From Korea to Germany. From Alaska to Puerto Rico. All over the world, the men and women of your army are on the alert to defend our nation, you, the American people, against aggression. This is The Big Picture. Welcome to The Big Picture. I'm Captain Carl Zimmerman, here to tell you about your United States army. In this, the final program of the current Big Picture series, we'd like to tell you about a war the army fights all the time. The war against waste. We'd like to show you how the army encourages its soldiers to be cost-conscious. First, we take you to Washington and a word from the Secretary of the Army, the Honorable Frank Pace, Jr. When I described the mission of your army on the first program of this Big Picture series, I spoke of concrete action we were taking to eliminate waste in army operations. In this program, you will see what I was referring to. War, by its very nature, is wasteful. And so are the measures we are taking to avoid war. Army equipment grows obsolete at a rate no business would accept. We have such a rapid turnover of people that the efficiency of our organization is constantly impaired. Remember that soldiers obtained through selective service are available for only two years, and several months are required to train them before they can begin to perform their jobs efficiently. This year alone, we will lose from the army over 700,000 men. To properly replace them is really difficult. In addition, your army composed of more than 1 half million uniform men and women is far larger than our greatest corporation and is scattered over half the world. I've been practically every place on the globe where army troops are stationed. One of the great thrills that I get as Secretary of the Army is seeing our young men stationed all over the world. Actually, it gives me renewed faith and democracy to see these young men training to defend our way of life. To me, they're not only soldiers, they're ambassadors for our way of life, and I think they do a splendid job of it. I've been to Japan, Korea, and Okinawa. I've been to Hawaii and Alaska, where I've seen men battling against the elements. I've been all over this country to training stations in this country, to the Caribbean, to the Panama Canal. I've been over to Europe, in Germany, Austria, and Trieste, where our men stand for the forces of right against the forces of wrong. Now, while all those things are thrilling to me and to you as individuals, nonetheless, it makes for a big, complex, difficult to operate organization. That is one of the things that I have been trying to explain is the problem that faces us in your army today. In telling you about our far-flung depots, and telling you about a 5,000-mile pipeline to Korea, a 3,000-mile pipeline to Europe, I'm not trying to say that the army can't do a better job than it's doing today. I'm merely trying to make clear to you that it's more difficult than most people think. I'm satisfied that we can do a better job. I'm satisfied we are doing a better job, and in the next half-hour, you'll see what I mean. This is a different kind of war story, a war story which began quietly and unspectacularly. No medals were won in this battle, no shots were fired, but on its outcome could have depended the future of the United Nations. This is a little-known story of the Korean War, the events behind a military miracle which saved Korea. On June 25, 1950, the morning in Korea was peaceful. The people, mostly farmers and peasants, went about their daily tasks in the fields. To most Americans, Korea was just another name in the headlines. Then it became more than that. As communist troops and equipment poured down from the north and struck across a 38th parallel, Korea became the concern of the United Nations. In a matter of days, the peaceful mountains and rice paddies became a battlefield. The vicious attack continued, and the people of South Korea reeled back. To meet the aggression, America acted quickly and flew occupation troops from Japan. And the chiefs of the far eastern command hurriedly met to take charge of the emergency. Communications between Japan and Washington buzzed night and day. Armies were on the move.  The facts were not too good. There weren't enough vehicles available to meet the exacting demands of combat, and our fighting men badly needed weapons, tanks, guns, rifles, ammunition. They needed all they could get, but they fought bravely with what they had. The urgent order flashed back to America, we must have weapons, thousands of them now. But arsenals in America were already overtaxed. Military aid programs for Europe and other countries had almost swallowed up equipment salvaged from World War II. The unfortunate truth was flashed back to the far east command. It would take months before our production lines were ready, and it would take more precious months before the materials could be delivered 7,000 miles away in Korea. Things that were needed most, guns and ammunition, tanks and vehicles, we didn't have. Without them, it would be impossible to stop the advancing raids. The urgency of the situation demanded quick action and to achieve the military miracle which saved Korea, our military leaders turned to this. Junk, buried in the jungles and half submerged on the beach heads of the Pacific, laid tens of thousands of rusting, wrecked weapons of another war, equipment of all kinds, seemingly useless. Vehicles, personnel carriers, machinery, corroded hulks, pockmarked with shellfire. It was all available. The miracle was to make this old equipment fight again. Plans to retrieve and rehabilitate most of the automotive equipment had been laid long before the Korean campaign. But the demands of combat now made the task of paramount importance. The job of performing this miracle went to the Japan Logistical Command. From their headquarters in Japan, they directed the biggest salvage drive ever. The stakes were high, American lives in Korea and the prestige of the United Nations. It was a race against time and slowly, the miracle of supply which was given the name Operation Roll-Up moved into high gear. From collection points in the Pacific Islands, vehicles and weapons were rounded up. Gradually, the jungle gave up its valuable captives. Tanks, trucks, all kinds of vehicles and weapons were routed out of overgrown battlefields and transported to Japan. Ships belonging to the United States but manned by Japanese seamen carried the equipment to Japan. Storage areas began to grow. Trucks, thousands of trucks, tanks, hundreds of tanks, tractors and machinery of all kinds, weapons carriers, jeeps, ambulances. Day by day, the equipment poured in, all kinds. The scrapyards grew and the huge stockpiles stretched almost as far as the eye could see. Meanwhile, the task of reclaiming the collected scrap went on. Japanese plants and factories formerly devoted to production of war against the United States were converted for the Herculian task before them. More than 50,000 Japanese workmen were hired and trained to work on the assembly lines. Sparked by American supervision, the factories operated on a mass production schedule and slowly bit into the huge piles of war weary equipment. The miracle of rejuvenation began. Trucks stripped to their chassis entered the plant. Skilled scavengers went to work. Stripping the rusty carcass, they removed the cab, engine, wheels and axle assemblies. The clean-picked skeleton of the body frame was dipped into an alkali bath to get rid of the rust, dirt and grease. All the different parts of the vehicle were cleaned chemically, mechanically or by hand. After the cleaning, the component parts were repaired. Engines, the heart of the vehicle, got complete surgery. Cylinders were re-bored, pistons refinished. Engine blocks were honed and crankshafts were re-grounded. In a metalizing process, worn out parts were built up by grafting molten metal onto them and were then ground down to the correct size and finish. Rebuilt engines got a protective coat of paint in front of a man-made waterfall which cleans the air of offensive fumes. A two-hour test run followed and then it was packed to a weight requisition. To make this synchronized rebuild operation work smoothly, more than 40,000 different items had to reach the assembly lines at the proper time. Throughout the day, the repair and reassembly went on. The body frame was ready to shoulder its burdens again. Its cracks welded and rivets replaced, it was ready to start a second life. The assembly went smoothly, taking only 30 minutes to dress the frame with axle assemblies, engine, wheels, cab and hood. Completely equipped, the vehicle rolled off the assembly line ready for the punishing test that would qualify it for active duty. All the know-how of American industry was thrown behind the effort of bringing the old weapons back to life. And as the rejuvenated items came off finished assembly lines, they were quickly sped to the fighting fronts. Late one afternoon in November 1950, word came to Japan that the second division had suffered heavy losses in Korea. Before dawn the next day, three train loads of equipment enough for an entire combat infantry division were being loaded on ships at Japanese ports. Another time, 52 hours after the Marines marched out of the Chosin ambush, re-equipment for an entire division was at sea, and all of this equipment came from our derelict weapon heaps. The mountains of materiel collected from the battlefields of Guam, Saipan and Okinawa. With these reclaimed weapons, UN forces broke out of the Pusan perimeter. With rifles salvaged from the scrap heap, the 10th Corps hit the beaches at Incheon, and the 8th Army pushed north to meet them. In the first three months of the war, we used 100,000 tons of ammunition. All of it reclaimed through operation roll-up. In the first four months of the campaign, 89,000 M1 rifles were rebuilt from the old weapons reaped in the Pacific roll-up or brought back from Korea. 