Okay, we're in the home stretch here for the open session. Next up is the Council-initiated discussion, and again for the new Council members, this is an opportunity for you to tell us important issues that are coming to the fore. If you want reports in future Council meetings, you can suggest them at this time. You are also representatives of the community. So if you hear grumblings or problems that you feel we should be aware of, this is an opportunity to bring that to our attention as well. Well, we also take compliments, right, doesn't have to just be grumblings or problems. If you hear things in the community that are positive, you can share those with us. I think we know what's the old saw that a satisfied customer tells one person but a disgruntled customer tells five or something like that, so we're used to that treatment. It relates to grumblings. This is not specific to genome, but it is something I'm hearing a lot is the complaints that NIH isn't acting as they should when it comes to the, and this is all, I don't know the details. This is what I hear. Oh, it relates to global warming, and there's some talk about that it's no longer can be mentioned in some webpages. I haven't seen any strong evidence, but I see people complaining about that. Wow, okay. I'll try to answer this and just remember this is why they pay me the big bucks. It's sensitive, right? I mean, I think you could imagine a series of topics that in light of the new administration's views that we should probably be very careful to make sure that the broader NIH's research agenda is not viewed to play into positions that would, that the administration, current administration would find unacceptable, and we are part of the executive branch, so we are fully accountable to the current administration, and so there are a number of things that we have to, you know, respect their views about and have to abide by, and mostly what we're, I think that we're trying to do is to not let things on the edges in any way inflame circumstances that would harm NIH's, you know, broader mission and being very concerned about budget and policies and so forth. So I think there are examples some of them are, have been written about in the scientific press, which is probably a better place to at least get some of the facts, or at least a representation of the facts, because they are, they do involve, you know, certain decisions that have been made, or certain things that may or may not be up on webpages and so forth, but it's the practical reality that we are living in now with the new administration who's voted in. They have their positions and attitudes about certain topics, you've named one, there's others. Carol, a compliment. I really like your tie, Eric. Oh, thank you very much. No, so I was wondering how much discussion there is between NHGRI and, say, ORIP in terms of possible projects that have, so the Office of Research Infrastructure, right? So there are some efforts within, there are some efforts within ORIP that seem to complement or synergize with NHGRI. And the component in particular, this is a previous component event of the National Center for Research Resources, you know. So that sort of became into a bunch of fragments and landed in various places as a particular ORIP. Right. So there's a lot of informatics components to what ORIP is currently supporting that links model organisms to disease relevance. And I'm wondering if there's been any discussion with how to, if there's possibilities for synergism, this all goes back in part to the bench, to bedside and back again in the infrastructure that's needed to really advance basic science for clinical impact. And so I'm just wondering if there has been any discussion, it sounds like maybe there hasn't. Well, I'm not sure there's anything, I don't think there's been any direct discussion with ORIP, I can't even remember where it landed.  I don't know if anybody in the back knows. Oh, it's now, so it's now being administered out of the Common Fund, is that one of these pieces? About a Deep Poughkepsi. So I don't know specifically, Carol.  And if true, if so, that could, it may already be getting discussed within broader meetings and strategic planning around data science, but I've not heard anything specific about ORIP. So I, maybe I'm just ignorant, but I'm not seeing anybody in my staff jumping up as if they knew. So maybe you could inform us offline and maybe we could try to dig a little and make sure we're not missing an opportunity, because you're raising that might be an opportunity. So tell us more details offline and we will follow up. Yeah, Trey? Yeah, so given the nice presentation by Larry Tabak this morning about the Next Generation Researchers Initiative, I think it's called, I thought it might be worth having just a little bit of NHGRI-specific discussion. So I think the point at which he said that that analysis that he provided was really for RO1s caused some pause, because in fact this institute has some RO1s, it's my understanding, but mostly not RO1s. And so the broad question would be have you guys done your own analysis along those lines, because it could be really quite insightful. I wonder whether is the problem exacerbated by U01s and U24s, for instance, or anecdotally know quite a few young PIs of U01s at this institute. So ironically it could even go the other way and I would be very interested to know and I'm sure others would do. So let me try to answer your, I don't have an answer to your question. Let me try to respond to what you said. First of all, I think bringing this back to council is sort of maybe what I heard as an action. We're not ready to do this now, but I think maybe as a follow-up. And that would make sense anyway, because what's going to happen is that as this is getting rolled out, it's already happened even for this year, where they said we really hope you can, this is the target we'd love for you to have for our scorecard. And then we had to go look to see how many of those we had already were going to fund and how many we might have to reach for, blah, blah, blah. And so that's going to continue even next fiscal year and beyond. And so we started looking at this and there were even some, I'm just looking at any staff want to jump up to microphones if I don't represent this as well as, there's a lot of work that went on by staff, even dealing with definitions and how they were, because they're doing bulk analysis and all of a sudden there's always a million little exceptions along the way. So just reconciling their data and ours, and so maybe it speaks to your point, is they may do an analysis in a certain way and it may misrepresent some of the unique nuances of our portfolio. So we might even be achieving what they want, even though we may not be getting credit for it. Maybe we're achieving it in a different way, we need to broaden or change their definitions. And maybe that's what you're getting at is to use an NHGRI lens to what they're trying to achieve. Very well said, Aaron. Thank you. So I don't know, Chris, if you want to add to it. I mean, Chris did a lot of work in doing this and we've learned a lot. And we've learned a lot when it was a moving target because recall, it was even had a different three letter abbreviation and then it morphed to something else and we're like trying to play catch up. So we're getting used to this and we're gonna actually have to get more sophisticated because there's gonna be reporting and scrutiny and justification going on. But at the same time, I like what you said is we want to be able to look at this and say maybe we have for our community of researchers ways to achieve the same goals that might, maybe we can influence abroad. Yeah, it would be great to hear that report either in an open or a closed session even and just have a chance to look at the figures as they apply to this institute only. So, Chris, do you want to take a? So we have looked at it for the NHGRI specific data. As you said, our distribution of grant activity types is not exactly typical of NHGRI NIH in general and it's a moving target. So as we learn more, we'll find that. But it's gonna be really important to understand if those criteria are R01 specific and contact PI specific because if we have to start giving out a lot of R01 contact PI grants, that will completely shift the portfolio. I mean, there are a lot of junior faculty who are multi-PI on U01s and we were talking at the break. It's totally unclear to us if those are counting, you know, or even like just take. But it seems clear to us they're not being counted right now, but what's not clear is what they would do if you were to count them. Well, just for example, we just heard about one of the newborn C-wins and grants. Jonathan Berg is a junior faculty member. He was a multi-PI on one of those U01s. And I don't know if that's gonna count or not. There was a guide notice released that went into a little bit of detail on that. They, in brief, they said they would use the same principles that are used for early stage investigators. So all investigators have to qualify for the grant at large to qualify. That is what is in the guide notice. I believe it was limited to RPG grants, which include R01s, but it's a little bit broader than that. So then you wouldn't, those grants would not count. So we will, this would be a good follow-up topic. We continue. It'll be continued at a corporate level. So no matter what, we're gonna have to be tracking this just to find it, thinking about it, so forth. Yeah, Carolyn. But on that same note, and one of the things that came up in what Chris was looking at that I think will be important for us to include with counsel is also to look within NHGRI at who is it that we potentially are leaving on the table, because we actually do relatively well. One of the things that we looked at for FY17 is who were the people, if this policy were more strictly involved. We do already, for R01s, look at early stage investigators and have some of these considerations. So I think that's another aspect to it, is we can't fund an applicant who doesn't fit the definition if we don't have someone there to fund. So I think we're gonna wanna look at that in our portfolio as well. So we can do the analysis. I'll also point out, I think Tabak had cited an increase of 200 investigators with another number, with our budget being 1.7% of the NIH budget. If we pick up three people, I think we'll meet the challenge. Yeah, but I may be to trace point, which I think is really where you're heading is, and we've already seen this, I don't think we're gonna have trouble meeting the numerical goals that building one puts out, the OD puts out, cuz you're right, it's gonna be two or three. We almost made it this year with almost no effort and blindly we made. But with that said, the overall intention is probably one that's worth us thinking about. And then we should look at our community with our suite of grants, our style of doing science and just making sure we're leaving no one behind. All the curves are going the right way, the best we can. Because I think we're sufficiently anomalous that our curves might be a little different than the main NIH curves, which are swamped out, especially by the big institutes. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, and just related to that, maybe there isn't ESI in problem in NHGRI. So maybe, shouldn't it be that each institute should have a certain fraction of total ESI investigators being funded? So, I mean, some institutes may be particularly low, whereas others may be high, and so there may be no need to add anymore. The kind of thing we're gonna want to put right. But again, I'm not against funding ESI, so I'm just saying. And Jay, do you have, Jay's been in more of these conversations because of the ACD involvement. It seems like, I mean, it's just echoing maybe things that were just said, but NHGRI is small enough that, I mean, some kind of hardcore mathematical analysis isn't really gonna bear fruit, just because it's so small, and the number of investigators is small enough that you can, I can imagine a more subjective analysis that's really just focused on looking like, I think people have been saying, for people who are getting left on the table with fundable good science, but not, you know, not getting funded, and who are those people, and do they include young investigators and finding ways to fund them, right? Yeah, I mean, back to something, Eric, I think just underscored. I think the concern isn't so much for this particular mechanism where I think we'd agree it's gonna have a minor impact regardless. But it's the broader spirit of just, I think, you know, council taking stock of, you know, are we making good by junior investigators or are we not making good by junior investigators? And either, you know, looking at trends and whether those trends are stable or not, we'll have to see, but regardless, anecdotally, looking at averages, you know, assess that and decide whether we should do something, or maybe feel good about ourselves. Yeah, exactly.  I mean, the question is, is there a population of genomics researchers that we could be helping get on their feet, maintain their feet, et cetera, et cetera, and so these are all, you know, in other experiments we should uniquely do because of the configuration of our portfolio or the uniqueness of the science we do. So I think these are probably joint topics in some ways. Yeah, I wanna, no, we second that, that, I don't think we should, I would prefer not to talk about helping junior faculty, although that sounds nice, what we wanna do is fund the best science and, and if, if funding junior people is, is what gets us there, then that's what we do. But in general, you wanna avoid missing potential groundbreaking research, et cetera. Well, no, no question. The, the, the problem is sort of at the, at the margins. And then, and then sort of a whole set of issues, oh boy, we've talked about this a lot at Institute Directorate, and just sort of these circumstances where probably the review process cannot discriminate between, you know, three or four, but somehow you're about to end somebody's research, academic research career if you're not careful and the scores are right at the edge of fundability. Well, and you can discourage the future generation from entering. I do just think it's very important to think of the law of unintended consequences. No question. And so if, for example, all the investigators have to be early stage, then that will influence how people apply. And so, I mean, these are just the kinds of things I think we should make sure we understand. And because of the size of the Institute, it may not influence us very much, but I can see NIH wide that could have a big influence. And maybe what Raphael is reacting to is I think there is, there is negative and positive measures one can take. Setting a line and saying you have to fund this number of people is unquestionably a negative because you're kicking out excellent proposals. You're leapfrogging excellent proposals to do that. But of course, and we can debate the merits of doing that. But of course, there's positive strategic changes one could make if there is indeed a problem even and we just don't even know. Our second rule. No, we have a 10-second rule. I'm 10 seconds off for talk. I'll finish here. Ah, okay. But he makes up these rules as he goes along. It's pretty random. Yeah. Okay. Thank you very much.


Waterloo was the last battle in a twenty-three year cycle of wars that began with the outbreak of the French Revolution and the intervention of the European powers. Essentially it was the battle that restored Europe to balance and stability and set the pattern that would endure for most of the rest of the nineteenth century. So it served Britain's interests by stabilizing Europe, by removing the French from the Great Invasion ports of northern Belgium, Ostensie, Brugge, Antwerp, and ensuring that Britain's intervention in Europe from that point on was relatively limited right down to 1914. It brought Britain a century of very cheap security, a century in which Britain becomes the greatest power in the world. The Battle of Waterloo begins a year earlier in April, 1814, when Napoleon abdicates. His armies have been defeated, his generals have abandoned him, even the French people have given up on dreams of glory and large-scale bloodshed. Napoleon is then sent off to the island of Elba, just off the Italian coast, where he becomes the emperor of a very small island. Within twelve months he's back in France, he's overthrown the Bourbon monarchy, he's raised a fresh army. Napoleon has recovered all of his glory, his troops have rejoined him, the Eagles are up, everybody's up for a fight. The French seem to have learned nothing in twenty-two years, if you follow Napoleon you will all die. Napoleon decides that he will attack into Belgium, which the British have created specifically to keep the French out of the low countries. There he's going to meet the Duke of Wellington, who is the British minister at the Congress of Vienna, and is also the man planning the defence of Belgium against a French attack. So Wellington is ready for this. He's also going to meet the army of Prussia, the other major European power that's in the front line against Napoleon. So Napoleon's plan is very simple. He will find the Prussian army, he will smash them, he will find the British army, he will smash them, and he will then hope that the Austrians and the Russians will decide that we must just leave him alone. The problem is Napoleon has been declared a common criminal, an outlaw. He is not recognised by any other European state as a legitimate ruler. Therefore the powers of Europe will overthrow him. The question is how long it will take, and on what battlefield they will do that. Waterloo is really a campaign in which we see a series of battles over five days. Their engagements at Lignin, Qatar, Brow and the Prussian and British armies first face the French. So the French army is split. In the first engagement the British face a small French force, while the Prussians are hit by the main French army, and then at Waterloo it's the main French army against the British, and the Prussians coming in from the flank to join the battle late in the day and ensure that the British defensive victory is turned into a complete rout, and the French are overwhelmed. Wellington, a man with a taste for drama, said it was a close-run thing. It was too close for comfort as far as he was concerned, and he wasn't wrong. The French brought up a lot of artillery, they had excellent infantry, cavalry, and had they handled their forces with more skill they would have come close to winning the battle. But Wellington himself was a master of the defensive battle. He didn't give the French any opportunity to turn his flank or to drive through the centre of his position. He held his ground, he kept his men under cover as far as possible, and each successive wave of French attacks was beaten off. Until by the end the French had nothing left, and when Napoleon's elite troops, the old guard who were the finest troops in the world, were caught in the flank and driven off the field, the whole thing collapsed in a rout, and the French immediately decided someone had betrayed them. It was Napoleon, and he was leaving the field in a carriage. Napoleon, knowing that as a common criminal he stood to be hung on the field by the Prussians who had a taste for such things, got in his carriage and legged it to Paris. He realised when he got to Paris nobody was going to back and defeated Napoleon. He then wandered down to Bordeaux and he boarded a British warship, HMS Bellarophon, a battleship that had fought in all the great battles of the war at sea. And there he told the captain, Sir Frederick Maitland, you know what he said, but for you people I would have been emperor of the world. He said, but wherever there is enough water to float a boat upon, I'm sure to find you in my way. And that ultimately is Napoleon's tragedy. He never got out of Europe. All of his great dreams of following his hero Alexander the Great through Persia to India evaporated at the Battle of the Nile. Ultimately he was beaten by Britain, by Nelson and by Wellington. The problem for Wellington is that by now he's already a duke. There is no further promotion available, but he does get a lot of money which he uses to buy a great family estate, which is still the residence of the dukes of Wellington. And he then goes into politics and government. He is essentially the founding father of this college. He is the prime minister. He fights a duel over King's College London with a disgruntled peer. And he hangs on the wall of our council room to remind us that we have a really great founder, a man who saved Europe and restored the balance of the world and left his country a rather better place than he found it. Today the Battle of Waterloo is remembered in very different ways. If you go to the battlefield you would swear that Napoleon had won. The battlefield is all about Napoleon. Wellington hardly appears and the Prussians are almost absent. If you're British it means that the British won the Napoleonic Wars, which is entirely untrue. Everybody else joined in too. The British were only there at the end. If you're French it reminds you that pursuing glory is madness. And at the moment the Germans are very keen not to talk about it because Germany is a very, very unmilitary state. And so the Germans really didn't want to go to Waterloo for the 200th anniversary to even talk about this battle. A hundred years before, in 1913, at the real decisive battle of the Napoleonic Wars, the anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig, the Germans staged a huge parade, a mass military demonstration, and re-fought the battle. To remind the French they'd beaten them. So a hundred years has changed a lot. The bombastic, imperial, Hohenzollern might of 1913 has been replaced by an altogether more peace-loving Germany. So Waterloo has many meanings. And of course here in central London we have Waterloo Station and Waterloo Bridge. And these are the things that connect the two halves of King's College. The North Bank and the South Bank are linked by Waterloo Bridge. A bridge built to celebrate the victory. A railway station named in honour of the victory. And until recently the place where the Euro-star ended, you've got on a gare du noir, you've got off at Waterloo just in case you were in any doubt where you'd arrived. Of course the French have the gare de Austerlitz to annoy the Austrians. So it's a fairly universal currency. Today Waterloo Station has a memorial not to the Great Battle of 1815, but to those who lost their lives in the First World War. And as you walk into the grand entrance right behind me you'll see the list of all of the names of the railwaymen who joined the war effort and never came home. So it's a memory not just of one battle and one war, but of many wars. It's a way of remembering the sacrifice that it's taken to keep Europe peaceful, stable and balanced through the long term. And that ultimately has been Britain's contribution to Europe. Not great wars of conquest, but great wars of stability, preserving the balance and the status quo against powers bent on European domination, be they Napoleon, the Kaiser, Hitler. That is Britain's role in Europe. It's the balancing agent that keeps everything stable.


