So, here we are sitting in between a hardcore PRNG talk and next talk which is advanced malware campaigns. So this is kind of a break if you want. We'll talk about Montriac and what we're doing, why we're doing it, how the some lessons we've learned, tools and techniques and what's next. But first I'm Olivier Bilodeau.  But more seriously, Pierre David presented me quite well so I guess I'll just skip but some things I want to say is I'm passionate about InfoSec, open source and the community. So for me you know Montriac and all of the speaking and the things I do is mostly for the people because I enjoy hanging out with them. I'll also be running if my voice permits the hacker jeopardy tomorrow at night. I think it's not that advertised but it's open to the public. So if you are not participating in the CTF you can still come and attend the hacker jeopardy. You need to register somewhere I think it was mentioned once on Twitter or something or ask an organizer. So it starts at what time do we start? 10 p.m. So yeah I didn't know when I finished my slides and it was late so no admin was available. So for the hacker jeopardy I write all the questions myself mostly like I get maybe 10 questions from friends and I run the show and I do the animation. I enjoy it a lot so I hope you guys will be there and enjoy it too. So what is Montriac? It's a monthly workshop where we solve capture the flag challenges. Thanksfully because of Guillaume's presentation yesterday I won't need to explain what a CTF is because it's kind of painful to explain so I'll just assume you know. We provide full archives of the past challenges on our website. We think it's important so we put a lot of effort into it and it's taking time and some of them are missing but so you can have a write up, you can have the files most of the time and redo the challenges if you couldn't attend Montriac. So for let's say specific things you are trying to accomplish for example at Nordsek maybe you'll remember oh we did this at XYZ Montriac and then you can go in the archive and fetch the write up. So it's another resource for CTF if you want. So we used to do Montriac back in the 70s it was a old-school thing no it's just a joke it was an Instagram filter sorry about that. So the archives here's the next example of the archive we keep them by date we have almost all of them like I said and we also have them by topic so android crack me crypto this is all stuff we already have in there forensic hardware iOS reverse engineering and so on and so forth. We also covered international and local CTFs so we've an advent calendar Boston key parties CIS SCA CSA several times hackfest a lot of challenges from the hackfest a lot of challenges from Nordsek plates tfnact.lu. We feature some of the web's gem in order to present our challenges so this is something I put a lot of effort in and I know it's stupid but I like it so I still do it but so we presented some challenges with pictures like this more serious pictures like this which we had a smart card presentation from Pierre David who did the smart card track at Nordsek we had stuff month where we would do only parties and no no challenges sometimes the people who produce the challenge send us a picture like this is how I felt when I was doing the challenge so here you go and we just like are generally having fun and doing things that are really sometimes inappropriate but Montreal is also a place to meet celebrities like our next speaker Jean Calvet was seen at the last Montreal which was this Monday so you could speak to him he was accessible like really really here why are we doing it we started doing it because we wanted to be better at CTF but mostly because we sucked at Defcon quals and by sucking I mean we were missing things and people and focus on the random and the pwnables this is pretty old it's like five six years ago but more on a serious note it's primarily to add the depth on on our team so that everyone can do web everyone can do the easy things and we have a few specialized guys who can go really really deep like rittorical and stuff like that so that is really something we can do if we do you know one challenge every month about topic that changes over time so we didn't really succeed at that so haven't qualified at Defcon quals but I'm not there anymore like the young people in our team will say well you you can you know complain but you're now we never see you it's true I'm old I have kids I don't do CTF anymore except north sec and a few of them so but still running Montreal is not as time-consuming as 48 hours in a full ab so I can I can do that so in fact what is it about it's more about a routine and doing so by routine what I mean is no matter what I spent three hours a month doing a CTF challenges so it's kind of mandatory work which is nice and then I get to hang out with some friends and have beer so this is this is good for me and doing it's the style that we've chosen so a lot of the hacking community and stuff there's a lot of talks and talks are good to learn stuff you write down the tool name but you never tried it you don't have it installed on your computer it's it's just you know getting you to the the state where you need to be so when we started the Montreal we decided like we don't need talks we need you know hands-on things we need to bring you know computers and and do the challenges together and even create teams ad hoc you know at some point after an hour and a half maybe you realize oh my code is like messy and I'm not doing anything towards the goal and you see that the guy besides you is actually doing good progress and so you sit together and abandon your old your own things and then get closer to the challenge and making a friend at the same time so it's really the the doing aspect for for us is key in Montréal and this way also your machine is already always ready to go to war because you checked out the tools you have them you know when I'm sure at Friday the internet everyone will be downloading Cali Linux and stuff like that and launching VMs it's like it's too late you should always have a war machine ready for you know legitimate hacking and Montriac so yeah how it's pretty simple someone proposes a challenge usually it's not even us the organizers which I'll tell it's who later we work on it like for three hours like I said he presents a solution and then we go and have beer but sometimes like this week this Monday we just had beer no no challenges but especially before North Sec and sometimes during the summer we just do more community hangout participant must bring laptops hack and had a team pretty obvious so when we've decided early on that it should be a fixed date so that people wouldn't have to remember like going and had it to the agenda stuff like that so it's the third Monday of every month and it's almost always the same venue but you still need