and as partners in the company individually I wanted to talk about things like other tools that we built Places that we had spoke WordPress releases that we had led those kinds of things and I didn't like that idea It was awkward. It was uncomfortable. I think that I kind of felt like it was Bragging and I didn't care for it But they were persistent and I didn't really have a good solid argument against it because there was no Nothing inaccurate no lies there So I let them make the change as uncomfortable as it was And much to my disappointment, but also excitement It made a really big difference in the percentage of those proposals that turned into signed contracts And so suddenly I was leveraging my reputation It took me a little while to come around to really enjoying doing that But someone at that time told me something that I have since learned to embrace Which was that if you've put in the work the time the effort to build that reputation You've done all those things. You've invested your time. That's yours Taking credit for something that you actually did That's okay to do And so now I was I I had built the reputation spent all the time cultivating it and was actually Leveraging it putting it out there purposefully once you've built the reputation That's what you need to do next start putting it out there Purposefully, but I really hadn't seen the peak of the power of reputation But a few years later things changed really dramatically for me personally outside of work And this is why these are my grandparents They had long since retired at this time They'd moved out to oklahoma to be with my parents in their later years And then my grandpa was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease And my grandma started having real serious heart issues And after open heart surgery on grandma and my grandpa having a significant decline My parents didn't think that they were going to be able to continue caring for my grandparents on their own thankfully I had been Very adamant that I did not want to be tied down to any one location I had built my my my reputation and directed my career accordingly. And so in middle of 2013 Me and my family we up and moved to oklahoma to help take care of my grandparents But about as great as that was about six or eight months into that I was not doing so well. I was really struggling because I was trying to Run a growing company that was bringing on employees and have a family And be a caretaker for my grandparents and it was too much But thankfully I had learned my lesson before I knew where I needed to start if I was going to make some changes So I sat down and I asked myself this question. What do I want? This by the way is you all's homework. You're going to go away. You're going to ask yourself this question What do I want? You're going to write it down This time my list was really different Um The most important things were being there for my family taking care of my grandparents Owning my own company had fallen so far down the list. That just wasn't important anymore I still wanted to make money, but mostly just to sustain the my ability to be out there taking care of them And it didn't matter if I was locked into a location as long as it was that location because I had no intention of leaving And my two big takeaways from That the first is really important for all of us here My plan my goals were really out of date And that was not good my stick for my bottle rocket was Pointed where I had wanted to be before but what I wanted had significantly changed And so ever since then I have been very proactive about sitting down and asking myself this question regularly I actually have a quarterly calendar reminder that has me do this And so the reason you need to make sure that you write down your List when you do this is so that you can go back to it update it regularly Keep it in line with what it is that you want because as you change your goals change as well And the second thing that I really noticed That I took away from that was that I was going to need to make some really big changes Thankfully reputation to the rescue and I say thankfully because I was a little scared at this point Because I thought that the thing I needed to do In order to accomplish my new set of goals Was work for somebody else Because my top goals Had nothing to do with work. I needed more time outside of work and that's hard to do as a business owner But working for someone else was scary because I had not done that in 15 years and I wasn't sure I was incredibly employable And I definitely knew that who I worked for Would be very important to my ability to actually Succeed in that in working for someone else So I sent out some feeler emails to a few places that I thought I would be able to work and um I got Not just responses, but Offers back and I was able to shift over and work running a product inside Of a small wordpress company called iThemes And that was not because of my resume My resume was almost empty at that time self-employed 15 years It was not because of my portfolio because I started running a product There weren't any products in my portfolio. That was because of my reputation That was because of that whole picture. It sure maybe a little bit my portfolio But also my activity in the wordpress project things that I had built Talks that I had given people that I had helped that all came into play in allowing me to make that pivot One last quick thought Things were a little different building my reputation after then inside of other companies And it's important to note that your reputation is not the same as your company's reputation And I want to make sure to highlight this because Just because you may be in a company that has a good reputation or is in a good spot You may be benefiting from that, but it doesn't mean that you shouldn't still be Building and cultivating your own reputation because that goes with you when you leave I thought that my reputation and my companies were the same but um But mine came with me when I left And so to do that even from inside a company Do what you enjoy make a plan set goals Give yourself that the stick for your bottle rocket aim it Look beyond just your portfolio. Look outside your your work and then enjoy the benefits And I think that unfortunately I have taken up all of my time So I'm not sure that there actually is time for question Q&A, but I will be around and would love to talk to you all about this Thank you so much, Aaron. Thank you We do have time for Q&A. Awesome when I got the time's up. I was like, oh Q&A. So Awesome, does anyone have some questions they would like to ask? Hi, my name is Helen and I wanted to ask Like nowadays there's like so much going on so much noise social media whatnot What's the difference do you think between the idea of building reputation which what you've described is very much I would say cultivating in a very sort of personalized way to today where it's sort of I want to say the sort of tick tock quick, you know, you know videos out there So do you have a particular take on that? I I think that there's a difference between reputation and kind of popularity, I guess and I think that if you build Quick and it's it's more of this popularity following. There are definitely some benefits to that there are things that that that can really accomplish but This broader picture that's going to really carry you along as as quickly as you can build favor You can lose it in those spaces and if you are slowly methodically purposefully cultivating this reputation for yourself it stays I think that's the biggest difference Hi, can you talk a little bit more about how you leveraged your reputation in terms of painting that holistic picture and what are some of the I guess potential mistakes that you looked out for along your way Yeah As far as leveraging my reputation, I think that the big thing that I learned there when I was talking about the the proposals was that Not always is your reputation just obviously visible to everybody Sometimes you have to put it out there. This is me. This is what I've built. This is what I've done This is who I am and why you should be interested in working with me or hiring me or whatever it is And proactively putting your reputation out there At least for me at first especially was Really hard. It felt really awkward to do But that difference between just Passively letting it happen and actively leveraging it by putting it out there Made a noticeable difference And and yes in like those proposals for going out to these enterprise customers The the percentage change was very measurable in how many accepted those and later as I was Trying to move into these different spaces in in hosting in security in product It was the same thing. It was me having to really actively put that out there and even for my for my most recent role sitting down with The company that I was going to be moving over to work with and talking about Everything that I just that I just referenced Things that I've done in the WordPress community things, you know talks that I have given It feels weird for me to talk about those actively, but it makes a big difference How did I get over the hurdle of it feeling awkward and I don't think I did it still feels awkward But I do it anyway because I recognize that it's valuable I wish that it didn't feel awkward Yeah, yeah, I think I think it's okay to just be like, hey, this is an awkward thing for me to do But it's valuable.  So how exactly did you do? Yeah, I think that that comes back to this this last question where um I I guess it depends on what it is that I'm trying to Like proactively leverage my reputation to accomplish When I was working at my own business that what I wanted to accomplish was getting clients getting those signed enterprise contracts And so the way that I proactively did it was including it in those proposals to them, but um in other ways if it's more about Like now one of the things that I do is build partnerships with plugins in the space Um for the company that I work for and so sometimes just getting meetings with those people means proactively reaching out and kind of leveraging My name my own personal Reputation to get those meetings. And so yes, sometimes it's just reaching out to someone with that Whole context as awkward as it may be to do Uh including that so that you can achieve the thing that you're trying to achieve We gotta got another follow-up I'm sorry. So what?  I could have done it better um like mis not mistakes, but Room for improvement or something that you were not happy with Yeah, I think that um I think that as I look back the ones that stand out the most Are the times where I didn't really fully Put it out there like I it was less like hey, I tried to use my reputation And it just you know didn't work like okay. That's fine. I'm not You know, I'm not perfect. I'm not the right fit for everybody It's more those times where I think that I could have If I'd have given them the broader picture Then maybe they would have seen that I was the right person But I only gave them this small view of what I had to offer I only showed them my resume or my portfolio and I didn't really get the chance to Give them the full Context I think that's the place that I most often Fall off and and I think that that's because it sometimes feels Like I would like to give as little as I have to to achieve the thing But that's not always the right way to put it. And so I think that that's the mistake that I most often make Okay, so as you are working on several spaces like your client work And your contribution work plus your family life Uh, have you find any sweet spot between these three so that you can manage together? That is extremely difficult to do. Yes. Um, I think again I think that some of that comes back to the fact that I enjoyed the work parts of it so much and so I um I I was okay with sinking a lot of time into that But that balance between how much do you You know Foster your your personal life. How much do you?  