49,000 jeeps and trucks were salvaged and used in Korea. 45% of all the tanks used in Korea were reincarnated from broken hulls, 82% of the armored cars, 75% of the artillery, 64% of the precision instruments, and 80% of the infantry weapons, mortars, rifles, car beams, bazookas and machine guns all were brought back from the jungle and made to fight again. From the front, impossible orders would come in. Activate and equip a medium tank battalion, said the orders, and an army of workers clawed into the heap of dead steel. The Japan Logistical Command lowered the whole of Japan for tankmen and screened men arriving on every ship. Anybody with tank experience pitched in to get the World War II Goliaths back into shape. 28 days after the order, 44 good as new medium tanks were in action in Korea. Riding in rehabilitated tanks, vehicles, and with their fingers on the trigger of former scrap-heap guns, the army drove the Reds out of South Korea. The miracle had been worked. The North Korean army was defeated before the first shipment of rifles from the U.S. reached Korea. But for these made-over weapons, Korea could have been bloodier and costlier. It could have been a tragic defeat for the free world. And in working this miracle, Operation Roll-Up saved the American taxpayer billions of dollars. Today, this reclamation program continues to convert wrecked weapons into fighting machines and does it at great saving. Every four minutes, a new vehicle rolls off the assembly line and takes its place in the ranks of ready replacements. These trucks would cost $6,000 in the States, but rebuilt in Japan, they cost one-fourth of that figure. It salvages a $2,000 jeep for $800. An $18,000 tractor for $500. And a gun worth many thousands of dollars is returned to active duty for $400. Size is no problem to these giant ordinance repair shops. Whether it's a $200,000 tank, completely rebuilt for less than $5,000, massive five- and six-tum prime movers, bulldozers, or other heavy-duty equipment, trailers, trailer tanks, fire engines, road graders, the number of vehicles rebuilt in one year has reached a quarter million. The variety of repair is infinite. Half-track personnel carriers or small arms. Several rifles or carbines can be rebuilt for the price of a box of cigars. Not only ordinance items, but everything. Signal equipment, things like this complex and delicate teletypewriter with its hundreds of parts are completely reclaimed by Japanese mechanics. An outstanding discovery has been that about half of the old tires, which have been deteriorating in the jungle for the past six years, can be economically reconditioned. Operation roll-up brings back to life 16,000 tires and just as many tubes every month. The tires are inspected and shell splinters and fragments are removed. They are repaired and recapped with new rubber. Then the tread is remolded, giving the tire a new lease on life. It's another way of making every bit of army equipment give full dollar value, and the total savings alone on salvage tires amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Today, after its gradual build-up, the Money Saving Army Reclamation Program is in full swing. As the result of a large-scale cost consciousness program, the tentacles of conservation and salvage stretch out to the corners of the world, wherever there are military posts. They stretch right on to the battlefield, where the Money Saving fight is still carried on. Conservation teams follow in the wake of combat, retrieving and collecting abandoned equipment. Everything is picked up and brought in, including captured enemy weapons and equipment. Gasoline cans are collected by the thousands. After reconditioning, they are used time and time again. Battered canteens are remolded and put back into use. Reconditioning of clothing is a big item in the Army's Money Saving Program. In forward areas, native women are used to wash and renovate the collected items. From the frontline laundry, the clothing is sent back to warehouses in Japan where it gets further renovation. It is unpacked, repaired, sorted, bundled and bailed, and returned to stock. In one five-month period in 1951, three and a half million items of clothing were reclaimed. Even useless scraps of cable are stripped down and put to another use. Shell cases are another big item of salvage. Ordnance retrieving parties pick up the piles of used shell cases from gun emplacements all along the frontline and take them to a central dump. Korean labor is used to do the work wherever possible, and they wear special wooden harnesses to carry the heavy loads on their backs. The Signal Corps also carries on its conservation program in behalf of the American taxpayer and rehabilitates its old cable for reuse, time and time again. In an eight-month period, approximately one million dollars was saved by rehabilitating cable, which is now being reused in the war zones. In the States, the drive toward economy and salvage continues. Russian tanks captured in Korea are hauled from the scrapyard and are cut up in readiness for being melted down. Out of these Russian and Japanese tanks, new weapons are being forged for United Nations troops. The Army's Preventive Maintenance Program, begun after World War II, is today paying off in more dollars saved. The Letter Kenny Ordnance Depot in Pennsylvania is one of the Army's large storage areas where surplus vehicles are kept fighting fit. Tanks and combat vehicles surplus after the last war have been successfully stored for six years in special dehumidified cans. The Army had this equipment in storage when the Korean conflict began, but it was a battle of time. It would have taken months to ship this equipment to the battle area. Operation roll-up, a time saver as well as a money saver, filled the gap until we could get equipment out of storage and on its way to Korea. Stored in a ready-to-roll condition, the vehicles are all set to be dispatched. They can be preserved for years while stored in the humidity-free cans. Vehicles stored this way can remain in their cocoons for as long as 20 years without deteriorating. The atmosphere inside the cans is scientifically controlled. A starting device, which is triggered by blonde human hair, keeps the dehumidifier working. The human hair, which must be blonde, say the experts, tightens as the atmosphere in the can changes and automatically starts the dehumidifier. By signs and posters, soldiers and government employees are constantly being reminded of the Army's cost-consciousness campaign. Army equipment and vehicles are tagged with their price to further the money-saving drive. Another of the Army's big money-saving items is the preventive maintenance packing given to equipment before shipment. Equipment going to the Arctic gets a tinfoil covering, as well as a coat of grease preventive to stop rust. All items for export are treated with a special grease compound mixture and are packed in special preventive wrappings to ensure their arrival in good working condition. The Army today dutifully aware of its responsibilities to the tax-paying people of America is on guard against waste. Everywhere, the Army continues its war of salvage. In this battle, there will be no ceasefire. America today faces a new problem. It faces the problem of purchasing insurance for peace for the first time in its peacetime history. We are people who believe in insurance. We are likewise people who believe in getting the most for the dollar. That is how America has grown to the great nation that it is today. As Secretary of the Army, I am dedicated to the proposition that we will get more for the taxpayer's dollar. That means that we'll get more fighting power for every Army dollar that's spent. Expressed in simple terms, it means that if a soldier turns off a light button that might otherwise be on, it means that if he stops a motor that's running, if he protects a rifle that he might otherwise lose, that means that somewhere in the world there is more equipment for those who are fighting for the forces of freedom. That's why we have a cost-consciousness program and have had one for over a year that identifies in every soldier's mind the fact that he is a taxpayer as well as a soldier. That's why we started Operation Red Tape to try to cut the red tape out of the Army if it's possible. Even more important, that's how we achieve certain measurable savings, such as $8 billion in saving for rehabilitation of old equipment. There are other statements of savings here, but the big point is that I think today the Army as a whole realizes that it's important that it saved the taxpayer's dollar, their dollar. In doing so, it means that the insurance for peace can be bought more cheaply in a time when our economy is as important as our national defense. Thank you, Mr. Secretary, for being our guest on this final program of the Current Big Picture Series. What you have seen during the past 13 weeks has been a documentation of your Army at work, an Army second to none dedicated to freedom and the defense of the United States. An Army of men and women, intelligent trained soldiers whose strength lies in their state of preparedness, an Army of the finest weapons in the world today, backed by science and industry, an Army made of many individual parts welded together by teamwork. The Army of the United States is your Army, dedicated to the defense of the American heritage from which it was born.