to check sometimes because we not manhouse was ready to go undergoing renovation so we actually did go to the Google's office for that time and now we pretty much like the Google venue so we now us the eight between Google's offices and not manhouse and so for this you need to check but it's always the third Monday of every month who is behind this Pierre-Marc Viro I'll ask the guys that are here to stand up so we are four stand up I said I see is not there oh so that's a stand up so that's a and so the other guy the fourth guy Marquette Sien is on vacation so he's not here so the four of us what we do is we take each a month during the you know the next semester if you want and then we handle the whole organization for the month in question so last month it was me actually that covered for Pierre-Marc he was away in a conference next month is Sebastian who is taking responsibility and we have opportunities for people who want to participate to step in if we are six people or twelve people who would have only one month to organize per year which would be great you know because we can we could spend time instead of presenting challenges because now we do mostly you know meta stuff anyway so I want to give it also a few shoutouts to the the presenter because it's about them you know more that's you hiding you had hair back then so it's it's the people who actually make the thing work you know because presenting takes more time than only running the show so first thanks to rim tongue to give up to have found the name which is really cool I we really all stand behind it in a nice name and all of these guys listed here I won't read them because it's boring but these guys are I think like 80% is probably in this room so thanks guys and it's because of you that we've been successful now let's have a little cheesy award ceremony a few awards should go to so the most Montriac attended without working actually on any of the challenges and the award goes to I don't think is here our very old north sec president mr. Gabriel Tremblay he's still there that's good longest challenge explanation going more than three times over the allocated time slot and that the award goes to north sec logistic monsieur Francois Proulx was good though it was a complex forensic iOS forensic challenge so he wanted to show us everything that was in there and making us secretly exploit a zero-day vulnerability in a library mr. Philip artel so he like when I was doing the archive he sent me an email like oh this Montriac we did we worked on this cv which was not released at the time we worked on it and so it's a xxc injection and apache abatic so now the lessons that we've learned lesson zero co-maintenorship doesn't work at first we tried to have like core volunteers and then you know you do Facebook you do emails I do Google plus and you do Twitter and stuff and you the bookings and I call Benelux to do to say how many will be and it just didn't work so this is something that like naively you can think you can share a load like that but I guess we can work it out so we have this new you know preassigned guys thing that I talked about earlier lesson one we act we accidentally offended several communities and for that we're sorry we I would have loved to share some of the details of this but it could offend again you know the people so so we'll just keep this for you know side the all-way conversations but so now we're more careful and Gabriel doesn't do images let's just say it that way lesson number two even though presenting takes a long time only organizing the monthly runs takes time to so this is a average time spent on the typical Montriac as you can see finding the right funny picture is very important to me and I put a lot of effort in it so maybe I'm doing some things wrong lessons three we started recently having checkpoints so like after half an hour or an hour where is everyone and then looking okay you should have this and we can move on so for complex challenges it's a good thing because most of the time like the I presented up a challenge where it was a pro interpreter who has been compiled into an elf binary and to solve it it took me like eight hours so how am I supposed to present this and have people you know who doesn't know maybe the pearls internal as much as I do and reverse engineering solve it in three so we decided okay let's do checkpoints and then skip some steps and provide code to move further along and we did tired did this also last month and it proved to be really good because everyone is like focusing and learning new things and installing the tools for the right steps so it's really key and also people tend to regroup at these stages like okay so if let's say four people were like following really closely then oh I can help you and I'll go sit besides you instead of continuing my stuff so and and then this is again the making friends thing over so tools and techniques there are no single tools or techniques the end that's what I did at my how not to suck at CTF talk and I kind of regretted it so joking aside what I want to say by this is that they are various tools and I decided to highlight a few of them but this is my personal choice my personal choices it's not I'm not imposing them they're not like the dead thing to use or anything so just take take this with a grain of salt so of course learn a scripting language it's all like most of the time we we write some code so try to keep snippets of code and build you know I call it my scratch pad I have a folder where all my all's Python snippets is and then when I need to XOR things I have XOR that XOR is like everything and I reuse it I said to choose a scripting language but of course preferably Python 3 and not to 3 use ipython and ipython notebook if you've never used ipython notebook you've got to try if you have ipython installed it's really easy to to run it and it's a really nice way to again keep documentation and execution really close together so this is actually a tip that I got from Gabriel like three years ago he presented his solution using ipython notebook and I was amazed by how interesting and flexible it is and now whenever I start a CDF I start a notebook and I import you know the functions I reuse all the time and I start from there and you can share it it's it's HTTP so so multiple people can connect to it it's kind of a Python kernel exposed via HTTP through a nice web interface it's it's really cool don't use plain gdb for that the type of stuff we do reverse engineering the plain gdb is just not doing it get fancy gdb in it there are good ones readily available from Google or use a p3da or peda this is the the peda fork that works on Python 3 with Python 3 I think is a cruel going to be at it or easy right now at Nordsec he's coming for the CTF so this is this this guy who who forked it he's going to be here this weekend and I want to