Molovinaka, and a very good morning to you all. It is indeed an honor and privilege to be invited here today at the third Asia Pacific Rainforest Summit. I am proud to be here on behalf of the PG government to deliver my address at this session. I thank the government of Indonesia and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry for hosting this red summit and the coordinating partner country, Australia and the Department of Environment and Energy for their combined efforts in making this all happen. As you know, through its presidency of COP 23, PG has been building a grand coalition committed to taking action and communicating the sense of agency widely to all levels of government, to investors and financing institutions, to the private sector, to civil society, organization and to local communities. As our prime minister, the Honorable Chosaiyya Vorange Bani Marama, stated at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting this past week, and I quote, You must accelerate climate action and drive decarbonization and press for the most ambitious tug of the Paris Agreement that is limiting the increase in global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius, above that of the pre-industrial age uncult. In March this year, PG hosted the third regional Pacific NDC Dialogue, our nationally determined contributions and consultations on the regional Pacific NDC hub to support countries in the process of implementation and enhancement of the NDCs. This regional platform was called for during the climate action Pacific partnership in July 2017. Built on past dialogues in support of NDC implementation, this provided a specific platform for discussions on NDC implementation planning, linkages to SDG processes, opportunities to advance gender, translating NDCs into investable and actionable projects, and long-term development strategies under the Paris Agreement, such as the 2050 platform. As a nation, we have mainstreamed and integrated climate change into national planning and development processes, economic policy, and decision-making. This has led to the development of the Green Growth Framework for PG, the five-year and 20-year national development plans, and NDC implementation roadmap and framework for the national adaptation plan. As part of this increasingly comprehensive approach to climate change, PG acknowledges the importance of forest both in terms of achieving its Paris Agreement goals and those of the United Nations sustainable development agenda. In particular, the critical role of forest is acknowledged in Article 5 of the Paris Agreement, which addresses countries to take action to conserve and enhance forest, including through reducing deforestation and forest degradation. Furthermore, PG understands that forests are a critical part of the answer to our climate change because we know that a 1.5-degree wall is simply not possible without tackling deforestation and forest degradation and the associated emissions. Forests are a large part of our current problem in terms of continuing emission from deforestation, but an even larger part of the solution in terms of ending those emissions and enhancing the safe and natural carbon capture storage function of standing and regrowing forests. And without promoting healthy forests, we also know that our nations won't be resilient to the impacts of the extreme weather events without these natural bubbles and barriers that protects us and that contribute to healthy, sustainable livelihoods. In our Green Growth Framework for PG, we have specifically recognized the role of forests in climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and forestry protected areas are mentioned as activities which focus on sustaining the natural forest resources. Renewed efforts are identified for implementation of deforestation and reforestation and conservation of natural forest. In PG, 54.7 percent or about 1 million hectares of PG is forested. Of this, 89.4 percent or roughly 894,000 hectares is classified as primary forest, the most biodiverse form of forest. Forests in this contest include not only land-based forest systems, but also the wider mangroves and seagrasses and reef systems that are critical to island nations. However, we also have large areas of degraded and unutilized land with potential for broad reforestation and afro-station activities. As a country, we are committed to ensuring we place the protection of our remaining forests and the pursuit of restoring degraded areas at the heart of our national response to climate change. To achieve, we embarked on the following. One, PG has embarked on a comprehensive red-plask strategy which continues to assess issues such as drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, strategic environmental social assessment, feedback, grievances, redress mechanisms, carbon rights, and benefit sharing mechanisms. We have a red-plask demonstration site and MRV systems being finalized. PG has been working with the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility of the World Bank and the SPC-GIZ Regional Programme, coping with climate change in the Pacific Island region, as part of its red-plask readiness work. This includes the intent to develop an emission reduction program to cover 90 percent of the land area of Fiji and 94 percent of forested areas in Viti-Lebu, Wano-Lebu, and in Tabeuni, and the sale of 3.6 million red-plask emissions, reduction between 2019 to 2024 to the FCPF. This readiness work also includes Fiji working closely with the University of Hamburg to establish its forest preference level work that is almost complete. Fiji has legally declared and protected forest and nature reserves, as well as a government-managed national park. This national park is a model for other parks and has been replicated around the nation as community-based, equal-tourism projects to improve livelihood and alleviate poverty, economic development, and biodiversity conservation. The communities living around this national park benefit from employment in managing the park and economic benefits from tourism activities. This national forest park was also awarded the Certification of Excellence winner in 2015 by Trip Advisor as a Global Tourism Survey Recognition and the Queen's Commonwealth Cannopy Award for Forest Conservation. Fiji acknowledges the role of carbon-rich mangroves in climate adaptation, preventing coastal erosion, addressing risk from coastal flooding and sea-level rise. Currently, Fiji is undertaking a community-based mangrove restoration and sustainable management project with support from ITTO. The project includes policy development, capacity building, establishing alternative species for mangrove-dependent communities, and educating them towards conservation of mangroves. The same project site is being used to conduct preliminary work on blue carbon with conservation international and is a first for Fiji in terms of blue carbon work. Finally, going towards Fiji has noted in its NBC that further accounting will need to take place to incorporate the mitigation potential for Fiji's forestry sector via the REDPLUS program. Once this is done, Fiji will look as to how REDPLUS will be incorporated into its NBC. At this point, I wish to acknowledge the financial, technical, scientific, capacity building and advisory support rendered towards the implementation of its global and national forest goals by various organizations, including World Bank, FCPF, Jeff, FAO, GIZ, Asia, UNFF, SPC, Conservation International, UNDP, WWF, ITTO, EU, to name a few. These organizations have been instrumental in supporting Fiji's drive national actions towards sustainable management, development, restoration and protection of forests in Fiji. As Minister of Forests, I also believe that there is an important link between the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the global sustainable development goals and protecting our rainforest as all-inspirable in Fiji at a sub-national level. The Ministry Plan aligned to Fiji's 20-year National Development Plan, the SDG goals and the UNFF Strategic Goals. The Forest Sector Strategic Development Plan prioritizes a sustainable forest management framework, encompassing outputs addressing SDGs 1, 2, 5, 7, 13, 14 and 15. One of the goals of the Ministry's Strategic Development Plan is to contribute positively to the global environment. This will address environmental-related SDGs, along with commitments embedded in the Convention on Biodiversity, the United Nations Forum on Forest, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, all of which Fiji is party to. The activities implemented to deliver SDP outputs and outcomes, including off-road stations and rip forest stations, to enhance carbon stocks, protect and restore catchments, conserve biodiversity, establish wood and non-wood plantations, including biofuel and food security species, coastal and mangrove restoration. Most of this rip forestation includes community participation on community-owned land with the government-empowering communities, women and youth, and providing financial and development incentives for their efforts. We recognize that mangroves can play a significant role in conserving and enhancing carbon sinks, enabling adaptation to climate change, and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals 5, 13, 14 and 15. This integration of the Paris Agreement Goals and the SDGs is seen by Fiji as a critical to protecting forests and people, supporting economic growth. It will require the ongoing development of policies, plans and frameworks to achieve this. As Fiji reaffirms its commitments towards the global agenda under the SDGs and Paris Agreement, it will continue to protect forests and people, supporting economic growth and addressing rainforest conservation. Finally, I now wish to turn to the issues of finance. The key role to our efforts to protect forests is the need for innovative finance mechanisms to protect all kinds of forests, again including land-based forests, mangroves and sea grasses, while negotiations on forests have been among the most constructive strands of negotiation over the last 10 years, producing a detailed rulebook on red plus, the fact remains that the rule provides no actual formal mechanism within red plus for financing forests. Red plus has struggled because the lack of a carbon market has left it dependent on voluntary action and without the certainty needed to attract private funding. Additionally, the mechanism being pursued by Norway and the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility are excellent measures to develop red plus, but we now need long-term public and private sector finance flows to ensure that finance will flow into actual forest. In this regard, I note that while many governments have implemented measures to protect forests through establishing protected areas, this is not sufficient to avoid their destruction. Furthermore, despite the natural wear of forest, they do not offer a financial return on investing in their conservation, protection and management that can compete with a more destructive use. There are no well-established markets for forest carbon or the broader benefits they provide despite bringing critical to our very survival. Forest have therefore been unable to attract private sector finance at any scale. The hard-core reality is that protecting forest at any scale requires capital, significant expenditure like any green infrastructure project. Between 2006 and 2014, a total of U.S. $9.8 billion was invested into forest. Almost 90 percent of which came from the public sector. However, it is estimated that somewhere between U.S. $17 billion to $33 billion is required per year to halve deep forestation by 2030. Given the limits on public climate finance, substantial financial support must come from firstly larger pools of capital available only from the private sector. Fiji has taken leadership in this regard by launching our own sovereign green bond which will raise $100 million, which was listed on the London Stock Exchange last week. The proceeds of which will go towards climate mitigation and adaptation projects, including possibly in the Red Plus and Reforestation area. Going forward, we are hopeful that the rules being negotiated for the implementation of the Paris Agreement smooth away for further international cooperation on Red Plus and in particular innovative financing approaches under Article 6. All countries, but especially forest countries, enhance the profile of forest in the NDCs, commensurate with the mitigation potential and potential to contribute to other SDGs. Games such as the GCF Resolve-based Payments for Red Plus are implemented. Developed countries and the private sector increase financing flows for forest, especially the promise of Resolve-based Red Plus Payments, commensurate with the mitigation potential. This includes working together to develop mechanisms that drive and attract investments, both public and private, into Red Plus in a way that values this forest for their nature-based solutions to climate change and assisting to adapt to climate change. And other countries work with Fiji to follow the lead we have taken with our green bond, to develop bonds tailored specifically towards protecting forest and landscape. We look forward to a successful Red Asia Pacific Rainforest Summit and wish you all a constructive and enjoyable three days in your participation and contributions towards the success of this summit. Winaka and thank you very much.


