How's everybody doing? Good. Have you been having a good day so far? Yes, a bit tired after lunch. Maybe excited, feeling a bit lazy. But we've had so many great talks now. Excited? Awesome.  But before we get there, I want you all to try out an activity with me. Is that OK? You all with me? So I want you all to find a piece of paper. Hopefully, you have pieces of paper on your table. All right, I'm going to have to scroll through this. So what I want you to do is take about 15 seconds and draw me a vase on a piece of paper. I'm going to time you, but we'll do a vase. My timer going off for 15 seconds. How does your vase look? Something similar to what I have up here? Maybe somewhat similar, some shape, something? Yes? All right, hold on to this thought. I have another bit of this activity. Now take 30 seconds to draw me a way to bring nature into your home. Again, we'll time this, and you will hear my timer go off. 30 seconds up, yeah? How do you guys feel? Something similar to this, maybe a little bit of a varied kind of ideas flowing around. I'm sure you folks have some interesting stuff up on your paper. I want to quick show off hands. How many of you thought there was some sort of a difference in what you drew or imagined the first time around and the second time? Okay? Why do you think there was a difference? Any thoughts, any ideas? Perspective is different. You had more context to it. Okay? Okay? Yep, yep. So you're all getting there. The first activity, you were thinking more about the solution. You were thinking about what kind of ways you want to draw. What shape, maybe? What material, if I give you more time, then you'll probably figure out what kind of a design, what color. So you're thinking more about the ways. The second time around, I tried to make you explore a particular need or a problem space. So then what you did was you really took a step back from thinking about the solution and you're trying to figure out, okay, for this given need or this given problem space, what is it that I can do? That's where a lot of divergent ideas come at. That's where a lot of innovation happens because you're not tied to one kind of solving a problem. You're actually exploring different things, right? That is what really design thinking is. And I think the slides are jumpy, but you folks, all right, okay. So design thinking really is not just about designing the interface. It has nothing to do with just design. It's actually a way to solve problems. It's a problem solving approach. It's a shift of a mindset in terms of how you approach making stuff. It's about bringing empathy to what you build, right? Understanding what your users need. Understanding the people who will end up using your stuff and bringing their needs, their problems, their personality, their characteristics to what you're making. That's what really design thinking is. So at a very broad level, maybe you could identify with some sort of phases or stages of design thinking. Well, you start out with trying to understand your users, right, and you want to understand what they want. And then you go off and you try to explore some different ideas in order to solve those problems. And then you go off and try and prototype it in some form or the other.  You talk to people, you figure out, hey, I made this, is this really being useful to you, right? And then you come back and understand. So this is the cycle that goes on. So if I were to add some typical methods being used in some of these contexts, and of course I haven't listed out everything. This is some stuff that we've used. With understanding, you do a lot of user research, different kinds of user research, maybe field research, maybe surveys, whatever it is, however you get to know more of what people want. And then you synthesize that information. Maybe you create personas, maybe empathy maps, stakeholder maps, whatever.  You try to figure out what is the current experience? What is it that you need to improve? Maybe you create some scenarios, some stories. Do some collaborative design exploration, whatever it is, and then you prototype. Whichever way you prototype, be it pen and paper, be it wire frames, or be it rough sketches, or maybe a series of stories that you wanna show in a scenario map, or different kinds of fidelities of mock-ups, like low fidelity, high fidelity, whatever. It doesn't really matter. You have some way of conveying your thought to the person that you may end up talking to. And then you take that prototype and then you evaluate that prototype on how well it's serving the need, right? You could do different kinds of evaluation. There's sometimes early concept evaluation that you do. There's maybe heuristic validation. There is usability testing and so on and so forth. You folks are probably pretty familiar with all of this. I don't wanna preach to the choir about all the different methods. But basically I wanted to really touch base on what design thinking really means and what is the flow in the process of design thinking, right? A quick snapshot of some of the things that, some pictures of some process that we follow in my team, at my company. The first one is really an affinity diagram that we were creating based off of some user research we did and then we did some story mapping. Here are some pictures of early wire frames from a collaborative design session. And then the final one, you can't probably really see it but we're talking through a story in a scenario map. All right, so enough about design thinking. You folks probably already know, all right, this sounds good but how do you put it in practice, right? It's well and good talking about all of the stuff. But for design thinking to really flourish, you need to have some sort of a conducive environment. It doesn't really happen like that. You need to build some sort of an environment that will actually help this flourish. What I think is building a product is more like making music with an orchestra. Why do I think so? Imagine an orchestra with different kinds of people playing different kinds of instruments, right? Everybody's, maybe there are some people playing on the piano, maybe, I don't know, different kinds of instruments but they're all playing to a certain kind of a tune, in the end what comes out of that orchestra is the music that you enjoy, right? Imagine if one person of that orchestra would go off tune or would go off step. What would that do to the product? The product being the music that they're making together, right? It won't work. So that's pretty much what making a product is like.  You could call it whatever, a service and offering, whatever it is that you're making, right? Basically it's about coming together to make something. Going back to Dan's keynote yesterday, remember how he was talking about tribes and working in silos? I think building a product is more about breaking down those silos and coming together as a product tribe instead of being a UX tribe or a design tribe or a development tribe come together to be a product tribe. So what are some factors that really work to make this a conducive environment? The first one I have is collaborate. Work with people. Work with people who are not designers. Work with people who are a part of the tribe that we call the product tribe, who are involved with you in making something that is useful to people, right? It's not really about what you design. It's about what you put out there for people to use. Now very often when you work in such a team, you have different kinds of stakeholders. They all come from different perspectives. They speak different languages. So there's the developer or the engineer who understands a lot of technical jargon. There's the designer who understands a lot of, you know, all the stuff, all the words that we've been throwing around. Empathy and design thinking and scenarios and blah and blah. These may not really make a lot of sense to the developer out there. Then there's the product manager who looks at everything from a product or a market perspective, right? But you need to make sure that you're working with all of these people to come to some sort of a shared understanding of what it is that you're building together. Because one person from this group or one set of people for, excuse me, from this group is not going to be able to make that product and put it out in the market. You need everybody to come together, pretty much like the orchestra, right? If it were just one kind of an instrument, we probably wouldn't really call it an orchestra. It wouldn't have that kind of an impact on the music that they create. Now for those of you who are not designers in the room, remember that designers bring a lot of empathy to the table. It's really important. Why is empathy important? We learned from all of our different speakers over the course of the last day and a half why empathy is important, why it is important to learn about people. But for all the designers in the room, I want to point out that engineers are equally important. They bring real expertise or real experience in terms of making something to the table. And so our product managers, they bring a market perspective. It doesn't really make sense for you to go off and design something without figuring out the viability or feasibility because if you were to go off and design something and nobody were to use it, or if you couldn't launch it out in the market, is that really a good use of your time? Probably not. So you do want to keep that factor in mind. You do want to think about the feasibility of actually building something out there. So that's why I say collaboration is a key factor in making design thinking work. The next factor is focus. So now we have a team of different kinds of people coming together, which by the way is what I call a balanced team. And it's not just me. If you folks are interested, Google it. There's a group of people who identify themselves by the word of balanced team and they believe in working together with different kinds of people. It's not just the designers, but everybody coming together. Anyway. So now that you have that kind of a team, all right, you're working on a product more often than not in the real world, there are too many things that are thrown at you. There may be a number of clients or customers asking, hey, I want this thing