Why 254? Imagine. Thank you for staying with us on Why 254 News and it is at the best point of this bulletin whereby we get to discuss about issues affecting people in the society.  Thank you guys for finding time to talk about this topic. And a brief background of what women in Africa is. Women in Africa is a group of women that have come actually in Africa, not just Kenya. We have people in Nigeria, people in South Africa, people in Ghana, people in Tanzania, all of them. It's a movement of volunteer women who want to actually feel we feel we are empowered to whichever level that we are empowered and therefore we feel we can actually empower someone else either the mothers or the girls or whoever else to be able to change the things that we feel if we had been told in Wajanga this would have changed. So our mission is to lead, empower and transform. And to make girls know that they can actually be producers and not just consumers. They can be breadwinners. You realize that most of us in actually global not just Africa, we grew up with the mentality of the woman sits at home and the man brings. So even when you say the breadwinner, just psychologically you actually mean the man. And even when women are doing something, when you have a female pilot, when you have a BCD, you put the gender, why don't you just say the pilot, we'll be saying the female pilot. When you're asking the kids what you want to be, you'll find that the kids are talking, the girls are saying something that we feel they are very feminine, the boys are saying something that is very specific. So just changing that mindset and helping people see women as human beings and helping the women themselves, the girls, the women see them so fast as human beings before they think of themselves as female. Okay. For you, Benedict, you're dealing with mentorship. We know not very many people like taking people and their umbrella and decide to guide them in every stage in life because mentorship without follow-up is not mentorship. So would you tell us your journey on mentorship and what do you push the girls to be and what do you push them to view everything around them? Yes, actually this is one of the core of the organization and also actually it's like a movement. So the thing is that we do empower them, number one is by changing the mindset, number one you change the mindset, you make them believe in themselves, then also there is follow-up because when we, for example, we hold talks, like for example in schools, we want girls to be equal partners with boys and also believe in themselves and bring the same thing that a boy can bring home. So the follow-up is that we, for example, we can choose a particular school. We go there, we take one, we take for example a seminar with particular points. Those points we will follow up again. Actually we can do that for a year and even after. So it's one of the best things that has happened because the girls when they believe in themselves, like for example the time we went and spoke to children and young girls who actually were going to do their kaisipu and you could see the change in that girl, the change and the believing in ourselves, the resolution that girl made and also actually we hold teachers to be our partners, the parents too. So you see there is all-round approach in the girl child. So Jane, what would you say as a country where we are as far as women empowerment, women taking leadership both in the public sector and in the private sector? Where are we as a country? I would say we have really moved on. We didn't have strides but we are still very far. I think there was a report that was released last year late about the women CEOs and the list that kind of are listed in NSC. I think you only had six CEOs. And even if you look at the statistics of the labour market, you will find that women stall at a certain level. We go, we get the job market, we grow and after. They be management level, then people don't go beyond that.  Or you get a certain level and that becomes a comfort zone. So this empowerment is just not for the young girls. It's even for us as women to know that we remove that impossibility mindset. You can be. And the first thing that I tell people is if you can't dream about it, if you think you can't, you're right. If you think if you don't take time to just think where do I want to be? What is my vision 10 years from now? What do I want to have with my career? What do I have for my family? What do I have to have with the BCD? And just have that balance view of what you really want to have. Because empowerment is just about careers. Empowerment is just about wealth. Empowerment is something that is well-rounded. It means to live lives that are actually balanced. Because for a very long time, women have just focused on the family aspect of their life. And the men have been able to balance family, world, career, spiritual and all those things. But the woman has always been able to give up everything else for the sake of the family. And because of the same thing, we have seen women being abused again and again, including physical, including people dying, because you feel like you don't have any options. Because the one who is bringing the bread home, the one who is earning a living, is the one who is calling the shots. So you don't have a say, you can't even tell the person that I'm being abused. Because if you say this, you don't know what your life will change to. So it's that aspect of telling people it has to change. And especially matters were not exposed.  Yes, because they are the first care givers. Yes, and then at home, if the guy is being told, you can't do this, that's your brother's.  Yeah, you want to go to the shop with your father, you don't know, you stay home, take care of the baby, get your brother going, get no support for that. Jane, I think you've said that most women will get into the job market and get an assistant position and be comfortable. They not go up managing directors to CEOs and everything. Bennett, what do you think makes women not climb the ladder as we see men do it? Is it that women have taken it in themselves and say that it's not our position to take? Or is it that these opportunities are not availed to women? Actually, as Jane has said, it's all in a mindset. You're given something and then you say, I'm okay with this. And actually when it goes deeper to gender roles, you know, like every community talks about a girl should do this, a boy should do this. But when it comes to JDs, they don't say, for example, job descriptions like in the labor market, it doesn't tell you for a woman it is this, for a man it is this, you have to deliver. You have to do what you're supposed to do. So it is the changing of the mindset. It begins from you, then you believe in yourself. For example, if a promotion is coming up, then you're supposed to apply for that. We need to have more women come out and you need to believe in yourself. It is all in you because you are all it takes to make that move. Maybe we can just talk a bit on that. Some of the things are most for HR professionals and I think some of the things that I've seen in the growth of women, things to do with first of all, the branding. We don't run ourselves like the brand. You go for a meeting and you just prepare how you look, but you don't prepare for the meeting. So when people are contributing for the agenda, you actually quiet. And most women keep quiet actually in meetings and stuff. Even in just staff meetings or board meetings or just management meetings, this woman has been put there, but she's called. Even in parliament we see, we've seen very few women voicing out on the list either quiet or they don't even shop for anything. And when you keep quiet, people will never know your value. So they start sending you to go and make tea. And then also because of how we have been brought up, we start thinking like if there is TV and people are sitting, it is your work to go and serve tea. I don't have a problem serving tea, but that should not be your only contribution in that for them.  Serve it because you feel like serving people, but not because you feel because I'm a woman and I'm sitting here. So that's one of them. And then failure to contribute to the meetings. So the men are talking and they're saying things are to do about five minutes ago. But you were like, you didn't believe in yourself. Some aspect of self confidence and esteem. So you're like, what if I say this and it's wrong? Then the man thinks about it minutes later and he clapped for them. You also clapped for him. And then the other thing is women like to play modest. You want to talk about your achievements, but it's like you don't want to be seen like you're bragging or like you're being proud of what you're trying to say. So every time you start apologizing. I don't know how you take this, but my opinion is, I don't know how you guys will take this and then you present and then after that you start saying, I hope that makes sense. The men will come there or very confident women will come there and they're going to say what they think. Without apologizing? First of all because we'll have done their research. They know what they're talking, actually makes sense in that value. And when they say, they go like, that was my brief presentation. I hope we get to have the follow up actions and the BCD. Because they are sure about what they are saying. But then you just limit your preparation to many things that you're supposed to be showcasing yourself to how you look physically then. The other thing is actually addressing it appropriately. You're addressing it in a way that you're not comfortable yourself. And therefore in the meeting you are not even comfortable to even volunteer to read the presentation or you're seated but the whole time you are doing like this and you're this mature manager and it's just uncomfortable for you. And then again also I've noted for the men, they actually take the risk. They even apply for jobs that they don't qualify fully. They're missing one, two qualifications. But they still apply for you. For the woman, you go like, who are missing this particular one? I've not finished my MBA yet. I don't think they can apply for this one. For the woman, he'll apply it for soon. Okay, let us look at some of the strides that have been made recently in the US during the midterm elections. We now have 100 women serving in the House of Representatives. We have 12 women in the Senate. We have, in Kenya we have, for example, in Kenya we have 22% of women. In Rwanda, Rwanda is the leading African country, the very high percent on women who are serving. So how now do we empower women to go out there and secure these jobs, secure these opportunities without feeling sorry? The one for political... Every aspect? Either the public sector or the private sector. Now when I'm thinking, in my view, you should wear the right heart, an example. If you're a mother, you wear the right heart. If you're a CEO, wear that heart that fits there with no apology because you are qualified to be there just as any other person. So that is one of my views as Jen says here. It depends because a man will go for that, that he knows that I only miss this. So if we actually made strides and also applied, you also apply if it is, for example, if it is a business, even ordinary juwakali, believe in yourself, do what the others are doing and try. Even if someone is bringing you down, whether it can be your colleague, it can be your fellow women, it can be other men, believe in yourself and also plan yourself very well. I think planning is key. We have the issue of anikope. I've had people complain both in Africa and internationally whereby I am doing the same work as my male counterparts but I get paid less and it's paid more. So how now do we bring out this conversation? How do we make sure that these things do not happen? Because if I have an MBA and you have yours, we get into the office and we're doing the same jobs. Why should you get higher than me? So how do we cap this gap? It can only start with the women themselves. There are things that you have to do for yourself. Of course, as a company, if you're organized when you put systems that make sure there's anikope for you for work, it's a minimum by the government anikope for you for work, but then there's also the power of negozition. So if you're given what you're given and because of whatever fears that you have, you don't feel confident enough to negotiate for more because of the value that you're going to bring of whatever issue, then you end up setting for that. And also because you're not brought up to speak up. So this man works very hard and is able to show of that confident woman that empowered woman works and is able to show whatever they're bringing on the table. They are not modest about their achievements. They are able to be seen to be adding that value. Then this person is able to actually go and ask for more pay. And the woman who supports just to sit at the park and is just comfortable with butter to kazi. As long as I have this job for me, it's okay. Then that will affect the gender prayer. As you wind up because time is not on our side, I'll look at three challenges that would make us not have future women in the field because we talk about the future and think that the future is only for our children and our siblings, but the future is ours too because in 20 years time, a person who is 50 now is not going to be working, but they'll need the person who is probably in high school right now to have all the abilities that they need. We have teenage pregnancies, we have early marriages, and we have FGF. How do we fight this to make sure that we prepare these women for what is coming? A comment from each one of you. Let's start with the next. Nambon, I'll go to the call. Actually parenting. As we are parenting, we should also strive to have equal parenting for both the boy child and the girl child because they will move together in the workplace. They'll move together as partners. So you need to empower them and in areas where we really had mentalities that brought the girl child down as a parent, as a leader, where you are in, you should enforce this so that both are equal partners so that we don't have unbalanced Okay. unbalanced outcomes which we are seeing today. Okay, yes. Jenny, comment on that? For me, I think it's about dropping the kids mindset because you grew up being told you can do this, you can, especially for the girls, you can do this, you can do that. And even for the women and even just because we can't win these alone, the men have to be there on board for us to have people empowered. So even for them, for the society, to know that a child is a child, we don't have to celebrate and throw a party when there's a baby boy and when there's a baby girl, it's just like any other baby that has come to the field. So it's just knowing that all these people are, they're just human beings and they can both add value and they should be given equal opportunity and they should be given equal chances. And again, the structure of the brain doesn't have a gender. There's no male brain and female brain.   