like I don't know kiss his feet or something because it's it's really useful to have it in Python 3 since Ubuntu compiled the gdb with Python 3 support and dropped the Python 2 you cannot have both so yeah cool stuff from time to time try to take the time to try radar again instead of a pirated I approach it's just like we need to get rid of proprietary things so I just like do it a little political message I actually presented my the last month react I present on the pearl thing using radar to of course I didn't solve it with radar unfortunately but I still took the time to learn it and present it fully with radar and it actually worked quite well wire shark is the bomb and you should learn T shark there's so many cool things you can do with you know wire shark T shark and Python code I use that a lot at work too so this is my tip Burr or OASP unfortunately I'm not the best guy for web so my my tools might my tools might be way outdated I don't know use vagrant for disposable VMs it's so easy to get a VM quickly if you need to run you know a 32-bit or something or or an old version of red at or this lip see or that you go on the vagrant boxes you find the right server you want to run and then just boom on the command line everything no gooey and it's the back end is virtual box most people already have it installed it's really nice for disposable VMs learn to use a powerful text editor like VIM sublime or Emax but preferably VIM of course now the developer tools of your browser this is also really really powerful and now they have like really neat things for hacker like you do the thing in your browser and then you realize you need to automate it and now you go and painfully you know copy and paste values one by one into your curl command when now you have a right click copy as curl right into Chrome on a request so now you can paste it in a terminal you have all the cookies and all the stuff for your request in there so it it's worth it to take the time to learn some of these bricks so what's next for Montreal I am proud to announce that we are sponsored by the Benelux for a free beer after the workshop from now on at the next month react yeah slow clap we're really glad about this we've been hanging out there it's like just normal that they sponsor us I guess but for us it's like a recognition you know it's good we intend on taking no breaks this summer so we'll have a full full schedule for support this summer and I'm revealing information about next month that is not yet confirmed so it's subject to change but we will probably have a presenter that is outside of Montreal so a guy from Seattle a Googler who works at Google and he wants to present a Defconn quals 2015 challenge so it should be really interesting and hard and we'll have the opportunity to meet this guy which I didn't want to name because it's not confirmed so now it's time for you to participate this is what's next you know part you participate so we want you to come to Montreal we want you to present at Montreal anyone can do it and it's always fun to see the new approaches to problems we also want sponsors of Montreal and the best way to sponsor is to present or create a challenge and it could also be hosted at your offices so if you have a cool office you want you know to hire people and you have security team have them create a challenge and will will will all go there and you'll have to provide some beverages maybe should and and then for you it's good visibility for us it's a cool challenge and meeting new place seeing new venues so it's win-win now the way to get in touch and get this all together is through mailing list Twitter we are at some other places Facebook Google plus and you can get also involved on the meta mailing list which is the mailing list for you know people interested in the behind the scenes and the we are more than the four of us on the meta list so it's really open archives are open you can look at them it's it's really we don't want we don't have any secrets you can also contribute and participate and by contributing I really mean it like let's see what we can do here you can modify our website through get up and this was a pull request that I made yesterday to demo the thing that the fact that you can contribute so if you see something shitty on our site you can let's look at it so I go on learning resources and I don't see I don't see like north sick or hackfest in here and I want to fix that so what I do is I create a pull request pretty simple I change some markdown and I submit it so let's accept it where is the button and this is green that's probably good no this merge pull request I got it all right confirm the merge merging I we can go back and see this is the wonders of not doing anything regarding your infrastructure and so we live we modified Montreal's website how easy was that so now you can do it if I could do it while not really seeing what I did you can do it also and that's it is there any questions


All right, I'm waiting for something good to happen. Okay, you guys weren't lying then. Turn it off! We'll play hide and seek. All right. Wait what? I'll close my eyes and come to ten. What's going on? Two. Are we supposed to go hide? Three. Go hide. Bro. What are you doing, hide? I don't know what I'm doing, bro. Seven.  Here we go again. All right. What is up, you guys? Realistic Gaming here, and today we are here on the Sonic Error. We have played some error games in the past, which was like a Dora won a Barnea Caillou. They were pretty awesome even though they're horribly made, but they're a fun time. That's all that matters. And you guys might want to stick around for the whole video because these have a little twist with them. They're different from the other error games. So let's begin. As we said, we do have ten chances here, so let's turn it off.  Please don't do that again. The chances are now nine. Okay, so we will do it again. We have two chances that we've already turned off. Really, this is the second time you turn off your computer. The chances has been turned into eight. Now please, do not do it again. Yeah, obviously. We know how to do math, bro. All right. Seven tries now. Oh, come on. Why are you not listening to me? Are you trying to troll me? Think again. We are savages. The chances are seven. Leave it alone. All right, whatever, man. Let's turn it off again. If you turn off your computer, then I will be very mad at you. All right, so the threatening begins. That's where the fun starts. Okay, so it might get better from here on forward. Oh, now he's talking. That's right. I'm in the exit mode. You only have five chances left. You only exceed mode. And soon this error will be over. Leave it alone right now. All right, whatever, bro. Whatever you say, we don't care, even though we might die at the end, but five, four chances left.  