Today, we're opening an Epic product that I've never opened before, Legendary Collection 5Ds. What's up, guys? We're back with another Epic video with the Legendary Collection 5Ds, and we're not only opening this, we are pitting it against one of the best Legendary Collections, Legendary Collection Kaiba. So we're going to have not one, but two Legendary Collections open today. This is going to be pretty intense because I've never opened Legendary Collection 5Ds, but every time I find a card from Legendary Collection 5Ds, it's worth money. So it seems like every card in here has value. And the same thing with Kaiba. Every single card in there turns out to have value. But before we hop into that, I have a giveaway. I'll be giving away these three cards. There's a first edition banister of Light from Magic Ruler.  Which one will win? Let me know in the comments. Kaiba or 5Ds? I don't know what to pick because I've never opened this, and I know this is super strong when it comes to these battles. Let's go ahead and get started with the Kaiba because this is the one that we have opened before. So we're going to save the suspense for 5Ds last. But I also know that this is an incredible product with the, of course, the Ash Blossom, the Drone Lockbird, the Secret Rare Blue Eye Stuff. There's a lot of really valuable cards that we can potentially pull in here that I'm pretty excited about. So there's five, no, there's three, only three total packs in here. There's not five. I don't know how it works in Legendary Collection 5Ds. If it's only three, we're not going to have a lot of packs today, but a lot of valuable cards potentially. So first we have the promos that you have seen many times. So we're just going to move right past that and move on to Legendary Collection Kaiba. This is our third time. Oh, these are first edition. Okay, I got these at a good price. I feel like people might not know the difference sometimes, which I'm about to show you guys the difference and how to tell the difference between Legendary Collection Kaiba and first edition and not. It's a lot harder than you might expect. Oh, we just got a spoiler there. We're just going to move this other secret to the back. So we got a Dark Arm Dragon right there, which I spoiled. Secret Rare. Rygeki, that's a very nice card. Virus Game. First edition actually makes a difference on these cards, which is pretty cool. Doom Virus Dragon, back at it again. He always shows up in these openings. Crush Card Virus. Kaiba's a big virus guy. It's kind of sketchy. Epidemic Virus. There it is. Lugin. I like this original artwork better than the alternate artwork. What do you guys think? So Lugin, Miss Kuljin, the lamp, the original from SDK. I really like that one. Sage with Eyes of Blue. This is a money card. This is a nice blue-eyes card. I think it's in most of their decks. Secret Rare. Cost Down. This is not a money card. Secret Rare. This used to be, I think, an Ultra in Dark Crisis originally. So that's cool. And a D Fusion. So it looks like we got one big card there and a couple of other decent cards in the first pack. Okay, let me show you guys the hack real quick. So the way you know, see, you can look at the front. You're like, well, it doesn't say first edition anywhere. So it's not first edition, right? Not true. The way you check is you check the back and you look at the mini image of the packs. See how it says first edition right there? That means these are first edition packs. It's very strange. Like, that's the way. You have to look at the small packs on the back. If these were unlimited, it would have unlimited inside. It's pretty crazy because this was like the same price as the Unlimited. It's kind of weird. Like, I think I just got lucky. I didn't even check when I bought this. I just assumed that the first edition would cost more, but apparently maybe not. So maybe I should be buying these a little bit more. Mausoleum of the White. Very nice. We got the Y Dragon Head. The Tyrant Wing. Rider of the Storm wins. I think we got this last time. I don't really remember this card ever. This is like the, it's only print, to be honest. Mirror Force again. Always nice to see that one, even though it's been printed a lot. Cloning. Okay. Loop of Destruction. What is this? It's like Ring of Destruction. It's like Weird Cousin or something. All right. Return of the Dragon Lords. Here's another really good secret rare, especially first edition. That's going to be probably a $10 card, I would guess. Sea Crush Wyvern. That's another good secret. Well, it's not good, but it's cool. And another Diffusion. Okay. We ended on Diffusion twice. So one big card in there. The rest was kind of eh. And the final pack of Legendary Collection Kaiba. Before we get into that Legendary Collection 5D, I'm pretty excited about. Let's see if we can pull something crazy. Can we get Ash Blossom? It's only an ultra rare, so it'd be in these first few cards. We got the Virus. We got the Virus yet again. The Mirror Force Dragon. Again. Eradicator Epidemic Virus. Ex-Head Cannon, I think. Wait, no, one more Ultra. Ooh, the Blue Eyes Twin Burst Dragon. This is a good card. Okay. The Twin Burst is pretty nice. Terraforming. That's a nice secret rare as well. This is the one where it's not in space. It seems like it's own. Oh, it is in space. You can see it a little bit right there, but it's very difficult to see. Polymerization. See, this is a big one. I don't know if the reprint from the GX Speed Dual Boxes. I've heard this probably did, but this was 15 bucks when we pulled it before. Neutron Blast, okay. And number S39 Utopia. This was probably worth money before. I think you got reprinted in an OTS or something. I can't remember. No, Battles of Legend Armageddon. That's what it was. That was a pretty solid Legendary Collection. It wasn't incredible. We didn't pull, like, Ash Blossom or something. So now it's time. Okay, let's check on the back. I think I checked these actually. These say these are first edition. There might not even be unlimited of this because I don't think it ever got a Rewave. So this one could be pretty cool. What do you even get in here? You get five Legendary Collection packs. Okay, so it's five. We got double-sided Game Board. All right, yeah. Again, nine cards from the 5Ds era. One Zero One Ultra. One Super One Rare per pack. And 250 cards to collect. Okay, let's get into this. Let's open this thing up. I've never opened one of these ever. Literally never. I've been doing this for so long. We've been opening so many different products. Somehow I've always forgotten to buy this. I see it and I'm like, I need to open that. And I just don't open it. So let's see what we can get. I don't know what that is in the promo packs. We're actually going to open that this time. Can we get our five packs? And because this is the first time, we will look at the mats. So it is one of these solid mats. How do you guys feel about these? I don't really love them. They're just, I don't know, they're too solid. You know, you can't roll them up or anything. So there's an Odin. There's a, that's a, the, it's just the Nordic gods, right? The Nordic gods. And then the back just says legendary collection of 5Ds and has all these dudes on it. Okay, cool. By all these dudes, I mean the characters from 5D. So let's open this up and see what we get inside this promo pack. Anything is decent. I'm not going to know really what's valuable here. We're just going to have a pop-up on the screen. Fin Rear. Stardust Flash. Black Roses in here. That's pretty cool. And shooting Quasar Dragon. This is on the front. So it makes sense that that's in there. Onto our 5 legendary collection, 5D packs. Okay, so those show right there. Right at the front. We have Resonator Destruction. Blackwing Fane. Steel Chain. I already like this. This is a good start. Offerings to the Immortals. The Blackback. Blackwing Kalima the Haze. Nordic Relic Bracingamon. Fallen Angel of Roses. See, I don't even recognize a lot of these cards. There's a lot of 5D stuff. TG Cyber Magician is our secret rare. Is that a secret? Wait, I can barely see the secret rare. There it is. Okay. It's like not really on the main guy himself. And a Cephalon that's ultimate time. Wait, where's our rare? Oh, that was it right there. Okay, I have no idea what is good there. Pack number two. I don't know if we pulled anything good or not because I just don't recognize what is