Standard of California, on behalf of independent chevron gas stations and standard stations throughout the West, invites you to let George do it. Here and one to go. Another adventure of George Valentine. President, you'll know this stage is my stock in trade. If life's giving you so much punishment you're buckling at the knees, you need my help. George Valentine. Write full details. Dear Mr. Valentine, and do you remember Carol Gordon? She was as glamorous and famous as any movie star you can name today. Then some 18 years ago when talkies came in, she faded out of the limelight. Dead, perhaps. But if she isn't, I must find her. The only clue I have is that someone thinks he saw Carol Gordon about a year ago, down on Skid Row. The enclosed check is a retainer. And if you succeed in finding her, there will be a substantial bonus. Sincerely yours, Henry Crichton. Business management and artist representation. Carol Gordon? Uh-uh, careful. Don't say you remember her, Brooks. He'll give your age away. Well, I don't remember. Two world-shaking events took place in the 20s. The stock market crash and Carol Gordon. Her autograph always gets you to a Wallace Reed in the trade. Now Skid Row. Well, maybe this Mr. Crichton knows of a small part for her. Well, if he's gambling with $250 just to play good Samaritan, I'd like to shake hands with that gentleman. And if he isn't, it might be a good idea to find out what's on his mind. Pretty swank. Carrier and Ives Prince, right out in the hall? The Dorset Building. The agent's paradise. The house, the 10% building. George! Hey, I think that's coming from our clients office, Brooks. That's all right. Take it easy. Get hold of yourself. Calm down. Who's Dan? Mr. Crichton, I know you were put on this earth to keep me from being bored to see that I don't fall into a rut. But, uh, please, let's keep this murder nice and simple. But take another look at this letter, will you, Lieutenant? You must admit Crichton might have been killed because he was determined to find Carol Gordon. Miss Brooks, I used to be a Carol Gordon fan. Why, it got so Mrs. Riley wouldn't let me go to the movies when her pictures were playing. Why, Lieutenant? But nobody's even thought of that woman in years and years. Crichton did, Lieutenant. Well, being just a plotting, unimaginative copper, I'm going to have to stick to facts. Namely, Crichton got his head bashed in with a poker from which all the fingerprints were carefully wiped off.  There was a struggle and the plug of the electric clock on the desk was pulled out of the wall. Now, that sets the time of the murder at 1235. And a half a dozen people saw Miss Jackson Crichton's secretary in the coffee shop all through the lunch house. Oh, Lieutenant, I understand Crichton had quite an imposing list of clients. Yes, sir, and I'm going to talk to every one of them. No flights of fancy for me, pal. Oh, incidentally, Valentine. Yeah? How are you going to go about tracing Carol Gordon? Obviously, she doesn't want to be found. And she probably doesn't look anything like she used to. And Skid Row is a pretty big place, you know. George, I think the Lieutenant is trying to imply that it's going to be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Well, what's so hard about finding a needle in a haystack? Well, that's what I... What?  The needle comes to you.  You mean you're going to pay me, fella? What's wrong with it, fella? Oh, nothing's wrong with it, Mr. Gabranian. It was a super-colossal production back there in 1928. Yeah, romance in April, starring Carol Gordon. Never heard that, fella. In the movie business, I never heard it. 1928, I was running the coffee, but I wish I was still running it. Well, any way you wouldn't mind showing this picture for $50, would you? There's just one thing we ought to tell you, Mr. Gabranian. Yeah, I knew this was coming, fella. There's no sound, no music in this picture. It's silent. Something no, huh? You don't think for a moment I'd talk you into anything that would damage the reputation of Gabranian's cameo theater, the Jim of Skid Row? Are you kidding? I don't even advertise a picture we're playing. I just hang other signs, soft seats, open all night, 15 cents. Then this ought to be right down your alley. The slumber of your selected clientele won't be disturbed by any noises coming off the screen. Just a little piano music for mood. Yeah, lady, you might got something there. This is a gal who knows all the angles. Yeah. On her, they look good, too.   Why, thank you, Mr. Gabranian. I don't know whether to blush or winny. What's it? Now, what about it? Does romance in April play here tomorrow? It plays. Money in advance, fella. No objection to me selling the tickets? You sell, but remember the tickets are numbered.  You said it. Yes, sir. Hey, you should take a cigarette. Oh, thank you. Business is pretty slow, darling. You can't say Mr. Gabranian didn't advertise the revival of romance in April. Yeah, with a late Mr. Crichton's money. So far, your magnets attracted nothing but the usual skid row characters. Maybe the whole thing... Oh, wait a minute. Hold it, Pooxy. Can you tell me if the feature started yet? In just a few minutes, sir. Good. One, please. George, didn't you recognize him? Yeah, Pooxy, yeah. We're beginning to draw a better class of people. Anthony Chapman, the movie heartthrob.  And trying to look inconspicuous. An interesting question, ain't you? I bet the answer's even more interesting. But before, young man, I understand romance in April goes on at 2.15. Is that correct? Yeah. You've got two minutes to make it. Just like to be sure, time is money. A 15 cents. Is that correct? And I understand the picture runs an hour and 12 minutes. Yeah, that's correct. Someone else out, Summie.  Pooxy, what's your guess? Vice president of a bank, a successful insurance salesman? Or just a lover of the silent cinema. You know, I got a definite feeling we started something here. What? Look what we've got now, Joe. The carriage trade drawing up. Now I'm sure we ought to change prices before six. You can call for me in about an hour, Ralph. Yes, ma'am. One seat in the loge, please. Loge? I doubt if we can build you one at a moment's notice. What? Oh, well. Whatever you've got. Thank you. I'd say that was about $5,000 worth of mink on the hoof. Hey, look, a brilliant actually opened the door for us. And I'm blaming the man for being overwhelmed. Looks like all kinds of people don't mind coming to this popcorn cove to see romance in April. Ah, one ticket, please. That's $0.15, isn't it? Yeah, and you're just in time for the picture. The 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th. Hope you don't mind the pennies. That's all I have. Oh, they are not just the same. They are. I hope you enjoy the picture. Yeah, I'm sure I will. I take it you're a Carol Gordon fan. Yeah, and her severest critic. Did you hear that, Bruxy? That's an angel, I think. Carol Gordon? Oh, that couldn't be George. I could be wrong, but there was something about her eyes.  Come on, Bruxy. Gabranion can take over the box office now. We're going inside and make sure. Must have broken Gabranion's heart to hire a piano player for the day. That girl on the screen, Angel. Look at it carefully. Don't you see some resemblance between her and the woman we saw before us at the box office? Sorry, George. I can't talk myself into it. Yeah, maybe I am punching a little too hard. Oh, she was beautiful, wasn't she? Even in that costume with a waistline down to one of these. And not a bad actress to compete with these titles. Ellen looked at the faded flowers and thought of the waste of her own life. Oh, brother. No! Come on, stick with me, Bruxy. Oh, here, folks. Yeah, see, Bruxy, I told you she didn't just vanish. We were about giving up hope, mister. We've been over this block with a fine-tooth comb for the last hour. Hmm. And imagine the places you've been in, miss. Now, this here hotel don't rightly belong down in this neighborhood. Why do you know we changed bedsheets and towels twice a week? Yeah, well, bully for you, but what did you say was the name she was using? Uh, that's the mills. That is, if it's the woman you've been describing.  What's that? Well, about 20 minutes ago, while I was away from the desk, somebody left about the champagne for her. Champagne? Yep, yep. All wrapped up fancy, too. Brought it right up to her. No other hotel around here gives room service like we do. Well, here it is. She's in there all right, and I think I know what happened. What do you mean? Well, if Ethel has a bottle around, it don't last long. Well, something might have happened to her. In her frame of mind. Yeah, we better take a look, friend. Yeah, that's right, young fella. Don't want anything bad happening at the reputation of the hotel. Not like a light. Well, don't just stand there where those towels you're so proud of. All right, over there. Come on. Try to sit up. I can't. They're hurting. Usually, she don't feel like that until the next day. And the bottle's only half empty. Seems somebody left card with it, too. Let me see this. To Carol Gordon. On the day of her triumphant return to the screen. Wait. It's wet towel over there. No time for that, Brooks. See, we have to get her to a hospital. But George, she's only... Only been poisoned. One sniff of this bottle will tell you that. Poison? Somebody else followed her here from the cameo. Somebody who wants to see Carol Gordon dead. We'll return to tonight's adventure of George Valentine in just a moment. Meanwhile, a word about winter driving. If you find that January days are kind of chilly, don't forget. Cold weather is rough on your car, too. 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Someone hires you to trace down an old movie star named Carol Gordon. Even before you can get started, your client is found murdered. You pick up from there and finally locate the once famous beauty in a cheap Skid Row hotel. The payoff there is that someone's tried to kill her too. If you're like George Valentine, you won't rest till you find out why murder is singing such a merry song of mayhem. Valentine, I don't care where you've got Carol Gordon.  