Now, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. Roma Wines, present. Suspense, tonight Roma Wines bring you Mr. Elliot Reed, as star of Return Trip, a suspense play produced, edited and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines, those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live. To your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. Yes, right now a glassful would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you Elliot Reed, in a remarkable tale of suspense. There's someone to see you. Yeah? This is Superintendent Andrews of the State Institution. Oh, what do you got there? I've set up a dictaphone out in the hall, careful of the wire nurse when you close the door, please. The doctor said... Yes, yes, I'll make it as brief as possible. You may go now, nurse. Very well. Oh, do you mind if I hook up this microphone at the head of the bed? Suit yourself, fella. Well, it was a choice between a dictaphone and a stenographer, and I figured that in your condition... I don't feel too bad. Well, go on, ask your questions. No, I understand you were driving the bus. Tell me what happened. You mean I can tell it in my own way? That's right. Great. I had an uncle once, you know, that was a writer. He wouldn't have gone near this kind of a story, though, with a 10-foot pen. No, he went in for happy endings. Uncle Mort wouldn't even have liked the beginning of this one. Kind of dreary like up there at the asylum that afternoon. You remember, there had been quite a snowfall the week before, and far as the eye could see, everything was a dirty gray, like a corpse that's been waiting too long for the undertaker. Well, around four o'clock it got so dark, the lights had to be turned on in the asylum. And then the wind started moaning like a lonely banshee. Fine day for a murderer, as the fella said. There were three passengers sitting in the bus when I went outside for the return trip. Two men and a woman. I ought to call her a girl, because she wasn't really much more than that. Anyway, these three passengers all had returned tickets, and I went down the aisle collecting them. Tickets, please. Can I have your tickets, please? Driver, driver, how soon do we start? Right away, miss. But we're two minutes late already, driver. Oh, these little jerk-water bus lines never keep to their schedules. Now we'll never get out of these mountains before that blizzard lets loose. Can I have your ticket, please, Mr. Oh... You really think there'll be a storm? Sure, sure it can't fail. And, lady, when they have snow up in these godforsaken mountains, well, this morning on the bus, coming up, a man was telling me... Well, here we go, folks. One bag was sitting right across the aisle from the girl, the second row from the front. Halfway back in the bus at the third passenger, all huddled up in his overcoat. He didn't open his trap. Well, that was the picture as we swung out onto the highway for the return trip. This guy in back of me seemed to be itchy to start a conversation with somebody as soon as we got rolling. Well, might as well get acquainted, miss. 50 miles before we get down to civilization, you know. John Willard is the name. I said, uh... Oh, I beg your pardon. Are you speaking to me? Well, yes. I'm afraid I was... Yeah, sure, sure. These visits to the asylum, they're always depressing out there. Well, this is my first time. Oh, some friend? My husband. Oh, well, now, that's too bad. I hope he... Hey, what's that? Some kind of siren. Yeah, that's the asylum alarm, all right. The driver for what? One of the inmates must be playing hide-and-seek with the keepers. What happens every once in a while? Gosh, what if it's my brother? Oh, he the bustin' out kind? Well, it kind of upsets him to see one of the family, but then if we don't come to see him, it upsets him even more. And I see what you mean. Do they always catch them? Well, they tell me the place has never lost a customer yet.  Well, I mean, it would be better than seeing him as he was today. Anything would be better than... Hey, listen. Hey, that's a police siren. Sounds like they're almost on top of us. Yes, there they are, there they are. Look out, look out, they're going to pass us. Pass nothing, they're flagging me down. Hey, just keep your seats, everybody. They're guards. With rifles. Anyway, we're looking for somebody. Yeah, we heard the asylum alarm. Is someone... You know anyone along the road? Not even a jack rat. Officer, who escaped? Greg, Albert Greg.  Hey, Holly, take yourself a walk down the aisle and keep your rifle ready when you look behind those back seats. Are you kidding? When was this coming out party? I don't know, maybe as much as a couple of hours ago. Does this Greg have a gun? Can't guarantee he hasn't. But it was a file that sprung him. A tiny steel file. Must have been working away at the bar since the day he was committed a month ago. His stay was short. Nobody back here. Okay, now, check the gents for identification. You know how it is to drive, you can't take chances. Oh, of course not, here's mine. Huh? Oh, okay, Dr. Andrew. Uh, your name, Frank Keniston? You're going to read, count you? Friendly, cost, ain't you? Well, that's the first Pete that passenger has let out. I was beginning to think he was a deaf mute. Yeah? Well, here, driver, you can have this stuff back. Oh, thanks. John Willard? Huh? Yes, sir. Okey-doke. Come on, Dutton, let's scram. We got to find Greg before he finds anybody. Yeah. Hey, driver, you can turn around now and go back. Go back? Go back? Why? Oh, no, no. This Greg is a killer. What I mean is when the mood strikes him, he strikes. Well, what's that got to do with us turning back? Didn't I tell you this man kills even without reason? Now he's got plenty of reason. He's got to get out of these mountains, but quick. If he's down the road, there are lots of ways he could stop a bus. I say turn back. But that blizzard's rival will break any minute now. We could be snowbound up here for days. And if I have to spend another, even a night, one night in that asylum, so help me, they'd have to keep me there. Oh, listen, driver, listen to me, please. Just a second, Mr. Willard. You're just one passenger. There are three. Well, let's take a vote. What about you, Miss? I'd, whatever you say. Mr. Keniston? I say keep going. That settles it. Hurry up, Denton. Wait a minute. What does this killer Greg look like? What, description says slight build, weight about 140. Dark hair, brown eyes, 27 years old. Denton, get the lead out of your britches. But you know, I still... We warned them, didn't we? Now, if they meet up with him, it's their funeral. Yeah. Well, we can take care of ourselves, fellas. After the guards left, I really set that bus to Roland. Out of the mirror up above the driver's seat, I could see that the girl was plenty scared. But she had nerve, I'll say that for her. When we slid around some of those snow bank curves, her lips would be drawn so tight the lipstick had a white border. But she didn't say boob. Willard, the windbag across the aisle from her, gave up trying to draw her into a conversation. And as for the third passenger, that English guy, Keniston, sitting halfway towards the back there, he kept acting like a clam afraid of losing its oyster. Might as well have had lock jaw, if you get what I mean. Well, we hadn't gone more than another mile or two before the wind started to rise, and kept it up until you had thought all the devils in hell were trying to break loose. It got black as the inside of a tomb until the snow started to fall. But with that wind whipping it around, it didn't exactly fall. Mister, that's what I call a blizzard. This is getting on my nerves. What have we got here anyway? A collection of zombies? Somebody say something! I was just going to say... You were going to say that the weather is rough, yeah? And she can say that again. But that isn't what I was going to say. No? What then, lady? It occurred to me why the guards asked for identification. Huh? The description of Killer Gregg, slight build, 140 pounds, dark hair, brown eyes, 27 years old. What? It's a remarkable thing. That description would fit you, Mr. Willard. Huh? Oh? And Mr. Keniston, too. What's that? Me? That's a peculiar thing. Isn't it, driver? Yeah. Come to think of it, both of them could fit that description. And I've also heard that he's got a very soft face. Almost like a woman. What do you think, Mr. Keniston? I don't happen to feel like talking. Yeah? But personally, I think the more I think of what she said, the more remarkable it becomes. Yeah? She's got something there. Only remarkable isn't the word. What do you mean, Mr. Willard? This man Gregg may be insane, but he's not dumb. Now put yourself in his place. He knows he hasn't got a ghost of a chance making a getaway in the asylum clothing sea, so he borrows the wardrobe and identification of some stranger. Do you follow me? We're way ahead of you, Willard. It wouldn't be difficult for a killer. Say not, but that still isn't the end of his problem, see? He's fighting against time. Yes. He's got to get out. He's got forsaken mountains down to civilization before they can throw a noose around the whole area. And he knows. He knows that he's brought back alive. He'll be wearing a straight jacket until he's old as Methuselah. You've got quite an imagination, Willard. Yeah? Well, thanks. Now the odds that Gregg will be able to get himself transportation are mighty slim, except... except for this bus line. So let's suppose... You've got a great imagination, all right. They've got it all figured out. A bit too fat if you ask me.  Really, Keneson? Well, I'll leave it to the lady here in the driver.  Well, search me. There were times, long periods of time when Jim didn't either. My husband, I mean. That was the terrible part of it. He'd be just like the old days, and we'd be so happy together. And then all of a sudden, just without warning, he... Oh, I heard a lot of cases like that. Well, they tell me that sometimes it takes half a dozen of those special doctors, those... Psychiatrists? Yeah, psychiatrists. Yeah, well, sometimes they got to put a person under a microscope and study them for a long time before they can be sure one way or the other. And many of the time they make mistakes. Well, I heard it one time when... Nobody's going to talk like that about me. It's Keneson that's been acting crazy. And I'll bet it wouldn't take a half a dozen psychiatrists to do this, too. What's that? An ambulance! Stop it! 