How much does it cost to start an eBay dropshipping business? That's what we will talk about in this video and I will show you all of the required things that you need to have to start an eBay dropshipping business and I will show you how much each and every of these parts of the business will cost you when you start an eBay dropshipping business. Short intro and we are starting. Hello everybody! So as you just saw subscribe to this YouTube channel right now for more high-quality dropshipping videos for beginners and advanced dropshippers. So in this video I will show you exactly what are the parts of the business that you need to take in conclusion when you want to start an eBay dropshipping business. I will also show you exactly how much each and any of these parts of the business will cost you when you're just starting and opening your first dropshipping business. So let's start. The first thing for eBay dropshipping will be of course an eBay store. So let's see how much will it cost us. So I will go to Google and write here eBay insertion fee. First of all what is the eBay insertion fee? In eBay we have two different types of fees. The first one is eBay insertion fee and this fee is the fee that we pay to eBay for any listing that we are adding to their marketplace. The second type of fees is eBay final value fee and this fee will be paid to eBay only after the product was sold successfully. It means that basically we don't have any risk for final value fee because we will just add this percent to our price. So let's first focus on the eBay insertion fee and how much this fee will cost us when we start a dropshipping business. So I will scroll down here I will go to eBay fees and I will scroll here a bit down and I will see here the insertion fees section. As you can see here every month you can get up to 50 zero insertion fee listings. Here they talk about eBay.com but for eBay UK, eBay FR for example the limits are different and you need to check it for each and every different marketplace but in general 50 is the minimum and for any type of eBay marketplace you can list at least 50 products for free every month without any insertion fee and without any risks. For the other part as I said you don't have any problem because the final value fee will be just added to your price on eBay when you calculate the price of your products. About eBay store subscription. Store subscription is also something that we can do to get more listings without any insertion fee and this will cost us a bit money but it's not a problem at all because when you just started dropshipping business 50 products is completely enough for you and you can just start for free without any insertion fees and without any fees to eBay until you get your first sale. Let's jump into the second thing that can cost us money and see how much this part of the business will cost us and I'm talking here about PayPal. PayPal is an online bank which linked to eBay and when you get a payment from eBay's buyer it will go to your PayPal account and then from there you can withdraw this money directly to your bank account or credit card. Now let's see what are the PayPal fees. So if I go to PayPal and I go to merchant fees I can see here the standard transaction fees. To open a PayPal account it's completely free so here the situation is pretty the same as we have on eBay. To open the account is free for both eBay and PayPal and you pay to PayPal only after you get a money so it means that only when you really make a profit and only when your products really sold only then you will pay to PayPal. So in this case also our budget that we need to start an eBay dropshipping business is still zero. You don't have any fees and you don't have anything that you need to pay in advance before you start basically and really get profits. The next part of our eBay business will be a dropshipping software to list our products so basically I can go to any of the suppliers that I want to use for my dropshipping business for example Aliexpress, Amazon, Wafer, Walmart or any other supplier and they can copy all of the product details one by one manually. So basically I can go to Amazon take any of the products here let's say that I want to take for example this product doesn't really matter and they can go and copy everything from here to eBay one by one. You can copy the title, the price, the description and everything here but we don't really want to do all of this stuff manually. We don't want to copy the title, the description, the images, the item specifics and everything there one by one manually because it will take us a lot of time. Remember we can list on eBay up to 50 products for free and you don't want to list these 50 products one by one manually. So for this we use something which called a dropshipping list or products list. The products list what it does is it just copies all of the details from our suppliers page, products page directly to our eBay store. Let's see how it works. So I will copy the link from here and I will go to my dropshipping tool in this case it will be Autodesk which is our own dropshipping tool. So let's see I go to Autodesk, I go to the uploader, then I will just choose a supplier here and put the link. Then I just click grab details and within a few seconds it will grab all of the details of my product. Let's see that. I got a very message very something that shows us that I cannot list this product because of copyright violation. This is another reason why we really need the dropshipping list because it will provide us more a safer way to upload products to our stores without any copyright violation. So in this case I will just click let me continue just for the example and I can see here that it grabbed all of the details. It already created the right price for me according to my break event which is the price that in this price I will not lose money for PayPal fees or eBay fees. In this case the break event is wrong but you need just to calculate the order eBay fees plus PayPal fees. So in this case it will be 2.9 plus 10 percent for eBay for eBay final fees. So I will just put here 14 to stay on the safe zone. So this is how with the click of a button we can just copy any of the products to our store. How much this tool cost us? So basically this tool will cost us at least $8 a month which is a super small budget for any real business in the world but for the first week you can try the tool for just $1. So basically our budget that we need is still really really really low. I would still call it zero budget business because one dollar to start a business and to try it it's not really money. Now the next thing that we need to run our dropshipping business is a repricer or monitor everyone every dropshipper calls it in one of the two different ways. Now for monitoring what does it do? The monitoring tool it will follow the pricing and the stocks of your supplier and adapt it according to the changes in your supplier site in your store. What does it mean? Let's say that this product will go to out of stock it will put automatically the product as out of stock in our store so we will not sell a product that we cannot provide to our customers. Same about the price if the price will be increased we will increase the price automatically or the tool will increase the price automatically in our store for us and in this way we still always stay in the safe zone and we cannot really lose money in this business. Now how much the dropshipping monitor costs? Same price it's $1 because the