Stop it right now. Dude, his voice got, like, dark and creepy. All of a sudden, all right, we have six turn offs and four chances left. All right, let's turn it off. Turn it off one more time. Then you will be forced to enter the code. Be forced to enter the code? What are you talking about? A code? Bro, what code is he talking about? Right, if we're talking about Sonic, it has to be 666, bro, because he's only demonic himself. Correct. What? Is this an actual code with that? Where do you even find that code to begin with? This is the first time I ever see that. But we passed on punishment. I guess we got the bad ending. You might not want to tell us you're going to scare us so you can actually scare us. Okay, so there's an actual code we have to, let's try to input the code, let's see if we get a different ending. All right, let's try to input the code here. All right, that was 11, 23, 35, 47, 59. Nope, nine, enter. Correct. We get to live, right? Congratulations, you entered the correct code and it means you can have your computer back. I will now leave you alone. Goodbye, and don't forget to stay cool. Don't forget to stay cool. All right, so since we actually put the correct code, the virus went away from our computer, the so-called virus even though there's no virus, it's just part of the game. And nice, that's the first time we've actually ever survived an error game. Pretty sweet. All right, so I was sure there was a part to it. We interrupt your computer session to give you a sonic error. Sonic disappeared during his speed run and he was nowhere found. To support Sonic and help him, do not turn off your computer. Repeat, do not turn off your computer. But if you do, a chance will be taken away. Be careful. We did not test this error and the error will be over soon, hopefully. All right, let's turn it off. We actually have five chances on this one. Very minimal compared to the others.  Keep your computer on. All right, whatever, man. Turn it off. Just do it and let your dreams be dreams. I dare you. Damn, bro. All right, so whatever. Let's just press it. Ain't nobody want to play with you. Sonic EXE, bro. You're crazy. All right, two chances. Oh, no. We're about to die, bro. That is so loud.  This will be your final battle warrior. Oh, we are down to our last chance. I don't know if I'm brave enough to press it. I'm not sure if you just leave it and you don't press anything.  And I guess the virus goes away. I'm not sure. Let's just wait. Let's wait a little bit. Let's wait for like 10 seconds and see if anything good happens. One eternity later. All right, I'm waiting for something good to happen. Okay. You guys weren't lying, then. Turn it off. You'll play hide and seek. All right. Wait, what? I'll close my eyes and come to 10. What's going on? Two. Are we supposed to go hide? Go hide. Bro. What are you doing? Hide? I don't know what I'm doing, bro. Six, seven. Uh... Go, go, go. We're just going to stay here. I had no wimp. Dude, this is pretty cool. You can't run. You're too slow. And I am God. I want you silly. You want to try again? Get ready for round two. But this time, when you lose, your soul will belong to you. Oh. Dude, this is pretty neat. All right, we didn't go anywhere, though. What's up then? Square of Sonic? That's right. He laughed, bro. He's scared of us. Ready for round two. Let's get it. What? What the heck was that? That was a cheap jump scare, definitely. All right, you guys. While that was Sonic Error, they were pretty cool. They were totally different from the past that were games we played. I liked the whole concept where he tells you to go hide and whatnot. That was pretty dope. It actually felt like he was talking to us through the screen. Pretty scary. Well, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. If you guys enjoyed the video, make sure to slap the like button. If you're new to the channel, make sure to subscribe and turn that notification bell on. And I will see you guys in the next one. Peace.


In this module, we shall further investigate the profit sharing investment accounts based on Mudarba. In our previous segment, we mentioned that there are two types of PSIAs, unrestricted and restricted. And our focus in a way in the previous segment was on the restricted profit sharing investment accounts. In this one, we would be using unrestricted profit sharing investment accounts as an example. Unrestricted profit sharing investment accounts offer greater flexibility to the bank management. In case of restricted profit sharing investment accounts, the banks have to make the business activity in which the money is going to be invested known to the people and to the regulators. In case of unrestricted, this restriction is not there, rather there is a lot of flexibility as long as the money used by the bank is in the legitimate i.e. Asharia compliant activity. In this module, we shall also be explaining the concept of profit smoothing in a bit more detail. In the previous segment, we mentioned about this one, but we are going to investigate it even further. Without going into all the details which we went through in the previous segment, I would be telling you that the bank offers the unrestricted profit sharing investment accounts to the general public. The terms and conditions are made known to them. The general public is made aware of the fact that the money collected through unrestricted profit sharing investment accounts would be used in any legitimate financing activity. The bank of course offers a tentative rate of return to those who would be putting their money into unrestricted profit sharing investment accounts. After understanding the terms and conditions, the general public, individuals, they open their accounts with the banks, the money thus collected by the bank from the unrestricted profit sharing investment accounts is put into a Mudarabha pool and of course this money is then used for general banking activities with a view to generate some profit. Distribution of profit amongst the account holders is almost the same as in case of our previous example, the profit is distributed on a pro-rata basis amongst the holders of unrestricted profit sharing investment accounts as per the agreed and publicly made available profit distribution ratio. And of course if there is a loss, that loss is borne by the providers of the capital. However, we would see that with the help of profit smoothing, Islamic banks ensure that profit takes place and if there is excess profit that is put into an excess reserve or a couple of them and in case of a loss, those reserves are then accessed to make sure that the investors receive the indicative rate of return. Let us see this with the help of an example which is very similar to what we used in our previous module. So this one individual puts $1 into an unrestricted profit sharing investment account. Of course there are thousands of other people who have contributed