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After the avalanche struck, I just sat there gripping the steering wheel sort of stunned. There wasn't a sound except for the wind. And that was muffled by the snow barrier that packed us in. Even on the far side, the bus was buried up to the middle of the windows. Well, all this was only a matter of seconds, I suppose. And then suddenly the quiet was broken by the most gosh-awful racket. It was as if somebody had up and given the signal for my passengers to go completely nuts. Get me out of here! That did it. He's the one. He's the one! Lucky, I saw him get that fire axe. It's what the district attorney likes to call a lethal weapon. Step back, he's coming too. Time up. You'll find a rope in the dashboard compartment. Get it for me. Driver, I'll report you for this. You will, huh? I was going to smash your window so we could get out of here. Oh, yeah? Sure. What did you think I... Oh, so that's it, huh? Here's the rope, driver. Wait a minute, you can't do this.  I'm not a killer, Greg! If you're innocent, mister, you can prove it to the authorities.  Just the same.  Hey, missy. You feeling all right? No. I'm not crazy, driver, but I guess I was a little. Actually, there's no proof that killer Greg is on this bus. Well, if you put it that way... That's all my fault, and I'm sorry. My only excuse is that I was just so upset by seeing Jim, my husband... Well, I still say that... No, no, no. Now we've got to start acting like rational human beings. Let poor Mr. Willard up from the floor. Thanks, lady. All right. When I'm warning you, Willard, no funny stuff. Oh, snap out of it, driver, will you? We've got to get out of this mess. Hand me that axe. Oh, all right, all right, then use it yourself. Smash your window so we can crawl out. Willard, even you don't look that dumb. What makes you think the windows won't open? Then open one. What for? To let in the blizzard? But we've got to get out of here, driver. Not me. It would take a bear to make even a city block in that windswept hell. We can't stay here. Why not? We're not freezing yet. The driver's right. Our best chance is to sit pat until the storm lets up. Yeah, but what if it doesn't, huh? What if it lasts longer than we do? What then, huh? What then? What then? Lo and your top won't do any good, Willard. Nobody's ever confused me with Pollyanna. But things could be worse. This is as good an eagle as any, and if and when the weather clears, well, we can send out a party for help. Well, maybe a road clearing crew will come to our rescue. Yes. Yes, I... I suppose that's the same thing to do. Wait here. How about you, Willard? You also decided to do the... same thing. I don't like that crack. You want more like it? Look, we're not starting that again. Now, it's going to be a long night, and we might just as well make ourselves comfortable and try to get some sleep. We'll cut it out.  It's the only one that runs the full width of the bus. You can use your laprobe for a quilt. All right, driver. I want to apologize again to everyone for the way I behaved. I'm casting suspicion. Need any help? No, thanks.  Please believe that I... Why? What's the matter? Why are you staring at the floor? Well, say something. Look. Tiny steel foil. The one that Greg... After the avalanche hit, there was a mad scramble. One of you lost it then. One of you is Greg. Killer Greg. We just let her wear herself out, kicking and banging on the door. Nobody said a word. Willard and Keniston just stared at me and at each other. By and by, the girl stopped her fussing. And then she stood and stared at the three of us in rotation. It would have made her flesh crawl. Outside, the blizzard was getting worse, if possible. Finally, I reached into the watch pocket of my pants and brought out the old timepiece. What? What time is it, driver? I broke the crystal. It still says a quarter of four. It's... it's five-thirty. Only an hour and a half since we started out. An hour and a half. Five-thirty in the afternoon. The very best we're stuck until morning. Fourteen. Sixteen hours. Might as well be forever. Look, miss, we just got to make the best of it. I still think you ought to go back to the rear seat. Can't sleep? If you can. Willard, the driver and myself will be keeping a rather close eye on each other. In the light of recent developments, you'll be all right. Driver, give me that axe. Let her have it for a protection. Sure. Sure, let her have it. Yes. Yes, give it to me. Okay. You holding on to the file, too? Of course she is. The file could also be a lethal weapon. Well, she took the axe and the file back to the rear seat with her and we all sat down to wait. Those were the longest seconds of the longest minutes of the longest hours that ever... Well, somehow it got to be nine o'clock, ten, eleven. Finally, it was midnight. We were fought against sleep with the cold numbing you and the wind lulling you. Sometimes, even the fear of sudden death can't win against those odds. Time and again, the girl's eyes would close just for a second and then they stayed closed longer and her head nodded and her body slumped over against the corner of the seat. I got up and started down the aisle. And did you see she's asleep? Where are you going? Her lap rope slipped to the floor. I was going to pick it up and cover her so she wouldn't freeze. Any objections? I'll do it. Oh, no, you won't. Go ahead, driver. You see, Keniston? Willard thinks I should do it. That makes it two to one. And I was lucky to tear loose before she did any more than nick me about the face. Afterwards, when Willard told her what I was up to, she apologized. But I didn't go near her again all the rest of that night. Well, about five o'clock, the blizzard stopped. And at seven, the sun managed to break through. And we held a council of war. We can't send out for help. Why not? Don't you see, Keniston? If we split up the men, whichever of you is Greg would have too good an opportunity. Whether he goes or stays. You could go alone. I'd never make it. We could all go together. How about that, driver? Well, I'd rather stick with a bus, Keniston.  We got a window open on the far side of the bus and crawled through the girl first. She was still clutching the ax in the fire. Come here and look! What? Another few yards and we can shovel our way out. I'm sure we can. There were two shovels in the tool compartment at the tail guard of the bus. That only let two men shovel at a time, and the third man getting a breather, meanwhile. It took a lot of shoveling. Was some head of dust hurt your hand? Oh, nothing much. This feels good to take off those stiff leather gloves. Nasty. Bliss is your gut on that right hand. Thumb and fingers. Keniston, are you shoveling or talking? We'll never get out of here at this rate. It's your turn anyway. I'm tired. Not as tired as Willard looks. I'll relieve him. No. No, that's all right. I can keep going yet for a while. Okay, then. Keniston, here. Let me take a turn. I know I won't be with much help, but I can at least try. No. No, no, no. You're mountain guard. Though I'm sure you could do as well as Keniston. Keniston. Where's Keniston? Well, he's right. Stop him! Keniston was making a mad dash through the snow. Willard dropped his shovel and tore after him. I yelled for Willard to let him go, but I don't think he even heard me. For a while, it looked like Keniston was going to make it. But then he floundered and fell in a snowdrift, and before he could get underway again, Willard knelt. No! No! No! No! I'll just stay put for a while. What'd you do? Knock him out? Well, what else was there to do? See? Oh. I know all the time it was Keniston. You think his running away proves it? It's the same as if he confessed. He knows it was his last and only chance. What are we going to do with him now? Tie him up. Then we're getting him in the bus out of here. See? See, I wonder. I wonder if there's a reward. At this time at all, we had the bus clear and headed for civilization. Those snow-covered mountain roads weren't exactly my idea of a speedway, but I gave my motor the gun. Willard and the girl didn't take their eyes off Keniston. I kept watching him, too, out of the mirror over the driver's seat. He looks like he's coming, too. Don't worry, driver. Those knots I made in the rope won't give. Besides, I'm keeping the axe handy just in case. He's opening his eyes. Watch him now. Watch him. Yes. Watch me. And listen to me, too.  I'll stop this bus and put you out for good. Not before I've had my say. Willard and you, too, lady. Why do you think I tried to make a break for it? Because you were... You're killer Greg. You fools!  Was it my watch that had his crystal smashed at the quarter to four yesterday afternoon? So it was mine. So what? At a quarter to four yesterday afternoon, killer Greg waylaid the real driver this bus and took his place. What? That's how the crystal came to be broken.  You can't talk your way out of this. It could be a coincidence. Sure, sure. That's what I thought, too. Coincidence. Until I noticed the blisters on the thumb and first two fingers of the right hand. A file would make blisters like that. A file held in the right hand of killer Greg. Look at it! Greg! Greg! Don't come a step closer, any of you. You make the slightest movement or I'll crash the whole lot of us. Don't do it, Greg. Stop the bus. We won't do anything. It was a perfect plan. It had to work. If only that avalanche hadn't come along. But I'll still make it. I'll make it even if I have to. Look out! Don't care! Over and over the bus and the glass all smashed. Everybody was all mangled and... All right, all right. Go to sleep now. Sleep? Who can go to sleep? Who can go to sleep? Anyway, I outlived those three killer Greg. 