November is coming to an end and now is when we need to start stocking up our stores with brand new products that are going to be trending in December 2023, going into January 2024. Every month there's new trending products, whether that be a seasonal trend, something that happens every single year around the same time of the year, or simply just passing trends that you want to hop on to make a quick book. Today's video is going to focus on the top 10 products that you should be dropshipping in December 2023, along with some expert tips to help you start marketing them and start making some profits. So with that, let's go ahead and get started. Now, before we do get started with the countdown, remember to go along with this video, just like every other top 10 video that we have, we're going to be giving you an easy to reference cheat sheet with all of the different products and all of the different links to the products to make things that much easier for you. And if you want access to that, all you have to do is go ahead and comment down below. Hashtag December 2023. And let me know which one of these products was your favorite. After I see that you went ahead and did that, I'll reply back with a link to the sheet. Oh, let's get started. So to kick off this list, the first item is going to be a pair of orthopedic running shoes. Now, this is a very long Facebook ad. So we're just going to quickly skim through it because truthfully speaking, I don't want to spend a minute and 22 seconds just watching this ad for shoes that I'm not going to buy. Okay, but I'm talking about this. You guys said you saw these as well. Okay. So they're showing you how they come through. It's a lot of b-roll. Now my question is on that talk show, are they actually referring to these shoes in particular? I don't think so. I think they're just using it as some sort of voice over. All right. So pretty much all they're doing through this entire video is simply just talking about the benefits of the shoe, how they can help you out when you're running and how comfortable they are. It's just primarily firsthand accounts and reviews. Let me fill you guys in on a little secret here. So what they did here is they went ahead and they took a sample from a talk show. They most likely added right here foot paint shoes because this is not the original text. This doesn't even look like the original text. This honestly is completely different quality than the entire rest of the video. Now, this is something that I'm noticing because I always noticed like these little minor differences in images and videos. I'm very big on quality. This was added on maybe Adobe Premiere Pro or CapCut or simply just an editing program on the phone. And that right there where she said, I absolutely love Comfortware. That was not her. So either they used an AI voice, they generated an AI voice using a sample from that, or that's just simply somebody else talking. The way that they started this off really makes you think that they're referring to these shoes in particular when realistically speaking, they're not any time that they mentioned Comfortware throughout the video. I can almost guarantee you that that is AI generated. But aside from that, looking through some of the comments, they have 11,000 likes, pretty good amount of comments, 1.9,000. Just got mine. I love them. Awesome. Just order them. Got mine and just got mine. So overall, they do have some pretty positive comments, which is good because that's honestly the best social proof that you can get. So checking out their website, you have ortho stretch cushion shoes. And typically they're $90, but they're on sale for $59.95. They have a few different selections when it comes to colors. A few different shoe sizes. I like the fact that they have US and Australian, so it's pretty clear. People would know what sizing to reference instead of discussing. Aside from that, the website itself is actually pretty clean. I like their logo Comfortware with a little circle with feet in it. It's very niche specific. It really references the shoes. It gives you a bit of comfort in actually making the purchase. They got a good banner up here used Black Friday for an extra 20% off. It's an updated promo code, which is also really good. A lot of times here you'll have a promo code for maybe three or four months ago, which kind of shows you that people aren't really taking care and updating their website. Aside from that, they have some really high quality images. Their text over here is perfect. It's got some pretty simple icons. It's easy to read a gif, a little bit of information and a CTA to buy more. Aside from that, if you scroll down a little bit more, you have one of my favorite things and that's reviews. I love seeing reviews, especially with images. Aside from that, that's pretty much all they have. It's a clean website. It's easy to navigate. I like those websites. I think they did a great job. So let's pull out our calculator and let's start getting things ready. So for this, it's going to be $59.95. Now let's add about $13 for shipping. So we're looking at a total of about $72.95. Now let's check out how much they're actually running for. I see what you did there. So looking over AliExpress, they're running for $20.12. I'm not going to be going by the sale price because that can always change. Now, as far as the shipping, it's showing us that it has free shipping. So $72.95 minus $16.30 leaves us with a profit of $56.65. This is a really good item. This is a very high ticket item. Making over $50 selling one pair of shoes is a fantastic profit. Next up, at number two on our list, we have an electric drill plate cutter. And here we see this guy who's very inefficiently cutting something, but then he switches over to the drill plate cutter. And this, this is revolutionary. It's actually really cool. It allows you to simply cut thin sheets of whatever material it is. So something like that would be made a lot easier with this type of cutter. This is actually something that's very efficient. It looks like it could be something that a lot of people use, obviously, of course, outdoors, and this is something that would be heavily marketed towards DIYers. So people that love do it yourself. Now, this ad, I think, actually was done very well. It's pretty short. It's 17 seconds. It's pretty ideal, but it did incorporate an entertainment element at the beginning, which is this right here. They show some random guy trying to cut a piece of metal. And he's got a very makeshift shield or protection on. And then it switches over to the solution, which is the blade cutter. It's got eight point five thousand likes, three point one thousand comments and over a thousand shares. It's got some pretty good interactions. Now, let's take a look at the website that's selling it. So this is Relaxed Inc. Honestly, this logo and the title really don't have much to do with the item itself. So me personally, that's something that I'm always very critical about. I like to have a matching logo for whatever it is that you're doing. Now, obviously, this is more geared towards a generic store, but this could be more of a generic logo. This isn't really anything that has to do with relaxing. Aside from that, though, the website is pretty clean. It's straight to the point. It's got a little bit of information and a few images. This is the standard drop shipping website, but at the end, they did add the reviews, which I always think is a great touch. Aside from that, though, I don't like the structure of this. I don't like how it's just simply some text and then an image and then text and an image. This could be structured a lot more cleanly. You could have the images on one side and then some of the text on the other side. It's just it's a little too messy for me. So this one right now is going forward. Ninety nine ninety nine. And now let's check out our supplier. Let's go over to AliExpress. And this is running simply for just five dollars and fifty seven cents. Now, this is the welcome deal. I'm going to go with the full price, which is twenty two dollars and forty nine cents, which is still a pretty good profit. So now let's subtract twenty two dollars and forty nine cents. Shipping is free. And that gives us a potential profit of seventy seven dollars and fifty cents. Today's top ten is full of high ticket items. All right.  There's really nothing special about it. But if it works, right? So right off the bat, what they're showing is simply dogs using it. They're showing the owners putting it under the dog's head, making them more comfortable, potentially relieving anxiety and just helping them be calm and comfortable. So let's check out some of the comments. It's actually got some really positive ones. It's got over eleven thousand likes and loves. It has one point seven thousand comments and over a thousand shares. Primarily, it's just people tagging other people, which honestly, that in itself is pretty good because this can give you a lot more free exposure.  But then when those users start commenting and tagging other people, there you start to get some extra exposure for pretty much for free. So let's take a look at Pup Zen. This is a website that's selling the item and currently it's going for twenty nine dollars and ninety nine cents with free shipping. But if you don't buy it now and you purchase it after midnight, you're going to be paying for shipping. No, you're not. They have their free shipping banner over here as well. The name of the brand itself, Pup Zen, I think is great. I think their logo is pretty good too. It's a simple outline of a dog. But checking out the actual website, we can see they have a few different variations. You can adjust the quantity through here. Pretty easy to navigate. Some high quality images all showing the free shipping guarantee, which shows free shipping here, but then here it tells you that free shipping ends at midnight. So these are some things that you should consider. Make sure that everything on your website matches. So don't put free shipping on the images themselves. Put it on your banner or put it on something like this on a badge. Don't advertise free shipping directly on your image unless you're always going to have free shipping, which chances are tomorrow this is going to say the exact same thing. But make it match. Aside from that, though, let's go ahead and scroll down a one way ticket to Sleep City. I like that. That's clever. It's quirky. It's unique. Shows a little dog sleeping. It goes nice. It goes well. It's a nice little touch. The perfect height and softness. So it has a little bit of information. It's not overbearing with text, which I like. And it just shows images of the pillow and the pillow being used. Aside from that, it's got a few trust badges. No reviews, unfortunately. I think this website is pretty good. I like the color scheme. I just personally like this color. But other than that, it's clean. It's easy to navigate. The only things that I would change is, like I said, this free shipping guarantee on the image itself. I would take that off. And down here, just at the reviews. If you don't have reviews, there's apps on Shopify that can help add reviews for you or import reviews from, let's say AliExpress. So let's talk about the important thing. Let's go with money. So $29.99. And checking our supplier, you can see that it's running for just under $8 with free shipping, as long as it's over $5. So you should be getting free shipping unless you purchase it at a discount, in which case, you're not going to qualify for free shipping. But then it would kind of average out to about the same. So let's just go with $8. So $29.99 minus $7.53. That's going to give us a profit of $22.46. Not bad. Now, let me stop right here really quick. And let me ask you to do something. Go ahead and smash that like button if you're enjoying this video so far. Also, if you're not already, please consider hitting that subscribe button as well. Next up, we have a disposable toilet brush set. So let's check out the Facebook ad right off the bat. They're showing you exactly how it's used, how easy it is to attach the attachments and how well it works in the actual toilet. It's very versatile. The head actually swivels from the looks of it. And it's easy to detach and start over again. All right, so let's check out large lie.   