Finding that balance is extremely difficult I think my biggest thing is I was putting this all together is recognizing Just how much that balance Changed over the years for me when I was younger A huge percentage of that balance was just over on the work side and now A much larger part of it is over on the family side to feel like I'm Balanced I think that that's just different for each of us in different parts of our lives Um, and it's it's okay to just be like, hey I'm going to do as much as I can in this area Because this other one needs attention to And then just trying to be good about actually actually doing that that's that's maybe the hardest part I'm asking this question as someone who's a bit social media averse I'm curious how twitter for example fits into this if at all Yeah, you know for a while I would use those social channels Also as part of kind of building my my reputation Really about kind of putting it out there and and letting people see that I was an an expert in an area That I knew what I was talking about if you will I have become a little bit more social media averse Over time as well mostly just because I find it very easy to spend way too much time on it Like finding that balance can be very difficult So I don't do that as much anymore, but that was how I used it At various points along the way it was less about the The viral or building a following and more about the establishing myself as an expert in the area that I wanted to be an expert in all right I think that is the the the last the we are out of time unfortunately for questions But please feel free to come find me exactly that Thank you so much. Erin. I have a small gift for you. Oh, yes Running off the stage. I almost forgot to yeah, there you go. Thank you Thank you so much everyone So up next in here is a presentation from alfred chai tanggang Who I'm excited to learn about The future of ai bots in wordpress. So if you're interested in learning about that And a quick reminder that you can visit the sponsors down in the first floor on moon bear hall and in the second floor Sun moon hall There's also a community corner in that same second floor Area and a job board if you're interested in finding a new role or posting something you're looking for for someone to help out Thanks everyone Hello everyone I am so happy to have the opportunity to introduce alfred chai tang and he is the founder of ctk pro And I also recently found out he is learning to skateboard alongside his two sons. That just sounds so cool Today he's going to teach us about the future of ai chat bots in wordpress and i'm really excited to learn alongside all of y'all So, uh, please help me to welcome alfred Hi everyone so Let me start With one question I mean people come and go in your life And some of them they will occupy a spot in your mind or in your heart And sometimes you just wish maybe You are able to chat with them discuss with them Share yourself with them It's just not doable. It's just not possible What can you imagine If you can bring them Back to life. What would that be like? I'm going to answer this question later But before that let me introduce a little bit about myself As you can read from the subtitle This is a Book title from richard fineman. It's a famous physicist And that describes my personality. I would say Perfectly reasonable deviation from the beaten track this Because I have my own track to follow. I like to just like that jade's music. I have the main reason But maybe in the middle of somewhere I like to be have jammed here a little bit jammed there a little bit with different instrument And as you can see this this is my elder son. We took this picture seven years ago We were pretending we were drinking beer together and to scare his mother The text is a little bit small, but this is also disclosure of my my my age because MacGyver back to eighties. It is my childhood hero So he is a guy he can use with knives and With all different kinds of physics principles to solve any problem he faced So I made my mind When I was a child I am going to study physics as my major and I did it But during this time at college, I also joined the painting club and I won few prizes from from from the painting And MIT's media lab was so popular back popular back to then So I thought maybe I should give myself a chance To apply something I really like so I applied for the digital arts department at Pratt Then I spent after graduation I spent another 60 years As a developer for different advertisement agencies at New York City And at that time I also started my my my relationship with WordPress because Few of our friends back to that time we started to write blogs by using WordPress too And we we wrote a lot of the article about the difference between eastern and western culture So yeah after that I threw back to taiwan and moved back to taiwan and I became A businessman I found this company is called cdk and Our life is all around Life in cdk is all around WordPress. We build WordPress things Customized WordPress plugins. We maintain WordPress websites And I also build another company with my class Cosmetics from Pratt. It's Millie Lin. This is a design house So we do branding communication design packaging design graphic design all Everything about design And then I have another company. It's called tap meeting Meeting service company. We do online and offline meetings. And also we have Equipment rental equipment rental So currently we have 500 ipads at warehouse. So if you need it, you can find me And the last one Is a medical service company This is medical service based on line this communication tool So the patient they can book Or a session or an appointment with their doctor By using this service on the line the communication tool All right, that's enough me Let's back to the original question I I'm going to answer and look at who I brought back This is gu shan wang He is my best friend he went to school of visual art at 2005 And he chose a different career path than me. He became An animator so he joined a production house called sigh up and later on he moved to another Movie company called blue sky. So he participated in like a Ice age real and snoopy And basically we spend every friday to sunday all together when we live in new york Every friday night we will start to asking each other that oh Which part we should go which ballgame we should watch and which restaurant we should try and we play mario card And we ride bicycle all weekends And at 2018 he also moved back to taiwan and he he started his own animation studio And sadly at 2022 may I got a bad news from his family that he had My myocardial infarction and he passed away at that time and I Cannot stop crying from it for the whole afternoon And this is where gu shan lives right now He they they put his urns in the cans in in in this temple and two of our friends Wanted to visit him last december So we started to have a chat group to discuss discuss all the memory we shared with gu shan And by that time Open ai they also launched a new product called gpt s So that basically means you can customize the chat gpt the way you like it So there's an idea came to my mind. I saw oh, maybe I can try to create a chat bar just like gu shan So with the data from his website His website is also written in written with the wordpress and part of the memory From myself no more than 200 words Small small memories and I made this Chat bar is called Wang gu shan talk with god Then I share this chat bar into the chat group In the very beginning everyone was surprised. Oh, this is So real and someone in the good chat group even joking about Oh, we should put some of our private chatting with this chat bar And as you can see This is just a very casual and normal Talks between My friends and this chat bar. They were asking the food from midtown in new york city But after one night of constant usage People was so Scared from this because this is become from this is from so real to too real and People over there says is scoops pumps all over they cannot They cannot use it anymore In my heart, I mean gu shan left a very important portion Occupied a very important important portion in my mind in my heart But he also leaves a lot of amazing works to the world At this moment, I would like to share His last piece with all of you guys and you can know him better From here Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard starluck's airlines Please pay attention to the following safety demonstration Before starting your journey because your safety is important to us According to CAA regulations all transmitting devices shall not be used at all times For more information regarding mobile phones and electronic devices Please refer to the in-flight magazine Make sure all of your baggage is stored properly in an overhead compartment or under the seat in front of you during taxing, takeoff, and landing Keep your seat belt fast and while seated to release it simply undo the buckle If cabin pressure changes suddenly oxygen masks will automatically appear above your head Pull down the mask or red pull flag place it over your nose and mouth tighten the straps and breathe normally before assisting others This aircraft has eight exits clearly marked with instructions the exit should not be touched during flight During evacuation remove high-heeled shoes leave carry-on baggage behind and follow the illuminated signs and cabin cruise instruction to your nearest exit A life fast is stored under or beside your seat Put the light fast over your head with a tube basing outward wrap the black straps to the front fasten and tighten Pull the red tab to inflate while leaving the emergency exit For manual inflation blow into the tube This is a non-smoking flight smoking in use of electronic cigarettes tampering with or destroying the lavatory smoke detectors are prohibited by law Please fasten your seat belt return your seat back seat table and foot rest to their original positions Please refer to the safety instruction card for the detailed information We wish you a pleasant journey Yeah, I know this takes around like four minutes, but I have to show you these things and Yeah, I'm fine with like taking out the maybe four minutes from my qa session And you can always find me around here because this I will be around Now let's talk about the ai and what's happening inside there Before 2016 everyone thinks ai is just fine and but at 2016 the google they have alpha go To beat lucido on the go game and people start to feel that This might be a little bit straighter because he can beat us on this game, but that's it. We we don't take these too seriously But as you know the famous paper from google they have attention so you need and they led to the all the all the all these like a chatbot explosion at 2022 And I actually I