Greetings Marines and happy birthday. I'm Colonel Randy Comrade-Breznik, USMC retired, flying 250 nautical miles above all of you wherever you're deployed aboard the International Space Station. I'm here on the ISS for a six month deployment and I'm honored to currently serve as the commander of Expedition 53. As a Marine and as an astronaut, I've learned many important lessons along the way about leadership including the importance of teamwork, humility, and the unwavering pursuit of your goals. It doesn't matter how big your dreams may be or how impossible they may seem, they're yours. And you should never back down or let anyone convince you that they are not achievable. As you celebrate today, pause to reflect on the story 242 year history of our Marine Corps. Know that we live as a part of the long ladder Marines who have served this nation so admirably since the founding of our Corps. I want to thank all of you and your families for their service and sacrifices to our Corps and country. We know so well that our Corps values of honor, courage, commitment are more than merely words. They are the very foundation of the ethos that is a blazing on our hearts and souls as Marines. Congratulations on the past year where you have made history now written forever in the storied history of our Corps. On behalf of all Marines who have gone before you, thank you for upholding our warrior ethos of our Corps and continuing our hallowed traditions. Wherever you are in the world of ours, enjoy your celebration of the birthday of our beloved Marine Corps. Semper Fidelis and may God continue to bless the United States of America and United States Marine Corps. Happy birthday Marines.


So, I'm now going to hand over to my colleague, Paul Collegius, who's going to talk about medical informatics. Hi, Rosie. Thanks, Paul. Oh, you got one. Hi there. So, it's really exciting today to be here talking about research computing at the OpenStack Summit, because I feel OpenStack technologies are now poised to make significant impact in the research and innovation domains. So, we started our OpenStack journey in Cambridge about 18 months ago when we started to build a new research computing platform called the Cambridge Biomedical Cloud. The task of this platform is to take clinical data and applications from the university hospital environment and move those across to the research computing environment to drive medical analytics and computationally intensive biomedical research. So, why would we use OpenStack in the research computing environment? Well, from my perspective, from a provider's perspective, OpenStack technologies make computing data and applications more accessible, more flexible and more secure. From the researcher's perspective, it makes research computing and data easier to use, easier to share for collaboration, and this decreases the time to science and increases innovation. So, within our university hospital environment, we produce huge amounts of data, which is all now held in electronic record systems. This provides us with an ideal opportunity to apply big data technologies for improved health outcomes. But to do this, we need an IT platform which is secure, flexible, elastic, and lends itself to a sandboxed research computing environment. And OpenStack really meets all those requirements. So, if we take a look at the Biomedical Cloud, we can see that it's a heterogeneous architecture with three main elements. There's a 2,000-core OpenStack element using 50 gigabit ethernet that's RDMA-enabled for performance. We have a traditional HPC cluster, static image-based system using 56 gigabit infinity band. That's 1,000 cores. And we have a currently quite a small Hadoop cluster, which will be growing at the beginning of next year. And there's quite a complex ethical sign-off and data-sharing platform that takes data from the hospital network and moves that across to the research network under the correct regulatory compliance regimes. And then once we have that data in the research network, we can do interesting things with it. So, how do we use that platform to develop new predictive medical analytics techniques? So, firstly, we take various data warehouse products from Epic on the upper right-hand part of that diagram. These are patient test results, medical records, live telemetry feeds from the operating theatre. And we run that through predictive modeling techniques to produce predictions. We can then test those predictions and enter into a device trial loop where we assess and refine that model until in the end we have something that we think can stand up as a new clinical treatment. So a really good example of this is work done by Dr. John Cromwell at Iowa University Hospital. John's developed a statistical model looking at surgical site infections that they run live while a patient is undergoing a procedure. And by using this model, they can cut surgical site infections by 58%. That's a really good example of how quite low-hanging fruit can develop large benefits in the healthcare environment. So another use case we're working on in Cambridge is population scale genomics analysis and we developed a new genomics analysis platform called OpenCB using Hadoop infrastructure. This has been developed with Genomics England to undertake one of the largest population studies in the world, the UK 100K genome project, where we would be looking at the genomes of 100,000 people. This OpenCB technology was already deployed on the bio cloud and we're running that over a UK 100K precursor project called the bridge project where we're looking at 10,000 patient's genomes of rare diseases. And we're seeing two orders of a magnitude performance increase over previous platforms. So the last use case is actually again very interesting. Medical use case from the hospital that deployed a new brain imaging machine. That's the brain imaging machine being installed on the left hand side. This produced vast amounts of data, so the center needed a step function increase in its computing data capability. OpenStack medical imaging VMs provides that step change and that's now going into production, I think, in about a month's time. So when we started our journey, the scientific computing community was really quite nascent. That community has now been developed through the scientific working group. I'd like to present Stig Telfer who'll tell us a little bit about that now. Thank you. The science we've seen today ranges from the subatomic to the breathtakingly cosmic. From the beginning of time to the future of healthcare. Yet the computational challenges that these projects face have more in common than indifference. At an infrastructure level, they all face pretty much the same problems. These use cases are pretty typical in research computing, but they are not the default OpenStack use case. When you deploy OpenStack out of the box, this is not what you get. The scientists have to work a little bit harder at their configurations than the rest of us. This is the driving force behind OpenStack's scientific working group. Our open membership is drawn from institutions around the globe who use OpenStack to support science and research of this kind. We share knowledge with each other. We help each other out. We know what works and what doesn't. We fix a few things and we share the results. Together as a working group, we advocate our use case for research computing among the wider OpenStack and research computing communities. I cannot believe that it has just been a short year and all this has happened. I cannot believe how much it has already helped us at Cambridge and our other members. With our working group now established, I know that we want to make an even bigger impact in the year to come. Our quest to understand the universe and to improve our little corner of it is going to be moved forward by ambitious scientific projects such as these we've just heard. To help them achieve this, compute hardware is going to get deployed on a massive scale. And upon that hardware, a platform must be built that meets the scientists' needs. In our group, we believe that platform should be OpenStack. And if you're interested in the problems and the solutions, I hope you'll join us in the working group and together we'll make it happen. Thank you. Well, thank you so much, Paul and Stake, for all of your contributions. We really appreciate it. And I just wanted to highlight one of the collaborative efforts that we did recently with the scientific working group and including the foundation staff put together a book about HPC and OpenStack. Maybe you can tell us a little about it. Yeah, we started out, we thought we'd do a survey of what was out there, get a baseline of knowledge. And we thought we'd write a few papers and get a few articles together. We found so much that we actually put together a book on the subject. And here it is. So this is a book which is drawn from the expertise of a lot of the subject matter experts who are members of the working group. We've got together, we've contributed to create this publication. Well, excellent. Well, thank you so much for your work. We're actually going to have this available online and at the Supercomputing conference in just a couple of weeks. So excited to participate there as well in your industry. And if you're interested, a lot of the authors will be at the Scientific Computing BoF, which is Wednesday afternoon at 2.15. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you.