built. Hey, I want that other thing built. There may be executives saying, hey, I want you folks to build something that'll be really cool, really successful. We need to meet our targets, market revenue, whatever. Tons of different things. There may be people from research or people from engineering who say, hey, I have this cool technology. Let's put it out. Let's make something out of it. At any given point in time, there are too many things, too many choices to pick from. What you really need to have is a focus on the team. This group of people working together should pick a direction that they want to work in because if you don't know where you're going, you cannot get there. And once you pick a direction, then you have to make sure that you're not getting sidetracked by all the different things that don't align with that direction that you've picked. So it's an active choice that you make. Of course, it's a difficult choice, but you have to go through that as a team to say, okay, this is what we as a group identify with. This is what we want to put our effort in towards, and let's go do this. It's only then that you can actually make effective work happen. Now the third factor that I have is alignment. Like I said, different kinds of people working together. I really firmly believe that, like I was saying, it's about a product tribe. It's not about UX or it's not about just engineering or product management. But really make sure that you bring alignment to this group. Make sure that each and everybody understands the language that is being spoken instead of using jargon. Make sure that everybody's a group understands what's being said, where are you currently and where do you need to be? What's the vision that you're going at? Where's the reality and how do you get there? And do this, it's very important, do this from a user's point of view, from a scenario point of view, from a story-based point of view. That's where you get empathy into this. And that's where it's different from going off and building something that's feature-based as opposed to story-based. Now about being a product designer. It's not just about being a designer.  It's about being the conductor of that orchestra that we were talking about. There has to be somebody who really has to guide this whole group in a particular direction and say, okay, hey folks, here's what the story is like. Here's what people are saying. Here's what we learn from the users. Here's the scenario that we're working towards. Come back, pull these people back together whenever there's distractions and other stuff. So what does it mean to be a facilitator? I think as a designer, you have to be a story-driven designer, like I was saying. It's very important to bring empathy. I can give you an example. So not too far ago, my team and I were working on some sort of a demo of some cool technology that we were bringing out into the market and it was important to actually have some sort of a working demo so people would know what we were working on. Now there were engineers who were trying to put this piece of technology together, trying to make different kinds of APIs work. They figured out the technical aspect of it. They said, okay, we can connect this API to this other API and blah, and blah, and blah. And that's all. They said, that's it. Now what do we do with it? There were product managers. They said, hey, we need to make sure that this kind of client or customer would be able to see this and feel like they get value out of it. That's it, they stopped there. And then we had these series of discussions for weeks and weeks where people would just talk. Everybody sort of had an idea of where we were going but nobody was really feeling any confidence. Then what we did, there were a couple of designers on the team, what we did was we said, okay, let's get out onto the whiteboard or on a piece of paper, let's start drawing out the wireframes. We'll make a very rough sketch of the wireframes. We can iterate on it. It doesn't matter if we go wrong. That was when we started turning the direction. It, instantly I could see the, I could sense the change in the environment because now people had something to actually see, something concrete to talk about as opposed to just talking in the air, right? That's what I mean by story-driven work. So you as a designer can really take that into hand and guide the course of the direction. Then I say cohesive, be a cohesive designer. Identify the gaps in the experience. You as a designer can actually take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Most of the times when engineers are working on stuff, they're probably looking at the piece or the module that they are responsible for. But you as a designer can take a step back and connect the dots of the whole experience. Be that designer. Identify those gaps in the experience. Be the inclusive designer. Work with engineers, product managers. Bring them early on into the research that you're doing. It's not about you going off and synthesizing a ton of research and then displaying that to the product managers and the designers. It doesn't work one way because that'll be just as good as me standing here and presenting to you folks. I'm not even sure in a one-way communication how much of this is getting through. How do I expect you to respond back to that? So it's important to bring them early on and take them on this journey of synthesis with you because the more they get involved, the more they feel a part of it. They actively participate in this. Number four, be a grounded designer. Think through limitations and constraints. And this I say because I know as designers we wanna like think vision, think blue sky. But it doesn't really help to actually just keep thinking blue sky if we don't consider the feasibility and the viability of it. Quite often in my design team, we like come up with designs and then we talk to our dev folks and then we realize, hey, you know, the system that we have, we probably can't really achieve this design. So then what happens? At that point, if you don't keep that early on, think through the limitations and constraints, then your design gets scaled back. And a scaled back design will really leave a bad taste in the user's mouth unless and otherwise you have thought through the limitations and constraints. You don't want a half-cut apple. You want a smaller apple probably, right? So think through it early on. The last one I wanna talk to you about is just in time design. In recent times, as the development has changed, more agile methodology, people wanna move fast, iterate faster, put stuff out there into the market pretty fast. It's important to try lean research and design. Don't wait until you have all of your research gathered up upfront. Try to put your best guess out there and validate it. I'm not saying go with the best guess. I'm saying get something out there, focus on validating that. Just a quick thought of how we do it at IBM. And some of you folks have already seen some of the stuff at the workshop this morning. But at IBM, we try to implement design thinking using the concepts of hill-sponsor users and playback. What hills really are is a way of focusing on big problem and outcomes instead of a list of features. If I break a hill, which is actually a statement of what a team will do, given a time, is if I break it down into smaller parts, it's about the who, the what, and the wow. The who is the target user that we wanna build for. The what is basically what the user will do. And the wow is the value addition that we wanna provide to the user through this piece of functionality. Again, the language of hill is basically coming from, I think, the military somewhere. Think of a commander and his commandos, a team of commandos out in the field. When you have a critical situation, the commander doesn't really give you instructions on what to do next. You don't really get that kind of time. What they rely on is that they say, okay, we need to be at a certain place in a given time. That's what they align on. And then each of the commandos probably figures of their own way to get there. But as long as you're aligned on where you want to be, that's the job, that's half done. That's where it's coming from the commander's intent. That's what the hill is supposed to be. Like focus on the bigger problem and figure out where you wanna be in a given time. Then sponsor users. Sponsor users are basically target users who really match with the characteristics of the user groups that you've identified. It's a way to actually bring some user research more formally into a big company or a big team. Because sometimes if you don't have direct access to users, then you should probably look for at least one kind of user to talk to. So you can validate your ideas. The final one is playbacks. They're more like checkpoints. I say checkpoints are not checklists because it doesn't really matter about figuring out what features have been completed. What matters is to see the current state and the progress that you've made against the hill, but more from a story point of view. Driven by the experience. Don't talk about the fact that we built this feature or we built this module. Talk about the user. Lay out the story early on, the experience, and then talk through how much of that experience has been covered. That's what you wanna talk through. So the IBM Design Thinking Framework once again. That's pretty much what I have for you folks today. Thank you.


Aw, I don't like Vim because I use Jetit. Jetit provides me with all the tools and shortcuts I need. Control-A selects all the text in the file. Control-C copies the text of the clipboard. Control-V pastes the clipboard's text into the file. And Control-S automatically saves the file. I don't like the Vimwaya doing it, which is colon WQ. And, you know, also when I wanna open Vim, I have to open a terminal, which is just an inconvenience for me, in my opinion. But on Ubuntu, I just need to press the Windows key and search for a program. And then I open Jetit. It's like magic. I don't need to know much more than that. And that's what I love about Jetit. It's so simple and easy. I can also easily change the color schemes, but on the terminal, it's kind of harder to do that. But everyone has different opinions. So it's okay if you like Vim.


Welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. It is Wednesday So it is another what I eat in a day on WW I do follow the Weight Watchers or WW program and I am currently on the blue plan I do follow a clean approach to Weight Watchers which basically means I eat as clean as possible I follow about the 90-10 rule 90 percent clean whole real food 10% some of my favorite foods that may not fall in The 100% whole clean real food category So you're gonna see everything that I eat throughout the day today a little bit of fun diesel and Lola So let's jump right into this what I eat in a day to lose weight on WW I'm around from my giving desire Speed away from the holy moly I've lived in life under water let's spend all we've got getting buzzed You pretend you're a god, I believe So here's my breakfast today, I decided to go with a smoothie bowl my allergies are really bothering me through So my throat is really scratchy. So you can see I made this delicious thick smoothie bowl What I use was just some mixed frozen fruit half of a cup of oat milk and half of a cup of water And then my toppings I have my chia seeds. These are from Costco pumpkin seeds also from Costco Slivered almonds. These are from nut stop. I do have 10% off for nut stop my code here on the screen We'll get you 10% off and free shipping. It is not an affiliate link It's simply 10% off for you So I use those and then I also just added a little bit of these organic fresh blueberries to the top so The smoothie bowl mixture itself is only two smart points and that's to count for the oat milk I do not count blended fruits. It is one point for the chia One point for the pumpkin seeds one point for the almonds because I only use a tablespoon of pumpkin seeds Here's my tablespoon here Pumpkin seeds and almonds and half a tablespoon of chia and zero points, of course for the fresh blueberries So this is a five smart point breakfast or a five smart point smoothie bowl yummy I just wanted to show you guys that my Grove collaborative order came I've been a member of Grove for oh gosh a year and a half now. I love them I order monthly from them. So I wanted to show you the few things I picked up for this month So they have a four pack of these dog treats. These are the shameless pet. This is the break-in egg I like these because they have good ingredients They're all natural grain-free and none of them have chicken in them and you can buy four bags for about 1699 which is a really good price because any of these grain-free treats are pretty pricey So there's the break-in egg the blueberry to treasure The lobster roll over and the apple noon delight my dogs love these They're all really soft baked dog treats So I'll pick this up usually once every couple months just for some treat options on hand And then I decided to grab this real simple clean yoga mat cleaner because I've never cleaned my yoga mat that I take to Jazz or size so I figured well, I have all this time on my hands I'm gonna go ahead and clean my yoga mat. You literally spray it let it dry and it's good to go So this is important Especially right now if you're using a yoga mat that you had somewhere else like I did at Jazz or size before I use it again I want to give it a quick clean and this is eucalyptus scent also This is one of the only places I can find hand soap. So I grabbed their big gel hand soap and lavender and thyme This is the Grove brand. I love this hand soap. It smells really good.  This is the beach sage. I use these all the time with the meth method pods For my laundry. So that's what I grabbed from Grove.  So here's my lunch for today This wasn't from my mail prep if you have not seen my mail prep that was posted Monday You guys have to check it out. This is what I made for lunches. This is a bootable with a homemade ranch dressing Oh my goodness. Let me just tell you how delicious. This is it's filling. It's satisfying. So there's a mix here of roasted Red onion sweet potatoes kale and then some broccolini And then I roasted up some chickpeas with some amazing seasoning on there And then I made a homemade ranch dressing for the top. Oh so good you guys and then I'm just having a Bowl mix of fresh papaya and strawberries So my bootable is only six smart points and that includes the ranch dressing on top So this entire lunch six points. So my boy has a new favorite spot My husband said he woke up at one Because diesel wanted outside his steroids make him have to go potty a lot So he went and laid on his dog bed and then my husband woke up at four and he was still there He's so precious. He just likes it out there because it's nice and cool and this one. She's in bed still looking out the window Hi, baby. I love you. You show my good girl, huh? Yes, my baby. You're so precious in bed, huh, honey? Here is my afternoon snack. This is actually my very favorite bill bar. This is the mint brownie delight It literally tastes like a grasshopper brownie. It is so good The consistency is more brownie like than the traditional bill bar. I love it this in the coconut almond I have to say are my very very favorite. So this is only three smart points It's a hundred and ten calories 15 grams of protein six fiber for sugar and for fat So I feel like I'm indulging in a minty brownie, but it's only three smart points If you're new to bill bar, there is a great promotion right now where you get $10 off of your first order I'm going to put a special leak down in the description box You do have to use that link to get the $10 off Also, if you have a separate email you can sign up as a new customer and redeem that $10 off Otherwise for those of us that have ordered before I do have 10% off and free shipping and that code is here on the screen for you So check out bill bar highly recommend It's great for a snack keeps you nice and full and really truly does satisfy that sweet tooth And then of course I'm on I think this is like water six for me. So yay me So that's my afternoon snack for dinner tonight. I'm gonna be making chicken Devon. I am so excited about this It sounds absolutely amazing. So let me show you what is in tonight's dinner first You're going to need some olive oil avocado oil. I have avocado. You'll need some minced garlic Salt and pepper their recipe calls for sherry, but I have had this merlot wine since Christmas So I'm gonna go ahead and use that up chicken bra all-purpose flour. This is the organic from a thrive Some sour cream.  I use these in place of breadcrumbs So let's get started on tonight's dinner So the first thing I did is added about a teaspoon of my avocado oil to a pan got that nice and warm I chopped up my chicken So I'm gonna go ahead and add my chicken directly to my pan We're gonna let this cook until the chicken is brown and crispy once the chicken is cooked through We're gonna go ahead and just add it to a separate bowl and then back in our same pan We're gonna put in about another teaspoon of avocado oil We're gonna let that get nice and warm and then to that We're going to add the minced garlic and all of our seasonings thyme salt pepper And minced onion and we're gonna go ahead and add all of that And then we're gonna let this get nice and warm once your garlic and seasonings is fragrant We're gonna add one quarter cup of our wine and we are going to reduce the heat down to medium And we are going to let this cook and reduce Down to basically no remaining liquid and then we'll be ready to add in the chicken broth and make a slurry with The flour and the remainder of the chicken broth once your wine has reduced We're gonna go ahead and add in one half of it one and a half cup of the chicken broth We want to make sure we save the other half of a cup Because we're actually going to make a slurry with the flour with the remaining half of a cup So go ahead and add the one and a half cup give it a stir and go ahead and let this simmer and come to a boil In the meantime, I added my one quarter cup of flour to the remaining half of a cup of chicken broth And we're just gonna whisk this and this is going to create the slurry that we'll be adding to the chicken broth mixture I also have a saucepan here coming to a boil I'm gonna go ahead and blanch my broccoli before it goes into the casserole And I got my oven preheating to 400 once that sauce starts simmering We're gonna go ahead and add in that slurry and we're gonna mix that together until it's incorporated That will help thicken up the sauce and then we'll remove it from the heat add back in the chicken as well as the Parmesan cheese and the sour cream and our broccoli is coming along It should be done here shortly and we'll go ahead and put that into a strainer and run some cold water over it To kind of blanch it and we'll be ready to put this dinner together I went ahead and removed it from the heat added in one quarter cup of sour cream One half of a cup of parm and then re-introduced to my chicken I'm gonna give this a stir until everything is combined And then we'll be ready to re-add in that broccoli and get this into the baking dish So I re-added in my broccoli and this is looking amazing So I'm gonna transfer this to a baking dish will top it and we'll be ready to get this into the oven All right, the casserole's in the pan I'm gonna top it with about a quarter cup of parm and I'm gonna mix some paprika in with my breadcrumbs and top that as well And we're ready to go into the oven for 15 to 20 minutes or until it's cooked through Doesn't this look so good? I am really excited for tonight's dinner I'm gonna cook up some Trader Joe's cauliflower gnocchi for us as well My favorite way to cook this is just put it in a pan Spray it with some non-stick cooking spray Add a little bit of salt and pepper and fry it up. All right dinners out of the oven. Oh, this looks so Good you guys. I'm gonna let this rest for just a few minutes cut it into six servings Plate it up along with one serving of cauliflower gnocchi And I'll be back to show you my dinner and give you the smart points So here is my dinner for tonight So I have one sixth of the chicken divan that is five smart points on both blue and purple and seven on the green plan and then I have one serving of the Trader Joe's cauliflower gnocchi for four points So this is a nine smart point dinner for me on the blue plan and I'm having a spin drift in grapefruit I love spin drift best water you can pick up because it is not made with natural flavors It's actually sweetened with fruit. So I love the grapefruit. It's my favorite So this is going to be my nine smart point dinner for dessert tonight I'm having the brand new smart sweets you guys How exciting is this these are the smart sweets sweet chew. So basically these are a starburst They come in three different flavors.  They're individually wrapped Let me open the bag and show you guys what they look like. There's still the amazing smart sweets They always wore their plant-based free of any sugar alcohols and only three grams of sugar per bag They're delicious. So here's what you get in a bag. So it looks like two four six eight 10 11 11 pieces for five smart points Oh my gosh, I'm telling you you guys. These are so delicious. So these just launched on april 7th So they're a new flavor of smart sweets that you can pick up My code here on the screen gets you free shipping. So head over to the smart sweets website You cannot buy these in stores. They are not in any store yet, but you can get them free Shipping to your doorstep on the website. I'm so stoked about this. So this is my dessert for five smart points Thank you for joining me on another what I eat today to lose weight on the my WW blue plan I hope you enjoyed coming along with me today seeing everything that I ate Diesel and lola and this dinner recipe was so good The recipe will be on my website. The link to my website is down in the description box below Also in the description box You are going to find links and discount codes to some of my very favorite things as well as the link to head on over And join my facebook group. We'd love to have you over there It's a great place for support Motivation and some friendly faces during this quarantine time when we can't attend our regular workshops So thank you guys so much for spending some time with me today If you're new welcome, make sure you're subscribed and your bell notification is turned on so you don't miss a single video Give this one a big thumbs up if you love these what I eat in a day and comment down below Let me know first of all how your quarantine time is going and what you thought of this what I eat in a day Thank you guys so much for coming along with me today, and I'll see you all in my next video. Bye