Well, you can't blame Lieutenant for hiding her out when she left the hospital. Somebody's out to get her. Now, look, chum boy, I'm not too sure the lady didn't try to poison herself. Yes, so you've been saying with bullheaded regularity. Well, you forget the elevator boy in Crichton's building. He recognized Carol Gordon's picture, put her right on the seat of the crime. Now? Guilty conscience. I want to talk to her. Uh-huh. Maybe you've got an answer for those three strangely out-of-place characters who showed up at the revival of romance in April. Oh, Tony Chapman and Miss Ferris are both movie people. Maybe... maybe morbid curiosity brought them down there. Who knows? Uh-uh, Riley. It seems a little more than coincidence that just when Crichton hired me to find Miss Gordon, those two should decide to take in one of her pictures at the cameo. Also, both Chapman and Miss Ferris were managed by Crichton. And one makes it even more screwy. They just became engaged to each other. And yet they show up at their theater at different times. I don't care how it sounds. Chapman has an alibi for the time of Crichton's murder. He attended in the garage of his department house vouchers for the time. As for Miss Ferris, well, as far as she's concerned, she has no motive. And I'll see a little man who showed up at the revival. The one with a briefcase under his arm. I told you I saw him hanging around the hospital, too. Okay, okay. If and when we find this little gnome, I'll talk to him. In the meantime, you get Carol Gordon down here and fast. Hey, Miss Gordon. My car is parked right over here. There's... there's really nothing I can tell the lieutenant, Mr. Valentine. Well, you just tell him the truth, Carol. And if he growls at you a little, don't let him not sit. There we are. The three of us can fit into the front seat. I know my story sounds a little weak, but I did drop in to see Henry Crichton on a personal matter. Once we were good friends. When I found him like that, I didn't stop to think I hurried down the stairs and out of the building. Yes, sure, I understand. Now, if I can turn around here on the hill, I think it's the quickest way back to headquarters. What's the matter? Hey, George! They're rolling down the hill. Somebody's been mucking around with the brakes. They won't hold. Oh, try to keep it straightened out, George. We're going faster! We're going up on the sidewalk! Hang on. I'm going to crash. It's too close for company. Everybody all right? What about you, Miss Gordon? I'm just shaken up. Good thing I picked out a hidden fence. Looks like somebody tried to get all three of us this time. Yes, doesn't it. Oh, wait a minute. It's Mr. Headquarters. I just spotted someone I want to talk to. Hey, let me through here, will you? One side, please. Hey, you, come back here. A few questions I want to ask you. No, no, no. Let go of me, please. I don't know anything. There's nothing I can tell you. Now, look, Buster, I've been dreaming about you in that briefcase. What makes you pop up all over the place? I've been following you just to see that Miss Gordon was all right. That nothing happened to him. Come on, come on. Who are you? The name is Moody, sir. Walter Moody, you see? Who's my card? Walter Moody, 6th Street Grammar School Principal. I don't get it, friend. I am the oldest and the most faithful member of the Carol Gordon Fan Club. I venture to see the only member after all these years. Are you kidding me? No, she was a fine actress. I have a great big shelf, just full of scrapbooks. Her pictures, almost every line it was ever written about Miss Gordon. Hey, you know, this is just cock-eyed enough to turn out to be useful. I beg your pardon. Would you help Miss Gordon if she were in real trouble? Oh, I'd do anything, sir. Okay, Mr. Moody. Let's begin by taking a look at that five-foot shelf of yours. You mean Carol actually used to correspond with you, Mr. Moody? Oh, yes. My personally. I used to send the information in the news letter to fans all over the country. Hmm. This must have been a big event in their life, according to this communique. My dearest number one fan. Something has happened here today in this beautiful little town that's made me the happiest girl in the world. Soon I hope to be able to tell you all about it. I've always been curious about that, Mr. Valentine. What did she mean? Hmm. Udara, California, December 9th, 1929.  Yep, I'm right here in Moreca. December 9th, Ethel Mills and Anthony Switzer. I can remember them two very well. Well, first couples are married as just as the peace. Anthony Switzer could be Tony Chapman. Why not, huh? Look here, son. What's all the shooting about, anyway? What do you mean, pops? Just last week, a fellow was here named Crichton. He's with a young lady. Long, blonde hair. You want the same information? Thank you for really giving me something to wedge with, pops. Thanks a lot. Naturally, I can't deny it, Valentine. It's a matter of record. Maybe you didn't deny it, Chapman, but you certainly have done everything to keep your marriage to Carol Gordon a secret. Don't make me out of here, will you? When talking pictures came in, Carol simply disappeared. After a while, I thought she was dead.  Don't I know that? She's been engaged to beautiful and blonde Miss Ferris. No one can say I haven't tried to find my wife. When I heard about one of her pictures being shown, I even went to the theater thinking she might turn up. Ah, and what she did, did you follow her and leave a bottle of champagne so she could celebrate her triumphant return to the screen? Well, I don't know what you're talking about. I lost her in the crowd after she ran out. You know, Chapman, you'd fit in nicely as the murderer of Crichton if you didn't have such a perfect alibi. I've been through all that with the police. The attendant downstairs in the garage told me he'd drive in at 12.30. Yeah, I know, I know.  Which I always do, but I'd lost my key. Still haven't got around to getting one, as a matter of fact. Okay, Chapman, okay. I'm just checking. Anyway, now I can work out something with Carol. We'll get a quiet divorce. Tony, I've been waiting hours for you down in the lobby. What in the world are you doing? Well, at Valentine, I'd like to meet Arlene Ferris, my fiance. Tell me, Miss Ferris, you may get a practice to become engaged to men you know are married. What? Tony? Why did you have to do that, Valentine? Arlene didn't know, and there's really no reason why she should. The whole thing might have been smoothed out. What you did know about Carol Gordon, didn't you, Arlene? You must be out of your mind. You and Henry Crichton paid a little visit to Eudora shortly before he was murdered. Arlene? Now, what was the deal? Were the two you're going to shake Chapman down after I located Carol? This isn't true, is it, Arlene? Why should I deny it? It seemed a very good idea at the time. Good lord. Do you think I was infatuated with your worn out boyish charm, your toupee, the caps on your teeth?  What do you think you are? Well, if you two are going to have an emotional wing ding, you probably want a little privacy. Good day. Hello, Tennant. We can use this office and back to the garage. Go on in, Miss Gordon. Tell me, Valentine, why a garage? Why don't you call up and ask me to meet you in a Turkish bath? Oh, please, Lieutenant, the ladies. Ah. Now, what's this all about? Well, I didn't think you'd have any objections to Miss Gordon making a phone call. Oh, for the love of Mike. Why couldn't she have done it from my office? It wouldn't have worked that way. Oh, I... I don't know if I can say the things you told me, Mr. Valentine.  Hated him ever since he didn't lift a finger to help me. When he knew I was desperate. But just do your best, Carol. As an actress, your best is better than you think. I'm sure of it. Okay, here's his number. I'll dial it for you. Well... Here you are. Oh, all right. Hello, Tony. This is Carol. Yes, I know this must be a shock to you. But listen, dear, let me do the talking. Tony, I've been unfair to you all these years. I should have come back and let you have the divorce. It must have been dreadful for you. Couldn't we do that now? Quietly, so that no one need ever know. Then you'll be free. Yes. Meet me in five minutes. On the corner of State McGovern. Please, hurry. Goodbye. Oh, you were wonderful. That ought to get Mr. Chavin down here in the garage with the speed of light. Light? Why don't you try shedding some once in a while, Valentine? There shall be light, Lieutenant, I hope. Now, you ladies stay here in the office. Come on, Riley. Here's Chapman's custom job over here. Well, what do I do? Just stand here and admire it? What's that? Come on back here, Lieutenant. We want to see this act without being seen. How why'd you do that? Just a pious hope. And if I'm wrong, I'll... Wait a minute. There's Chapman there. Back at his car. Ooh, Lieutenant must have locked it anyway. Having trouble, Buster? I'll take those keys, this one in particular. The one you said you'd lost, your fancy alibi. Let go of this. Remember your manners, Chapman. Let Chumboy have the key. What is this? A frame up? Oh, famous last words. Ah, that's the trouble with the elaborate alibis. People are so forgetful. Well, to say it another way, friend, you just put the finger on yourself. George Valentine will be back in just a moment to explain his reasons for naming Chapman as the killer.  But not so with artist Wicks of Beverly Hills, California. When it comes to economy and car operation, Mr. Wicks knows the value of RPM motor oil. Here's Mr. Wicks' statement. It takes a lot of things to keep a car running. One thing is good motor oil. That's why I selected RPM years ago. It reduces where cuts repair bills. RPM motor oil will save where in your car, too, will bring a new economy to your car operation. For this premium quality motor oil, it was developed precisely for modern high-speed engines. Chemical compounds in RPM keep your entire engine cleaner. They protect those finely polished, close-fitting parts. Protect them from corrosion, gum, lacquer, and carbon. If your car is about due for a drain and refill, give it a new lease on life by getting RPM motor oil. Remember, it's better for your car and for your pocketbook. Get RPM at independent Chevron gas stations and standard stations, where they say and mean, we'll take better care of your car. How did George Valentine come to suspect Chapman? Right at the moment, that's a question that's also troubling Lieutenant Riley. Valentine, if I played hunches like you do, I'd be left out of the department. I have to stick to facts. Well, that's the advantage I have, Lieutenant. When a hunch doesn't pay off, there's only Angel here to do the laughing. Oh, I only snicker. How long are you two going to talk shop? For instance, the one hunch about running Carol Gordon's picture brought a lot of other things to the surface. Chapman must have come down to the cameo already to follow Carol if she showed up. He and his lethal champagne. Yeah, he also made a scooter out of my car. Yeah, yeah, quite a mechanic. Old lover boy even knew how to stop the clock and cryton's office at the right time to make his alibi stick. George, I still don't know why you hunched Arlene out of the picture. Oh, she had too good a deal with cryton, blackmailing Chapman to spoil it. Everything would have turned out as planned if Chapman hadn't found out what his business manager was cooking up. Yeah, yeah. Oh, well, don't be so depressed, Lieutenant. I'll try to teach George a healthier respect for facts. You shouldn't be bothering your lovely head with facts, Angel. Not with your corner on the market when it comes to figures. Why, darling? Oh, just stating a fact, sweetheart. Oh, you can say the sweetest things, dear. Well, I've got a great big hunch. My stomach can't stand much more of this soap. Goodbye, kids. Tonight's adventure of George Valentine has been brought to you by Standard of California on behalf of independent Chevron gas stations and standard stations throughout the West. Let George do it, stars Robert Bailey as George with Frances Robinson as Brooksy. Wally Mayer appears as Lieutenant Riley. Tonight's story was written by David Victor and Herbert Little Jr. and directed by Don Clark. Also heard in the cast were Jeanette Nolan as Carol Gordon, John McIntyre as Chapman, Virginia Gregg as Arlene, Howard McNair as Moody, Louis Van Rooton as Gabrenian, and Dick Ryan as the manager. The music is composed and presented by Eddie Dunstetter, your announcer, John Heaston. Listen again next week, same time, same station, to let George do it. This is the Mutual Downly Broadcasting System.