to this Mudarabha pool through unrestricted profit sharing investment accounts. So there is $1 billion into the Mudarabha pool out of which $100 million is contributed by the shareholders of the bank and the remaining $900,000 that actually comes from the investment account holders. Now this $1 billion amount of money is used for various financing activities undertaken by the bank and if there is a profit say in this case there is $250 million worth of profit that is actually the profit generated by the Mudarabha pool which is equivalent to 25%. So this is for all those who have contributed into the Mudarabha pool both the unrestricted profit sharing investment account holders as well as the shareholders of the bank. Now this $250 million would be distributed between the bank and the unrestricted profit sharing investment account holders. So this $50-50 this is the profit distribution ratio $125 million would be the bank share and $125 million would be the share of the unrestricted profit sharing investment account holders which generates a rate of return of 13.88% a lot more than the indicative rate of return of 10%. In this case the bank would be putting $35 million into the investment risk reserve and the remaining $90 million would be distributed amongst the unrestricted profit sharing investment account holders which is equal to the indicative rate of return of 10%. In some jurisdictions or in some banks not just one reserve is maintained for profit smoothening rather they maintain two reserves one is called profit equalization reserve and the other one is called investment risk reserve. Now in case of a $250 million profit if the bank is maintaining two reserves bank share is $125 million so that would go to the bank $25 million would go into a profit equalization reserve and this would leave us with the share of the unrestricted profit sharing investment accounts of $90 million out of which $10 million would be put into investment risk reserve and the $90 million this is the amount which would generate a rate of return of 10% which is equal to the indicative rate of return. So in this case there are two reserves one is a profit equalization reserve the other one is an investment risk reserve. Now if in a subsequent period period two the profit generated by the activities was $150 million bank share would be of course $75 million and unrestricted profit sharing investment account holders their share would be 50% of the profit which is $75 million which is less than the indicative rate of return of 10% return to the account holders. So this would generate a return of only 8.33% to make sure that the investment account holders receive 10% return the profit equalization reserve would be accessed from their $5 million would come and the $10 million would come from investment risk reserve that would make the distributable profit of $90 million amongst the unrestricted profit sharing investment account holders which is actually equivalent to the 10% indicative rate of return. Now who owns profit equalization reserve and the money in investment risk reserve? The funds in IRR belong to the unrestricted profit sharing investment account holders because the money is actually put into the reserve from their share of the profit. The fund in the profit equalization reserve belong to the shareholders and unrestricted profit sharing investment account holders because the money going into the PER profit equalization reserve actually goes into the reserve before that profit is distributed between the bank and the unrestricted profit sharing investment account holders. So from regulatory viewpoint i.e. from the viewpoint of regulator i.e. in case of Pakistan state bank of Pakistan or other central banks it is absolutely important that ethical side of the business remains intact. If the bank is putting money from the profit pool into this reserve into that reserve then it should be determined actually who owns the money into these reserves and in case of distribution of money from those pools it should go to the rightful owners in accordance with their shares.


All right, so the title of this presentation is I just got this WordPress and don't know how to use it Come on. I just got this slide remote and I don't know how to use it That's okay, we're gonna make it work we're gonna make it do what it does. Okay, so who here is a total WordPress beginner Yes. Yes. Thank you Who just are beginners and WordPress because you inherited a WordPress site from somebody else? You got a new job Excellent. Okay. Well, look if no one has said this to you before Welcome to WordPress. You are part of the WordPress community now. You are WordPress. You are one of us one of us Okay, one of us All right, here we go. What we'll be talking about today We're gonna talk about the basic concepts of WordPress and web hosting We're gonna be talking about important habits for keeping your WordPress site healthy And we're gonna be talking about how to identify and learn the specific editor in use on your WordPress site Because it's probably very different from one WordPress to the next. It's quite fragmented Come on. There we go. What we're not gonna be covering today is we're not gonna be covering editing the content because There are like a gajillion different WordPress editors And like I could spend a bunch of time teaching you how to use one of them And then you could get back to your WordPress and be like none of this makes any sense to me And we're also not gonna be digging too far into troubleshooting a broken site That's a whole other talk that I do Swipe there we go. So who am I? My product manager at Nexus, which is a managed WordPress web host before that I worked at WordPress comm as a member of their special projects team, which means that I was doing a lot of Just building websites For free for interesting people. It was kind of like influencer marketing So I have been working with WordPress since 2004. I am completely self-taught. There were no boot camps when I was doing it and I will tell you that What Caleb said just break stuff is the truth You have to be ready to break stuff But that is scary when you are working on a website that's like maybe it's your job or maybe somebody else built it You don't know how to fix it. We're gonna talk about all of that Okay, so has this ever happened to you you log into WordPress the first time and you get like all of this mess, right? Okay, what do we have here? We've got 10 comments 10 updates for plugins that need to be updated. There's something wrong with my Instagram feed I have to update the WooCommerce database.  