Ladies and gentlemen, now for the special remarks, may I invite to the podium Mr. Mamadal Khonadir, Chair, Adaptation Board AFB. Prime Minister of Nepal, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, let me just lay express my gratitude to the governments of Nepal for hosting us in this beautiful city and join the organizing committee to thank Honourable Prime Minister Quirella for his presence here during this morning. I would like to extend my thanks to the organizers for the invitation to join you at this important conference. Kolis, we are gathering at a time when people, societies, and ecosystems in each of our countries are feeling the adverse effect of climate change. Here in Nepal, it's clear that melting glaciers will affect a vast stretch of communities from the at-land maintain of Himalayas to the coastal region of the Bay of Bender. It might not be Bukina Faso in West Africa and invulnerable countries from Sicilian Africa. More erratic and extreme weather events is hitting farmers harder. As countries around the world face such changes, they can look to the adaptation fund as a model of climate financing for vulnerable communities. Since the adaptation fund became active in 2010, we have partnered a fully operational diet access financing model. The diet access modality is unique in the sense that it allows developing countries to take full ownership of adaptation initiatives from project design to implementation and monitoring. So far, 16 countries have taken advantage of this new modality by having national agencies accredited to take on the full management of adaptation finance on behalf of their country. We are seeing that the diet access is promoting community-based adaptation at the local level in the number of countries. In Ceregan, for example, a non-governmental agency based on this unique approach was chosen by the country to take charge of adaptation resources and have brought small local entities into its decision-making processes. One of these, Dynamic Woman Community Association took responsibility for managing over $1 million in concrete adaptation activities, including pitch rehabilitation and construction of anti-salt water bias. This is an example of championing substantial amount of finance directly to the most vulnerable and the most in need. More recently in Rwanda, another missed developed country, a national entity has been accepted with over $9 million for community-based adaptation to reduce the impact of floods and landslides. These projects will provide adaptation finance to community-based organizations and family groups who will receive support from local governments in addressing their adaptation needs. Colleagues, these two examples are important for two reasons. Firstly, they embody remission to the adaptation fund to address the needs of the most vulnerable. In every project submission, the board ensures all projects have gone through a perspective consultation process with local communities. This is a key part of our review process and ensures that local voices from the communities are included in the project design. The second aspect which I found particularly helpful is to see the direct access process working in reality. I have personal experience of the many years of negotiation to get into this position and to see 16 national agencies, such as both in Senegal and Rwanda, take the lead of action on adaptation is a very positive signal. Having said on face, colleagues, challenges remain. Although every developing country is eligible to use direct access, so far only 16 have been accredited to access our resources. Of these 16, only five have managed to get finance, flowing to concrete projects and programs on the ground. We need to extend these opportunities to more countries and reach more vulnerable communities in the weeks. To do this, the adaptation fund board recently approved the readiness program for climate finance, which aims to increase the number of countries benefitting from direct access. This program will pick up next week and will build the capacity of developing countries to ensure they are prepared to use our resources in line with international standards. An important part of the program will be self-serve organization. We want to encourage national entities in developing countries to assist each other in building climate finance capacities. We are optimistic that the number of countries using direct access will increase and, in fact, the board has set aside 50% of its resources for national entities to access. As of today, over 100 million US dollars is available for this. Colleagues, I wish to end by recognizing that our efforts in adaptation do not stand to be long. The challenge of climate change is one that will not be solved by any one ATT or single approach. You, as a group of professionals and practitioners, have demonstrated over recent years that community-based adaptation requires collaboration and cooperation across boundaries. You have demonstrated a dedication to addressing the needs of the most vulnerable at the local level. The adaptation fund shares that mission. It's my hope that we can work together to achieve this. I look forward to my discussions with you and wish a successful conference. I thank you very much.