It's kind of just like all of the other ones that we've seen. As you can tell, this is a generic store. They're selling clothes, household supplies, toys, beauty makeup, a little bit of everything. So let's check out the item itself. It's currently running for $13.63. It's got some pretty high quality images on the side. It's got a few different options and they're all going to be priced differently because they're all going to be different things. So first you have the toilet brush with the 18 piece brush set. You have two different scents, the lemon and the ocean, both same price. Oh, and you have a lavender as well. And then you have the actual head replacements. So these are running for $4.95, whereas the entire set runs for $13.63. Now, this is showing free shipping on orders over 12 or 13 pounds and I'm not entirely sure what the conversion rate would be, but it equals out to $10.96. So you would be paying for shipping on the set. Now, if you purchase a set along with a brush head replacement, then you would be qualifying for free shipping. So so far, everything looks pretty basic, the same as any other dropshipping website and you got your typical images. Pretty basic, not my favorite way of doing things. I think it's too generic, but it's their own. So now let's run over to our supplier and let's see how much money we can make. Now, these aren't going to be the exact same ones that you see on here, although they are very similar. They're not going to be the exact same ones. At least they're not always going to be. One thing you have to keep note when it comes to these types of products is that there's going to be a lot of similar products with a few minor differences. At the end of the day, they're all going to do the same thing. Some of them are going to be similarly priced. Some are going to be a little bit pricier than others. And that's why you need to look around to find the best option with the best pricing. We can see that they have the set A and they have a few different ones. They have the set A lemon lavender. Now here for one set, they're selling it for $13.63. Now running over here to AliExpress, they're selling it for $8.61. So minus $8.61. So this gives you a potential profit of $5. Now, while that doesn't seem like a lot, you have to remember that with these types of products, a lot of people also buy the consumables. So a lot of people are going to be buying extra brush heads as well. And on top of that, whenever they run out of the brush heads, they're going to come back to your website to purchase more. So while you're not making a lot of money from one sale, you could be making a lot of money from multiple sales overall throughout time. Now I did do something different in this one. I took into consideration the sale price rather than the full price. And that's because if we look over here, we can see that they're selling it for $13.63. And here it's for $16.24. If we were to take into consideration this price, we would be in the negative. If this goes back up to $16.24, then this one has the potential of going back up to $26.03. This already depends on how you're running your store. One way that you can prevent losing money by not having your prices updated is simply by implementing automation. So when you implement automation into your dropshipping store using AutoDS, you get the awesome feature of price and stock monitoring. So what this does is it'll keep track of your suppliers' prices and your suppliers' stock quantities. So if they ever run out, your inventory will reflect that almost immediately.  If their prices change, then your prices will change accordingly. You can set it to change automatically by either using a dollar amount or a percentage. So let's say your supplier increases their price for about $10, then your product will do the same. AutoDS will set your product to go up by those $10 if you choose to go that way. Next up we have a manual dumpling pressing machine. So for this, we're going to check out a TikTok ad. And here you can see what they're simply doing is just putting dumpling into the little presser and pressing it again. And there you go. You have a dumpling. Something pretty cool about this is the fact that this doesn't necessarily have to be used just for dumplings. This can also be used for something like a Spanish empanada. Here we have Elaco. Again, I'm not a fan of this name. It has nothing to do with the item itself. Obviously, this is a generic store as well because they have women, women's shoes, women's purses, sunglasses, men's items, hair, feet, care, literally anything you could think of. So we have the manual dumpling pressing machine, creative dumpling making machine. I'm never a fan of such long titles. I don't see the point in it. Honestly, this could have been good enough with just manual dumpling pressing machine. That's it. Let's check out the images. They have some pretty high quality ones. Just a few different colors, rest assured and practical, healthy and safe PP material. All right, so overall it's got some pretty decent quality images. They're not the highest of quality, but they're good. They're not blurry. You can read them. You can understand what's going on. So checking out the price. It's selling currently for $34.92. Let's go ahead and take note of that. 34.92. They have a few different colors of different variations. Oh, apparently it's on sale and it ends in just one hour. Oh, better make a purchase now. But then if you keep scrolling, you have the same thing as always. Just different images, except with no text. This time, the text is in the actual images. But this right here is not structured well at all. This just makes the website look kind of silly and at the same time, kind of empty because here on the left, there's nothing here on the right. It's the exact same images that you see on here. So honestly, this right here, the description, it's not placed well at all. I don't think it's good. I don't think it looks good. I don't think it instills trust in the consumer into making a purchase. So if I were them, what I would do is completely restructure the description part, delete all of these different images. They're already in the pictures anyway. And just talk a little bit about the product. Maybe add a video that shows how the product is used. And of course, as I always say, add some reviews because they don't have that here. So let's take a look at the price over at AliExpress. It's currently running for $8.28 down from 15.62 with free shipping. So even if you buy it on sale, you are going to get free shipping because it's an order over $5. So it's being sold for $34.92. Now, let's subtract our full price of $15.62. Obviously, we're not including shipping, and this equals out to $19.03. Still making some pretty good profit so far. OK, so next up on our sixth spot, we have a vehicle de-icing tool. Spaceballs, the flames grow out. Let's take a look at the Facebook ad for this, which right off the bat, just looking at the first frame, it looks like it's already going to catch somebody's attention. And then we have a car sliding through ice and boom, it slams, causing an accident. All right, so let's see how this little tool can help us out. So this seems to be a simple tool that you leave inside your car and it warms up your entire car to melt the ice from the outside. Interesting. Makes me kind of think that the inside of the car might be pretty hot, but I mean, I guess it doesn't really matter if there's this much snow going on, right? So really, the entire ad is just people struggling with the snow and it doesn't give you an actual product demonstration. That's one thing that's kind of getting to me. It shows you a demo of it. My suggestion when it comes to this product, if you live somewhere where it snows and this is a common problem, order this item, record a video, show how it works and show a real life case study. Don't just show an animation. Aside from that, it shows an end result, which is a completely clear car. Scroll down a little bit. Let's check out the comments so we can see that it has 868 comments, over a thousand shares and 4.9 thousand reactions. Some laughing, some with a thumbs up. I would like to get one for my dad. He'd be thrilled to have this. Congratulations on such a unique and hopefully helpful product. Interesting comments. All right, so I mean, overall, the ad is all right. I think it could be done a lot better. I would go with something similar to this. I like what they did with the whole showing the exaggerated ice on the cars. But I would go with an actual case study and show the product actually in use. Short working. Aside from that, though, checking out the website itself, we have OveloGo. OveloGo, the the actual item is called OveloGo, I guess. And the company name or the website name is called La Veyaron. Worldwide shipping with fixed rate, six dollars. So you get six dollars shipping throughout the entire world. The item itself costs twenty five dollars and ninety seven cents for one of them. So let's go ahead and do some math. Twenty five ninety seven plus five point ninety nine for shipping. So our total cost is going to be thirty one dollars and ninety six cents from this website. So they have the vehicle maximum microwave molecular de-icing instrument. I would take this off. I wouldn't do instrument. I would do something better. Cruelty free, eco-friendly, hundred percent satisfaction, guaranteed. Always watch your spelling. Please always watch your spelling because it is guaranteed, not guaranteed. It's things like this that will really make a customer think that your website is fake, that it's a scam, that it's a fraud. Always make sure that you have proper spelling. We have the item price, then we have a little bit extra. Two