Okay? Look, don't panic. It's fine It's fine happens to everybody happens to me twice a week. It's fine You don't have to be scared Most of this stuff you could probably just press the buttons to make it happen. It'll be fine It's okay, but we will talk about that a little bit first though. Let's do some vocabulary There's WordPress. That's your software in your database. It's some PHP software that lives on a server and a database That's the thing that holds all your content and then there's like we have this concept of the theme That's your look and feel. That's what the WordPress looks like That's the website part of WordPress and then we have plugins Which are little bits of software that you install to your WordPress to make it do more things It is the cause of and solution to every WordPress problem Is a plug-in? Okay WordPress sites broken probably a plug-in need WordPress to do something it doesn't do you need a plug-in Plug-ins are probably the defining feature of WordPress and what has made it as successful as it as it is But it's also like a whole lot of like third-party software built by people at varying skill levels Sometimes they conflict sometimes they cause problems sometimes they get abandoned they don't get updated As a person who is Managing a WordPress site. You're gonna spend a lot of time thinking about plugins just to prepare you And then there's your content right that's the stuff all your websites for that's your text. That's your images That's all that all that fun stuff. That's the reason the website exists So think about just make sure you're kind of on top of those concepts as a WordPress person you'll hear them a lot my phone went to sleep and my remote stopped working Okay, cool So inside your big WordPress website you have to put it someplace to get it on the internet. That's called hosting Hosting is the people that you pay for server space. I work at a host. There are several hosts here There are lots of us come talk to us. We like to sponsor word camps That's where your website goes and then you have a domain name what you can think of is the address of your website That's like www.yourwebsite.com Your website.com is a domain You have to buy one of those and point it at your website Everybody with me so far Sweet looking around. I don't my glasses are dirty. I can't see into the into the room All right, so what so what do you do with all that now we have vocabulary, what do we do when you log into the website The WordPress website you've got to assess what you have just figure out what's going on right so Step one come on remote. Where's it hosted? Do you know? You got to find that out You can use who is hosting this comm that's literally a website who is hosting this comm you type in the domain name And it'll make its best guess and who is hosting it. It's not a hundred percent accurate But it's pretty good. It's a good start, but also somebody's paying that hosting bill It's getting charged to a credit card Figure out whose credit card it is they'll be able to tell you who's hosting it because they'll be paying Go daddy or Nexus or Bluehost ready those places. So that's what you want to that's what you want to find out Because then the next thing is you got to find out what's included in your hosting plan, right? Are there backups? Backups probably the second most important thing I'm going to say today Because anything you break on the website can be fixed if you have a nightly backup The most important thing I'm going to say today though is is there a staging site? If you do not remember any other phrase that you hear today Remember the phrase staging site if you're gonna take a picture Take this picture. Okay Staging site and here's why here's why staging site is so important a staging site is just a copy of Your website that doesn't have the domain attached to it. So what that means is You know how Caleb talked about breaking stuff the staging sites where you break stuff break all the things on the staging site Get in edit mess around in the code do whatever you want because if you break the staging site, you just fix it It's fine. Not a big deal. You just copy it back down from production This is the most important thing I'm going to tell you today is about staging sites Next are there software updates to be done? Do you remember our little our screenshot with like all the little red bubbles the little red bubbles usually mean that There are updates to be done This is where the dragons are Don't be scared to do them do the updates but do them on staging first because if you update everything on staging and the site still works All you have to do is update it on production and it should all still work there If it breaks on staging you have work to do Phone went to sleep and now my remote doesn't work. Okay. The next thing is do I have access to tech support? Who else is working on this website with you? Do you have if you're lucky if you're very lucky? There's an IT department whose job it is to keep the WordPress happy Or maybe there is an agency or a developer that you have access to if you are very lucky if not There is at least tech support at your host and If you're with a host that's worth their salt a lot of them aren't I'm sorry to say But if you are with a decent host They will at least help you identify Which plug-in is the problem because like 95% of the time it is a plug-in that is the problem But so we want to see what kind of tech support resources you have access to I Talked you long and then my remote stops working. Come on. There we go. Which editor is the site using? Okay, so here's This is fun. So this right here this screenshot here is The default WordPress editor. It's the block editor. You'll hear it called sometimes. You'll hear it called Gutenberg But this is what it looks like. It's a very like wissy wig kind of situation you add features as blocks It's kind of like a concept of using Lego blocks to build a page And that is what what installs by default with WordPress. There is also The classic editor. This is what the WordPress editor looked like more or less until about What was it late 2018 that this was the this was the WordPress editor and it was just a basic text box So pretty easy to understand and then there's stuff. There's other stuff. There's third-party ones This is called Elementor, which is a very common third-party editor It's a visual editor, but there's a lot more than this. There's one called be rebuilder. There's WP bakery. There's breezy. There's a Veda. I could go on. There's like tons of them And that's why we are not getting into how to edit in WordPress today because your editing experience will change based on Which one of these you have? so My advice is figure out which editor you're using job number one and then start looking for resources that are specific to that editor the internet is full of Tutorials and I really believe that like 80% of learning WordPress is developing a really really strong Google skills Would you agree? Yeah, see Caleb is like mm-hmm.   