Sequences in series form an important topic in higher mathematics. A sequence is an ordered set of real numbers where the kth term of the sequence is designated a sub k. This set could be finite or infinite, so there are finite sequences, but they're not very interesting. Since sequences are ordered, changing the order changes the sequence, so the sequence 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, and the sequence 13, 8, 5, 3, 2, 1, even though they consist of the same numbers, because those numbers are in a different order, these two sequences should be regarded as different sequences. It's possible for the terms of a sequence to be defined by some formula. We usually indicate that by the notation a sub n equals f of n, where f is the formula and n is the index, it identifies which term of the sequence you're looking at. For example, suppose I want to write the first five terms of the sequence an equals f of n, where f of n is equal to n squared minus 1. Since an equals f of n, then a1 is my function evaluated at 1, which is 0. a2 is my function evaluated at 2. For a3, I'll evaluate my function at 3, 4, and 5. So this gives me the first five terms of the sequence. Since there are additional terms we haven't calculated, we should use the ellipsis, the dot, dot, dot, to indicate this. Now there's many, many, many, many, many, many, many different sequences, but there are a couple of important types of sequences. So let's consider what the sequence zoo looks like. Since a sequence is an ordered set of elements, you should be able to find the n plus first term of the sequence by knowing something about the preceding n terms of the sequence. In the worst case scenario, you have to know all of the preceding terms of the sequence in order to figure out the next term of the sequence. And that makes for a very difficult problem. But we can take a look at a simpler problem. There are two important possibilities. First, the n plus first term is a constant difference more than the preceding term. And second, the n plus first term is a constant multiple of the preceding term. In the first case, where the n plus first term is a constant difference more than the preceding term will end up with an arithmetic sequence which we'll define as follows. If the difference between any two consecutive terms of a sequence is a constant, then the sequence is an arithmetic sequence and the difference is called the common difference. And it turns out that we can show the following. Suppose I have an arithmetic sequence where you'll notice that we're actually starting our sequence with a zero. Let this be an arithmetic sequence with a common difference of d, then a n is a zero plus n d. You'll actually prove this in one of the problems. So let's see if we can find the formula for the nth term of the sequence that starts 1, 3, 5, 7, assuming it is arithmetic. So if the sequence is arithmetic, then we need to know the initial term and the common difference. The initial term is easy. As for the common difference, because it's the same for all terms of the sequence, we could just find the difference between the first two terms. But, and I know this is hard to believe, not everything on the Internet is true. So rather than assuming this is arithmetic because the problem says it's arithmetic, let's find the difference between consecutive terms and verify the claim. And we find that the difference between consecutive terms is always 2, which supports the claim that the sequence is arithmetic. At this point we can write the formula for an arithmetic sequence. It's going to be a zero, our initial term, plus n times the common difference. How about this second type of sequence where the n plus first term is a constant multiple of the preceding term? This gives us what's called a geometric sequence, and we'll define it as follows. If the ratio between two consecutive terms in a series is a constant, then the sequence is a geometric sequence and the ratio is called the common ratio. And as with arithmetic sequences, there's an easy formula for the nth term of a geometric sequence. Us have a geometric sequence with common ratio r, then an is a zero times r to power n. And again, this is a theorem that you'll be able to prove in one of the exercises. So for example, let's say I have a geometric sequence, and the thing that defines a geometric sequence is its initial term and the common ratio. Well, the initial term is just the first term of the sequence, 24. As for the common ratio, if this sequence is in fact geometric, then the ratio between consecutive terms of the sequence should be the same. So let's find that ratio. And we find that the ratio between every term and the term preceding it is one half, which supports the claim that the sequence is geometric. The common ratio is one half, and so this allows us to write the formula for the sequence. There's one more important type of sequence. If the terms of a sequence are alternately positive and negative, the sequence is alternating. For example, let's consider three sequences, sine of 2n, minus 2 to power n, and minus 1 to power 2n, and let's see which if any of these are alternating. We can go ahead and try to find the first few terms of each sequence. For an equals sine of 2n, we have for n equals 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4, and we see that the signs are sometimes positive, sometimes negative, but they do not alternate, and since the signs do not alternate, this is not an alternating sequence. For bn equals 2 to power n, we can find the terms of the sequence for n equals 0, 1, 2, and 3, and we find. And these do appear to alternate between plus and minus, but let's try and defend our conclusion here. So the thing we might notice is that if n is even, minus 2 to power n will be the product of an even number of negative factors, which is going to be a positive number. On the other hand, if n is odd, minus 2 to power n will be the product of an odd number of negative factors, which will be negative. So we might say the following, since the terms of the sequence bn equals minus 2 to power n will be positive if n is even, and negative if n is odd, then the sequence is alternating. And if we take our last sequence and evaluate it for n equals 0, 1, and 2, we find that the terms are all equal to 1, which does not appear to be alternating. And again, let's see if there's a reason for that. And here we might do a little bit of algebra, since cn equals negative 1 to power 2n is really negative 1 squared to power n, which is 1 to the n. These terms of the sequence will be always positive, and so the sequence is not alternating.