pieces for a discount, three pieces, five pieces. Then just like a lot of the other websites that we've been on. It's just images with text. Let's see if they have reviews and they do have reviews. So they have a three point four out of five stars with 20 reviews. So checking out our suppliers website over at Aliexpress. We can see that it's being sold for three dollars and sixty nine cents down from eight dollars and fifty seven with three dollars and twenty eight cents shipping. So let's take out our handy Danny calculator. Let's subtract the full price, which is going to be eight fifty seven. And then let's subtract our shipping cost, which is going to be three dollars and twenty eight cents. That gives us a grand total of a potential profit of twenty dollars and eleven cents. OK, so up next on our list, we have a Sun Visor phone holder. Now, unfortunately, the Facebook ad that we had for this was taken down for whatever reason. But I'm going to go ahead and show you a similar ad, which honestly was just the video that they have on the suppliers website. We can see that all they're doing is showing you simply how it works. So you attach the phone holder to your Sun Visor. You pull down the attachment and you attach your phone to it. That's really all there is to it. It's easy to look at while you're driving. And you can even use it in the backseat so that way people can stay entertained or you can even use it while you're cooking. Now, for this, we're checking out Amazon and we can see that it's being sold currently for nineteen ninety nine. So let's jump over to our calculator and let's do nineteen ninety nine. And let's check out Aliexpress here. They're selling it for ninety nine cents. But as always, we're not going to go for the sale price. We're going to go for the full price. So let's subtract twelve dollars and eighty six cents. And that gives us a potential profit of seven dollars and thirteen cents. That's not bad for such a small item for such a common item. All right, so next we have a cozy knit set for women. So let's check out the Facebook ad. So right off the bat, we can see that somebody is actually wearing it. So they're wearing the entire set, the top, the bottom and the robe. Then they simply just switch to all of the different variations that they have available. That's pretty much all there is to it. Checking out some of the reactions. It has over fifty two thousand likes and loves. That is insane. That's a big amount. Seven point six thousand comments, eight hundred and fifty four shares. So here you can see a husband tagging his wife. Pretty much that. Just a lot of people tagging their wives or their significant others. Now, this website is done very well. So I like the background. I like the all black. I've always liked black. But aside from that, it's pretty well made. It's straight to the point. It's got very high quality images.  But we'll find that out in a little bit. A simple description, information on the shipping and the returns. A cozy knit sock set. So this is pretty cool because this is one of those that gets people to make an additional purchase. I know you're looking at this, but you know what would go great with this? These socks. Aside from that, if you scroll down, you have the different variations and all of the different reviews, which are actually really good. Four point seven out of five stars. Overall, I think it's great. I think it's very well made. Miss Cosi is a perfect name for something like this, because obviously this is geared more towards women and it's giving you the feeling of comfort. So Miss Cosi is a perfect name. So the three piece is actually running for one hundred and thirty three dollars. That is pretty expensive. So one thirty three. Let's go ahead and check out our suppliers. So the three piece set is running for twelve dollars and fifty six cents on sale right now. But we're going to do the full price and we're going to subtract twenty two dollars and eighty four cents and it has free shipping. So overall, they're making a total profit of about one hundred and ten dollars per sale. That is absolutely insane. I would feel a lot more comfortable making a purchase of one hundred and thirty three dollars on a website like this. Then I would on a website like this, not going to lie to you. This does not give me the confidence that this does. This is very well branded. It's very well put together. The images are great. And overall, this is a lot nicer experience than something like this. So as you can see, it's all about your branding.  If you do it properly, you can charge some pretty good money for your items. All right. So this next item is geared towards all the I wires and crafting enthusiasts, and that's going to be an epoxy resin silicone mold set for chess. So let's go to the Facebook ad. And here you can see that they're simply placing some epoxy resin over the mold. They're squaring it out to the little squares. Then they're filling it up completely. So pretty much just showing you how it works, how the epoxy resin works. You got to give it time. It hardens up, then you can peel it off and you have your own custom chess board. Obviously, you can change the different colors based off of the different epoxy that you put in there, and they also have different molds for pieces. So this helps you create your own chess set, a customized chess set for whatever colors that you want to add on there. So let's go over to the website and they have let's resin. So this is simply the mold set. This does not come with the actual resin. This is just the molds with the colors that you can add to the resin. So for those of you that don't know, resin is a material or a type of liquid that comes in two parts. You mix it together and then you put it into whatever mold you want, or you set it wherever you want to set it. And after some time, typically about after a day, it gets hard. And then you can use it for almost anything you want. There's a huge market for this, because this is what a lot of people do to sell their custom items on, let's say, Etsy. So there's a lot of items that go along with this, such as molds. So for this mold set, you can see that it's going for $27.49. Now, honestly, anything about free shipping. So I'm going to add about $13 for shipping, which is typical for my area. But let's look at the website itself. So we have Let's Resin. I like the name. It goes perfectly with the theme of the item itself. The logo, I mean, that's really personal. Honestly, the logo is not really bothering me. The name of the store is perfect, so I'm good with that. Scroll down a little bit, buy it with and save 10 percent to bundle. This is great. This is a great way to upsell. You have your reviews here, a description, which is collapsible, which I really like, shipping policy, same thing. Then you have actual images of the item itself. So overall, this is a pretty well structured website. I like the way that they structured it. I think it's straight to the point. Easy to navigate. Could use a couple of extra pops of colors here and there because of the type of item that it is. But overall, pretty good job. So let's go ahead and run over to our supplier at Aliexpress. And here we see that they have the chessboard for $10.60. Now, let's go ahead and add that to our chess pieces, which is going to be $8.69, which gives us a grand total of $19.29. Let's add $4.78 for shipping, equaling out to $24.07. So jumping back over to the actual website, we can see it's for $27.49, plus $13 for shipping, $4.49. Now let's take off our item price, $24.07, which gives us a potential profit of $16.42. All right, so for the last item on our list, we have a universal car window screen. So this is a pretty cool one because what this does, it simply just goes over your car window and it provides a screen on it.  Without any nasty bugs or anything like that coming in. So this item is currently going forward $19.95. I don't see anything telling us that they're not charging us for shipping. So I'm going to assume that they are. So something like this can come in a small packaging. So I'm going to simply add about $6 for shipping. So $25.95. Now, taking a look at the website that it's through Loose Posse, Loose Posse, I'm not entirely sure, but overall the structure of the website itself is not good at all. I don't like it whatsoever. They don't have the menu bar up here for one. They have this little collapsible one, which I don't think it really works for the type of website that we're on, but sure. Scroll down, you have this countdown. It's telling you that the sale ends in seven hours. I don't like this right here. I think this is a little bit excessive. Just simply having hours, minutes and seconds would be enough. Scroll down a little bit more. You have the different styles, the different sets, some trust badges guaranteed checkout, and then just your usual drop shipping website. You have the gifts with the images, gifts and images. So for the reviews, they have a little box here, which is all right. At least they have the reviews on there. This down here, the add to cart. I like the fact that they have a sticky add to cart, which means at any point as you're looking through the website, you can add it to your cart. This one is a bit too bulky. It's too big. I don't think it fits well. Something smaller would be a lot better. And a lot of times they don't actually have it at the bottom. They have it at the top. So jumping over to our suppliers website, we can see that they're actually only running for $172 each. That's really cheap with $5.94 shipping. So let's go ahead and pull out our handy dandy calculator. This one's running for $19.95. We said $6 in shipping. Now let's go ahead and subtract the item cost, which is going to be $1.72. And then let's subtract the shipping, which is going to be $5.94, giving us a grand total profit of $18.29. Not bad. So as you saw, most of the items on today's list were actually with a profit margin of over $15, except for the smaller items. But the majority of them had a pretty high ticket drop shipping price. 