remember the day is like 2022 november 30th We have a chat gpt and next march we have a gpt 4 and then later on we have a gpt s And with a lot of different capability like reading seeing or calculation a lot of different kinds of input and output And of course calling interpreter um then just Three days ago Luckily I have a chance to update the slide the they the Anthropic they have a cloud 3 and as they announced it's better than gpt 4 And also they decreased her hallucination, but they are not enough report on the market yet But this they announced I think this will push some like a a good competition between them and open ai and I know some of them known this one already is germanite pro pro germanite pro 1.5 from google just two weeks ago and As they're not not as they're not Is they they claim they can take one million token at once and up to 10 millions So basically you can put like loads of rings into the Contact window to ask him a question and he can answer it perfectly without everything altogether and Yeah, and this one. I think lots of you May seem this already, but maybe few of them Not known yet this yet and this is called sore eyes from and this is product from open ai and with this like a six sentences this prompt you can have a Amazing video just like this Raise your hand if you have never seen this video before Okay, uh, so Yeah, this is just simple you you put the six sentences and you can At the very beginning. I thought this is fake because it's too real You have a lot of refreshing on the water. You have a facial Detail detail on the face. You have a shadow. You have the lighting I saw this It's too fake But then it's too real. Then I saw what yeah, and Back to war press war press if you do I think last year on the state of world 2023 met he demoed like a little demo about ai to having a war pressure website with some prompt And if you do a search about gbt or artificial intelligence on the plugin platform You probably can find around 200 plugins over there And basically they are categorized into two two two usages I would say one is for content generation about images and copy And the other one is about like Customer service chatbot so they can Observe your knowledge or data from your website and answer the question to your visitor or customers And let's talk about the hardware part Few weeks ago they apple they have a vision pro come to the market and you can wear this goggle and you can Hang the window around use your hand gesture to control the things and also From Meta they have these things called craft and you can with this goggle and the hand control you can play video games I heard is very popular in the game industry And AI pin from human is a little device main AI pin It's a standalone device and software platform Built from the ground up for AI engagement comes through your voice touch gesture the laser ink display Play the song how music makes you feel better Whether The date How much protein These almonds have 15 grams of protein How much is this online? This is 28 dollars online. Well tap Staying in the moment and generating a gorgeous image Yeah, as some of you may know Already, this is why I think it's the craziest ones from from Elon Musk's neural link We're thrilled to introduce neural links prime study the first clinical trial of a groundbreaking Experimental device that could help transform the lives of people with paralysis Imagine the joy of connecting with your loved ones browsing the web or even playing games using only your thoughts This is made possible by placing a small Cosmetically invisible implant in a part of your brain that plans movements The device is designed Oops Let me summarize Basically, they put a chip in your brain and they can as they announced Their first patient they are able to control the mouse on the computer already Yeah, but but this is very scary for me. I I I definitely will try that after maybe 14 generations later Yeah So With With all these kind of technologies and all this technology in AI and hardware I started to think what can I do with my client? So I contacted my client It's Eric Chu and their website is called every day objects website and he Founded this website around 2014 and this website is all about fresh and traveling and lifestyles And he is very disciplined. So he in these 10 years he wrote 9,040 400 articles on this website So I tell I asked him Let's Let's do a chat bar with this with your website So I do a two version one is just a little one. I made like Gusion's gpt s and the the other one with assistant api from open ai and I put on his website and because his website is all about like Traveling I decided to do a test with one of his article. He's really good at This is just a screenshot So on his website, he has around 216 articles about a city from Japan is called Kyoto So I asked this chat bar.  Could you give me some suggestion? So he started to searching and started to answer and all the answers are perfectly from Eric's website every day objects website. There's no problem with it and it answers correctly But after using this, this is my first reaction. I feel No surprise. No scare. I feel almost like I'm I'm just using a normal chat gpt I wonder why what's what's happening over there So if you dive deep into this topic and ask what is chat and I Personally think this is the very unique feature from human beings because we usually do Communication or learning through chat. For example, like Sometimes you will have a voice in your head. You will ask your questions yourself question And you will answer yourself with that voice And kids learning new things through chat Taking my case as an example, they always ask Siri Siri about anything before they can even read or write and what is chatbot we used to have Siri Google Google now and Alexa and now we have chat gpt cloud Bing chat co-piled blah blah blah new chatbot How do you draw the line between this chatbot and those chatbot And say if one day we enter the stage like the ghost in the shell Do you still think this kind of chatbot chatbot or those kind of chatbot? They are real chatbot How do we characterize them And what makes this Chatbot so a life is because they are smart enough or they are Or they have they are they contain certain kind of emotion Or there's something We don't know yet So I think another direction from the data training to look at these things We have relative smaller data from Gusion's website But the chatbots Have a better result And we have a Relative larger data from everyday objects website But made me feel more like older than any chatbot But think about actually We training this large language model from the The data we got from the internet they got this data from internet So maybe they why when they train this Chatbot They use part of Gusion's data and part of everyday objects data and that For me that sounds like The quantity doesn't matter that much The most important part probably you need how you train them to be unique And let me tell you another story about data training My little son another son he Turned seven last month and I bought a robot for him as his a birthday gift So one day he bought his robot to me and he said hey dad Can you teach this robot to write my homework? And then I don't have to write it anymore and I look at his face and I also look at the robot's face I start to think uh, which one should I teach? And to think about how you make yourself today Make yourself today It's actually not that complicated But make your life meaningful That might be not something simple and as world-press professional just like us we We have this CMS that dominate that more than 40 percent of the market share around the world We can give us and our customer and our users And it corresponding to my subtitle for today's talk the chance challenging opportunities A few direction few direction we can think about Is first is to rethink yourself and reevaluate yourself And think about in your limited life what you are going to live to the world and Be aware of the new things coming on the new AI new technology It's happening every week. It's like a lot of news going on over there, but there You you you also need to be very careful what you are looking for Say for example like just one year ago maybe everyone Was so mesmerized About how to write a perfect prompt for mid-journey to to generate a perfect image But that doesn't mean anything right now if you see Sora And data liberation. That's what world-press is doing right now But how about yourself is they are doing for the digital data and yourself with all this kind of new creation and the new Phones of technology you you may might need to think about the possibility beyond tax image or video and maybe just maybe one day You are able to recreate yourself in another phone just like Jones holiday from the ready player one and you have an ability to Interactive with any interesting Interaction or conversation in this universe Thanks for everyone's listening and thanks for world camp asias organizers help And with you and gushan enemy. We have this great talk together. Thank you Thank you so much I think we do have a few minutes for for questions Would anyone does anyone have any questions? Excellent presentation. Thank you What this I think all of us have been thinking about this for the past year is As ai comes online So much of this so much of the work that we do as website developers Is going to be automated. Do you see that? in the in the near term How long before Somebody can just come to our website and the website Creates content on a persona basis automatically based on a query that that the user made Rather than us coming up with this experience on our side. It's completely generated by the ai I I think in That's that's what happens to me from last year To be honest, I I I I'm a little bit Scared about this kind of stuff because it's so So powerful, you know so And I started to ask my colleagues to to use ar as much as possible Well, because we are in the field. We know what's wrong and what's wrong But if you are not in the in your field, you you probably be You know, they have a lot of illusion things like that. Yeah But after a certain time passed I I I know that it's going to be happen one day, but I think that majority of the society Doesn't doesn't really know what's happening in the software world So My opinion, I I think that will happen one day, but not that fast because Everyone in different paths Wearing these kind of AI technologies So we should be fine for a while Any more questions I have one question What is the the very next thing that you think Folks should do if they want to learn more about AI The very first thing I think you you can just subscribe to to any of these kind of service I think the the price is amazing. I mean if you take a look of open AI or any other platform and RAPIC or Google the the price is super Super affordable, I would say yeah, so tries start to try with this kind of service and Start to knowing that and Compare detail detail by the I mean compare the difference between them and you you will Get used that to to your daily life your professional work And that's the attitude we should bear just like my my my slide from the last one You need to pay attention to what's going on around the AI world But also pay attention you didn't dig too much because things evolve Too fast say for example like the last year when they Asked me to I mean I mean apply for this a talk. I plan to do a A more technical talk about a land chain doing the reg to train the data But after German line pro comes to the world I feel start to feel I Was that that much important because I I thought maybe eventually we don't need this kind of meter where between between Our input and this large language model Say for them like there is a cheap company called rock With Q they have They have a specialized in the In the chip because a lot of companies they use gpu to to do the calculation to do the computing and with this rock they can Because there is another one it's called rock from Elon Musk But with just this one is a new chip there was new designed algorithm on this chip. They can have a better like Algorithm to answer you this question much much faster come compared to traditional gpu. So so that's This is too many things going on at this moment If you take a look on the Twitter the x-platform is like every Week you have something new to To see to watch Any other questions? All right. Well, thank you so much Alfred Thank you If you wait just a moment, I have a have a gift for you All right That is the last session in this room for the day The day one wrap-up is happening next it's in track one and it is at 5 45 p.m For tomorrow, please remember to bring the pass that you got at registration Back so that you can come in quicker tomorrow and look forward to seeing you all then Hey everyone, uh 5 45 this room will shut So just letting you all know. Thank you