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The top 10 AliExpress alternatives for dropshipping. For those of you in the beginning of your dropshipping journey, you probably have your eye on AliExpress and there's a good reason for that. It's a good Chinese supplier with so many products, a good dropshipping center where you guys can find trending products to dropship. But that also comes with a certain cost and if you guys know about the saying do not put all of your eggs in one basket, AliExpress is a great example for that. That's why in this video we're going to go over the top 10 alternatives that you guys should know about and also work with. Quick intro and let's go. Hello everyone, my name is Leran, I'm the content manager at AutoDS and I've also been selling online for the last several years and in this video we're going to talk about the top 10 AliExpress alternatives for dropshipping. So if you're in the beginning of your journey and you were thinking about working only with AliExpress, definitely watch this video before you get started. Now remember guys, everything that I'm going over in this video is on our blog page. I will leave a link to this article right below this video so you guys can read about it after watching. If you like to read and do not forget to also like and subscribe to our videos to always stay updated on all of the latest and all of the hottest topics that we have coming out in the world of dropshipping. That being said, let's dive straight down into the action and learn about what alternatives we have to AliExpress. So first let's ask ourselves, why do we even need alternative suppliers to AliExpress when they have millions of products in every certain category that you guys can think of and every time new products come out and new trends, it usually comes in AliExpress first. So why do we need an alternative to such a supplier? Well, the answer to that is you do not want to put all of your eggs in one basket and rely only on one supplier. The reason for that, well let's say for example, we've got the Chinese holidays. So a few times a year there are Chinese holidays and then the Chinese are simply not working, you cannot speak to any supplier, any seller and your orders can be delayed by a while, sometimes it can even take two to three weeks and nobody wants to put up with these order cancellations and mad customers wondering why they did not ship out their products. The other reason why you'd want to have alternatives to AliExpress is to have a reach into more markets that are not just in China, even though AliExpress has warehouses worldwide now, they've got warehouses in the UK, in the US and other countries too, but they are not storing that many products there. That is why we need our alternatives to have a bigger product line and be able to reach to a much bigger target market and simply ship faster domestically. Lastly, it is not easy to put up with AliExpress's returns. If one of your buyers wants to return a product on AliExpress, you, the seller, are most likely going to be responsible for paying for the return shipping, so that means that you have to charge your buyer for return shipping, buyers do not like to pay for return shipping and especially if you're drop shipping on eBay, it's going to get your listing not seen by other sellers who do offer free returns. So you want to be able to offer free returns, you want to give good service to your customers, you don't want the package to take too long to reach its destination and those are the main reasons why you want to seek alternatives to AliExpress. So let's get on with the list. What are the top 10 alternatives to AliExpress? I'm going to start with number one, one of my top personal favorites and that is Amazon. Thousands and thousands of dropshippers are using Amazon as their main supplier for their dropshipping business, whether you're dropshipping on eBay, Shopify, the Facebook marketplace, it really doesn't matter.  If you're using the fulfilled by Autodesk service, automatic orders, you're not using your own buyer accounts. But for those of you who don't know, Amazon has got pretty much everything and the best part about it, they've got free, no hassle returns. No matter what reason your buyer wants to return a product, even though we don't like dealing with returns, but if we have to deal with them, let's let our supplier pay for the return shipping and give better service to our customers. Not only that, Amazon ships from and to the US in one to two days. Now, most of your buyers are going to be happy and they'll want to even pay more for their product if they're going to get it that much quicker. So that is why Amazon is one of the most used suppliers when it comes to dropshipping. Number two on the list, we've got Walmart. Now, Walmart is almost as big as Amazon. They've got almost the same product line. They've also got great service, great return policies and free two-day deliveries on most of their products on their website for anyone who lives in the United States. So if you guys haven't heard about them, I'm pretty sure that you have. Of course, you can also use them when importing your products and price and stock monitoring when using AutoDS, same for Amazon and same for the rest of the suppliers that I'll be talking about in this video. So that's definitely going to help you guys save your time when importing and when monitoring your stock and your prices. So you can easily scale to the moon with these AliExpress alternatives. The third one on the list is Home Depot. Now Home Depot is mainly on the home niche. So all of the products that you're going to see here is usually home improvement, home and furniture, any product that's under that line, but they definitely are the winners when it comes to the home niche. So definitely use them. And if you live in other places outside the US, there are some countries where Home Depot doesn't allow you to enter their website. So if you have that problem, you can use VPNs or Proxies to connect to them just to grab those products. And once again, you can use the Fulfilled by AutoDS service to fulfill your orders.  And of course, you won't have to be dealing with locked accounts when they see that you are dropshipping internationally and they have no idea who you are. The fourth AliExpress alternative is Wayfair. Now Wayfair as opposed to the other suppliers that I just talked about is a super dropshipping friendly supplier. Now it doesn't really matter if your suppliers overall are dropshipping friendly or not, but it will be more practical for you guys to work with those who are dropshipping friendly and also mixing in those that are less dropshipping friendly because hey, it still works and you can make so much profit from dropshipping from multiple suppliers. So Wayfair once again, they are more focused on the home niche, kind of like Home Depot, but once again, they're looking for dropshippers like you to list their products and help them resale all of the items that you see on their website. They'll also offer you competitively low prices and offer free shipping for orders over $35. The fifth AliExpress alternative on the list is CJ Dropshipping, another super dropshipping friendly supplier and not only that, they also have a print-on-demand service which many people are looking for and POD is definitely on the rise. It's in demand and dropshippers who have taken advantage of POD services have definitely seen those profits coming in and I highly suggest you guys to check them out too. There are additional advantages to working with CJ Dropshipping like having the ability to ship from different warehouses so they don't only ship from China, you're still going to get low-priced Chinese products but you'll also be able to ship them, for example, from US warehouses or warehouses from Great Britain if you want to dropship to the UK quickly and once again, low Chinese prices, fast domestic shipping to your target market. So that's another reason to be also working with CJ Dropshipping and once again, they are definitely looking for dropshippers like you and I to work with them. The sixth alternative to AliExpress is Banggood.  So you can be an end consumer simply ordering from their website without any special discount or you can be a dropshipper and have another competitive edge. So use Banggood, their warehouses are mostly coming from China which means we're still going to have to deal with Chinese shipping which could sometimes take a while but I would definitely recommend to go inside the product listing see how long it takes to ship and go for items that don't take longer than 14 days. That is usually the maximum that the American consumer or the UK consumer or any other consumer around the world would want to wait for their package to get delivered. So check that out, also definitely check out the seller's ratings. That way you can see what sellers have high quality products and you'll be able to also resell them to your target market. The seventh supplier is China Brands. Now China Brands once again has been around for a while. They are very dropshipping friendly. They have a huge selection of products. Yes even though their products are coming out of China you'll still be able to find a lot of products that will sell for you from China Brands and not only that you also have a dropshipping agreement from them that's one of our integrations with them and with this dropshipping agreement you guys are going to be able to show it to anyone who asks for it from you like for example sometimes eBay will want to see some kind of agreement that you have with your private supplier and China Brands can offer that for you. There is no affiliate going on between us and them we just want you guys to be able to have a smoother dropshipping experience with fewer bumps on the road and that is one of the ways to do it with China Brands. 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Alright, welcome to the June 19 2023 and on credit specification working group meeting. Few things to talk about unfortunately a new zoom link it's causing lots of fun today that not people are unable to find the room unfortunately have the wrong link so that's not good. Report on the non cred 010 release. A little bit on the workshop we had. Mentorship program. We're delighted to have started and making great progress already. I don't have the to do this so I think I'm going to knock that off the list. As much as in a form that I'd like to have it in so I think I'll knock that off the off the list. The chat link into the agenda in case anyone wants to update I'm going to edit. Turn on editing so I can update as we go so we're not going to get to that this week. The big thing I want to talk about was a couple of things on revocation approaches and go over possibilities there there's a few things happening that I wanted to share. We are recording this a reminder this is a Linux foundation hyper ledger foundation meeting so Linux foundation anti trust policy is in effect. And as well the code of conduct. For welcome. Are you sure it's here. I think you can see her last time as well but really like to welcome him he is the hyper ledger mentor for them from the mentorship program and so he's joining us is beginning work on the non cred specification implementation so basically they are coming up with and completing the work on the cryptography in an on credits and aligning it with the implementation and he already has done some great work this week it was good to see him following working with Mike lotter. We're working together really nicely on on coming up with how the tails file is generated in the revocation process so very