Don't keep saying you are my woman, you are my woman. And that goes to women like us who are working. Yeah, we still feel like you can't buy yourself this car, you can't buy yourself ABCD because you're waiting for this man because that's how you were told that this can only be achieved by men. Including even in marriage setups where we most women actually don't own property. Yeah, because they're not catch at that week. To actually think they can actually own stuff and they can actually have things running on their own. They can't have a business running on their own. They can be the pilots, they want to be the flight attendants and all those things. Okay, so last question. How do we rightfully empower women without making the men feel it's like we are empowering them or stepping on them? For me it's about making the men also understand what we are seeing. Like for women in Africa we are not fighting the men. Even when you go for empowerment programs we actually have the men and the boys, the fathers and the mothers in our sessions because we want them to appreciate that there is no point of not educating a girl. If you don't educate a girl when the boy will be going to the university the girl will be getting married at that age of 18. So what have you done? You are increasing the poverty cycle.  So at the end of the day for both men and women the society to know at the end of the day we just human beings. Okay, I also want to add on what Jane has said. When women in Africa use as the woman as an entry point you cannot be a jackal of all trades. You have to have what you want to do but it is inclusive. So we use the woman, the girl as the entry point to empower her networks. The networks can be family, the networks can be a workplace, the network can be a religious place. So when we use her as an entry point there to be at least to have voice and to be able to work with them. Actually we do inclusive, everyone is in the program but you must have an entry point of the person who you will touch. So that they touch the other. Okay, thank you very much guys for really finding the time to come and share all that with us. That is all we hand for you tonight on Y254 news updates. If you're a lady health there whatever you feel you want to conquer I just challenge you go and do it better and with a lot of confidence knowing that there's no difference between what you can do and what a man can do. Good night. My name is Patricia Murioki.


Welcome to Toffy TV. We've got the brand new Everton shirt from Hummel for the 2020-21 season. Here it is in all its glory, just unveiled today. Looks good. What do you think? Yeah, I really like it. I think for me it's the best home shirt we've had for a number of years. Obviously, I've seen people say it's plain. It will be because that's what you do with a blue kit. I don't think we could get away with jazzing our kit up too much, but I think Hummel have done an excellent job with it. I really do. I think I really like the chevrons on the shoulders. I think that's set it apart really from other kits we've had. Now I really like it. Now I think it's excellent and as you can see there, you can see the chevrons just there on the arm. It's a very traditional Hummel design. Obviously they have their chevrons on the side. But now I think it's had really good reaction so far. It's traditional. It's blue. There's nothing jazzy about it. People every year say you should do this and you should do that. But ultimately, if you started doing that and breaking tradition, people would have a problem. I think the more traditional, the better. It's got a little bit of white piping on the arm. It's got the chevrons. It's blue around the neck as well even though it's got this sort of flat collar that comes down. It's blue. It's got a design on the front which it's actually quite shiny but you can't see it until you get quite close up the design pattern within the kit as well. That is apparently the soundbars to Zecars inspired. There's a bit of technology behind this as well. We do have to mention that. Evidence, the first club in the Premier League to adopt Hummel's 0H20 dry dye technology. This groundbreaking technology ensures there is zero water consumption, zero wastewater in the dyeing process and a 50% reduction in energy consumption. This means that the 25 litres of fresh clean water normally required to dye just one single sheet is saved for every jersey produced. So, yeah, I never had that 0H20 technology on all three kits this season. I've got to say, I do really like it. Like I said to you before, like last season, the other kit we're using now grew on me when we first, we were at the launch last season and I think I actually said to the umbro guy when he asked me what I thought, I said, looks a bit like a train and top because that was my first impression. I don't get that impression with this kit. Do you remember the one we did a few years ago? The umbro one when Rooney come up which literally was a train and top. It was a struggle. It was a struggle. It was difficult to get enthusiasm about that one. But I think this one I do really like. I think personally it looks classy and I know that some people had worried with the kazoo logo. I even seen people yesterday saying I can imagine the kit to look good and then you'll notice the kazoo. The kazoo colour is red or orange or something, but it is quite clearly white. It works well across the kit and I know people were asking about the badges. What do you make of the badges? The badges, the logos are on the short and on the top. They're quite like rubberised, rubbery. But they're solid. There's not really any flex, too much flex in them so that they're solid on the kit. They've probably been made like that to make the shirt lighter, I would imagine, rather than the embroidery. Maybe the process of making them is easier as well. Not 100% sure. But it's not like that material that we had this season on the training gear which was just the outline, almost like a sticker on the kit. This is like a toughened rubber composite. It's set out. It's set off the kit as well. It's down on the short as well. I've got the short here. These are what the shorts are like for anyone interested. Very classic, I've said this before, very classic Denmark 86 shorts these in the welcome. You know what, they're like a nice short as well. They feel different to short. If we were allowed on beaches, they'd be wonderful beaches. There's the blue chevron down the side, what it looks like on the side. The other side, when you're standing on the beach when we're allowed back there, that's what your evident shorts will look like. But now they're really nice them and obviously we've got the socks here as well, which again have the blue chevron on the white sock. Obviously there's blue shorts, blue home shorts and blue home socks as well. Obviously when we play places like Manchester United and we wear all blue and obviously you can have different variations on them. Now I think it's had really good universal praise. I think people I think obviously when you're moving from we're moving from umbro, which has been you know Evan's manufacturers a few times in our history and people were I guess people were comfortable with it because of what it was. A lot of people obviously will always roll out we want Nike, we want a D this over ever, but you know umbro was ours. And then when you're moving to an unknown brand in terms of working with Evan football, not an unknown brand, Hummel have been around for years. Obviously Allen Ball, Walk Hummel boots all the way back in the 70s. There's a huge evident link there, the white boots. So obviously evident moving to that people would a little bit oh what's it going to be like, but I'm really really impressed like you say. The chevrons, some people won't like them, the white there I think they look really smart. I do and obviously we've seen the training range as well which is nice. It's a pink and navy and there's a variation on both. So there's obviously pink shirts with navy accents and navy shirts with pink accents. I love the zip, the navy zip, the dark zip training top. There's also a travel way so you'd see the players wearing when they you know go to away games and that's that's very much like this shirt actually. It's all blacked out, all the evidence, all the evident logos. The tracks would have got white white chevrons on them. As we said the goalkeeping shirt is short sleeve. It's a short sleeve shirt for the first time and we know Jordan Pickford and a lot of goalkeepers like wearing short sleeve. So they've brought that in for the first time. Pickford was involved in the design as well with the heart beat. Dance music inspired apparently, the beat of dance music. There is also going to be a training kit for the ladies as well. The women's travel range consists of travel jacket, pant, t-shirt, hoodie and polo in Bering Sea, a striking blue grey which contrasts against the iconic Homo chevrons. So that's still to be seen. So there you go, the kitten for the women's team as well and giving them bespoke items that obviously if the ladies want to go and buy them and obviously the fit will be there for them as well. So all good, all good. The more gear the better. The more individual gear is better as well. The more that's tailored just to heaven is really important. Plenty of stock being asked to reiterate that. There is plenty of stock available for everybody. Zips on shorts as well. Zips coming on shorts on a travel range. That isn't out yet but we're going to, that that has been put together so there will be evident shorts with zips on that you can purchase in the travel range or the training range. So that's coming. So it's a good start. I would say to Evan's partnership with Homo. Good start, good interaction as well with the Evan fans and the Homo social media accounts as well. They've been very good for five. Obviously we signed a deal with them five weeks ago now and they've probably wanted it because they've had a lot of interaction. I don't know whether any other club interacts as much, any other club's fans interacts as much with brands as what Everton do when the Evertonians, when they want to know something but that is they've worked well together. No. Do you go let us know your thoughts in the comments. Do you like the new Everton home shirt? Do you like the new Gokeven shirt? Do you like the new training range? Let us know your thoughts about it in the comments. Don't forget we have our Everton direct link. It's going to say if you want to help us just a little bit with no extra expense to yourself, please go through our link and that will help us in a couple of pennies off you buying the shirt that you're going to buy anyway. So the link will be in the description. There will be ads on our website as well. If you go through those links, you can help us just doing a couple of pennies off every time you buy an Everton shirt or some training kit through the affiliate programme that we are on with Everton direct. So help us out, buy a shirt if you're buying one already and everyone wins. Everyone wins. There you go. No extra cost. No extra cost. It's just because we're pointing people towards that kit. We're helping out selling the kit. There you go. Give this video a like. Subscribe if you haven't already. If you want more great videos, join us over on Patreon. Thank you for watching. See you later.


