warmer temperature, make sure that you keep them at a stable temperature that is warm. That way they will be healthy and thrive. Okay, as I said before, it is very important that you understand the specific requirements of your plant. If you learn these, you will know which of these factors is affecting the leaves. And if there is other factor affecting your plant, make sure to comment below. I can tell you the whole community will appreciate it. And as always, I will see you in the next one.


The Lord carry us through difficult times and places us where we can carry others and share His love, protection, grace, and forgiveness. After being born to parents dealing with addiction, Nathan Sheridan and his sister Sarah were raised by their grandparents in Louisiana. At a young age, Sarah was diagnosed with brain cancer and passed away shortly after. Not knowing where to turn, Nathan enlisted in the U.S. Army at 17, where he was serving in the states and overseas for the next six years. It was during this time he started using music to share his faith and his powerful testimony. This is his story. This is Today's Nashville. This is faith. Nathan, I have heard a lot about you. Welcome to Today's Nashville. I'm so honored to have you on the show. Thank you for inviting me. It's an amazing experience anytime I get to do something like this. So, tell me about your life and how you got into music and where it all started. Where were you born? I was born in Port River, Louisiana. My life story kind of starts off in a kind of a unique way. My parents weren't really the best parents, so to speak. And they weren't really in a position to raise me or my sister due to drug addiction, alcohol, just certain life choices they had made. And it was always this thing back and forth between them and my grandparents, between who was raising us. How old were you at this time? So at this point, this was going on since birth, but at the point it really started to get to a breaking point. I was about four years old. Oh, you were young. Yes, very young. Believe it or not, and I still remember, even though being four years old, I still remember a lot of things from that time. And they took us to Pensacola, Florida for a short time. This was kind of the final straw. Your parents did? Yes, my parents did. And my grandparents really wanted to give them just one more opportunity to raise us and be the parents they were supposed to be. Now, was your sister younger or older? Two years older than me. Okay. So Sarah was two years older than me, and that was really the only person I had ever known. It was Sarah and my grandparents and my parents. So we're in Pensacola, and my mother just starts selling everything in her home basically for drug money. And it got to such a point where she had sold basically everything in her home. I mean, really, I specifically remember walking into our house and seeing that nothing was there. I'm not sure where I was before or what the whole context of it was. But, you know, if you can remember back to when you were that young, it's like you get flashes of things. And I have like this flash in my mind of walking into the trailer we were living in and just everything being gone. And she called my grandparents that night and said, come get the kids. I can't raise them anymore.  And, you know, they were worried they were never going to get to see us again if that happened. So they rushed down to Pensacola, Florida from Louisiana and got us. And, you know, I didn't see my mother again after that night for over 10 years. Over 10 years. How old were you when your grandparents got you?  Yeah, four years old. And like I said, they were already, you know, such a huge part of my life because they knew my parents had an issue. And it was just one of those things where they were kind of starting all over now as parents. You know, my grandparents now kind of became mom and dad. And they got full custody of us. And that was right around the time my sister started to get sick. And she got really, really sick.  I believe she was diagnosed at eight years old and passed away at eight years old as well back in 2001.  So you're about six then? Yeah, about six years old at this point. Did you know that this was happening or did you know that she was, I mean, obviously you knew she was sick? I knew she was sick and I didn't understand the gravity of it though. I knew she was sick, but I was in that position. I still had hope she was going to get better. I had an expectation that she would get better because, you know, when I was sick, I always got better. So I didn't understand what she had was something that at that time at least couldn't really be cured with, you know, with medicine at least. So it was just a really, really tragic time. My grandfather had already actually lost a daughter. And so he was kind of going through this all over again with Sarah and my grandmother was just devastated about it. And throughout that whole time, neither my mom or my dad was really a part of that situation. So all that weight really just fell on us, you know, to deal with and all that trauma there was really just, it was just a giant mess really. And when she passed away, I think that was just a really, it just planted kind of like a seed of grief inside me. That took me a really, really long time to get over. And if it weren't for my grandmother, my grandfather just praying for me, taking me to church, really just sowing something better into me that my parents weren't doing. If it weren't for them, like, I really don't know where I'd be, honestly. What were those years, you know, preteen, teenage years like? Were you a believer then? I know they were taking you to church, but did you have a personal relationship with Jesus? Not for a long time, not for a long time really.  