cool we'll see a full request, relatively soon so definitely huge welcome. Thanks for joining us. Okay. So, from, as I mentioned, in the non credits announcements that zero one zero rust implementation was officially released so we have that. It is still using the Ursa crate but will soon transition that over to use the CL signatures crate, the on credit CL signatures crate so that's good. It's starting to be used I believe it is in the zero four zero arrow frameworks areas frameworks JavaScript code. So that's good to see. Good to have that out there. That allows us to keep moving forward with making that the official or the use release. There is work going on in Acropy to get it used there it's not complete yet. But we are working on it so hopefully that will be available very soon. And we can transition away from the, the older implementations of an on credits into this new one. And on credits v2 working group. Last week we talked about how the model supports the multiple underlying cryptographic signatures so in an on credits 2.0. There are currently four signatures that my daughter has worked with and and has has demonstrated. Signatures BLS signatures, bbs class signatures and PS signatures, the latter two are the most likely to be, you know the first, the most commonly used. And so those are might sort of show how the different models are supported and basically how we get all the features, or almost all the features bending on the signatures use from a zero to zero proof. The cryptographic primitives to be able to use to use the different signatures. Next week we'll be talking about presentation data models. So with that, anything anyone have any other topics they want to raise for this meeting in particular. Okay. So I'll go down to be an on credits workshop report. I'll just briefly cover that we did have an on credits workshop couple weeks ago really well attended. Very happy with it this is the first being since then of that so just to recap we had around 400 people express interest close to 200 show up. You know for the initial part of it and over the entire workshop wound up with about 70 left at the end, three and a half hours in which is excellent. There's a lot of interest there. We did use a tool for doing the lab labs in the course that worked out really well I'm trying to get an instance of that deployed so that anyone can continue to use that it's I believe it's still available right now, but won't be available too long. I'm trying to get a permanent instance of that running. So that can be used and people can experiment with an on credits and with other things and verify the credentials community they can basically really easily create their own experiment with their own schemas and and generate them so that's kind of cool. One of the things that I mentioned that are on the list to do or is it to do list I actually have a to do list written in in pretty rough form but more or less it's written on my iPad. So not really in a form for sharing. And then one of the things that I reach for a mic and I are working on is sort of coming up with a way to in the specification how to balance out, you know, making me spec understandable of how the process works and putting in the precision of the cryptographic details for the staff and so we're going to take a look at a couple of examples. How bbs plus has submitted to it and Mike also has access to how the yes signatures are submitting theirs to it and we'll take a look at those for how, how to best balance those two. So I'm sort of competing goals, making the step understandable and useful and to, to everyone and providing the detailed cryptography necessary to implement it. With that I wanted to talk about revocation today so let me take a moment to move this so I can get access to my command line. I guess I could do it this way. And so it's all good. I wanted to take a look at sort of where we are with revocation options and share that so jump in any time if anyone has questions I can see hands raised or chat so feel free to let me know if I'm. People are interested in jumping in. So, we need to replace the insufficiently scalable in our credits be one, as soon as possible. Revocation is a requirement of almost all use cases and that's true, but they realize that they're not I mean there's a lot that aren't using it right off but almost certainly they, they, they would use it if they could. We definitely want to use expiry dates in verify the credentials. Those are crucial but not sufficient. So we want, we must be able to support revocation as well and every provincial scheme needs to be able to. I'm going to talk about the options in terms of the participants, the attributes and trade offs, and then the options themselves what are the, the, I think we're up to five different ways of doing it right now. The participants obviously issuers holders and verifiers we know about those issuers issue and revoke unilaterally revoke they want to be able to, you know whether they notify the holder or not they want to be able to revoke the credential. The holder wants to be able to prove that they are, they have a credential that has not been revoked. And then the verifiers want to verify that when they get a credential from a holder that it has not been been revoked. What we found recently is based on the various choices or options available for revocation we've got sort of three resources of data. The verifiable data registry is one, and that's what obviously is is commonly used ledgers. That's what Indy uses for an autographs which is the source of the revocation data whether it's the source of data for the holder for the verifier for both is the ledger itself. That's, that's one way to do it. We also have come out now with what are called revocation managers, the revocation manager might be simply the issuer but also might be someone somewhat independent of the issuers they have to work with the issuer. But they can be independent of the issuer so the revocation manager is a term, we will start to see now and some of these themes. Basically they interact with the issuer to get revocation information and then they respond to request from holders and or verifiers for revocation status information. So, they. The idea here is, is that, although the scheme is a call back to the issuer by the holder to get some information necessary to prove that their credential has not been revoked. It would be nice if they were separated from the issuer. So you were calling home to the issuer so revocation manager is a way to do that. The revocation manager could indeed be the issuer. And they respond to request from the holders for that information. But, but they, you know, in addition to be the issuer they could be independent and simply the issuer publishes information to them, and the revocation manager respond uses that information to respond to holders. The last is sort of a combination of the two as well as is a file server which is a revocation manager or even a VDR a verifiable data registry where the revocation manager is passive in other words, the file server provides static files, not a server generated response. So a revocation manager is, is, you know, kind of by definition an active component, it gets a request, it does some sort of calculation it returns the result. A file server in the way I'm using it here is, is a revocation manager where all it does is pass back a file. But it somehow has a static file, usually received from the issuer, and it passes it back a verifiable data registry. Interestingly, a verifiable data registry could absolutely be that passive file server in Indy. It's kind of interesting in that it's a combination of those two because Indy, actually, the, the ledger does a calculation that passes back a result. So in Indy, the status, the static data that is passed from the issuer and put onto the Indy ledger is deltas of what credentials have been revoked or unrevolved. And then all of those get collected by the BDR by Indy, and then on request Indy sends back a, a calculation that is all of the deltas collected from the time the holder has requested it to the current time, or at least for a time range. So this is somewhat different. This is not, this is different than a generic file server. On the other hand, in the BDR approach used by checks, for example, they actually in that implementation. In the BDR, the checked ledger is operating as a file server. It is getting the full state of all of the credentials within it, and it's passing back a result to the holder that is simply the state that was given by the issuer. So it's, it's much more passive. It doesn't have to do a calculation. And that's a, in my mind, that's a better quality, a better attribute in that the, the ledger in this case doesn't have to know anything special about revocation or do any special operation. It just treats the data as this is what the issuer put onto the ledger and here's what I'm giving back to you from the ledger. And hopefully those participants make sense that the three kind of blur together but but there's definitely distinct differences between them. Okay. So, here are sort of the characteristics the attributes of the schemes and the trade offs amongst them. A hard requirement for all of them just, it doesn't make the list unless it is one that no linkable identifier is given to the verifier. That is somewhat undercut or can be undercut if the scale is such that the identifier is not large enough so this third one. If the revocation registry size is not large enough to hide in the crowd, then a linkable identifier can be derived from multiple credentials that are in different registries. So, although, for example, the, the current and non spreads does not provide a linkable identifier. It doesn't sort of pass muster because the size of the revocation registers is small enough that given say two credentials, the likelihood of to two credentials that have a large population, chances are, that will produce a linkable identifier that combination of registry revocation registry identifiers will be will be unique enough that you pretty well get a linkable identifier. So, hard requirement there, register of revocation registry size must be large enough. There will be a revocation registry ID to find the information. And usually a revocation ID is the revocation registry ID plus the index within that revocation registry so that that is the information. The revocation ID, whether it's named or not in a particular scheme, essentially exists. And that is how a, the, the holder specific credential is identified, so that you can tell whether it's been revoked or not. And ideally that is