How to start a white label dropshipping business and the best white label dropshipping suppliers is everything that we are going to go over in this video, even if you have no idea what white labeling means. And there is a significant difference between white labels and private labels. And if you want to start a dropshipping e-commerce business, you need to know this. Quick intro and let's go. Welcome back. I'm Liran from AutoDS.  And we're going to go into everything what white labeling means, the difference between white label and private labeling, which is the two different methods that you can use when running an e-commerce business. And of course, a step by step of how to get this business started. So what is white labeling in the first place? Quick reminder, everything that I'm going over in this video, we also have it in our blog article, which I will leave a link to right below this video. And if you haven't done so yet, don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel to always stay updated on all of the latest and all of the hottest topics that we have coming out in the world of dropshipping and e-commerce. That being said, let's go ahead and jump straight into the action and learn what white labeling means and how to start a successful white label dropshipping business. So what is white label dropshipping in the first place? White label dropshipping means that you are simply dropshipping products from a manufacturer or from a supplier from a seller without tampering with the products packaging with the products branding. So you're simply moving the box from one place to the other without labeling it as your own product. So how does white label and dropshipping come together? Well, dropshipping is a business model where you can simply sell products. You have an online store, you're selling products, but you're not holding these products in stock. This means that you have no investment required and it's very easy to get started. So you're simply selling what other sellers have or what other manufacturers created. And every time you make a sale and the customer pays you, only then do you go to your supplier's website and you purchase the product and ship it directly to the end customer. So the product doesn't go through you. You have no physical contact with the product and white labeling simply means that you are not branding the product as your own. So the product does not have your brand, it doesn't have your packaging and it doesn't have your logos anywhere on it. Since you did not do any customization on the product itself, the only thing you did customize was your online store, your product page and everything that comes along with that. Now private labeling on the other hand means that you are branding the product, you are creating a brand around your product, meaning the product is going to have your brand around it like the way that JBL private labeled these speakers right here. So you're going to have your brand on your product, but this does mean that you will have to purchase inventory upfront because it'll be very difficult to find a manufacturer who will create a product for you. And by the way, many manufacturers can create this speaker for you and put your logo on it, but nobody is going to do it or it's going to be very difficult to find someone who's going to do it for you with a drop shipping business model, meaning they're going to have to create hundreds of these products for you and store it themselves. And the manufacturer is going to hope that you're going to make those sales because you didn't purchase that inventory upfront. So if you're not going to make any sales, you're not going to be the one stuck with inventory, but rather the manufacturer and nobody wants that. So we're going to get into all of that soon. But that is the main difference between white labeling and private labeling. Now let's dive further deep inside. What are the benefits of white label drop shipping? So first of all, it's perfect for beginners. If you haven't tested the market yet, you don't know what niches are selling well and you want to grow your e-commerce business from the start and learn about the market. It's very easy to get started with the white labeled business model because you're not purchasing inventory upfront. And if you don't make any sales, you can always replace those products with other products and continue testing the market. And once a product starts to sell, then you can multiply your success by adding more products similar to that one while continuing with the white label business model and of course, multiplying your sales and success. So it's perfect for beginners since you are not purchasing inventory upfront. Therefore, it's easier to get started. The second benefit is that there are no MOQ requirements. MOQ stands for minimum order quantity. And we've just been over this since your products are white labeled, the manufacturers creating some label around it, maybe with their brand, maybe with somebody else's brand, and you are simply reselling that product as is. So that means that somebody already manufactured these products and they don't want you to purchase those products in order for you to sell them. You can just sell them as is. And as I mentioned with the drop shipping business model, simply purchase that product from your supplier's website and ship it directly to your customer. So no minimum order requirements, no upfront investment, easy to get started for beginners. And another great advantage of white label drop shipping is that there are high profit margins here. And the reason for that is because you're not investing in inventory upfront, you don't have to take risks with your own money. You simply list a product, it sells, you ship it from your supplier to the end customer, you keep the profit in the middle. And because you didn't invest in inventory upfront, the profit is yours to have after making your first sale. Therefore, the profit margins are higher when starting a white label drop shipping business as opposed to private label where you are purchasing products upfront, and it takes a much longer while to start seeing any high profit margins. Now let's take a look at this chart right here, which shows us a great example of the differences between white label and private label drop shipping. So we created this infographic to really help you get an understanding. So first of all, with white label drop shipping, we've got more white label suppliers, and they're easier to work with than private label suppliers. So more of them and easier to work with them. Also, you've got the low cost, we already mentioned how running a white label drop shipping business comes with lower costs, since we don't have to invest in inventory upfront. We don't have any minimum order requirements because we are not changing the labels, we're not branding the product. And if we don't sell it, then we don't have to worry about it, simply remove and replace it with another white label product. And of course, the large profit potential, which I already mentioned and why it's like that. Now with private label drop shipping, there are other advantages like customer loyalty, because once you brand your product, then your customer can identify with your product and identify with your brand and say loyal to your brand. After, of course, they purchase the product, they got it, they see your label, they see your logo, and they feel like they can identify with it. So it's a high quality product, they got it on time, they will remember your brand and that increases customer loyalty. Also, private labeling allows us to differentiate ourselves from the competition because you've got your own custom logos and packaging. So of course, if another seller is selling the same exact product as you, but they did not private label their product, it just looks like a generic brand. And then you've got your product which looks better, it's branded, it looks like a big serious company, which hopefully it is.  And you've got creativity freedom, because our suppliers are the ones who are doing all of the heavy lifting, we can focus on evolving and adapting to the market. Our manufacturers are the ones who are manufacturing the products and it is our jobs to sell it and this works for both white labels and private labels, but those are some of the most significant differences between the two. So white label dropshipping, some of the pros, we've got a wide selection of white label suppliers, low cost, we save a lot of time because we don't have to go through the manufacturing process and logistics, and we've got a large profit potential since we've got no upfront investment. The cons of course is that we have limited branding options since we're using somebody else's brand, we've got more competition because many people can sell the same exact product that we are selling with the same generic brand and limited product choice because it is not our brand and many people can also sell this product to the same audience that we are trying to sell it to that limits the amount of product choices that we have but do not let that alert you do not let that startle you because there are tens of millions of products that you can resell in the white label market and so many different regions to sell to not only one region and you don't only have one supplier to work with so all in all it's a system that works really well once you have the right knowledge and tools and once of course you practice test and get the hang of it now we already understand about private label dropshipping their pros and cons and this is all about white label dropshipping so i'm going to skip out on that but you remember from the beginning of this video i already talked about the pros and cons of private label dropshipping now how do we find white label dropshipping suppliers and how do we work with them the right way now that we understand the definitions of what white labeling means let's jump into the how tos so how do we find and work with successful white label dropshipping suppliers first thing that you want to do is conduct fruitful product and niche research this means that you need to know or you need to have a good sense of direction of the product or the niche slash category that you want to go for that you want to sell before starting to look for suppliers now the way to conduct product and niche research there are multiple ways to do it and you have all kinds of information scattered out there on the internet but let me narrow it down for you and give you the best practices at least from my five plus years of experience in dropshipping so the first thing that i recommend to do when it comes to product research if you are an autodesk member is to use the internal product research feature that we have inside the autodesk system now of course you can learn all about it just use the links in the blog right below this video but this overall is an internal product research system where you can easily find products to sell inside the system see what products are trending read all about them read customer reviews see how fast they ship out and import them to your store in just one click now this is a great way to find great trends you can also prepare yourself for holidays you can also see what products are new you can jump between us and chinese suppliers and soon we're also going to add wholesale dropshipping suppliers inside the product research system to help you get a higher competitive edge over your competitors who are not working with those private suppliers and those suppliers are going to be very high quality with some of the best products that you will be able to sell on your stores but if you are not an autodesk member and you still want to learn you don't have the system and you simply want to gain all of the right knowledge then there are many many other ways to do it for example simply head over to