Now Community Guard information is coming up for you around about quarter past ten this week today. Last week there was an appeal as it relates to, I think it was last week as it relates to an appeal on a holiday home. There was people went inside and messed up this holiday home. Now the appeal was detailed, do not get me wrong, but it did not tell the full story because it couldn't, because only the pictures can tell the full story. We're going to speak to that property owner now, but if you want to see what people or a person did the inside of this house, go on to our website highlandradio.com, click watch live or go on to Highland Radio Ireland on YouTube or any of our Facebook pages and I'll be showing you some of the images of what these people or person did to this house. Sam is the property owner. Sam, good morning to you. Good morning. Right, okay. Now you've had this holiday home, is it actually this home that you've had in Movil for a couple of decades now? Well, we've had it almost 20 years. It comprises of three apartments, a ground floor apartment and a first and second floor apartment. We never had to use the ground floor apartment, but we used the first and second floor top one for ourselves and the first floor if we had friends or family come to visit us. And what kind of state was the ground floor in? It was the ground floor that was the focus of this vandalism, is that correct? Yeah, the ground floor was actually vacant. The only damage done there was the broken window in the door into the kitchen, but there was no actual damage done inside because there was no furniture or anything in that ground floor apartment. All the damage was done in the first and second floor apartments and the entrance hole and the staircase and everything into the apartments. Right, so during what period of time did this happen? In other words, the last time you were there compared to when you returned? Well, the property was pretty much vacant prior to lockdown. Obviously, we weren't allowed to travel, et cetera, but we did keep a regular check on it and we were actually in the property on the 29th of August and that's the day that we found the damage. Prior to that was two weeks before the 29th of August and the apartments were intact. So, as I say, on the 29th of August we just had a routine check to make sure everything was okay and just couldn't believe our eyes when we opened the door. Yeah, right, so it was two weeks, the latter two weeks of August, this damage was done. Now, this, and anyone who hopped on to watch the show will see this, this looks like a demolition job.  So, can you describe for listeners in Radio Land what these people did to your property? Well, they basically broke in with an axe and they went at the staircase like I have never seen anything like it before. The local guards and the forensic team were, they said themselves that they had never seen damage like it. It just was, the vandalism, there was nothing taken and it was just, they went at the staircase as you can see in the photographs. They basically tried to take the staircase out, but not for any modern gain that was just vandalism. They then went at the walls, the light switches, the sanitary ware, the kitchens, doors, and at one point actually in the first floor apartment, they actually hacked off the bathroom door, but left the hinges on and about probably six inches of the door on and brought that door upstairs, put it into what would have been my daughter's bedroom and just smashed the place to complete smithereens, the TV, just unbelievable. The photographs don't like to give enough detail, but the photographs are appalling as I'm sure you agree. They're unbelievable. It's not like copper was stripped from the walls, it's not like the wood was taken to be burned, it's not like this was like a pack of animals that went in there for however long I don't know and as much as they could possibly destroy, they destroyed. That's correct. What's the damage? I mean, we'll talk about the actual monetary cost of this, but what are we looking at here? Well, we're still assessing it and the staircase was that badly damaged that, you know, I've had a couple of joins look at it and there's the feeling is that we probably will have to replace the whole staircase because it's been damaged beyond repair. The number of walls that are going to have to be replastered, kitchen replaced, sound to wear. At this stage, we're looking at probably between 30 and 40,000 euro of damage. Yeah. What about the emotional impact this has had on you, Sam, because there was a notable pause for me anyway, when you mentioned, you know, them accessing your daughter's room. Did I pick up correctly in that? And how has this made you feel personally, you know, the emotional element of it? Well, we have always had, you know, a great perspective on the bill. And it's just sort of shattered to the extent that my wife and the daughter really don't want to return. What do you think has happened here? I mean, do you feel this is anything personal? Do you think that people just went in there? Like, was there any evidence of drinking or smoking in there? Like, what do you what do you think that there can be never any justifiable motivation for anything like this? I think that's clear. What do you think went on here? I think that the property was empty and the perpetrators gained access. And it's clear from the top apartment that they rearranged the furniture and they had evidence of drinking alcohol. There was pizza boxes with half eaten pizzas in them. There was evidence of smoking and cigarettes. And nobody in our family smoked. So there was definitely that. They readjusted the furniture to the extent that they were using it, whether it be as a Ben or a drinking or gathering case. I don't know. The guards did do your door to door inquiry. And there was a scene leaving the building, I think a few days prior to us coming down, but they were wearing hoodies. And they said that possibly there was there was one female as well. But they had used the we had the water turned off, thankfully in the premises, but they had used the toilet. And I would say the we believe there definitely was more than one person. Do you get the impression that this all happened in one day or they may have been returning of the course that fortnight? I would say that there definitely are a number of occasions. And the acts and I'm going to for those watching, I'm going to I'm going to pause the image on the acts. It's it's it to me, it seems really quite distinctive. It's got a green and yellow handle almost like the the Donegal G a colors that obviously was used. Was that on the premises or did they bring that with them? No, that that that was not on the premises. And that was sitting as you can see it sitting on the coffee table. And there was also a crowbar on the floor, which you can sort of see in one of the photographs as well. That that that was obviously what was used to do the damage and to gain access. But I agree with you that that acts as very distinctive. And I'm sure that there's somebody somewhere that could look at that and say that that that acts. There's an ax missing. Exactly. There's an axe, an axe missing from the back of someone's van or a shed or a utility room or something. Someone's gone looking for a yellow and green handled axe and is wondering where it's at. And this is where it gets quite important because this means that maybe there's someone out there, it might be quite difficult. It's not actually a yellow and green handle. The handles green, but the axes body is yellow. Just so we're clear. The rubberized section is green. The body of the axe is yellow. There could be someone that knows it's someone in their family is really what I'm getting at, or they say it supplied this equipment. And that's that would leave someone in a very difficult position. But I think people are going to have to step up and do the right thing here. This is really, really quite significant. And as you say, an attack like this is going to feel personal, Sam, it's going to feel personal to you too as well. There's just no and your family because you've already talked of the impact it's had on your family, but it's going to feel personal. Yeah, absolutely. Is there been any other information other than youth spotted exiting and entering the building? No, the guards in Fairness now have been very helpful and they've had friends to guide and they are hopeful that that there will be DNA of the pieces that they took, the axe, the crowbar, cigarettes, there's a glass there, empty drinking cans and things like that there. So they have been in touch with me and they're working on it. And they have done door-to-door inquiries and I've spoken to some of the local people that nearby and with the public across the road and they haven't seen that, but I'm confident that if they do, that they'll be very happy to help. What do you do next now, Sam, in terms of trying to get this back to the way it was before or I don't know, what are you going to do? I mean, obviously it has to go in and be assessed and casted and all that type of stuff. Are you ready for that? Well, as I say, we've had the insurance loss adjusters out and they advised me to employ because of the extent of the damage they've advised me to employ, my own loss adjuster to do a detailed report as to the damage and we're still working our way through that. As I say, the staircase is a bit of a worry because it's been so badly damaged that it may be that we have to take the whole staircase out of the property and replace it, which that one item would be an excessive 10,000 euro, I believe. All right. And listen, it's great that they're doing their forensic work today and all that type of stuff, but look at if this is young people, how you get a match, what effectively I'm saying is this is going to require maybe having real life suspects as well that things can be cross-referenced with. It's not like the telly where we have this database and they run it through and all of a sudden two suspects pop up. So this is going to require the local community to pass on the information they may have to the guards. Can you give us a more specific idea of where this is? It's in Movil, it's in Old Barracks, which as you say has been converted to three apartments. You mentioned there's a pub across the road, is there a joining property? Can you describe to us its location? Yeah, well it's pretty central and the toilet and pub is opposite and there used to be a restaurant on one side of it which was was destroyed by fire oh I'm sure maybe 10 or 15 years ago and it's pretty close to the yeah there's a children's park there and the and the water the water sports area. So you're right in the centre at James Street just at the traffic lights if you were coming in, if you were coming in to Movil from Green Castle and you hit the traffic lights you take a left and that's your own James Street and you're on the left there. And given the level of damage and destruction here you would imagine