the narcissistic network. In this video I am going to be discussing the narcissistic network, this involves the smear campaign, character assassination, flying monkeys and the effects that this has on the people around you. Please like, comment and share. Click the subscribe button underneath the video if you haven't subscribed yet. If you would like to make a donation, my paypal link is in the video description. There is also a new feature underneath the live chat where you can make a donation. Just click the dollar sign icon. This will also make your comment viewable for a longer period of time. If you are interested in a one-on-one coaching session with me, my email is in the video description. Please send me an email and I will provide you with further details. The narcissistic network. The narcissist creates this network when their control of the situation is threatened or when they believe that they are going to lose their narcissistic supply. The network is a deliberate attack on your character. It is designed to spread untrue rumors and to damage your reputation.  They are extremely abusive and manipulative. Using various tactics such as denial, projection, blame shifting, gaslighting and coercive manipulation. Narcissists are attracted to attractive people. They want what everyone else wants so they can use them for attention and validation. Narcissist supply.  You are taking the spotlight away from them. They believe that you are stealing their attention and validation. This leads them to desperately attempting to change your identity. They want you to see yourself in a different way and believe that everyone else sees you in a different way. This is known as coercive manipulation or gaslighting and it is something that these sick twisted people practice on a daily basis. Narcissist will certainly alter your identity, perceptions, beliefs, values and principles. They are extremely sick twisted people and it shows in their actions. They will do all of these things to you and then deny doing anything wrong or shift the blame onto you. They want you to think that you are the problem and following the abuse and manipulation you will have a twisted identity, perceptions, beliefs, values and principles.  The perfect murder, the perfect crime. You may start to believe it and the Narcissist will jump on the bandwagon telling you that it is all you. You have created this twisted identity and perceptions all on your own but you didn't. The truth is they made you that way. They programmed your identity, perceptions, beliefs, values and principles subtly over a period of time using their abusive manipulative tactics.  The flying monkeys create this narrative within their network about you. Everyone within the network will then follow this narrative and see you in the same way. You may try to stress a point to them, you may try to find a common understanding but there really is nothing you can say or do to anyone in the Narcissist network to make them see you in the way that you see yourself. The programming of the Narcissist network does not allow them to see that, they have been programmed by the network. This has adjusted their thinking to see you in a negative way which is usually the exact opposite of everything you are. The network does not allow them to see you as a whole person, they see you as an object. The network does not allow them to recognise your value in the back of their minds. I'm sure they are fully aware of how great you are as a person but the network program does not allow them to see you in that way. It's like watching a program on TV about a certain food item. Before watching the program you may have enjoyed eating that food but from watching the program you have learned that this food item is harmful to your health. Following this you no longer view the food item in the same way. This does not mean that the food really was harmful to your health. Many TV programs have ulterior motives but if they have managed to change your thoughts and beliefs about the food then the programming was successful. So this is what happens to individuals within the narcissistic network. Over time they will target the people closest to you, family, friends, relationship partners. Isolating you is an essential part of the process. You cannot have anyone there to support you or your perception of the narcissistic network.  They will turn everyone they possibly can against you, anyone you could potentially come into contact with but they have to target people who are close to you as they could become a threat to exposing the narcissistic network. Soon enough the people close to you will adopt their way of thinking. They will begin to see you in the same way. They will mistake the programming as an awakening to the truth when in reality they have just been programmed and allowed their reality to be distorted. This is practically the same as the fake world or alternate reality which the narcissist creates. They cannot allow you to interact with anyone outside of this fake world. So anyone who is outside of the fake world must be programmed and brought in before you are able to interact with them.  They will stalk you obsessively all day every day. It becomes a lifestyle for them, a newfound purpose. The reason for this is because one of their greatest fears is to be exposed. Their obsessive, stalking and reality distortion is their attempt at risk management. There is another reason why they will stalk you so obsessively. The reason why they work so hard to sabotage and destroy your career, finances and social circle is because they were deeply envious of all of that. The narcissist was also very jealous that your life did not revolve around them so they already know that to watch you redevelop your career, finances and social circle is going to make them deeply envious of you. You will notice that they appear to become hypersensitive to any amount of progress or success you achieve, any amount of satisfaction or fulfilment with anything in your life and this then reveals the true motive of the narcissistic network. When people work so hard to assassinate your character, to devalue and degrade you, to make you feel worthless and insignificant they would not be able to do this if you didn't have a character to assassinate. If you didn't have value, if you were not significant, if a person already has no character and is already worthless and insignificant they would not need to devalue or degrade them. Beneath the programming they actually view you in a completely different way to what they might make you believe. They see you as being more valuable and significant than they could ever be.  If you look at how they are trying to make you feel or how they are trying to get people to see you, this is exactly how they once felt when they had to witness your success, this is how people once saw them. They were deeply envious and jealous of you, how people are trying to make you feel is exactly how they feel, remember that it says nothing about you and everything about them, following the creation of the narcissistic network, their goal is to achieve whatever you achieved or create the illusion that they achieved that and then tell you about it or display it to you in some way. What is the point of doing this after they have already sabotaged your career, social circle and relationships? If you have recently been targeted by the narcissistic network it is likely that you have gone from having everything to having nothing. So what could they possibly be envious or jealous of? They are ruminating on the past, they are remembering all of your past achievements and experiences, things that they will likely never get to achieve or experience, they are observing your life in the present and realizing that you can be satisfied or fulfilled from the little things in life, such as going for a walk, having a hot bath or enjoying a nice meal to yourself. They cannot get the same fulfillment from the little things, even from whatever it is they are trying to make you envious or jealous of. That doesn't fulfill them anyway, a narcissist could have a billion pounds in the bank and still be envious of you because you bought a new pair of sneakers. It's not really the sneakers that they are envious of, as if they have a billion pounds in the bank I'm sure they could buy a pair of sneakers on their own. But what really makes them envy you is the fact that they cannot get the same fulfillment. That's why narcissists will often choose quantity over quality. So although they have sabotaged your career, social circle and relationships, there is still plenty to be envious of. Your past achievements and experiences, things that they will never get to achieve or experience, your satisfaction and fulfillment with the little things in life, anticipating what you could potentially achieve or obtain in the future, your consistent happiness and high energy regardless of what they are trying to do to you. That one really winds them up.  That really winds them up. After they have done all that to you and then they built themselves up or created the illusion that they are so great and you're nothing and you're still smiling, they don't even know how to respond to something like that. It's unheard of in their fake world. You've got to have tons of money, a good career, friends and a relationship to be satisfied or fulfilled in their world. You've got to have the picture-perfect face and body to love yourself and their world. Well let me tell you something, I've had plenty of money, a career, friends and relationships in my life already and none of that made me satisfied or fulfilled with my life. It just made me more miserable. You could have everything on the outside but you will still feel empty on the inside. And what difference does it make if you are beautiful and have the perfect body?  