Okay, so we've been discussing about Jesus being the High Priest. So wanted to ask us so far, what have you learned about Jesus as the High Priest? Because I felt, you know, another one is constantly talking here. So let me see how much you picked up from what we have discussed so far. So, would anyone like to share? Even if it's just one thought, it's good. Jesus is High Priest. Our High Priest Jesus is not in the order of Aaron, he's in the order of Melchizedek. Great, that's one point. He's from the order of Melchizedek. Anything else that we have picked up? He's from Melchizedek. Okay, he's from the order of Melchizedek, sure. Not from the High Priest or a tribe of Priest, he's from the order of Melchizedek. Yeah, sure Thomas. So similar to what they were saying, that's what Thomas has picked up. How about the others? Kanan, Prince, Kiran. So okay, whenever you have some ideas, any questions, please do stop me. I'm going continuously so that I can cover the portions, but if we can have some interaction discussion, I think it will be better because I don't want it to become very monotonous for us. You know, like you're constantly listening to me and that's all that's happening here. So yeah, maybe let me see. I'll try to stop here and there and ask some questions. Alright, so we've understood a couple of things about Jesus as the High Priest. As they said, Melchizedek, he's now the High Priest forever. He's a compassionate High Priest. He sympathizes with our weaknesses. Okay, so all these things we have learned now moving forward. We talked about the normal High Priests that they would offer up sacrifices. So what kind of sacrifices did Jesus offer up? Obviously, he wasn't in the temple. But from verse 7, we notice that in his humanity, during his time here on earth, he offered up prayers and supplications. So there is the ministry to God that he engaged in similar to other High Priests. But it was not a physical animal that he sacrificed for sins. Instead, he's engaging in prayers and supplications. Those are his sacrifices. And we're also told that with vehement cries and tears to him. So prayers, prayers unto God, earnest and sincere prayers. Jesus came before the Father. The time when he cried and struggled in prayer was at the Garden of Gethsemane. Now we are aware from Matthew 26 and Luke chapter 22 that Jesus persevered in prayer and battled it out to the extent that that struggle was visible in his body. He was sweating blood, we are told. Why? He could not easily accept what the Father had planned for his life which was to die on the cross. Now many people have the question why didn't Jesus want to die on the cross? Is it the struggles, the beating and the physical pain that he would need to go through? But we understand that it was more than that. He did not want to be separated from the Father. He was a son who was in the bosom of the Father. So so close to the Father that he did not do anything other than what the Father did. He did not say anything other than what the Father said. Now somebody who is that connected to the Father, even for a moment he could not imagine being separated from the Father. And that was his struggle. Was there a question there? No, I am guessing no. So Jesus if at all it was possible to forego the cross then he wanted that to happen because he did not want to be separated from the Father. So he cried out with tears and all of that in the presence of God because he could not accept that plan of being separated from God on the cross. But you know we read here that he was heard because of his godly fear. Though he was a son yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered. So finally what did Jesus say in that prayer of Gethsemane? It's called as the prayer of consecration where he says okay God this is what I want but not my will but yours be done. So did God answer Jesus' prayer? Not my will but yours be done? What do you think? Okay, so that says yes. Of course because it was God's will for Jesus to die on the cross. So it happened. Jesus did go on to the cross but you notice another beautiful thing here. We are told that he learned obedience by the things which he suffered. So suffering in the life of Jesus you know it was like training. He was learning obedience even the Son of God. Okay, how the Bible is so honest isn't it? It doesn't try to paint a picture that oh Jesus never struggled to be obedient to God. It was so easy for him. No, he struggled but we are told that whatever he went through he learned obedience. So he was growing in his obedience to God, not from disobedience because again we know that his life was sinless. But to be obedient you know you need the will and that will was being strengthened each time and every situation that Jesus went through his will for obedience to the Father was becoming stronger and stronger and stronger. So in our lives when we go through challenges like Jesus we can also learn obedience. You know automatically we don't become those perfect children of God, perfect believers. It doesn't happen like that. We have to make that journey and learn. See Jesus through the sufferings what happened he learned obedience. Through what we go through even we can become more and more obedient to God. So that is the blessing of following the life of Jesus and the example of Jesus. So you see here his way of offering sacrifices was very different from the earthly priests. He offered up prayers with cries, intense prayers and he was also so obedient to the Father. What a wonderful high priest we have and we are told that he became having been perfected. How did he become perfect? See we should not misunderstand that Jesus was sinful and then he had to become perfect. No, yet through the sufferings his will for obedience was strengthened and in that sense he was perfected and he became now look at this one more feature that is being added to this Jesus it's almost like a canvas we are painting the picture of Jesus. One more stroke, author of eternal salvation. He became the author of eternal salvation because his obedience was perfected. Okay, so this Jesus is now the author of eternal salvation to all the believers not to all obey him called by God as high priest according to the order of Melchizedek of whom we have much to say. So at this point the writer he wants to tell the people in greater depth about this order of Melchizedek because he has just thrown in that concept from nowhere and even for some of us we are wondering who is this Melchizedek what is the order of Melchizedek so the writer wants to explain it to the people but suddenly he stops and he says I want to tell you but you know it's hard to explain why because you are dull of hearing. You know when we want to learn a deeper truth one requirement is that we understand the basics. If somebody needs to be taught you know algebra, permutation, combination, you know the more complicated geometry they need to know the basics one plus one addition, subtraction, multiplication, you know a simple circle, square, rectangle then you go on to complicated subjects in mathematics but how can you teach somebody you know integration or some such complicated concept if they are very weak in understanding addition, subtraction, multiplication, division you can't so that's what he's telling these believers I want to tell you lot of deep things but you have become dull of hearing isn't that they their ears needed a check up like go to the ENP doctor and okay check check can you hear can you sound check you know a mic testing one two three no so he's not referring to their hearing as in the physical hearing dull of hearing is a condition of the heart or the spirit man you know another interchangeable term for the heart in the Bible is the spirit man so basically the spirit has become weak in perceiving what God is saying so he is rebuking the people now just think about us it's a dangerous place to be dull of hearing and we should never really come to that place so why do you think people become insensitive to what God is speaking any thoughts from all of you you are all you know believers for a while that I'm aware of that and also in the ministry so what are your thoughts on the things that make us insensitive towards God or things that make us hard hearts hard aren't are you able to share your thoughts yes pastor I think it's our faith okay so when we are you saying that the level of our faith describes how sensitive we are yeah that's good that's true correct thank you thank you for adding that thought Prince are you able to add any thoughts to this okay not sure you know the connection is okay but yeah class I think I'm going to be asking you some questions because I want to make sure you know you are engaging effectively in what is being discussed here so please be prepared to share your thoughts either by unmuting or by typing it in the chat okay so as Aaron pointed out our level of faith is one of the determinants of our spiritual sensitivity there can be other reasons such as you know not following a righteous life so when we give place to sinful habits it reduces or it kind of weakens our relationship with God and thereby our hearing of God there can be you know other things like getting completely bogged down by discouragement which was the issue of these believers so there are many things that can make us hard towards God but whatever those things are the we are being warned that come on you know don't let that happen it's not like you know our sensitivity will remain with us throughout our spiritual journey it's something that we need to guard something that we need to nurture we need to keep alive our sensitivity towards God and then he gives him a nice rebuke he says look I want to learn all these deep spiritual realities but verse 12 he says by this time you should have become teachers okay but you still need somebody to teach you the first principles of the oracles of God so he's saying that people have not put the word that was taught to them