In Afghanistan we are witnessing a revolutionary, a transformative way of ending acute food insecurity crises quickly. So often we've seen that an acute food insecurity crisis becomes protracted one year, two years, becomes 10 years. This means acute, deep enduring human suffering. It also creates risks of displacement, of instability and also threatens agricultural livelihoods. And the humanitarian costs involved with protracted food insecurity crises are enormous. In late 2021 FAO and our partners started receiving significant amounts of funding for emergency agricultural assistance and it's this that has been the game changer. It's this we're now seeing is moving the dial. Last year FAO was able to reach more than 6 million people across Afghanistan. This year it'll be 8 million people. Wheat seeds and fertilizer. The $250 enabling a family to grow sufficient wheat to satisfy its annual requirement. Let's remember these seeds don't last one year.  Remember too that farmers don't keep the seeds for themselves. They share them with their neighbours at the end of each season. Swapping grain for flour with seeds that their neighbours can also plant. And farmers are telling us the yields are double even more compared to what they get normally. BHA has been a vital part of this, providing us with 30 million US dollars we've been able to use to reach 1.26 million people with wheat seed just under half a million people with livestock feed and also 35,000 households over 210,000 people with multi-purpose cash. It's moving the dial. It's changing the way that we are responding to food insecurity crises because we had agricultural assistance at scale right at the start. What we're seeing now from the latest IPC projections that the trend is reversing. We are seeing a decline in the levels of acute food insecurity. And this will continue. Yes, it's due to many, many factors. Climate, food assistance. We know too that agricultural assistance is helping to steepen that decline and we'll see more next year and the year after. We've shown that it's relatively low cost, that it can be done and it's also what farmers want and it's what they need. It is changing the way that we respond to acute food insecurity crises.