So I think I am one too. I'm always in church. And I just never really got, it took me a while to get to that point where I started to understand the personal relationship with Christ and understand that I had to personally accept him as Savior. And that, yes, I knew of God and I knew Jesus was his son and I knew Jesus was our Savior, but I didn't quite understand that I had to accept him personally and know that, you know, he has redeemed me. You know, not just that I'm part of this family that's, you know, they're all Christians, so I'm one too. So it was a play that I went to called Heaven's Gates, Hell's Flames. And then my grandma took me too. And it was like the first time I'd ever really encountered like art before, especially, you know, Christian art in that way. I didn't really have anything going on in my head. I wasn't musical. I wasn't, you know, in theater or anything like that. But I went to this play and just saw the gospel played out literally, you know, before me and just acted out in such a way that I was finally able to understand it in a deeper way and really get to grab hold of that, you know, and just seeing the gospel in art form really just sparked something in me. And I was that really shy kid that just did not have any courage to get up out of his seat and do anything even remotely that courageous, you know, so like getting up out of my seat and going and walking the aisle and accepting Christ as Savior that night was huge for me and a huge step for me. And that's really when everything started to change. I was 14 years old and accepted Christ. And although it didn't necessarily make everything bad in my life go away right then, it just was a, it was finally a turning point for me that I felt like I was starting to just understand who I was just a little bit, you know, after accepting Christ.  Or did the Lord help you through that? I had a lot of anger and a lot of resentment at that point. But even going forward, I think I still had some of that leftover. There was a big healing process that took place between really 14 years old and now where I've really just been discovering identity, discovering, you know, my new story in Christ and discovering healing in the first place, you know, and letting myself be healed from a lot of that anger and resentment I had towards my parents, towards my sister passing away, towards God and just all my circumstances and understanding that, you know, there wasn't just redemption for me, but for my circumstances as well and for my trauma. And God had bigger plans for you at the age of 17 and we're going to talk about it when we come back. Nathan, we were talking about your teen years, getting ready to graduate. What happened after that? So I was really that kid that just didn't really understand my purpose. I didn't really, like I had, at 15 years old, my older sister, T'Neal, and I have another sister from a different marriage from the same father and, you know, she was always a big part of my life, especially growing up.  Did you want to play or did she just buy it? I did. I just, it was kind of just a random thing that sparked in my mind. I guess in a way it was a God thing because I had never played guitar before. I had listened to music in the car, but I just told her, she asked me what I wanted as a gift and I said, I don't know, a guitar, you know. And she got me one. It was like a $150 guitar from Christie's Music in Slido, Louisiana, went and picked it out together. And I started to play a little bit, started to sing a little bit, even started dabbling and writing a little bit, playing in youth group, things like that. But I never, and I mean, really never saw myself as somebody who's going to get up on stage, play music for a living, get to go around the world ministering or anything like that. I just didn't really, truly believe that's what the Lord had destined for me. Even though they were still kind of like that small voice, it's like, well, you know, you may be able to do it. And for me, I was like, yeah, but I kind of need to do something with my life and I'm about to graduate.  Like I've got to do something. So at 17 years old, my grandparents, you know, let me, they had to let me sign up for the, you know, the Louisiana National Guard, which, you know, was also part of the army. So they let me sign up as soon as I graduated, went to basic training, got out of basic training, went to advanced training at Fort Gordon. And at Fort Gordon, Georgia, there was actually, you know, chapel services on base where soldiers would have to lead their own worship. Essentially, you know, they were just kind of banking on soldiers knowing how to play some songs and taking the charge in that. So I was actually able to pick the guitar back up while I was in advanced training in Georgia and start leading worship for soldiers there. And that was a really just amazing experience, getting to just show up on Sunday not knowing what I was going to play, pick out three songs and play them with a band who I just met and it was always like that. So it was a really, really interesting, just dynamic of getting kind of my feet thrown to the fire. And I finished advanced training and, I mean, as soon as I got home, as soon as they, because whenever, you know, you're in the guard, you get received back to your unit. And once you figure out your unit, they show up to the ceremony and they get to put their, you know, the unit patch on your shoulder.  So get ready, basically. And that kind of just like... Did you know where you were going? I knew I was going to Kuwait. That's the only thing I knew at the time. I didn't understand what the mission was. I didn't understand exactly what base we were going to or anything like that.  Were you scared? I wasn't scared as much as I was just disappointed because I didn't, I truly just didn't know, I didn't understand why I was going to be there. That was the only thing. I knew there was always a possibility that I could get activated by the... They call it big army, you know, and get pulled into a deployment. But I still didn't understand what my purpose would be there. I mean, I knew what my job was as a signal support specialist, but I'm the kind of guy that's like, well, surely there's a deeper meaning to this though. Like, I'm not just going over there to do this little job and then, you know, just maintain a presence in Kuwait or anything like that. Surely there's got to be something for me there. And there definitely was, you know. God deployed to Kuwait and kind of the same story. There was chapel services on base. There was really no, like, infrastructure at all. And I was able to come in, work with the chaplains that were on base and literally start up a whole worship team, get to start leading worship for soldiers.  