good in this set. But I know a lot of stuff is good from this set. So hopefully we will pull something awesome. A Vinging Knight Parshath. Savage Colosseum. TGSX-1. Legata Dameron. Blackback. Strong Wind Dragon. Okay, I think this guy was originally like an ultra or a secret in one of the sets. Blackwing Blizzard the Far North. That's probably a nice burning of this. I don't know if this ever got a higher rarity than this card. That's nice. TG-1-EM-1. That's like the snatch deal, right? Yeah, you switch them though, okay. An Earthbound Immortal. Okay, okay, some decent cards. We'll have the price buff up. I don't know how to react to a lot of these. You know, I don't know if they're really good or not. I don't recognize any of these from cards that I've had before. Thord of Malice. At least this version. We got the Dock Resonator. Blackwing Boreus the Sharp. He's sharp. Red Dragon of Vase. Magic Planter. That's a Duelinx card. Okay, Ultra Rare. Oh, and the sheep has a Secret Rare Deer? What in the world? Secret Rare Sheep, okay. Another Cephalon, the Ultimate Time Lord. And a Blackwing Etesion of the Two Swords. Two Paxio. I don't know how we're doing, to be honest. I feel like we're doing maybe okay. But nothing that I'm like, wow, this has to be worth money out of here. Okay, Roar of the Earthbound. The Sonic Chick made it in here. All right. Graceful Revival. The Turbo Warrior. He has a common printing. Interesting. Mechloron Armory of Oisele. Fallen Angel of Roses again in the Ultra Slot. I hope that's good. I hope it is. Oh, and the Gold Facts. They gave the sheep and the horse a Secret Rare. That's interesting for sure. And the Chaos Infinity. That is some creepy artwork. That's kind of cool. The Infinity is like his eyeballs. Very interesting. And the Garmer of the Nordic Beasts. Final pack of the opening. This has been interesting. I'm not too excited about the 5Ds, to be honest, so far. I think Legendary Clash and Kylo is more fun. But we'll see if we pull something good. Because we're not really pulling anything that's like... Okay, there's a classic card. I was going to say classic. And there's a classic Power Tool. Common, which is interesting. I didn't know that had a common printing. Savage Colosseum. Okay. The Cochie of the Daybreak. Dark Verger. That is a creepy card. Imagine seeing this plant. Like you're just walking around in the forest. And why would you be walking around in the forest? I don't know. But if you are. A couple of eyeballs. Sorry. Black Return. Rose Tentacles. That's... Yeah, that's another... These are just creepy cards. Black Wing, Armed Wing. Okay, I think that's a decent card. An Armed Wing Ultra. I don't know if it got this high rarity at this point. It was a Super Rare originally, I believe. And Seeker Rare. What will it be? Tuning Wear. What in the world is this? Tuning Wear.  And an Earthbound Immortal. The Earthbound Immortals might be worth something in Super. What a strange opening. If you guys enjoyed this video, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic videos like this. 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Started playing golf when I was four years old, played my first tournament when I was five, fell in love with the game, played a lot of junior golf in Mississippi where I grew up. I ended up picking Georgia Tech to go to college to and play golf for them. Going into my senior year of Georgia Tech, I ended up winning the U.S. Amateur, so that opened a lot of doors for me turning pro. Played some sponsor invites on the PGA Tour right as I was turning pro and ended up having hip surgery, so I lost all that status that I had. I was kind of flinching at impact sometimes because of the pain that I was suffering through. Even after hip surgery coming back, it took me a long time to really trust that it was going to feel good and learn my new swing, so to speak. I've learned a ton from that and I've learned a lot about my body and how I move and ways to prevent injury going forward. Crazy Week hadn't played much golf leading up to that following my hip surgery, finished last. I had one bad week and unfortunately for me it was at a bad time, but learned a lot and that opened a lot of doors for me going forward. A few weeks before my first win, I had the lead for a split second on the back nine in Korea. To get the adrenaline flowing and learn from that experience was huge for me and I applied that in Egypt and was able to go out and shoot 62 on Sunday. Let everyone know that my game is back. It's a stunning victory. What a performance by Andy Ogletree. Really started the year off strong and it was great to cap it off there in Qatar. My win in England was awesome because I think there were a lot of eyes on that event and the way that I kind of ran away from the field made me super proud. I think you just have to believe in yourself. You just have to learn from your mistakes and try to have fun with it. The Asian Tour has been great for me. Like I said, it's given me somewhere to play, given me a chance to build my schedule and learn from your mistakes and learn from multiple tournaments and how to travel. Congratulations Andy. Thank you. Great season. Andy Ogletree, the international series Ogletree of Merritt winner. It's a really interesting time. I see myself having a long career out there. The bigger goals of that are playing in major championships and trying to win them. So that's my goal and we're going to do everything I can to make that happen.


Home for life, extra care means improving customer's quality of life. It's my independence and I live in fear that somebody should take it away from me. Extra care for me means that I'm safe, that I sleepwalk and I go quite a few places. Without their help I'd be lost, but it doesn't work. I recently facilitated a resident move into extra care and they said it felt like they'd won the lottery. This is my birth month and I love it here very much and I love all the staff. If you were on your own completely you would have to do, well just struggle. But with extra care it means there's help there. And also it's nice to have friends coming in and that's what these carers are, friends. People being able to stay independent for longer living in their own homes with the assurance of extra support. Extra care means you have the advantage of living in your own flat, but you have the support and backup of the care team who are resident on site. It's like living with a safety net underneath you and it means that if I'm ill I know Gordon's being taken care of. I don't have to worry. Extra care to me means an opportunity for our residents to engage in the community. Extra care means to me making sure customers stay in their homes independently for as long as possible. It's helped my mental health. Extra care reduces loneliness and isolation. I'm very happy here. Extra care is about working in partnership to give people a better life. Making a difference to every individual here, taking them out, doing different things with them. We keep people out of residential care and this becomes their home for life. Extra care supports people to remain healthy and stay out of hospital. It means that I can live with my husband who's got a lewie body dementia in our lovely flat and I'm his carer. Not well, the fact that they are carers here who could help me because before I never had that one was really hard. And it also means that I've got other people around us where we can circulate and have some fun times. It means people can stay independent as much as they can and it stops them being isolated. It gives you more help if you need any help anytime and if you need more support. My life has changed for the better. Extra care is about hope and living your life no matter what your needs are.


And when I was in the bubble toward the end of it, you know, I started getting vertical and I didn't know what the hell it was. But I could see a lot of people kind of going through that mentally. Just, I didn't have it bad, luckily. I had it very light, but I put my sock on and actually I just fell over. I'm like, I was just dizzy. It's like kind of like being drunk. But not fun. But not fun, but it's worse for some people. I didn't have a heavy, those of it was very small, but I could tell like, damn, I need to get out of this bubble. And when you finally get home, it's just awkward air.  When you get home, you're not used to driving. Part of it was weird.