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Live from Las Vegas, Nevada, it's the Cube at IBM Edge 2014. Brought to you by IBM. Now here are your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Hey, welcome back everyone. Day two of the Cube here live in Las Vegas for IBM Edge 2014. This is the Cube, our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the ceiling from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANG. My co-host Dave Vellante here to kick off day one. Wall-to-wall coverage, two days of coverage where infrastructure matters. Dave, great to see you again. It's been a while. Stu's filled in a few times. I'm back at a personal issue yesterday. Thanks for covering for me. You know, really, Dave, I got to say, IBM's transformation back in the saddle. We talked at Pulse and Impact about the low-end servers going to Lenovo. We saw some folks last night. I'm pretty excited about that. Not a lot of sales being lost from what we're hearing on that piece, but in general, you're seeing infrastructure still at the value proposition of companies. And with all the hyper-clouds, certainly at OpenStack and all the shows we go to, the hybrid cloud is the future. But at the end of the day, the software-defined data center is the battleground. That's what customers are looking for, for the innovation and the innovation strategy by CIOs and enterprises and service providers are around software. But the road leads back to the data center, Dave. And I got to get your take on this because we were having some conversations last night with some industry luminaries and some insiders and at the end of the day, they love the cloud, they love the economics and certainly public cloud has some nice things to throw out there. But at the end of the day, the transformation for a large enterprise is not that easy, it's hard, it's difficult and the infrastructure does matter, it's not going away. I want to get your take on that. VisaV interviews yesterday and looking back at the shows and what do you expect to hear more from IBM here? Well, I think it starts at the top, John. And last week, we saw Ginny Rometti, the CEO of IBM, was addressing the financial analysts, she was on CNBC for an interview. She was sharp, she was cogent, she was confident. Essentially talking about the transition that IBM is making and the investments that IBM is making, particularly in cloud and mobile and big data and how they're really putting a lot of resources into those areas. Word is, John, that when she was doing one of her reviews with the storage team, she was blown away by the amount of IP and stuff that was in the portfolio and they started to talk about, okay, how do we put this together, how do we really go to market with this stuff and make a big splash. IBM last week was in Boston sort of packaging up the messaging and the new products, the new portfolios, they brought in people from the labs, from Haifa. And essentially what you're seeing, John, is IBM is writing the coattails of Watson for a portion of their storage strategy and they're driving a software defined storage approach that is heavily reliant on OpenStack and also other technologies that they have in their portfolio, not the least of which is the sand volume controller and other virtualization technologies which will allow customers to go from point A to point B without a giant disruption. They're also putting in pieces of GPFS. So they're pulling little pieces and parts of IBM together into sort of the new software defined strategy that we're seeing. And they're on a collision course with other folks in the industry, most notably John EMC, which we've heard a whole lot of stuff on software defined. So IBM's approach is I think a little different and some could argue even quite a bit different, but there are also a lot of similarities, particularly in terms of how they transition from old legacy sort of data platforms into the new. The big difference really is around how much emphasis IBM is putting on OpenStack and how much resource IBM is putting on OpenStack versus EMC's more dipping its toe in the water. Well, we're excited to be here and hear from IBM. I'm certainly a big player, Dave, in the industry. Obviously the big whale and what they do is a bellwether and certainly we want to extract that signal from the noise. Go to crowdchat.net slash IBM Edge. That's our innovative engagement container. We'll be following that to stream for the IBM Edge. All the comments there are threaded and put to the hashtag of IBM Edge. So come and sign in and join the conversation. Ask us questions, we'll be looking for your comments. And certainly, if you've got any questions you want to ask the IBM Executive, we're certainly glad to ask them. But Dave, getting back to kind of some of the things that we want to see, one of the things I'm looking for is customers, right? Because at the end of the day, when you have the hype cycle and the trough of disillusionment, as Gardner says, and then really the real deal, the growth in the market's going to be down to what the customer's doing. So I'm really interested to get your take on what you think the customers are doing and also don't forget the channel, the indirect sales forces that are in place, that reach a lot of the customers indirectly and certainly on the direct side. And that sales motion of what's going on certainly is to me the telltale sign of where the traction is. You know, the companies like IBM and folks like that can retool all they want, talk to transformation. They got to deliver the product to the market with buyers. That to me is the validation. And that to me is what we need to look for. I want to get your take, Dave. What do you think customers are doing and some of the conversations that you heard yesterday and what do you expect to hear from today? Because at the end of the day, that's the meat on the bone. Well, we heard from Mike Smith yesterday. He was a CIO at Lee Memorial Hospital talking about what changes are occurring in his business and how infrastructure plays. I mean, he fully admitted, look, as a CIO, I don't want to be thinking about infrastructure all night, but when it breaks, I think about it. So I want my infrastructure to just work. Well, we heard this morning from Mike North on the keynotes and we also had him on yesterday from the NFL about how the permutations of scheduling that they're doing has changed as a result of infrastructure. And also we had to hear Ali on who was the director of enterprise technology at the city of Hope, talking again about the medical practice that they're running. Now they have a little different business, but again, infrastructure was a key part of how they're putting their investments forward, not only running the business, but trying to transform it. So, and we've got, I think, 10 customers this week at Edge, John, which is probably a new record for any IBM event. So that's great. We love talking to customers. At the end of the day, what they do sets the table. Also the use cases, Dave. We want to look at that and look at it from the perspective of, okay, where's the action technically? What's going on in the marketplace and the business model transformation is something that we always like to poke at because at the end of the day, the business model innovates is around the new technology and the disruption, ultimately turned into the client value which gets passed on to the customers. This is what theCUBE does. We're going to explore that all day long. We're going to talk to the leaders of IBM, their customers, and find out what use cases truly make infrastructure matter. We want to know is it software, is it flash, et cetera? And that's what we're going to do. This is theCUBE. We'll be right back with our next guest at the short break, day two coverage here inside theCUBE.