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So, today we're going to discuss objects. What is an object? What is object-oriented programming? What makes a language object-oriented? Things like that. So first, the different practices involved. As for full object orientation, the people who are fond of object-oriented programming find that they generally perceive objects as good, as this very beneficial thing to use. It may claims that it requires less code than... This is usually said in comparison to structured procedural or imperative programming. This isn't necessarily said in comparison to something like functional programming. Just know that in practice you see a huge amount of interleaving in different paradigms, so it's not like you'll often see just an object-oriented language. They also claim that it makes a code more structured. Now there are tons of different structuring approaches. I usually see this as a comparison to the completely unstructured procedural style code. We're talking way back before namespaces or modules or anything like that. Nowadays, even a strictly procedural language or a multi-paradigm language that you're just not using objects can still be highly structured just because of other approaches to tackling structuring the code. Get into that and get into code structuring in another presentation. I also claim that it makes it easier to test. This has to do with the objects being a bit of a black box. We'll get into what that means later on in this. And also that the inheritance and stuff helps enforce similar behavior throughout the descendants that, when it's already verified in one, should work properly in all of the descendants. I don't really have anything else to say about that there. But there are a lot of other claims. You're probably seeing this on YouTube, so if you go through, go on to the YouTube search and what is object-oriented programming, you'll find tons of videos that detail tons of other claims about what object-oriented programming is. I don't want to discuss everything because I'm trying to make this more of a crash course. And generally, the people who are fond of object-oriented programming want to use them not quite everywhere for anything, being a little bit hyperbolic here. But there are languages, like C-sharp, that pretty much do use objects for everything imaginable. But then there are others that are generally regarded as object-oriented, like Java, where there are some base types that are not objects. But then there's this huge object tree along with it. But generally speaking, somebody in favor of object-oriented programming wants to use them as much as possible. So then what makes a language object-oriented? Because we've got to cover this. One common thing I see asked tons of different places is, is this language object-oriented or claims about this language is not really object-oriented or is, despite criticisms, so what actually makes a language object-oriented? And it depends on who you ask. Alan Kaye, one of the most important people in defining what object-oriented programming is. One of the pioneers in object-oriented programming. I won a Turing Award in 2003 if my memory serves me right, specifically for his work on object-oriented programming. Says that really the focus is on message passing over calling, and that's a little bit of a technical detail that we're not going to get into for this. I got a presentation on sub-routines that'll have that in there. But the common definition doesn't quite line up with what Alan Kaye originally proposed. The common definition is that an object-oriented language should support things like inheritance, whereby one object inherits the values and properties and methods of another object. Polymorphism, whereby one object can represent itself as another within the branch in the object hierarchy. Get into that and get into the specifics on these in a little bit. As well as others like late-binding and other stuff, they get into a little bit more of these in a bit. But it's... This is really something where object-oriented means different things depending on who you ask. I have a quote here from Alan Kaye. I'm sorry that I long ago coined the term objects for this topic, because it gets many people to focus on the lesser idea. The big idea is messaging. So then object-oriented or object-based. And unfortunately, the use of these terms is the no-true Scotsman fallacy. What you can see over and over again is people look at, however, their language of preference implements object-orientation and say that is the one true object-oriented language approach. Everything else is object-based. So it's unfortunate. But just be aware that since this is such a remarkably popular paradigm, you wind up with, like everything else, tons of different definitions for what should sort of be the exact same thing. But I'm not going to give my opinion on what makes something specifically object-oriented or object-based. I personally go with Kaye's definition. But often when I speak about it, I'll use the common definition just because I'm trying to speak to the general audience here, not to Alan Kaye and his contemporaries. But I also want to touch sort of on prototyping, just that it's another approach to object-orientation that will usually get you yelled at if you ever call it object-orientation. It sort of implements a lot of the common definition parts of objects. But overwhelmingly, it will get called object-based. I think that usually has to do a lot, at least the biggest, the most common criticism I see, is that, oh, well, it doesn't follow a class hierarchy. But there are other ways, beyond prototyping, to meet all of their other parts of the definition without actually having the class. ADA is like this, where it implements, inherits some polymorphism and late binding and tons of other things, dynamic dispatching and just nearly everything that people would describe as something an object-oriented language should have, but lacks the actual class. It has a different approach to structuring that. And so, as for prototyping, I don't really want to say a whole lot here, just because I don't... I haven't worked with prototyping languages often enough to feel comfortable really giving an authoritative description of what prototyping is. I've done some work in JavaScript enough to write something for a client, but I didn't really make much use of prototyping in that. Maybe it would have benefited me highly if I had used it more. I just didn't. You can find people easily who know prototyping considerably better than I do. If you want to get anything on prototyping, I would highly suggest you go with them. I'll try and get a link from somebody. I've seen a few videos on this before, just guy doing amazing things with JavaScript specifically, using prototyping. I'll see if I can dig his stuff up and have a link for it down in the video description, just to help get you started on prototyping. So then, my practice is specifically, because I'm not going to pretend that I'm unbiased here, I probably tell a little bit of the undertones in that I'm not super keen on object-oriented programming. They are sometimes useful. If you delve into my containers library, especially, you can see that almost the entire thing, container-wise, is an object hierarchy. There's the base container, the different types of lists, all inherit from a list container, which inherits from the base container. It's just a huge branching tree. But there's plenty of cases where something being an object is not actually beneficial, or in some cases can actually be detrimental. And that's why, again, if you go into the containers library, you can notice that the nodes that make up the containers are not objects. There are base records that don't inherit from anything. This decision, at least in that specific case, has to do with memory overted of the record tag, as Ada calls it, or the vtable, as C++ calls it. I'm sure there's other names, depending on the language, but there's overhead for that that not all programmers are going to be aware of. And in some cases, that can be a rather significant amount of memory use that's added for each node. So for something like that, I find it best to avoid it. Similarly, I'm very glad that in an Ada, all the numerics types are not objects. For, again, the same reason the additional memory overhead of all the numbers would be absolutely ridiculous. At least on the processor I have, a 64-bit integer as an object would take up 128 bits. You do a lot of numbers in memory. That extra amount from the tag really adds up. But also, if you're using an object or intended language that follows K's definition and actually uses message passing over subroutine calling, the way message passing is implemented, even though it has certain benefits, does result in copies in memory. Which, if you haven't seen the video where I discuss memory performance, there's a few of them actually, accessing anything in memory, copying anything in memory. We're at a point where it's taking several hundred CPU cycles for any single memory operation, and it's causing quite a bit of performance degradation. So I find it best to avoid that with certain things. Essentially, I view it as a trade-off. Understand where it's good, understand where it's bad, and weigh those with any design. And pick the one that's most appropriate for the goals you're trying to accomplish. I don't think there is any universal approach to things. So as for objects themselves, an object groups data together. This is very similar to a record. The major difference is that an object also groups functions along with it, as long as those functions are dispatching. That is a topic for another time, but at least with class-based object-oriented languages, whether or not a function meets the appropriate definition of a method is very easy to determine. If it's inside the class, it's dispatching. It will be a method. If it's outside of the class, it's just an ordinary function. OK, I already covered that. Primitive functions dispatch. Don't worry about the name definition, it's not very important. But primitive functions are dispatching. So objects are a way of providing encapsulation.  It's a container, not in the sense of the containers or abstract data type library, but a container in just the general worldly sense, like a bucket is a container.  In the case of an object, it holds values and dispatching methods. So where a class varies from a namespace, namespaces can hold other namespaces. Namespaces can hold classes. A class can, in some languages, hold other classes. But a class cannot hold a namespace. Classes are just definitions and need to be instantiated as you would instantiate a normal value, like an integer. You give it a name and then give it its initial value. Namespaces just exist from the get go. Once that code is loaded, it's just there. It doesn't need to be instantiated. This also means that only one instance of a namespace can ever exist. Classes, unless they use a singleton pattern, can exist as many times as you have memory to fit the instances. So our class differs from a package. Many of the same things for a namespace also apply here. But note that if you have classes and packages available, it's generally better to implement singletons using the package itself and not through a singleton pattern with a class. So for inheritance, let's say you have a class just called A and then it moves. You have a class B that talks. And it inherits from A, so it also moves. That's how inheritance works. Just by virtue of inheritance, the moves method or however it's moving is also provided to class B. That's why it helps cut back on code and the amount of code you write. So as for polymorphism, say you have a class A and you have a class B. B inherits from A. You have a class C. C does not inherit from A or B, but it has a method or collection of methods that act upon As. And so because B inherits from A, you can pass anything of the type class B to the method from C and it will work because it reduces the view down of B to anything A has but not anything that B adds on to A and then operates on the limited view of B, as if it were A. So as for generics with object-oriented programming, it largely works the same way as you would expect. If we have method A from a class that acts upon a generic type then you have it should be written slightly differently. If you have a class that inherits from the same class that method A was in, let's call that class B. And the class is specified to work on integers. Method A will also work on integers. Then you have a class C, which would be inherited through a float. The method A would work similarly with class B on floats instead of integers. Open recursion is a concept that really doesn't show itself anywhere else that I'm aware of. It's for an object to or rather the object definition, the class in most cases, to reference itself. It's normally done with a keyword like this or self, although in certain languages you can name that, whatever you feel like. F sharp works that way, I believe. Real quick, IDA does as well. Although IDA is not class-based, so it's not the class working on that name. But rather the function or procedure as long as it's dispatching will use the parameter name as the self reference.  