section 37 Europe and the Faith this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org Europe and the Faith by Hilaire Baylock section 37 chapter 10 conclusion the grand effect of the Reformation was the isolation of the soul this was its fruit from this all its consequences proceed not only those clearly noxious which have put in jeopardy the whole of our traditions and all our happiness but those apparently advantageous especially in material things the process cannot be seen to work if we take a particular date especially too early a date and call it the moment of the catastrophe there was a long interval of confusion and doubt in which it was not certain whether the catastrophe would be final or no in which its final form remained undetermined and only upon the conclusion of which could modern Europe with its new divisions and its new fates be perceived clearly the breach with authority began in the very first years of the 16th century it is not until the middle of the 17th century at least and even somewhat later that the new era begins for more than a hundred years the conception of the struggle as an ecumenical struggle as something affecting the whole body of Europe continued the general upheaval the revolt which first shook the West in the early years of the 16th century to take a particular year the year 1517 concerned all our civilization was everywhere debated produced the universal reaction met by as universal a resistance for three generations of men no young man who saw the first outbreak of the storm could imagine it even in old age as a disruption of Europe no such man lived to see it more than halfway through it was not until a corresponding day in the succeeding century or rather later not until Elizabeth of England and Henry the 4th of France were dead and all the protagonists the reformers on one side Loyola neary on the other long dead not until a career Vishnu in the one country and the beginning of an aristocratic parliament in England were apparent that the reformation could clearly be seen to have separated certain districts of our civilization from the general traditions of the whole and to have produced in special regions and sections of society the peculiar Protestant type which was to mark the future the work of the reformation was accomplished one may say a little after the outbreak of the 30 years war England in particular was definitely Protestant by the decade 1620 1630 hardly earlier the French Huguenot body though still confused with political effort had come to have a separate and real existence at about the same time the oligarchy of Dutch merchants had similarly cut off their part of the low countries from imperial rule and virtually established their independence the north German principalities and sundry smaller states of the mountains notably Geneva had definitely received the new stamp as definitely France Bohemia the Danube Poland and Italy and all the self were saved though an armed struggle was long to continue though the northern Germans were nearly recaptured by the imperial power and only saved by French policy though we were to have a reflex of it here in the civil wars and the destruction of the crown and though the last struggle against the stewards and the greater general war against Louis the 14th were but sequels to the vast affair yet the great consequence of that affair was fixed before these wars began the first third of the 17th century launches a new epic from about that time they're go forward upon parallel lines the great spiritual and consequent temporal processes of modern Europe they have yet to come to judgment for they are not yet fulfilled but perhaps their judgment is near these processes filling the last 300 years have been as follows one a rapid extension of physical science and with it of every other form of acquaintance with demonstrable and measurable things to the rise chiefly in the new Protestant part of Europe but spreading that's in part to the Catholic of what we call today capitalism that is the possession of the means of production by the few and their exploitation of the many three the corruption of the principle of authority until it was confused with mere force for the general though not universal growth of total wealth with the growth of physical knowledge by the ever widening effect of skepticism which whether masked under traditional forms or no was from the beginning a spirit of complete negation and led at last to the questioning not only of any human institutions but of the very forms of thought and of the mathematical truths six with all these of course we have a universal mark the progressive extension of despair could anyone look back upon these three centuries from some very great distance of time he would see them as an episode of extraordinary extension in things that should be disassociated knowledge and wealth on the one hand the unhappiness of men upon the other and he would see that as the process matured or rather as the corruption divined all its marks were pushed to a degree so extreme as to jeopardize at last the very structure of European society physical science acquired such power the oppression of the poor was pushed to such a length the reasoning spirit in man was permitted to attain such a tottering pitch of insecurity that a question never yet put to Europe arose at last whether Europe not from external foes but from her own inward lesion may not fail corresponding to that terrible and as yet unanswered question the culmination of so much evil necessarily arises this sole vital formula of our time Europe must return to the faith or she will perish I have said that the prime product of the reformation was the isolation of the soul that truth contains in its development very much more than its mere statement my promise the isolation of the soul means a loss of corporate sustenance of the same balance produced by general experience the weight of security and the general will the isolation of the soul is the very definition of its unhappiness but this solvent applied to society does very much more than merely complete and confirm human misery in the first place and underlying all the isolation of the soul releases in a society a furious new a session of force the breakup of any stable system in physics as in society makes actual a prodigious reserve of potential energy it transforms the power that was keeping things together with the power driving separately each component part the effect of an explosion that is why the reformation launched the whole series of material advance but launched it chaotically and on divergent lines which would only end in disaster but the thing had many other results thus we next notice that the new isolation of the soul compelled the isolated soul to strong vagaries the soul will not remain in the void if you blind it it will grow if it cannot grasp what it appreciates by every sense it will grasp what it appreciates by only one on this account in the dissolution of the corporate sense and of the corporate religion you had successive idols set up worthy and unworthy none of them permanent the highest and most permanent was the reaction towards corporate life in shape of a worship of national patriotism you had at one end of the scale an extraordinary new tapas the erection in one place of a sort of maniac god blood thirsty an object of terror in another or in the same a curious new ritual observance of nothingness upon every seventh day in another and irrational attachment to particular printed book in another successive conceptions first that the human reason was sufficient for the whole foundations of human life that there were no mysteries next the opposite extravagance that the human reason had no authority even in its own sphere and these two though contradictory had one route the rationalism of the 18th century carried on through the materialism of the 19th the irrational doubts of Kant which include much emotional rubbish carried on to the sheer chaos of the latter metaphysicians with their denial of contradictions and even of being both sprang from this necessity of the unsupported soul to make itself some system from within as the unsupported soul in an evil dream now stifles in strict confinement and is next dissolved in some fearful emptiness all this the first interior effect of the reformation strong in proportion to the strength of the reforming movement powerful in the regions or sex which had broken away far less powerful in those which had maintained the faith would seem to have run its full course and who have settled at last into universal negation and a universal challenge preferred to every institution and every postulate but since humanity cannot repose in such a stage of anarchy we may well believe that there is coming or has already begun yet another stage in which