into good use earlier we saw how in chapter 4 he says mix whatever you hear with faith you mix the word with faith then your spirit man is built up so is it possible to force somebody to just you know remain with God's word and never really apply it in their lives unfortunately it can happen and that's a warning the passage of time does not determine what kind of spiritual growth or development a believer has experienced now one can be a believer for 10 years and attain a certain spiritual maturity but another child of God could be a believer for let's say 2 years and can have a similar spiritual maturity it is dependent on our effort okay now again don't misunderstand this is not salvation by works but this is about our sensitivity and our obedience to God's word and the way we nurture our faith so he in fact repukes them and he says you know by now you should have been teachers you should have graduated from college but yes it's like you're still in primary school and I have to teach you A B C D and then you know all these basic things about God and then he says you are still consuming milk or the simple truth of God's word and not solid food solid food referring to deeper mature teaching of God's word then he says for everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled obviously babies drink milk they don't have the capacity to digest complex food similarly believers who are immature or you would see that he is using the word babe or baby in Christ now being a baby is not a bad thing because we all start off as babies isn't it whether it is our physical lives or as a believer our initial stages baby but a baby has to grow up and go through all the stages until adulthood but what if somebody is 40 years old and is still behaving like a baby you know feed me, clothe me, clean me it will be so funny because by the age of 40 you expect somebody to have that wisdom and maturity to care for themselves and come to a place where they are caring for others similarly in the spiritual life there is an expectation from God that we should all grow up in Christ don't be babies you know unskilled in the word of righteousness milk still the same old things from scripture nothing you know nothing deeper and nothing new as revelation is coming to us that would be the state of being a baby but instead he says solid food belongs to those who are of full age whenever adults have a gathering they would have different you know on the menu you have different food isn't it so people who are non vegetarian you also include meat in your menu but you are able to eat so much and all that food is giving you the nutrition that you need so he is saying that similarly when it comes to the word of God being able to understand the word being able to digest the word all these are very important things so full age means you should be able to have solid food and he says how can one be recognized of being full age like you know somebody who is able to digest those more complex food items similarly in the spiritual walk you find that people who have exercised their senses to discern both good and evil so once we have learned you know the more mature somebody spiritually don't we all go to them for advice when we need prayer we would think who should I ask for prayer and counsel we will prefer to go to someone who is very strong in the Lord knows God's word very well because they will guide us rightly so they have practiced through their ears to read the word to interpret the word to hear from God and communicate it so that practice is very important for maturity so maturity also means that we have been consistent in God's word and we have you know the capacity to discern good from evil those who are very mature in God can almost quickly they can tell no this is a wrong interpretation or I don't sense that God's spirit is at work in this decision so quickly this is good this is bad they are able to tell but it has come through the practice or in other words regular engagement with God so don't we all want that regular practice regular engagement regular exposure to God's word the work of God's spirit personally corporately in a group setting you know even all of you three years you're part of this Bible college regularly looking at God's word right consistently trying to understand the meaning of God's word what is it making what is it causing within us maturity so that is very important and that's how we can mature and he's telling the believers and even us we can take from this all scripture is inspired by God and it is for us to learn it's challenging us that the spiritual journey is never you know a plain line like this no not at all it should be a like a rising line always if it's not it's dangerous and that's what you know we should be aiming towards now he tells these believers I'm encouraging you you you're still in the basics leave that and go on to perfection so he wants the believers to be mature and the word perfection there is you should understand it not as you know you you have to be perfect but the root word there is still yours which refers to maturity so maturity is the goal in other words and he says you should be strong enough in God's word that you don't require the laying of the foundation once again foundation is based on the truth of God's word so here he endless a couple of things which are foundational this is not a complete list but he just kind of you know throws it some topics here he says not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works faith toward God doctrine of baptism laying on of hands resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment so just some topics but of course we know there are very many other basics that we must be strong in things like salvation things like the work of Jesus on the cross the word of God worship prayer these are all some of the basics that we require for a strong spiritual work so he goes on to encourage the people to maturity and he says okay if God and this we will do if God permits he says look it's okay it's okay for us to repeat these things to you and we can do it if there is a God permits is to depend on God you know for completion of something not whether God is willing for such kind of teaching to be imparted because obviously we know God is interested but he's just saying you know the strength to do it the ability to do it we depend on God now I just told us that how should our spiritual journey be not like this if our spiritual journey is flat the curve is flat then we are not making much progress but when we talk about progress it has to be moving upward okay so that is something we are personally responsible for and he says all believers must have that upward curve if it is not so let's say for example somebody is walking with the Lord and they start to drop or fall then what so this passage Hebrew 6 okay it's a passage that is talked about quite often and people wonder about what is being said here there is a very strong warning in this passage so now we are told that it is impossible for those who are once enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come if they fall away to renew them again to repentance since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God and put him to an open shame so basically this is answering the question can a believer lose their salvation so what are we told here we told here that God doesn't take it away from us God has already given us salvation it's a free gift of God but we receive it through faith in Jesus Christ and it is ours but if someone what is the phrase here fall away or you could you could look at it as intentionally be separated from God you know one chooses to depart from God it departs by choice let's put it that way that makes it easier for our understanding so fall away if anyone falls away then is it difficult for them to come back to God is it hard for them to come back to God the term used here is impossible so that's scary isn't it that we are told that if somebody intentionally departs from God not a little bit they have gone and you know whenever we talk about this passage believers also get concerned that if I commit a sin if it happens you know will God disown me see we are talking about a situation where somebody has gone very far from God you know repeated sinful lifestyle unrepentant hard hearted you know completely low on their faith so this is an extreme scenario this is not the common scenario in the lives of believers so we don't have to feel that this is talking about a diligent believer no it's not it's talking about somebody whom let's say the Holy Spirit has convicted many times but that person has just chosen to not listen and become so hard over time that they have intentionally departed away from God or we use the term fall away so when one falls away there is a warning impossible for such people to even come back to God so we should take it up that I should never go far from God okay because the journey back it's not difficult it's impossible wow that's scary isn't it it is scary now people also ask the question is this referring to a believer in fact it is referring to a very active believer because you look at the description once enlightened one again once you get to know the truth that Jesus is the one who has provided salvation for us have tasted the heavenly gift what is the heavenly gift salvation you have experienced salvation partakers of the Holy Spirit that's quite clear the gift of the Holy Spirit is given to us and all the manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the form of you know those nine gifts all that somebody who has experienced all that tasted the good word of God what is the meaning of that not just read in a light way but experience taste means you can tell this is sweet this is bitter this is salty so one who has experienced deeply the word of God and the powers of the age to come simply referring to supernatural power of God so this is a believer this is a good believer in fact but what is the