shared between the issuer and the holder only. So, the. That's basically just a characteristic that there's a revocation register ID. That's usually very latent and specific it's revered ID exists somewhere, but there is also the index of the credential and the combination of the two is the revocation ID. And then we don't want to share with the verifier that would be a unique linkable identifier so that's the thing we're not sharing. Another hard requirement is that there essentially be some mechanism that allow an effectively unlimited number of credentials for provincial type. So, if the revocation registry size is limited, there must be some way to have multiple registries for a provincial type. So, this is supported in an on pres obviously with, you know, even though that, say, 10,000 is the max you can have for a, for a, a, a revocation registry each specific one, a credential type can have many of them. And so you get effectively unlimited. Lots of things to manage and stuff like that but you get effectively unlimited number of registries, unlimited number of credentials per credential type. I talked about call home earlier. Call home is a thing that would be really nice to avoid. So, this is the idea that the issuer of the credential can track what the, the holder is doing with their credential, if they can correlate that the, the holder has to do something. It has to interact with the issuer every time they go to use it, or. And worse, if the holder has to call back to the issuer to get a piece of data to create a register of presentation and then immediately the verifier has to go get a piece of information to verify it. And that actually could enable the issuer to, to use the metadata basically to track. Oh, this holder created a presentation and this verifier verified one right in the same period of time so probably that holder is interacting with that verifier and again that's allowing the issuer to collect more information. So, basically, we want to, it would be nice if we could avoid calling home during presentation entirely, or at least enough that we can avoid, can minimize either the actual or perception of tracking of the issuer. And so this is where that, that, you know, avoiding that tracking, or the perception of that tracking gets interesting when you talk about a revocation manager that is independent supposedly independent of the issuer. If they are actually colluding together the issuer and the revocation managers, and such that they're sharing, for example, Weblog information that tracking can still happen. And so the more we can get away from that the better. This is again why the ledger is a good place to do that if the ledger is independent of the issuer. And then the holder calling the ledger to get some piece of data and the verify calling the ledger to get pieces of data is far more difficult to actually get collusion going on such that tracking can be done. Very unlikely that that can happen. So that's where the ledger is, you know, kind of the ideal revocation manager. So basically column assessments must be considered must consider the likelihood of collusion. So hopefully that makes sense. This, this page goes to the amount of effort that the parties must go through. So we can assume an issuer is an enterprise app, or has sufficient power to track all all issuances that's just to give an if an issuer wants to revoke a credential after issues it must track all the issues, issuances, the revocation ID, and whoever the holder is that that credential was issued to so that it knows if later something happens that it needs to revoke it. It has all the information necessary to do it. So we can unilaterally relax revoke credentials I mean with or without letting the holder know they've been, they've been unilaterally revoked credentials with or without contacting them. And finally, they have to be able to publish revocation as necessary immediately or in batches.  And that's okay, it is not. We assume that an issuer basically is not a mobile app, and therefore it's limited by its, or has it has severe limits on its processing for processing or, or data, the size of the data files that it's an enterprise app that can handle things like that. Apologize I missed the question earlier, what do we mean by perception of tracking versus tracking proper. Just to get back to that a little bit. This is a particularly sensitive issue for governments. And that is that certainly in in a number of places and this has been very true in Canada at least and I think in Europe as well. I have a great desire that the government not only not track but also not be perceived as tracking the issuers and and one of the things that can happen is that basically initiative setup to provide this type of digital trust and digital identity has been blocked or eliminated not not necessarily because the technology was bad but the perception was bad. And so, one of the things that governments are particularly sensitive to and that's why, you know, we raise this and talk about this as as one of the concerns when I put my BC go pattern is is making sure that there's not a that we're able to provide as much evidence as possible that we're not tracking and we're, you know, going out of our way to put a scheme in place so we're not tracking and so that's what I mean by perception and tracking. If, you know, for example, the government BC gov domain is gov dot BC dot CA, if all of the calls from the web from the web app to when when you present a transact when you when you present a provincial, there's always a call back to a gov dot BC dot CA domain. Well, that would be a bad thing.  And in doing that you called back to gov dot BC dot CA to do that. That's not what we want. Does that make sense. We assume the holder is a wall, a wallet web app. It doesn't have to be a wallet web app but it will be a common use case and so that's kind of the lowest common denominator so should not have to download substantial files during presentation, e.g. It shouldn't be more than a make a bite of information as at the outside of how big a file should be and presentation generation time should be relatively short in along the side along the expectation of a web app so they one to three seconds including data collection. So, from the point you say oh I want to, you know, generate a proof I scan, I scan it, and I get a prompt back saying do you want to send this that presentation generation time should be pretty short in the into the one to three seconds, including data collection and how many activities going on the user interface and so on. I'm surprisingly assume the verifier is also a mobile app and again this is less likely. It will be a common use case we think in us particularly in, in, you know, personal identification that that a point of sale terminal that a kiosk iPad kiosk that actually a user scanning it will be a verifier app and so while this is not nearly as likely as the similar attribute should be taken into place so that the verifier can be a mobile app so again should not have to download substantial files verifier time should be short basically the same criteria as the holder. That's not as common, commonly seen but we're seeing that a lot more often. Why is it not a requirement to notify the holder and then the holder can ignore the notification doesn't the holder get notified when a credential is issued. So a holder definitely gets notified when a credential gets issued, but they don't necessarily get notified when a credential is revoked. And so that's what I'm talking about does that make sense. So Aries has a. So if an issuer retains a connection or relationship I did come connection with a holder. There is a protocol that allows the issuer to notify the holder that their credentials been revoked. But if no such thing. But if no such thing exists, then it's, then they do not have to notify and the wallet, the holder would not know, not necessarily know that their credentials been revoked. So if they're using something like open ID for for VCs there is no mechanism to allow a issuer to reach out to a holder say hey your credentials been revoked so that would have to be a separate topic is that does that answer the question. So it makes it tricky for the holder because they have to. They can, they may be able to monitor something like a ledger to see when their credential gets revoked. They can certainly determine at the time they generate a, generate a presentation, oh crap my my credentials been revoked I didn't realize that so they would know it before they share it, but they may not notice until the time they go to construct the presentation that their credentials been revoked. Okay. So attributes characteristics and trade off one more is preferences. Holders and verifiers collect whoops. What have I done. There we go. Holders and verifiers collect data from different sources so that's a preference. This is that comes back to that perception of tracking. And while it would be bad to track that a holder is generating a presentation that would be even worse. The tracking was the holder was, you know was presenting a verification and the verify and there was there was tracking of who the verifier was at the same time. That would be particularly bad so and so these are not hard and fast rules but the preference would be the holders and verifiers collect data from different sources. Again, nice to have the holders and verifiers collect their data from other than the issuer. And then this is that one revocation data sources should be perceptively independent of the issuer so again that same topic that we that we went back to. And, and finally a static source is preferred over an active source. So it would be really nice if the source of data was a simple file server with static content versus requiring a dynamic service which has to do some sort of calculations. Some sort of calculation in order to do it would be nice if the holder could simply collect a static file and be able to do some sort of calculation on it to get on its own. Versus calling a service which has to provide a real time calculation and so on so again not hard and fast those are are flexible and sometimes schemes might be better because for different combinations of reasons. That's one. And then finally this is a new one that I threw in there just because I noticed it but nice to have alignment with status list 2021 spit array technique so for those, I think most of us on the call here are aware of status list 2021 uses a bit array. Now it, it is, it provides linkable information so just quick summary. Issuer has a revocation registry and an index, a, that is an index into the registry that is a, and the registry itself is a bit per provincial. And basically, the bit is on or off, depending on whether a credentials been revoked or not. When in using status list 2021 the issuer publishes the location, or the data, the bit array periodically whenever they want to revoke credentials, the issue once they give the index there are the reverage ID plus the index to the holder on presentation, the holder gives that that reverage ID plus index to the verifier and it's the verifier that goes looks up in the bit array. One of the things that would be nice to have would be alignment with that and the reason it's nice to have is one of the things we're seeing lately is that a verifiable credential might be issued with multiple signatures on it so a non creds plus a NIST signature.  