someone was walking past and heard something as well I don't know maybe it's incredibly well insulated I don't know Sam but there would have been a riot going on in this building. You would imagine anyone close to it is bound to have heard or seen something? Well the perpetrators didn't do any damage to the ground floor apartment which would have been they purposely would have avoided that because yes you're absolutely correct that anybody walking past would have heard that. The damage would have been confined to the first and second floor and the access was from the rear now there is quite a substantial back area to the garden and the sort of a back lane so there wouldn't be an offload of pedestrians on the back lane so but I agree with you that the noise must have been horrendous because as I said I don't think anybody you couldn't you couldn't do the damage without it's a complete work out. Even the noise of smashing a toilet it's under pressure so to speak do you know what I mean that would have made a racket that the the length of time it would have taken to destroy the stairs as they did you know all their damage smacking smashing of walls random stuff like pulling out pulling out the kitchen for it does it serves absolutely no there must have been like a pack of animals but the throwing TVs you know yet the the oven seems relatively untouched I don't know it does none of it makes sense of course but this is something that took an awful lot of energy dependent on how many people were at it it took a bit of time as well. Yeah well the fact that there's only one axe would sort of lead you to believe that it was that that was the the singular instrument that was used and and quite possibly maybe there was one person doing it and other people living on it's maybe an act of bravado you know I I don't know it's it's hard to get your hair around you know if somebody breaks into some someplace to steal something although that's wrong you can sort of say well they broke in and they stole something or they broke in and they were using it as somewhere to to sleep or to to drink but you know this you know I just struggle to have a nightmare it's about it that I just struggle to get my head around the fact that anybody would actually want to go in and leave a place in such a state that they know that somebody is going to come in and find this and and and lead us in the position that we are just struggling to to to get a head around it. Yeah you are offering a substantial reward for any information that leads to a prosecution tell us about that as much as you want to on air Sam. Well as I say we do feel so strongly about it and you know I've had a chat with the guards about it and you know we we know that the people of Maval are good people and somebody knows somebody that has been involved in this and all I would ask is do the right thing and come forward and anonymously or whatever way that you want to either through yourself or through the guards and there's a substantial cash reward at the end of it. Like I mean none of us would ever want to think it's our young people but I think if it were mine I I think they would need to speak to the guards and it might straighten them out a little bit if that makes sense. You know as hurtful and as tough as that might be and it could be any of our children at any time by the way because I don't know what was going through the mines but clearly they got caught up in a situation or whatever was happening but I think also too that the axe is really quite distinctive and I think maybe people could focus on that a little bit as well as everything else because it was left behind it's sort of like a medium-sized axe it's bigger than a hatchet I think is it axe size or sort of a mid-size implement or is it a hatchet? The handle would probably be about 14 inches long but I would guess the sort of thing that you say somebody would maybe have in their shed for chop and sticks or or something like that there but you know it's quite substantial it's not it's not a toy and it's you know it's I'm sure that somebody will look at that photograph and and go into the shed and say that that's my that's my axe. So it's got a yellow body it's got a green handle and as I say it jumped straight out at you was sort of like the Donegal colors and obviously just a just it's a regular metal head. As I say Sam you know these things are it's it feels like an absolute violation how do you rehabilitate how do you be rehabilitate you and your family's sort of relationship with this property again? Well as they were just trying to come to terms with it and it's at this point in time you know the girls are of a mind that they really don't want to go back and there but you know time to get here we'll see. Okay well listen I hope in some way this is helpful that someone who knows something gets in contact with the Guardi or not even if they don't if this is mistrust to the Guardi for whatever reason local parish priest or also whatever it might be but I think anyone should really want the people responsible for this to sort of have to face up to it I think it would be good for them because if you're capable of this kind of prolonged sustained abuse of a property what do you what do you do next week or the week after or in a month do you know what I mean because or maybe it's just a group of people and excitement and drink and impressing members of the opposite sex or whatever it might be all the same sex things ran away with themselves but I think this they need to face up to this I think and the community would be very forgiving I think if those responsible stepped up and faced this okay I think it would set them up for the rest of their lives effectively I don't want to overstate it either Sam but I think it's that type of an instant and you know sometimes you just have to do the right thing. Absolutely and you know can I take the opportunity to thank you for for Aaron thank you. No it's anything we can do Sam all right best wishes to you and your family thanks a lot. All right take care of yourself all right that is Sam there's the owner of the holiday home in Movil has been there going back and forth for 20 years it's the old barks there you heard him describe its location converted into three apartments the first floor and the top floor where the targets of that rampage is the only thing you could describe it as the bottom apartment or bottom section of the building was empty basically untouched but it definitely happened in the last two weeks of August because they were there mid-August they returned on the 29th of August and discovered this damage so it's a two week window at 40 000 euro worth of damage and a substantial reward for any information that will lead to a prosecution is being offered and again though I just think sometimes it happens people step up and go look that was also that was me and I think they would benefit greatly from that because there's a lot of evidence there there's a lot of DNA evidence on cigarettes and on axes and people might not be on a database at the moment if such a thing exists but down the line this stuff can be cross-references so


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What's going on guys? So in this video, I want to show you five awesome products to drop ship this Q4. These aren't just random crappy products. I've put a lot of time and effort into this video and hand-picked everyone myself. They're all proven in their own right. They're backed by data. They're spiking in popularity and they also make great gifts. So yes, they're great sellers for Q4 but more specifically, they're great sellers for Christmas Day. We are at a time of year now when people have started their Christmas shopping. They're looking for things to buy their loved ones, their family and their friends and every single one of these products is a great option for that. So all five of these products are in niches which are hugely popular for this time of year. They're also in niches that target buyers that are ideal for Facebook. So we're gonna be covering all of that good stuff and I'm fully aware there's still lots of people jumping into the drop shipping space which is awesome to see but you are running out of time. If you are watching this video, see this video as your personal call to action. Watch the entire video, pick a product that makes sense to you that you have a good gut feeling about, switch off YouTube and start building your business right away. To help you get started as quickly as possible, I'm going to be giving you every single piece of information you need to go out there and start selling these products today. So we'll be giving you the competitor link, existing Shopify stores which is selling this product that you can use as inspiration. I will be giving you the Chinese supplier link for all of these products. So this will be the AliExpress link. However, what I suggest is importing it into your store and then seeing where else you can source it from and seeing if you can actually source it locally if you want to take full advantage of Q4 of Christmas. It's much advantageous being able to sell it up to say the 18th, 19th, 20th of December. You just can't do that if you're drop shipping from China. Next, I'm going to be sharing with you an ad creative link for each of these products. So again, you have an existing Facebook ad creative that you can use as inspiration.  I will of course be going over the profit margins. So you'll get to see exactly how much you can buy these products from, what your competitors are selling for and therefore whatever's left in the middle. That's what you can afford to spend on Facebook to make sure that you turn a profit. And last but certainly not least, I did a video on this yesterday, Facebook ad interests, how to pick the best Facebook ad interests for your products. So to give you some suggestions so you can get started as soon as possible I will be showing you these for each and every product. Product number one is this reflective raincoat for a dog. This is a massively popular product right now and it's also selling, it's proven guaranteed seller on Facebook and I'm going to show you the creative for it in a second. Before we go any further though, this presentation which I'm working through which has the links for AliExpress, Google Trends, Facebook ad creatives, competitor links, profit margins. If you want a copy of this, I will post it in the pinned comment at the top of this video. Once we hit 60 likes, we got 50 likes on the previous video. So if we can get this one to 60, that'd be awesome. And you will find the link there for free. You can get access to all of these links and get selling these products right away. So this is the supplier that I found on AliExpress. They're called Green Pet Store. They've been in business for a couple of years which doesn't sound like a lot but for an AliExpress supplier that is 96.3% is pretty decent as well. And we can see all of the ratings they have are above average. So if you did want to go down the AliExpress route then these guys are pretty decent. But like I said in the intro, do everything in your power to try and source it off of AliExpress because agents and dedicated drop shipping teams will be much more reliable and there'll be higher quality products as well. So basically what this product is, is it's a reflective raincoat. So I believe they've got a pretty decent image. I'll try and find a better one to show you guys but you can kind of see in this image here how when a torch hits it or when headlights hit it, it lights up. It's like those running jackets which you've seen before but for your dog. It also has different Velcro labels. So if somebody has a dog which is susceptible to anxiety or they're not very friendly, they can put those patches on there. So that's two different features