Autodesk is an all-in-one dropshipping tool so when you pay the $1 for one week trial you can still keep and use the monitoring tool also. As I said after one week it will cost you $8 a month. The next thing that we need to have in our dropshipping business is a tool that will help us to find dropshipping products. This is the last thing that you will need for your business and then we will make some conclusions and see how much really you need to spend in your dropshipping business for your first days. So for products finding we also cover you in Autodesk and you have a tool that called the Autodesk Finder. The Autodesk Finder is a tool that scans a lot of dropshippers on eBay and gives you their best product so with the click of a button you can just choose a supplier and list any of their of these top products to your store with a click of a button here. How much this tool cost? You can list here up to 400 products for free when you register to Autodesk you just get this tool for free so you can really start growing your business in the best way. However we already talked about this that the budget here is almost zero or just $1 but there is one thing that you need to take in conclusion when you want to start your business and this is something that called the PayPal gel this is how people call it. Now the PayPal gel means that when you get the money for the first time for the first three months from when you open your PayPal account you will need to wait until this money will be released to your balance usually it takes around two weeks. Now how to speed up this process and how does this process work? Let's say that you sold a product for $50 after you sold the product you will get the money to your PayPal balance and this balance will go go to a balance that called on hold on PayPal. After your supplier will ship the product to your customer so it means that you need to place the order in your supplier site and then they will ship the product so you will get a tracking number. When you put the tracking number on PayPal after a few days when your buyer will receive the product you will get the money back to your PayPal account and it will be released from the on hold status. So here we need to take in conclusion and we need to think about this that we will need to spend some money for our first products that we ship to our customers. How much money is it? I would say between $100 and $200 which is the maximum amount of sales that I think that you will make in the beginning before the money will be released and then it will just start running. You will just start selling and from the previous products money will be released to your PayPal account so you will not have any problems. So it means that basically when you just start your business you need between $100 and $200 to spend for your first purchases. Now you need to remember that this money is not a real investment because you will get it immediately. You already got this money but it just on hold on your PayPal account so it means that within a few days it will be released. So the risk here is zero. So how much it really cost? As we discussed using all of the tools eBay store, PayPal, Autodesk, Autodesk Finder which is the tool which will help you to find dropshipping products and the fees of eBay and PayPal everything together will cost you just $1 for the dropshipping tool for the first week and after that it will cost you any package that you choose starting from $8 a month. I hope you do like this video. I really really recommend you to check the links below this video in the description to our blog and other knowledge bases that will help you to increase your dropshipping knowledge and start your way and journey at the best way. Don't forget to subscribe our YouTube channel, like this video and ask us in the comments everything that you would like to know about dropshipping and about how to use the dropshipping tool Autodesk. See you in the next videos. Bye-bye.


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Coming up on this edition of Abel Denaner, we will focus on the conflict and history of Israel, plus we will go through the history of Gaza with David Wecker, social worker of Israel. All that and much more when Abel Denaner on this breaking news edition of Abel Denaner starts right now. Major sponsors for Abel Denaner include Washington County Metal Health where hope and support come together. Media sponsors for Abel Denaner include Park Chester Times, Muslim Community Report, WWW, this is the Bronx.info, Associated Press Media Editors, New York Parrot Online Newspaper, U.S. Press Corps, Domestic and International, Anchor FM, and Spotify. 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Coming up on this edition of Abel Denaner, we will focus on the situation in Israel, the history of the situation in Israel, conflict and how you can also, at the end of this program, we will give address and phone number where you can send your donations to Israel during this time of need. We would like to welcome a social worker in Israel who is no stranger to Abel Denaner, who has been on this program before. His name is David Wecker. He's a social worker in Israel. Welcome, David, to Abel Denaner. What is your position in Israel? What do you do? So, let's start from there. What do you do in Israel? Actually, I'm a social worker with foster kids. I work in charge of the immunity of the foster care. I try to find them where they can go after they finish the foster care system. I try to work with other NGOs to try to convince the government to put more resources. So, people can understand what's going on. What exactly is going on now in Israel? Let's talk about that in terms of the history of war. Go ahead, David. Before the term of the Palestinians didn't exist, when Israel was founded, there were no Palestinians. They were just Jordanians. They controlled the area. They controlled the state of Gaza, the Egypt people. They controlled there. After a while, the Egypt people were losing their war. After what happened in Black September in Jordan, the Palestinian people rebelled against Abdullah, the father of the king right now in Jordan. After they rebelled against him, they needed to fight against him. He said, I don't want to take care of this place anymore. Then we started to hear that term. Israel tried to negotiate with the people that lived in Judea and Samaria. For a long time, we did the wire cord. We tried to do a lot of peace with them. In a lot of terms, we did Oslo. We did a lot of... As we can see in that Sunday, that's very sad Sunday and horrible Sunday. Because according to... So let's go down the list here. Starting in 1948... So let's go... I have a list here exactly of the situation. 