You know, allowable cryptography. Now, when you do that when you have if you have that combination of a NIST plus an on credits you lose. If you use the NIST one you lose all of the non creds privacy, and that just goes out the window, but at least you can present your credential. If you, if the verifier does support the privacy preserving capability inherent in an on credits then you can present in an on credits credential. What would be really nice to have is not to have two different registries for revocation but rather just a common one. So alignment with status list one to one's bit array technique would allow you to do that. But of course, the mechanism must be have those attributes those must have like unlinkability so that is a requirement still. But I throw that in there because one of the techniques is actually aligned with status list 2021 so it would be a really nice to have if we could actually use the same revocation publication method with both NIST and an on credits credentials. So, with all that said, wow, that took a while, we've got for for revocation methods that are known and non credits v one that we've talked about which is cks signatures with the Taylor's file. Alasor, which is revocation managers contacted presentation time. So this is the validity to verify the credentials this was a technique proposed by under a strike tag. At descent paper. So he published it last, you know, we've talked about last week or the week before. Can you hear me. Any luck. Sorry about that. All right, let's I'll try finishing. Obviously I was on the last slide. All right, so that's the the final slide I don't know where when I cut out but I won't repeat too much and on credits. It gets it's red because of this. We have call home on these two as yellows not eliminating them. We have nice size of attributes because all you're doing is doing a call and getting basically a the data backs it's the revocation managers that are holding on to data and they're providing data back so relatively small holder size requirements. ZK Sam has a larger requirement, but you're not calling home you're calling back to some static array, and it's, and it is a bit array so that it does align with the status list 2020. So, that wraps up what I wanted to share out we're really looking at trying to nail down and moving forward with these. The LVVM is quite an interesting option that was new it's very similar to Alasdor but in my opinion much less complex it's much more aligned with exactly what is a similar way to do it with LVM basically you call to a revocation manager and basically request a new credential be issued that that your credential is not revoked and it's therefore and hasn't expired or at least sorry a time of issuance associated with it, and so a verifier when they request a credential it's revocable, they expect to get back the a, a not revoked credential as well so it's very explicit it's just using a non creds to verify the credentials the actual credential, plus the not not revoked credential and so it's very similar with a non creds it uses the it was issued to the sending blinded link secret to show that they're bound together the binding between the remote credential and the, and the originally the non revoked credential and the issue credential initially. Those are the techniques ZK Sam I think I've talked about for at least some of you before but this is one that is the least rigorously reviewed but has some super interesting characteristics to it I think it's got the best characteristics. So you get a million credentials and a revocation size, and yet worst case you've got 153 k file that gets put on to a file server, or gets published somewhere that can be downloaded and and read and and process by the holder so the, the attributes of it are very nice but it is the least rigorously reviewed in fact it's very been reviewed at all so so that's one we're interested in getting reviewed. So that wraps up what I was going to share. Yes, reference material on LVDM. Yes, I will send it out to the mailing list, and I'll send it to you directly as well just to make sure you get it. And, yes, and make sure you have that. As they say it was just published the other day I can send out links to all of these. Okay, I will do that. That wraps up what I had planned for today is or any other, any other things to talk about or show we call it a day. Next time we talk. We will have whoops where did I go there they are lost the screen. Oh, yes, go ahead. Just listening. Hi. I asked a question in chat. Is there a location to be unlimited. So, in all of these schemes you never should share a the, you never share that with the verifier. So the ability for the verifier to re verify should not. Actually, you're right. I should put that in explicitly as a hard requirement that it's not a thing we want. We don't want to allow. That would be a privacy native. You are absolutely correct. So, in the status list 2021, which we don't consider, you know, a privacy preserving it would not meet the requirement because it shares and it shares a linkable identifier. And in sharing that, it allows for the ongoing monitoring by the verifier to see if that credential ever gets revoked. And so, yes, that would be a definite privacy negative. All right. Thanks all. I hope that was helpful. I'm meeting with the L of CL signatures tomorrow and we'll be sharing some of this as well as we talk. Anna is interested in understanding the state of where we are, and maybe willing to help out in some way or, or, or try to coordinate things. So that's a possibility. So Hart Montgomery and I are meeting with Anna tomorrow and looking forward to that. All right. Have a great day everyone, or the rest of your day. See you again a couple weeks. Bye. Thanks.


So what do I do when I cannot wear my prosthetic leg due to pain or equipment issues? Good question. We go to plan B and that is this, which is a walking crutch. I strap this to your puppy on without falling over, dear god, and it allows me a kind of mobility. However, this is not nearly as comfortable as having a prosthetic leg that I can like actually bend my own knee and use, but it does allow me to be up and about hands-free and walk around the house and do some stuff when my leg is out of commission.


Fita, did you came across what Erdogan said at Especia? His words were quite out there confronting the West and even mentioned, quote, we can invade Israel on an unexpected night, end quote. Here's the thing with Erdogan.  Erdogan has been a US puppet and an Israeli puppet for a very long time, right? So is acting as a floodgate to let people come to his side, assuming that Erdogan is going to do something or if he's there to relieve pressure, okay? And for those of you that don't know, I mentioned this before, but for those of you that don't know what the concept of a floodgate is, every dam in the world that is built has a floodgate. A floodgate is something they build on the side to relieve pressure so the dam won't break, right? So they build a dam, if water levels go too high and the pressure builds too much, instead of letting the dam break because it will break if the pressure is too high and water starts rolling over the dam, the erosion will take the dam down, right? There's pipes, usually sometimes the bottom of the, what do you call it, the dam where there's turbines there and you know they're generating power with dams and stuff like this or inside the dam and in the wall of it or it's a floodgate going around that relieves the pressure further downstream. They relieve pressure. Erdogan, in my opinion, is a floodgate. He is still a puppet of the US and a puppet of Israel, okay? Their economy, Turkish economy, it collapsed, the currency has collapsed like 95% in the last 10 years, accelerating, okay? They back down from attacking Iran, from attacking Armenia when with Azerbaijan and Israel, remember the first genocide of the 21st century happened a few months ago, a few weeks ago, right? When Israel, Turkey and Azerbaijan cleansed Nagorno-Karabakh of 100,000 plus Armenians, right? They said, oh, you can stay, meanwhile, while the tanks were rolling in. If you take history into consideration, Armenians had to leave because genocide was coming for them, right? And then a few weeks later, we see Israel committing genocide on the Palestinians on Gaza, right? So the first two genocide of the 21st century, sorry, the first genocide of the 20th century was Armenian genocide during World War I and was it Hitler that came out and said, after all, who remembers the genocide of the Armenians? And we saw the second genocide of the 20th century with the Holocaust killing of gays, lesbians, of communists, the Poles and all the Romans and all that jazz and Jews, right? 21st century, first genocide, the Burma-Karabakh with Turkey, Azerbaijan and Israel doing it, second genocide, Israel doing it together, Israel being involved in the genocide of the 21st century. Oh, shit, that's not a good record, right? But they were about to Azerbaijan and Turkey with the help of Israel were about to attack Armenia, right? To take a land piece that is Armenian, that Armenia controls, that borders Iran, right? So they wanted to sever that link with Iran and Russia going through Armenia.  So keep in mind, Erdogan has attacked Armenia, has attacked Iraq, has attacked Syria, participated in the war, destruction of Libya, right? In the last 20 years, right? All with the backing of the United States and Israel, okay?  He's one of the least trustworthy person on the geopolitical realm. Russia doesn't trust them even though they're dealing with them. Iran doesn't trust them even though they're dealing with them, okay? So keep that in mind. Take everything that comes out of Turkey as with a grain of salt and consider Erdogan a floodgate. We'll see, we'll see, we'll see.