the lack of corporate support for the soul will breed attempted strange religions witchcrafts and necromancies it may be so it may be that the great debate will come up for final settlement before such novel diseases spread far at any rate for the moment we are clearly in a stage of complete negation but it is to be repeated that this breaking up of the foundations differs in degree with varying societies that still in a great mass of Europe numerically the half perhaps the necessary anchors of sanity still hold and that half is the half where directly by the practice of the faith or indirectly through a hold upon some part of its tradition the catholic church exercises and admitted or distant authority over the minds of men the end of section 37 section 38 Europe and the faith this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org Europe and the Faith by Hilaer Bellach section 38 chapter 10 concluded the next process we note is by what some may think a paradox also due to the isolation of the soul it is the process of increasing knowledge men acting in a fashion highly corporate will not so readily question nor therefore so readily examine as will men acting alone men whose major results are taken upon an accepted philosophy will not be driven by such a need of inquiry as those who have abandoned that guide in the moment more than a thousand years ago when the last of the evangelizing flood tide was still running strongly a very great man wrote of the physical sciences upon such toys i wasted my youth and another wrote speaking of divine knowledge all the rest is smoke but in the absences of faith demonstrable things are the sole consolation there are three forms in which the human mind can hold the truth the form of science which means that we accept a thing through demonstration and therefore cannot admit the possibility of its opposite the form of opinion which means that we accept a thing through probability that is through a partial but not complete demonstration and therefore we do not deny the possibility of the opposite the form of faith where we accept the thing without demonstration and yet deny the possibility of its opposite as for instance the faith of all men not mad in the existence of the universe about them and of other human minds when acknowledged and defined faith departs it is clear that of the remaining two rivals opinion has no ground against science that which can be demonstrated holds all the field indeed it is the mark of modern insufficiency that it can conceive of no other form of certitude save certitude through demonstration and therefore does not as a rule appreciate even its own unproved first principles well this function of the isolated soul inquiry and the necessity for demonstration for individual conviction through measurement and physical fixed knowledge as occupied as all know the three modern centuries we all are equally familiar with its prodigious results not one of them has as yet added to human happiness not one but has been increasingly misused to the misery of man there is in the tragedy something comic also which is the perpetual puzzlement of these the very authors of discovery to find that somehow or other discovery alone does not create joy and at somehow or other a great knowledge can be used ill as anything else can be used ill also in their bewilderment many turn to a yet further extension of physical science as promising in some illogical way relief a progression in physical science and in the use of instruments is so natural to man so long as civic order is preserved that it would indeed have taken place not so rapidly but as surely had the unity of europe been preserved but the destruction of that unity totally accelerated the pace and as totally through the movement off its rails the renaissance a noble and vividly european thing was much older than the reformation which was its perversion and corruption the doors upon modern knowledge had been open before the soul which was to enter them had been cut off from its fellows we owe the miscarriage of all our great endeavor in this field not to that spring of endeavor but to its deflection it is a blasphemy to deny the value of advancing knowledge and at once a cowardice and a folly to fear it for its supposed consequences its consequences are only evil through an evil use that is through an evil philosophy in connection with this release of powerful inquiry through the isolation of the soul you have an apparently contradictory and certainly supplementary effect the setting up of unfounded external authority it is a curious development one very little recognize but one which affixed observance of the modern world will immediately reveal and those who come to see it are invariably astonished at the magnitude of its action men under the very influence of skepticism have come to accept almost any printed matter almost any repeated name as an authority infallible and to be admitted without question they have come to regard the denial of such authority as a sort of insanity or either they have in most practical affairs come to be divided into two groups a small number of men who know the truth say upon a political matter or some financial arrangement or some unsell problem and a vast majority which accept without question and always incomplete a usually quite false statement of the things because it has been repeated in the daily press and vulgarized in a hundred books this singular and fantastic result of the long divorce between the non-catholic mind and reason has profound effect upon the modern world indeed the great battle about to be engaged between chaos and order will turn largely upon this form of suggestion this acceptation of an unfounded and irrational authority lastly there is of the major consequences of the reformation that phenomenon which we have come to call capitalism and which many recognizing its universal evil wrongly regard as the prime obstacle to right settlement of human society and to the solution of our now intolerable modern strains what is called capitalism arose directly in all its branches from the isolation of the soul that isolation permitted an unrestricted competition it gave to superior cunning and even to superior talent and unchecked career it gave every license to greed and on the other side it broke down the corporate bonds whereby men maintain themselves in an economic stability through it there arose in england first later throughout the more active Protestant nations and later still in various degrees throughout the rest of Christendom a system under which a few possess the land and the machinery of production and the many were gradually dispossessed the many thus dispossessed could only exist upon doles meted out by the possessors nor was human life a care to these the possessors also mastered the state and all its organs hence the great national debts which accompanied the system hence even the financial hold of distant and alien men upon subject provinces of economic effort hence the draining of wealth not only from increasingly dissatisfied subjects overseas but from the individual producers of foreign independent states the true conception of property disappears under such an arrangement and you naturally get a demand for belief through the denial of the principle of ownership altogether here again as in the matter of the irrational taboos and of skepticism two apparently contradictory things have one root capitalism and the ideal inhuman system not realizable called socialism both spring from one type of mind and both apply to one kind of disease society against both the pillar of reaction is peasant society and peasant society has proved throughout europe largely coordinate with the remaining authority of the catholic church for a peasant society does not mean a society composed of peasants but one in which modern industrial capitalism yields to agriculture and in which agriculture is in the main conducted by men possessed in part or altogether of their instruments of production and of the soil either through ownership or customary tenure in such a society all the institutions of the state repose upon an underlying conception of secure and well-divided private property which can never be questioned and which colors all men's minds and that doctrine like every other sane doctrine though applicable only to temporal conditions has the firm support of the catholic church so things have gone we have reached at last as the final result of that catastrophe 300 years ago a state of society which cannot endure and a dissolution of standards a melting of the spiritual framework such that the body politic fails men everywhere feel that an attempt to continue down this endless and ever darkening road is like the piling up of debt we go further and further from a settlement our various forms of knowledge diverge more and more authority the very principle of life loses its meaning and this awful edifice of civilization which we have inherited and which is still our trust trembles and threatens to crash down it is clearly insecure it may fall at any moment we who still live may see the ruin but ruin when it comes is not only a sudden it is also a final thing in such a crux there remains the historical truth that this our european structure built upon the noble foundations of classical antiquity was formed through exist by is consonant to and will stand only in the mold of the catholic church europe will return to the faith or she will perish the faith is europe and europe is the faith the end of section 38 the end of chapter 10 the end of europe and the faith by hillier billock