autodesk.com and hover over resources go to the dropshipping blog scroll down click on product finding and bestsellers and learn about the best products that you need to sell we have monthly product articles we have categories and we have all of the best dropshipping products inside these articles along with the best product research methods so i cannot cramp all of this information inside this video but if you go to this blog page click on product finding bestsellers start learning and every day put in at least half an hour to one hour of simply learning don't take action just learn accumulate information write down all the important notes on the side and then take action but you have to do both you have to learn and you have to take action one cannot work without the other you need them both and that way you will be on the ladder to success another way to learn about the best product research methods is simply to head over to youtube.com slash autodesk and here we've got a dedicated playlist called the sell these now playlist so you want to hover over that playlist click on it and see all of the videos that we have in there starting of course with the monthly product videos because these are always updated with the most trending products that are renewing every month and we're not just giving you what products you need to sell but we're also sharing their facebook ads the sellers websites where they're sourcing these products from how much they're paying how much they're profiting on every cell along with all of the engagements that they have in their facebook ads to give you a good indication of how well these products are selling and that is just the tip of the iceberg there are many product research methods but if you go to our blog page go to our youtube channel you'll find the best methods of conducting product research along with the best products that are trending to start off with and help you get your first few sales before you learn to multiply and scale your business on your own now once you found your product you found your niche now it's time to hook up with a white label drop shipping supplier over here i recommend going to autodesk.com slash suppliers or simply go to autodesk.com hover over suppliers and click on it and here you're going to learn about over 25 suppliers that you can start working with today some are retail suppliers some are wholesale suppliers but you'll have to start working with them you'll have to start seeing what products they have and start to see what's working better than others don't only work with one drop shipping supplier the optimal number should be three because that way if one supplier ever lets you down for example if it is a chinese supplier now there's a chinese holiday and now no one's going to ship out your products for two to three weeks then of course you will have american suppliers that you can rely on or united kingdom suppliers or canadian or australian or new zealand you have all of these regions over here and of course you can also add business automation like price monitoring stock monitoring automatic orders and so much more but the main point here is to get acquainted with some of the best drop shipping suppliers that you can start working with today and that is going to give you a strong advantage over your competition and of course access to tens of millions of products to resell on your drop shipping stores and all of those suppliers or almost all of them are white label drop shipping suppliers one of them is half white label and half private label and i am talking about alibaba because they can create products for you they can manufacture them cj drop shipping can also help you source products and private label them so there is more than one option here but right now we're talking about white labels and 95 of these suppliers are white label drop shipping suppliers so go over there see what selection you have go to their websites see what categories they have see what niches they have and see that it matches what you are looking for to sell now let's go back just really quick to product research when you're going to a blog page when you're going to a youtube channel and you're looking for products you start to get a good idea of how to conduct product research for your stores use the product research or drop shipping spreadsheet which is of course linked in the blog below this video and i just clicked on it right here and here what i want you to do is add your products first of all click on file make a copy so that you can start editing then start adding all of your products their source URLs and answer all of these questions are you passionate about it is it hard to find in stores is it hard to guess the price is it safe to sell answer all these questions and once you are answering yes to all of the drop down menus on a product which you will narrow down after you filled up this spreadsheet then you will start to understand what products have the highest potential of selling and succeeding to help you make profits in your store those that you have the answer no skip out on them and find those that have yes to all of them but first of all like i mentioned go to our blog page go to our youtube channel learn about the product research methods learn about the best products that are trending today then start adding products to the spreadsheet and then narrow it down and this is going to help you create shortcuts and succeed faster when it comes to product research now you need to go to your supplier's website and search for your product or niche as i mentioned because you need to make sure of course that they have them and that is of course why you want to work with more than one supplier to also grow your reach to more and more dropshipping products so instead of having 50 products in a category you can have 200 or even more and of course if it starts to sell for you then you're gonna multiply your success by adding more products similar to that niche and maybe even create a niche store around that niche because it started selling well for you but do not start with a niche store right away unless you already started to test the market you know what works and now you want to go for a niche but that is another topic for another conversation your next step is to check branding and pricing options now i did mention that you cannot use white label dropshipping on suppliers if you do not order a minimum order quantity but there is a small exception here and let's talk about that for a second if you have a product that is selling well for you and you are using white label dropshipping you're not purchasing any inventory upfront but there is a product niche that's selling really well for you so let's say for example that a certain product is working really well for you like let's say you're doing a really good job selling a type of computer desk okay certain niche under computer desk so what you're gonna do is you're gonna go to alibaba and you're gonna search for that niche that's working well for you now you're going to look for a supplier a manufacturer who can create this product for you but before he creates anything for you of course you're gonna reach out to him so first you've got the verified icon meaning that he passed verification on alibaba you can see how long he's been on the platform for and you can easily start a chat with him on wechat or through alibaba's messaging service but the point is what you want to do here is contact these suppliers and let them know that you have a dropshipping store let them know how many sales you have per day and ask them if they can private label your products or at least private label the package around the product start with that because it'll be easy to replace just the package and not the product itself so see if they can just brand the package with your brand tell them that you have this and that many sales per day and the manufacturer some of them will not want to miss out on the opportunity of getting all of these sales so they will agree to create a certain amount for you and you will have to give them some kind of guarantee that if you don't sell them in a certain amount of time then you will either have to buy it or just tell them that you will finish up that stock for them but that is why i suggest starting with just branding your package and once that works well then you can also brand the product and you will be able to find these suppliers who will do it for you even if you are not purchasing inventory in advance they will see your transactions they will trust you as a seller they will trust your business and they will create custom packaging with your brand and ship out your orders one by one with the dropshipping business model now granted it is not easy to find these suppliers you will have to dig down you will have to reach out to many of them but once you find them you will be able to mix between private labeling and white labeling without holding any inventory and this is really an optimal stage to be at now of course after you brand your packages and that works well you're going to move over to also branding your package but now we're talking about how to run a private label business using the white label business model because you're not purchasing any inventory in advance so there is a way to mix between the two worlds and enjoy that but of course if you do decide to go with inventory upfront and you want to go full on private labeling then you want to make sure that you know that you're selling a product that will sell that you will not get stuck with this inventory and that is much more challenging and difficult for beginners okay so let's get back to it the next step is to create business policies for your store but that is when you already start to create your dropshipping store so let's skip that because we're going to go over how to start a white label dropshipping business from A to Z for now let's go over the top seven suppliers that I recommend to work with when it comes to white label dropshipping so my top seven suppliers are CJ dropshipping Overstock, Banggood, Wayfair, Costway, Amazon and Gearbest now some of them are retail some of them are wholesale so you will have to play around and see what works well for your business but those are my favorite top seven white label dropshipping suppliers of course you've got as I mentioned over 25 of them on autoDS.com slash suppliers learn about them and see what works best for you if you want to get a nice brief description of every one of these suppliers of course use the blog linked right below this video and you will have a brief explanation of every supplier help pages and full articles on how to actually work with them now let's go over how to start a white labeling dropshipping business a successful one at that from A to Z so step number one as I mentioned is product research we already went over that and after you find the products that you want to sell you want to look for a white label dropshipping supplier the right one I went over my list of my top seven you have over 25 that you can work with and you already know where you can find them step number three is to choose your selling channel so here you're deciding where you want to sell your products on where you want customers to go to be able to purchase your product now you can create your selling channel on ebay that gives you free organic traffic and you don't have to spend any money on marketing and it doesn't cost any money to start a store only when you want to upgrade your subscription and get more limits and get more listings only then will you have to pay for a minimal store fee subscription and work your way up once you start making sales do not upgrade your subscription before you are making sales and profit because if you are not selling the right product to the right market it doesn't matter how big your store is it's going to be very hard for you to