1948, Arab-Israel war. November, 1947 to July, 1949, to be exact. Yeah. So this was... It started six months of civil war between the Jewish and Arab militias. With the mandate... The independence war. A mandate period in Palestine ending and turning into a regular war after the establishment of Israel and the intervention of several Arab armies. Then you had the Palestinian insurgency from 1950s to 1960s in which Palestinian attacks and reprisal operations were under Israel's defense force during the 50s and 60s. Then you had the Suez crisis. April 1956, which was a military attack between Egypt and Britain, France and Israel. Then you had the Six-Day War, June 1967, which was fought between Israel and Arab neighbors. Then you had the War of Atarion, which was 1967 to 1970, a limited war between the Israel military forces and the Egyptian Republic. The Yom Kippur War was in 1973. Palestinian insurgency was in south Lebanon. In 1982, there was another Lebanon war. Then south Lebanon was from 85 to 2000. And the list goes on. And the Gaza War, or Operation Cast Lead, was from 2008 to 2009. But now we're furthering that into what's going on now. I'm going to ask you an opinion-related question. Do you know how long, according to Net Yahu, this is going to go on for a very long time? Do you think there's a ceasefire in the works or not yet? I think that right now the situation like we try for a lot of time to let the people in Gaza live their life, we even take the Jewish out in 2006 and really try to see if they want another future for themselves. But right now I think the public opinion and I think that every human can see the horrible that the terrorists from the Hamas group doing and they get back up from the people that live in Gaza, that they elected them. And now we can see that the raping of women, the killing of infants, it's like horrible that we never see. We don't want to go back to that horrible time in the histories. Because it's going according to the Bible, to the Torah, where they talk about Gaza. Talk a little bit about that and how the Torah views Gaza. Yeah, actually, Gaza according to the Bible, it's part of Israel. And there is a lot of people living in Gaza. There is a lot of talking about rabbis and all these things that really live in Gaza. And in Gaza they even found a synagogue. And nobody can say that Gaza didn't have Jewish roots. And it's really like we have very deep roots there. But right now I don't think, I think right now we really need to look on this and thinking right now we do so much things to try to help the people that live in Gaza to live their life. We think maybe we will choose a better future. But right now we see that they more focus on killing us than focus on making their life better. We can't as a nation and as a people that suffer so much through the history. We didn't come to our land just to suffer more, to suffer from things that we see in the past. We know that there is people that need a lot of Jewish. Now we have our country and now we don't go into let that happen, no matter what. And right now I think that they're going to be a very strong reaction to that. We will never do to the Palestinians, to the people that live in Gaza the same thing that they do to us.  We will not do that, but we will need to ensure that this is the last time that something like that happened. So just so people can understand more, why is it that people are... I'm trying to do something journalistically correct. Why is it that people are so angry at Israel? Is there a main reason for that? Yeah, you know, from my perspective I think that a lot of people are very angry when people...  This is part of the problem, you know, it's really hard there. It's really hard there and it's more easy to say the Jewish is in charge of everything. Israel is in charge of everything instead of to say, hey, let's fix our society. Let's see what's going on. So you from the outside looking in as an Israeli citizen and also a very great social worker. It's amazing how you care for kids. How do you tell parents about what is going on or how to prepare for this? You know, you deal with the foster care system, you deal with a lot of things involving children and teenagers. Let's talk a little bit about what are some tips that you can offer parents? Because obviously psychologically it's not living in a war-torn country, okay? When your anxiety is up, you know, people are worried about food, people worry about things closing, services closing that they need. How can you break it down to people who are going through situations right now? You know, floods, fires, war, you know, what are some things that you can offer parents as advice going through this right now? I will just go back to the last question before I go forward to that question. And I will say, you know, we are just like 50 years after the Yom Kippur war. You know, the Prime Minister was then Vladimir. She came from America, she's a American citizen. But she says something that I think is symbolized this. She says the day that we will find peace is the day that they will love their kids more than they will hate us. You know, this is the only way to find peace. And it's a problem right now. This is not a situation. And I'm going back to your, going forward to your next question. And I will answer you. This is very, very hard, you know, there's a lot of people that are post-traumatic.  And we try to do our best to give them the best care that we can do. And you know, there is a lot of post-traumatic. There is all the young people that celebrate in that party just want to make some fun, to relax, to chill a little bit. We need to take care of all of these people. And we need to start a therapy with these people. And I think that the most motivated thing that I tell kids and parents to do that thing is first to let the immersion talk. Don't let your immersion. It's okay. We scared. You know, there is a joke about a German officer in the first war. He told to the Jewish next to him, you see? You are so afraid. You are Jewish. You were the Nath. You were afraid.  And I think I give them all the time. I tell them, it's okay. It's okay that you're afraid. It's okay that you feel anxiety. You know, a lot of people feel very bad right now. We feel like our security gone. We feel like I'm secure right now. And we feel a lot of... But we as a society really, really... And we're going for them. And we're looking forward. And we still focus more about how we make the life of us. We want the life. We like the life. We don't want death. No of the people that live around us and all of us. This is what we like. And this is our main focus. And we try. And this is what we all the time talk with the kids. We all the time focus on that. There is a lot of people, kids and teenagers that face now anxiety and a lot of things. But at the end, the Jewish people go through a lot of difficult times. And every time they get out from this and they become even stronger. And I hope this time it will happen again, you know. But how do you deal with anxiety and what's going on? Is there any tips that you can give them? We tell them to talk with the kids about what's going on. To tell them. To tell them it's okay to be afraid. To tell them it's okay to... It's very important that if you feel something you can go to your parents, talk with them about that. We tell the parents to give them a lot of details about what's going on. Because we don't want that they will feel like they don't know what the situation is. And then they start to imagine things. They're going to get into my house. And we give them all these tips and we try to make it better. We try to make the situation better. And we told them all the time be focused on the future to a past. We go into it together. I think this is really important. We go into it together as a society, as a country. It's unbelievable now. What you see right now, everybody is volunteer to make us finish and win that war. And to get out from that situation. So let's pop up a map. This is going to be an editing, by the way. So Israel, as we're looking at a map here. So you have Ashkelon, Erez, Sirot, and Gaza. Yes, Sirot, according to the map. So there's something here called a no access zone, access prohibited by Israel. And the Gaza Strip, there's restrictions since the