of it. And the third feature of it is obviously being waterproof as well. So it's inevitable certainly here in the UK people will have to walk their dogs in the rain and in the dark and this product is the perfect solution to this. These are the tags that I was talking about. There's a whole business in itself to be made from these. Through the COVID period, hundreds if not thousands of people, thousands of people I would say, adopted dogs through the COVID period. Everybody was spending all day at home to look after their dogs. But when people start going back to work, the rates of anxiety and separation anxiety in dogs has massively gone up. So more and more people are getting these harnesses and these patches to put on their dog to let people know that their dog can and can't do certain things whether you shouldn't pet it or stroke it or whether it's there for support reasons. Just to confirm this product is in demand and this is Google Trend Information for the UK 2004. To present we can see there's a massive spike in popularity right now for this exact product. This is the Facebook ad creative I wanted to show you in the top right hand corner. You will see it's got a million views. The actual creative itself is brilliant. It's not just a random selection of different clips kind of bundled in together with some cheesy music over the top. These are real people really walking a dog, actually walking a dog, showing the real life application for this product. I believe somewhere towards the end it shows its reflective capabilities and that is amazing. People will absolutely love this product and if I can bring up these comments and just show that people are posting pictures of their dog wearing this product so people are genuinely buying this as well. If you want to sell this product these are your competitors. These are the guys using that ad creative which we've seen has been effective, has been successful. They're selling the product for a small for 40 pounds. It's the same price no matter the size which I would indeed recommend myself. There's, are they goggles? I didn't see these the first time around but there's an upsell offer there for coats and goggles. I can't imagine to be honest most people go for the goggles but hey it doesn't hurt to have it on there. In itself it's a 40 pound product. You'll be able to make a profit on this on the front end without any upsells or cross sells. As we can see though, a pretty decent looking professional store. They have this 62 questions feature which is my first time seeing this on a store. As we can see there's lots of images and actual videos too of the product being used which are brilliant for social proofs to definitely get that sort of thing onto your store to help with that. Because there is so much information about it, detail size and everything they've got these bullet points because as you can imagine on a mobile phone having to scroll through all of this information and scroll all the way back up it's really gonna affect and harm your conversion rate so I'd definitely recommend implementing a similar layout. We saw we can buy it for 10 pounds 84. We saw you can sell it for 39.99 which leaves a very healthy profit margin of 29.15. My recommended Facebook interests would be geared around people who love getting outside, love going on walks, love going on hikes and want to take their dog with them.  And so that was product number one, the Reflective Raincoat. I've got to mention in the introduction if you are looking to still get your business started as quickly as possible, make sure you check out my free training. It will be the top link in the video description below. It will show you how to go from scratch from literally day one and launch your business in the next 21 days and start making sales which still leaves time to make the most of this Q4 period. Moving on to product number two is this interactive toy. You may have seen this featured on my channel before, however this is a slightly different variation. Some of my best selling products have been products like this, variations of already tried and tested products. And the reason being is because the product is essentially the same, but it just looks different, which is perfect because people become numb. If they keep seeing the same product over and over again, they just become numb to it. They don't even see it, they'll just continue to scroll past it. So if you can take something which is tried and tested but advertised by loads of people and sell something that does essentially the same thing, but in a slightly different way, you're gonna recapture those people's attention and you already have a tried and tested product. So products like this are brilliant. Definitely don't skip this one. So this is the supplier that I found on AliExpress. They're a top brand. They specifically focus on pet products, which is awesome, 98.4% positive feedback and green or above in their ratings. There's many different options which give you different variations, even upsells to offer on your Shopify store, which is great for hooking people in in a really low kind of barrier to entry price. But then once they get on their store, they see a bigger and better product for a slightly higher price to kind of help them encourage to spend them more. This is the tried and tested product which has thousands of comments, thousands of happy comments, which I'll be showing you in a second. However, if it was me, I'd be sharing or I'd be selling, sorry, this variation here because essentially it does the same thing. However, it's different. So it's gonna recapture those people's attention which are used to selling this product. It's also slightly cheaper, which helps with the profit margins. Just to prove it is indeed in demand, we take a look, 2004 to present for DogToy, we can see it's about to hit its peak popularity in December. So you've still got a few weeks yet to make the most of this one. If we'll have a look at the Facebook ad creative itself, we can see just a super simple, yet effective ad. It looks like somebody's actually ordered this and filmed this content themselves using their own dog. But filmed on a mobile phone device. Super easy to create, yet super effective. There's no better way to demonstrate product than actually show the end user using it, having fun using it. And people just like to watch videos of this regardless of whether it's selling a product because they wanna see a cute dog doing cute things. Just to prove people are indeed loving this product, we can see 11,000 reactions, 4,000 comments, over 2,000 shares. And let's just take a look at what people are posting. So the company itself is posting reviews from customers, which is obviously a great tactic. But we can also see there's lots and lots of comments from customers just ordered. Our goldens love it. Somebody's posted a video of their dog using it. Another person, another person, another person, another person, another person, another person, so on and so forth. If you get the idea, people love this product, but it's already been done pretty extensively to these guys. So selling a slight variation of this, you're gonna be onto a winner. What's great about this product or the guys selling this product, they just use a very simple, free, straightforward, debutified theme. This is a winning product description and layout. So you can use this to your heart's content to replicate something similar and you know it's going to work. Just to point out, some of my favorite features of this store is this section here, the carrot patch of veterinarian approved benefits. And they also have another feature section here. So they do it in a slightly different way. They do it in a nice condensed way, demonstrating with nice cute pictures of cute dogs and kids just to help sell the product. Moving on to profit margins, we just saw we can buy it for $14.33 with free delivery. The recommended retail price in my opinion would be $39.99. That's because that's what carrot patch are selling it for and we know it sells successfully at that price, which leads a very healthy profit margin of $25.66. My recommended Facebook interests would be to target those people who love to buy toys for their dogs because this is a dog toy. So this would be things like dog toy, it would be Kong, it would be dog collar and it would be dog training too because there's a lot of owners out there that use toys as a way to train their dogs also. Moving on to product number three is this really cool effect. It's a wooden carved animal lamp. But as you can see, there's like a scene carved into the heart of the lamp, which is then lit up by an LED bulb. A really neat looking product, a really wow factor and it has a massive unique selling point and captures lots of attention on social media. I found a supplier on AliExpress which sells lots of different variants from lots of different animals, which is brilliant because one thing I would test with this product is a carousel ad with all the different animals and just put it out to everybody. Put it out to a super broad audience because you're gonna be capturing people who like different things and by point every single animal on that carousel ad, the chances are you're always gonna find somebody who is interested in one animal or another. So definitely great products that's gonna capture lots of attention on social media. This is backed up in the Google Trends information too. We can see we're just about to hit peak popularity because it is getting dark here in the UK. More and more people are looking for LED lamps and rather than buy a cheap, boring one, why not get them to buy a super exciting, unique one like this, which they've never seen before. This is the Facebook ad that I found that it can use as inspiration which is getting a pretty decent amount of engagement and as you can see, it's a very basic ad. There's not really a lot to it. You could probably get away with just a single image ad so you don't need to invest a ton amount of time into getting a creative. Just a single image ad is all you will need because there's not a lot more that a video can say about a product than an image can in this instance. As for your competition selling this product, I definitely think that everybody can outdo these guys. It's a very basic looking Shopify store with a very default template. It doesn't look super professional. If it was me, it's also a generic store called IdeaRock. If it was me, I would build a one product niche store around like wooden hand-carved products to really kind of set yourself up as the original and unique seller. What they also don't have on this store is reviews for the products, which is a massive no-no. It is a God-given fact that reviews help sell a product as long as they're positive, of course. So definitely make sure you get some reviews on your product page. As for numbers then, we just saw we can buy this product for 8.52. My recommended retail price would be 30 pounds but I think that's slightly on the cheap end, to be honest. Definitely start there to see how things go and if you find it just kind of takes off the traction, just comes from day one, I'd start to bump up that price week on week and just make sure it doesn't affect your conversion rate because there's so much detail and uniqueness and wow factor to this product. There's something like that definitely warrants a higher price ticket than 30 pounds in my opinion but even still with this lower price bracket, still looking at approximately 21.47 per sale. My Facebook interest for this product would be to start with an animal. So if you wanted to sell the wolf one, that could be your base interest and then I would combine this with people who have a passion for interior design. You can actually target LED lamp, believe it or not, as an interest too. So people who have