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So, what is up a welcome back again? Maybe. All right, gotta give him a second, right? Maybe 30 seconds to know that we're here. Yep, that's me. That's just a wiggling like that.  Still look choppy. I think it also still looks choppy. Dawn says better take two. Action, Jenny says. Hi, Melinda. We're doing an Elf door hanger. Here's a little Elf that says, I always have to read it. The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear from the movie. And then Garrett, got an easy one. He's doing Jack Skellington with a Santa hat. So, we took this to the craft show this past week and man, those that are die hard nightmare before Christmas folks loved it. Just loved it because, you know, he just makes a big statement. You can see it from far away. And then we had our old Mandalorian one. If you guys have seen that, I think the patrons have seen it. I don't think we have it in our store. Maybe they're doing magic tricks. Is the sound better than the video quality? Sound is still good. Still mess. And I don't know. I don't think there's anything we could do. There's nothing different. Maybe the speed of our internet. You want to check and do a little speed test. See if internet's slow. Nobody's running anything. Everybody go. Yeah, they closed out of what they were doing. You want to go close your stuff with my stuff? But that would be it. I do know. It's happening. I don't know. The sound is good. The video's just about to be worse. So the sound. All right, I don't know. I don't know. Try it one more time. Well, I say, let's just see if it catches up because the sound is okay. And we're just freezing up every now and again. Sound is fine, but the video's all. Just looks like we're drunk. All right. We might be, you know, you never know. We could be Helen. It's better just not matching. So maybe it'll catch up here in a minute. Yeah, I tried to give it more light. Maybe it was struggling with the light. I don't know. I have no idea. All right, well, let's keep working, right? All right, get these to paint it anyway. I guess, I suppose. Mine's easy. Teresa says, go for it. We're going to watch. Yeah, hopefully it'll catch up. And I won't freeze them like any weird faces. That's really what I'm worried about.  Get busy. Make it happen. All right, do this thing. My backer is just all black. Today I was just telling, who was I just talking to online? Teresa, Patricia. Patricia, she said she was excited for the live. I was like, we're ready. We're just sitting around waiting. And now, today we're finally on time. We've had time. There's no rushing around. I had these cut earlier. The mat's smoking. And now we're having video issues. I need like. Yeah, this says she's here. No appointments today. She's watching no matter what happens. I need an audio visual person. That's what we need. I know Melinda. That's what I just said. Look at Garrett. I mean, this was his design. This, the elf one.  I was like, oh, I'm painting the elf one. I thought I was painting Jack because I have to manage the chat over here. All right, we can switch. You wanna switch? I mean, that one's pretty easy. I try to make it really easy. I see all his little words. Yeah, all the words come together. It's not letter by letter. So I thought I was giving you the easy one. Oh, did you? Oh, you're doing me a favor, huh? Hey, did you get, did you tell him about our DTF printer? No, what do I have to say about it? About how it's broken right now? I think you told them that. Oh, we did. It's still broken. Yeah, it's sabbatical. Broke a month ago. Don't get chased and started. Sabotaging. You didn't want it. Kat, he says she knows what it is. She knows what's causing the problem. Oh, what is it? Our massive following is crashing. It's over there. Oh, there's so many followers. Hit that like button. There you go. There you go. All right. Here, Courtney coming in from the other room. She's over there chiming in. She said, do you know how many millions of views we've had if everybody who viewed it subscribed? Yes, had viewed it subscribed. We'd have millions. We'd have millions of subscribers and the server would crash like that. I think it was close. It was close. I get what you're trying to say. So did you guys see that? Christmas and cheer is all one word. So each of them makes, that's gonna make that a whole lot easier to me. I thought I might have to put it together. So I designed it as such. Yeah. I can't tell you guys what a difference it is that Garrett is painting these on Tuesdays. He's learned a lot about how to make the cut files easier. Yes. You can feel our pain. I feel the pain and I respond now before I would hear your pain and ignore it. Yes. Yes. Yes, I hear what you're saying but that's how I designed it. I am sorry. There's no other way. Can't be done. And now I'm like, that is the way I designed it. Ooh, that was not good. I'm gonna change it. Next two, I don't know what's happening. Oh, me too. Me too, me too. You're welcome, Lois. Yes, Helen said think having the letters are all together. Come on, King, get. That nut house one. Helen, we haven't cut the nut house one. Tell me about it. I did cut the nut house one. Wait, what nut house one? The jolly is the nut house one. Yeah, there's a lot to it. I know, Helen. You mean the Griswolds? Griswolds. Christmas vacation. Yeah. Do you have this color rolling? Techie Grandma, check that you have no video intensive apps open in your system tray. What else do you have open? I have nothing else open. Close that. Yeah. That's it. That is all. I think that's it. So maybe that'll help. Right? I do, Lori. Lori said he has the easy one because you always finish before he does. I do. True that. We don't have any handles. We got ourselves ready, but with our pints and, no, I'm close by. Well, I closed one drive. Maybe that will do it. I don't even know why it's here. What are you doing here, one drive? How's it doing, anybody? I don't know. Nope. Nope, now we're frozen all together. Can you guys still hear me? I think you can still hear me. People, can you hear me? I need white. Look at how cute you are. You got your moderator wrench. You got the moderator wrench. Oh, Lois. Helen, I thought I gave a moderator wrench to Helen almost. Jason's already got me. Go and get him. He asked the second Christmas vacation one. Yeah, I know. I know, Helen. It's a beast. Yeah. But we did sell it for 75. Yeah, 75. No questions asked. They were just like, yeah, I don't care. It's a little more expensive. The one lady, though funny this weekend, she bought shitters full. She goes, oh my gosh, I got to have it. I got to have it. She goes, this is going on my bathroom door. It was like your bathroom door. And her friend laughed. They all thought it was hilarious to put it on their bathroom door. Yeah, I was just saying, did you hear that one? I don't think you were standing there. No, I was not. She purchased that one. We're like frozen, frozen. I don't get it. At least, at least the microphone. But it's not ready. The mic isn't registering on the software. Oh, yeah. All right, well, I know you guys can hear us then, right? So just keep talking to us. Yeah. You'll come back before the end. Bring it out, right? Good to see you. Good to see you. Oh, my wife. They got a thank you to Helen for that stand. She earned her stand. Did you see that on Facebook? Yeah, that was cool. And all weekend, we were thinking about how to redo your booth setup to include storage and stuff. And I'm going to try to combine a little bit of that design and a little bit of the design we talked about on Sunday. And we're going to come up with a new booth display slash storage slash material moving card. Really? I need some plates. We got a lot of lessons learned from this year. And we're going to apply them to next year. That was a show. Earlier this year, like our booth redesign. Like the wire grates and stuff, the wire racks are great outdoors, unless it's really windy. Well, they're great for indoors, too. It's just I want to add a little more. Pizzazz. Yeah, I want more interest. And more feeling. We walked around some of the other booths and we were like. I like the roof we did. Yeah. But that's a little hard to set up and take down. And big to carry. So I don't know if I can. Hair that down or not. I guess we'll just have to wait and see as we come up with our new design because one of the things I noticed that people for the indoor booths that I liked a lot had lights in their tents. Not just for Christmas. You could tell they just had lights in their tents. Some people had Christmas lights in there. And then a rug in there. We don't have a rug. I want a rug. I think that'll help make it like a little more inviting. I'll tell you what we learned that we didn't want to do anymore is I had put the 10 by 10 booth space. I had put the metal racks and I did an L so that one flap was hanging on the outside of our booth space. And the other side of the L was on the inside. So it came it closed the walkway a little bit and I had two front panels there, which is great because now you could see the signs, more signs, six right on the front as you're walking by. But it closed the doorway and just enough where people didn't want to walk in, they would peek in. They wouldn't bring their whole bodies in. Yeah, there's like a six foot gap in there, but they'd still lean in and do this.  So I learned that we don't want to do that. That wasn't that great of an idea. And I think we're going to start going double. Face, need more space. Yeah, and I'm saying all this because Helen asked how the, I mean, not Helen, Lois asked how the weekend our craft show went. Pretty good. Yeah, it was pretty good. Friday was great. Being Black Friday, people were there to shop. They came for that purpose. Saturday was pretty good. It just died early. Died at like 3 o'clock to get the news dive. It's an early town, everybody. He's done for the day early, I guess. And then Sunday it rained with a threat of bad weather. So, yeah, that's really hampered things some on Sunday. But somebody came in and bought nine signs. Thank you so much if you're watching. Nine signs, which really helped our day. Yeah. Made our day. Made our day. We had gas money to get home. Made it all the way home, without running out of gas. Kaori, it is extremely laggy for everyone. We tried to fix it. We even went out, came back in, and it still didn't work. So hopefully you guys can hear us. And maybe it'll catch up by the end is what we're hoping for. I'm hoping it catches up. Uh-oh, Jason says a lag appears to be affecting the audio. Oh, Stephanie says rugs can cause tripping. Bad idea. Been there, watched that. So maybe you have to tape it down or just not do a rug. Is there another white rolling? Or should I patiently wait for yours? I have other things I could be doing. I'm just doing a quick code on here. We don't want the red dot. And then should I go up on the internet and play it back in? Well, if you do, we're going to lose it again. I'd have to start over again. What's your vote? Can you guys hear us? Should we reset the internet and see if that helps?  Do a vote. I hate to lose everybody, but I can't imagine they're going to hang around with the video frozen like that. Yeah, your mouth is frozen open right now. I see it. That's attractive. Teresa said she lucked out with a double booth on Saturday. She said, wow, there was an elbow room. Still flow for sales, but it was raining off and on. Yeah, I think that was our Sunday. I'm very disappointed in the live quality today. Well, you know what? I did see last time we got a notice that said danger. Our bit rate was very low. I wonder how to fix that. I don't know. Same thing somebody else said, the rug is a trip risk. Linda says, let's try it. I'm plugging the internet. Take a rubber coated plate rack, mount it to wood, and you have vertical storage for maybe eight signs. You can put on top of a table. Interesting.  Yeah, they can hear us. They can hear us, but they can't see us. All right, well, we'll hold really still for the final shot.  It's fine, bit. Yeah, but it's one frame for every five seconds. Yeah, that's horrible. I apologize, everybody. The software, I think it's that software update that ran right before. That was an OBS update. Yeah, I'm wondering if that was it. Maybe. Well, we'll look at the stats, and then we'll see what we can do to fix it for next Tuesday.  Uh-huh. I get it. I don't know. Jason says, reboot the router. LOL, I will wait. I'm not doing anything but running the thunder. Running the thunder. Tyra says that she's with her audio quality. She said she'll wait. And do we have bad weather? Nope. Helen, it's beautiful outside. Yeah, there's like no reason.