permanent blockade in 2007. And they had an international airport, which was destroyed in 2002 from what I can see in the map. So explain a little bit. Why do they call it the Gaza Strip, number one? Is there a reason for that? And can you explain a little bit about the areas that are really affected? Yeah, actually Gaza Strip is Gaza Strip because it looks like a Strip. This is what I call Gaza Strip. Okay. Actually I was in Gaza when there was a Jewish settlement there, before 2006. And actually Gaza can be a wonderful place to live. I think if it was in Israel, there was tons of people that want to live there because it's so beautiful. The ocean, it's so nice. The weather is very comfortable. Everything gives you like every reason that life will be good. The only problem is that because they make all the terror attack, we have to save ourselves and we close it. But still we give them, we give some people from them to come to work in Israel. This can happen to the others. People from Israel never go and work in Gaza. Yeah, but yeah, because it says no access zone. Access prohibited by Israel. So explain that. Yeah, yeah, of course, because if some Israel go to Gaza, it happens. Some guy with a mental problem go into Gaza and they kidnap him. Israel can go right now to Gaza. It can have a severe conflict with us. You mean severe consequences? Yeah. You're welcome. And it's really, you know, about we really need to be able to. And, you know, we try our best to help them in all the world actually try to develop in the European Union. But as we can see, we they choose again and again terror against in life. And this is this is the problem. Yeah. Now, here's the thing. So you're you're basically now working from home because of the situation. Yeah. Schools are closed. Businesses are closed. Explain that. You know, people need food in the supermarket. They are they hoarding so hoarding means like during the pandemic, people would get extra toilet paper. During this war, are people stocking up or shelves and. Yeah. There are things for another day we don't have in the supermarket. Like what? We have a shortage of things like water, for example. And we don't have toilet paper. It's a little bit hard to find. We don't have eggs. They try to try to make it better. But, you know, it will be a challenging time because a lot of people are very stressful and they take more than they want. You mean more than they're supposed to have. Or they need, yeah. Yeah. And and. But the supermarket is still open. But, you know, there is part of the unit. You know, they have a shortage of people because more than almost, almost 400,000 people now reserve. So what does it explain to people? What exactly is the reserve? We have every citizen in Israel, men or women. And get go to the army when they get to 18. And everybody have actually military training for three years.  And then everybody do every year they do like a reserve to train himself. And then if we meet some situation like that, we have a very big army to fight against who try to fight with us. And now a lot of people go to reserve. Then we don't have enough people in the supermarket. And what they do, there is a lot of old people that come and volunteer just that they don't say we don't want money. They don't need the money. And they come and they say, okay, we want to help the society of Israel. They come to work without money, but they make everything, they make it work, still work, even though the situation is that way. And this is really warm our hearts, you know, and we see the Jewish around all the world. And even all the Western world right now, they support Israel. And it's really warm our hearts. You know, it's not what it's saying in the past, you know, and we know what happened in the Second World through the Jewish people. So let's talk about services during this time.  They need to go to the hospital. There's a service called Magen David Adam, which is an organization formed by by by nurse Dr. Dr. Michelin. I can't pronounce her name in 1930 as a volunteer association and single branch in Tel Aviv, which has operating branches in Jerusalem. Magen David is a alum is is the equivalent to the Red Cross that is, you know, that it's in Israel. So explain.  You have to help. Is that part of the reserves or is that separate? Yeah, this is something that we do. We help everybody. We help everybody. We don't look in. We see every human as a human. Even the terrorist attack that attacked Israel get right now treatment after that they will need to see a judge and he will decide what's going on with it. But right now we try to help them because they hurt him. They they we try to help them to live to live and then they can go to the charge and find what would be the result of what they're doing. But but we in Israel, everybody is part of we have a very good health care. You know, I know Bloomberg even say that Israel have the best health system in the world. And our doctor is one of the best in the world. And and we try to, you know, we try to to to help the older people that suffer to that war. So what so what so is it mandatory? So let's talk about the reserves right now. Yeah, from what I found out you we have family that's in the reserves. Is it mandatory to go into the reserves during these things? Actually, it's mandatory. If you don't go, you can find some results from that. You know, it's not so easy. Actually, you need you need to you have to go you have to protect, you know, because at the end, if you will not protect who will protect, you know. Well, I mean, if somebody's sick and they can't go, then that's a different. Yeah, of course. Of course. They understand. We don't have those areas in the country. We have them cry. We expect that people, you know, Okay, so explain. So, so let's really this is the 50th anniversary of the young Kippa war. And this is one of the main reasons why this is happening. So can you explain a little bit about that and really why this is going on? And so people can understand it, boy. I think that right now we are very focused about winning that war and see that things like that didn't happen. But yeah, we will have to ask the tough question about how this happened, where the military was, how they don't prefer to that. I really didn't see this coming. You know, we will have to ask questions.  These other people are very proud on their army and on their intelligence service. And we really get all this became a little bit harder to believe right now. But I'm sure that after the war we will do, we will find, we will understand how this happened. We will prevent it from happening in the end. I think there is a lot of reason why it's happening. Can we, I mean, all throughout history, let's talk about this for a minute. Yes, you had the conflict with Israel, but all throughout history you had war. The Holocaust was very horrible. All throughout time we've had prejudice. Can we really prevent prejudice from happening? Can we really prevent war from happening? You know, I personally think that we can do our best. I don't know if we can do our best and we can take a price that it will not be worth it next time to do it. And we can make things that it will, even if they want to, it will take a long time to do it again. And I think this is the way Israel is going right now. And hopefully, you know, all the time when I think what future, you know, just my son asked me if the terrorists have a tank, you know. This is not the world that we want our kids to grow to. And we do our best that our