problem fall away intentionally go away from God it's very difficult for such a person for what renew them again to repentance what has happened what has become very hard you know when we look at cement it's easy to work with wet cement because it's not yet set but when once the cement is set if you want to form it into another shape is it possible no it's it's not possible because it has already you know gone through that chemical reaction it's over so similarly hardness of heart in the life of a believer it's a big warning for us God is saying never go down this road and one falls away it also is crucifying the son of God once again and putting him to open shame so dishonoring Christ and his sacrifice is what happens when one falls away from God and that's why you know we should never go down this path by their people in the ministry of Paul who went away yes there are names of men who departed from the truth and Paul was never happy with such people there's a deem us that he refers to who was you know such a person who was apparently strong in God but who fell away from God so yeah Aaron you have a question yes pastor yes so when someone fall away fall away from God so do they lost their salvation so Aaron that's what we are saying you know when somebody falls away it is impossible to renew such a person to repentance so it's like yes they have lost their salvation but understand that this is very rare because if we have walked with God we know that there is so much of grace because of the cross isn't it so a normal believer as scripture says the righteous man may fall seven times but he will rise back up so that is the normal experience of believers but the thing here is be quick to repent okay and when you talk about people who have lost their salvation it's a tough thing for us to discern you know who has lost their salvation and who hasn't so again we must not go around judging people only God knows it's between God and a human being what where their relationship stands and such incidents are quite rare even Paul refers to a handful of people in his ministry who went away from God so it's a very rare occurrence okay I hope that helps yes pastor thank you okay that's that's great any other questions in this area because I know this is a very important topic okay if you have a question then you can just stop me and ask okay so in continuation verse seven we are told that for the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated receives blessing from God but if it bears thorns and briars it is rejected and near to be to being cursed whose end is to be burnt so basically it's referring to the fruit of one's life as a believer if one does not bear the fruits of repentance which is like a humble heart towards God but instead if the fruit of one's life is thorns and briars thorns are not a good harvest who is who is out there trying to harvest thorns so God sees our lives and if there is no fruit of repentance and spiritual fruit you know the end is not good and that is the warning for the believers so you know even in a situation of discouragement sometimes believers take it lightly they take their spiritual walk like yeah anything whatever happens but be very careful not to go away from God not even a little bit because what is the danger the little can become more and more and more the drift away can become a fall away we don't want that so believers be warned that there is a possibility of losing salvation and we should never be on that path instead what is a good way to be in the race you should be looking at the goal and running okay don't be scared that you know I might go back to the place where I started does any runner go back to the place where they started no unless they choose to turn around and then they go but in general how do the runners run look at the finish line keep looking at the finish line you will have no opportunity to turn back so keep looking at the finish line and keep running keep producing the fruit of salvation now after bringing such a warning that the believers are shaken up oh I never knew that if I am careless with my spiritual walk then there is a possibility to decline quickly the author starts to encourage them because you see again I told us he doesn't want to beat up the believers with what he is saying or he is preaching so it's a way of approaching the children of God in a tender way and this is an attitude that we all need everyone in the ministry when we are serving the people of the kingdom that tenderness is required yes we want them but look at the tenderness but he says but beloved you know when a parent disciplines the child too much what happens you know the child might think my parent doesn't love me and be broken you know because of that sense of rejection but instead what do the parents do yeah there is a little bit of disciplining and then they kind of you know come back in a loving way and say okay okay you know you make it better make it right so in the same way like a loving parent the ministry needs to be done so he says there is a warning you it is impossible for those who fall away to come back and now he says but beloved so he is starting to encourage the believers and he says you know don't worry but such things will not happen with all of you so he says we are confident of better things concerning you yes things that are company salvation though we speak in this manner so he is quite happy with the believers and he says I'm warning you this is not going to happen to you so don't give it too much attention and then again some more encouragement he says see God is a good God and he is not unjust so again we are adding to the nature of God here we understood God is a God who is a just God and he's saying that God will reward you for your labor of love which you have shown towards his name so God will repay you for every good that you are doing and then he also says that your minister to the saints and do minister so it it helps us understand that these people were a hospitable people they were they were serving the kingdom of God they were helping other believers in Christ so they are just being encouraged that you know you continue because God will reward you according to your faithfulness and he says we desire for each of you that you will continue to progress in this way so show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end okay so he says please continue to make such progress don't become sluggish but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises so he says that when you don't know how to continue you know in this ministry or serving of God you have good examples of you know people who through faith and patience have inherited the promise of God so those who have a good example among you if you get inspired by such people you can continue your spiritual journey and you know continue to be strong in God so that is what he is talking about now he moves forward talking a little more about this promise okay alright yeah I'm just wondering if I should get into this because then I will have to explain it but we have only about 5 minutes left so okay let me see how much I could explain so he talks about you know God and his integrity over here in this passage where he says that God made a promise to Abraham and how did he confirm that promise in those times in the times of the covenants where they understood covenants it was swearing swearing by somebody greater or something greater was a practice but when God made Abraham a promise we are told that he swore by what God swore by himself because there was nobody greater that he could depend on okay yeah and how did Abraham receive the promise we've recently had that series on faith journey of Abraham and we saw that it was not easy for Abraham to receive the promise of the child but 25 years he endured endure is like when you're running a long race in the beginning it's very easy full energy you run with full energy but in between it takes that willpower to stay in the race some people might quit because they are tired some people might stop because they want to drink water but the strongest mentally and physically those are the ones who will make it to the finish line and similarly you have Abraham in those difficult parts in between he endured he stood the test he bore under that pressure and he obtained the promise so similarly we are encouraged it's not going to be easy for us to receive what God has promised but we have the example of a man called Abraham who stood the test of time and he obtained the promise of God all right so what we'll do is let us stop here and I think we will continue in the next class so I would like to stop any questions any thoughts at this moment okay if not we can close with the word of prayer anyone if you could please wrap up in prayer please go ahead either of you okay we'll pray Father God we come before once again you're thrown Father God Father God we want to just say thank you Father God to you praise and mercy Father God to your inheritance spiritually Father God thank you Father God for the salvation Father God what you're giving us Father God thank you Father God you came by day you just working behalf of us Father God thank you Father God thank you Father God thank you for the subject and thanking you for all his children and Simen Father God thank you for you you are helping us Father God to understanding that subject Father God thank you help us to move forward Father God help us to finish our journey Father God help us and give you strength Father God and give you blessing more and more father God so that we can move further, go to glory and more glorious day, Father God. Help us. We just, Father God, to your kingdom work. Thank you, Father God. Thank you for everything. Almighty Jesus' name be praised. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Kiran. Thank you, everyone. God bless you. Have a wonderful day. We'll meet you next time. Thank you, Ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Bye.