As far as object-oriented programming advocates go, you're supposed to have as little of the eternals exposed as possible, really only exposing what should be worked with. I would argue that this has nothing to do with object-oriented programming and is purely just good design regardless of how you structure the code. Without a technical note, this applies to most languages, not all. Records and structures, basically the same thing, utilize the stack internally in most cases. It depends on the size of them, but they would often be pushed onto a stack and then popped off. Whereas objects are placed into a heap, which while still a very efficient memory structure is not always as efficient as the stack. Don't really worry about that too much, the performance issue present. A good compiler can often place a small object on the stack anyways. So then, sort of the obsession with objects, this is going to get rather hyperbolic, but it's just to demonstrate a point. I will admit one of these slides is a bit of an absurdity fallacy. I'm the one who's being a bit illogical just by making a bit of an absurd claim. It's just sort of for humor, you can say. Even I'm not taking myself too seriously. Come on, there we go. So, like I said, kind of a hyperbolic parallel to two classes would just be to make everything an array. This can be done, sort of. But again, this is mostly just absurd humor. So some reasons why you might not want to go the object-oriented route. Normally, when I would do this as a presentation, I would click on these links and then read through it, assuming there was enough time available. What I'm going to do for this is have these links down in the video description. If you're only going to read one of these, I think the most practical would be this one, from the guys who worked on Legend of Grimrock. They cover some amazing issues with object hierarchies and how they were actually duplicating code that should have never had to have been duplicated and how they fixed it kind of in Legend of Grimrock 2 by taking an alternative approach. This isn't so much to bash object hierarchies because they are useful, just more so to be aware of some of the limitations and when you would not want to pick up an object hierarchy. The rest are a little bit more technical, theoretical, not so much a practical application, but if you can spare the time, I would strongly recommend going through all three of these. So then just leaving you off with something to think about. Implementation inheritance causes the same intertwining and brittleness that have been observed when go-to statements are overused. As a result, object-oriented systems often suffer from complexity and lack of reuse, John Oysterhood. So like always, if you've enjoyed this video, if you found it helpful, informative, please give me a thumbs up. If you like my stuff in general, please follow. It helps me out more than most people will realize. Now have a good one.


Blizzard has announced a brand new IP. Blizzard, Microsoft Blizzard has announced a new IP. Already making moves.  Okay. Milena is happy for Sotus' new partner. Let's take a look at some of this stuff. Oh, do you want traveling time soon? Wait, Vebe is European? She's Polish? Dude, I thought she was a GIF. Everything about going to check it out? Maybe you say hi to Greek when you're there? Milena's BFF arrives for Nick's birthday. Happy birthday, dear. It's Scarra. What, I never ate any of the cake. Yo, nice balloons. I'm sorry, Amanda. You got this one. Susu J. Pegg's opinion on Ninja and his career.      That's why Drake played Fortnite.  I was like, oh fuck, yeah, blue-haired twink. I'm playing games with you. So I would corroborate this. That's what happened, and that's the only reason why Ninja's famous. I'm fed this look. I'm actually seeing stars right now. Where's my, where's my, I need to get blood in my brain. Hold on, I got a pile of bread.  You're so straight. Ready? Okay, you good? Dude, I really have some blood. I didn't really think about that. That looks so bad, dude. It looks so much worse. It looked like it was like twerking or something. It was so bad. Forgive me, Lord, for what I'm about to do. Okay. Tyler won a comforts of viewer who had a hard time at school. Autoloss. You come up from school. You got shoved in 15 lockers, five swirly's. Three loogies, four wedges. Right? You sign up for after school curriculum activities, whatever. Got accepted into none of them because you have no redeeming abilities or your skills. Right? So you're coming home at a cool, what? 3 p.m. You go inside.   Takes five minutes. Boot up, bro. Five minutes.  Oh, what's that? Internet goes out because your parent didn't pay the bill. Your father's not in your life. Now at this point, okay, I'm done. No, I'm not. Wait, where is the positive part? Dude, I thought he was gonna turn this around at the end.  But you know what? At least you're good at League of Legends. I thought he was going, but no, he just keeps shitting on the guy. Like, what's happening? Congrats on the Super Bowl. Super Bowl champions, yes, this was me. This is a real picture of me. And this is my real neck and real body and ice cream. Very good. Chad, we won the Super Bowl. S-Fan doing every intro secret leaked footage. Jambon when S-Fan doesn't feed him. Hell, what's wrong with this cat? Dude, and it's smacking her.  What? S-Fan cinematic universe. I do kind of have like a ton of different characters that I just randomly play. But I was just like makeup random characters for things. It's not a say the line, S-Fan.  Average ODK meeting. Okay, that looks so bad. Dude, that looks so bad. Oh my gosh, that looks so bad. This should be the default background for the green screen. Wait, no, what? No, we are not making this the background for the green screen, okay? This is not happening. Dude, okay, so let's talk about this. Blizzard has announced a new IP altogether. And I don't really know anything about it, but let's read it. Blizzard is embarking on our next quest. We're going on a journey to a whole new universe, home to a brand new survival game for PC and console.  A vast realm of possibility waiting to be explored. Every story needs a teller and every bank does too. Every world needs builders. What if that could be you? Thanks, Dr. Seuss. For 30 years, Blizzard has been creating universes for millions of players around the globe. This requires a diverse team of developers willing to lend their voices to listen and be heard that is our mission. Do you like survival games? Do you want to join a collaborative team of experienced developers on a lany-lany-lany-lany? This is your call. Will you answer it? Will you answer the call?  Would you think about all them warriors who died for you in the past? Okay, so they haven't talked about this at all, but it's a new survival game, but they haven't really like, they haven't really announced it officially, but they're like, yo, we're doing this, but we're not talking about it yet. Dude, Microsoft Blizzard. Hell yeah. I'm excited, dude. It's been a long time since Blizzard made a new game, right? Overwatch was in 2016. I thought it was in 2014 for some reason. Did you guys hear about this? Dude, they're getting rid of chance. I love soda poppin'. No, they're getting rid of chance, and I wanted these so bad. Because, dude, they're fun. But apparently people, there is a 0% chance negatively impacted minutes watched for a significant, there is a 0% chance that chance were a direct, chance and your minutes watched going down had a direct correlation. I would love to just randomly chat, spam the wide heartos, chant the wide hearto and everybody just clicks it and wide heartos. I would love that. Gotta turn the stream off. The chance are distracting. Yeah. Who does that? To me, if this is real, then maybe the streamers are just being shitty and they're making the chance so annoying that it actually impacted their views negatively. But there's no way. There's no way. There's a 0% chance. Whereas Rambo, Miskiv stole him from me. Okay, just like he steals everything from me.  He stole my org, everything. Okay, no, I'm just kidding. He's just, I let him go over there and play for a little bit. He'll be back.


Hi, and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following question. The question says, in each of the exercises, 7 to 12, find the equation of the parabola that satisfies the given conditions. Given conditions are coordinates of focus as 6, 0, and directrix is x equals to minus 6. Before solving this question, we should know that if the parabola has voted x at the origin, focus at the point a, 0, and directrix x equals to minus 8, then the equation of parabola is of the form y squared equals to 4ax. This is one of the standard equations of parabola. So keeping this in mind, let's now begin with the solution. We are given that focus of the required parabola is at the point 6, 0, and its directrix is x equals to minus 6. Now clearly, the focus, 6, 0, lies on positive side axis. Axis, the axis of parabola, parabola, opens to the right, like in this figure. If the focus of the parabola is at the point a, 0, and its directrix is x equals to minus 8, then equation of parabola is of the form y squared equals to 4ax. Now here, the coordinates of the focus, that is 6, 0, is in the form, the equation of directrix, that is x equals to minus 6, is in the form of c equals to minus 8. So this implies that equation of required parabola is of the form y squared equals to 4ax. Now here, a is equal to 6, so by putting a as 6 in this equation, we get y squared equals to 4 into 6 into x, and this is equal to 24x. So y squared equals to 24x is the required equation of the parabola. Hence a required answer is, y squared is equal to 24x. This completes the session. Bye, and take care.