kids will live in a better world. This is what I'm focused about right now. So how can we simplify, since we deal with special needs and families, how can we simplify this to a person with special need who is in Israel right now, you know, going through this? How do you simplify this in a nutshell, as they say? How do you explain this to a social worker? I mean, we explain this to kids that we don't want war. How do you really explain this to a person with special need? Because now the IDF has a special division. You know, let's talk about that also. They have a special division for people with special needs to serve in the army. Non-combatives, you know, but people with special needs can serve in the army. So let's talk about that as well. So it's like an open-ended question. How do you tell kids with special needs or tell people with special needs about this war? And, you know, let's talk about how the IDF employs people with disabilities during this. Go ahead. Yeah, actually, I think, you know, Israel is a country that became founded by people that come from the hashes of the Holocaust. And this is why we're so sensitive to all this special needs issue. Because, you know, the German, I know that you know what the German attitude was toward this topic. And we really take the opposite direction. We try to pick that people with special needs will be as much as possible part of the society. We have a very big war for society just to have that to happen. We spend like maybe double the price to people that in the special education here in Israel for kids. And really focus on that. And I think that kids with special needs need like a special direction. Every, you know, we take them to experts in that field and they help them to understand it. I don't think I'm the right, you know, there is people that know better than me how to. But we take them, there is experts, explain them exactly how the parents explain them exactly what's going on. But you're right about that, it's really hard, you know, people with special needs have their challenges and now they have a general challenges and it makes it even harder. So how does the IDF employ people with disabilities? Yeah, then they actually need to volunteer. It's not mandatory for them because we don't want to monitor somebody and somebody, if somebody maybe you feel that you can do it. They volunteer and they get, you know, according to their abilities, they can go and call out a few needs. You know, they can choose. Okay, so breaking it down, war will never stop. Prejudice will never stop or at least we, you know, we wanted to stop but that's the way things are right now. So do we have a ceasefire hasn't been issued yet, right? Yeah. No, no, I don't think, I think it will take time this time. I think it will take like maybe months. It will take a long time because we need to do it very deep to that place, things like that. It didn't happen again. We have to touch the roots this time. We can't just, you know, take the grass out. We need actually to take the roots out. Is there anything that we haven't covered in this that you want to cover? No, I really, you know, I'm really happy about the opportunity that you let me speak here. You know, it's really, it's really like Walmart on my heart that it's the second time that I'm in your show. Actually, it's the third. The third, yeah. Third or fourth, yeah. And it's the third time that I'm in your show and, you know, it's so amazing that you like it. Israel is a socialistic society. I will not call it, it's combined. There is part of their society and there is part of their more capitalist society. How, how so? How can you break it down? What's the difference between a socialistic and a capitalist? Like, there is, there is places like there, there is more like old, where all the government controlled and more socialist. But most of the market were by walk by, by a free market, free market rules. Then we combine. You know, even the healthcare in Israel, it's like there is, there is like organization that fight against each other again to get a client. But everybody in Israel deserves to have a health insurance.  Do you, like during a terrorist situation, do you get extra money in Israel or extra health insurance? How does that work? Yeah, of course, actually my father gets hurt by a terrorist attack in the, I think it was in the 90s. And until now they pay him every month money to compromise him about that. We believe like we're going with the people that we send to the war and we send to mission, we're going with them. We don't let them to be alone. And I think this is part of the strength of the Israel community. If this is Israeli society, we can argue, we can don't agree. But at the end when something bad happened to you, you know that you have somebody that you can trust him. Okay, trust your country. Okay, let me, so, okay, so now before we end the show, let's go to the Ableton on Air bulletin board. It contains numbers of the numbers or websites. If you want to contact our guests on today's program or donate money for the cause on today's program. For more information on the conflict on Israel and if you would like to donate money to the Israel cause for the army or supplies, you can contact www.nefisbenefis.org. That is www.nefisbenefis.org. Thank you, David Wecker for joining us on this edition of Ableton on Air and please be safe during this time in Israel. And please, you know, with your family there right now. Thank you very much for joining us on this edition of Ableton on Air. I'm Lawrence Seiler. More information on Ableton on Air and what you've seen on today's program, you can go to www.orkamedia.net. I'm Lawrence Seiler. See you next time. Now let's go to the Ableton on Air bulletin board. 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Ah, look at that. It's beautiful. Almost brings a tear to my eyes, because this is my first ever ThinkPad, the ThinkPad T420. T420, make all the jokes you want. But this is probably one of the best thing, actually let's say the best ThinkPad for lots of people. It is the best if you want a mid-sized laptop. And we'll go into the specifics, but this thing, I've had it for a couple years now. And it is, the T420 is sort of at the sweet spot as far as ThinkPads go, because it is the first to have sort of the modern processor, the i7, i5, whatever. Mine has an i5, you can put i7s in these, some come with i7s. But it's also the last to preserve, you know, the classic ThinkPad stuff, the classic design, the keyboard, stuff like that. So for a lot of people, this is going to be the perfect sweet spot, the T420. Okay, so let me go ahead and tell you my experience with this machine. I got it a couple years ago. This was, again, my first ThinkPad, still have emotional attachment to it. I don't use it as a daily driver anymore. I actually have started using the X-Series. So actually, let me, this is about the size of an X-Series laptop. In fact, it's exactly the size of an X-Series laptop. You'll see that it's a good bit smaller. So the T-Series is supposed to be a full-size laptop, but it does come with perks. And I'll go into those in a second. But I'll just say, like any other ThinkPad, this thing is miraculously durable. You'll actually notice on this side, the cover of my hard drive is actually gone. That's because I sort of cracked it a couple months ago, and I've never actually replaced it. I don't use this thing too often. I mostly test my arch bootstrapping scripts on it.   