Not someone who really values you or appreciates you as a person, you're just an object to them. You think that your face and body is really that important and taking selfies every day? We are multidimensional beings having a human experience, the human body is temporary, it's not something you keep. People are so focused on everything on the outside that they forget that 99% of what we are cannot be seen in this dimension. Looking good may attract someone initially but eventually they are going to find someone who looks better than you because there is always someone who looks better and they're what you're going to do. When you based all of your worth on how you look on the outside, when really all you ever wanted in your life was someone to see who you are on the inside and that's how I found it so easy to detach from everything the narcissistic network destroyed in my life because when you think about it, the career, money, cars, looks, body, designer clothes and whatever other material items the original purpose of all of this was to attract someone into their lives with the hopes that they would eventually admire our soul on the inside but deep down people feel so unlovable these days, they don't think anyone would admire them anyway so we cover ourselves, we add accessories to add value to who we are as people when the true value has always been within you, you just needed a person who would finally recognise that value within your soul now I'm going to talk about how the narcissistic network can affect your view of yourself, other people and the world around you I have always felt that I was a logical and understandable person although my environment suggested otherwise it's just in this narcissistic environment I'm constantly gaslighted I guess that was to disguise the fact that they are not logical or understandable of course if they were logical or understandable there would be no need to create a narcissistic network where there are two mature adults there will be some form of mutual understanding or resolution narcissists do not follow an official or established procedure due to their sense of arrogance and entitlement they believe that they are the exception they are also self-absorbed and lack empathy their pathological envy and jealousy overrides any empathy they would otherwise feel in a normal environment there are certain states frequencies choices or decisions that will impact what kinds of people you will come across but in these toxic narcissistic environments your choices or decisions do not affect an end result it does not matter if you are self-love deficient or self-love abundant the same self-hating miserable people will still force themselves onto you they will even do the typical thing that all narcissists do and create the illusion or manipulate you into believing that they are self-love abundant or people on a high frequency this is something they can only do for a short limited amount of time and if you look closely enough you will see that you are being presented with a false display or false attitude these people are fake and inauthentic regardless of what they do or say always remember that they will try all of the tricks in the book and do whatever they possibly can to make you think otherwise but their program will always end in the same way with you being abused or manipulated in some way your environment affects your thoughts feelings and behaviors so avoid these people at all costs they are fake and inauthentic people live in a lie trying to do whatever they can to convince you that they are real and they are the truth while we can be real and true to ourselves without any effort at all it comes naturally to us thank you for watching i hope this video has helped you to understand more about the narcissistic network please check out my playlist on the alternate realities and fake worlds also my video on the flying monkeys and the smear campaign for more information on this topic please like comment and share click the subscribe button and underneath the video if you haven't subscribed yet i'll talk to you in another video very soon


You can see here where our signal has just sparsely non-zero elements, most of them are zero except for a few, that each of these non-zero elements results in a copy of the original kernel. Depending on the sign and on the magnitude of the non-zero element, we can change both the size and the direction, the magnitude and the sign of the kernel in the result, but each of the points just takes a copy of the kernel, adds it to the convolution, and then scales it accordingly. This becomes harder to see when the signal becomes dense, has non-zero values altogether, but you can imagine it as each element of the signal just taking a copy of the kernel and adding it in to the result. We can see here, even with the different kernel, we get the same result. By taking it, flipping it, and doing the sliding dot product with the signal, a sparse signal will take that kernel and make scaled copies of it. You can see the first one is just like the original kernel, but smaller in magnitude. The second copy is just like the original kernel and similar in magnitude. And the third copy is just like the original kernel, but flipped in sign. We can express this same thing in math. Let's call our signal x, our kernel w, and our convolution result y. In this case, we will make sure that our result y is the same length as our signal x by trimming off the ends. We'll come back to this and relax this assumption later. And then our kernel w is going to have n elements. Our input and output, our x and our y, are going to have m elements. And this is what it would look like in a neural network. Your input is your signal x, your result is your output y, and your kernel w are your internal weights within the layer that you'll learn during the training phase. We'll change the notation up a little bit. Instead of indexing the values of our kernel from 0 to n minus 1, it makes it a little easier to handle if we index it between minus p and p. This assumes that we have an odd number of elements in our kernel, which is convenient when we go to slide it along. It means that we can line up the value of the result with the value of the signal, and they don't get sandwiched halfway in between. So an odd numbered kernel is helpful. And by assuming an odd numbered kernel, we can index it from minus p to p, and this just makes some of the notation a little more convenient later.


Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. I want to do a video today showing how to do in OBS Studio a image sequence of layover. So I'll show you exactly what I mean. Now firstly, I downloaded a bit of stock video footage of Pexels. As you can see, you got a bit of wheat here, barley, or some kind of a grain in a rotating circle. So what I'm going to do firstly is add this into my OBS as a media source. I'm just going to call this stock and I'm going to just have this guy looping. So that's my Pexels clip. Now, not enabled by default, so click on loop and speeds 100%.  Actually, I'm going to slow it down to 50%. This is actually quite useful, this little media source player. So we have our wheat spinning in slow-mo here. I'm going to do fit to screen. Okay, so that's just going to be there and let's just leave it run, see if hopefully it will loop itself over. And what I'm going to do at the end here is actually record this clip so you can see what I have achieved with this attempted OBS wizardry. Okay, good. It's looping. So now let me go ahead and create a couple of back layovers. I call these layovers lower thirds. If they're lower thirds, layouts, overlays, overlays, that's the word I was looking for. So I'm going to call this video overlay image sequences in OBS. So let me just do one that these are not going to be beautiful. Let's just say a bit of blackfill here, 74% transparency. This is overlay number one and I'm just going to put that in white, font and I'm just going to export this guy to the desktop. Now, I've gone for the same resolution intentionally as the canvas 1920, but one 920 by 1080 for 1080p HD. That's important obviously to get that right. So I'm going to call these lay, sorry, overlay underscore sequence and I'm just going to do these in numerical order. So I'm just going to call this one one. Now, let's say I wanted to say, let's pretend this is like a newscast or something like that. I mean this is intended for a stream.  Call us 1800. You get the idea. So let's just say this. I'm going to put this here, take a little bit of space out here and a little bit smaller. Again, this is just really a quick and dirty demo. So I'm going to call this guy number two, two dot png and finally, whoops, just put that, reset that back to white here. All right, so that's going to be number three. So we're going to, we have now created three layouts on a background. So let's, you know, I'm going to pretend for a second. These were nicely designed and you put some effort into them. They're lower thirds or you could have, you know, your station logo or your stream logo, etc. So I've created three of these. Now, let's go back to OBS. So we have our rotating Weast. And now what I want to do is add an image slideshow and call these, I don't know what's wrong with my brain today. It's like having a hard time with this word overlays. Overlay loop. Okay. And what I'm going to do, so it's going to be looping and now we need to tell it where the image files are. So I'm going to actually add the directory instead of adding them. So remember, we put these all in the same directory and we called it overlay sequence. So I'm going to add that directory. So I've got number one and I'm going to have this on loop. I'm going to have the time between slides as four, no five, five thousand milliseconds, aka five seconds. I'm going to go for a snappier transitions and we're going to have a fade transition. So let's just look at how this will look now because I did this on a transparent background. You may notice there's nothing here and But now it'll become clear when I put it off. So that's how it is. So I've got this guy I wanted to show you what else you can do with the overlay loop. You could for instance change this to a slide transition that looks a little bit more dramatic and you'll see now in a few seconds. So that's I think that's going to look a bit bad. You can have a cush, which is just going to cut between one and two. And what you can do as well, let's go back to fade. What you can do is a randomized playback or you can, so let's say call it call the show. Typically you'd want this in some kind of a sequence. But you could also do the image files here and have them coming up in a random one. So let's just take that off. Let's go okay. And now let's record.  So you put in your overlay loop, you put in your webcam stream, and now they're on a transparent background and they're just going to be running and sliding one in the second. So that's enough. Let's just kind of stop this guy here, and now I'm just going to show you how this turned out. Okay, so here's the clip that we got out of this. Record is to the computer and the overlays are transitioning as a slide. So that's how if you want to use just for the purpose of creating overlays on your OBS stream or your recording, you can add them with the transparent background and actually use them in front of your video feed. Thank you guys for watching. More videos coming soon.