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For your listening enjoyment John Lund as Johnny dollar mr. Dollar, this is Wilbur Runyon I plan to meet you at the Dallas Airport, but by the time I had to pay oh, it's all right I'm sorry you went to that trouble. I took a cab in are you at your office now? Oh, yes. I'll be right over I hope the home office didn't think I was foolish asking for your help in this matter But oh no, they didn't not after paying our four policies in one employee group in so short of time That's the way I figured it accidental death at the oil well to one thing, but well murder puts a different light on yeah It usually does. I'll be there in 10 minutes Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to home office employees cooperative group insurance company Hartford, Connecticut The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the syndicate matter Expense account item one $106.40 airfare and incidentals between Hartford and Dallas including cab fare to the Alamo building where I contacted Wilbur Runyon Manager of your Southwestern division you read my report to the home office mr. Dollar. Yeah, what there was other Much I can add to it I'm afraid even the sheriff at Tupelo doesn't know any more than what I wrote With the new oil strike the fellas of boom town that always means a certain amount of trouble Four murders seems like an extra large helping though even for a boom done I don't know what to think of of course practically every man working in that field is insured with us under the group plan So it isn't unusual that we've paid off in all four cases. No, but it is unusual for all four men to die the same way You said that in each case the victim had been beaten to death the murders all follow the same pattern That would seem to indicate that they'd all been done by the same person or persons Oh, that's right and collecting the insurance money might seem to be the answer if all the policies have been made out of the same Beneficiary, but they weren't who did benefit in all four cases the wife of the victim Well, it still doesn't roll out a syndicate. What do you mean? Killers can be hired mr. Runyon They collect their share of the insurance after an unhappy wife becomes a merry widow not in this case Why not oil company that made the strike at Dupelo is one of the best they pay the premiums for their employees No payroll deduction. So so to the wives who collected didn't even know about the insurance until we contacted them That could be an act. I'll let you judge that for yourself Last man killed was a driller named Gonzalez, Mexican. I haven't paid the claim yet I asked his wife to come in this afternoon to pick up the check. She'll be here in a minute I'm sure the man who killed my husband. No, Mrs. Gonzalez. It's insurance life insurance. They all company paid for That's right, man You have a family Mrs. Gonzalez somebody you can go to my mother my brother in Sonora But my husband Manuel he always wanted baby to be born here in status of needle Everything was going to be so good Did your husband have any enemies He never heard nobody There were three other men killed Mrs. Gonzalez. Did he know any of them? I don't think so we were in Tupelo for three weeks three weeks Ah, I forgot to mention that my report dollar all the men killed have been newcomers to the Tupelo field Where'd they work before they came there? They all come in from the same job someplace else Oh, no all came from different places None of them had worked for a couple of months or before hitting Tupelo according to employment record Was your husband out of work for a long time before you went to Tupelo, Mrs. Gonzalez We have no money. He worried all the time Your husband drink or gamble He was a good man. He tried hard to work every day even when he was hurt hurt where how? There was some accident to well You know anything about that running no, but one of the other women mentioned the same thing an accident the week before the killing What did your husband say about his accident mrs. Gonzalez really tell me he falls off But he has marks all over For two days he's staying better. I tried to make him stay longer, but he cried. He must get up and go back to work He's afraid he will lose the job well not for an on-the-job injury he would There isn't any record of an on-the-job injury dollar He was afraid for something you wouldn't tell him, but he was afraid How do I get to Tupelo? Oh? Trailways bust people right across the street, but like I said even the sheriff has stumped on this one I'm not going to see the sheriff I'm gonna get myself a job in that oil field. Oh, I see Want me to contact the company make sure there's an opening now. Don't contact anybody. We already know of four openings Expense account item two five dollars and twenty cents for a use suit of dungarees and a pair of work shoes Item three six dollars and twelve cents bus fare from Dallas to the Tupelo oil field I found quarters in a rundown boarding house and at seven the next morning. I was at the employment office Before 9 a.m. I had a shovel in my hand was digging a sludge Hey, you new man You talking to me. Yeah, come here. What's your name? Johnny dolly. I'm bullfowl Boss on this job. Hi Smoke. Oh, thanks New man comes on the job. I'd like to get to know him help me long up again Where'd you work last before you come here? I was uh, I was out of a job for quite a while Oh, that's too bad. No money coming in gets rough on the fella. Yeah, you broke I Ain't being nosy dollar Thought if you was I might figure out a way to help. Thanks. I'll get by all right Well, if you do get stuck, let me know All right, you can go back to work. It was friendly. All right a little too friendly I was a stranger, but he wanted to help me out with money when I said I didn't need it. He didn't like it Was too late to go back to him without making him wonder. I Had to figure out a way to make him offer again by lunchtime. I had it figured I Left the well and crossed the field of the office Went up to the payroll window Something I can do for you. Yeah, I just signed on this morning. When's payday weekend Wednesday? You get your money Thursday Any chance of getting a little advanced and broke your first day on the job? What do you think this is? Well, I got to get by until payday. I got to eat I can't help that advances are against the rules well Thanks, anyhow Hey Just a minute. Yeah You need some money See bullfaro See bullfaro all roads led back to the straw boss and seeing him wasn't hard He was leaning against the wall to payroll a shack when I came out Hey dollar wait up racing the cashier for an advance, huh? I could have told you that wouldn't work. You're right. It didn't Why didn't you come to me like I told you? All right, you want to lend me some money? I wish I could but I'm just a working stiff myself Well, then why the offer I thought I'd send you to Frankie robling runs the tool department Hunter somebody died and left him a bundle. He likes to help guys alone just like that Well, you expect a little something for his trouble little interests after all he's taking a chance your new on the job You want to see him or don't you? Yeah. Yeah, I want to see him. He said the tools here. I don't bother him on the job Room 12 the Tappella Hotel tonight We're Frankie robling I'm robling Johnny dollar Come on the next room dog. I understand you need some doll. That's right. How much?  We're just to show you appreciate the fame And you wanted it, aren't you? All right You want me to sign some kind of a note and I owe you what for I'll remember it and if you forget I'll remind you $20 and for dead workmen There was a big gap no way of linking them together, but somewhere the pieces had to fit Then Thursday came and I drew my first pay yet. You know all right, huh? Oh, oh, yeah, Bo. I got it 3280. Well only three days Frank her overing will be expecting to see you tonight. I know he just asked me to remind you Some of these rough nicks get absent minded makes it tough on everybody especially themselves. Don't worry, Bo I got a good memory More than 50 men were in robling's room that night all of them in work clothes all them giving him money and None of them enjoying it. I waited until the last of them paid up and drifted out Well dollar I see you hanging back with other boys are shelling out. I Want to see you alone? Yeah That means you want to talk and when you want to talk it means you want to stall about paying I only had three days pay coming you knew that when you borrowed the money had the boarding house to pay I have to live don't I do you all I'm asking for is more time. All right, darling I'll give you more time next payday Only then it'll be 40 bucks not 30 As I say, I won't pay it What do you do then robling take me outside you're thinking of getting hard dollar. No, no robling just curious Yeah Big two ain't you? big hard guy Next week 40 bucks Figure by next week you may soften up John Lund. We bring you the second act of yours truly Johnny dollar Went into a couple of the honky-tonks along the main drag and tried to strike up conversations with men I'd seen in robling's room They shied away from the subject like skittish horses. I Was ready to give it up when a man I recognized from the job came over and set his beard out next to mine Why don't I sit down up yourself? My name is Prescott Wally Prescott. Yeah, I know You were behind me in the pay line this afternoon. Yeah, and I saw you up at robling's room tonight What were you doing there man off? Yeah, I saw you too, but you didn't pay off. How do you know? I heard some talk later robling and bullfowl It's none of my business. Maybe but You better pay I'm sure a cash look a lot of us are short. I'm just telling you for your own good I'm gonna look myself. They don't like it. Let them sue me. That isn't the way they work How do they work? Bronski and a couple of the others could tell you you don't pay up and fold by next week you're liable to get worked over That doesn't convince you.  