It was actually made a terrible sound. I was like, oh God, it's over. It's my poor ThinkPad. In fact, the CD drive went shooting out one side. I thought it was totally over, but I opened this thing up, and really, the CD drive slides right back in, no problem. Really, the only thing that was broken is the little cover on this hard drive. Sometimes I actually keep it on there. It sort of stays on, but I need to get a replacement. But that should be a testament to the durability of this computer, because this thing took a direct hit straight on the pavement, going as fast as I was falling.  But thankfully, no one saw that. But this thing really took no scuffs whatsoever. Oh, this isn't a scuff. That's actually a yogurt stain. That's another. Probably should have cleaned that up before, but don't worry about it. But this thing is so consistent. So like any other ThinkPad, you're gonna have that. But let's go into the specifics of this kind of thing. So again, as I said, I used to use this as a daily driver. It was my first ThinkPad, my main machine. So it is definitely usable as that. But let's go into the specifics. Again, this is the T-Series. It's a little bigger than the X-Series. These are 14 inch, I think. I'm pretty sure that's it. So pretty consistent. I mean, here's my hand for comparison. So it's basically a full-size keyboard. You do have the screen resolution is 1600 by 900. So it's not 1080p. But you know, for doing basically everything you do on a laptop, it's extremely consistent.  You know, since they're a little more portable. There are huge benefits to having the T-Series just because it's easier when you have multiple windows up. You tiled them together. Like screen real estate on the X-Series. It isn't. It's good, but it's not as good as the T-Series. So that's one good point. And of course, you have all the classic ThinkPad benefits, the keyboard, the think light up there. Let me turn it on. Yeah, the think light, which you can't really see because it's light out, but very nice for lighting things up in the most simple way. And of course, you have the track pad and the track point, which excuse me, the track point and the track pad. And I always tell people, you know, if you have the option of a track point, use it. You will never go back to a track pad because it's so annoying typing and then going down to the track pad and then going up. You know, once you start using the track point, you'll never go back. Okay. So anyway, screen resolution, that separates it from the X-Series. The other thing, the nice thing about this and ThinkPads generally is the modularity in that like one screw separates you and your hard drive.  So you can easily make modifications, easily update parts. It's really nice having that. And the other thing that makes this a little different from the X-Series is it has its own DVD drive. And that's, you know, the X-Series doesn't come with that. So if you want to get DVD drives on a computer like that, what you have to do is get a, actually I think I have one over here. You have to get one of these ultra bases which come with these extra DVD drives. But the thing is you can actually get one of these for this. So you can have two DVD drives.  So you can actually take this thing out. I think there's a latch back here. You can unlatch that and pull it out. And you can just put in a caddy for another hard drive. You could do the same if you have a dock. So you could really have three hard drives on this one computer. So that is really nice having. I haven't done it myself on this model. I do it on other ThinkPads, but yeah, this is, that's something really nice to have if you just want to have a portable machine that you can have a bunch of your data on. This is a fantastic option. So that's something to look in. A computer that can take three hard drives. That's pretty impressive. So I'm not going to go around and artistically show you all the ports just because you can probably figure them out. It has USB, three of them I think. It has, it doesn't have HDMI. It does have VGA and it does have DisplayPort. And of course, pretty sure you can get a DisplayPort HDMI adapter.  I mean, it's not like you're gonna, this isn't a Mac. You're not gonna get dongled. You know, it has pretty much everything, but aside from the HDMI, that's really the only thing I think it lacks. So aside, I will say there are, I do have some minor annoyances. Well really just one, okay. And that is, you, there are these screen notifiers here. So there's Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and hard drive access. One of the things, let me open up this X series, because this is an older one here. The older series had battery notifications, or like, if your machine is plugged in. I sort of wish the T420 had that. It doesn't. That's a little unfortunate. It's not just this. It's all the later models, for whatever reason. I mean, the one thing I want to look at here is my battery and if I'm actually plugged in. I mean, I'm gonna have this in my OS anyway, but sometimes if I'm in the TTY, or if I'm just not paying attention, it's nice having a little light that turns orange if it's, you know, running out of battery or something like this. They do have a battery notification light, but it's on the back side. And that has always confused me, because unless this thing is plugged up, I mean, if it's closed and plugged up, you're never gonna see that. And in that case, you're probably gonna know if it's firmly plugged in. I just wish they had that on the front side. It just sort of vexes me why that's the case.  But as I said, that little nitpick aside, really the T420 is at the pinnacle of ThinkPad glory for this, especially if you're, you just want a machine that can function like a modern computer. It can take a modern processor. Oh, RAM, I'm pretty sure this thing, it can at least take 16 gigs. It might be able to take 32. You might want to look that up yourself. I'm not entirely sure. But as far as like a computer that has the classic style and has sort of the modern perks, the T420 is honestly one of the best computers that you can possibly get. If you want this full size computer, the T420 is exactly what you want. It is the computer to get. I mean, the reason people, you know, do these reviews, it's not so much so you can learn more. It's for me to vouch for it. And I totally vouch for this thing. It's fantastic. Now, if you want something that's a little bit smaller, you might want to get a X220, which is the thing I have over there, which I have videos on. It's really, it was really set about the same time as this. It's just a little smaller. So you might want to look into that. But of course, this has, again, has a perk of the greater resolution, the extra hard drive stuff like that that you can put in. So all in all, this computer is pretty fantastic.  The only downside is what I said in my previous video on ThinkPads that is as of right now, as of, you know, December 13th of 2017, there is not yet a bypass of the Intel Management Engine. Now, that might come soon, but those of you who are concerned with totally free software, the T420 isn't the best because there is not an exploit of the Intel Management Engine. So you can't have Libre Boot, although I'm pretty sure you can have Core Boot on this thing. It's just you're going to have that Management Engine. But anyway, for most people, that doesn't matter though. So I'll just say this computer is fantastic. You should check it out. But that's about it. Leave some comments if you have any, and I'll see you guys next time.