Welcome to Learning English, a daily 30-minute program from the Voice of America. I'm Ashley Thompson. And I'm Dan Novak. This program is designed for English learners. So we speak a little slower, and we use words and phrases, especially written for people learning English. In today's program, you will hear stories from Dan Friedle and Brian Lin. Later, John Russell talks about the Grammar of Gift-Giving in this week's Everyday Grammar. John then joins me to talk more about the topic. But first, a report on America's first public park. Almost 400 years ago, America's early European colonists voted to tax each household in Boston about $70 in today's money. The money was used to buy a local farm. The plan was to use it as a common area for the public. That is how Boston Common, in the state of Massachusetts, became America's first public park. Liz Vizza is president of the Friends of the Public Garden, an organization that supports Boston Common. She noted that Bostonians did not have backyards, private outdoor spaces behind their homes. Boston Common, she said, became their front yard and backyard and common ground. It was a place that everybody owned. On any given day, colonists walking through Boston Common would see soldiers setting up camp, or their neighbors taking walks. They may also have seen public punishments. Presidents George Washington and John Adams also visited the park. Visitors would have seen cows, because everyone had the right to keep one cow per household in the area. Today, visitors will find dogs instead of cows in the 20 hectare park. The cows became outlawed in 1830, as Boston Common became more of a place for recreation. Friends of the Public Garden estimates that Boston Common sees seven million visitors each year. Boston Common is a central stage of civic life in Boston. And it's been that center stage of civic life for hundreds of years, ever since it began as a park in 1634. Visa said, America's oldest park is a place where we come to celebrate, we come to protest, we come to find a place alone. She added. Boston Common is home to several large pieces of art. They include the embrace, a sculpture that shows civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. holding his wife, Coretta Scott King. The Brewer Fountain was the park's first public piece of art. It won the top award at the 1855 World's Fair in Paris, France. The pieces of art found on the Common may soon change to include a wider selection of subjects. Visa said, we want people to look at it with new eyes and just have a deeper understanding and respect and awareness of the history. That history includes the native Massachusetts tribe, the first people to live where the Common is now. The state of Massachusetts is named after the Massachusetts people. Visa said, people have lived on this land for 12,000 years, so we do want to think about Colonial America because that's a fascinating story for us. But what's an even more fascinating story is to peel those layers open to think about the Native Americans living here. Visa's team is working with tribal members to develop a piece to recognize the Massachusetts tribe. They hope to have something in place by 2026 when America will celebrate its 250th birthday.  Now that many stores have gone cashless and most people do not have money in their pocket, those who once depended on handouts from strangers often end the day empty-handed. Many people without homes or jobs say they are not able to get much money from strangers anymore. John Little John is 62 years old and lives in Washington DC. He said he has been homeless for 13 years. In recent years he said people would tell him they left home without any money. I would be out here for 6 or 7 hours and wouldn't get more than $12 to $15, he said. People can use apps on their mobile phones to pay for most things, so they do not leave home with bills or coins. For a while those without homes and charities that depended on spare change suffered, but they are using technology too. Little John sells copies of a newspaper called Streetsense. It is published by a non-profit organization that says it helps homeless people. Now people who want to buy the newspaper can use an app. The money goes directly to the seller. Little John is able to pay for an apartment with the money he gets from selling Streetsense and also other jobs he does. Some people who stand outside public places such as subway stations and ask for money are called panhandlers. Sylvester Harris is one of them. He talked to a reporter near a subway station close to a large sports center in Washington DC. He said people often look like they want to give him money but they do not have coins or bills. Everybody just has credit cards or their phones now, he said. Homeless people often do not have bank accounts, credit cards or real identification that would permit them to use a mobile phone app to get money. The Cashless Society also used to be a problem for a charity organization called the Salvation Army. The group is known for sending people to stand in busy places with a big red cooking pot known as a kettle. People walk past the kettle and drop a dollar or a few coins inside. However, as more people started using their phones and credit cards to make payments, the Salvation Army was receiving less money. Now the organization permits people to make donations by tapping their phones on the red kettle. Michelle Wolfe is with the Salvation Army in Washington. She said the technology is only available in a few places around the city but it already has brought in more money. Most people give five dollars and often people give twenty dollars, she said. The head of Streetsense said he started to see a problem about ten years ago. Those who sold his newspapers said people did not have money to buy them. We were losing sales, said Brian Canmore. Times were changing and we had to change with them. He heard that a similar newspaper in Vancouver, Canada created a payment app. Now the newspaper in Washington uses the same technology. Thomas Ratliff also works for Streetsense. He is in charge of the 100 sellers around Washington. He said a big problem started in 2020 when many workers stayed home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He said people who came to Washington for work were the main buyers of the newspaper. Many of those people are still not coming into the city. Now the sellers take the subway to busier areas outside of Washington D.C. in Maryland and Virginia to sell the papers. Ratliff noted that some payment apps that do not require a bank account, Venmo and Cash App, still require a steady mobile phone number. But the sellers often change their number and then they have trouble getting paid. There is a way for homeless people without jobs to get money in the cashless society. They can use the Samaritan app. It permits people to give money to someone just by scanning a special code, a QR code with their phone. People who scan the code can read a story about the person and donate money that is meant to be used for buying food or clothing. John Kumar started the Samaritan app. Charities pay him to use his technology for their work. He said it is hard to walk past a person when you know their story. His app, he said, personalizes the person in need. The people who use the app to ask for money must meet with the case manager to claim their money. The manager can also help the person with services such as directing them to counseling or drug rehabilitation. None of the apps or new technology will solve every problem for homeless people. Many people do not have the ability to sell newspapers, for example. Others are too old to work, so they depend on asking people for money. Not everyone has a mobile phone. Kumar said some people are not a great fit for this kind of intervention. He said some people need more support than a phone app can offer. I'm Dan Friedel. VOA Learning English has launched a new program for children. It is called Let's Learn English with Anna. The new course aims to teach