is four, no, it's not 430. According to my Atlanta computer here, it's 430. But all right, let's dive in. So I can't really see how many people are in here. But anyway, I'm gonna assume there's lots of people in here and that's awesome. So thank you for coming in. And I was just gonna dive in. So, all right, topics. I'm gonna explain why this topic and it'll make sense in a little bit. But why people hack? I'm gonna try to cover that to a certain extent. And then I'm gonna talk about some tools I use like Cloudflare, firewalls, and then things you can do with WordPress to secure your site. Little about me, father of four been married for 24-ish years and have four kids from age nine to 19, been in Atlanta almost my whole life. I lived in Grand Rapids for a little while and Birmingham for about a year. So it's changed since 97, 98. So real interesting. I run an agency called Clockwork. I used to run an agency called Sideways 8, sold that and started this one, been running Clockwork for about three years. And then I am an organizer for WordCamp Atlanta. I got Mike is in here too. He's another one of the organizers, but we do have a WordCamp Atlanta, hopefully gonna be in October. We pushed it back a little bit. We were shooting for spring, but it just wasn't gonna work out. But anyway, so that's coming. Keep your eyes open for that. There is gonna be a venue. So, and no, I'm just, it's probably gonna be at KSU or Southern Poly Tech, what used to be Southern Poly Tech. So in self promotion, I have this talk on YouTube. So if you guys wanna just leave, go watch it at home, you can. But anyway, check it out. I've got that in some other videos on there too. And like the talk I'm doing tomorrow, I actually have that one on YouTube also. All right, disclaimer. I am a self-taught networking web guy, like probably many of you are. I'm sure that there's better ways to do this and I'm probably not doing it like the best way, but I'm doing something that tends to work. So I'll just put that out there. I do use a lot of these tips on, I host a, I don't know, about 250 or 300 sites on some on WP Engine, but most I've got about 30 servers on Digital Lotion. And so security's kind of important. If you're on something like WP Engine, they do the security for you and things like that. If you have your own servers, that's a totally different story and you're on your own. So there's a lot of things you need to, if you do something like that, it's important to have some kind of plan. If you just set up a server and never do anything to secure it, you're probably gonna have a problem pretty soon. Why this topic? I was looking for how do other people do this because I was kind of curious.  And to me, that's the last step that you should do. There's a lot of pieces that you can do upfront before you start even dealing with WordPress. And that's what I'm gonna start off with here. So why do people hack? They kind of don't. A lot of people will ask, we use, what's it called? Limit login attempt reloaded, which is a good plugin that keeps track of how many people are logging in. And if they mess up three times, it'll log it for like 60 minutes or so and they can't log in for 60 minutes. And it slows down a hacker. There's not someone sitting there, chances are, there's not someone sitting there typing admin, admin, one, two, three, enter, dang it. You know, and doing it over and over again, they write scripts. They write a script that grabs a list of 1,000 users and then a list of 1,000 passwords.  So it's not, rarely is it a personal vendetta against that website. I mean, I'm sure that that does happen, but the majority of it is just people poking holes like, did they secure this, did they secure that?  So why do they do it? Why not? I mean, I remember when I was a kid, my brother and I sneaked out of the house and rolled a house, thought it was awesome. We had fun, you know, really annoying for the owner of the house, but, you know, we have fun. And that's kind of like, I kind of equate hacking, you know, to that it's just something that people like to do and you can claim, I took this site down, really obnoxious, but that's how it is. And then there is some that's a little more, a little more dangerous, you know, where they're actually trying to get data and sell, you know, credit card information and stuff like that. But I mean, the majority of it are just these little bots that are running and hitting your site over and over and over again. I have to start off and say the first thing and the most important thing for you to do, if you're gonna secure your site is make sure you have a good backup. I once had thought I had daily backups running and then I realized that none of the zip files were, they were all corrupted. And so my backups were useless to me. So make sure you have a good backup. Managed WP has a basically for $0. You can get one backup a month, which if that's not enough, you know, really, but I mean, if all you have is that one backup and it cost you nothing to have that, that's a good thing to do. But if you wanna do daily backups, it's real cheap on managed WP, it's $1.40, give or take. So to me, that's really cheap if you spent so much time in it. So make sure you have a good backup. And if you don't wanna use that, there's a plugin called Duplicator that I use that can give you a backup real quick. Probably it'll take less than five minutes. So that's important. And then most importantly, make sure that that zip uncompresses and you can take that site and get it up and running locally with your backup. So that's kind of like disclaimer there. Just that's the most important thing. All right, Cloudflare, how many of you guys, I don't know if I'm gonna be able to see, but how many of you guys use Cloudflare for DNS? Raise your hand if you use something else for DNS. Couple, all right. I'm gonna just walk you guys through some simple stuff that I do when I set up a Cloudflare or a site on Cloudflare. There's some bot-blocking tools that are really cool. There's some rules that can, where you can block a specific country if you want to. You can also block your login path, basically, based on your country. So if you're always in the United States and no one ever needs to get into the admin side, you might as well set it up where no one outside of the US can get in. So I'm gonna just show you guys how to do that. And I don't know if it means anything, but I mean, lots of people are using it now. WP Engine using it, Convecio, Kinsta, I think is using it. It's becoming more and more common. And I promote it mainly because it doesn't cost you anything to have to use Cloudflare's DNS. So let's dive in here. So I'm logged in here on imlo.co, which is for sale. But I just need to have some kind of domain here. So, but basically when you set up a site on Cloudflare, you always wanna make sure you have the proxy on here and this is not the right IP address for that site. So if you're trying to go to it right now, it's not gonna work for you. But make sure that you are proxying. If you turn this off, you hit edit over here, hit edit and turn that off, you're no longer using Cloud, you are using Cloudflare for DNS, but you're not using it to secure anything because it's just bypassing all of the filters and all that stuff that they have. So make sure you have the proxy on. And then if you were trying to block, let's say, let's walk in, let's say we're getting a lot of traffic from, give me a country. Turkey, thank you. Get a lot of traffic from there. So we would look at it when you'd go to analytics and you'd go over here to security and see, oh look, we're getting traffic from, let's just pretend Turkey here. Obviously, United States only, I've probably the only person that's ever gone to the site. But if we were getting a lot of traffic there, we would wanna stop that. And firewall, the firewall tools here are pretty impressive. So let's go to security. We go over here to the WAF, which stands for web application firewall. And we set up a rule. And why can't I hit add? Oh, there it is, I'm blind. All right, so I'm gonna call this secure, like, doesn't really matter if I spell it correctly. Let's say WP login. So this would only apply if only admins are gonna get to the site. If you have a comments, where people are making comments all the time they need to log in, don't block all everyone, but the majority of the sites that I build are marketing sites where we don't have a blog where there's a lot of comments. And so I normally will set up this rule. So I'll do this rule. I'll do if the country does not equal, I'll get to Turkey in just a minute. United States, if the country does not do that and the path URL path contains WP-login.php. And then I can do a couple things here. The more dangerous thing to do here is to block it. That way nobody can get, it'll block them completely. But you could also use a JS challenge where it'll pop up and say, are you a human? So normally when I'm setting up rules, I'll test them first using the JavaScript thing. And if it's doing what I think it should do, I'll go back and block it if that's the appropriate action. In this case, I'm gonna block it because nobody should be logging in to my website because I don't have a blog where they can comment. So do that. Okay, and then you'll have this little blue dot here that will be there for probably 10 seconds or less. And then basically it's applying the rule there once the dot disappears, your rule's there. Another great rule, blocking a country. If you're getting tons, block these countries. I was getting a ton of traffic from Singapore and there was this thing called pedal bot, which was just hammering my server where it was up to 100% CPU usage. And I was able, I started off first trying to block the bot, but then I just wound up blocking the whole country because it was a mess, but I'll show you how to do both. So real simple country. If the country equals Turkey, then you just block it or do a JS challenge, whatever you wanna do, but this is absolutely free. So if you're not using it, highly recommend it. And then let me show you the blocking based on, like if it's a bot. So you guys, web browsers have, what are they called? They're strings where your agent. So every browser has an agent. And so when you look at your logs, you'll see it was a Chrome, this version, web kit, blah, blah, blah. Bots will also have a string, most of them will. We'll have a string saying what it is. And so if I were getting tons of traffic from Petalbot, which I was, you just go over here and say, block these bots, assuming I'm gonna find more. Because once you start looking at your logs, you'll find, you'll start seeing things and you're like, that looks not good. That looks not good. And you just start blocking them. But you just look for user agent, not equals, because there'll be versions of bots. But you wanna do, if it contains Petalbot, you can either give it the JS challenge, which is the safer one, or block them. To me, it's worth a ton.  