Welcome, Weirdos, I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained. If you're new here, be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple or Android so you don't miss future episodes. This is a special 12 Nightmares of Christmas episode. Each day from December 13th through the 24th, I'm posting a new episode of Weird Darkness featuring material from the new book, The Spirits of Christmas, The Dark Side of the Holidays by Sylvia Schultz. Be sure to come back every day from December 13th through the 24th for more holiday horrors.  William Terrace was the Kenneth Branagh of his day, a superstar of the popular melodramas – handsome, talented – he was royalty of the theatre set and played most often at the Adelphi Theatre in the Strand. In that was where he met a violent end on the evening of December 16th, 1897. Terrace made a habit of dining at the Greenroom Club just off the Strand. It was a short walk from the club to Maiden Lane, narrow street behind the theatre where he could get into the back door of the Adelphi. All the leading players of the theatre had a key. On December 16th, Terrace walked as usual from the club to the theatre, accompanied that evening by John Graves, an elderly friend of his. Chatting companionably, the two men turned into Maiden Lane. The street was dimly lit. Neither of the men noticed the figure standing across the street in the flickering shadows cast by the gaslit streetlights. The man stood silently, a dark-eyed figure in a black cloak. His hat pulled down low over his eyes. As the two friends approached the back door, Graves told Terrace goodnight and walked on. Terrace unbuttoned his frock coat and reached into his pocket for the key. As he slid the key into the lock, the dark figure rushed across the narrow lane and plunged a knife into Terrace's back. The knife glanced off the actor's shoulder blade, leaving a bad wound. Terrace staggered around to face his attacker, who struck twice more. The second knife blow landed high up near Terrace's spine. The third pierced the actor directly over the heart. The attack on William Terrace never should have happened. It was the result of a tragic mistake. Terrace's attacker was a bit player at the Adelphi by the name of Richard Arthur Prince. Aged 32, he had come to seek his fortune on the London stage. Unfortunately, Prince was a wretchedly bad actor and he was lucky to get bit parts. His fellow bit players at the Adelphi called him Mad Arthur behind his back, but to his face, they cruelly encouraged his vanity and his dreams of fame and fortune. The trouble really started during the play that had previously run at the theatre. The other bit players teased Prince unmercifully, assuring him that he was destined to become one of the greatest actors of all time. They told him the other actor was relegated to bit parts. They even had Prince, pathetically, act out Terrace's role as the hero of the show. They commiserated loudly with Prince, saying that Terrace's role really should have gone to him. At all the while, they were laughing at him behind their hands. Prince, already unstable, was consumed by a rabid jealousy towards Terrace. Terrace, meanwhile, was completely unaware of the drama going on backstage. He didn't even know Prince by sight. When that play finished its run, all of the bit players, including Prince, were, of course, out of work. Prince auditioned for roles elsewhere but never even made callbacks. He applied to the actor's benevolent fund for unemployment relief and he also approached other actors for handouts, including William Terrace. Terrace, when asked, unhesitatingly gave Prince a sovereign. This was on the evening of December 15th. The next day, the actor's benevolent fund met and turned down Prince's request for assistance. When he heard the news, Prince asked who the chairman of the committee was. Someone told him Terry, meaning Edward Terry, a comedian, but Prince had heard Terrace. The unbalanced Prince went to a shop and bought a sharp butcher's knife for one shilling nine pence, using the sovereign that Terrace had given him. Then at dusk, he went to Maiden Lane to lie in wait for William Terrace. After the attack, Richard Prince simply stood there while people rushed to the scene. He was seized and arrested immediately. Meanwhile, Terrace was carried into the theater through the door he had been about to open. He died 20 minutes later. His head cradled by his leading lady, Jesse Milward. Terrace was only 41 years old. The impact of Terrace's death was even felt miles away at his home. That evening, Tom, the actor's 17-year-old son, was playing chess with his younger brother. Mrs. Terrace sat in an armchair nearby. The family terrier dozed contentedly in her lap. A few minutes past eight, the exact time of the stabbing, the little dog suddenly leapt from Mrs. Terrace's lap and ran circles around the room, barking frantically. Then he darted under the table and stayed there, cowering and snapping at something only he could see. The family finally managed to calm the shivering, wild-eyed dog. Half an hour later, a cast member from the play, Secret Service, who had been an eyewitness to the tragedy, knocked on their door with the shattering news. Terrace's son-in-law, a fellow actor named Seymour Hicks, was taken to the Bow Street police station to identify Prince. Prince was raving and foaming at the mouth. He was later found guilty, but insane, and died in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum in 1937. Hicks left the police station and went to the Adelphi, where Terrace's body lay on a couch. The actor played the hero even in death. His face was calm and his lips curved in a slight smile. Hicks dealt by the couch to pay his respects to his father-in-law. Years later, Hicks wrote of the experience he had in the empty room. In the serenity and quiet of the room, he said, I to this day feel sure. I heard a voice say to me, Are there men living such fools as to think there is no hereafter? That night I knew beyond all shadow of a doubt that William Terrace and myself would meet again. True to his word, Terrace began haunting his beloved Adelphi almost immediately after his tragic death. Many actors reported hearing strange tapping noises coming from Terrace's old dressing room, but things didn't really heat up until 1928, over 30 years after Terrace was murdered. Every evening, when he entered the theater by the Maiden Lane door, Terrace had been in the habit of giving Jesse Millward's dressing room door a tap with his walking stick as he went down the corridor to his own room. It was his affectionate signal to his leading lady that he had arrived. In 1928, a musical comedy actress named June was using Jesse Millward's old dressing room. It was June's practice not to leave the theater after a matinee. Instead, she would have a light meal brought in from a restaurant then have a nap on the Chase Lounge until about 7.15 p.m. But the couch didn't provide much rest. As soon as June relaxed enough to drop off to sleep, the couch would start to vibrate then lurch as if someone were underneath it kicking the bottom. Then a pale greenish light would form in front of her dressing table mirror then disappear. June mentioned these things to Ethel Rowland, her dresser. Ethel replied that often when June was on stage, a knock would sound on her dressing room door, a knock that sounded like someone wrapping the door with a walking stick. When Ethel went to answer the door, there was never anyone there. June eventually told a theater veteran at the Adelphi about these strange events. She suggested it might be William Terrace, returning to the theater he loved so much. The actors held a seance at the theater to try and contact their colleague. Nothing happened during the seance, but afterwards June was no longer troubled by noises and lights in her room. The Adelphi's historian, W.J. McQueen Pope wrote in 1959 that an apparition of Terrace had been seen only once outside the theater. A few years before, on a summer's evening, a man who didn't know the story of the murder was walking on Maiden Lane near the theater's back door, exactly where the stabbing had taken place. He saw a handsome man in old-fashioned clothes coming towards him. The man passed him without a word, but his appearance was so striking that the witness turned for another look, but the man had completely vanished. The witness was sure he had just hallucinated the whole thing until the historian told him about the murder of William Terrace some 60 years in the past. Billy and Linda Meeklos and their children, Billy Jr. and Nicole, live in a gorgeous 18th-century farmhouse in Allentown, Pennsylvania. They moved into the house in 1977 and discovered almost immediately that they were sharing their new home with more than one ghost. For several nights after they moved in, Linda and Billy were kept awake by the thundering hoofbeats of a horse that galloped in circles around the house. The galloping was so energetic that the couple could hear the horse's hooves kicking up gravel, but there was no gravel and there was no horse. The house is set in deep woods with only soft forest duff around it. Soon after that, Linda began to hear children's voices calling Mommy Mommy. Billy Jr. spoke of seeing a small girl walking close to Linda. Unnerved but also intrigued, Linda did some research on the house. She traced its history all the way back to the first settler, George Schubert, the soldier in the Revolutionary War. Schubert had built a cabin on the property. The cabin later burned to the ground. Then Schubert built the farmhouse that now stands on the property. Shortly after the house was built, five of the Schubert children died of smallpox within a week. With such tragedy in its past, it is no wonder the house is a magnet for spirit energy. Linda started a diary to keep track of all the paranormal events in the house. She discovered that much of the activity happens in April and around Christmas. On Christmas Eve 1981, 8-year-old Billy Jr. and his sister Nicole were sleeping in Billy's room with the door open. Nicole was restless and kept waking up. Suddenly, she shook Billy awake and pointed to the door. A glowing figure stood beside the door to their parents' room. As they watched, it vanished. During another Christmas season, the Meekloses invited a friend of theirs, Larry, to stay with them for the holiday. Larry was a Vietnam vet who had just gone through the breakup of his marriage. The Meekloses had cut their tree and carried it home a couple of days before Christmas, and Linda felt that Larry would welcome an invitation to help decorate the tree. The weather was unseasonably warm, but Linda felt that a fire in the fireplace would add to the festive air. Larry decorated the tree, while Billy carried in some wood and got the fire going. Linda brought in snacks for the men as they worked. When the men were finished, they all sat down to relax to enjoy the crackling fire and the colorful tree. Someone, though, didn't seem to appreciate Larry's decorating efforts. The tree started shaking violently, but all the ornaments fell off and rolled across the floor. Billy stood up about to give the cat holy hell for jumping on the tree, but the cat was nowhere in the room. Then the room turned icy cold. Knowing that a severe drop in temperature can sometimes announce a ghostly manifestation, Billy decided to try an experiment.  