children American English through asking and answering questions and experiencing fun situations. For more information, visit our website LearningEnglish.voanews.com. An endangered bird in Indonesia could face new threats from development linked to the country's new capital city. The bird is the maleo, a tall animal with black feathers and a pink chest. It is native to Indonesia's Sulawesi Island and a few neighboring ones. The International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN, considers the maleo to be critically endangered. The environmental group's red list identifies wildlife across the world currently facing threats. The IUCN estimates only 8,000 to 14,000 adult maleos remain in the wild. West Sulawesi has been set up as a support area for building activities. The Indonesian government plans to move the nation's capital from Jakarta to a new city on Borneo Island. West Sulawesi and Borneo are separated by an ocean passageway called the Makasar Strait and are just a six-hour boat trip apart. Support work will take place in areas around West Sulawesi's capital Mamuju. The development is expected to include the building of new roads and seaports to be used to transport materials to the new capital named Nusantara on Borneo. Activities include tree clearing, digging and removing stones. The process already has changed the forest environment on West Sulawesi and is harming maleo nesting areas near the beach. These latest changes follow others to the bird's general environment or habitat linked to human activities in the area. These changes have made the trip for maleos to lay their eggs increasingly more difficult. The maleo is considered critically endangered because the next step is extinction, said biologist Marcy Summers. She directs the Alliance for Tompotika Conservation, a non-governmental organization working to support maleo conservation in the area. Summers noted that maleo populations had decreased by more than 80% since 1980. Experts do not know how many maleos still live around Mamuju or across West Sulawesi Island. The West Sulawesi Forestry Agency was only able to record the presence of nesting grounds in 23 villages based on reports from locals in the area, but of those only 18 are considered active nesting areas. As far as I know, maleo birds are in decline, said Andy Ako Takdir, Chief of the West Sulawesi Forestry Agency. He pointed to several reasons for the decline, including destruction of beach areas and expanding human development activities. Takdir said the government has been warning people in the area to stop establishing palm oil operations and to halt all other development around maleo nesting grounds. Officials said the government is committed to keeping the birds, even with massive development, to support the new capital city. Another problem has been thieves, also called poachers. The Associated Press reports that poachers steal maleo eggs from the sand where their parents have hidden them. Poachers sell the eggs for about $1 to people as food. The eggs are a traditional gift for many people in Mamuju and other parts of Sulawesi. Mohamed Idris is a local official in West Sulawesi. He told the AP that government officials there are prepared to take steps to protect the maleos, even with the new capital development. Idris said nature conservation must be used as an achievement and projects must not be built leaving behind problems. I'm Brian Lin. We are entering a major gift-giving season in the United States. People purchase goods and services for their loved ones, friends, co-workers, and others. But how do we talk about giving gifts? How do we use subjects, verbs, and objects to describe gift-giving? Those questions will be the subject of today's everyday grammar. Let's start with some important terms and ideas. In a recent everyday grammar lesson, we explored questions about gifts, asking what others might want in terms of a gift. In today's lesson, we will talk about statements we might make after we purchase the gift. Before we continue with the lesson, we need to identify the key elements of a sentence. The simplest way to divide a sentence is into two parts, the subject and the predicate. The subject is generally a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun. The predicate, on the other hand, says something about the subject. The predicate contains a verb, objects, indirect objects, and so on. Now that we have our basic building blocks of language, we should explore how to put them together. We will start with the predicate. Why? Because the predicate is central to today's lesson. The language we use in the predicate to describe a gift purchase often falls into a simple pattern. Transitive verb plus noun phrase 1 plus noun phrase 2. A transitive verb is one that takes a direct object. A direct object is the receiver of the verb's action. So in the pattern we just learned about, we can say that the transitive verb takes a noun phrase that acts like the direct object. Finally, we might have a second noun phrase that acts like the indirect object, the person who receives the direct object. Please note that the direct object does not always appear directly next to the verb, as we will see. Some examples will clarify this explanation. When we talk about gift giving, we often use three transitive verbs, get, buy, and give. The direct object is the gift. The indirect object is the person receiving the gift. So let's imagine we have a friend named Mary. We might say the following about Mary's gift giving decision. Mary got her son a book. In our example, the subject is Mary. The predicate is got her son a book. The direct object is a book. What did Mary get? She got a book. Who is going to receive the book? Her son. In this case, her son is the indirect object. So in the sentence Mary got her son a book, we can say that the structure is subject plus transitive verb plus noun phrase one plus noun phrase two. Here are two other examples. Let's use the transitive verbs buy and give. Jonathan bought his mother a sweater. Felicia gave her friend a painting. All of these examples are in their past forms. But we can also use these verbs in other forms as well. Let's take some time to work with these ideas. Create a sentence using the following elements. The subject is my father. The predicate consists of the verb get, the noun phrase a vase, and the noun phrase my mother. Pause the audio to consider your answer. Here is one possible answer. My father got my mother a vase. The order of the sentence is subject plus transitive verb plus indirect object plus direct object. Today we explored one pattern we often use to describe gift giving. To be clear, we use other patterns as well. One of these makes use of the prepositions two and four, but that will have to be the subject of a future lesson. I'm John Russell. You just heard this week's everyday grammar lesson. John Russell joins me now to talk a little bit more about it. Welcome John. Hi Ashley, thanks for having me on the show. Your lesson explored statements about gifts. Is there something that you left out of the lesson that you would like to discuss here? Absolutely. In most lessons, I can't include everything. There are time limitations. One key point that I did not get a chance to explore is that in our sentence pattern, subject plus transitive verb plus noun phrase one plus noun phrase two, you can in some cases substitute a pronoun in for one of the noun phrases. And that's because pronouns can stand in place of nouns. Yes, absolutely. So in the report, you heard the sentence, Mary got her son a book. We can replace the noun phrase her son with the pronoun him. If we know who him refers to. That's right. So I might say, for example, my mother got me a laptop. In this case, I use the pronoun me as the indirect object. That's right. The key point is that the lesson sentence pattern still holds. We can just substitute a pronoun in for a noun phrase in some cases. Let's do a couple more examples. We might say, Tom gave his wife a new bookshelf. We have the transitive verb gave. The direct object is the noun a new bookshelf. And the indirect object is his wife. If we knew who was being discussed, we could replace the noun phrase his wife with the pronoun her. So Tom gave his wife a new bookshelf. Could also be Tom gave her a new bookshelf. So John, what Christmas gifts do you have for people this year? Good question, Ashley. I bought my son a musical instrument called a ukulele. And I will give my daughter a toy bear.  Well, thanks so much for those explanations. And thank you for joining me on today's program. Thanks for having me on the show, Ashley. See you next time. And that's our program for today. Join us again tomorrow to keep learning English through stories from around the world. I'm Ashley Thompson. And I'm Dan Novak.