And we were that little glimmer of hope for them because there were so many issues going on back home and just so many things that were going on in the minds of these soldiers and Marines and basically every other branch, you know, that we were able to just kind of be just a light and a dark place for them because being away from your family for nine months to a year at a time... How long were you over there? Nine months. Nine months. So being away from your family, including for me, it was hard. It was really, really difficult being away from family.  It starts to get to that point so that us getting to be just a light and a dark place and getting to just be that encouragement for soldiers and showing them who Christ is was just a huge turning point for me and I received so much encouragement out of that from my fellow soldiers. Is there anybody that stands out, a soldier that stands out? Everybody. No, I mean, really, it's no one in particular.  You know, he always definitely encouraged me in that and it was just an amazing thing.  Nathan, we believe you could do this. We believe, you know, when you go home, you need to get into the studio. You should move to Nashville, just constant being in my mind and I'm just like, sure, you know, whatever. Like I always kind of brushed it off, but it got to such a point to where I really couldn't ignore it. And when I got home, I was finally able to start chasing that dream a little bit. And you got home after nine months. So then what did you do? I basically immediately started getting into the studio. God just, I mean, orchestrated it. I'm in Louisiana at this point. I'm still in the guard. I'm still in the guard. I got four more years left on my contract at this point, but a good friend of mine, Luke, he got out of a university for audio engineering and he immediately, for some reason, he said, you know, I was at the beach the other day and I thought about you and I think you should come to the studio I'm making and I think you should record some music. And I mean, as soon as I got home, I started getting to the studio recording music and started just developing that.  Absolutely. And we're going to talk about it when we come back. Nathan, tell me what happened when you got back? You started recording and God moved you to Nashville. How did you get here? So really and truly, it was my wife, Harley. When we got married, we were... And you got married after you got back from the service? Yeah, because we were together while I was overseas, just boyfriend and girlfriend, but when I got back, you know, it was just amazing. She was just such a supportive person of me and she always knew I could do music and she was another person that was always encouraging me, like big time. And even when I didn't really see it myself and it had gotten to such a point, I had visited Nashville a couple of times, met a few people and I guess at this point, you know, our lease was up on the apartment we were living in back in Louisiana and it was just kind of one of those things where we both felt like a shift was needed and she knew I was already doing music and already writing songs for the people and making connections here. And she says, why don't we just do it now? Why don't we just move to Nashville? You know, that's what you want to do. That's the dream you need to chase. And I was... It took some convincing for me. Let's just put it that way. And she was really the one who just like pushed me, you know, right into it and we came here with little to no money and just, man, looking back, I don't even know how we made it work. It was just a God thing. We were really running on fumes. But right as I moved to Nashville and we took that leap of faith, basically immediately we started getting opportunities. I was getting opportunities to go on tour and just kind of developing myself in a way and chasing that. And when the lease became, you know, it was up on our apartment back in Louisiana, my wife was just so adamant that we just needed to move here. You know, we needed to move to Nashville because she believed in what I was doing even though sometimes it was hard for me to see it and she was so adamant that I could do this. She believed that God had something for me here and sure enough, as soon as we moved here and took that leap of faith, even though we were running on fumes, we had very little money. God just opened doors that I could have never foreseen him opening and she was right. I mean, we started getting on tours, started getting into the studio again, writing songs, started meeting more people that just believed in me and saw something in me. And I met my manager Marcus Rickson pretty early on and he just has a heart for the underdog, I think, and he heard me and heard my story and just immediately, I mean, within a week was like, yeah, we want to work with you, we want to sign you. And he's been a huge factor just in me getting out there, getting out there and really improving myself in a way that I couldn't have done on my own because there's so many different levels to music and production and just songwriting and I can honestly say like the songs I started off writing weren't nearly at the level of the songs I'm writing now and it's just amazing like the growth when I look back, the growth I'm seeing because of the Lord placing people in my life that believe in me. I truly do give credit to the Lord because I know I couldn't have done this on my own and he's just placed so many people in my life, whether it be my wife or my manager or my record label or my producer Jay Spade. If he wasn't placing those people in my life, I really don't know where I'd be. It's like he's always convincing me through other people that Nathan, this is what I have for you, look what I'm providing for you so that you can do this. He's your father. Yes. You know, it's just incredible because I feel like since moving here I've been able to just really just grow as a person and discover who my identity truly is in Christ and I became a father recently.  