At least not that I'm aware of. And Cloudflare just to me does an incredible job. I'll see the CPU on the server just plummet once I start applying these rules. It's kind of addictive if you're geeky like me. On one of the sites I was getting, trying to think how many hits we were getting. But it was over a million hits and just watching that every time I applied a new rule, it just dropped down a little more, a little more, a little more. It was kind of cool. So anyway, Cloudflare is awesome. Start there. If you're not on it, highly recommend it. All right, and actual firewall is also important. I know if you have shared hosting, if you're on WP Engine, if you're on something that does the server, maintains the server for you, you shouldn't have to worry about it. In theory, they would have things blocked. I have my things on DigitalOcean. I spin up servers there using spin up WP. And Cloudflare gives us a couple, not Cloudflare, DigitalOcean gives me a firewall. And I just set up a rule that says block everything except for which two ports? Somebody, yeah, yeah. The web traffic, because I don't host mail on my server, so I don't have to keep port, whatever, I don't even know what they are. Now, 25, 110, what, there's lots of mail ports. All of those can be blocked if you have your own server. Obviously, if you're hosted at Bluehost or something like that, they're gonna have mail on that server and you don't have the rules to do that. But if you are hosting on something like, does Cloudways, does Cloudways give you a firewall? Does anybody know? Any Cloudways people here? We'll never know. So, all right. Anyway, I think something like Cloudways, they're gonna, I don't think they give you a firewall, they may or may not, but it's important to just block the ones you don't need. So, to me, Cloudflare is first, then your firewall, and then we get into lots of things that I'm going to kind of rapid fire hit you with here. So, first, always get NSSL certificate. They're cheap or free at this point with Let's Encrypt. So, and they're a lot easier to install now. I mean, normally it used to be kind of tedious to get an SSL certificate, but a lot of services now you just, you can either pay for it or there's a plugin that does SSL and it'll talk to Let's Encrypt and install the SSL certificate, totally free. So, I recommend that. Secondly, PHP, how many of you guys look at this regularly? Got some geeks over here. So, yeah, if you guys aren't watching this and keeping up with this, this is gonna be a problem. I talked to an agency owner this week, actually, and I said, what are your plans to move to version eight? And he said, I have no plans. And I'm like, oh, okay, let's talk about that. PHP is, I mean, I wouldn't say it's moving fast or anything, but there are, there's always new versions and we're already at the point where version eight is in kind of maintenance mode. They're not adding features or anything to it. It's just a, it's getting security patches, basically. So, I mean, version eight is old. So, if you're on, or it's getting old, it's still what is, I wouldn't recommend going to eight one yet. I don't think plugins are fully compatible with eight one yet, but I mean, you should be targeting eight at this point. That is gonna be a major security problem if you guys, and I'm guilty. I've got plenty of sites where I've gotta fix the theme because they bought a theme on Theme Forest. The person doesn't maintain it and I've gotta figure out how to do that. It's either move the site to a different theme or something like that, but that's really important that you guys keep PHP up to date. I don't really use security plugins in the aspect of, like I don't have word fence on my servers. If I do see activity I don't like or it looks like I'm getting hacked based on what I see on Cloudflare and the logs, I might install word fence. But if you're on shared hosting, I think it's almost a no brainer throw word fence on there or there's iThemes, which I've never used. I know a lot of people like the iThemes security plugin. Word fence to me does a good job, but it does, maybe I'm crazy, which I've been called that before, but word fence tends to suck up a little CPU usage a little more than not having it. So I could be wrong, but I saw about like a 10 to 15% slowdown on processing. I can't prove that that's a true statement, but that's what it felt like. So I don't install word fence unless I get a lot of activity, but one thing I do like about word fence is they took one part of word fence and wrapped it around into one plugin and it's the two factor authentication plugin. That is, if you guys aren't using a two factor authentication, you really should. I know it's a pain in the butt and I'm getting to the point where I have, what's it called, authenticator or whatever where I have like this massive list that I have to scroll through to find the six digit code and it's only gonna get worse and worse as time progresses. But two factor authentication is super important and again, free, it doesn't cost you anything to install that plugin and it will stop a hacker if they get the username and password, they also will need that code. So good plugin. I also use limit login attempts reloaded. I don't know what happened to the original limit login attempts, but the reloaded one's the newer version. And there are a couple of things that I do in there. By default, it sets something that is, I think you get three tries and then you get like 20 minutes then you get locked out for 20 minutes. I go in there and I set it for like a day like because chances are if it's someone trying to get into my site, they're a client of mine, they have my phone number, they have my email, things like that. If they failed three times, it's probably not them trying to get in and I'm a phone call away or they can send a support ticket and we'll all go in and let them out. But I set it to something a little more extreme and if they do that, they come back 24 hours later or two days later and they try it again, I'll set it where it's 40 days or something obscene like that. But it's really cool because it'll log the IP address. So if you're always getting hit from the same IP address, you could do something at the Cloudflare level to block that IP address or that subnet or whatever. I probably don't need to even talk about keeping your plugins up to date to this group of people. If you're here, you probably know the importance of that but I have not seen, I'm trying to think, I think I've only had, I don't wanna say it because I'm gonna get jinxed. Anyway, I haven't had many attempts to hack but I did get one get hacked on my servers and it was just through a plugin update. There's services out there that will run them. I mean, WP Engine does it, GoWP does it or you can hit the auto enable auto update which scares me a little bit if it's a plugin that I'm not that familiar with but if it's something like Gravity Forms because normally when something gets hacked, they will, where's my water? Sorry, getting very thirsty. All right, sorry about that. What was I talking about? Plugins keeping them up to date. Gravity Forms, thank you. So a lot of times when people get hacked, they get hacked by submissions of data. So I always keep Gravity Forms up to date in plugins that I'm real familiar with that I've been using Gravity Forms for 12 years or so and it's never broken anything so I have no problem telling that one to auto update and that's true with Yoast or something like that. Some of the obscure ones, I won't do auto update on them. I'll do those manually but it's a good thing to do. Another thing that I see a lot of unwanted traffic is things trying to hit XML RPC. How many of you guys use XML RPC? I've yet to see anybody ever use XML, oh wait, one person? I want to talk to you later. What do you use it for? Well anyway, I always, okay, so there's a couple different things. What do you use it for? Is it, do you log in through the mobile phone? Okay, okay, yeah, I mean that good use for it. Don't delete it off of the site like I'm about to tell you. That's funny, I've never seen anybody actually use XML RPC and I'll look at Apache logs or IngenX logs, web server logs and I'll see they're just trying to hit XML RPC and probably they're trying to authenticate and that's a way for them to hit and submit username and password in rapid succession and so either there's a plugin called disable XML RPC which I don't like to just add plugins when I can just remove the file and when you update WordPress it won't install the XML RPC but that's a file that's in the root and you shouldn't have that file on there unless you're that guy. So it's just not used that often so be careful though before you delete it make sure you understand what you're doing there but I maybe start with the disable XML RPC plugin and then if you don't get any complaints from anybody then you can remove the XML RPC file. Next, how many of you guys audit your users on a regular basis? Micah does, of course, of course Micah does he probably has a script to do it and that's not, now audit your users because a lot of times websites and I inherit websites all the time a client says my web guy left and can you help and I'll look at it and I'll say why do you have 25 admins and walk them through keeping that clean and there's nothing wrong with editing a user and changing them from administrator to a subscriber all they're gonna do is lose the privileges and they'll reach out to you and say hey I can't edit anything and you'll realize okay well that user is still in use I'll switch him back to admin so always audit your users because and also I don't know if I would say recommend forcing people to change passwords but if you've had a breach and you know your site was hacked you always wanna reset all of the passwords so that's an important thing to do audit your plugins and themes I'll say it, I don't like theme forest I don't like anything that you buy there because it and I apologize if I have those developers in here but it tends to be most of the plugins just aren't updated and they're not maintained maybe you get a good run for a couple years but they kind of disappear make sure that you're keeping them up to date and that they're good plugins avoid dumb plugins I don't know why I have that in there but you should know which plugins to use and not to use I did this originally for my YouTube channel and I was kind of doing it more for people that aren't gonna be going to a word camp but anyway, just try to use plugins if there's only 10 active installs chances are there's probably a plugin that does the exact same thing but it has a lot more users so there's some just be smart and then this one doesn't really matter disable comments if possible a kismet is cool like the fact that you can pay for a kismet and it'll keep the comments clean think about it though, do you really need comments if you're just doing a marketing site I mean, that's just I run an agency and we build websites for site for clients and none of them ever wants people to have comments on the site and so I can disable that there's a great plugin called disable I think it's just called disable comments and you can