This 2021 GMC Sierra 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Denali is stock number 12051Z. We're here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, near new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2021 GMC Sierra 2500 has the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel with the L5P motor, which pumps out 445 horsepower. It is paired up with the Alice in 10-speed automatic transmission. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off, and it is 100% ready to go. Pacific Blue Metallic is a color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and want to see more like it, that we do each and every day here at Summit in the bottom right-hand part of the screen is a subscribe button. Click that, and then click the bell notifications to get updates every time we do a video here at Summit Auto, which is just about every single day. This one comes with the 20-inch polished aluminum rims, and they are in excellent shape, no scuffs or scrapes on them. And it has Goodyear Wrangler Trail Runner AT tires. These are LT275 65R20s, and they have just about all the tread left. I'd say at least 90%. Has the Z71 shocks or the Rancho shocks with the Z71 Off-Road Suspension Package frame and underbody is absolutely perfect. Front fender is very nice condition, no dents or dings. This one comes with the LED headlamps, the LED running lights, and the LED fog lamps. Front bumper is absolutely perfect, no dents or dings on there.  This one does have the 360 camera. Here's your front camera. Has the Coal Induction Hood.  The hood is absolutely perfect, no dents or dings on there. Passengers side front fender looks really good. And the passengers side rim in the front, no scuffs or scrapes on there. I always like showing these metal flake colors. You can really get a good idea of what it looks like when the sun's beaten down on it. There's a sparkle in that paint, the Pacific blue. As you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by, but just can't make the trip down, you can still see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from the comfort of your own home, especially on a high-ticket item like this one. You can have confidence that you're dealing with the right people and the right truck. Very clean down that side. This back rim is in excellent shape as well. The back tires have just as much tread as the front tires and you get this kind of felt wheel well liner which keeps the salt and stuff off your frame and underbody and the frame and underbody on this truck is an absolutely perfect condition as all the remaining factory exhaust so it hasn't been altered in any way and it does have the power running boards on there. The lower rockers look really good as well and you get this nice step on the bed to get into the back of the bed up front. And around to the back of the vehicle, rear bumper is in absolutely perfect condition. No dents or dings on there. Maybe a couple little tire shine streaks there. We can probably get that cleaned up. Does have these seven pin wiring, receiver hitch. This one has the power drop down tailgate. It also has the multi-pro tailgate so you can see that comes down like so. Before we get into the multi-pro tailgate, I just wanted to point out that it does have the spray and bed liner, the LED bed lining, fifth wheel and gooseneck prep package and the bed is very nice and clean back here. This is a handle for your step assist on the tailgate so you can put that down like so and then you can put this down and then once that is down you can grab that handle and it's easy to get up into the truck. It's got a couple different functions that you can do with it. You can put just this piece down so if you're hauling lumber or whatever, the boards can kind of hang off the top of the thing, which is pretty nice. And it's just got a couple of things and then you can even put this up if you wanted to kind of give it an extended bed, if you will, so that's pretty cool too. It does come with a nice fold up tonneau cover as well. I didn't see any dents or dings on that. Looks like it's in really nice condition and as you go down the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger's side, no dents or dings on the box. It does have the capless, or actually it's not the capless, but that's where your diesel goes and that's where your def fluid goes. Back rim is in excellent shape as well. No scuffs or scrapes and down the rest of the side of the truck looks really good. You do get the telescopic tow mirrors. They have LED side lights, blind spot monitoring, directional signals. They power fold in. They power telescope out. I'll show you how that works. This is the second. Love this interior on this truck. It comes with the brown and kind of a blue leather interior. You do get the Denali stitched into the headrest. Seats are absolutely perfect. This truck's never been smoked in. Both these front seats are heated and cooled, factory, all-weather floor mats throughout. Auto headlamps, cargo lamps, that's how you turn those LED side lights on the mirrors. Each button four-wheel drive, you got a tow mode. This is your heads-up display, which we'll check out in just a second. Power windows, power locks, power mirrors, memory driver's seat, and then you do have the power telescopic tow mirrors. They power telescope out like that and in. I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working good. Then they also power fold in, like so, and then you can see those LED side lights are extremely bright. We'll hop inside, take a look at the instrument cluster and everything that the interior has to offer. I think we got to start it out. Oh, there we go. So you can see that this truck has 5,311 miles. You do get a digital speedometer there. I'll try and dim this down a little bit. And time display, compass display, instrument cluster is very nice and clean and it's all digital up there and I'm sure you can change everything. Has the heated leather-wrapped steering wheel, Bluetooth and information center controls on the right. Cruise controls, forward collision warning controls, your heated steering wheel controls on the left. There are audio controls on the back. You get the 10-speed automatic Allison transmission with the optional tap shift. This one comes with the GMC infotainment system, AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. This one also has the factory navigation system on it as well and you can see that it does have Sirius XM radio. And then your backup camera shows up right here. Now notice you get the 360 cam. You also get the backup cam right there and you can change which camera you're looking at. It's kind of a weird look right there. You can also just check out the back one. You can check out your cargo cam, which is pretty sweet and then you can do your receiver hitch and get a view right over the hitch so you can get hooked up to your boat camper or trailer the first time every time. From back to this, you also have a projection manager where you can project your cell phone to the screen via Apple CarPlay or Android Auto and project your cell phone up there. Really cool stuff.  You can power drop that tailgate at any time, stability control, well probably not while you're driving but you get a point. Downhill assist control, you can turn the power running boards off. Factory brake controller, the USB, USB-C, 12 volt power point and then you also have, I believe it's a 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in but it might be a 120 volt. You have to look up the options here. Wireless cell phone charge pad, keyless entry with remote start with power drop down tailgate. You get this kind of neat metal looking finish to the dash that wraps around nicely dual glove boxes, passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition. Once again, love that color combination on the interior and the headliner is in excellent shape, power sunroof and you do get home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. I'm going to turn the truck off just for a second here. You get the star capabilities there and you also get the camera mirror which is kind of neat. When that's on you can actually get a video camera representation of what's going on behind the truck and you can raise it, lower it, dim it, make it brighter however you want to do it. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats, no rips or tears back here. This has the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may want to put back here. Power sliding rear window with the built in rear defrost. These backrests have storage behind them like so and then if you get storage underneath here has a little tray, receiver hitch reducer, you get that factory all weather format back here as well. And the wood grain trim and blue leather bolster on the door child safety locks on the back doors as well. These seats go down like so and we'll take a quick look under the hood. We'll start it up once again. Once again no check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video, you've been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out. Once again those LED side lights, you get them on the backs of the mirrors as well. You got the LED headlamps, the LED running lights and the LED fog lamps there. And just a really good looking truck all the way around. Very clean. I didn't see a single dent or ding on it. Under the hood we have the 6.6L Duramax diesel engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. This truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off. This truck is 100% ready to go. So this is your air induction from that Coal Hood goes right into the air box there. And this truck is 100% ready to go. I would highly recommend it from a quality and condition standpoint. You will not be disappointed in this truck. And to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftones, three quarter tons, one tons, you name it. We got it. Go to that website right there at www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of this vehicle and all the vehicles that you see there from two locations all at summitauto.com. To see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 trucks go to that website. 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Today we're opening an entire box of mystery boxes. What's up guys we're back with another epic video. In today's video I was sent a box from a viewer well I actually bought it from him but he had some mystery boxes for sale from Walmart and there's a bunch of different ones that we've opened on the channel before and we always love opening those mystery boxes. We're gonna do a little mystery box battle and see what happens. But first we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away 24 tactical master's packs. These are some of the leftover packs we had when we actually ended up pulling the scapegoat and still had a bunch of packs left over. There should be collector rears in at least some of the packs. I think we have three or four left so if you guys want to win those all you have to do is like this video, be subscribed, turn on notifications. Let me know what you want to see out of these mystery boxes. Let me know your favorite mystery box ever whether it's from Walmart, Target, wherever it was you know one of those third-party mystery boxes. This was sent to me by Tohwin a supporter of the channel. You guys probably hear him at the end of every video basically because he's been supporting my channel for a long time, friend on Instagram, stuff like that. So let's see what he sent us. I think this might have some, is this a giveaway? Oh this might be a double giveaway day. Let's see what his note says. Hey Rux, this is very light. It's lightly written. Hope you pull amazing from these mystery boxes. Always enjoy the content and want to see you pull every pack opening again or can't wait to see you pull every pack opening again. By the time you guys see this we're getting really close to 150k. I still need to record that thing. I hope we're not gonna be late. Probably gonna be late let's be honest. So we're gonna try not to but it's a very long opening. Hopefully pull some good stuff out of it. I'm excited about it as well. And then here's some packs to add to the giveaway. Toen aka Toenfo Show. That is him. So he sent these to be added to the giveaway. So you guys can win a ton of packs if you guys have won this giveaway. By the way, giveaways only announced on the YouTube community tab. Not in the comments. Keep that in mind. Those are scammers. We have a magical hero, Kaiba Yugi. We've got ourselves Destiny. We've got the Sorcerers of the Rose, a couple of those. We've got Eternity Code First Edition. Oh a dual salience. That's an old pack. And then, oh a First Edition Portuguese pack. That's really fun for metal raiders as well. You can get that pecanium. And speaking of pecanium moth, we have a pecanium moth. A pecanium moth. Lava moth, lava moth, lava moth. The palebeast, palebeast, palebeast, palebeast, palebeast, palebeast. You'll have to see those. These he didn't say to add to the giveaway. So I might actually hang on to these. And then when people ask for like signatures and stuff, we've got a little bit of extras. So there we go. All right. So now we're gonna do a three-way mystery box battle. I want you guys to put in the comments which one you think will win. That can be part of the giveaway entering as well. So we have a chaos box. We have a monster box. I'll just kind of like bit my tongue or something. That kind of hurt. And then we have a mystery box. So this is a real underdog because there are only two packs in this thing. So if this thing wins, it'd be pretty impressive. It does have those players' choice sleeves though, which are really quality and nice. So I guess we're gonna do this by starting with the underdog because it has the lowest chance of winning, I would say, and see what we can pull and then we'll go to the chaos box and then the monster box. I think that these sleeves should probably count as what? At least $5. Probably more than that. I would say 10. We're gonna be a little generous with this mystery box because it has less packs. So we're gonna say, count those players' choice sleeves as $10. They're pretty nice. I mean, they are definitely valuable. So let's see what we can get. Is it one of the nice packs? We have a soul fusion. That's a nice pack. And then we have a $10 pack of sleeves, what we're gonna say. Probably a little bit expensive, but we're gonna go with that in the Dark Neo Storm. So we did not get one of the crazy ones. So we're gonna have to have something pretty good to have a chance here. Maybe we could get, you know, like Secret Rare or something. Let's start with Dark Neo Storm. Fusion Destiny is still a car that's worth a little bit, but it's not too insane. So that would be a decent one. We'll take it if we get it. We got the Firewall Guardian, World Legacy Cliffhanger, Deus Excrawler. Oh, I should have done the pack trick. Let's do that. So we don't, you know, spoil it too early. We got the Dino Wrestler, Escramemenchi. What is that? Goki the Solid Ogre, the Assault Sentinel, Deus Excrawler, Pegasus Wing. We have a, oh, Super Rare, Super Quantum Mecha Beast, Luster Rex and World Child's Guard Dragon, Almora Duke. Okay. That is just rare. That is not going to help too much in terms of the value. Next, let's go into Soul Fusion, the Fusion of the Soul. We have Galaxy Cleric. There's some decent cards in here. So let's see if we can pull a nice Secret Rare. Austin Otto, Patchwork Fluffle, the Agave Dragon, Solomon Grey Jack Jaguar, Bear Blocker, Dino Rester, King T. Rexal, Herald of the Abyss. All right, that's our Super Rare. And then we have a Necro Valley Temple. So it looks like this box is gonna end right around $10 just on these sleeves. So that's kind of the benchmark we're set at, but it's gonna be pretty hard to win with that. Next up, Chaos Box. This doesn't have a lot of packs in it. So there's a potential to like completely bomb and, you know, lose to $10 because at least $10 is solid, you know, value to start with. Let's start off with, I think, this one? What is this? A Hidden Summoners. Actually, a pretty solid pack. So I think you can get some decent stuff out of here. Let's start with this one. What can the Chaos Box do? Can it beat the, whatever that other one was called? I already forgot. Wait, where'd I put it? I lost it. I don't know. Fulfillment of the Contract Super Rare. We got the Ritual Foregone. Very nice. Fusion Recycling Plant. The Rebirth of Nephthys. We have a Gold Sarkov. Because that might be worth, oh, that's Secret Rare. Wait, this could maybe have a dollar value. So that might be like a decent hit. Okay. Secret Rare Gold Sark. You don't see that very often. Looks really, very, very beautiful. Next up, we have, let's go with this one. Oh, a Duelist