We always wanted a baby and I never saw myself as somebody that could truly be a dad and I think that comes from a place of just childhood trauma and not really understanding, you know, because my mom and my dad weren't there. It was hard for me to wrap my mind around being able to raise a little girl and getting to break off some of that generational stuff that I believe was there.  Yeah. He has given you back as a man. Yes, absolutely. A family. And that's huge for me. I truly think about that all the time as like, man, I have an opportunity here to totally redeem. So many of these things. All the things that happened to me, I have an opportunity to correct that and just provide a whole different existence, a whole different life, a whole different destiny for my little girl and I truly just, I'm super thankful for that opportunity and it's also great because I feel like music in a way almost takes a little bit of a backseat to just being a good father and getting to grow as a man and grow as a husband. Just all those things. It's just amazing to see that in my personal walk with Christ as well I've grown and it's like all these more personal things and just life things seem to really be what's grown so much versus just the music. Will you play a song for me? Yes. What's the name of this? This one's called Do You Know. It's actually the latest song I just released. Okay. And man, it's just super powerful. Love it, it's beautiful. Thank you. Do You Know. It's really a song about the product of sun but also just reminding people that don't even know the Lord that He truly does love them.  It was a concept that could really wrap my brain around and for so many people they truly just don't know the Lord loves them and for me that's why this song is so powerful. It's just about the prodigal coming home. It is about that but it's also just about showing people who don't know the Lord that, wow, there is redemption for you. Christ loves you so much and this foreign concept to you really is the truth. I mean it's the truth. It's the ultimate truth. Nathan, we have a few minutes left. Where has God taken you now? The past two years have just been like exponential growth not just in my career, my personal life. I mean it's just all around my spiritual journey. It's just been so much growth after growth and discovering my identity in him and really just zoning into that and becoming more mature as a husband, as a father, as a musician and everything else of God going on, just maturing and so I think I'm finally at a place where at least from a career standpoint I feel like I'm finally ready to take on a lot more of those big adventures that are going to come up whether it's bigger songs being on radio or bigger tours, things like that. I think I just have that kind of nudging I feel like from the Lord that some big things are up ahead and right now I'm just in a maturing phase getting ready for that and just kind of preparing myself for that and in the meantime staying in the Word and staying prayed up focusing truly on my relationship with Christ that way whenever these opportunities do come up I'm ready for it mentally and spiritually and it's not going to get to my head and it's not going to mess me up. Nathan, what a blessing you are and I believe that God has been preparing you from the time you were a young boy thanks for being with me today. Thank you so much. My friend, do you know the one that loves you most and knows you best? If you don't, his name is Jesus and he's waiting for you. This is today's Nashville This is Faith.


Guys, welcome to another week in my life vlog. It's Tuesday afternoon. I'm actually about to head out to get a blowout. There's been a meetings today. Okay, so anyways, this is what I'm wearing today. I think it's super cute. Look, I actually love this outfit. These, again, are my Princess Polly favorite current jeans from them right now. I don't remember where these shoes are from, but I can link them. This is a rental piece from Newly. Work with them on the podcast. So I don't know where it's from, but I'll try to link something similar. I just think that this look, I feel cool, you know? Anyways, we're actually about to head off. I'm gonna get a blowout tonight. I'm hosting a happy hour for you guys in Dallas. So that is exciting. Subscribe if you guys are new. Okay. Oh my gosh. Guys, it's starting to feel like fall. Treating myself to a pumpkin cold brew. Also, I got my nails done today. They need to be rounded out like they're two square. I got a blowout just now with Ally at boss. To be honest with you, this is my favorite blowout I've ever gotten, ever. As I'm heading home, we have our Dallas happy hours with the girls. I'm hosting through the Junior Vap. So anyone who lives in Dallas, I have basically invited. And I thought like 10 people would RCP and we got like over a hundred, which is potentially gonna be a really big problem. We're gonna go to Toller Patio because anyways, Dana's coming in an hour. So it's Jess.  And then we're gonna head over a little bit early just to get a table and see what the space is like. Anyways, I'm really excited about my hair. I have two good hair racks in Dallas. My sister obviously, which I'll link her below. She's really good with blondes. And then Ally just did my blowout. I've been home. I've been cleaning. The moth is going. We are heading off to the happy hour. I'm very excited. Oh, Jess is calling. Hello. We got so lucky. No one is here. We are gonna be totally fine. Over here. You're here. I'm home now. And I just unboxed some packages. This one is from the mDriller. I just ordered this the other day. I was influenced on Instagram. But look at this necklace I got. Call me Chuggy. I don't care. I love it. It's definitely a statement. Like it's very much not a statement, but I just think it's so cool. I mean, look at that. It's beautiful. We had such a good time with Toler Patio. I didn't really push this event that much. I really just posted about it on Instagram stories and on Geneva. So if you're just a YouTube viewer, follow me at Instagram and join our Geneva