All right, Bolo buddies. We are headed to the Ben's another long day of shopping. I just love it I'm gonna show you the treasures that I find I'm gonna pop up screenshots for you of how I listed everything so Hey, Bolo buddies. Thanks for watching Amazing, right? All right, let's get started All right, so I usually try to get there when they first open because there has been a cart Shortage so if you do not get there early you do not get a cart and Does anybody need any fishing worms? I don't know if those things are expensive or not Would you have picked them up? There is my friend Erin who is sourcing with me. She's my friend that actually Came with me and she sourced a bag of stuff for me if you guys missed that video You definitely want to go and check it out So little small trains and stuff like that You're gonna see me pick a lot of that type of bite a lot of those items up I will bundle them in small lots some of them. I list individually I just listed one recently and it was an Emily train and it actually sold pretty quick I picked up that soap because sometimes soaps are retired that one did not end up comping out. Well, unfortunately I'm wondering if I should have got that big piece of wood track right there Would you guys have got that or left it behind? I May have missed out on something good there. You guys let me know in the comments if you see anything I missed if you can time stamp it that is even better so that I can go back and Take a look at what you're talking about because a lot of times I mean we're moving so quickly and I use my phone and I dig with one hand So sometimes I don't see everything, but I just go and do my best so again lots of small toys I am a small toy picker upper I sell individual toys some of them for seven bucks some of them for 15 or 20 just for one small toy It really depends, you know, I thought I picked that up I can't remember if the tail ended up being broken or if I haven't listed it yet But I could not find it in my active listings, which is really strange. So I Did pick up this little moochies. It was new in the package So any time I can find items that are new in the package new old stock I pick them up even if they're a bread and butter if they've got a barcode and Brand new I know that they will sell eventually So yeah, I just especially if they're lightweight It just seems like a no-brainer to me to pick those up. I don't even usually comp them out Especially if they're toys. I did pick up this little ghost. He was just cute I believe he glows in the dark so I Can't remember if I had that up before Halloween or not But it has not sold yet. So we will probably wait patiently until next Halloween for that guy, but that's okay He doesn't take up much space. He's very lightweight. I probably paid like a quarter for it I did pick this up also. I don't believe I've got that one listed yet That might be something that will do well on posh mark that maybe somebody will bundle If you're new here, my name is Courtney also known as Bolo buddies and I mainly on my channel talk about sold items I do a lot of what sold videos and I teach about items to be on the lookout for which is what I call a Bolo item So be sure to check out some of my other videos. I Do some thrift with me's but I've really been starting to do a lot more of these Goodwill Benz videos I really enjoy them. I love digging in the bends and I I feel like it's a nice way to take you guys with me and entertain you but still keep it educational with the screen shares and I will definitely let you know if something has already sold but a lot of times when I get at home I list everything. I Pop up the screen shares. I do the voiceover and I get the video out So there's not a huge lapse in time between listing and getting the video out in most cases Sometimes it just depends. I'm a little distracted right now. I'm currently working on my garage I had a huge money pile there that I'm trying to get to the basement so I can get my Vehicle in the garage and I actually have a video that says am I a hoarder or am I a reseller? So you guys can definitely go check out that video if you would like to see how I store my inventory and how big my money pile is This one here is more of a vlog style video, which is something new. I'm trying out So you can stay tuned for more of those. Hopefully in the future. I did pick up that aerial I have not listed her yet either, but I do have her in my to list pile She may be I may stick her with something else haven't decided yet Sometimes you can put like Disney figures like the princesses together and different things like that I mean when you're sourcing at the bends the items that are toys. I mean a dollar eighty nine a pound They're just so cheap that I just got to save them I got to save them from the landfill and there's so many people out there that are looking for these small toys as replacements and stuff like that. I Don't know if I should have got that. I can't remember if I comped it out. It looks like I put it in my cart I know that some of the I know for sure the beach body is a Vero So you want to stay away from those this little guy was so cute. I picked him up I've got him listed in my eBay store So everything that you're gonna see that I pop up a screen share for these items are available in my eBay store I do have it linked below. I do offer a 20% off coupon to my viewers So if you decide you want to purchase something at check out if you put volo buddies all one word in the Checkout you will get 20% off your order. That does not work with best offer. Just FYI All right, and I do have a video that teaches you how to create a coupon if you don't know how to do that It's definitely a great feature So I sell on eBay Poshmark and Mercari on Mercari I typically do free shipping and I ship through pirate ship and I will increase my price to cover the shipping So this one right here sold super fast It's just a little good night moon plush. It goes with a book and it sold really quickly Really happy about that one. It was just a bread and butter. All right, you guys a big bag of hair accessories Hey guys, welcome to today's video of items that you may not think are worth money But really are today is going to be this barrette. It is a vintage barrette. I purchased this at an estate sale I always purchase these when it says this Always look on the back and if it says it made in France, it's a definite pickup this little cutie So for $19 plus shipping on its way to Washington So I always always always pick up barrette's and hair accessories a lot of them are vintage and a lot of them are worth money Just wanted to give a little shout out to double T's treasures I saw that on her Instagram and I asked her if I could share that with you guys So definitely go subscribe to her. I will link her down below So the kindle that I just showed since I got my screen shares popped up that guy sold for $12 plus shipping so super excited to move that one quickly And again, I talked about this in another video and somebody actually thanked me for mentioning it when you watch these What sold videos? Not everything sells in a week a lot of items sit and sit and sit If your item sells in a week, I would say that you either underpriced it or Someone was just looking for it and you had it priced just right I mean, it's just It's common for items to sit for a month or two months I mean a lot of people look at sell-through rates and they will only pick up things with a really good sell-through rate That is an option. Those people are probably selling their items quicker But you're gonna have to do a lot more research and you are gonna be very limited to how many items you have in your store Is sell-through rate important? Yeah, definitely, especially if you only have a limited amount of time and Resources and maybe you work a full-time job. You really just want to pick up the things that are gonna sell quickly and utilize your time Really wisely. I do this full-time. So I'm great with the long tail bread and butter items I will buy the things that it's gonna take the right person to pick up and I'm okay with waiting and being patient, but I also have a ton of items listed So I really don't list it and think oh my goodness. Why hasn't this item sold? You know, if you have 20 or 30 items listed, you're constantly thinking why hasn't it sold yet? Why hasn't it sold yet? If you have thousands of items listed you start to just Not even think about what you have listed like I don't even know what's in my store anymore I just wait for the cha-ching. So I mean everybody does it differently Just I don't want you to go on and watch these what sold videos and think that these people are selling these things in one week A lot of these items are sitting. You have to be patient as a reseller The la la lopsie. I think is what they're called. I did pick up I think three of them two were the same one had shoes one didn't so I just priced them a little bit differently and Another one I picked up this one right here sold super quick. I think that one went internationally I sold that for 18 dollars and 60 cents plus shipping Fisher price vintage fisher price always a pickup. It's a nice bread and butter item um, that was like a bowl or a ram I do check out all of the animals because some of those like schlake and Um, AAA if they are vintage and the realistic looking animals, some of them can go for 15 to 20 dollars They may surprise you so definitely give them a look. Um, again, if you don't like smalls and you don't like toys It's probably going to be something you're going to pass on And everybody that goes to the bends is looking for something different this The bends is big enough for all of us. You know what I'm saying It's so funny because I'll be grabbing for something and no one else is even grabbing for it Like they're just not even interested in it. So you just never know I did pick up that duck because the gal that's with me Erin. She drives a jeep So they do that little jeep thing where they put the duck on the jeep and um, it's kind of fun So I grabbed that there for her All right, we are going to keep digging here I'm looking in here just to see if there's any lol dolls there were not Um, so I went ahead and left that behind a lot of times people, you know, donate the cases I'm not sure why but they do Um, I guess maybe somebody could want it time is running out. I it's some sort of maybe educational game I did look that up ended up putting that back Um, I do always mention that board games are something that I really like to cross post to poshmark And sometimes I only put them on poshmark depending on how heavy they are because um, if they're oversaturated on ebay, it's just It's just not worth it because the shipping is going to be like 10 to 20 dollars depending on where it's going Uh poshmark, you've got that flat shipping fee of I think it's 7.95. I could be wrong that might have went up a little bit So that is one tip um put heavier items five pounds or less on poshmark like games and like department 56 Now I do know there are measurement restrictions on poshmark. So don't get too big Um, but as far as weight and uh dimensions I think you're pretty safe if they can fit in all of the priority mail shipping boxes And if you don't know you can go to usps.com