Oi, oi, how's it going everyone? It's Logan here, we're back again with another video, bye bye! And today, okay, so we're doing a League of Legends reaction because, uh, one, I really love League of Legends, like, it's insanely good. I started playing that game after KDA and then I stopped for a while and then I came back just recently and I'm loving the game. I'm loving the game, it's my favorite game right now and I just want to do some League of Legends content, so I'm thinking if I can do some reactions, I can start live streaming League by getting some people to watch my League videos and then they'll be friggin' sick because I play League almost every day, so if I stream that then it's just gonna be perfectly fine and I'm okay with that. So yeah, Phoenix, I'm excited for this, I am excited for this, so yeah, let's just do this. Okay. Mm, mm, mm. And meh. Oh my god. Oh my! This song is good!   You know, versing fizz and earth. That's a monster in my head, god damn, I don't want to verse that. Oh wow. Wow, wow, whoa. So I'm guessing that these are professional players as well. Oh faker, I've heard about him. Dude, I'm not lying, I got chills all over my body, like, this song's got some badass moments in the song and the music video's got badass moments, right now. The airiness, the airiness, I love it. I'm ready for it. Oh man, oh man, oh man. Dude, I need to react to all the League of Legends songs. Because holy crap, they make good songs. Or the artists make good songs. Alright, alright, I see you. Man, my dream is to have badass moments like that in a League of Legends video. That's my new dream in life. The League of Legends.  Actually wait, no dude. Ooh, that high note, that high note, oh! Okay, that is actually a pretty good visual fix. Wow, okay, this is a beautiful music video, beautiful song. It's going on my playlist just like KDA. Lol, that was such a good song. No, seriously, that was actually a good song. I really love League of Legends and there's 19 music videos. So that means I got 17 more videos to react to because I've already reacted to KDA and now I've reacted to Phoenix. And I can't wait to react to more. Because seriously, this song is so good. Holy crap, when that airiness comes in and it's just like... Okay, I can't do a good job at doing it. But when it's nice and airy. Oh man, that is so cool. And the music video, man, it was like a powerful music video. I was trying to think of who the Legends were, but I really could not think right now. And it's annoying because I know them. Because I've versed them and played them. But I can't remember. It happens whenever I do videos. I can never remember what I actually... Some of the important things. After I finish editing, it's going to be in my head. And I'm going to be like, ah, snap. But anyways, thank you guys all for watching this video. If you guys enjoyed, show some support by leaving a like. Comment down below another League of Legends music video. Or a cinematic you want me to react to. And also, I got some cinematics reactions on my gaming channel. But I'm going to start doing that onto this channel. Because I just want one channel. Screw having two. So if you guys want to go and check that, there'll be a link in the description down below. And then also, follow me on Twitch. Because I'm going to be doing some League of Legends live streams. Because I just want to, man. I just want to. I feel like we could have a lot of fun if our live stream was playing League. And playing with my friend. So that could be a fun time. So follow me on Twitch. There'll also be a link in the description down below. And yeah, other than that, have a great day. Peace.


Folks, welcome to a contrarian analysis of ocean power technologies incorporated stock symbol OPTT. This is a micro cap stock and the topics we're going to discuss today with regard to OPTT are going to be the company profile fundamentals news driving the stock price insiders and what they're doing or what they're not doing performance TTM which is 12 month moving average as well as the year to date average and then what I'm going to want to do is I'm going to want to segue over into doing some technical analysis of the charts both long-term and short-term using Trendspider and their automated technology platform. We'll also discuss analyst ratings, seasonality as well as catalysts which could drive the stock price higher or lower and that will include events and my technical analysis both long and short term and if you stick around to the end I'm going to give you my opinion of whether or not ocean power technologies incorporated is a buy, sell or hold on both a long and a short term timeframe. Before we begin with our analysis of ocean power technologies I'm going to ask you to please smash that like button it really helps me out with the YouTube algorithm it really helps support the channel I would encourage you to leave a comment I will definitely get back to you subscribe to the channel and certainly share with a friend on social media and I would encourage you to please join our live streams on Sunday evenings as well as Thursday evenings where on Sundays we discuss the futures action 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time each Sunday evening we'll watch and see how the futures are opening because that is truly the beginning of the new trading week then on Thursdays we do a Thursday night stock charts live where we review the weekly charts and how are poised to close out the week and of course on both live streams on YouTube we do take stock chart requests and we'll review the symbols that you're interested in so now let's begin our analysis of ocean power technologies incorporated symbol OP TT ocean power technologies incorporated is not a new company it's been around since 1984 to the United States based company out of New Jersey in my research I've found it as listed in both the electrical component sector as well as the alternative energy sector I believe it's more appropriate to be in the alternative energy sector I'm going to tell you why later on in the video that I believe that it's the alternative energy aspect of this company that will help drive future performance but there will be a caveat coming up soon that could influence the share price so stick around to the end of the video now being an alternative energy play ocean power technologies develops and commercializes proprietary systems that generate electricity by harnessing the renewable energy of ocean waves in North and South America Europe and Asia it's a global company now the reason why I believe it to be in the electrical component arena is because alternative energy is only one segment of their business they're also in communications the fundamentals of the company are not wonderful it is losing money there is a cash burn factor we'll talk about recent news in a moment that's helped mitigate that concern quite a bit their revenues year over year have improved considerably however they have not been able yet to turn a profit it does not pay a dividend but its balance sheet is fairly strong it has over 11 million dollars worth of cash versus debt of 2.14 million as for recent news in the company on October the 7th of this year market actually reported that there was a 34% increase in the share price and the interesting part about this is that there was no news out of the company and just prior to that the stock had soared 66.4% on big volume the Tuesday prior and before that you had a 24.8% increase on the prior Monday so with no news coming out of the company and volume rolling in very strong this leads me to conclude that you have a lot of institutional demand for the shares which is always a bullish sign for the share price moving forward now what really got the shares kicked off in terms of breaking out back in September was an agreement that was reached between Ocean Power Technologies with Aspire Capital Group where Aspire had agreed to purchase up to 12.5 million dollars worth of common stock over the next 30 months now I'll link to this article below because there is a lot of data with regards to the nuances of the agreement I think should take a moment to read through it because it's a very very good article and the terms are very favorable to Ocean Power Technologies now the encouraging part about Aspire buying the common shares of Ocean Power Technologies is that it may help reduce the volatility somewhat on these shares as it is an extremely volatile stock as you would expect with the microcap insider transactions over the past six months have been nil no sales no purchases the total insider shares held at 28,000 650,000 shares is pretty negligible relative to the size of the shares outstanding end of the float now taking a look at the insider Rouser you could see that one of the directors David Keller has the largest position in the company out of the insiders second is David Hines with 122,000 shares third in line is the chief executive officer George Kirby at 112,000 shares and what I find a bit concerning here is that you have two CFOs which have positions considerably lower than the overall moving average for all of the insiders noted here so to me taking a look at this having the CEO not at the top of the list and the CFOs literally at the bottom of the list that's a yellow flag on the track for me as we look at performance we're gonna look at Ocean Power Technology on two different levels one we're going to compare the performance of the share price relative to the industry average and for this instance we're going to use the electrical equipment industry average and the total annualized return as of September the 18th for OPTT was 28.88% versus the industry average of 67.59% that has changed dramatically in favor of OPTT since the 18th of September which is when we saw the news get announced that Aspire Capital Fund reached an agreement with management to purchase up to 12.5 million shares that was the catalyst to send the shares up higher we'll take a look at the