Tiffany Valiante was only 18 years old when she went missing on a warm summer night in 2015. While Tiffany had, by all means, been your typical teenage girl, she had been involved in some extremely suspicious and mysterious situations in her final hours. Years later, her parents are still working to piece together what exactly took place on the night that their daughter vanished. Tiffany snuck out of her home that evening and was spotted on CCTV footage heading toward the nearby train tracks. Just before midnight, investigators located a crime scene on the tracks after it was reported that a train had struck a pedestrian. But this was only the tip of the iceberg. Detectives ruled that Tiffany had taken her own life that night, but subsequent investigations paint Tiffany's final moments in a much different light. In fact, many people, including Tiffany's own parents, now believe that Tiffany may have been ambushed in the woods that night and that the train wreck was nothing more than a disturbing cover story. Tiffany Valiante had grown up in Maze Landing, New Jersey. She attended high school at Oak Crest High School, where she was known for being an excellent volleyball player. In fact, volleyball was one of Tiffany's main callings in life. She was one of the best athletes in the school, so much so that after graduating high school, she planned on going to college free of charge, with a volleyball scholarship to Mercy College in New York. When Tiffany was a staggering 6'2'' tall, it's clear to see that she would have been a force to be reckoned with on the volleyball court, and talent scouts saw her massive potential. Growing up in Maze Landing, Tiffany had a relatively normal childhood to an extent. Maze Landing isn't known for being a particularly safe area and in fact it's one of the least safe areas in all of New Jersey, but as far as I can tell, neither Tiffany nor her family ever had any major issues in the area. Now, if this case is starting to sound a bit familiar to you at this point, it's likely because Tiffany's case was covered on the Netflix series Unsolved Mysteries. Specifically, the episode titled Mystery at Milemarker 45. But the reason I wanted to cover this case is because Netflix made, in my opinion, some pretty serious mistakes with their coverage of the story. They left out some pretty major details that ultimately changed the entire course of the investigation and the story. See, for the most part, Netflix painted Tiffany's upbringing as fairly typical, and it was, to an extent. The area where the writers really dropped the ball was in regards to the final couple years of Tiffany's life.  And in reality, when we look back on the people we love and care about, it's super easy to look over all the negatives and only remember people for the positive impact they left behind. And don't get me wrong, Tiffany left a positive impact on nearly everyone who knew her. Very few people had anything negative to say about her, but that doesn't mean she didn't have her flaws. One of the key aspects of her life that's often overlooked is that, while Tiffany's upbringing was fairly normal, relatively speaking, she certainly had her issues. In fact, in 2014 alone, it's been reported that Child Protective Services had visited the Valiente family home at least three times. It seems that these visits came after one of Tiffany's teachers reported some concerning bruises to the authorities. Now, Tiffany was always covered in small bruises. It was the nature of her volleyball career. She was bound to get hurt all the time. But according to her teacher, these bruises were not consistent with volleyball practice, and they appeared as though Tiffany had been being abused at home. When CPS visited the family home, they found that her teacher had in fact been correct. Tiffany's mother opened up about the issues that they'd been dealing with and admitted that she had punched Tiffany in the arm on at least one occasion during an argument. Both Tiffany and her mother were entered into therapy after this confession, and the therapists believed that they struggled from simple communication problems and that they had an otherwise stable relationship. Now, I don't know about you, but I've never struck a child due to communication problems. Becoming angry with your children is natural. Children's ideas and beliefs don't always align with your own, but crossing the line of abusing a child because of a disagreement is something else entirely. Now, I'm certainly not trying to incite a witch hunter to paint Tiffany's mother as a bad or violent person. The truth is, context is everything, and we simply don't know the context here. In all reality, Tiffany was six foot two, a very large girl, and may have struck her mother first, and her mother fought back in self-defense or even out of fear. We truly have no idea what took place here, but there were clearly issues at home and issues that seem to have often been overlooked during most retellings of Tiffany's story. But that's not where the story really ends with Tiffany's difficult teenage years. See, the Netflix documentary also mentioned a time when Tiffany stole money from one of her friends. Specifically, she stole her friend's credit card and spent her money without permission. Now, the Netflix documentary basically chalked this up to nothing more than a simple mistake, claiming that Tiffany was a well-educated girl who should have known better. But that's not the full story and not by a long shot. According to a civil disposition transcript that was pulled by the Daily Beast, Tiffany had stolen money from her parents on what appears to have been multiple occasions. In the past, Tiffany's mother had defended Tiffany's actions in regards to her stealing money from her friend, but she conveniently left out the fact that Tiffany had stolen from her own family just months before this. It's been suggested that Tiffany did this as a way to lash out against her parents when they had disagreements, but the truth may go much deeper than this. Kids steal for a variety of reasons. They may simply steal because someone else has something that they want. But in Tiffany's case, her actions seem to have been her way of communication. In particular, her family claims that she would steal from her parents when she was upset with him. This just further proves the major communication problems that her family was dealing with. A lot of times, children steal to get their parents' attention, to prove a point, or to bring awareness to an underlying issue in their home life, even if it's all done subconsciously. Now, I'm certainly not a child psychologist, but I'd be willing to bet that this is what was happening here. Tiffany was very clearly struggling, and if investigators are to be believed, this may have been what ultimately led to that terrible summer evening when Tiffany put an end to her struggles once and for all. It was July 12th, 2015. Tiffany and her family were out celebrating the high school graduation of her cousin. At around 9 p.m. that evening, Tiffany's friend made a call to Tiffany's parents and told them that she feared Tiffany may have stolen money from her by taking her debit card and purchasing clothes and food. This is the instance that I mentioned just a moment ago in regards to Tiffany's habit of stealing. Investigators were never called and no charges were ever filed, but obviously her parents were well aware of Tiffany's habit. Later that evening, a private investigation of their own was conducted by Tiffany's parents, and they looked through her room and found receipts that totaled around $86. And if I'm understanding the situation correctly, this is the exact amount that the friend claimed Tiffany had stolen. This was all the confirmation that Tiffany's mother needed to know that she'd been up to no good once again. Just a few minutes later, Tiffany's mother confronted her about the crimes that she'd been committing. Tiffany obviously wasn't happy to hear that her mother had found out about her secret habit, but she'd been caught red-handed.  As soon as her mother left the area for a brief moment, Tiffany fled the home and ran away. But this is just one of the many unexplained details about Tiffany's sudden disappearance. See, Tiffany had recently been diagnosed with nyctophobia or an extreme fear of the dark. Yet she ran away into the darkness of the night and didn't look back. This was incredibly unusual and downright bizarre. The final image of Tiffany was captured on a CCTV camera in the family's yard. The camera took a surveillance image of Tiffany leaving the property at approximately 9.30 PM. In the photo, she can be seen wearing a t-shirt and shorts, as well as a headband and a brand new pair of shoes that she'd just bought for college. After her parents realized that Tiffany had snuck out, they did their best to contact her several times, but she never answered her phone. Her parents didn't contact investigators or file a missing person case immediately as they thought she might've just needed time to clear her head and she'd come back later that evening. But Tiffany never came home. In fact, the CCTV image was the final time that Tiffany would ever be seen alive. It would be around 11 PM that Tiffany's father left the home and finally began searching for her. This was about an hour and a half after the argument with her mother. Her father didn't even make it to the end of the driveway before he found a disturbing piece of evidence that gave him chills. Tiffany's cell phone had been dropped on the pavement just outside the home and Tiffany was nowhere to be found. According to her parents and crime scene investigators, Tiffany never went anywhere without her phone and the fact that she'd left it behind told her parents that her disappearance was far worse than they could have ever imagined. Just 30 minutes later, Tiffany's parents filed a missing person report with the local police department. Investigators got to work very quickly but unfortunately before proper investigation could even really begin, the police had terrible news for her parents. Detectives who were combing through the nearby woods found several harrowing pieces of evidence that painted a very grim picture of what had transpired that evening. Police say that they have reason to believe that immediately after fleeing the home, Tiffany had run through these very same woods. But strangely, all throughout these woods, they found various pieces of Tiffany's clothing. Her shoes were also found but no one knows why she would have