Hello Blair and Stig, our co-chairs for the Scientific Working Group, one of a really exciting initiative here in Austin, where we actually had almost 30, 40, 50 people. How many people showed up at the Scientific Working Group? Yeah, that was a large room and it was pretty full. It was all packed. So let's just quickly go through it. Scientific Working Group, where can I find you guys? What's going on? How do I find you online and how do I get involved? So find us online, I guess, on the OpenStack User Committee mailing list, our tags, scientific-wg. That's how we'll be coordinating things from here on. You can also find us on the User Committee website, I believe, and link stuff to the iPads and stuff in the summit there. So just quickly, let's fire through some of the key things that you guys are covering in the Scientific Working Group. Obviously, you have a tight timeline. Barcelona is coming up in six months. You've just agreed some priorities. What are those priorities for the Scientific Working Group? I guess we focused on four things, and those four things were how do we do access to scientific kinds of parallel data, vast amounts of data in a high performance, high bandwidth way. Doing that inside of an OpenStack environment is something that everyone wants to have. It's incredible that it's something that everyone really, really is interested in. There's a huge amount of interest in how we do that, how we do that really well. We also looked at how we can use OpenStack's bare metal capabilities to their fullest effect in a scientific environment. And I guess another one we've got. You use the storage. This is a big one. So firstly, we want to try and, I guess, position things, get the layer of the land, actually find out and formalize why people want to use OpenStack for their HPC and research computing workloads. And then last one was? Accounting. Accounting, that's right. So when you have a university site, I mean a giant federated deployment like Nectar, there must be a way or an easy way for you to account for the usage of your users on your system and on the other systems across the federation and be able to build or charge back or just to track that resource. Excellent. Excellent. So we're really looking forward to what you guys achieve over this period. Best of luck. Thanks again for coming all the way from England as well as Australia. It's fun to have three accents on an interview, isn't it? Everybody's staying awake. We're all in a different time zone. Again, thank you so much. And yeah, check out Blair and Stig via the Scientific Working Group. Give them a hi on, I'm sure they're on Twitter and of course on the user committee mailing list. And check out the Scientific Working Group by Google, Scientific Working Group and OpenStack. Thanks again, guys. Thank you. Thank you.


Modded Xenoverse 2 raids are insanely hard. You've seen us do this with UI Goku, but now we've decided to make it not so much that one person's getting jumped, and instead we're going to take on two insanely hard boss fights at the same time, with those being Goku Black and Zamasu. If you like to see Modded Xenoverse 2 content and raids, definitely make sure to leave a like, subscribe, and check out all of our channels, but with that said, let's jump into the boss fights. I was born ready. I'm just a definition of ready.  Let's do one cane and fight just to see where the fight is. What do you want, alright? I'm doing trunks again, bro. I'm doing trunks again. Oh, so Goku... that same? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I like this loading screen. I give this one a 9 out of 10. Bro's in the time skip saying, NOOOOOO! But nobody hears it. Here's the question I have. Why is Goku in the back of mine should be hit? That's Goku breaking out of the time skip, bro. Do you not watch the anime? No. Okay, this is our chance to prove that the anime should have been a lot quicker, though. We can take them out, both right here, as a team. Honestly, it's going to be embarrassing. How will you react if we actually just win this first attempt? If we win? Look, this video ends when we win. Like, it'll just be done. I can't battle. I'm going to make this the shortest Dotto video ever. Come here, Goku. Okay. Hey, I believe in you. You just sort of hope. Sort of hope, Dotto. Sort of hope? Yes.  What if I go Super Saiyan 2? Then maybe I get sort of hope. Do you have the wrong build equip? Bro, I chose a preset. Burning Strike! You're going to regret what you said. I got hit and lost 90% of my health. Let me charge up, bro. I don't know why the heroes aren't really being heroes right now. Hey, I saw an opening! I'm here! That was sick! Bro should have lost his job for that. Hold on. You know what, bro?  What's wrong? Bro, sorry. Sorry about that. Dad, please. Can I just do one? Can I do, like, Galligan with you or something? Just let me break his stamina for you, Dad. Come on. Let me help. You're in the way, boy! I'm tanking. I'm tanking.  I'm tanking. I'm tanking.  You're welcome, Bops. Finally. I'll finally get the recognition I deserve. You're on your own, Dad. I forgot this. Why are we kind of killing this right now? They should have made him harder. They should have made him harder. I'm just going to awkwardly walk around that. Don't worry, D.  Keep getting me killed! There we go. We're helping, D. We're helping, bro. Bro, I'm getting mixed. He's got work to break his fingers.  Damn, bro! I got you, bro. We got to be here, everybody. He had nobody, bro, together. The gather, bro. Ha! Let's go. That was sick. Oh, oh, I'm paying the price for it, though. Don't worry, bro. We're just going to wait. We're going to need our packs, man. Bro, I might not have to take my cat out in this video. Let's say, bro, oh, look at him getting jumped. Maseko! Maseko Part 2! Maseko Part 3. Oh, no! That'll go help the audience. I don't need your help! Hold on. I'm charging up. I'm charging up. Go help him. Go help him. I'll help him. I'll take out some Maseko. I got you, bro. Oh, you know what's that one quote, bro, like when Trunks is like the TikTok editor? I don't know, man. I'm getting jumped. I've seen what that kind of power can do. I missed. Stop it! Damn! He just cut your life into pieces. Take out Maseko. I'm alive. You've got to be by us. Oh, wait. We got dialogue. Hold on.  We are.