make sales and profit so make sure to build yourself slowly and gradually on ebay and we have lots of how-to tutorials of how to get started on ebay since it is not easy today and ebay is very sensitive to new sellers so you're going to have to know how to take all of the steps the right way to avoid getting account suspensions to be able to increase your ebay selling limits and of course we have all of the guides and all of the content to do it the right way on our blog page and on our youtube channel then you've got other marketplaces like Shopify and wix which simply allows you it is actually not a marketplace it is a host that allows you to host your online website you can have your own custom domain name so you're going to have your www.yourstorename.com but here you won't get any free organic traffic unless of course you have blog pages and blog articles and seo and that takes time to get all of that running which you want to start making sales on your first day or on your first week and that will not happen naturally with seo right from the start so you have to learn how to market your business and there are many ways to do it there's running facebook ads google ads youtube ads influencer marketing platforms email marketing and so much more and of course all of the explanations that you need on how to do that we have full guided articles on our blog page on our youtube channel you've also got other marketplaces like facebook so facebook marketplace is a great place to start a drop-shipping business on but you have to live in the us you have to be a u.s citizen to pass ssn verification once you make five hundred ninety nine dollars in sales so if you're not an american citizen you don't have an ssn number you're not going to have much success and much luck running a facebook marketplace drop-shipping business but if you are a u.s citizen i highly recommend checking out that selling channel you also have more places like woo commerce you also have platforms like amazon so there are many selling channels that you can actually host your online business on and this is the part where you need to select after you research your products after you found suppliers that can sell these products and help you make those profits on your store you're going to have to choose what selling channel you want to go with so of course you can learn more about them in depth in our blog article now once you chose the right selling channel it's time to start adding products to your store right because you research your products you know what suppliers you want to work with and you have your selling channel now it's time to go to your suppliers websites grab those products and sell them on your selling channel now there are a couple ways to do it you can do it the manual way by simply going to your supplier's website copying and pasting all the information and pasting it of course on your selling channel this is very time consuming and if you want to have thousands of listings you're going to spend all of your time and energy on that and it's going to be very difficult to grow and scale your dropshipping business from there so that is why you want to start to add business automation at this point and that is where autodesk comes in handy with the importer tool which simply allows you to import 10s to even thousands of products within a couple of clicks and within a couple of seconds so of course you can read all about that on the feature page just click on the link in the article below once you start adding business automation this is where the high numbers and the high profits and the biggest amount of sales are going to come in now once you've added these products to your store it's time to market your products and as i mentioned there are many ways to market your products and you can learn all about them on our blog page on our youtube channel and even on our ebooks page where there you have an ebook called eight steps to run facebook ads for your e-commerce business and this is of course if you're interested in running ppc ads paper click ads this is one of the best ways to bring traffic to your stores on the first day after launching your store so it's the quickest way of course it costs money you're going to have to set a budget aside and you can learn all about that inside the ebook so go to autodesk.com hover over resources click on ebooks scroll down click on the facebook ads for ecommerce in eight steps and click on unlock your ebook write your name and your email address and you will get a free copy for that ebook and start learning as you see we have so much information so much content our knowledge base is huge and it's ever growing because we want you to succeed with your ecommerce business and learning to market your stores is very very important if you're running it on places like Shopify and wix where you don't have free traffic like you do have on ebay and on facebook marketplace so learn about the selling channels learn about their pros and cons and make the right decision for your business there are more ways to market your store even on selling channels that give you free organic traffic like ebay and facebook marketplace so on ebay for example you can run promoted listing standard telling ebay hey i'm going to give you five percent or ten percent from every transaction if you're able to make sales if you're able to promote this product and make a sell off of it and ebay will only charge you after making a sale they'll promote your listings and the higher percentage you give them the stronger they'll promote it and if you're not making any sales they're not going to charge you anything and then there's the new ppc feature promoted listings advance where it is just like facebook ppc just like amazon ppc just like every other big boy ppc out there ebay is now also into paper click ads and of course we have articles on promoted listing standard and the advance to ppc just click on the articles once again in the blog article below this video and you will learn all about those methods on facebook marketplace you can do things like boost your listings you can post and share your listings in relevant buying and selling groups and of course learn about that in the blog article step number six after you marketed your products now it's time to start fulfilling your orders and take care of your buyers now you can fulfill your orders either manually by going to your supplier's website purchasing the product and shipping it directly to your end customer or you can use automatic orders and this is going to save you a whole bunch of time by simply automating all of your orders as soon as they come in the system will do it automatically for you go to your supplier's website purchase the product ship it to the your end customer in two different ways one way is using your buyer account in your payment settings under your buyer account on your supplier's website and the other is using auto ds's buyer accounts which frees you up even more it frees up your credit line at the bank you don't have to worry about your accounts on your supplier's website's getting locked because auto ds has more than enough of them and the system can simply take care of all of your orders so even while you travel even while you sleep even while you're doing anything that's not sitting in front of your computer as soon as a customer orders something the order will get fulfilled automatically tracking information will get updated automatically as soon as it's available from your supplier and all of the statuses will change accordingly according to the status of your order so from pending status to ordered to shipped to delivered and of course you have easy one-click returns with fulfilled by auto ds so it's very easy to get around and your customers are going to receive their packages in blazing fast speeds because you weren't even there to process their order it was done automatically and tracking was updated automatically so they're able to track their packages really really quick and this requires little to no intervention from your site which of course increases your scalability because your time is freed up to take care of other important tasks to grow your drop shipping business and you won't be stuck fulfilling 100 orders per day manually and spending all day on that or spending all day importing products because these things are very very time consuming and today you can automate 100% of that and the last step of course after making those sales is taking care of your customers it is a business you have a real and a serious business at that and if you want to make it for the long term if you don't just want to make quick profits this month and the next but you really want to be here for the long run you want to gain those repeating customers who return to purchase from your website you're going to have to offer the best customer service that you can so of course every platform has a different place where you can read your customers messages so go and read them on a daily basis take care of all of your buyers requests even if they want to return a product even if they're trying to return after their return window closed try to find a good solution to every problem that you have customer service only takes up about one to two percent of your total work on your dropshipping business because there aren't a lot of customers who are going to reach out to you unless you have of course hundreds of orders per day then it might be a good time to hire a virtual assistant that can help you take care of your customer service while of course you continue focusing on growing your business and not getting stuck on tedious tasks like this one but you want to offer the best customer service that you can even if sometimes it needs to set you back a few bucks because it is definitely worth it in the long run i hope that this video helped you understand what white label dropshipping means how it differs from private label dropshipping and what are the right ways to start and structure your white label dropshipping business from a to z let me know if you have any questions and i will personally address them in the comments below and of course stay curious do not stop learning but also learn to take action once you have a mixture of dropshipping knowledge and taking action in this field only then and after much testing you will start to see success like me like everyone else who's doing it successfully but also do not forget to take action so once you have a healthy combination of learning and taking action you will find your secret key to success even if and when you will experience failure along the way bumps on the road is a part of every successful person's road to success don't forget to subscribe to our youtube channel to learn about the next step that you need to take in your e-commerce business stay updated with the latest trends and the latest products to sell and so much more that we have going on thank you for watching and good luck with your white label dropshipping business