So you have how many supplements to write? I know, there are a ton. And you want to learn how to save time and potentially even write less. By the end of this video, I will break down basically the two main types of supplements and their key elements so you can be potentially writing less and saving time. Thank you for joining me on my channel for the best college essay advice subscribe and hit the bell. After the why us essays, why NYU, Brown to Lane UCF, basically a ton of schools have the why do you want to attend our school? After those and by the way, I'm linking a few videos above because I have released basically kind of breakdowns on that essay and then school specific ones sharing my screen and showing you how to research like a pro. The other supplemental essays tend to be two types of kind of activity identity. Stay tuned and I will break down those so that you can definitely adapt and recycle and save time. Hi, I'm Dr. Josie with write your acceptance with hundreds of students in college or graduates by now. I know what they're looking for. And now it's your turn type one, the identity essay. And so actually caveat first before you get started, you don't want to recycle any information any major information that you've used in your common app or coalition out essay, right? So that essay ideally is going to all the schools. So you don't want to borrow anything from there. You want to kind of draft something new. So the identity part of your supplements could be something like tell us about a community you belong to, you're a part of, how will you enrich our school? So it's those types of kind of tangential moments where you're going to talk about who you are and how you add a nice flavor to their college. Students have used holiday parties in the past. I'll give you examples. So some students use a holiday dinner at their house and that'll kind of allow them to dip into cultural traditions and customs, various languages, how their role in their family as peacemaker or as kind of someone that is more politically inclined without getting into any politics. You don't want to alienate anyone by showing who you are within a mix of people of a community. Another example is a student joining a student club and then assuming a leadership role. Maybe they give kind of a zero in on example on how they made an unpopular choice, but it was the right choice to make and what they learned about leadership, what they learned about friendship, and about how to kind of navigate social tensions when you know you are taking the right course, but it may not be the most popular necessarily. What did you learn? Another example is a student who writes about their impromptu Sunday soccer games. So basically one person of the group kind of emails or texts everyone in this distribution list and then you have X amount of time to opt in or out of the game for that Sunday. And so he talks about how that has reframed his idea of identity and community as much more dynamic and makeshift and something that you kind of helped to build as the players that come together, him included, are from all walks of life, all backgrounds, all dimensions, all ages, all abilities. And so he kind of talks about that game as a community that is not kind of the expected type of community. For more examples, like these, I have a video linked where I talk about how students use mangoes cross country running a dental office. So you really want to kind of pick a part and get really creative with your identity. But once you have a core identity supplement, you can kind of adapt that and make it bendy and use it elsewhere. Type two, the activity supplement. So this prompt is like, tell us about an extracurricular activity that is most important to you. So basically the student that wrote about mangoes wrote about her debate team. I've seen supplements on model UN, youth soccer coaching, a teaching fourth grade math for a summer program. The student that would write about cross country, for instance, so it's kind of an activity, but they define it as a community for the first supplement, the first type would write about then teaching fourth grade math for their activity. So you can think about kind of where you would put what, but definitely don't recycle the content, right? So one identity topic, one kind of activity driven topic. Quick tip. So it doesn't have to be the one or two activities you do the most. It should be an activity that you've learned a lot from. So basically, you can kind of end with kind of lessons learned at towards the end of the supplement, however long or short that's of it. Now how I frame it to my students, the identity essay should be, it can be something you do. So it can be cross country, but you're framing it as a community. And it's something that you kind of you want to end with something