Do that if there are not backups at your host stop Get a backup plug-in Take a backup Because if you don't have a staging site or if you break something on production, this is how you're gonna fix it So always make sure you have a complete backup Okay, create a staging site. Remember how we said that was like the most important thing I'm gonna say create a staging site. It's so important. I'm dancing while I say it Create a staging site because that's where you're gonna do all of your work Start updating things one at a time.  Remember go look at your site Does it every does everything seem like it still works? Great continue on updating things now.  I Do it all the time 90% of the time it's fine But if you have a big complicated site with lots and lots of plugins Like basically the more plugins you have on the site the less likely it is that the YOLO method is gonna work for you. I Keep my WordPress sites very few plugins very high-quality plugins. I've been doing this a long time All the plugins on it are plugins. I chose if you are inheriting a WordPress site and you are updating the plugins for the first time Don't do the YOLO method It will only end in tears Okay, so now note anything to follow up on Do you have plugins that are like pro play pro plugins that require a license to update? This happens a lot or there be like a free version and a pro version and then maybe like the freelancer who built your site Use their plugin license to build it and then took it with them and now you don't have a license to get updates anymore This is an important thing to follow up on because sometimes those pro plugins do end up with like Security issues and things like that and need to be updated and you need a license to update them Any updates that can't be run because they break the site any other questions you have just make a list Because you're that's where you're gonna start googling Okay, and now you can start You can start working on content editing now that everything is up to date and happy and running smoothly This is when you can start getting into content editing and the reason I put content editing last on this list is because if you are Editing content and stuff starts acting weird and you go to Whatever support is available to you right it might be plug-in support It might be hosting support and you're having trouble with your editor experience and your editing plugins are out of date The first thing they're gonna tell you is Update your plugins that issue was fixed in this release Make sure your stuff is up to date before you start editing the first time or Make sure you have found out that edit updating your plugins breaks your site so you can get that situation under control Now finally finally you have updated all your stuff You have figured out your editor. You know how to edit your content now. You can regularly manage your site Make sure that you have a regular cadence of backups and updates. Is your host running them nightly great Still get a second backup option I work for a host and I will tell you that our backup service is great however, our backup service is meant for us in case something breaks on our end and Sometimes the thing that breaks on our end. It happens rarely, but it does happen sometimes the things that breaks on our end is the backup service and We don't necessarily notice until something until something needs to be backed up and can't be backed up So I definitely always recommend two forms of backup one with your host and one that you control at a third party Then you're gonna find some tutorials For WordPress and your editor. There are okay. The internet is full of this content The learn team Courtney, what's up great source to start because that's gonna be like your official stuff However, the learn team is really focused on like core WordPress, right? And sometimes what you need tutorials on is your third-party editor or your third-party plug-in Things like that. So you're gonna look for the content that deals with those things as well The internet is full of that stuff. So make sure you're out there finding it. There's some really great sources. I use In addition to the learn stuff, I use like WP beginner when I just don't know how to do something WP beginner has a lot of like affiliate marketing in it. So sometimes the recommendations aren't amazing, but they will get you started Leverage that staging site to get brave and experiment break stuff This is where you're gonna break stuff. Please break stuff if you weren't breaking stuff on staging Are you even trying hard enough? Okay This is like it's a sandbox. It's there for you the staging site exists so that you can like mess around and be like I wonder what happens. Oh, did my computer just go to sleep? No napping. No napping. Okay. Well, I have it here. I'm sorry. I don't know.  It's fine Okay, and finally you've totally got this I believe in if I can teach myself WordPress Sitting at home after work with no money no time on Like a borrowed computer You can do it. You can do it and now that you are part of the WordPress community You have all this other help around you people in WordPress love to help And I think it can be really intimidating for beginners to get in because everybody's in there talking about Oh, I'm building a block theme and let's talk about like theme.json. Okay. Look It's okay Start with the learn folks the learn folks in particular are very friendly But you can learn this Easy, I don't want to say easily. I will say with a little bit of effort. It's there. It's free a lot of the best ways to learn WordPress are free I Believe in you My name is Tiffany bridge and it was lovely being here with all of you


Kentucky State Police have identified the suspect they believe killed a man in South Williamson on July the 6th, and they're asking for the public's help. During the investigation, enough evidence was collected to obtain an arrest warrant with a cooperation through the cometh attorney's office on Charles Ray Blevins. He's 37 years old. Last known address was in Williamson, West Virginia. He is considered to be armed and dangerous. He is warranted for murder and possession of a handgun, but could be fulfilling. If anyone sees him, they are asked to call the Kentucky State Police here at post 9 or 9-1-1 if they see him out. Blevins is accused of shooting and killing 44-year-old Adrian Smith of Cleveland, West Virginia, in the South Williamson Park near the flood wall on July the 6th. Again, Charles Ray Blevins is considered armed and dangerous.


A non-linear least squares fitting algorithm was developed to estimate snow depth and density from GPS signals. The algorithm uses a combination of specularly reflected and directly transmitted signals from GPS satellites at 1.57542 GHz with right hand circularly polarized radiation. The elevation angle of the GPS receiver ranges from 5 degrees to 30 degrees. The algorithm can be used to determine snow water equivalent from GPS data. This article was authored by Mark D. Jacobson.