shown interest in those things but then combine that with their love for animals and like I said, carousel ad with every single animal, an individual image I think would be a great start. Moving on to product number four are these animal socks. Now, to be honest, I usually stay away from cheap products like this. However, they're super in demand and there's also some existing sellers which are seeing some success with them. People like to buy socks at Christmas, it's just a fact. If we take a look at the Google Trends information, there is a massive spike in demand and popularity for socks come November, December time. So it's just the fact that people buy socks to give as gifts at Christmas and that's where your market is. There's people not necessarily knowing what to get someone so they'll just get them a cheap pair of novelty socks so they can tick them off the list and they don't look bad for not getting them anything. This is the supply I found on AliExpress, my private wardrobe store, 97.2% feedback established in 2021. There's lots of different variations. So again, you could adopt that same and similar approach I mentioned for the previous products I've run in a carousel ad, super cheap products at three pounds 42. You do have to add on a shipping cost there of 269 but for that you get 15 day on time guarantee. As for pre-existing Facebook ads then, again, just a single image ads pretty much tells the whole story for products like this, a super quick, super cheap to get started in. As I mentioned earlier, these guys have got some serious traction, well, 6,000 engagements in serious traction actually, but 4,000 comments is pretty good, near into 1,000 shares which is also good. All the comments are fairly recent as well so three weeks, 15 hours, three weeks, three days, three days, three weeks, one week. There was a couple of people in here who say they have them as well. So people are actually buying these. You can see people are getting excited about them. She's got the crocodile ones. So definitely products that people are generally excited and interested about and actually buying as well. So that's why it gets to feature in this video still. As for the Shopify store, it's using a layout very similar to a store we've already looked at. You could definitely approve upon this using a more custom theme and using a product page editor like Genpages or something like this. But to be honest, it is a fairly simple product. The image itself kind of sells it.  I would definitely couple this with a really good upsell. So let's see what happens if I hit that to cart. And then let's see if I wanna hit checkout. There's nothing. So if it was me, I would definitely be adding a function or a feature where people hit that checkout button and they get hit with a pop-up that says, buy a second pair for 20% off or get three pairs for two or something like that just to try and encourage people to spend a bit more money and therefore bump up your average order value so you can turn a profit on that front end. Plus it's the sort of product where if you're gonna get one pair of socks for somebody you don't know what to buy for, you'll probably think I could get two or three pairs and buy for him, her and whoever. As for the numbers we're just seeing including shipping is six pound and a penny. My recommended retail price would be in and around 20 pounds that seems in and around where most kind of novelty pairs of socks come in, which leaves a profit margin, a pretty tight profit margin of 13 pounds and 98 pence. But like I said, get a good upsell or cross sell offer and you'll be able to bump that up and make a profit, no problem. As for Facebook interests, you can actually target socks as an interest, believe it or not, but I would couple this with people who are looking for gifts to buy for people at Christmas. So target things like Christmas shopping and engaged shoppers and online shopping. Engaged shoppers obviously being those people who have clicked the shop now button in the past seven days so they're happy and used to shopping from ads on Facebook. Moving on to product number five, one of my favorite, a bit of a wild card one is this dinosaur play park. It's the perfect gift for Christmas because it allows multiple people to play it one time. It's also a great photo opportunity when you see your child having fun playing with something cute like this and dinosaurs. Everybody wants to take pictures. Everybody can get involved on Christmas day as well. So it makes the perfect kind of Christmas activity for brothers and sisters and even parents to get involved and even grandparents as well. What is slightly different about this product though is from a supplier called Avasam is a UK based drop shipping supplier. So we can see it shipped to the UK in three to four days. You can actually get 24 hours for eight pound 33. There's no need though, you could go for the cheaper options and still have it sent, tracked, delivered to your customer in three to four days. This also allows you to take full advantage of Q4 and sell closer to that cutoff deadline. I didn't really know what to put in on Google Trends. I didn't just want to put kids toys because that's going to be clear and obvious. So that's going to be massively popular in demand now. So I'll put board game in because it kind of is a board game except you play it on a mat. Perhaps it will give some of you guys further ideas to maybe look at more specific like board games. But either way, coming into Q4 November, December time, massive popularity for products like this. As for competitors, couldn't find any pre-existing one. Anybody actually selling this product, which is another positive, another plus for this product. I think I mentioned it earlier on the video. If you can be one of the first people to bring a product to market that people have never seen before, it's definitely going to capture attention and definitely going to be on to a winner. So that's one of the reasons why I love Avasam is they do have some products from AliExpress, but most of the products are quite unique, never seen before. So if you are looking to start drop shipping business in the UK, then definitely check out Avasam. As for numbers, including that, we saw we can buy it for 520. My retail price would be 29.99, which I think is reasonable for a mat, some figurines and that sort of thing. You could probably get away with a bit higher actually. Even so, this leaves a pretty healthy profit margin of 24 pounds and 79 pence. As for my recommended Facebook interests, there's a couple of spins, a couple of angles here. Obviously we need to target toys. I definitely think we should target people, parents I should say with preschoolers. So this is the perfect age range for a toy like this, three to five years old. Target people interested in dinosaurs, so then you're coupling those two interests. And last but not least, gift and grandparent. Grandparents by far from my own experience have been the strongest buyers on Facebook. So by targeting grandparents who are looking for gifts, but also have an interest in dinosaurs, then I think you can be on a winner. And so with that being said then guys, that is all five products I wanted to show you in this video. I hope you stuck with me. If you have, I really do appreciate it. I mentioned it earlier on in the video. If you're looking for a free training to help you get started in drop shipping as quickly as possible and you want an extra 194 profitable products ideas, make sure you check out my free training in the top link below. Thanks for watching guys and have an awesome Q4.


The Fruit Commission of Washington State, our largest cherry producer, can fund reviews cherry-picking studies on the anti-inflammatory effects of cherries in a petri dish and animal models. But what we need are human studies. For example, if you stuff the human equivalent of up to 1,000 cups of cherries down the throats of rats, it appears to have an anti-inflammatory effect. But we couldn't eat that many, and in fact, if we tried, it could end up badly. This is a case report of a poor guy who ate 500 cherries whole without spitting out the pits, which ended up fatally obstructing his colon. But we didn't have many human studies until now. Men and women were asked to eat about 45 cherries a day for a month. I wouldn't mind being part of that study. A 25% drop in C-reactive protein levels, as well as an inflammatory protein with an inelegant acronym regulated on activation normal, T-cell, expressed, and secreted. That's actually the name. As you can see, even a month after the study ended, there appeared to be residual anti-inflammatory benefit from the cherry-fest. These were all healthy people with low levels of inflammation to begin with, but the same was found in a follow-up study on folks with higher levels, a solid 20% drop in C-reactive protein, and a number of other markers for chronic inflammatory diseases. But how about trying out cherries on people who actually have a chronic inflammatory disease to see if they actually work? Well, back in 1950, in an obscure Texas medical journal, observations made by responsible physicians suggested that in a dozen patients with gout, eating half a pound of fresh or canned cherries helped prevent flares of gout, but had never been seriously tested until now. Gout is an excruciatingly painful inflammatory arthritis caused by the crystallization of uric acid in our joints, affecting 8 million Americans. Such attacks caused tremendous pain, as famously captured in this caricature. Hundreds of gout sufferers studied, and cherry intake was associated with a 35% lower risk of gout attacks. With over half the risk gone at three servings, measured over a two-day period, which comes out to be about 16 cherries a day, that's the kind of efficacy they saw with a low purine diet. Uric acid is a breakdown product of purines. The same research group found that purine intake of animal origin increased the odds for recurrent gout attacks by nearly five-fold. Heavy alcohol consumption isn't a good idea, either. There are some high purine non-animal foods, like mushrooms and asparagus, but they found no significant link to plant sources of purines. So they recommended eliminating meat and seafood from the diet. That made decreased risk, and adding cherries on top made decreased risk of gout attacks even further. Same thing with the leading drug, allopurinol works, but pills and produce appear to work even better. And dietary changes in cherries may be all many patients have, as doctors are hesitant to prescribe uric acid-lowering drugs like alpurinol, due to rare but serious side effects, including the most feared of all drug side effects, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, which can detach our skin from our body. I will spare you the photos. In addition to fighting inflammation, cherries may actually help lower uric acid levels as well. Within five hours of eating big bowl of cherries, uric acid levels in the blood significantly drop. At the same time, antioxidant levels in the blood go up, as vitamin C levels start to rise. So is it just an antioxidant effect? Would other fruit work just as well? No. They tried grapes, strawberries, and kiwi fruit, and none significantly lowered uric acid levels, reporting a specific anti-gout effect of cherries. There are some new gout drugs out now, costing up to $2,000 per dose, and also carries a risk of toxicity that may be avoided by using non-pharmacological treatments or prevention in the first place. Given the potential harms and high costs, attention ought to be directed to dietary modification, reducing alcohol and meat intake, particularly sardines and organ meats. And hey, if life serves up a bowl of cherries, consumed on a regular basis, the risk of a recurrent gout attack may be meaningfully reduced.