that you've learned the activity essay, it could be cross country, but it could be something else, right? The activity is something that you do that you've learned from, but how have you kind of socially impacted no matter how big or small, whether it's you've cheered on a student that kind of was shying away from the activity, or you've kind of founded a kind of youth soccer program in a in an area of your community that didn't have one. So how have you impacted kind of your community, however small or big. And then in that way, you're really kind of hitting a lot of aspects with either the identity or the activity supplement where yes, you're talking about identity, but you're also talking about an activity, you're talking about community, you're talking about social contribution in the activity one, you're doing the same thing about your role within the community about what you've learned and about how you've impacted your community. So it's like a lot kind of going on within the supplement. And ideally you want to hit a couple of these aspects smoothly, right? That's the goal. Now that you know the types of subs, do you know how to structure them for maximum engagement? One phrase, Latin phrase in media rest. So you want to get in the middle of things. I have a free college essay download that'll help you with the main essay, but then it'll also give you a quick video presentation on how to really structure that beginning of the supplement so that you get into the content right away. You're engaging your reader and you are just kind of maximizing that content. It's a free college essay download in the description below. Grab that. If you found this video helpful, please give us a like comment below. Thank you. And I'll keep bringing them out. Thank you so much. I'll see you soon.


Hey fellow buddies. Thanks for watching. All right, you guys. Let's talk about mercury These are items that I sold on mercury. I've got 19 of them coming your way items that I bought low and sold for decent profits Probably gonna range from bread and butter to big money. I can't remember which tabs I have pulled up here But we are gonna go through all of them I'm gonna tell you where I got it what I paid for it and what it sold for I have been selling on eBay since 2005 I'm a full-time reseller. I branched out to mercury and posh mark. I want to say three to four years ago. I Currently use list perfectly to cross post my items What I do is I start on eBay and then I cross post to mercury and posh mark now before list perfectly came along I did everything manually and let me tell you it is awful doing it manually So definitely think about trying to cross posting service This is an extension and I can bulk crop bulk cross post my items fast I do have a link down in the description that show you shows you guys how I use list perfectly There's a demo video. So check it out If you like what you see you can use coupon referral code Bolo buddies all one word to get 30% off your first month I highly recommend that you check it out because different platforms equals different eyes on your items All right, you guys let's get started here with some Bolo items items to be on the lookout for items. You can hopefully buy low and sell high So the first item I sold is a major major major bread and butter item This is a little plush. I picked this up probably at a garage sale for probably not much and It's an angry bird and I sold this guy for ten dollars free shipping So I'm guessing I probably had a quarter maybe 50 cents in this So by the time posh or I'm sorry posh mark by the time Mercari took their fees and I paid the shipping. I probably only made between I don't know three and four dollars maybe five dollars on this Which is still great for just an easy item to list really quick But definitely a bread and butter, but you guys all that bread and butter adds up The next item is another bread and butter. I sold this Tito's taster patch. I have no idea what this is. I think I only put this on Mercari I sold this for seven dollars free shipping again. Just an easy item. It doesn't take up a lot of space easy to ship I Don't know. I don't typically list things like this. I wanted to see if I could sell it It was a I had two of them on Mercari. You can't do multi quantity Unfortunately, so when this one sold I just created a new listing to sell the other one The next item are these Lego lot mini figure replacement pizzas now I sold these for fifty five dollars free shipping This is just a hodge hodge of pieces as you can see, you know, they're missing parts Maybe the parts are there. I don't know. I wasn't going to take the time to go through and try to put Match these up and figure it out, but it looks like there's like a little dog there. There's some weapons So it's a nice lot for somebody who Has a