chat. Even if you guys don't live in Dallas, we do different cities. I know some people who follow me are like post grad and so they just move to new cities and don't know anyone, whatever. So I'm just wanting you guys to be friend to each other basically and just start doing events and stuff. Bumble, BFF. Yes, I will host events in every city. Yes. It was really fun. Anyway, it's an event that I really didn't push to. Like there was a big turnout, which just means this is a good idea. I'm gonna talk about this once and then stop because I'm sure I've been annoying, but Geneva is like a group chat app, but we have a room for books. We have a room for like, we have regional rooms. So for certain cities, we have an FAQ. We have an advice room. We have like so many different things. It's basically replacing my Facebook group, but it's much, much better than the Facebook group and it's really fun. So download it. Other people have rooms or homes and there's different rooms in them. It's really cool. I will link below. Hi guys, happy Wednesday. So last night it said it was gonna rain all morning. So I thought I was gonna wake up to rain and then I woke up and it said it wasn't gonna rain till 11. So I called Amanda and I was like, let's walk and get coffee. We were getting ready and then it started raining. So anyways, I think we're actually gonna go get coffee, but drive. It is just a gloomy rainy day and I really wanna have a cozy home day where I film. I'm filming stuff, but like sit down at YouTube videos. Light some candles, make it feel like fall. Here in Monzy, I'm in high school when I would just be so cozy all day and filming YouTube videos and I was like so excited. I'm still very excited, don't worry. I just look like a cozy at home fall filming days. I really, really miss those. But anyways, I'm gonna talk Amanda into going to tribal is a little bit further away, but I'm driving. She'll still probably control it somehow. So we'll see. You guys also loved Amanda on the last vlog. And then I'm gonna go pick her up and then hopefully we're going to tribal. This jacket by the way, I'm not sure where it's from. I got it in my newly packaged. It says it's from, I'm not sure. It's like $320 it is realized that. But I love it, I'm wearing this size large. I will link it down below for any of you guys. But like, this is such a good fall jacket.  Here we are going to tribal. Amanda, everyone's favorite person in the vlogs recently. They're hiring, should we get a job? Yeah, you should. We got our good morning drinks that Amanda now loves after she had a lot of mean things to say. Yeah, because tell them they agree. It looks disgusting. It looks gross, I had. Paying to it. I show them every time I'm here. It's like, okay. It's like juice with espresso. And I know it sounds disgusting, but it's actually just like really, really, really good. Got a little breakfast burrito. I'm very hungry. Amanda got the migas, which is what I normally get. And then you normally get chips where they only have tortillas right now. It was a little bit different than what I normally get. Anyways, very good. Here we are. Oh no, it's just really hard. You don't like it what I'm wearing. I at least want to merge. By the way, I know I've mentioned that in vlogs recently I didn't realize the site was down so I'm really sorry to everyone who went to buy. It's back up, so I'll link it below. Cute shorts, matching top, a trucker, a mug. It's cute. Anyways, today it's 2 p.m. I got home, oh, oh, oh God. Got home and I used it up, filming two videos. I'm gonna send those over and then I'm gonna start editing my weekend of my life vlog and just lay in bed. Isn't raining now, but it's supposed to rain tonight. I just want a gloomy, rainy, fall, cozy day but I have a lot of work to do so I'm just gonna work from bed on my laptop, Sumi. But that's kind of my vibe today. So, but it is getting a little bit warmer and it's kind of killing my vibe. What are they doing here? Think I just got the stuff, I don't know. Here we go, I'm just making snacks. I have my Better Butch, my favorite kombucha ever. It is so good. If you haven't tried it, I love this stuff. Apple from Sprouts, of course. My favorite place ever. Doing some online shopping. These slippers were made for me. They're Ugg slippers. They're like the fuzzy sherpa look that I love and they're brown. I mean, this is a dream come true. For my fall boot, I think that I'm gonna get these. I'll link both of them below. But they just look like something I'll wear literally 24-7. It's currently 6.15pm. I'm pretty much done editing what I'm gonna edit for the day. I think I'm gonna close, I don't know. I still kind of wanna work, but I shouldn't. I was feeling really anxious, so I took the dogs on a little walk, just a 20-minute walk. I got this new thing, guys. It's one of those like LEDU face masks. I just had it on for 30 minutes as I was editing. Okay, so it does like the different colors. I just did blue for 30 minutes. Blue is supposed to sterilize and diminish inflammation, destroying bacteria, reduces mild to moderate acne, and regulates the oil glands to prevent future breakouts. I wanna do like all of the colors, though. This was sent to me. It's from Skin, or it's from the Sculpt Skin Bar. I'm actually like really excited. I've wanted one of these for a long time. So yeah, I'm pumped to be using this. Oh, Coco wants to start editing right now. I was at rain last night and my window in my closet is broken, so there's now rain in my house. Love being a homeowner. Seriously, by a house they said, it'll be so fun, they said.  We're gonna go to Starbucks. I need to get the dogs out. They have a grooming appointment. I got a lot done yesterday. I just like, I don't know. I just was like in my bedroom when I was working. Like I was in high school and I very, I understand why that's not conducive or helpful at all, but that's what happened. So anyways, here's my walk outfit. We've got some outdoor voices shorts which I might regret wearing shorts. It's fine, my full disclosure hoodie. I don't know if it's my last video or one of them, but this is gonna go to hoodie. It's my friend Payton's brand. And then we've got Twin Flames, which is my friend Payton's brand. Wow. All right. Back here working.  