and you can order free shipping supplies There is a large flat rate box that is a game box And it's really really big and long and it's great for games And you can use flat rate boxes on poshmark, so If you didn't know that that is a great box to pick up to use on poshmark All right, so I typically start my items on ebay and then I cross post them to mercari and poshmark I do use list perfectly. I have a demo video down below if you guys want to check it out And um, I noticed that ebay just started the thing where you can spend um your money Instead of getting a payout, which is what poshmark and mercari do And I tell you guys all the time that a lot of times people have Their payouts and they just use the those payouts to shop So it's important to get your items on different items because there's potential that maybe somebody on poshmark Is only looking on poshmark. They're not looking on ebay So that is why I cross post I do um Like I said use list perfectly and if you guys want to check that out With the video down below and you like what you see you can use coupon referral code Bolo buddies all one word and that will get you 30 off your first month of list perfectly I've been using it since 2019 and I still love it. So uh highly recommend it All right, I did find this lego game if you guys aren't familiar with it Um, I don't think it was complete. I did not count all the pieces. So what I decided to do was part it out and That one piece um or the one set part of it already sold. So this hawaiian girl I just thought she was interesting. I'm not sure what she is. She has a weird thing on her foot But um, I don't know. Maybe she had a stand originally. I did go ahead and pick it up I grabbed that cup to see if my friend was interested in it. She makes these really weird drinks That look like pee and I was like do you want this cup? There's my friend who drinks the pee Okay, it's not really pee, but it is a green drink I can't remember if she ended up taking the mug or not, but she's gonna watch this and be like Did you just really tell people I drink pee? I don't know. It's some vitamin drink or something. I'm sure it's very healthy, but it just looks gross Anyway, just looking through um some books and stuff here and records and This one was really just a bunch of heavy stuff kind of hard to Kind of hard to look through a lot of media. I usually skip the media probably should do better at looking at that So I don't know what do you guys do? Do you pick up the media?  So I don't know. I've heard people do that with clothes also. I I have a tendency to stay away from the clothes All right, this doll. Oh my goodness The face is like so realistic and cute But my goodness it was so gross. Um It had something yellow on it, but it was just a stain. I smelled it. It didn't smell gross Um, yes, I did say that I smelled it I just wanted to make sure it wasn't like urine or something because it was kind of yellowing But sometimes white fabric will yellow I don't know what was on it, but it didn't smell bad and it had a lot of scuffs and marks I did my best to get those off, but a lot of them did not come off. So what I did is I did a video Showing the condition. I put that on my reseller testing bolo products channel And I made sure that the person buying it Went and watched the video and she said that she did She said that she loved it and she still wanted it and I got a message from her and great feedback And she loved the item. So I mean some of these things that you pick up that you're like is anyone going to buy this And then they do so it happens. It's absolutely People do buy damaged items all the time. I mean you can put a cute outfit on that baby that little baby's face was so cute The reason I picked the doll up is it was signed on the neck So if it would have been in better condition, I definitely could have sold it for more So always check the back of those dolls necks Once you check that you should be able to get a name. Uh, some of them are numbered and then you can look those up Really easy to look up there Little root off we've got Christmas coming. So definitely going to pick up those plush. I love picking up plush So you will see a lot of plush in my videos. Uh, sometimes they bring out bins of plush and I just get so excited I actually found a grail plush and if you guys missed this video, you have got to go watch it after this These blank tapes always a pickup for me. Those sold super fast Um So the grail item you guys when I pulled that plush out of the bin I just could not even believe my eyes and it was um, I did a Collab video with the dumpster diva and it was a scavenger hunt. So one of my items was to find a plush So, you know, I used that plush as my um scavenger hunt item But definitely check out the dumpster diva also and this is what her scavenger hunt video looks like so that you guys can Go find it as well All right, we are going to keep on digging And Another thing that you guys may want to go check out is I did a Collaboration video with a bunch of my bolo buddies members and the winner was christin a rural squirrel And I sent her 40 dollars to spend at the goodwill bins and you can check out this video to see what she found So christin a rural squirrel loves doing challenges So I just felt like it was appropriate to give her a challenge as her award for winning So she did a great job and she uh spent 40 dollars I don't even think she spent the entire 40 dollars and she is going to turn that she turned it into 800 Can't remember what was in that bag. So I don't know if I listed anything or not I don't I feel like it might have been like beads or something. So I'll probably just throw that in a toy lot Um, I'm surprised I didn't pick that up because it's paul patrol and it's everst everst is a little bit harder to find I probably should have grabbed that. I don't know why I didn't maybe some stickers were off of it Not really sure but This is the pep of the pig house, but unless it's got the pigs I just decided to leave that behind The monster truck again. I'm surprised I didn't grab that. This is a new old stock toy But I have had those in the past I bought a bunch of those at a toys arrest going out of business sale and They took forever to sell. I don't even know if I ended up selling them or if I ended up donating them But They I don't know. Yeah So I left that one behind Because I tell you guys I pick everything up that's new in the box. Da da da. Well, I didn't pick that up I think that was squinkies And you guys I just sold uh, this made me think of it. I did not get it at the Goodwill Benz I picked it up at a garage sale and it was a set of squinkies that had the little castle And it had a ton of squinkies, but I'm gonna pop it up It has nothing to do with this video, but you guys have got to see this bolo Okay, before I show you that let's talk about this doll. Oh my goodness. Okay, if these are in good condition They can do okay, but this thing was trash I don't even know what I was thinking, but I bought it and it's sitting in my store And I don't think it's ever gonna sell but sometimes I surprise myself And then I'm looking at this hat and I'm like, I probably should have got that hat. I don't know. It was kind of cute I did pick up this turtle. All right, so let's talk about the squinkies. I ended up selling the squinkies I had them on ebay Mercari and poshmark So I started it on ebay and cross posted to the other platforms and it sold faster on Poshmark and it sold for big money. Let me show you what it sold for All right, so it sold for a hundred and thirty six dollars after fees and everything My profit was a hundred and seven on that. I paid five dollars for that at a garage sale So that was a huge bolo, but there were so many little squinkies and they were all um She was so happy about her duck and they were all like little disney characters So I knew someone was going to pick that up for sure. I'm like, here's your duck for your jeep She's like, thanks So funny. I did pick up this tin. I have not listed it yet. I'm gonna look it up. Look up comps Sometimes I will pick those things up just to um Ship things in like jewelry and stuff like that little tins Uh, just presentation when I ship I do have a pep of the pig in my hand and I actually found the other pep of the pig and they just sold So let me grab the sold for you guys I lied. I lied. I lied. I did sell some pep of the pig vehicles, but they were actually from a garage sale It was a different um pep of the pig Two-piece lot So I apologize Um, I thought I was going to have a little sold listing there for you But yeah, any of the pep of the pig vehicles, uh, paul patrol. I pick all that stuff up I have a whole tote of paul patrol that I need to get listed. I have a whole tote of loving family A whole tote of fisher price little people. Okay, so this is a matrix vhs Sometimes I do better with vhs on mercari Um, I had a halloween uh vhs and I had it on ebay and I cross posted it to mercari and poshmark And it sold for way more on mercari. I compared the comps Looked it up. I priced it higher on mercari Then I did on ebay and it sold faster on mercari and you'll see that in one of my what sold videos I think it already posted, but um I can't remember what it sold for but 50 60 maybe even 70 bucks for that vhs It was a sealed halloween vhs and those are typically the ones that will go for a little more, but there is no way No way I would have gotten as much on ebay because it was saturated on ebay And there weren't as many on mercari and again Some people only shop on mercari. They don't even go to ebay. They don't like looking on ebay I will say that I really enjoy shopping on mercari. Um, I just think it's an easy platform to to shop on so I buy quite a bit over there On that platform if you guys are not on mercari and you want to check it out I do have a referral link down below and how that works is when you use that link to join You will get 10 dollar credit to shop and then if you list items and sell 100 dollars worth of stuff They give you another 20 dollars to shop and then um I also get a credit So I always appreciate it when you guys use my links down below It doesn't cost um you guys anything extra to use my links and it does help me out So, um, I just want to say thank you for all of you who have um Use those links to make purchases or subscribe to different, um Things that I services that I use and if I am shouting them out. It's because I use them and love them. So Um, definitely check out my links in the description All right, that's a toy gun. I don't know if you guys know or not But if you list toy guns, they have to have an orange thing on the end. See how that has an orange cap Um, if they don't that item, um, I'm pretty sure it can be a policy violation If anybody has any more feedback on that Please feel free to drop it down in the comments And if you're new to my channel, I also do videos on Veros or policy violations items that people have gotten suspended for on ebay, which these are great educational videos what I do is I post a link in my bolo buddies facebook group Check that out. It's linked down below if you're not a member But um, I ask everybody to share current things that they've had removed from ebay for policy violation or Vero and then I