lot of Legos that's maybe looking for replacement pieces or people sometimes sell Legos And what they do is they part them out. So maybe they're gonna part out and sell this little piece right here I don't know if that's like a surfboard or what that is But you can sell these items individually. Are they bread and butter? Yes But a lot of times on eBay somebody will take one Lego part and every time they find it they will just add to the quantity and They're selling like let's say this wing right here. Here's a wing and here's a wing and here's a wing So there's three maybe four of them here So they could have quantity four on eBay sell them for two or three bucks a piece and then It's easy when they find more they just add to the quantity. You know what I'm saying Is that for me? No, that's not something I want to spend my time doing but people have business models that follow that exact thing They also do it with game pieces So something to think about if you like Like sorting and you know smalls like that The next item are these mardi gras beads. I got these at a thrift store and I sold these for $27 free shipping No, wait, I'm sorry. This set I got at a garage sale if I remember correctly I have some other ones that I recently got from a thrift store that are listed also The next item is this vintage 1997 ghostbusters figure I believe I used google lens to figure out who he was because I did not know but he is vintage and he sold for $16 free shipping I love love love selling toys this little vintage plush came from a garage sale I believe I paid 50 cents for it and it sold for $15 free shipping So really I like to sell my items for at least $15 But again, like the first one was 10 and the second one was 7 So sometimes I make some exceptions if I've already looked the item up. I might as well list it, right? The next item are these vintage mini plush beans. They're mini beans and they're sesame street. They're super super cute I cannot recall where I got these but I think it was a garage sale But don't quote me on that but you guys stuff like this I usually pay not much for so I probably had a buck Maybe two dollars in this and I sold it for 19 with free shipping Here's another lego. This is a keychain. Again, this came in a big lot of miscellaneous toys And I was like i'm gonna look that up and I sold this for 10 dollars free shipping It's um a butterfly a lego butterfly and it does not come apart. It's just um all stuck together So it's not like an actual lego The next item is this loving family doll house food trays And again, you guys these items were on ebay mercari and poshmark and they sold faster on mercari I sold these for 23 dollars free shipping The next item is this hot wheels a shark bite And this one I only put on mercari and I know that because whenever I put the inventory in the description I know that I only listed it there and the reason I did that is because on ebay this item There was a whole bunch of them. It was kind of saturated and I just thought this item would do well on mercari So it was a long tail item. It did take a while to sell. I'm not very good on mercari about uh sending offers and um price drops So I believe that I would sell more if I was more active on the account doing those things But I usually just list it and let it sit if somebody likes my item I will send an offer I try to do that daily But a lot of times I feel like I don't get notifications when that happens They don't always show up in that feed. So I think I'm missing a lot of them But let me know what you guys think in the comments about that The next item I sold is Not showing up Let's refresh it and see if we can get this to pull up here Here it is. It is red pearls perfume and I don't know if it was actually just Evaporated some because it was almost full to the top Um, I put used because I didn't have the original packaging, but it may have never been used. I'm not a hundred percent sure Um, sometimes they evaporate just with time and they are vintage. This sold for twenty six dollars with free shipping You guys you do have to ship perfume ground The next item I sold is this vintage 1998 harmony kingdom Christmas ornaments And these are super super cute I picked these up at a garage. So I want to say I paid five dollars for the set and I sold this for $61 with free shipping. Now these actually open up And have like these hidden compartments. They're really really cute never seen anything like it. I bought um multiple, um items from this store that store from this garage sale that were harmony kingdom and I've done pretty well with it So definitely look it up if you find it Here's another one this agent Provocator, I don't know It's a perfume perfume And I sold this for 39 dollars free shipping And that's what the bottom says And a lot of times people will collect the