I'm making some breakfast. Tealing with the house stuff that is honestly just stressing me out. I have therapy at one. I think someone's coming over, hopefully to look at my wall today. Here's my crazy outfit today. There honestly is like a good amount of reasons to not grow up, but like this is one of the top ones. My vacuum's going, the dishwasher is going, I'm waiting for my food. I don't want the clutter up here. I feel like my house just getting cluttered, even though I keep decluttering.  Just got a video up. I'm gonna have this organic kombucha. It's apple spice. I got it from Sprouts. I just kind of wanted to try their line. It's cheaper than what I normally get. My flowers from a Kinzier are unfortunately dead. I'm about to go to therapy, but I have this random surge of motivation to just get things organized today. So I hope that stays. And I'm gonna organize a bit of my kitchen. Like my junk drawer is really just disturbing. And yeah, I don't know, honestly guys, I really hope because I've enjoyed this vlog. I never know what you guys want. I feel like I get like no comments or I get comments, but like then I'll meet you guys in person and you guys have so much to say. So I never really know what you guys like and don't like or what you want to see. So if you're not a commenter, please start commenting because I really need to know. You know, I got someone out today or I'm getting someone to come out today. My neighbor told me who they use. So I'm gonna see my realtor, I think is sending someone to just to get quotes. I want to get this all fixed as soon as possible, especially with the holidays coming up and it's just gonna be really busy. So anyways, the dogs still are not done. Like that's actually been a long time. So anyways, we're off to therapy. We go. Okay. Home from therapy making some soup. I'm on kombucha number two of the day. I didn't love the other one, but this was pumpkin spice. It's only 330, but here we are. I'm making some reels and stuff. Taste test. What happened to these? I like it better, but it's not the best kombucha. The chili looks incredible and it smells so good. The morning show is on, getting some work done. All right guys, I just organized my pantry the other week. It's a mess. I have this kind of like Harry Potter closet. The problem is that I don't have like a storage closet in my house at all. So this kind of happens and then things get shoved and whatever. So I really need to clean some stuff out. So that's what we're going to do. Dana brought over all of this stuff for me to make some drink reels, which will be exciting. I have this delivered. It's a bamboo tray that I'm going to use to organize my jump drawer, which I'm going to do right now. Then I also have another hand frother, which I needed for my drinks in mine. Just break all the time. So we have another one, but I'll link it below. It's really cheap. I had one for like a year, never broke. Now they always break. This is really embarrassing. Very vulnerable. Here's my drunk drawer right now. Here's my before and I'll give you an after. What an improvement. It's not perfect. It's nowhere near it actually, but we're getting somewhere. It looks a lot better than it did. You have to admit I have a lot of candlelighters and I have a lot of scissors, which I didn't realize how many I had. This is your sign to clean out your drunk drawer. It at least looks a lot better. I'm feeling a lot more put together. Love this for me.  My gosh. Okay, they just left. It wasn't as expensive as I expected it to be. Where did my stand go? They don't want it. It'll go in here. But it's still just honestly so confusing. I really hate being an adult. I was already just having like an emotionally difficult week and feeling a lot more anxious. And then this happened. So not fun. I'm also mainly stressed out because I don't want to have to be out of my house or have my houseie messed up during the holidays. And also I'm entertaining next weekend. And then I've guested in town for like two weeks basically. So, you know, I can be new timing, but it could be worse always. Hey, that's calling me. Night time now. Sorry I haven't vlogged much today, but Fitz is just so cozy.  I just got out of the shower. I'm wearing skims. And I think this is from Revolve. I know I look very scary guys, but I'm doing my red night therapy. Last night I did the blue, white, but I'm gonna do red. Oh my God. I know this is crazy because I only used it once for 30 minutes, but I definitely noticed so many improvements. I've been talking about how I've been breaking out a little bit recently, which is not even a little bit, probably worse than I really ever have. And I get a lot of, I get hormonal breakouts anyways and I definitely should be getting them right now. Anyways, I had some breakouts like around my face. Obviously you can't see, but I did have this all last night and it made them all go away or get so much smaller. Blue is for like inflammation, so it definitely helped with that one anyways. And during red light, I love red light therapy. I'm going to read a new book.  Like honestly guys, it is really creepy, okay? Okay, it's really, really freaky actually.  