In a vibrant celebration of World Food Day 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security, and Rural Development, supported by the Taiwan Technical Mission this past Sunday, hosted a cocoa festival in the Pichersk town of Sufra. Cocoa enthusiasts and the wider public gathered to celebrate the country's rich cocoa heritage through a wide array of activities, including live demonstrations and local musical entertainment. Visitors had the opportunity to sample and purchase various cocoa-based products from exquisite chocolates to cocoa-infused culinary delights. Parliamentary representative for Sufra, Honourable Emma Hippolit says cocoa has been a cornerstone for development in Sufra, providing economic opportunities, preserving cultural heritage, and contributing to the overall prosperity of the community. One of the things that we have to do in a very big way is to expand the cocoa acreage in Sufra. So I am very pleased at the projects that we have within the Ministry of Agriculture and supported by the Taiwan Mission to cause us to expand our acreage for cocoa, because the quality of cocoa that we have here in St. Lucia is one of the top quality so let us appreciate what we have and let us ensure that we protect that crop. Recognizing the valuable collaboration between the Taiwan Technical Mission and the Agriculture Ministry in improving the cocoa sector, Ambassador of the Republic of China Taiwan to St. Lucia, His Excellency Peter Chien-Chien expressed his government and people's continued support in moving the agriculture sector forward. I vividly remember that in late December of last year, Taiwan government extended our funding support to the government of St. Lucia in implementing nine pivotal national development projects. Among them was the cocoa sector enhancement, aiming at improving the well-being of the people of St. Lucia. Today, we stand here not only to celebrate St. Lucia's rich cocoa heritage, but also promote local products and sustainable agriculture practices. Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture for St. Lucia's Food Security and Rural Development Barrymore-Felicier explains that the cocoa festival underscores the importance of local agriculture in ensuring food and nutrition security. Our aim is to align consumer preferences and buying choices to local rather than imported products. In the estimates of expenditure 2023-2024, the government of St. Lucia has approved $1.4 million for the cocoa sector enhancement project. This year, the Ministry of Agriculture will rehabilitate the bath nursery in Sufre to facilitate the propagation of over 10,000 seedlings, which will be sold at a subsidized price to farmers registered with the project. We will also be assisting cocoa farmers with pest and disease management and pruning of cocoa trees later this year. Cocoa is in high demand locally and internationally, and therefore is one of the chosen areas for the Ministry of Agriculture to increase exports. The flourishing cocoa industry, along with the Ministry's ongoing efforts within the sector, is expected to significantly enhance food and nutrition security and safeguard the health and well-being of the citizens of St. Lucia as highlighted by the Ministry of Agriculture's cocoa festival. From the communications unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, I am Anitia Antoine reporting.


Growing up in the projects was very real for the day because everybody was poor, everybody was challenged. And mostly what I know from it looking back is it's even that much harder for people today, for single moms, for kids, for persons with disabilities, for people who are struggling on the street with mental health and addictions. And that's more than a half a million people struggling in poverty today in BC who want to move forward and have a full life. Growing up in this neighborhood was a challenging time. My dad was abusive to my mom. We escaped that situation and came here and this was an important part of our success because it gave my mom safe secure housing for her and my sister and myself. I'm not sure that if we hadn't have had the stability of housing like this that would have been the case. My values came from my time in Raymer and the experiences that I had there but I got lucky. My mother was a rock and so it worked out for me but there's lots of people who need an opportunity for it to work for them.  If you don't have a safe place to go home to at the end of the day it's pretty hard to put those other pieces together. It's really about the fundamentals. Having a roof over your head, having food and having some hope of opportunity and it's our job as government to create opportunities for people who have dreams and have things they want to accomplish and are being held back by poverty and the challenge is how do you give them the confidence that they need and that's part of the work that we need to do with this poverty reduction strategy and that's what we're going to try to accomplish here as we move forward.