bottles. They really don't even want the perfume. They just collect the bottles The next item is this wonder pets schoolhouse. I sold this for 200 dollars with free shipping Um wonder pets is collectible. It is harder to find. It was not mass produced So if you see these little wonder pet figures, even if you don't have the play set, definitely pick them up They are a bow low And again 200 with free shipping on that the next item is this my little pony pinkie pie I picked this up at a um at the dollar store I paid one dollar for it and this sold for nine dollars and I did charge A delivery fee through mercury for this item. So the buyer paid the four dollars and 25 cents Um, this is a very very old listing. It's been listed since 1231 of 21 And again list it and forget it and then it just sells all of a sudden just sells um Sourcing at the dollar store. I do have a video on it I'm not very good at it. Some people like are really really good Like I know they buy some of the health and beauty stuff and different things But those people they research it and they know what to look for I was just Going in and trying to find something that I could see if I could flip and I bought like I don't know six five or six of these and I think I mean they're sold out or I have one left they had pink and purple so Do I recommend it? I don't know. I mean it's retail arbitrage I didn't make a ton of money, but it was a fun little thing to try and do and I Did it and I'm proud of myself for doing it Let me know if you source at the dollar store And I don't I'm not asking you to give your secrets because I know retail arbitrage is very very different from um Just going out and trying to find items that are thrifted um, but anyway Yeah, my little pony fun, right I sold this bill to bear turtle. This one was really um Oh, nope. I'm sorry. This one I had listed on ebay for ever forever you guys and it Took it wouldn't sell. I mean it was just saturated maybe over there And this is what I talk about when I say cross posting is important This sat on ebay probably for two maybe three years. I cross posted it on one three of 22 and I think it sold in less than two months And I sold it for $15 and the buyer paid um the delivery fee on that one so Very very cool The next item is this disney store ana princess plush And I sold her for $16 free shipping. I got her at a garage sale. I did pay up a little for her I paid four dollars for her The next item are these A lot of 29 done rus baseball cards. You guys I have had these listed um for so long Um, and I forgot which tote they were in and I was like did I already sell them? Did I mess up and I didn't and I actually remembered I was like, okay. It's got to be in one of my really really early totes And I found it you guys and I sold this for $18 free shipping The last item again is a really really just I wanted to see if I could sell it Shopkins plush. I think it was like 50 cents or a quarter at a garage sale. I sold it for $7 free shipping These are very lightweight. You can ship them for three dollars approximately maybe 350 depending on where it's going um But yeah, so seven dollars free shipping. I only made what three four bucks on it, but that's okay It all adds up. So let me know in the comments if you are selling on mercari and if you like it Um, I do have a video a step by step of how to sell on mercari if you're Like an ebay reseller or poshmark and you want to try mercari It is on this channel And I do have a link down in the description if you use that link to sign up for mercari You will get a coupon when you sign up And then you'll get another coupon to spend on mercari when you sell a hundred dollars worth of stuff And then mercari also gives me a coupon. So I would appreciate greatly if you use my code if you decide to sign up That would be awesome. Thank you guys so much for being here. Thank you for watching There's a whole bunch of links down below like my facebook group twitter instagram all of that stuff Um worth point recently. Well, it's not I probably had it for about six months now Uh joined worth point really glad I did. Um, I have a video that I just released telling you guys How I use worth point to make more money and I give you guys examples. It is awesome. So check that out That's linked down below. Um Yeah, and then I mentioned this perfectly that's linked down below if you want to check out that video So let me know if you have any any comments any questions And if you made it this far leave me a hat emoji in the comments. All right, you guys Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for watching and I've got poshmark bolo videos And ebay bolo videos if you want to check those out. All right, you guys have a great night For a great day. I don't know when I'm releasing this. It's night right now All right, you guys