Hi everyone, I'm Joe for jazby's casebreaks.com coming at you with a box of 2020 tops chrome black baseball one box Random team break number 19 the last one we got to do to unlock that dynasty break We're just coming up in a separate video after this big Thanks to Carl and Dusty for pretty much splitting this break. Thanks guys. The teams are right here. Let's roll it and randomize it Four and three seven times is that's for the break and then we'll do a different dice roll for the giveaway part One two three and seventh and final time four and a three seven times for the teams one two three four five Six and seven final time After seven we've got the red socks down to the twins Are we doing the tribute tonight? Yeah, if it sells out, we'll do it. All right. There's the first half of the list right there There's the second half of the list right there So now I guess I could this the beginning of this basketball game So can I flip back to the end of the Dodger's twins game? Probably here's the final printout right there Here's the box right over here Rex that's just like what happens when you when you when you drive into a Dust storm known as a hubu This garbage getting destroyed Chris is saying six earned and two two outs into the game. Wow Didn't he have I thought he had like he had such a great opening days start There's Louise Robert rookie card for Carl and the white socks. There's Jack Flaherty for the Cardinals And there's Luis Areas to 199 for the twins That'll be for Carl and the twins. All right the encased card. Let's see what we got and it's gonna be It's gonna be Pedro Martinez nice Red Sox Carl with the Red Sox nice All right now Let's see who's gonna win those final six Dynasty baseball spots and that video is coming up Next in a separate video. So let's gather everybody's names again Carl and Dusty's names Let's get all those names in there And it'll be the top six After nine five into four nine times one two three four five six seven eight and Ninth and final time. Good luck guys. So it's just the top six. So from seven on down Lot of sad Dusty's a lot of sad Carl's, but let's see how it shakes out on top the top six Carl you're in Dusty you're in Dusty you're in Carl again Carl and Carl Carl with four out of the six Dusty with a couple. We'll see you in the next video for that dynasty break Jasper's case breaks.com. Bye bye


Are you ready? Are you ready to change the world? Okay. In 1984, John Lilly came into our factory in East LA and he was, you know, he's the inventor and he has a scientific way of looking at things. Tables were full of poupets. He looked, looked around at the tables, looking at the tank parts. We had a new, revised, totally different tank and he came up to us. And he said, you guys are going to turn a million people onto floating. And I said, thousands, okay, but millions? How do you expect us to do that? He said, open centers where you can have people come and float and you can sell tanks. Now, most of you are already working on this, I believe. You're already starting to have lots of people floating, but I don't know how many of you are selling tanks. And so we have some things to talk about in that way. Albert came to float at our center in Beverly Hills and he was doing some work with Glenn in design. And he went into the tank and we had, the way our tanks were arranged, we had the shower and the tank direct one from the other. You went into the tank direct, into the shower. The showers had these 12 pan-painted tiles. And could you talk for a minute while I get my first back? And the shower had clear plastic curtains so that when you were in the room, you could see the tiles. And Albert went in and floated. And when he came out, he looked funny. He looked like he had something to say. And he came up to me and he said, you know what? Everything was fine about the float. I liked it. It was interesting. I floated, but I was embarrassed being when that you could see me in the shower. He had locked the door to the room and the door was closed, but he was embarrassed being in the shower. And I thought, how could that be? You know, I don't, I'm not like that. So how could anyone else be? But it occurred to me that there are a lot of things that we didn't know about the people who came to float. And so we didn't know what kind of habits they had that made it uncomfortable for them to float in a place that they had never been before. So we came to kind of discover that some people don't like to float in centers. It's too public for them. Other people have used the water. It's too far to drive, things like that. However, they would like to have tanks. So that's one possibility. And then when we had Michael Crichton came, remember what happened? He came in six foot nine inches tall. He was really tall. And what he told us was that he had writer's block, and that's why he came to float. And he knew that these were boxes that you could get in where there was distraction free. Nothing could come and disturb you. And so he was going to use a tank to see how come he had writer's block. He never had that before. And so he started floating in our center after about six times. He came and said, what did he tell us? He said, I was paid for material that I had not written. They paid me up front. I was always paid before, afterwards. So now my my consciousness said, well you're finished. You don't need to do it. As soon as he discovered the reason for his block, it evaporated. It disappeared. And then he said, is there a way I could get a tank around here? You know, can I have one of these? I said, oh, I'm so sorry. Of course, we were selling tanks, but it never occurred to us that he'd want to have his own. And so we sold him a tank and we went and we set it up in his house. And then he was somebody who wanted to float at home because he writes in the middle of the night in the next day and early morning. And he doesn't want to go anywhere. When he's in the mood to write, he just wants to sit down and get in his own tank and do the writing. When the press found out that he had bought a tank from Samadhi Tank Company, the public relations went sky high. The word of mouth was all over the place. And it was an incredible event for us that Michael Creighton became a Samadhi Tank owner. So we found out that owners who float a lot, float more than most people coming to centers, they're getting such incredible results from it that they're the best word of mouth. And then we found out that floaters come from only a small distance away, like maybe within an hour to be repeat floaters. So we had a princess show up in our center then. And she was a beautiful young woman. And she came from United Arab Emirates. And she got into the tank and she came out with that glow that Justin was talking about. She was just totally radiant. And she said, I had a vision. My country is governed by 17 counselors. And what I saw was 17 tanks in a circle. And the ministers all got in and they floated for an hour. And then they got out and they had their meeting. And it was the best meeting that was ever held. And they came to a peaceful resolution of the problem at hand. And I thought that this was just the best thing that could have ever happened for my country. I'd like one tank. I thought I could order 17. I can't. I was sorry about that too. So to summarize. So we found out that even though our repeat customers come within a certain area, that if we're willing to let people float so that they can buy them, then they can come from a much larger. So our marketing range is much larger. So we've talked about how the range can be much larger if you sell tanks that owners will give you word of mouth and possibly even PR. And that some people don't want to float in center. Some people want to float at home either because they want to float every day or because they don't want to travel or they want to be able to do it at a moment's notice. They don't have space. Yeah, there are many reasons. Okay, so now Glenn is going to talk to us about what we went. Oh, we're coming out with a totally new revised version of the tank that John looked at on those tables. And it's a personal inexpensive personal tank and you will find out about it and find out how you can help turn on millions to floating right after this break. We're going to do that in the question and answer period. So those of you who wish to stay for the question and answer period, we will cover what the tank is and how you can turn on millions.