But I wanna tell you the two books that I've read this week. I posted them to my Instagram story, but I just thought that they were so good. The first one I read was When She Returned by Lucinda Berry. I loved this book. I thought it was such a unique thriller. I talked about Colts, which I'm randomly like really interested in. And it was a really good book. I feel like the ending could have been better. I don't wanna spoil anything. I didn't love the ending. I would have wanted something different, but every other part of the book I really thoroughly enjoyed. And then I read Life's True Short by Abby Jimenez last night. And it was so good. I felt so many emotions as I read it. I read the entire thing in one night. It made me like tear up. And I felt so many emotions. Like genuinely felt the emotions myself as I read that book. And I just thought it was so good. Such a cute read. It was definitely like heavy, but she has a way of writing about like real life heavy things in a kind of like light and uplifting way. So anyways, I loved both of those books. I'm gonna try to read another one because I know that's in the Friend Zone series. There's three of them that make off different storylines. So I think I'm gonna read the Friend Zone and maybe I'll read that whole thing tonight. Who knows? This week I'm trying to just like refuel and recharge. If you guys watched my Weekend of My Life vlog, I was just getting like kind of anxious. I have a concert next weekend and then we're going to Austin for the Grand Prix for Formula One and we're going to see Billy Joel there which I'm so excited for. Anyways, and I have some guests coming to town. I cannot take myself seriously. I'm literally so sorry. So I'm trying to just really take it easy and relax and spend a lot of time by myself to kind of refuel. I was gonna say refuel and recharge at the same time. To refuel in the meantime because I know that I'm gonna need it soon. So tomorrow's Friday night and I think I'm just gonna stay home. Our normal dinner is not happening tomorrow, I think. So I'm hoping to stay home and have a really like kind of cozy, easy weekend. Just feel like I've been in the same spot vlogging. Don't worry, we are leaving my house today. Just got back from my morning walk and we're in set active. My Lulu bag, I'll link below. I got Starbucks this morning. I've been walking to Starbucks. Not a good habit to have. I also just wanna say, skin update. I went back to using my cureology and just cureology. Like I was kind of mixing up my skincare routine but I just, nothing does better for my skin than my cureology routine does. So I've been using that for the past two days and I did my, obviously my massing in last night my skin looks so much better in the time that it should be the worst. Just saying it's working. You can see all of it's kind of going down. Anyways, I'm listening to Token, it's CEO. It's one of my favorite podcasts. I need to get some work done probably the next hour and then I have to, I have a Pilates class at 1130 and I need to stop at North Park on the way, so. And then we have a Mine Cross Bee kind of event. The few other brands, I'm not sure. It's at Highland Park Village, very exciting. Just sent so many emails to the podcast. I'm on my like second or third Token CEO episode today. This is my, I'm going to Pilates and North Park and getting my brows done. I kept the tank on, it was a little bit cold so I put these leggings on. This jacket, I don't know where it's from, I got it in my newly subscription. I love the clothes I got in my newly subscription. Set, Amazon, Lulu, got me my keys. Okay, also guys, I just checked this jacket is from Free People. I'm about to go into North Park and get my new boots that I ordered. I'm confused because I was charged but I didn't get an email and I'm supposed to pick them up so I'm just gonna go and hope for the best. Just picked up my boots. They were here, thankfully. They are so beautiful. They're pretty popular this season. I've seen a few of my friends even get them this week. I think we literally got them on the same day. I'm just not picking mine up. They're rain boots, but they're really cool. They also have one that's like brown and black on the toe, which I love, but I just got black because this is a staple. They're definitely a little bit pricier but honestly like well worth it. I just think that they're so cool. They go up to your knee. I just, I don't know, I love them. I thought they were great. I will be wearing them non-stop. I will link them below for you guys. I think they're a really great investment piece for like the fall and winter, even spring, honestly. All right, here's my outfit. I have this top on this blazer. I think it's Princess Polly. These pants are like literally Amazon. I have my new boots on and we are heading off. We're going to Highland Park Village for a Mine Cosby and like a few other brands event. I'm not exactly sure what it is. The North East is like, we made it to the village. Your outfit's very cute by the way. Give a little OOTD. We're doing fall. We are. This is, oh my God, I think this is H&M last year. Oh my God, we love H&M fall. Love Zara jeans. Cute. My top con. Love this. Okay guys, we're at Starbucks. We just left the event. Getting another Starbucks, I know guys. I think I got my drink. I need a napkin, hold on. I think I'll be okay. Wow, it's genius. Oh wow. They were just trying to give me as much as possible. How kind of them. We went to the event. It was great. Didn't want to pull out my big vlog camera because it was a very small area. Okay, but I just wanted to get coffee again, I know. But guys, who remembers when Dom and I went to this anthropology every year? I get a text from Dom at least three times a week saying that she wishes that we can go to anthropology right now. So clearly we're both, you know, still down bad, but it's okay. Love this place. It makes me so happy. Christmas. Oh my God. Oh, these are so cute. I have some already, but there's, oh my God, they're so cute. I'm already in shopping for Christmas. They're having a candle sale. So I'm gonna get this one. Technically, yes, it's Christmas, but who cares? And then the vanilla, I mean what? This is just a volcano candle, but it's white. They're on sale, so I feel just fine. Okay, I'm home with my new candle.  Six on a Friday night, and I'm already in my pajamas. I just self-tanned. But I have to tell you guys what happened because it is just not my day. It really isn't. So my trash goes out today. It's the same day every single week, and for some reason, I forgot, I've never forgotten.  So I get home and I realize that, and I'm like, oh my God, I'm on the phone with Dom and I'm like, I can't believe I forgot. I never forget whatever. I come upstairs and Fitz had an accident, which is so rare, but I realized that I was in such a rush. I totally forgot to take them out with my fault. Which I, again, never do. Like, I'm so regimented with them. Like, so structured that it's just so out of character. Then, as I'm talking about the Saddam, I get the candle out and I break it. Let me show it to you. Okay guys, my brand new volcano candle. Like, you've actually gotta be kidding me.  