tell it to disable it on post pages but it'll also do on via XML RPC and REST API so you can stop them because I'll have comments disabled completely on the site and somehow some bot submits data that to me screams disable comments plugin needs to be installed on that one and then lastly I like to use managed WP or some kind of service like that for my backups and for notifications so if a site goes down I set it up where I get notifications when sites are down that's not really a security thing it just comes in handy and I flew through that stuff I'm always worried when I do this if I'm gonna have enough time like this was a 45 minute talk on YouTube and now just flew through that so we'll have lots of time for Q and A but lastly, it's a never ending battle so make sure that if you set something up in Cloudflare go back later and make sure that you still need to block these people or look at your logs and make sure that there is there might be new traffic that you're not aware of so it's important and then that's it so I flew through it but do we have a, I think William you've got awesome maybe questions does anybody have any questions and does anybody completely disagree with me because that'll be a, no just kidding I can't help myself how about the clean talk plugin I use that on every site oh clean, oh for comments spam comments just blocking random is it free? I think there might be a certain number of sites free and then it's paid but I know Melanie uses it to clean talk it's pretty effective okay clean talk it's another option okay, cool all right, next I just wanted to double check when you're talking about using Cloudflare for DNS would that be a complete replacement for hosting DNS records on something like Namecheap? Absolutely, yeah, yep and honestly migrating from wherever Namecheap, like Namecheap to Cloudflare it sounds like a daunting task but hopefully if they can if you can export your records which I know GoDaddy can and probably most of them can you can export them and you can upload it directly into Cloudflare so you should be able to get a carbon copy man, I'm old if I actually use that and you guys know what a carbon copy is you'll get an exact copy of the record so it sounds daunting moving DNSs but it's a five minute thing so and if you can't do that Cloudflare will also try to detect the records too and it does a decent job it doesn't grab every record so if you go down that path and you can't upload the file let Cloudflare do that and then just compare with two screens and just make sure they all match up perfectly so if you use WP Engine how much of the stuff is done for you if you're using WP Engine already? so a lot so like firewalls and stuff WP Engine is going to cover it they're also going to block ports they use Cloudflare if they have a I haven't pushed all of my clients over to it yet but they have I forget what they call it but it's some kind of advanced network in it basically they should just call it Cloudflare basically they're they did that probably in the past year or so they switched over to Cloudflare and so they do a lot of that stuff that I like the I like having access to block that stuff so I mean I like DigitalOcean and stuff like WP Engine does a good job and you're probably safe you know on on that stuff because if you've done the advanced stuff because they're gonna they're gonna block stuff because Cloudflare they're using Cloudflare to do it so man sorry about that go ahead have a comment and a question first of all I completely agree managed WP is amazing we actually use a lot utilize that we have so many different websites that we do that it's so nice to use to manage WP worker to actually just be able to log in to manage WP and access all the websites there and that's what I do to use a lot to go in and update my plugins on a weekly basis I'll just go through on their overview page and just update the plugins which is amazing but the second the question I had that was this sometimes we'll find where we've done a website and we just forgot to mark disable comments when we first started the website so then we start seeing all these spam comments coming in on these really old photos yeah does anyone do you or anyone know of like a plugin does the disable comments plugin worked where we can actually retroactively go back and say hey disable all the plugin disable all the comments on the old photos or what not um I mean disabled disabled plugins will completely delete all the com comments and and get get rid of it um I'm not sure about um if you're trying are you just just trying to retroactively like instead of having to go through eat go to the media library and go to each individual photo and say disable comments if there's a plugin that will allow us to actually go back and retroactively do that if we just forgot to disable I'm not sure I mean I would probably use a kismet for that get get a license for that and then just push the button and let it process all of them I mean it's going it's going to find which ones are which one are flagged as uh spam and which ones aren't and a kismet I mean great service it's and it's pretty cheap I just I just don't I don't need it but a kismet I think is probably the the tool I would use to to do that I was just going to comment to that that when we've had to do that it just gives you the option to reassign comments past ones so if like you need a blanket option you don't have to go through each post it gives you the option to just move them over essentially so I don't know if that made sense keep them coming keep them coming I get some good exercise here I'm going to keep myself slim and tender for Aida hi um I'm an absolute infant and a baby when it comes to doing anything developer or back-end WordPress I'm sorry that I talked or spoke because it was probably a lot of information I'm a graphic designer who has found herself in a position where I'm kind of in charge of things and it's daunting so I have a project that I'm working on and they want to use WooCommerce how would setting up firewalls and managing things like that work when they potentially will have customers who need an account and how do you prevent things like that that's hence the problem um sorry my ear fell off dangerous all right um so if you have WooCommerce chances are you're not going to be able to block any any of the the comments and things like that because I would assume I mean I guess you could um I'm not I don't know if I could answer that question like on on the because I'd have to look at the site and there's not a lot because you have to keep things open you know for for transactions but I mean you're you're gonna have you know the normal ports blocked and as long as you have I mean is it you can get real picky and are all the customers in the United States you know you can you can put a JavaScript challenge on anything that's outside of I mean but that it's it's dangerous that's where to me just my experience is mostly marketing sites you know where where I don't use WordPress as a as a blogging tool with that um and I don't do a lot of e-commerce so I'm sure I'm sure there's someone here that specializes in Woo though um I mean there's Bob uh what's I I'm looking at Bob Dunn I mean he I'm sure he could answer that question um I'm just I don't feel qualified because I just don't do a lot of um a lot of Woo I have a second question can't I'm just gonna okay go ahead what is a DNS so um DNS is uh domain name system um and basically it's I'm gonna date myself here but you know what a phone book is yes it's basically a phone book but backwards so it anytime you go to if you try to go to Fox News or CNN or wherever uh anytime you type in CNN.com and hit enter your computer goes and talks to a domain name server um and it says hey I'm trying to get to CNN.com what uh what server is that on and it gives you the IP address because we're not we can't remember IP addresses it's a lot easier to type in CNN as opposed to 192.168.37 you know like so so it's just a way to translate human words or I guess vice versa IP addresses to words you know so it's just it's just a mapping mapping system thank you so that was a good question because I didn't know what that meant for a long time any other questions I think we're good okay all right well thank you very much everybody


So my topic or presentation today will be mostly about the use case of point cloud processing using AI but before we go into the use case themselves we just go for some baseline terminology so we are all on the same page. So what even is AI? I think that this year everybody heard term AI all over the place from chat GPT to other language models but in the fact artificial intelligence is just a field that deals with development of intelligent systems. How we go about it there are different ways but most used technology is machine learning and that means that we need quite massive annotated data sets to train our algorithms to to get to the end results. Again in the machine learning there is again variety of different tools or algorithms and most state of the art these days are based on the neural networks with multiple layers so we actually have deep neural networks and deep learning. So most of the use cases that we will be looking at today have been done using deep neural networks and deep learning. Usually the processing goes like that. So first we get data acquisition then the pre-processing, geo-referencing and matching is done in the softwares from usually sensor manufacturers. Here one thing to note is that if we have matching of data that isn't done properly so that two flight strips aren't tightly matched together those can also reflect in classification and other derivative products so it's really key point here that we have to generate as good pre-processed data. Another thing to consider here also is that depending on the sensor manufacturer and the quality of the point cloud how much scattering coronoys is in the point cloud it also influence the quality of the end results. So after we get the raw data then we do the classification where we basically segment every individual point into the corresponding categories. We have a variety of pre-trained models that were trained on vast amounts of data from different sensor manufacturers from different geographical regions from Europe, North America, South America, Africa also Asia and in that way we can create general AI that is applicable for most datasets, sensors and in different geographies. So for some use cases this is already the end delivery but a lot of times we want to basically extract some additional insight out of the data so therefore we do some sort of vectorization for example to detect single trees to calculate how much area is covered by a tree canopy or to do railway inspection or inventory generation. So last thing before we jump into the use cases would be quality matrices so it is really important to consider what quality matrix should we use for our use cases. So we can use from accuracy, a one-scores, intersection over unions and it's really critical that before we are going into the projects we determine what is the most suitable matrix and what is also the threshold we want to achieve. So for some use cases the speed of processing or delivery is more important than absolute accuracy so it really depends on the use case so we have to think about this beforehand. Also one thing to notice that everybody would like to have 100% accuracy in the classification but to be frank 100% is practically inachievable or for human annotators or for machine learning systems or if it is it's prohibitively expensive to really check each individual