Billy spoke to the empty air.  Ten minutes later, a ball rose from the sleigh and dropped with a click onto the mantel. There was a small building on the property that had been the groom's quarters when the land was a horse farm. Larry had lived in the building for a while but had moved out. He later committed suicide. Billy had lit a kerosene heater in the building to keep the pipes from freezing. On December 23, 1983, Billy was deathly sick, far too sick to get out of bed. By Christmas day, he was feeling better. The first thing he did was to go to the outbuilding to check on the kerosene heater, which would run only 24 hours on one tank. That should have been bone dry and out, he said, but when he got to the building to check the heater, it was full of fuel and burning. Billy couldn't explain how the heater got filled, but he suspects maybe Larry returned to do his friend a favor. During another Christmas season, the meekloses had a relative from Ohio come for a visit. Sometime between 1.30 am and 2.00 am, Angie came suddenly awake. A loud scratching noise had pulled her from sleep. It started at the top of the stairway and grew fainter near the bottom as if a large dog was walking down the stairs. About 20 minutes later, Angie heard a crash from the kitchen as if a metal tray had fallen off the counter. A few minutes after that, Angie said she sensed a friendly presence sitting on a chair in the loft where she was trying to sleep. And according to Linda's haunting diary, on Wednesday night, December 18, 1985, she was in the bedroom, reading at 11 o'clock at night while Billy was taking a shower in the basement. As Linda read, she heard piano music filling the house. Billy barged into the bedroom, his face half covered with shaving lotion. Tell me you were just playing the piano, Linda, he begged. She shook her head. That was the one and only time the piano played a phantom tune. It never happened again. Lord Calvert's mansion stands in Riverdale, Maryland. It's a late Georgian plantation house that was built between 1801 and 1807. It was rumored to be haunted by Lord Calvert's son-in-law who hanged himself from a tree in the front yard. The mansion is now a museum, but in 1972 it was occupied by 75-year-old Mr. Smith. He was uncomfortable rattling around the haunted mansion by himself, so he asked Rick, a deputy sheriff in Prince George's County, to move in with him for protection. One December night, while Mr. Smith was out visiting friends for Christmas, Rick was outside in the barn, tending to the horses. His chores done, he started for the house and noticed that the light in the attic was on. For a moment he just stood and stared at the lit window. He knew the attic wasn't wired for electricity, but he could plainly see the rafters through the window. The light source was strong, not flickering. It had to be coming from inside the attic. Rick's police training kicked in and he rushed into the house in search of an intruder. He secured all three of the lower floors, making sure all of the houses outside doors were locked. Then he headed to the attic. Slowly, Rick pushed the attic door open. Only darkness met his eyes. Rick knew he had seen light in the attic less than five minutes before. There was a lamp in the attic for emergencies, but the bulb was completely cold. The deputy shivered. None of his police training had prepared him for seeing a bright light in an attic window. An attic without electricity. One of Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous and intriguing homes is the Dana House in Springfield, Illinois. Instruction started in 1902 and the huge house was finished in 1904. It is a magnificent example of Wright's prairie style, the first of Wright's designs to feature two-story rooms. Like the hall, the gallery and the dining room, Frank Lloyd Wright fans and architecture enthusiasts drool over this house, which features a library with glass-fronted built-in bookcases, a billiards room and a bowling alley. And paranormal investigators salivate, because although management and state officials deny it, the Dana House is haunted. Very haunted. The Dana House was built at the request of Sue C. Lawrence, later known as Suzy. You see it, don't you? Sue C. Suzy? Born in October 1862, Sue married Edwin Ward Dana on December 4th, 1883. The marriage was short and fraught with financial troubles. Edwin Dana was a businessman but not a very good one. Starting out as a real estate investor, Dana set himself up as president of the Western Business Agency. When that failed, his father-in-law sent him to Oregon to manage some mines. In Oregon, Edwin suffered a fatal accident in one of the mines. Suzy came back to Springfield, her spirits in tatters. Her husband was dead and she had also buried two infant children that she had been unable to carry to term. On February 17, 1901, a few years after Suzy's return from Oregon, her father passed away. R.D. Lawrence's death was another blow to the young widow but it left her with a financial windfall. She decided to build a grand new home for the surviving members of her family – herself, her mother, her grandmother, who would pass away a year and a half later in August 1902, and her cousin Flora Lawrence. Wanting the sophistication a Chicago architect could bring to sleepy Springfield, she tapped Frank Lloyd Wright for the job. Suzy Lawrence Dana lived a life marked by tragic losses, despite her elegant surroundings. She married a concert singer from Denmark in March 1912. Oregon Constantin Dahl was half Suzy's age, so it was quite the scandal. He died just a year later. In 1915, she married a native of Springfield, Charles Gurman. They eventually separated and she divorced him in 1930. Suzy had no head for money. In 1915, she received about $10,000 in income from her father's rental properties. Unfortunately, she had borrowed $132,000 to fund her lavish lifestyle. Suzy turned to the spirit world for advice and consolation.  Maybe some of that spiritualist energy is imbued in the walls of the gracious home. Suzy Lawrence passed away on February 20, 1946, but her spirit still seems to linger in her beloved home. In life Suzy loved to throw parties. She started things off with a bang during the holiday season of 1904, the year the house was finished. She hosted lavish holiday parties. She followed those up with house warmings for the women's club, parties for local children, including those in orphanages, dinners for residents of nursing homes, and a special gala for the families of the workers who had built the house. And apparently Suzy still loves the holidays. I spoke with Mike Anderson, a folk musician also jovially known as the dulcimer guy. Along with other musicians, Mike performs for the open houses held at the Dana House every December. Mike has been performing at the home for nearly 40 years, and he readily admits to several chilling experiences. He claims the house definitely has its own personality. Mike brings the unique perspective of a musician to his experiences. One of the favorite places to put a musician is above the front door. There is a balcony there, he said. There was one year myself and a vocalist and a guitar player were doing Christmas music on that balcony. The sun was pouring through a window and that sun was hot. The musician's shifts were eight hours long, with the musicians playing in two to three hours stints. The other two performers took a break, leaving Mike on the balcony to play solo. Suddenly the balcony got deathly cold to the point where I could barely move my fingers to play, and it stayed that way for about 10 minutes. During another Christmas open house, one of the performers was a young violin player, a boy about 12 or 14 years old. As a seasoned performer, Mike led the boy to the balcony where his violin music would dazzle guests coming in the front door while Mike set himself up in the gallery. As Mike went towards the gallery, he heard the boy's panicked voice calling him back. Mike returned to the front door and looked up at the boy. The violin player peered down at him, his face a picture of woe. I can't play here, the boy said. Why not? I don't know. The boy, a budding professional, was clearly chagrined at his own behavior, but when he mentioned that his fingers were freezing cold, Mike realized immediately what the issue was. He switched places and sent the young violinist to the gallery instead. Mike shared another strange experience he had in the Dana house, and again it happened regularly during the Christmas open houses. The house is set up so that you can pretty much tell where people are from the sound of their voices, Mike told me. He was set up to play on the balcony, and he kept an ear cocked for approaching tour groups. When a group came with an earshot of the balcony, Mike would start playing a Christmas carol on the dulcimer. One day, as the tour group came up, Mike dropped into what child is this? He noticed a woman walking several steps behind the tour group. She was wearing a long winter coat, in deference to the season. The group moved on into Susie's bedroom, but the woman in the long coat stopped on the steps leading down to the bedroom, just off the balcony. From the corner of his eye, Mike saw the group go into the room while the woman hung back. Mike turned to say to her, you need to catch up with your group, but the woman was gone. This happened several times, and each time Mike had just launched into what child is this on the balcony. It got to where I could almost make her appear just by playing that particular carol, Mike told me. Later a heart player joined the ensemble of performers. She had been at the house before, so Mike asked, is there any place you don't want to be stationed? The heart player shrugged, not really, but the balcony can get pretty weird. Mike nodded fervently, I know exactly what you mean, and he told the harpist his story.  