create a video so it keeps everybody up to date on current items being removed from ebay And it is always changing most recently. Um, I did a video on a hazardous materials item That has always been allowed to be listed and all of a sudden Because of the hazardous materials Uh Deal, uh, I think it's through usps. I'm not really sure if something changed over there or what happened But we are not allowed to list bubble lights. There's something inside of the bubble lights I can't remember what it's called You can check out that video if you want for more details about this But um, those bubble lights will get removed and it's not just the vintage ones from what I am Understanding they are removing all Bubble lights. So those are the lights you put on your Christmas tree That you plug in and as they heat up they bubble and they're super super cool But apparently, uh, whatever's inside is poisonous and considered a hazardous material and ebay does not allow us to list them anymore So just fyi do not list those because they will get pulled. I actually had some listed and mine got pulled I just got a letter from or an email from Ebay that basically just said this is hazardous material do not list this again, and they just took it down So, okay now i'm going to show you guys that bag of breads, right? So when I see bags like this at the bins I'm like, yes, please I mean Come on. It's a bag of breads. You guys know that I have really done super well with, um Vintage breads now are there vintage breads in here? Probably not but maybe Uh, this right here looks like it's new old stock. It's a long to short hair in minutes The perfect bob. So, I mean, I can probably make my money back with that I'm not certain. This is maybe some sort of wrap for your hair Okay So This first one what you're going to do is you're going to open them up right there guys goody So you should be able to find some marking somewhere now Is this big money? Probably not. Is it vintage? Probably not. I don't really know how to know Um, unless it's the one breads that I've sold for like crazy money. I do know about those. Um But I can at least mark this goody and do a little more research. It's kind of a cool hairbread Maybe I should keep it So i'm just kind of looking in here a lot of these i'm probably just gonna lot Um, I'm looking for things like uh, some of them will say france or italy If they're, you know, a nicer Quality bret, so we're gonna pop it open um Don't see any markings on that one I'm not certain if this is a bread or if this is just like, um, I think that holds socks You know what i'm talking about looks like a sock holder. So I probably won't mess with that No markings on this one More than likely, um, I'm gonna lot a lot of these up. This is kind of like a faux turtle shell look Again, no markings on that one. Oh, this is cute. Look at this Um, it's kind of it kind of looks like a butterfly. I don't know if it is or not, but No markings But there are two of these so I could probably list those together Uh, a lot of these would be good if I cross post them to uh poshmark because uh You know people see things in their feeds so unbranded items can do better over there because People will search by you know the photos sometimes more than description And um, so cross posting these I do use list perfectly to cross post Um, if you'd like to learn how to do that there is a demo video down in the description Um, I always say different eyes on your items different platforms different eyes.  It is bolo buddies all one word And that's going to get you 30 off your first month so, um Kind of a hodgepodge here You guys I'm finding more of these like do you think do you think these are from socks? Or do you think these are some sort of hair thing? They don't you know what I mean the saw things hold your socks I think that's kind of funny. There's like there's a couple of them There's like more than a couple. Okay and it looks like um I don't know. Maybe I guess I need to use google image search and see if there's Oh my gosh get off there. Okay, so that one's broken. So I'll just throw that aside All right, so we'll list these together. I forget what these are called, but I have some of them listed. So um I did not see a brand on these goody does make these as well. So be on the lookout Another clip pinch It's got some cute little gems on it Can make a really nice little lot Um This one has some tarnish. I it might wipe down. I'm not sure Nothing special about those except they're cute. Oh look in there. Do you see it? That one says goody And again doesn't mean that it's you're looking for the stay tight clips When you do goody, so put that over there with the goody one This is just a little uh another clippy So maybe I'll put all those together. Oh you have a little spider So I pulled this out of the Goodwill Benz by weight $1.89 a pound So, um, I don't know probably two or three bucks in it Probably weighed a couple pounds Maybe four. I don't know This one is probably vintage. It says korea, but um, yeah, it's you know, not nothing great I don't think so this must twist around your hair and there was two of them But the other one is broke. There's one of the broken pieces from that This goes with This right here and okay, this one says what does it say? Parcelona parcelona france cool So that one's okay. I don't a slide type deal This is just a solid black one. I don't I think we had one of these earlier Yeah, so those are probably all gonna get listed together another one like this And another one of these clippies Oh, this is cool Oh, look at that shine. That's interesting.  I mean for like a wedding or The bridesmaid it looks like all of the gyms are there So I don't really know what to call this though. There's another one this one's missing some stones So I won't mess with that one. Um, probably put it like in a jewelry jar and somebody can uh fix it another one of those This one It's a little clip that says love me Love me this one's just Let's open it See if there's anything on the inside that tells us anything So just another clip, but man Um, that would be for like a ponytail to go over a ponytail probably because see how thick it is And this is what they normally look like Just another one of these standard Whoo Oh Let's try this again That one's a good one I use these when I uh pull my hair up when I'm Straighten my hair I have to keep a few This one's cute. It's got the little rhinestones on it Starfish No markings Another one of those we had a pink one. I don't think it had any markings Okay, this one says something How cool it is looks like a fish It says made in or designed in france made in taiwan. So that one might be vintage And we got one more here little flowers But only one All right, you guys that Was a pretty good find. I think um definitely make some money on this So now I'm going to figure out how to list it and I'll pop screen shares up for you guys. Thanks for watching


First Lieutenant Mitchell Denning. I'm from 573 Calvary from the third brigade combat team 82nd Airborne Division We're doing a cold load training out here. So we are practicing loading and unloading Blackhawks We're doing it in full kit under a combat environment to simulate how we're actually going to do it when we get to Sonia what we're doing in in Eastern Europe is mission calls for response third brigade is on it this year for the 82nd we are doing a JFE so a Joint forcible entry First off we're doing a airborne assault and then once we complete that mission which will be the swiftest rounds part of The Defender Europe operation as a whole We are going to do a lot of air assaulting with the Estonian military. It's part of their national training objectives I've never worked with the Estonians before or the British but I've worked with the Thailand guys before the Thai army basically go to their version of West Point and They taught me a lot about living in the jungle was a big thing we did over there I think it's a Important show of force for our enemies to show how united we are with our teams and how much we can learn from each other That's kind of like I was saying with the Thailand thing. That's like a lot of what we've well a lot of different militaries bring a lot of things to the table and so There's a lot you can learn from different tactics and procedures that other militaries have and how they do things So I'm sure we can learn a lot from the British paratroopers as they do a lot of a lot of airborne training And then I'm sure we can learn a lot from the Estonian aerosol guys But we want to bring what we can to the table and learn from them So such response will be our first major major training event post COVID The only people that are allowed to come into Europe with us are double vaccinated personnel Covada's put a pretty harsh a lot of harsh restrictions on training and things But this will be our first no holds bar like everybody is back in the fight Exercise so it's it'll be I think everybody will be a lot pretty motivated to get out there and work together and be close to close and back with all their buddies again because Before it was it was there was a lot we couldn't do and now working with other countries and things like that was a lot More restricted and now we are no holds bar. Everybody's double vaccinated. We're back. We're back to Being with our being with our allies again everyone is definitely still relevant still has like a job in the army because You still need to be able to exit a large amount of combat power and force Out into another Area of the world extremely quickly and airborne is the only way that you can really do that We can load a lot more people onto a C-17 than we can a black Hawk and we can take them a lot farther a lot faster And then we can exit them out and they can be a force to be reckoned with on the ground extremely quickly and there's nothing nothing More unbeatable than a than an Elgop a little group of paratroopers out there causing trouble on the DZ So that's really where we find our bread and butter is causing trouble for the enemy and our small groups Both airsalt and airborne missions are also extremely relevant to our IRF our immediate response force mission of Deploying anywhere in the world and at most 18 hours They are extremely necessary to the rapid deployment of paratroopers and Getting the 82nd tour that it needs to go quickly We got to be extremely proficient at both and that's what we're doing out here today So I think it's important to be double vaccinated because it'll be your main chance right now as a soldier to save lives Like deployments are ramping down This it will probably be your chance to do the most good for your community and your family and your country right now like this is how this is how you be a soldier right now is to Get double vaccinated and as a soldier right now being vaccinated or double vaccinated is the Main way that you're gonna save lives.  We get a lot of shots. So That would be the be chance to do the most good if you're on the fence about it, I would say look to your left and your right and plenty of your peers are getting it and so far we've had extremely little to no issue, so It would be I it's completely safe as far as all the statistics go and I think there's really at this point. No reason not to get it