point to have the correct, correct annotation. So let's take a look at few use case examples. So one of the most common ones that we also do mostly is just large area, lighter mapping projects here usually. We are processing nationwide or region-wide projects for topographic mapping. One key thing here to remember is that with use of AI we can basically process large projects quickly and also with use of AI and machine learning we can scale our processing significantly so we can rent out tens or hundreds of GPUs to do the processing as fast as possible. Another thing to consider also is that in certain countries there are restrictions about the moving data outside the specific geographical region so therefore we can also deploy our algorithms to the country to decide from which data cannot live and additionally if there are some national security questions about it we with use of AI can make it happen that no human needs to see the data that isn't authorized to see the data which can also have huge implications in certain security and defense applications and in terms of categories we classify standard categories such as ground, vegetation, buildings that are segregated in rooftops, roof object, walls then in terms of infrastructure wheels so the power lines, wires, towers separated in low and high voltage ones and railroad infrastructure. So the second use case where the adaptability of category definition comes in places for example rock face mapping so usually classifiers for ground classification do not classify overhangs as a ground as when we will be generating elevation models we would get some artifacts over that but for that particular client the request was that also overhangs were classified as ground points so what we did with the client is that we just pick few small tiles annotate them manually to correspond the new definition of the ground category according to the specifications of client do a bit of retraining of our pre-trained model and with that we got a classifier that was able to classify ground according to the specific definition of the ground for that particular client. The next thing is LOD so level of detail to building modeling so as already mentioned in slides beforehand a lot of times we do not stop at point cloud classification but want to go to vectorization or some sort of compression of the data in this particular case we are automatically generating 3d level of detailed one to building models and also exporting footprints of each individual building the same technology or algorithms obviously trained on different training data set can be also applied to different platforms for example mobile mapping where we can automatically filter our denoise moving vehicles stationary vehicles pedestrians detect curbs poles etc and again this is then a base for follow-up vectorization of the objects that client may be interested in one of also really great use cases with the whole society moving more greenery greener is to use slider for forest management to generate detailed forest inventories to help forest owners or managers more easily and accurately manage for us this may be in a nationwide forest or in plantations or even it applies to urban forestry so for example currently most of the cities at least in Europe are trying to follow the green space rule where from each building one should see at least three trees the area under canopy has to be greater than 30% and the list 300 meters should be to the closest green space so in this particular use case we have lighter data of of municipality which was scanned multiple times and with it detailed analysis of each individual tree in the municipality over the years and therefore the municipality administration can then follow closely how much the tree canopy or tree count is shrinking or growing inside the municipality itself similar tingles applies to mining applications where we can do from volume calculation change detection monitoring and reporting and exploration one particular interesting use case is analysis of drill holes in open pits where basically the drill holes were drilled and then scanned with a scanner and and client want to get in detailed analysis of which drill hole was the depth what's the diameter inclination azimuth and other attributes and this can be done completely automatically in streamlined processing fashion so all of those services and use cases can be done we are three ways through our services one is with use of web application the other thing for a larger projects is processing as a service where we do batch processing and the third thing is that we also offer on-premise deployments and integrations via REST APIs SDKs or command line interface so lastly we'll just take a brief look at our web application so to done the processing via web application you basically define the processing flow all AI capabilities are defined as processing nodes also additional analysis tools can be connected and in that way when you press run we can process entire data sets and also if this is happening on our web app we are scaling up the infrastructure behind the scene for you so the processing can be done as fast as possible another thing we also offer via web app is to offer retraining of the of the models so you can create your own annotations via web app run the retraining algorithms and generate new AI that is customized for you and less functionality that I want to highlight is our quality control and quality assurance collaboration tools through which you can annotate point clouds easily to the web app share nodes between team members and also assign tasks to each individual annotator working on the data set and also monitor the progress of it so to conclude my presentation the key advantages of using AI and machine learning systems are that they can do fast processing that is scalable we can offer seamless integration to your workflows or information systems it handles data in safe fashion we also have unparalleled category diversity number of categories those categories also can have dynamic category definitions and last we also with use of AI can get always consistent results so if you have large manual annotation team then each annotator would do annotations slightly differently but with use of single algorithm to do all the processing the definition of everything is the same so with that I would like to conclude if you want to try it out you can go to our web page and try for free running the processing and if you have more questions you can visit us at boot in hall 27 boot number 16 so thank you


Hey beauties I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today and today you're getting two videos. This is part two of my skincare updated routine. If you haven't watched part one yet you might want to watch that one first and then come back to this video. But in this video I'm showing you my full facial treatment experience while going to Mary Scott skincare. Mary Scott skincare is an esthetician that I've been going to. I've had two treatments thus far and I'm also using her own skincare line and that has changed my skin tremendously. In short if you are new to my channel this is how my skin used to look just about a couple weeks ago and now this is my skin now. Need I say more? So now that I have your attention let me show you exactly what Mary Scott did for my skin. Today I am at Mary Scott skincare to get a facial. I'm so excited because my skin has been very irritating lately and summer is coming and I don't want my skin to continue to look like this. So I'm going to do whatever Mary suggests and hopefully my skin will look a lot better at the end of this.  Hi my name is Mary Scott. This is Mary Scott skincare and I've been an esthetician for 20 years and I specialize in hyperpigmentation, acne, anti-aging, scarring and today I'm going to work on Bianca. I see that she's got active acne, hyperpigmentation, scarring. How I'm different between other places is I teach you how to take care of your skin because if you're understanding why you're breaking out what's breaking you out and you understand why and how to take care of it home you're going to clear much quicker because you can't take me home. Yeah I know right?  Busted. Busted. So the number one reason why people get acne it's um from your parents so it's genetics. Number two is stress in hormones and number three is salt intake. Do you do dairy products? I'd actually just cut it out this month to see what would happen. Oh good. I didn't know it's a huge change but you will. Yeah my main thing is cheese not so much milk but yeah. Do you drink coffee with dairy products in it? No I don't drink coffee. Okay perfect well the reason why people say oh coffee can cause acne because it mimics stress so if you drink coffee just don't drink coffee to the point that you get like that jittery feeling. So yeah so good. I'm going to put on an indelic acid it's a 30% I use my own skincare line and I also use vivante so I'm going to give you a fan you probably won't feel much go ahead and hold this and this is going to be on your skin for about two minutes okay okay so this is a type of exfoliation but it's also going to give you that nice glow. Help me kind of do extractions today. So I'm going to take off the indelic acid. We're not going to like me for about 15 to 20 minutes if that and then you'll love me again.  Now this next part I decided not to film because it's going to get a little graphic she gave me this ball to squeeze for the pain and she's going to use that tool to basically pop all of my zits one at a time so one side has like a needle and the other side is used to extract all the bad stuff it is pretty painful but I needed my skin to detox so I'm spraying peptides minerals and some aloe vera to calm down her skin after all the fun extractions I just did beauty is pain now I'm going to do some high frequency which kills bacteria she's really red right now because I did extractions but this is going to go away mixture of aloe vera which is helps with acne and redness it's healing and calming with the combination of vitamin c which is brightening you okay you want to feel it oh cool you said it's aloe vera and vitamin c this is the face wash when you have makeup on I'm going to want you to wash your makeup off with this and then wash your face I don't want using any scrubs or brushes or anything because unfortunately subconsciously you're going to try to scrub and rub in other areas that are hyper pigmented and you can make microscopic scratches and make the area darker so I just want you to use your hands and this is a mandelic acid this is a derivative of better almonds so it does three things it kills bacteria it brightens hyper pigmentation so it removes hyper pigmentation it also moves dead tissue so you have a glow more even skin tone it's good for wrinkles minimizes pore size so when you use this it's a little dropper you can either put it on your hands or you can put it on your finger like this and put a line on your finger from here to here you're going to use the line and just thin like this okay you're going to take it get messy with your fingers always start with your forehead because the thickest part of your face and then your cheeks outer in okay so forehead outer in and notice that I didn't do around the mouth the corners of your nose and around the corners of your eyes because it's the thinnest part of your face these are all water soluble products so they'll still move through your cells about a half an inch over through your cells but if you always put the medications or products with things that are going to you know fight acne or anti-aging it's