chart and how the shares reacted in a few moments now when we look at the share price relative to the renewable energy sector which I think is more important to Ocean Power Technologies than being measured as a broader based electrical equipment sector the performance year-to-date is up 193.10% relative to the performance of the share price versus the Dow Jones US alternative energy stock market index which has a year-to-date return of 107.61% so a dramatic outperformance versus the alternative energy total stock market index very very impressive now you might be saying that Ocean Power Technologies had a very rough beginning of the year but to be fair the Dow Jones alternative energy total stock market index had a very rough beginning of the year as well so we're talking apples to apples here now moving on to the technical analysis of Ocean Power Technology the shares peaked out in Q1 of 2008 ever since that point in time they've been in a bear market but I think that what we're seeing here is a setup for a stock longer term that may just be poised to consolidate and then begin to break out on a longer term basis so let's talk about what we are seeing and what we need to see for us to get optimistic and get bullish about the share price and I'll leave you with my thoughts of as to whether or not I believe that at current is OPTT a buy seller hold now to perform our technical analysis of Ocean Power Technologies we'll be using Trendspider which is an automated technical analysis platform in short it uses algorithms as well as automated trend lines and a whole bunch of other functionality such as seasonality analysts opinion etc. volumated moving average to perform our analysis of OPTT we'll also be using multi time frame analysis which is built into Trendspider where we review the monthly charts weekly charts daily charts to identify where the share price has been to determine where it might be going both short term and longer term now there's a link down below in the video description area 35 percent off of you interested in Trendspider I strongly encourage it I called up my spell check for technical analysis because as long as I've been doing this from time to time Trendspider picks up something that I may have missed 35% discount code below take advantage of it the lowest price on the web if you're not using Trendspider you're missing out on an arrow in your quiver because other competitors out there are using the same type of software so if you want an edge over your competition make sure that you leveraging the power of technology so that you have an edge over other traders let's get to it we're going to begin here with a monthly chart of OPTT because the way I like to conduct technical analysis is from a very high level view to begin with I want to know where the shares have been to identify where they might be going and the story here is very nice the shares bottomed out back here in January of 16 you may be saying you know Bob we made lower low since that point in time technically they bottomed out back here all you've seen is some backing and filling since January of 2016 and when you throw up the automated trend lines here click of a button you could see that we broke out on a monthly basis here in May of 2020 ever since that point in time we've been drifting up higher and as you'll note the Bollinger bands here's the upper band of your Bollinger band for those who are not familiar the lower band you're seeing an ever tightening bottleneck this is setting up for a potential Bollinger band squeeze and in the moment we're going to talk about catalysts which may help drive the share price higher so stick around until the end so our share price has broken out we have broken out ever since May of this year our momentum indicators are gaining steam our stochastics are now putting in higher highs the relative strength index or RSI is putting in higher highs and breaking out on a monthly basis this is very powerful stuff so we're in the very early stages of a breakout here on OPTT weekly chart now on a weekly basis we had a burst up higher last week we were up nearly 143% on the week we did close out the week above the third standard deviation Bollinger band which is a higher level of Bollinger band that I use relative to an out-of-the-box Bollinger band in short folks I'll save you the technical jargon we're not supposed to be here and you could see that trend spider picked up on an upper band of resistance last week as well where did we close last week right at the upper band of resistance this is why you need to have automated technical analysis at your fingertips the stochastics on a weekly basis higher lows good stuff RSI even a better story in that we are putting in higher lows now we're even putting in higher high this is what a strong stock looks like you're seeing strong price action and it's being validated by your indicators daily chart now on a daily basis we saw an explosive move higher last week which automatically gives me pause and what I want to point out is that early I mentioned on the weekly chart that we were trading above the third standard deviation Bollinger band on a daily basis you could see what the outcome was right we closed above the third standard deviation Bollinger band on the sixth rallied higher on the seventh but it didn't end well right we corrected hard now to be fair on Friday an outside reversal day or you could call it a bullish engulfing day the only negative I have to say here about the price action on Friday was that we closed off the highs of the day which is okay we're talking about an early stage breakout of a long-term consolidation you're going to see backing and filling now where might I be interested in entering a position let's use the automated trend lines click up a button where I would be interested is on a retracement back down to one dollar and sixty nine cents so what I'll do is I'll set an alert now if I buy it's going to be very small because I like to open up small positions initially to see whether or not I am accurate in my call if I am correct then I like to build on strength so we'll set an alert and here's our alert I want to get notified within 10 minutes of us testing this support level in green it's a potential long-entry trade I'm going to keep this active for the next five trading days we'll create that alert and we're good to go when else might I be interested in either a opening a position or adding to an existing position I'll do this as you can see right now we're inside of a ever tightening wedge formation and what I would be interested in is a breakout above where we were stopped on both Thursday and Friday of last week I want to see us close above this resistance level so this alert here is going to tell me when we break out I only care about if we are poised to close above let's call it two dollars and fifty six cents if the shares are successful in being able to close above that mark well then we'll either a add to our existing position assuming that our first alert fired off or if it did not we'll open up a small opening position on a close above two dollars and fifty six cents we'll keep this active for the next five business days our alerts are set at this point in time we let the computer do the work for us trend spider will do the work for us we set it and forget it what we do here at the contrarian trader is we follow a rules based approach either it pulls back to a support level or it breaks out at some point in time those alerts will fire off and we'll make a determination based upon overall market conditions of as to whether or not we want to enter the trade other factors that are going to come into play here are seasonality what is seasonality folks for those who are not familiar we have data going back to april of 2007 which will tell us how the shares perform this time of year now looking at the seasonality going back 14 years on a monthly basis you could see that by and large with the exception of september the shares have closed up less than 50 percent of the time over that 14-year time frame let's keep something in mind though to be fair remember that these shares have been in a bear market a very serious bear market for over 10 of those years so while seasonality is important we don't want to trade solely off of seasonality it's only an arrow in our quiver a bit of information that can help support our decision of how big we want to get in a trade you can have a bullish looking stock price and if historically the shares are down on any given month that you're in that doesn't mean you should avoid opening the trade it just means that perhaps you want to be smaller in your position that way you're managing your risk now while trend spider generally has a robust list of analyst coverage in this sidebar widget here i did happen to find one analyst that was following it and this data is provided by fidelity investments and if you'd like to view this report in great detail i'll link to it on my website i'll list the link below where you can view it at your leisure but i'm going to scroll down i'm not going to spend too much time here we do have one company with data provided by revente versus with a sell opinion as of october the fifth with an equity summary score there's only one firm of very bearish issued on 10 9 by first call so with this data in mind let's talk about where i believe the share price is going longer term and what catalyst will help drive the shares either higher or lower now to arrive at both my short term and longer term opinion on ocean power technologies i'm going to use weekly charts and then a daily chart to walk you through my thought process now in terms of catalyst there is very little short interest in ocean power technology so as a short term catalyst to send the share price higher it's non-existent another concern is that you have very few analysts currently covering the stock so we don't know when a new analyst begins to cover the share price will he come out with a buy sell or