Hi, guys. I'm Vini. I'm a developer at ThoughtWorks. Today, I'm going to talk about acceptance tests using LXC. So I'm going to talk about the problem that we face because of which we thought of the solution that I'm going to propose. So there is a common complaint that comes, that my acceptance tests are passing on my machine. The acceptance tests are passing on the CI pipeline as well. But still when we deploy on the environment, the functionality breaks. So I just want to highlight one thing that, so why does the functionality breaks on deploying to the environment? Because our environment have multiple boxes running the application in the separate servers in the separate boxes. But when we develop on our machine, it's just one single box on which all the applications are running. Same on the CI, we do not invest enough on the creating a proper environment on the CI agent, or whatever machines that you're using for running the CI pipelines. Again, there is one single box that is running all your applications, and the test suit runs on one single box, which is somewhat a replica of your dev machine. So, but when it is deployed on the environment, things break. So this is the pipeline structure, a small snapshot of it. So this pipeline, acceptance test pipeline is the most crucial one because it is taking the code, the RPMs or whatever packages you have, and running the test suit and then it is deploying to the environment. So it is the only check where you are saying that, okay, everything that I wrote is working fine. So it is very crucial to make this pipeline green. So what we did was, so the solution that we applied was, we said that on the CI agent, we'll try to replicate the environment to which it is going to deploy. So we had four different applications, so and on any environment that was there, there were multiple instances of one application. So we thought we'll create a very thin slice of environment on the CI agent, and because CI agent was just one box, so we could not stress it a lot. So we created four LXCs. Each LXC was running one application, and on those LXCs, we could actually run all our runless, and we could knife bootstrap it or run Chef Client on it, and it would actually replicate the entire scenario of the actual environment. So the point that I'm trying to highlight here is that, why do applications fail when we deploy on environment because it's not just the application, the code that is running. It is also the configuration, infra-configuration that goes into the environment, like some engineX version is running there. So there is some engineX version that is running on a local box, and then there's some other engineX version that is running on your environment. So using this kind of a solution, we were using Chef, so you could use your Chef recipes to bootstrap your machine LXCs on your CI agent, and actually replicate the entire scenario. If it goes green, it ensures that my infra-code is good to be deployed on the environment. It is working well with my application code. Also, if the test suit runs successfully, my apps are running in an integrated mode. The benefit is it gives me a faster feedback before being deployed to any environment. Yeah, that's it. Any questions? No questions. Sorry. Thank you.


File Overview The Foundation is not the only group with an interest and investment in the paranormal and metaphysical. There are many other groups in existence who possess, use, or attempt to create SCP objects either for their own personal gain or for the protection of mankind. Some are rival organizations, some are splinter groups of the Foundation, and some are trusted associates of the Foundation. In any case, it has been deemed necessary to create and distribute a brief on what agencies the Foundation knows about and are stance towards them. The Three Moons Initiative Overview The Three Moons Initiative is an extradimensional human-military organization based in SCP-2922-C, an afterlife also known as Corbinic. Through a partnership with the Corbini's deity Jalakara, they act as a multi-dimensional security force for the protection of the human race. While initiative personnel believe that they're operating in humankind's best interests, military overreach, poor communication, issues with internal bureaucracy, and other factors combined with their disproportionately high military strengths to our own have made them a potential liability to public safety in our dimension. As such, they maintain an unstable peace with the Foundation. Those of the Three Moons Initiative are to be treated with extreme caution. Unusual Incidents Unit, UIU, Federal Bureau of Investigation Overview The Unusual Incidents Unit was formed after the onset of the Cold War when many aspects of the American government were focused on utilizing the anomalous and preventing the communists from doing the same. This led to the creation of a special FBI division devoted to rapid response to paranormal events and crimes. Director J. Edgar Hoover was personally involved with their creation, although initially given significant funding and resources by the American government, following the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of enemy organizations such as the GRUP, the UIU had been in a state of decline for many years. Disparagingly referred to as ex-files and UI useless by the larger anomalous community, the agency is generally well-meaning, but due to a lack of financial resources, little manpower, and bureaucratic obstruction by the US government, it is often perceived as ineffective. The influence of the Foundation and Global Occult Coalition in the United States government has stopped the UIU and other US GOV entities dealing with anomalous activity such as US Air Force's 616th Squadron, Roswell's Revengers, and US Navy SEAL team Bravo Papa Romeo Delta from being dissolved entirely. FBI and special agents who join the Unusual Incidents Unit often have backgrounds in psychology, STEM fields, and art studies. As part of the Patriot Act, agents of the unit are required to be administered personalized medic silencing agents, PMSA, colloquially referred to as gag orders by agents of the UIU, to avoid leaks. The Unusual Incidents Unit has been known to engage in combat alongside and against various anomalous organizations in the past, including participating in several combat operations under Foundation supervision in the 1950s and 1960s, and the Black Mamba Incident in Afghanistan in 1976, an infamous skirmish between UIU agents and members of GRUP. Currently, a division of the Unusual Incidents Unit oversees the autonomous anomalous state of three portlands. An example of underfunding and understaffing in the Unusual Incidents Unit can be seen in its sole remaining division in the Midwestern United States. Vikander Need Technical Media Overview Here at Vikander Need, we like to pride ourselves on being at the bleeding edge of media and communication technology. Our goal has been the betterment of the person and society through unbiased but aesthetically pleasing communications. There's a better world out there, then it's up to all of us to achieve it together. Efficient and entertaining media is the most important step on the road to utopia. Won't you join us in this better tomorrow, trademark? The Wandsmen Overview The Wandsmen are a group of exodimensional journalists and archivists. They seek to explore the multiverse and uncover its mysteries while spreading and preserving knowledge. All members of this group undergo a transformation that gives them avian features and anomalous abilities. They also utilize a group of anomalous artifacts known as maps of the multiverse to travel through dimensions to study the locales and inhabitants. In contrast to many groups of interest, the Wandsmen have attempted to work with the Foundation multiple times. One of their goals is the preservation of existence so they can study it. So they see the Foundation as an ally against the multiverse's destruction. However, they have a variety of extremely dangerous members, have produced multiple anomalous items and strongly object philosophically to the Foundation's desire to preserve normalcy and conceal knowledge of the anomalous. Wilson's Wildlife Solutions Overview Wilson's Wildlife Solutions is a paranormal publicly funded wildlife service based in Clackamas County, Oregon, specifically in the town of Boring. Although the Foundation has known of Wilson's Wildlife Solutions' existence and anomalous affiliation since 1999, it took nine years until the Ursus Maratimus incident in 2008 for their existence to be officially recognized and a relationship established between the two groups. Currently, the Boring Agreement outlines that Wilson's Wildlife Solutions should be supervised by MTF Beta 4 castaways, local to Science 64, and that they may handle containment of safe or euclid fauna-based anomalies, with varying degrees of Foundation intervention on a case-to-case basis. Amendments to the Boring Agreement can be and have been made to account for gray areas or new policies as necessary. End of file. To learn more about the SCP Foundation, subscribe to SCP Orientation today and turn the notification bell on so you don't miss any of our videos.


Hi, I'm Matthew Coast, head dating coach and founder at CommitmentConnection.com, and in today's video we're going to talk about the six signs that you're with your soulmate. So, are you with your soulmate? I guess we'll find out pretty soon. If this is your first time to this channel, make sure that you go down and click the subscribe button to make sure you get lots of videos about how to have the relationship you've always wanted. And so, are you with your soulmate? Here are six signs that you are. So, the first sign that you're going to look for is that the timing is just right, right? So, a lot of times two great people that are great for each other will run into each other, but the timing's off, right? And maybe that will end up destroying things because, you know, one or the both of you might be in the wrong place, but if the timing's right and you both feel like the timing's right, then that's a good sign that maybe you're with your soulmate. Sign number two, you can talk all night and can comfortably share silence together. So, usually soulmate type connections are the connections where you guys just, you can just sit there and talk to each other forever. It feels like time's just flying by. Maybe you can, maybe you both have things to do, but you want to be together and so you can just hang out in silence and just enjoy each other's company without having to do anything, having to go anywhere, having to make it about something else and other than you just being there with each other. Sign number three, you know what he's thinking and feeling. Soulmate type connections are ones where there's like, there's kind of this energy where you can just, you just know what's going on with the other person at most of the time or a lot of the time. And so, maybe you'll know what he's going to say, you'll know how he's feeling, you'll know what he's going to do. That's a good indication that you're in a soulmate relationship. Number four, you're not blind to each other's faults. You know what they are with each other and you accept them. So, a good sign of a soulmate relationship is that you're with someone and you know each other's problems, but you love and accept them as they are. You're not trying to change them. You're not trying to make them different. You're not nagging on them, trying to make them do something. You see what his flaws are. You see what he's doing in his life and you accept him and love him for who he is. Sign number five, you have the same goals in life and that's not changing anytime soon. So, when your goals are in sync when a man and a woman and it's not even necessarily like you're both trying to get the same thing, but you're both kind of in support of where the other person is going. There's an alignment that's happening between the two of you. That is a great sign that you're in a soulmate relationship and the man you're with is a great guy to be with. Sign number six, if you could go back in time, you'd still fall in love all over again. A really good sign that you're with your soulmate is looking back at things and looking at all the challenges, looking at the disagreements, looking at the things, the bad times, the good times and saying, you know what, I would do all of that over again if I had the chance. So, that's it. Those are the six signs that you're in a soulmate relationship. You're with your soulmate. Thanks for watching this video. If you're ready to know exactly what to say and do to attract the man and the relationship you've always wanted, click on the button on the right-hand side of this video and go to our website.