going to burn okay so it does get there so and then you blend it through you can blend it the top you don't add more product to the top of your nose and tap around your chin kind of under here like that so forehead like this okay okay i'm going to put a little sulfur on you it kills bacteria just a little okay and you always wait for products with medications to dry so like brush your teeth or floss and then you can apply moisturizer okay but for right now i want you to get dry and tight in these areas so you can moisturize around your eyes around your nose and around your mouth okay i'm going to moisturize you a little bit because we did do a lot of stuff okay it'll be nice and cooling thank you you're welcome it was so nice to meet you oh nice to meet you too and then you can come back for another torture session whatever it takes to get clear skin tired of this acne so i'm excited to see what all of your magic potions will do and thank you so much because this this has always been my biggest insecurity so if we can clear all this that'll be so it's red but it looks clean it does it does look clean awesome okay thank you you're welcome so that concludes my facial my skin feels super clean right now she extracted everything i will admit that is a pretty painful experience but as i say beauty is pain so i'm willing to take the pain so that the acne is officially gone so take a good look at my skin because hopefully you will never see this acne again and everything's just gonna get better and better and better so stay tuned for my updates and i'll see you guys next time hi so Bianca's back at Mary Scott skincare and i'm Mary Scott um so i just cleansed her face did extractions and her skin looks so much better it's brighter she's doing a really good job at home care and i bumped up her regimen um because she can actually use the products a little more often which is going to help the progress of her skin and i'm going to put on a chemical peel she's just going to get more skin movement drier lighter brighter her home care products will work better and it's a combination of salicylic acid and lactic acid and i'm going to put it on her right now and it's going to be on her skin for about three hours and the importance of knowing what to do at home knowledge is everything because if you understand what's going on with your skin and how to take care of it home your skin is going to change and her skin is changing it looks great so you're going to feel some tingles it's going to feel really itchy um and that's going to last about four to six minutes okay how you doing okay you're okay i know pain is beauty better sure it's gonna go away i had to make sure to keep on the chemical peel for at least three hours before applying any makeup or rinsing it off and then on my third visit to Mary Scott skincare we did another chemical peel and i recorded that one as well so make sure you go to my instagram today if you guys are watching it's on the day that i posted it and you could see what mary did to my skin in my instagram story so follow me at miss bianca renay to check that out and also make sure you follow mary at mary scott skincare mary is also offering 20 off your first booking of your appointment at mary scott skincare and she's giving you 20 off any of the products that you're looking to buy from her skincare line as well so make sure to put all the information below in the description box thanks for being here throughout my entire skincare journey i'll make sure to keep you updated on instagram twitter and snapchat at miss bianca renay so i will see you guys next time thanks for watching bianca renay today


For Aklavya, the model is pretty much the same. One important change is that we never do live. We never ever do live. We only do offline. So we don't have online mixer at all. So what we do is we put a cassette in the camera and we record the video of the person. But because we are also blessed with a studio which has the online editing facility, we always take that cassette also. So we take that cassette. Now you will ask me the question, why do you require that cassette? That cassette is for the other camera recordings. So for example, somebody is asking a question. Now this camera will not record that. So I need that video. So that is taken by that other camera, cassette, and also the points at which the online editor has switched between the cameras. And the writing on the paper is also not captured by this camera. So these two things are taken from the mixed video. The slides which are there, because we work in open source, we get all the slides from the faculty. So the slides are inserted in video as images. So we don't require the online editing process to get where the slide is exactly. But in times like if he's showing some website or if he's showing some other demonstration or an animation which is, then it has to be given to us again and then we can insert it. So this is kind of a slightly tedious process because we have to keep a tab on when is what happening kind of thing. So yeah, question. The slides given by the faculty, you are putting in the editing. So the online editing, on that time, the movement of mouse and all things are coming. Everything is captured. But in editing, you are direct putting the slide. So the motions and the indications or some, so not captured. Online editing, we rely on the expertise of the faculty. Suppose I am talking about this photo, I am doing this and it is already captured as a video. But in our type of editing, the editor has to put an arrow here and rotate it here. Or editor has to put an underline here or put a square box here and flash it or whatever to grab that. It is an additional work of the editor to be done. And we deliberately wanted to do that because sometimes the slide which are prepared at the time of lecture are having some problems. Sometimes the fonts are small, sometimes they are not up to the mark, sometimes the colors are different. So we just take that lecture as it is. After the slides come to us, we again redo the slides if required. Sometimes the drawings are very done in a very small lines, thinner lines. So they are not able to see it outside. We redo the slide and then we again reconstruct that. But the pain is there of reanimating the entire sequence in which we do sometimes. So that is another one. Also the output is different. For example, all you people are giving CDs and DVDs as output which are video essentially. One more output what we are attempting right now is a HTML based output of the content which will ensure a video in one corner. The table of contents of all the slides presented in that lecture below the video and the actual slide also being shown on the right hand side. So which is done by a software called Microsoft producer which will give you this option. It is a very interesting tool. Hello citizens of India. 59 years back. So this is the format what is being done after we run this particular video editing through Microsoft producer. Now you will appreciate the fact of only recording the video of the person. Now you can see here we cannot show the slide in between. So that is why we only require the video of the speaker. The slide is here and this side is converted to HTML format. The advantage is that I can actually this is not an image now. I can actually copy from here now. So this is HTML. And here is the table of contents on the left. So if I do not want to see this particular thing I just want to hear about what is the code fee stamp. Then I can click here and the video will start from this point onwards. You can pay the fee by getting a code fee stamp of 10 rupees. So this linearity is also very important because we feel that the user should be able to go according to their own pace. It is not necessary in video CD what happens is we have to go by forwarding, revinding and attempting n number of times to get to the exact point. So we thought this was a better idea. So similarly you can just go any point and then it will stop there. So this is the Microsoft producer way of doing it. So this was one more additional type of production process.


So Lauren says, my boyfriend taking forever to do any house project, how can I talk to him without he felt I am pushing or not appreciating him? Well, one of the things that you can do is you can do what I call framing. And so I talk a lot about framing in my Love Frames toolkit and some of the videos that we've done before. And basically framing is where you talk about things that you like, you talk about things that turn you on, you talk about things that make you feel womanly or appreciated, you talk about things that make you feel loved, right? And you do these in not in a manipulative way where you're like, you know, I like a man who, you know, does all the housework when I tell him to do the housework, you know, but in a loving way. And especially in a way when he's done something, right?    But it just like, it's such a turn on seeing you, you know, do things like that for me and for us and for this household, like it's just, I don't know, there's something that I just love about it. And it's just so hot, you know, and you can talk about things in that way, right? And if you frame things enough, and those kinds of ways, it'll eventually either one, he'll start if you're not doing it in a manipulative way, right? If you're not doing it in a way where you're like, you know, obviously coming in, and the only time you ever appreciate him, and, you know, tell him that you find him attractive and that you tell him, you know, things that you like about what he is or what he's doing, if you're just doing it in times where it's clear and obvious that you're trying to manipulate him into doing things, he's he's going to feel like you're manipulating him, right? But if you're doing it a lot, and you're doing it all the time, right? And you're doing it in different senses, not all the time, but like, enough where it's in various different situations where he's doing things, and you're appreciating him, you're appreciating him for being a man, you're appreciating him for the things that he does, you're telling him that, you know, things that he does turns you on, or that you like it, or it makes you feel loved, or it makes you feel womanly, and you're doing it in a variety of different situations, that's a part of how you communicate with him, then it can be a really powerful thing, because you'll start kind of taking note of the different times when you say that, right? And he'll be like, oh, yeah, you know, she like really liked that, I don't, you know, I don't know, I just know that she likes it when I do this, or when I do that, and he'll start doing it more and more and more, you know, if you're doing that on top of the other things that we talk about in the program, if you're doing it, and you're still being needy, and you're doing all these things where you're kind of pushing him away, then he's not gonna want to do it, right?   And that's the space that he needs to be coming from when he's doing those things, not, maybe I just went off on a rant there about all that, but that's how you do it, is one, you do what we talk about in all this stuff that we've been talking about, not just in this video, but some of the other ones, and two, you use framing, and you set up frames to talk about how attractive it is when he does that kind of stuff, and how much you appreciate it, and how much it feels, it makes you feel like you're being taken care of and loved when he does things like that, right? It's a love language, it's a acts of service love language, and so you can talk about it in terms of that.