And what happens next when the guys you want behind bars can't be put there? Every pay they I just about managed to pay off. I got a wife and two kids So I got a borrow all over again to feed them Bronski's in the same boat so it doesn't others Behind started toward the boarding house cutting across lots and the gravel walks between the trailers What's the matter? No, I'll see what I can do though. Haven't you got a world over me? And then I was sucked down into a whirlpool of blackness. I Came out of it. I was alone. I could feel the gravel biting into the side of my face After a while I managed to get on my feet make my way to the boarding house Fell across the bed with my clothes on and passed out again Isn't that what usually happens rough town On an own better and to get licked up on pay night And I know that's what happened when you didn't show for work this morning. Why don't you save it? We're alone. Oh What are you talking about? You know what I'm talking about You and robling had me worked over I wouldn't go around saying foolish things. I couldn't prove I was you Things could be worse, you know You might have been hurt as bad as Prescott was Prescott. Yeah He got you talking through a bottle last night and somebody resented it He's over at the hospital ain't saying much today though. Guess he's sobered up guy with two kids Probably lose a whole week's work Robling likes him. Oh, you see him through Better be back on the job tomorrow though. You got obligations, too, you know, they're due next Thursday. Don't worry, Bo They'll be paid off in full Expensive on item four five dollars to dr. Wayne Libet of Tupelo We're patching up some of the damage done by Frankie Robling's bill collectors Item five eighty cents round trip bus fare to the county seat at Langham Where I laid the story on the line for Sheriff Arthur McMahon. How much of this can you prove dollar? I'll speculate I could probably put a couple of deputies on it. We might be able to hang a loan shark charge on Revelling you get bail and scare all the witnesses out of town in five minutes. Sure. He would science. I want him for murders I want as bad as you do. Yeah, I know it Everybody's been on my neck for this Tupelo mess letters from civic groups who are coming to churches they yell for action But they forget about evidence when they get a position where they could testify personally That's when they lose their tongues Prescott can testify to the setup. You think you'll testify now After what happened to him just because he gave you a warning Can you point to one single man and line up and say he did it? No neither can I Wait a minute Suppose you got him trying to kill somebody before they succeed. What do you mean? I was jumped last night for failing to pay robling Gonzalez and the others drew one beating that way before they were killed. Yeah, I see what you mean Robling expects me to kick him with 40 bucks next Thursday night. Suppose. I don't pay him again You're willing to be the play pigeon on this you keep me tagged next Thursday night from the minute I leave that hotel I'll be there, but if we stop them from killing you we still wind up with an assault shot They all know they've done murder before those sheriff when you take them in and split them in different cells Each one is going to be worrying about how much the others are talking somebody in that syndicate is going to get nervous I went back to the job for the first couple of days my head throbbed in my size eight Still the beating finally wore off All Pharaoh was at his post outside the payroll shack when Thursday came I saw him speak to a couple of the men with me. He didn't think it was necessary When we knocked off for the day, I headed straight for the Tupelo hotel and robling from our robling Come up on business or just to talk again. I came up to tell you I couldn't pay you this week It's too bad. I'm sorry to hear it. I had an accident had to pay a doctor bill I bought 20 bucks from you and you'll get it next week 20 bucks that's bad business stuff. It'll end money without interest.  I got an idea I'm gonna make that 20 a gift dollar for me to you no string no strings at all I left the hotel and hit the main drag as I had the week before I Started a sweat The sheriff and his deputies were around I couldn't see him I pretended to have quite a few drinks and a half a dozen bars before I headed for the boarding house Once I got away from the center of town the streets were like a cemetery Who's that?  No, thanks Could have listened to Prescott.   Yeah, where the devil were you rushing the car on the way out turned into the driveway across the street How'd you know where to stake out this big mouth laid it out for his playmates I'll tell bar right after you left my deputy with Stan less than ten feet away from it Okay, so I start to beat a guy up Sure I got a half dozen murder wars here in the name of John Doe too. What do you want to do about them? Where's your corpse you kidding? No, I'm not Prescott and Bronsky and 20 other men are in jail right now protective custody And they've all made statements Some one of them is bound to recognize one of your boys.  Why do you sweat it out? He'll pay a fine for loan sharking and then get out of the state Who are you bluffing you guys keep your mouth shut you got nothing on any of us It's all going to wait and see huh The way for it, but they didn't break we knew that by Monday morning Roeblings would have a high-powered attorney in the spring I'm on a writ Roeblings was getting the jittery himself though He didn't know what was going on inside and it was killing him We watched him from the upper window of the courthouse. Get him down there He's more nervous than the ones we got here under lock and key. Yeah, and hanging around all day I could only get him in here for 24 hours on the loan charge. He bailed himself out before you got the key turned Hey, who is that he's talking to Jaler going over the way to get supper for the other every time he crosses the street Rubbering tries to pump it. That's a frightened man sure. He could blow up any minute Unless we find a way to light the fuse. Hey, wait a minute.  I don't handle prisoners that way, darling You don't have to all we want is for Roeblings to think you're doing it Is there a telephone over in that cafe? No, call over and get your jailer and the way back He can tell Roeblings that bulls getting a workout tonight. I'll get what you're driving it What do you think Roeblings will be tonight after he gets that piece of information right down there where he is now Sweating it out by proxy. Well, then what about 10 o'clock at bull out of the cell and bring him in here I won't manhandling darling. Listen to me. What you bring him in and see them over there Roeblings across the street. He'll see it. Yeah, who's that deputy yours the big guy Mike Larkin. Yeah After we get bull in here We pull the shades then we march him right out again and put Larkin in that chair instead We can stage it right we put the overhead lights out and turn that desk lamp on the chair So it throws shadows against the shade from where Roeblings stands it looked like the shadow when the chair is bulls We can also make it look like we're giving him a terrific beating and what? What would you do if you actually got a confession out of somebody in this room over the next hour? Let's tie it up have him signing. Oh, that's what you do. Mm-hmm typewriter in there is right next to the window Then you bring bull in to sign it. He won't sign a confession. Nobody will sign a denial Isn't what bull signs that matters. It's what Roeblings thinks bullfair was signing What are you pulling me in there for won't take a minute boy. Just want you to sign this Sign what what is it? Can read it. It's a statement. You made when we brought you in denying any connection with a murder What do I have to sign it for routine bull? And let me get back here use mine Shake hands friend. You've been a real big help. All right Joe take him back to sell Here's hoping don't it won't take long to know the sheriff of Roeblings My man yeah, Charlie Good No, I'll handle it myself. Let's go down. It works.  There were six of them all together Bull steered the suckers to Roeblings for half his take and kept the staff of three muscle men to enforce the payoffs The girl who got me into that dark trailer park was the wife of one of the muscle boys Expense account items six same as combined totals of items one and three $112.52 transportation from Tupelo to Dallas and back to Hartford again Incidentals and miscellaneous were covered by my earnings on the well job proving that I live within my means Expense account total two hundred thirty six dollars and four cents yours truly Johnny dollars


So this is a network cabling project we just finished. I want to put this video together, kind of showcase some of the types of work we do in network cabling. And this was a lot of planning and a lot of detail that went into this. The goal was to have an entire office built that all the wires were very, very well hidden and everything came up from the ground. That meant going through and laying lots and lots of conduit in the concrete floor, chiseling it all out, putting the pull strings in there, working with the general contractor as they built this amazing structure, which was for the conference rooms and some of the seating areas and putting everything that needed to be put into the walls, including all of the cabling that we pulled all in phases. This couldn't be done after, kind of had to be done in phases during about 300 network cables that we put in all together. But when it's in the end, it came together quite nice in the conference, in the comm room here. Now, this work, we worked with them like when we built out the furniture people, they gave us these things that look like spinal columns. And with those was they attached to the floor to keep up that clean look in each of the conference room. So you plug your HDMI and your network cables in here, it goes down to the floor, comes up to the conduits that we have installed in the walls and then we mounted all the TVs to the walls. And in the end, you end up with a conference room where everything's really, really clean looking. Now, this was just a fun project in some ways because it had a lot of challenges because of so much of it underground and working in phases. But this is what we do. This is the cabling work we really like these type of projects. We worked with the furniture company as they installed these skeletons to keep everything really clean. We installed everything inside the furniture and then they came back and put all the fabric on. And in the end, you can see the office. It's really outstanding how clean everything looks, the way it's all laid out. It's a fun project to work on. So I put this video together to just kind of showcase some of the work we did here with all their network equipment and all of the job is a whole. So if you need any type of cabling work, big or small, we can do it. Even large projects like this, we'd love to be working with you. Thanks for taking the time to watch this. Video, thank you.