What's up everybody, Jason Rajaspy's casebricks.com This is the randomizer here for the four high-end teams in NT football Pikachu number 11 that just sold out So we're gonna do the randomizer here and then in a separate video will break open Pikachu number 11 So this is just a random number block for these four teams in NT Pikachu number 11 Cardinals Broncos Giants Redskins And again the way it works just like any other random number block break on our website But only for these teams in the specific break Everybody will get a spot or get a random number per spot either one or zero through nine sorry and Then if you get number three as an example you will get all Hits with three being the first number next to the dash on the left side of the dash So if either it's a Redskins a Giants a Bronco or Cardinal as long as it is for example 243 out of 299 It'll be your hit 13 out of 99 will be your hit 3 out of 25 43 out of 49 etc. Etc. Number three block will get those hits our redemption cards will go to spot zero Even if we know it's a one-of-one it's still gonna go to spot zero and any non numbered cards will be randomized to the group of customers in this great So again, this is just a randomizer for these four teams So let's roll it. We got a two and a four six times. Here's the customer names six times one two three four five Six so Charles down to branded There you go six times your nouns are at the night one two three four five and six spot six down to spot two So again, see Alexander you have spot six Derek with spot five Eric any Redemptions for any of these four teams that pop out of the two box break number 11 will be yours David with three Brandon T with seven Steven with eight Robert uncle any one of ones for these four teams would be yours Derek with spot nine last spot module Robert you got four and Brandon Walker you have spot two So again, this is just randomizer for the random number block for these four teams a prediction number 11 I'll come in the next in a separate video is the break itself. Appreciate it guys


Hi, thank you for tuning in to ACMI, Children's, Stories and Art. Alright, today we have a wonderful story about Plum Island, a place just north of Boston, which is filled with adventures and creative scenes and just, oh, it's going to be so much fun to explore this story, and this is my little friend the sequel, and you're going to see him in some amazing pictures and places, and I'm going to believe that I got him to sit on top of a car and to be in places you wouldn't expect, so let's open the book and go on up to Plum Island in Newburyport, alright, here's the book that I wrote two or three summers after visiting a friend on Plum Island, and I just fell in love with it, and summer isn't over, so there's plenty of time to go visit Plum Island. Plum Island is a magical place to explore on a hot summer day. It's filled with visible and hidden secrets to enchant all who visit for a day or decide to stay forever. Just pack up your car and allow a friendly seagull to guide you, and guess what? There's one right there in my hand, not this little fellow, but as you drive over the drawbridge from Newburyport, a panorama of welcoming signs and sounds flood your senses. The colorful Plum Island sign, just a few steps ahead, assures you that your adventure has begun. Upreezes, scented by salty sea air, blow through the open window of your car, while tall clumps of grasses growing at the edge of the road leading to the beaches wave to you as you pass. And there's little gully sitting right there in the grasses. Their spindly fingers point towards an old deserted house which stands alone. It's painted with layers of faded pink paint which crumbles and peels each year, adding character as a house filled with mysterious stories yet to be told. Father along the road, spreading out along the marshes, a cluster of cottages and houses come into focus overlapping rooftops and balconies and backyard treasures remind one of a playful village. Children may have built with their topsy-turvy imaginations a perfect blend of carefree living and fun imagining having all those sticks in front of your house. People would stop and say, I bet they have fun inside there. Just before you reach the beach, you catch a glimpse of a small shop and eating spots where the locals and tourists enjoy having food and drinks while listening to music and sharing a few concocted sea shantytales.  It's an aha moment. There she is. She didn't fade into a spell cast over the area during the winter hurricanes. Sitting out across the horizon, the ocean sparkling blue waters which display an array of motorboats and families. Their sunbathing and splashing in the waves, they invite you to stay awhile. Her sandy beaches reflect the stress she's endured for years, yet she sends a message to you that she'll never succumb to the torrential forces of nature. She'll always be there to remind you of her indomitable spirit. That's the way it is on Plum Island, year after year. Now, as you lay on the beach under an umbrella, you hear the cries of your gull once again. Yes, another place he wants you to explore on the island. It's the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. Your territory reserved for 300 species of birds that inhabit Plum Island. Along the way, you pass colorful houses, rooftops and patios, painted purple and orange, and blue and white, entryways accented by beautiful beds of flowers. They're all there too. And up until now, your vision of the island has been experienced with your wide open eyes. Everything tells you that in order to discover the secret world of the Plum Island birds, a shift must be made. You need binoculars and a camera. As you enter the refuge, you see bird watchers carefully scanning the horizon and treetops for birds with their high powered lenses and photographic equipment. Each day, rare birds appear to be photographed and shared with another rare species, the bird-watching folk. If the birds could speak, we might hear them chirping or squawking out these messages. Oh, it's just fine if you take my picture, but please don't paint me on a plate or a teacup. Promise me. Oh no! How did I get myself into this stick fix? I'm not vain, I'm on a photo shoot, guarding my bedazzling egret plumage secret. Hey, you want to see my tongue? I just don't share it with everybody, but I'll let you see it. You keep walking through the bird refuge until you come to an observation tower named Hellcat Tower. You climb to the top of the sturdy metal structure and there you are, feeling as if you are standing on top of nature's world of breathtaking beauty.  And below the tower, as the Parker River gently undulates through the reeds and catanine tail, something catches your eye. Amazingly enough, the Blue River and Green Reeds have conspired to create the design of a floating bird. It's surreal. Look at that. Looks just like a big duck or a goose. It's floating in the grasses. You realize that the sun will soon be setting and there's one last place you'd like to explore at the opposite end of the island. Here's little gully. On your way to the Plum Island lighthouse, you pass a tower of handmade birdhouses attached to a streetlight pole and are reminded of the cleverness and fun-loving natures of the islanders. Look at those. And then when you reach the lighthouse, you're surprised to find it's sitting on a grassy plot of land, far from the ocean. It is rich with history, which includes being moved inland. You climb the stairs and have one last awe-inspiring view of Plum Island from the lighthouse tower, way up there.  Your day of exploration feels so complete.  You are certain you will return again and again. Here's little gully in the boat. It's the end of the story, but it's not the end of the fun that we might have because I have all kinds of ideas for you. What if you were to set up in your yard little places, just like all those birdhouses on that pole where people would stop and say, oh, these people must be playful in having fun in their house? So let's take a look and I'll share with you some ideas I thought of, which would be so easy for you to create. Okay? Be right back. Stay right there.  Now here's a little boat, is this not cute? That was kind of like the one at the end of the story and here's a little bear sitting on it. Now what if you put this on the stairs of your house and just every day rotated notes like have a good day or come over and play one day or we've got fun going on at 12 o'clock this afternoon. Come see what it is. You could put on a little play or do something, but this would be a cute little setup to put on your porch. Here's another idea. Remember all the birdhouses all stacked up on that pole. I don't know how they got them all there, but here's a birdhouse I made. And then I found this at this giveaway box and that would be the second one I'd put on my tree and then maybe I'd find some little birds or I'd make them and then I'd have a tree that had three little birdhouses on it. Wouldn't that be kind of cute? I think so. So then here's another idea. I love making things out of natural objects. Now these are just sticks. Kind of look like nothing standing up, but if you spread them you can make like a teepee and you could have a teepee village right in your front yard and then you could stick little animals in it and then you could write a little sign and say, want to come over to my house and help expand the stick village and people could bring their little animals and leave them. Now right on spy pond right now there is something that looks kind of like this on a bigger scale and it's right along the bike path and I created it with a fairy village for kids to come and make little stick trees and they've done this and there is a whole village there. You could have one in your own front yard. Would that not be cute? So we've got this and then here's another idea. You know what, in a month or so Halloween is coming up. What if you had a little Halloween pumpkin and you put it on your front steps and every week from now until then you set up some ideas and one thing you might do is put a little sign and put it in here. I didn't make the sign, but you say we're going to have a ghost taunt at Saturday afternoon at two o'clock and then kids come over and then you make a whole lot of ghosts and then you have kids make little ghosts and you put them on sticks and then you plant them all over your yard and then you have a little ghost taunt. Would that not be fun? I think so. I'd love to come if you did. So I'm going to put these right in here and here's another idea.  You kids always have great ideas. So that would be a fun idea. And then people would, you could start collecting stones right now and then have them make a stone and then bring them back. And there's a garden right by the ballpark that I took these away from because I created a garden, a weaving garden. You may have gone there and if you haven't, take a walk there and get ideas for things that you could do in your own yard that have been done there. And that's where these rocks, as I said, had come from. This is another great idea. All along the bike path there are rocks. I collected many of them and others did too. And you can make a cairn village. Cairns are stacks of rocks and they have done this for ages historically. And you could have these beautiful cairn statues in your yard or on your steps. And then you could take a little animal, one of your little pets, and then put it right near. What do you think of my cairn? And all kinds of great things you can do with natural objects and that's what I would love for all of you to do because that's exactly what they do on Plum Island. And I have one more thing to share with people who are watching. Here is a wonderful book and it was created by neighbors of mine on Linwood Ave. I live on Spy Pond and they live right up the street. And they are the most creative, fun-loving, wonderful family. And they wrote this whole book. It's called Authentic Fulfillment. Creative Practices, Stories, and Life Lessons. And inside, this might be a book your parents want. There are all kinds of ideas for making family life fun. And on the back you can see this is the house, their front door. And they have this great sign up at the top. It says the wildest dreams and they have flowers growing and statues in their yard. They're a wonderful example of people that like to do the kinds of things that they do on Plum Island. So you can order this book on Amazon. And it's called Authentic Fulfillment by Anne and Christopher Elinger. And you can also buy my book, which has been there for a couple years, Exploring Plum Island by Peggy Benner. We hope you've enjoyed the show. Stay tuned for more. Bye. And have fun creating right in your own front yard. Bye.