removed her shoes while running through the thick brush like this. It would have only made things more difficult for her. But as investigators followed the pieces of evidence all throughout the woods, they quickly realized that all of the clothing led right to a set of train tracks. And as soon as they arrived at the tracks, their hearts sank. Tiffany had been found but she was no longer alive. It was around 11.03 p.m. when a report was made to the local police that a train passing through the area had struck a pedestrian. This report was called in less than 30 minutes before Tiffany's parents reported her missing. At this point, it doesn't seem that investigators had any reason to believe that Tiffany had been the one struck by the train but when all of her clothing was found leading to the tracks, the evidence was clear. A nurse who had been nearby arrived at Tiffany's side by 11.16 p.m. But it was already too late. It was early the following morning that Tiffany's parents were given the news that brought their world crumbling down around them. But to make matters worse, less than 24 hours later, police explained that they believed Tiffany had done this to herself. This came as a shock to Tiffany's parents because according to her mother, Tiffany wasn't depressed and she certainly hadn't planned to take her own life. But we have to keep in mind, Tiffany and her mother had very clear communication issues and Tiffany was obviously going through a lot in the months leading up to her disappearance. So it's entirely possible that her mother simply didn't recognize the signs or Tiffany didn't communicate them in a way that her mother was able to understand. But there's also another distinct possibility here. Tiffany didn't do this to herself. Someone had hunted her down through the woods that evening and claimed her life. And this theory isn't as far-fetched as you might believe. See, according to Tiffany's parents, the investigation into her disappearance was botched from the start. Unfortunately, since the crime occurred on a set of railroad tracks, the New Jersey Transit Police were the ones tasked with conducting the investigation. The Transit Police were not properly equipped and may not have even been trained to conduct homicide investigations. Their bread and butter is merely investigating transit crimes. It's right in the name. But considering the location of the crime, the County Sheriff's Office was severely limited in what they were able to do in terms of the investigation. According to unsolved mysteries, the Transit Police did a terrible job securing the scene of the crime, leading to mountains of evidence either being mishandled, poorly stored or overlooked entirely. But unsolved mysteries themselves actually skipped out on an incredibly vital piece of information that's been shared by nj.com. According to this report, investigators recovered an ax at the scene of the crime. Not only this, but the ax is listed as being covered in red stains. Now, the obvious assumption here is that this ax may have been covered in blood. And Tiffany's family believed that this is likely the case as well. But there's one big problem here. While this ax was mentioned during the investigation and it was collected as part of the investigation into Tiffany's passing, it was lost before it could even be processed. All that was left were vague descriptions of the weapon, but the weapon itself has since disappeared due to the poor handling of the investigation by the New Jersey Transit Police. Tiffany's family firmly believed that this ax may hold the answers to what happened to Tiffany that day. But until it's recovered, those answers will remain unknown. In all reality, this ax may have been completely unrelated to Tiffany's disappearance, but we have no way to prove this one way or the other. But that's only the tip of the iceberg. And there's one other vital piece of evidence that may just change everything. When detectives arrived at the scene of the crime to collect Tiffany's remains and process her for any additional evidence, they noticed a very specific detail that didn't make sense. If you remember, Tiffany's shoes were found in the woods surrounding the train tracks. We know that she'd run quite a considerable distance through the woods before eventually making her way to the tracks. Yet her feet showed no signs of running through the brush, through the thorns and the tree limbs that would have obviously been scattered all around the woods. Her feet were totally smooth and free of any abrasions. According to one report, Tiffany would have run nearly a full mile without her shoes. So this made no sense at all. Nearly all of Tiffany's clothing was recovered in the woods that day, including her headband and shirt that she'd been wearing in the CCTV footage. But investigators also found a key chain that Tiffany's parents didn't recognize. Now, it is possible that this key chain was already in the woods and was unrelated to the case. But when you consider the key chain in combination with the rest of the evidence, we have to ask ourselves, did Tiffany actually run through the woods that evening? Or was she carried? And could this key chain belong to the person who carried her? Considering her clothing had been removed, her feet were baby smooth and she allegedly showed no signs of depression, well, all of this in combination with the axe that was found nearby has led many people to believe that Tiffany may have been abducted that evening. This would also explain why her phone had been dropped at the bottom of the family's driveway. Now, to clarify something I mentioned earlier, in the moments before Tiffany allegedly ran off into the night that evening, her mother had been pressing her about the credit card that she had stolen from one of her friends. According to Tiffany's mother, both she and Tiffany headed out to Tiffany's car to search for the credit card. Tiffany told her mother that the card wasn't in the car because she wasn't the one who stole it. But her mother insisted that they check anyway, firmly believing that Tiffany was lying. As they were searching through the car, Tiffany's mother claims to have seen her daughter secretly grab a card and slip it into her back pocket, hiding it away from sight. When her mother pressed her about this, Tiffany once again denied it. This is when her mother walked back into the house to tell her father about the situation. And when she returned outside, Tiffany was gone. All that was left behind was the CCTV footage of Tiffany walking through the yard toward the end of the driveway. With this in mind, considering there were no witnesses to the exact moment when Tiffany left the family's home, we have to at least entertain the idea that Tiffany didn't leave her family's property of her own accord that day. Yes, the CCTV image captured her walking directly toward the end of the driveway. But who may have been waiting at the end of that driveway that we're completely unaware of? Who could have been lurking behind a tree or a bush? The fact that Tiffany dropped her cell phone at the end of the driveway that night just doesn't sit well with me. And the fact that she was stripped of nearly all of her clothing yet didn't have a single scratch on her feet is just plain suspicious. When you combine this with the ax and the key chain, well, it doesn't paint a pretty picture. Now, there is a distinct possibility that Tiffany did this to herself. And the ax, the cell phone, the key chain, and the lack of cuts on her feet are all simple coincidences. That is a possibility. But giving this case even two full seconds of thought leads me to believe that something far more sinister took place in those woods that evening. And I don't believe Tiffany did this to herself not for one moment. I haven't been able to confirm whether or not the transit police are still investigating Tiffany's case, but her family are certainly doing everything they can to keep things moving. There have been several developments and new pieces of evidence that have come out over the years, but nothing has led to any arrests or warrants. And considering the transit police believe she did this to herself, well, arrests are beginning to seem increasingly unlikely unless something major happens, such as the aforementioned ax being found. As it stands, the best I can tell, Tiffany's case is considered solved. But the trail of evidence that was left behind has left so many people wondering what really happened to Tiffany Valiante. Thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of True Crime Stories. If you enjoyed this video, check out this other interesting case I covered and don't forget to subscribe. It's totally free and keeps you up to date with all of my future videos. You can also click that join button below to support the channel and see new videos long before everyone else does. But my name is Ty Nottz and I'll catch you guys in the next one.


G'day all. I just wanted to take the opportunity to acknowledge the mighty effort that the CFA people put in last Friday the 4th of January. We had a state that had temperatures in 40 to 46 degrees. We had really windy conditions. In fact the whole state was pretty much in severe, there was a coupling very high, but the whole state was primed ready for fire. On the day itself we had over, we had just on 200 fires right across the state. Significant fires at Talangata and up in the Strathbogades and of course down at Rosedale that continues to be a firefight for us, but just such great saves by our people. Did you know that on the day CFA had 80 strike teams? Think about that five tankers and a strike team leader, 80 strike teams registered ready to go right across the state. And that's not counting Long Hall, that's not counting contingent strike teams, that was strike teams registered in the system, available to respond right at that time on that day and of course many of them did respond. Bombing at night time, first time anywhere on the globe that we're aware of, so night time, firefighting bombing, we had 60 aircraft. We did that in partnership with a lot of the other agencies, but sometimes we're allowed to be a little bit proud and a little bit parochial. We did a really good job, still a bit of season to go. We accept that if we can look at what we did on last Friday and hopefully replicate that moving forward. CFA is in great shape, so thank you so much for those that are contributing. It's time to be proud and passionate to be a member of CFA. I certainly am. Thank you for what you do.