hold rating or an equivalent to whatever the company uses in terms of their verbiage if they come out with a hold that means a sell so that's a concern now you might be saying you know he must be concerned about that one sell recommendation by the analysts on OPTT no it doesn't bother me the least because the worst that they could do is reiterate their sell rating which nobody's really going to care about and the best that they could do is go from a sell to a buy so what does that mean we mean it means that we could have some positive headline news if the current analyst goes from a sell to a buy but the negative is that we have potential adverse headline risk or positive risk we don't know if a new analyst begins their coverage but the analysts are the least of my concerns what is most optimistic from a longer term perspective with regards to OPTT is this let's go to a monthly chart we'll come back to the weekly chart keep in mind what the share price is doing on a monthly basis it is breaking out and what I always teach members is this is that the longer the consolidation keep in mind this is a multi-year consolidation on a monthly basis the longer the consolidation the greater the validation of any breakout so on a long-term view monthly view I'm bullish on the share price not overly aggressive but bullish on the share price on a shorter term timeframe I become a little bit more pessimistic for two reasons one technical two the election we'll talk about both now on a technical basis we closed out last week as I mentioned earlier above the third standard deviation boulder band so automatically the fact that we're trading above the third standard deviation boulder band and the fact that we had a wick shadow topping tail call it cupcakes whatever you want to call it on top of this candlestick implies to me that we're going to get a consolidation not a crash but a consolidation and when you take a look at the daily chart we closed out today on this past Friday right at resistance so do I want to buy at a resistance level not really so short term I'm cautious but cautiously optimistic what was that number two that I said earlier that was a concern about the share price the election folks if you see a Biden presidency you'll want to be long of ocean power technology now if you see a trump reelection that does not mean sell the shares it just means that you don't have the green new deal put underneath the share price as you would with the reelection of president trump so to reiterate where I long at current I would hold my position would I buy the shares longer term yes but the short term is I would wait for a pullback then initiate a new position at a support level so in closing our opinion that the contrarian trader is that the share price on a longer term basis meaning a monthly basis the trend is beginning to change from a downward sideways correction and consolidation to now the beginning of an uptrend on a short term basis would I buy the shares no not quite yet I think that short term there are a hold where I currently long but if we do get a pullback to our support level they then become a buy what are the catalysts to help drive the share price higher it won't be short covering there's very little in terms of short interest what would put a put under the share price is a Biden presidency that doesn't mean if there's a trump reelection that the share price will not move up higher the shares have been moving up higher for several months now if you take note again of when the shares begin to really take off it was the week of September the 14th when aspire capital reached an agreement with ocean power tech to purchase up to 12 and a half million shares so while we saw a nice pop since that point in time let's face it folks the shares have been moving up higher for a considerably longer period than that time frame there was probably news out in the market that there was talks on the way and the news flow out of the company turned positive from negative so my longer term call on ocean power tech bullish no matter who gets into the white house folks if you got any value out of this video if you could please hit the like button it really helps me out with the youtube algorithms subscribe to the channel and please leave a comment below I'll definitely get back to you do you agree with me do you not agree with me and don't forget to join us every Sunday night and Thursday night live there's a link below in the video 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A Flute with Henry Morgan A Flute with Henry Morgan written for radio by Warren Barry and a George Edwards production Dolores discovers in time that Sir Thomas and Captain Morgan know her for an imposter and she escapes from them Going with Diets when he takes Kitty into hiding Morgan thinks that perhaps Dolores might have gone to Jeffrey Hunter for help So together with Sir Thomas and Colonel Atterbury, he returns to the flying gull There he discovers that Hunter is missing Together with the Aztec necklace and not knowing the truth believes Hunter has taken the necklace When he learned that Kitty was seen wearing it in the dolphin tavern, he is convinced he is right Meanwhile, Diets has taken Kitty to a deserted stone hut overlooking the swamps and has left her in the care of Dolores Looking from the small window the two girls see Jeffrey Hunter being led and changed through the swamps You have to let me go. You can't keep me here. I have to help him. I have to do something to save him Oh, no, that is something I will not do I do not care whether Diets keeps you for himself or not, but I am concerned about my own safety Do you think I'm going to let you return to Port Royale to tell the world of my hiding place? Look The figures down there have almost disappeared in a moment. They will be swallowed up by the green of the jungle Although Jeffrey Hunter will not be so very far away from you You will never see him again within a week. He will be dead And within a week you will be on your way No, no, I must do something to help him. I must Jeffrey There is no one who can come to your aid. Are you going to let Jeffrey Hunter go to his death? Why not? I have no further use for him. I got from him all the information I required I don't care now. What happens to him? How can you be so vile? You made love to him. You made him fall in love with you. He believed in you and now you treat him like this I do not blame myself for his present predicament.   So very easy You must be the vilest person living. Oh, no Unscrupulous You must be to get what you want Unfortunately, it was discovered that I am not Antoinette the Lacy No doubt they fully believe me to be a Spanish spy, which is quite true That is why I have come into hiding with you to await the arrival of a ship to take us back You will be found. You must be found the truth must be told Jeffrey Hunter must be saved from the fate he we we sent him to he Oh, we must be able to do something we must even if I was found nothing could be done to help him He is an escaped convict No matter what you do kitty.  I must find some amends. I'll escape. I'll get to captain Morgan I'll tell him the truth and he'll rush the same Jeffrey. How? The bonds which bind your hands will not be losing. I will make sure of that You will stay here with me until it is time for us to leave the island And then your fate will be entirely in the hands of the earth The jungle closes in with its green stillness Broken only with a cry of distant birds Vines chokingly twist and curl up and high around old gnarled moss-covered tree trunks Sharp brown eyes of small furred monkeys peered inquisitively from behind the sheltering leaves They chatter momentarily still by their own curiosity Giant flowers trail down from their vines like great splashes of paint Flung from an artist's brush which has been dipped upon a gaily colored parrot But upon the ground where the twisted roots dig deep into the earth is a carpet of rotting vegetation Leaves turn brown with age and decay the fallen flowers have lost their hue Mud from seeping water mixes and churns it into a dark black mess From which comes the accurate stench of rot and decay Occasionally the fallen leaves are disturbed as a scaled reptile with flashing forked tongue Belly slides through the slime It's cold wicked eyes age old with evil unblinkingly search for the meal which must be full of life The merciless sun sucks up into the heavens the moisture from the mud in a thin steamy vapor Just above the ground hangs suspended by their overworked and tiny wings millions of death's messages carrying in their barbs the dreaded fever The track through the jungle to the swamps is well worn by hundreds of feet that never made the return journey Yet footsteps fall silently upon the putrid ground as though the jungle resented men's infusion A small party of men who pass through this part are silent All of them except one have made this trip many times before They have no dark and brooding thoughts They will have left this This portal to death long before the sun sinks into rest This night they will once again enjoy the comfort of their women the warmth of their drink There's no novelty for them to be introducing a person to death And the sweaty sticky humidity makes talk too much of an effort The one who they know will not return the one whose body they believe will in a week's time will be rotting in the swamp His thoughts are not to be shared They are his own deep and dark within his mind They have no care as to what he thinks or feels For in their minds he is already dead But to himself Jeffrey Hunter is far from dead Providence has made it that hope dies slowly in a man's heart Reason cries in his ears that hope must now be abandoned, but a spark of hope remains I can't believe that everything has to end like this To die forgotten unknown swamp I have not lived this long to die like this All through the remaining hours of darkness Jeffrey Hunter had sat in the blackness of his cell And when the