A very good evening aspirants welcome to the Hindu newspaper analysis brought to you by Shankar Iyer's academy today's date is 25th of August 2022 so displayed here are the list of news articles that we are going to discuss today we have four different news articles so without much delay let's get into the first news article discussion look at this news article it is about the competition amendment bill 2022 the article explains the amendments proposed in the bill so in this discussion we are going to see the important amendments proposed in the bill and how it is different from the parent act 2002 before that the syllabus relevant to this news article is highlighted here for your reference just go through it first of all let us see some of the basics see the Indian competition act was passed in the year 2002 and it came into force seven years later and as per the act a competition commission of India was established see this commission looks after the anti-competitive practices in the market here CCI primarily looks after the issues of anti-competitive agreements abuse of dominance and combinations if you want to know more about CCI watch 23rd August analysis we have covered CCI exclusively in that discussion now coming to the amendments proposed in the bill see the first one that we are going to see is about the combinations now you may wonder what is this combination see it is nothing but acquisition merging or amalgamation of enterprises see according to section 5 of the parent act if any party involved in any acquisition merger or amalgamation then they have to notify about the combination to CCI on the basis of asset value or turnover value but in the proposed amendment bill deal value threshold is added so as per this new provision parties have to notify the commission if the deal value is more than 2000 crore and if either of the parties has substantial business operations in India okay so to understand this better let me explain this with an example let us say party a is merging with party b this merger is happening with the deal value of 300 crores this means that party a is paying party b 300 crore but the assets that party a gains from this merger is worth 1500 crores only so earlier in the parent act the parties have to notify the commission about this asset value only which is 1500 crores but according to the amendment bill the parties have to notify the CCI if the deal value is more than 2000 crores and also if either of the parties has substantial business operations in India and regarding the second part the CCI will frame regulations to prescribe the conditions required for assessing whether an enterprise has substantial business operations in India or not okay so here you must know why or they proposing the amendments see the major reason for this is earlier a majority of the combinations happened without reporting to the CCI this is because the asset or turnover values did not meet the jurisdictional thresholds but now the amendment will help the CCI to know about the combinations and this change will strengthen the commission's review mechanism so now coming to the second amendment see it is a continuation of the first one it is about the time period of approval of the combination see we saw that parties should inform about the combination to the commission right and after this the commission may approve or disapprove the combination there is a time frame available for CCI to take this decision see according to parent act the commission has 210 days to approve the combination and after this period it is automatically approved but according to the amendment bill the time frame has been reduced from 210 working days to 150 working days with the conservatory period of 30 days for extensions okay the main reason for proposing this amendment is that this will speed up the clearance of combinations and it will also increase the importance of refiling consultations with the commission okay hope you can understand this now coming to the third amendment see it is regarding the penalty for gun jumping here let us take a quick detour and understand what gun jumping is see we saw that parties have to notify the commission regarding the combinations right and they have to materialize the combination only after the commission approved it but certain parties will close a transaction before the approval of the commission or it will consummate a reportable transaction without bringing it to the commission's knowledge so this act is called gun jumping so now coming back according to the parent act the penalty for gun jumping is a total of one percentage of the asset or turnover but based on the amendment that is proposed now the penalty for gun jumping is one percentage of the deal value so now moving on to the next amendment it is regarding the open market purchases and stock market transactions see in the past the commission has witnessed many gun jumping cases when inquiring about them the parties said that they did the transaction to consummate the open market purchases and stock market transactions we all know that the value of these purchases changes every day right if the parties wait for the commission's clearance the transaction may become unaffordable and that's exactly why there have been cases regarding gun jumping to address this the amendment bill has proposed to exempt open market purchases and stock market transactions from the requirement to notify them to the commission in advance so they don't have to notify CCI in advance about open market purchase and stock market transactions here also you have to note one thing there is a condition for this the condition is that the parties can make transactions regarding open market purchases and stocks but they cannot exercise voting or ownership rights until the transaction is approved now coming to the next amendment it is about the hub and spoke arrangement see it is a kind of cartilization according to CCI a cartel includes an association of producers sellers distributors traders or service providers they as a group limit control or attempt to control the production distribution sale or price of goods and services can you guess what this leads to this is interfering in the market operation this action will restrict the competition in the market this amount to unfair market practices and it will benefit one party okay now as per parent act the prohibition on anti-competitive agreements only covers entities with similar trades that is entities doing same identical or similar businesses but now as per the amendment the scope of anti-competitive agreements is broadened to catch entities that facilitate cartilization even if they not engaged in identical trade practices okay so the main reason for this amendment is that the provision in the parent act ignores the hub and spoke cartels operating at different levels of the vertical chain by distributors and suppliers okay so these are the main and important amendments that you have to make note of others includes framework for settlement and commitments for cases relating to vertical amendments and abuse of dominance see according to the amendment the commission's decision regarding commitment or settlement will not be appealable after hearing all stakeholders in the case okay and the next one is a provision called leniency plus it allows the commission to give a waiver of penalties to an applicant if he discloses the existence of another cartel in an unrelated market here the main condition is that the information given by the applicant about another cartel should enable the commission to form a private phase opinion about the existence of the cartel okay and the next one is the appointment of the director general by the commission rather than the central government and this gave the commission greater control this is because the director general has the power to conduct investigations including rates and the next one is that the commission will only consider information filed within three years of the occurrence of the cause of action okay and the next notable amendment is related to penalty guidelines for any false information field a penalty of 5 crore will be imposed and for failure to comply with the commission directions a penalty of rupees 10 crore will be imposed for an appeal to be heard by the national company law tribunal that is NCLT against the commission's order the party will have to deposit 25 percentage of the penalty amount okay and these are about the amendments mentioned in the news article see I spent the article it is said that the proposed amendment are needed in every way this is because the commission should be better equipped to handle certain aspects of the new age market and it should transform its functioning to be more robust finally according to the author the government needs to recognize that the market dynamics are changing constantly and it is necessary to update laws regularly okay but still you can note a lot of takeaway points from this text and context article that is why we have chosen this news article okay so with these learnt points now let us move on to the next news article discussion take a look at this news article the news article states that the spell of rainfall that the state of Tamil Nadu is experiencing may continue till the weekend it also states that the city of Chennai will experience isolated spells of thunderstorms so this is about the news article in this context let us revise about thunderstorms its characteristics and its formation okay firstly what is a thunderstorm see it is nothing but a violent and intense weather phenomenon it occurs in a small area for a short duration as the name itself suggests this weather phenomenon is accompanied by heavy thunder and lightning see since this weather activity is always accompanied by thunder and lightning it is also called an electric storm okay it causes heavy rain for a short period of time and in some cases it can also result in hail here hail is nothing but small balls or irregularly lumps of ice so thunderstorms are also called hail storms when lumps of ice fall from the sky along with rain we call it as hail storms okay so that's all about thunderstorms and its characteristics now let us see the formation process of thunderstorms see actually it involves three stages first is the towering cumulus stage see in this stage there is intense heating of land due to solar insulation as the land heats up the air above land also heats up as hot air is lighter it starts rising when it starts rising cumulus clouds are formed okay now this is the first stage now coming to the second stage which is the mature stage when hot air starts rising there will be an empty space crater right so the air surrounding the area starts rushing in to fill the gap once they reach this air parcel also gets heated up and starts rising up once this happens then a new parcel of air from the surrounding area comes in and fills up the gap this movement of hot air up is called updraft okay this cylindrical process repeats itself for a number of times due to this the cumulus cloud transforms into a larger and well shaped cumulonimbus cloud once this happens the area will start receiving rain due to downpour that happens in the cloud so in the mature stage on one side due to updraft hot air rises and builds up the size of the cloud on the other hand due to downdraft rainfall occurs and reduces the size of the cloud when there is an equilibrium between updraft and downdraft the size of the