Rufus Porter was a well-regarded journalist who lived in the Pikes Peak region near Cascade, Colorado. Porter was known as the Hard Rock Poet, and he wrote many short poems about the human condition, not fancy poetry, but words that ordinary people could enjoy. In December 1960, Porter was riding the rails from Spokane to Seattle. For one of a ticket, he was huddled in an open boxcar. When the train started to cross the Cascade Mountains, the temperature already brutally cold fell to below zero. Porter knew he couldn't survive much longer. Near Leavenworth, Washington, he caught a glimpse of a work camp. He jumped the train and headed painfully towards the camp to seek shelter. He made his way to the watchman's cabin, where a light burned a cheerful welcome in the window. With the last of his fading strength, Porter pounded on the door. An older bearded man with kind eyes opened the door. He ushered Porter into the cabin out of the bitter cold. He sat him down next to the fire, knelt before him and slipped his cold boots off. He fed Porter and treated his frostbite. But when Porter tried to thank him or engage him in conversation, the man would only reply with one simple phrase, I am your brother. After a night spent in a warm, comfortable bed, Porter left the work camp and made his way to Leavenworth. When he got to the town, he told his story of being rescued by the watchman and of being invited into the warmth and safety of the cozy cabin. Porter's tale was met with sideways looks and outright denial. The work camp outside of town had been deserted for years, people told him, and the watchman who had supposedly cared for him was long dead. Porter refused to believe this. The man's glances of kindness, his generous care, the humble way in which he would say, I am your brother, it all stayed planted firmly in Porter's mind. He decided to go to the work camp in daylight to see things for himself. He found the camp abandoned, just as the men in town had told him. There was no sign of life anywhere in the camp, and the ashes of the fire on the hearth and the watchman's cabin were cold and dead. If you enjoyed this episode, consider sharing it with others and help build the Weird Darkness community by converting your friends and family into weirdos as well. This special episode is part of my 12 Nightmares of Christmas series, a collaboration with paranormal blogger and author Sylvia Schultz. The stories I used in this episode are all from her book, The Spirits of Christmas, the Dark Side of the Holidays, and you can find a link to the book in the show notes. Do you have a dark tale to tell? Share your story at WeirdDarkness.com and I might use it in a future episode. Music in this episode is provided by Midnight Syndicate and you can find a link to purchase and download this dark, creepy Christmas music in the show notes. I'm your creator and host, Darren Marlar. Merry Christmas and thanks for joining me in the Weird Darkness. Okay, Google, tell me a scary story. Have you heard the urban legend about the power cord that was too short? About 10 years ago there was this guy. I think his name was Henry. Anyway, he bought an alarm clock to put on his nightstand. But when he tried to plug it in, it was just too short. That one doesn't give you nightmares.


What's up, y'all hold on all right you guys look I Hope you guys are good. I just thought I'd show you The other side to What life as a PA is like so a Donna obviously was supposed to film a video today She said she's putting out one video every single day on her channel addressing some of you guys's questions, but She just got home about I don't know two hours ago She just worked a 24-hour shift. She was at the hospital for 24 hours And then so she came home and obviously sure she wanted to get this video done But unfortunately the girl's knocked out. She tired y'all she's sleeping. So you know husband got a step up and Help her out a little bit you guys so she can sleep. So, you know, obviously I can't really answer too many of your questions So this is not really gonna be too much of a question and answer video just a video you guys talking to you guys just about from my perspective the the blessing of the PA career from someone who supported someone to get through PA school and Man, I'm telling you guys if you're trying to get through PA school It's gonna be trying to get to PA school or through PA school I From from my perspective someone who just really a supporter. I'm telling you It's it's hard you guys It's hard watching my wife for years For years trying to get in the PA school watching her Grind and put in that work Watching her Having to take summer classes and summer school just to improve her GPA You know struggling trying to get shadowing hours And and she was blessed obviously to at that time to be able to get the shadowing hours, especially in the hospital Now unfortunately, that's the world has changed. You know, it's just so many so many different aspects of getting in the PA school has changed since she started which was just a few years ago and That's what this platform is for you guys get that's the university is it's It's a platform that's gonna help you get in the PA school help you get through PA school, but it's current You know I'm saying like it's the site that's updated the site that regularly is going to continue to have new masterclasses One thing I just wanted to Kind of feature in this little discussion is the live events section of this thing you guys look I'm telling you On this platform get that's the university mind you is launching this Sunday There's coming Sunday, October 11 So stay tuned and go to get that see university comms You can sign up to be notified and be the first to know when the site is launched But with that being said The the platform itself is going to have a live event section and in that live events Yo, it's dope because you guys are gonna have opportunity to interact live When they have different events some of the events are Gonna be pre-PA conferences pre-PA virtual conferences with guest speakers PAs and just people within the PA community You'll be able to interact live with them also events like I said Q&A's also event no Q&A's I say that's their pre-PA conferences So there's also PA student conferences that we're gonna do for PA students and then also Q&A's Where I know dr. Adam rush is going to be obviously one of the People who are going to be doing live Q&A's which you guys on a consistent basis Not sure how consistent maybe once a month maybe once a quarter, but he'll pop on To literally answer you guys's questions about anything regarding studying study tips regarding business Regarding anything, you know anything on the table in addition to that you guys we're gonna have Like live virtual parties and virtual game nights and things like that Why because man, we got to celebrate when y'all actually get into PA school, you know I've said I think some people forget to celebrate, you know, they just you you're so excited about it You get so excited about Being in PA school and then immediately you like click like oh crap like freak. I gotta do this I gotta do that. I gotta Sometimes you just need a game night Sometimes you just need a party a virtual party So all the members of the site will be able to have access to that to celebrate each other if you get it into PA school to to be encouraged by knowing that other people were doing it and to Share with the world and share with the world the blessing that you actually got in so we're gonna party have fun Just all kind of various things and of course, you know, this is a platform That's for you guys so and you guys have ideas or suggestions or anything like that all you gotta do is say the word and We can take it to the team and we can see if we can actually get that done for the platform So a lot of great things in store you guys. This is again, just I'm an outsider. I'm an outsider. I'm not a PA. I'm just the guy who supports the PA But I support you guys too and I appreciate you guys and I'm excited to see you guys actually get into PA school I'm excited to see you guys to get through PA school. I'm excited to see you guys get that see yo It's gonna be dope. So anyway, I just want to say that from a wife cuz she knocked out So you guys say a prayer for her because she's when she wake up She's about to get right back on she just got off the 24-hour shift when she wake up She's probably gonna make some less of them kids and then she's just gonna get right into making some more videos More masterclasses for you guys for this platform that has to get done. So That's it man.  All right, so get that's the University come in this Sunday, October 11th Yeah, that's it. That's it. Yeah, I wanna see you again.  Anyway, y'all be good. All right. Peace


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