Fine, but this is my brand new $30 candle that I just purchased. At least it was on sale. Oh my God, oh my God. Chico Texas, as I'm listening to the podcast with her, just commented on my Instagram. I feel very cool. Anyways, I'm experiencing FOMO, staying home on a Friday night, but I also really need it and I'm really not like, I just, I don't wanna leave. I don't have the energy for that. It's a Friday night, I just wanted Chinese food. I'm staying home.  So anyways, I got Chinese food, I have my fire going. I'm gonna go upstairs and read. The candle is still going, gonna have to blow it out pretty soon. Did a lot of dishes and just cleaned up the place.  So, guys, happy Saturday. I'm on my way to pick up Jess. We're going to the farmer's market. I'm wearing this cute vest from Urban that again was my newly subscription. I've, I got a great package from them when I got back. It's like a clothing subscription service. Love the stuff that I got. I just got some. Thank you. Got my coffee, Jess has just already had some. So I had to fix them up. We came all the way out here just to show Coop the big world that he lives in. We needed to have him experience the farmer's market. I haven't been to the farmer's market in like almost a year. Really? Yeah, Dom and I went through a phase. I really like it here though, it's so cute. Actually not a year, but maybe Coop wants to go vintage shopping with us. Anyways, we're at the Dallas farmer's market. It's a great farmer's market. All the pumpkins, Texas flags everywhere. Just looking at this makes me feel healthy. Guys, I'm actually having a mental breakdown because there's no bone broth right now. Oh, that's really cute. Look at the little cake. But there's no bone broth right now. I don't know where my bone broth friend went. She's nowhere to be found. I should have gotten her Instagram or something. Very sad. Maybe it'll be back next week. Maybe. This is the outfit today by the way, guys. We went to Lowe's this morning. Coop had a great time. He loves Lowe's, just like me, his favorite person. Guys, we're going to vintage shopping. We're going to the Grand Prix next weekend and I have this vision of some sort of cool outerwear. So we need to go here. He didn't copy me because I already bought a vintage jacket. I don't know that you did that, but sure, I'm copying you when I go to the Grand Prix, that's for sure. So anyways, we're off. We made it to Bishop Arts. We had a successful trip. I'll show you guys a haul when I get back. We're back, surprise, surprise, outside of Tribal. It's Jess's first time in Bishop Arts. What do you think? It's cute. She's only seen about one corner. You haven't even seen the other places. They're so cute. We're going to go to Dalian Python and maybe another place, but probably just that place. Got the beautiful oatmeal from Tribal. It's so good. Okay. All right guys, haul time. The first thing I got was a stylus pen. I have purchased probably, oh, fifth, no. Those are plants. I could not tell you how many out of the pens I've purchased and lost and they're pricey, so I want to see if this one is comparable because I'm tired of replacing them. From the vintage store, I got this car heart jacket. I just feel like it's going to be such a great fall staple and something I'll wear a ton. Then I got this from my little brother. My family, they're just huge Steelers fans. The vintage Steelers jacket, which I think is really cool and this is kind of his style, like he's into this stuff. So I thought he would like it. He sounds excited. And then I got these Levi shorts. I really wanted denim shorts that are loose around my thigh and these aren't loose, but they still fit well. So I think I'm going to cut them a little bit shorter and then wear these with my new boots and like a sweater, honestly, probably tonight I'm going to dinner with some friends. I also came back to a package from Earvars, which is my favorite fitness brand. I'm wearing Earvars leggings literally right now. This is something from them that I've never had before. What is this? Okay, so the star, legging and mauve, but like first off, your butt's going to look incredible. I cannot describe to you how soft this fabric is. Wow, I mean, it is just like, it's so soft. I'm obsessed with it. So we have those leggings and then we have this top, which the top kind of looks a little bit big. So hopefully it fits the medium and normally a medium and tops, but we'll see. I just thought that was really cute. It's also a little bit more coverage. So wearing this like a jacket or something in the fall. Then I love these because I love the color. I think these are their football leggings, that's what they're called. Yeah, the rib football leggings. So their rib leggings are incredible. This cut is great. And then like this, the football leggings, I think they're cute. I love the color. I also got this matching bra with it, which I think is really cute. So that'll be really good for Pilates, I'm excited. I love the Pilates class that I took yesterday. I went to Shine Pilates. I think I talked about that in the vlog. I've been kind of off my vlogging game this week, but I went to Adam and it was like my favorite class I've taken in Dallas so far for Pilates as far as music too. Like we have a problem in Dallas where he will play 2012 top 40 and it like makes me wanna die. Like I want rap music in my workout classes and he killed it. Then I also just have this nice long sleeve workout top which is the cut out long sleeve charcoal top.  We have a surprise visitor coming soon. Comment below who you think it is and comment below what you think I'm being for Halloween. I'm actually really excited for this. I either hate Halloween or I have really good costumes planned out for our advance and I ordered them on October 1st. So I'm really excited. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed today's video. I have really exciting videos coming out that I'm filming and I'm really excited, obviously. So I love you guys so much. Be sure to subscribe and I will see you soon. Bye.