cumulonimbus cloud does not increase further so this is when the storm reaches the final stage the final stage is the dissipation stage see in this stage intense precipitation takes place due to heavy rain the land cools down as the land cools down the air above it also cools down once this happens there won't be any updraft this is because cold air is heavier and it does not rise up on the other hand due to downdraft rainfall will occur the rainfall will continue to occur till there is presence of cumulonimbus cloud once the cloud ceases to exist rainfall will stop so this is how the thunderstorms form and dissipate so in this news article discussion we saw in brief about thunderstorms its characteristics and we also saw the three stages of formation of the thunderstorms see very important news article with respect to preliminary examination every year with respect to geography we have preliminary questions on very basic topics like these for example in 2022 prelims itself we had a question about clouds right likewise whenever you see an important article like these try to revise the basics about the concept so these learned points now let us move on to the next news article discussion see this article here it talks about the visit of olive redly turtles to the state of Tamil Nadu it also mentions about the efforts of the Tamil Nadu forest department and a volunteer led citizen groups for the conservation of the species so this is the cracks of the news article given here using this as an opportunity let us see some of the facts about olive redly in prelims perspective see olive redlies are considered to be the most abundant sea turtle in the world they look very familiar to kim's redly sea turtle the two species or the smallest of the all sea turtles now talking about its physical characteristics they get their name from the coloring of their heart-shaped shell know that the shell starts out gray in color but becomes olive green once the turtle grow into adults okay they have one to two visible claws on each of their pedal like flippers okay you can see that on the image given here see the size and the form of olive redly varies from region to region know that the largest animal or observed in West Africa now coming to the habitat see the olive redly is found in the tropical regions of the Pacific Atlantic and Indian oceans so it is found in the region of warm waters okay now moving on to some of the important characteristics see the olive redlies they are omnivorous meaning they feed on both plants and animals this includes algae, lobster, crabs, mollusks, shrimp and fish okay know that olive redly turtles or marine reptiles like any other sea turtles they must come to the surface to breathe and the most important attribute is the arabada nest see olive redlies migrate hundreds and thousands of miles every year for the arabada nesting here arabada means arrival in Spanish it happens when large groups of females return to the same beaches where they were hatched once to lay eggs okay so in simple terms arabadas or massive nesting aggregations where thousands of females arrive in simultaneous waves to lay their eggs the factor causing this phenomenon is still unknown okay also remember olive redlies female usually nest one to three times per season and it lays an average of 100 to 110 eggs per clutch know that the eggs incubate for 50 to 60 days now coming to the threats faced by olive redlies see one of the main threat include harvesting of the turtles for skin and meat apart from this accidental capture in fishing nets also contribute to the reduction of olive redlies another factor is the loss and degradation of nesting habitat the destruction and conception of eggs and hatchlings by non-native and native predators also result in the reduction of numbers the final and the most important of all is marine pollution caused by anthropogenic factors so all these are some of the threats faced by olive redlies so that's all about this news article discussion in this news article discussion we saw in detail about olive redlies we saw about its habitat we saw about some of its important characteristics as well so these learnt points now let us move on to the next news article discussion now for our final discussion let us take up this news article see the news article says that karnataka state contractors association has raised a complaint the complaint is against the karnataka government the members of the karnataka state contractors association are claiming that certain MLAs of the ruling karnataka government are seeking 40 percentage commission the chief minister of karnataka has termed this allocation as baseless he challenged that if the karnataka state contractors association has proof of this allocation they could take the matter to the karnataka loka itta so this is about the news article given here in this context let us focus on lokal and loka itta in prelims perspective first of all let us see about lokal see lokal is established under the lokal and loka itta act 2013 the main function of lokal is to inquire and investigate into allegations of corruption against public functionaries who are falling within the ambit of this act now let us see about the membership see the lokal consists of a chairperson and members who shall be not more than eight in number so it includes a chairperson and the number of members in lokal should not be more than eight okay note that the person to be appointed as a chairperson of the lokal must be either the former chief justice of India or the former judge of the supreme court or an imminent person with integrity and outstanding ability who must possess special knowledge and a minimum experience of 25 years in matters relating to anti-corruption policy public administration vigilance finance including insurance and banking law and management okay see out of the total members 50 percentage of the members shall be judicial members the remaining 50 percentage is the non-judicial members and the judicial members of the lokal must be either a former judge of the supreme court or a former chief justice of the high court and at least half of the lokal members must be from scheduled cast scheduled tribes other backward classes minorities and women okay know that chairperson and judicial members are appointed by the president on the recommendation of a selection committee the selection committee consists of the prime minister as a chairman and the speaker of loksaba leader of opposition in the loksaba chief justice of India or judge of supreme court nominated by him and one imminent jurist as member okay so now having seen the membership will focus on its jurisdiction see the lokal has jurisdiction to enquire into allegations of corruption against public functionaries who are or who have been in the office including the prime minister minister in the union government mps officials of union government under group a b c and d also functionaries of any board corporation society trust or autonomous body either established by an act of parliament or wholly or partly funded by the union or state government or also covered under the ambit of lokal see make note of these very very important with respect to preliminary examination now coming back it also covers and society or trust or body that receives foreign contributions about rupees 10 lakh okay now moving on see for the center we have lokal and for the states we have lokal that's it but remember its structure is not the same in all states some states have created only lokal and some states created both lokal and lokal whereas some have designated officials as lokal okay the members are appointed by the governor of the state in consultation with the chief justice of the state high court and the leader of opposition in the state legislative assembly like I mentioned above there is no uniformity regarding the jurisdiction of lokal in all states see annually the lokal presents to the governor of the state a consolidated report on its performance the governor places this report before the state legislature we have to note here that the recommendations made by the lokal or only advisory are not binding on the state government okay so that's all about lokal and lokal so in this news article discussion we saw in detail about lokal members of the lokal its jurisdiction and some of its power then we saw about lokal so with these learned to points in mind now let us move to the next part of the newspaper analysis which is the preliminary practice questions now look at this first question which of the following pairs are correctly matched on one side name of showers were given and on the other side the places where they occur or given so you have to identify the correctly matched pair okay option a only one pair option b only two pair option c all three pairs and option d no pairs see the correct answer for the question is all three pairs here all the three pairs are correctly matched kaal paisagi vurdhoi sila and coffee shower or pre monsoon showers in india okay these intense weather events or examples of thunderstorms the other important pre monsoon showers in india is the mango shower it occurs in kerala and karnataka okay so the correct answer for the question is option c all three pairs now moving on to the second question consider the following statements about olive redly statement one olive redly and kim's redly are listed as vulnerable by iocn red list statement two arabada phenomenon is observed in olive redly's only which of the above statement is or or correct option a one only option b two only option c both one and two and option d neither one see the correct answer for the question is option d neither one nor two statement one is incorrect because olive redly is all listed as vulnerable but kim's redly is critically endangered okay statement two is also incorrect because arabada nesting is the behavior found only in the genus lepidoclase which includes the hymns redly and olive redly c turtles so it is observed not only in olive redly turtles but it is also observed in kim's redly also okay so the correct answer for the question is option d neither one nor two so the question displayed here is the quiz question for you today just go through the question find the correct answer and post the correct answer in the comment section i'll post the quiz question in the poll section as well you can add in the quiz there also okay now moving on the displayed question is the main's question for you today just watching the analysis alone will not help you in the long run please try to write answers and post the main's answers in the comment section we'll evaluate your answer and suggest improvements if required okay so with this we came to the end of the news article discussion if you like the video hit like do comment and don't forget to subscribe to shankarae's academy youtube channel thank you


To be with us? Oh thank you for having me. So we have a couple of questions regarding some of the past in the 80s with Maiden and potentially some memories on tour with KK. Now you are? Yes we did but apparently I pissed Kenny off. I don't even remember saying this but apparently I said that I just finished a bunch of old men we're going to blow them away.  How is it like to be back with KK a few months? A few months. It's only been a week and we've done the steel mill with Ken a couple of months back which was the first time we actually met up together again after all these years.  What about some new music?