first streak of dawn's green as it etched itself in the sky The guard glanted in hand to turn the great encumber some lock Slid open the bolts and slammed back the door my friends have come You're going to release me like the surge of a great tired confidence was within him But the guard had opened wide his jaws and laughed Sound had no humor just cruel amusement The tired of confidence went from Jeffrey Hunter His chains were unlocked from the wall Like a beast he was taken out through the guard room into the dull light of dawn Three horsemen already mounted were there waiting for him To them Jeffrey Hunter had ceased to be a man He was just an animal An animal to be worked to death Without showing any interest in him the men talked together laughed shared a coarse jest Then the horses were pulled into activity the chains attached to Jeffrey's wrists were crawly jerked A long whip curled around his shoulders and the small cavalcade moved out through the heavy iron gates out into the roadway With Jeffrey trailing behind the leader's horse the other two horsemen following close behind With a sudden as only seen in the tropics the sun shot up into the sky it's rays burning up dawn's coolness The road was rough and dusty Iron manacles and wrists and ankles hung heavy on limbs and caused a stumbling foot But a pace was made and the long curling whip hastened the lagging foot and still hope didn't die He didn't have to be painted she must have She would find Captain Mark and she would tell him He's my friend surely he will help me he'll get me out of this trouble Even now he's probably with the gardener The Thomas might be signing my release at this moment before long more than we'll come riding on the road after us But a mile after mile and no horsemen overtook them And the manacles hung more heavy on his limbs His feet stumbled more often But the twisting treacherous track on a hillside the horseman rode and Jeffrey toiled Plantations and banana palms and green trees sprawled out over the hill And the sea started with the sun sparkling gems spread blue into the distance The summit was reached and a halt was called for the horses could go no further While the men tended to the horses needs Jeffrey looked down into the jungle the jungle which he was told was to be his grave Everything seemed green a deep unhealthy green with mists coming up through the greenest And in the center of the sea of green was a dark brown patch which shone on the sun The bread of swamp the draining of which was being paid for by men's lives Slowly the scent was made of the men just like pygmies in the vastness of the jungle That hope was still alive with just a faint flame and Jeffrey at once He could have sworn he heard kitty's voice But that of course was silly Was not kitty back in port royal seeking aid for him the cry was the cry of birds the chatter of a distant monkey Now the journey is almost over Now and again through the trees can be seen the swamps muddy waters and rough crude stone huts which house the convicts for so short a time Meanwhile in port royal Time creeps on and sir thomas and colonel adabry wait for henry morgan to leave the dolphin tavern And join them Here comes morgan now and look at his face black as a thunder cloud Well, morgan, what did you find out about the girl gone home? Hasn't been seen since this morning, but she can't do that.  Yes, of course Now that's strange. How do you mean? Without doubt hunter took the necklace and gave it to kitty The woman we thought to be antoinette de lacy learned that she was about to be unmasked and fled Because of the feeling between that woman and hunter I feel sure that she would have gone to him And yet hunter gave the necklace to kitty and not to that woman We know that they must have all gone off together It all adds up And yet it doesn't make sense Little does morgan know that he has but in his grasp the truth of what really happened Well, he realized it Make sure you listen to the next episode of a float with henry morgan


How you doing? I gosh, I'm just editing a wedding video all day Taking a quick break to go run some errands and then back to more editing So that's my day just cruising. Hope you're having a great Friday. Oh, it's beautiful in Denver beautiful, so Yeah, I wish I had bigger more updates something more exciting But hey just working just working hustling, but I am excited to go get some Mother's Day goodies One of my favorite places, I just love planting stuff trees shrubs flowers so Don't tell Bridget Get nurse and flowers for Mother's Day Mother's Day Mother's Day Question of the day What are you guys doing for your mom? At least in the United States. It's Mother's Day on Sunday. So don't forget. Don't forget. Did I just save you? Did I just save you? All right answer below. What are you doing for your mom on Mother's Day? Come on now. Come on now Take care We're your wife Drinking like a fine lady tonight a nice nice lady if you have stuck with me on The vlog over the last let's just say last five to ten days I appreciate it. I mean we're talking Crazy busy and just you know, I've been in the office or at the house every single day. I'm not downtown in Denver I'm not flying across the world. I'm not on an adventure up in the mountains. I'm just living life working working the work but trying to communicate to you guys that There's beauty to be sought there's hard work to be done and There's love to be dished out as often as possible. All right, so it's simple It's simple, but I appreciate you sticking with me. You hear me. The microphone is not working real well right now It's got a red light instead of a green light. All right. Hold on. Hold on. I'm going up the ladder with a bike I'll explain in a second That's a nice sunset Whoo seek beauty Whoa Whoa Okay, I better set you down. All right, so what can I say? I like a yard that is clean and open so the kids can run around Why you might ask in the Univista, Colorado where I grew up Google it It's a high altitude desert which means we had yuckas and cactus and rocks to play in We did not have grass. It was too dry. We did not have grass So I always dreamed as a child to have good beautiful green grass to run around in and play baseball in and play football in So I like the grass and the yard to be open so you're not running into bikes While playing baseball, you don't want a bike in your way So hey, we've got we've got some open space up here on the on the roof and I'm taking full advantage I'm taking full advantage as a storage unit for our stuff now Some people might say why don't you get a storage unit? Why don't you build a shed? Bridget and I our thesis hold on listen to the Yankees our thesis is why? Build more space because guess what when you build more space like a garage or an attic or a basement You fill it with more stuff. So we are not one of those We're not those people we believe in Simplicity less is more and keeping it simple. All right, that is our thesis So this is our storage unit for now some of this stuff might be sold at a garage sale next weekend But for now, this is where we're storing the stuff and seeking beauty in the process dang Gina Make hay when the sun shines, right? Sun's not shining anymore, but we're still making hay trim in the rose bush Hope you guys had a beautiful day Thanks for sticking with me simple vlogs these last five to ten days, but That's okay, and I guess that's you know if you are a youtuber, especially Don't get stressed out about Simple vlogs or vlogs that maybe aren't excited as exciting to what the world is expecting of you Stay true to yourself Stay true to your routine and stay true to your day like you're just your daily living like don't feel like you have to make the vlog Incredibly exciting every single day because at the end of the in eventually it's just gonna wear you out you're just gonna get tired and of Appealing to the world and the YouTube world aka Google like come on live your life Just live your life, and that's what I'm doing, and I hope I'm communicating that to you as clearly as Beautifully as you're about to see here in about 18 seconds as possible. So love you all see beauty work hard Love each other work hard even though the sun is not out and we will see you Tomorrow enjoy the sunset. It was pretty epic pretty


From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report in Special English. Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is more than 120 years old. In 2009, the university opened Drexel University Sacramento in California. 11 international students were part of the first class at Drexel University Sacramento. Today, 32 international students are at the school and they are all from China. The master's degree in finance program is almost entirely Chinese students. Most of the students are from Shanghai, a big financial center. Some are from the capital, Beijing. Sandra Kirschemann is executive director at the university. She says a master's degree in finance is very attractive and a top degree in terms of return on investment. Drexel University started its master's degree in finance program in Philadelphia. Sandra Kirschemann says it became popular with Chinese students from Shanghai and Beijing, and they told their friends. The Philadelphia campus has finance students from other countries as well. But Sandra Kirschemann says the Sacramento program may appeal to Chinese students because the west coast is closer to China and a gateway to the Pacific Rim. The courses are taught in English. She says students must do well on the TOEFL or test of English as a foreign language to be admitted to the university. The 18 month program costs about $55,000. International students pay full tuition. Sandra Kirschemann says this helps the nonprofit university balance its budget and offer financial help to American students. Drexel's Sacramento location currently accepts only graduate students, but an undergraduate business program will start in the fall of 2013. For VOA Learning English, I'm Carolyn Presuti.