Alliance. That's actually pretty sick. I don't think they count this as your legacy pack either. So that's pretty solid. This is also in the giveaway as well. If you guys remember, this is a giveaway pack. I've never really pulled anything good out of Duelist Alliance. So I would love to start now. There's Ghost Rares in here, Ultimate Rares in here. Should all stuff. What is it? Not, I was about to say Tier Elements. What are those, the little knight guys? What are they called? Curse of the Shadows. Let's just pull one. Shout out. There's the Scamanda. That's good. Satellar Knight and Stellar Knight. Yeah, those, those. Yeah, those. That's what I was talking about. Hippo Carnival. Very cool. The Bricksea Water of the Yangsings. That are super. Oh wait, that it. Okay, that pops up way earlier than I thought. Residence Insect is a very good common. There's some good commons. I later got like, foil reprints and OTS packs and stuff like that one. Okay, so this is losing to the sleeves right now. I'm just going to say, I think this is the Mega Pack. Yeah, Mega Pack 2018. So what was in 2018? This is kind of when I got back into it was 2018, early 2018. Let's see. World Legacy Clash, Luna Light Crimson Fox, Contact C, Launcher Commander, Fire Prison, Auto Navigator, the Heavy Storm Duster. That's a super rare. Okay, what's coming next? Oh, Mythical Beastmaster Service. I think that's at least a couple bucks. That's a good hit. Oh, we got a Ruxen Special with the Broken Line. I don't know anything about that card as a battery man on it. Okay, so maybe we got a little bit of decent stuff there. Pulse Minds. I know that card from Dual Links a way back with that ancient gears. Yeah, old school Dual Links players. Anybody? Let's say they're still losing those. This is going to be interesting. We have a Dark Saviors. Pretty good potential here. I think you can pull like Sky Striker stuff in here, which has some value like the Widow Anchor and stuff. Plague Spreader Zombie, very nice. The Quick Booster. The Seal Strategist for hire. I like that stuff. This is for hire stuff, school. Crimson Knight, Vampire Bram. And we have a, I thought we might have the Widow Anchor. We have a Jamming Waves, which I think this is a couple bucks too. So we're kind of slowly dinking and dunking there, you know, trying to get something good. And the Final Pack is might be the one that has to win it for him. Oh, it is the Legend of Blue Eyes Pack. That's beautiful. Got to need a pull because I don't think we have $10 yet. So this is going to be interesting. Will the sleeves by themselves become the best mystery box, which would be pretty funny. There's a big old ding right there. Hopefully that's the only card it is. One, two, three, four.  Yeah, let's get ourselves some blue eyes. We have a Vile Germs. The Petite Angel, a quick moving and tiny fairy that's very difficult to hit. Okay, very agile. Doesn't really look agile. It's a big circle. So it's kind of weird. The Suckiest Knight, a warrior wizard, adept in casting Bone Chilling Spells. That's a wizard. I think I've ever read that flavor text. I did not know she was a wizard. We've got the Karama. Very nice. Green Phantom King. Very, very nice. Oh, also, wait a second. That actually reminds me of one of my TikToks. You guys remember a long time ago when I was talking about how Cosmo Queen was, you know, more powerful than the Dark Magician. I was like Ultimate Wizard and Tagging Defense. I showed the Cosmo Queen. Everyone was like, well, she's not a wizard. No, no, no. A warrior wizard. Huh? Yeah, there you go. TikTok comments. Yeah, take that. All right, let's go. We got the Green Phantom King. I got to keep that for later. I'm going to add that with the Larva's Knight. The Machine Conversion Factory. Can we get something? I think it's a rare next. Two pronged attack. All right. Can we end it with a big foil? Let's go. We have a Celtic. I feel like a more Celtic Guardian all the time. Celtic Guardian. Super rare. This is going to be close. I don't know like the values, but I think we are very close to $10. That one might be like a dollar or two. Very interesting. The most interesting thing being Succubus Knight is a wizard. So very interesting to learn that. All right, our final box. It is going to be tough. Maybe we, you know what we should have done? Those two should have combined forces against this. I think that's what we should do because honestly, like right now, nine packs, I mean, how are they possibly going to lose? I don't know. We'll see. We'll see what happens. I might have to combine forces with those other two boxes to have a chance. This is probably my favorite Mr. Box they've made from like Walmart and stuff like that. Not Walmart, but whoever makes it. Who made this? Does it actually say? MJ Holding. Okay. MJ Holding actually did something good for once. So I'll say that this was a quality Mr. Box. It's like 30 bucks. You get nine really solid packs. I mean, can't complain too much about that. They're pretty consistent too.  All right. Our first pack is Breakers of Shadow. So you're like pretty decent. I think this is one of the worst packs you usually get to. So it's still not too bad. Let's see if we can pull a nice Buster Blader card we have. Score. The Mlody is Diva. Following. Forbidden Apocrypha. This got like a, wasn't this in Duel Devastator, something like that? Performance Hurricane. Not Performable Bow. Surenary Samurai Saga.  The Ultimate Providence. Oh, that's a Secret Rare. Whoa. Okay. Ultimate Providence, Secret Rare. I know that this does have a little bit of value. This card was pretty good in Duel Links for a while. It's like a negate.  Secret Rare. That is a good start for those. They might already won. Probably wasn't $10, but it's close. Next pack up, that is a very good pull. We have a Duel Links Alliance. We have seen three of these packs today. We've pulled two out of Mr. Boxes. One for the giveaway from Toan. Pretty amazing. Once again, make sure to let Toan know in the comment. I don't think I actually said that before. So maybe not once again, but let him know. I think last time it was like four and then you had to swap these. Let's do that. Can we pull the Ghost Shard? I've never pulled this Ghost Shard. You guys know I want to pull every Ghost Shard at some point. Let's just do it now for this one. Him of Light, Performer Pal, Hip Hippo, UA Stadium, White Prince, Artifact Lancia, Battle Guard Rage, Metaphis Arm Dragon, Performer Pal, Colitis Scorp, and we have a Chaos Sea. That is just a comment. So no foil in that pack. Yeah, that pack's so old that we're not a foil in every single pack. That's two packs. Then we have seven to go. Next is a Shining Victories, which I kind of like always considers like the brother set, Upbreakers of Shadow.  One, two, three. Let's see if we can pull that Blue Eyes Shining Dragon. The Synchro, what is it called? Blue Eyes Spirit Dragon. There we go. Digital Bug, Centibit, Rae Raker, Avenge Vulture, Dynamist Eruption. Look at the Digital Bug. Scoradiator? Okay. Scoradiator, I think is that. Gendo the Ascintic Monk, the Bug Emergency, Finite Cards, not Infinite Cards from LOD. This is Finite Cards. And then a Morphage of Goliath. Yes, Goliath himself, nine feet tall. And then we have a Lunalight Blue Cat. Continuing on. So really, we pulled a Seeker and kind of slowed down. Ooh, Dimension of Chaos. Now that's an old pack, 2015. I think actually Dual Slimes is older, but you don't get to see these very often either. We once opened hundreds of these packs and pulled the Ghostryers left and right. It was insane. We pulled so many good pulls. So many good pulls. So many Ghostryers. It just sounded weird when I saw that despot jet. Cosmo Lightsport. Frey for March. We got the DD Savante Kepler. Cosmo Wicked Witch. Performapal, Performage, Mirror Conductor. It's so confusing. This Performapal, Performage. Very difficult to keep track of. Shuffle Reborn. Nice. We have Rank Up Magic Raid Force. Wait, I think there's not a foil in this one yet. It can be a foil enough yet. There could be, could and maybe not. So in that one, there was not. All right. Maybe they don't need to band together. They're kind of making a comeback and served two breakers of shadow. That's kind of weird. Okay. But our only good pull came out of breakers of shadow. So we can't really complain about that. We have Magispector Sonics. Forbidden Apocrypha. Performapal, Bitbite Turtle. He's Bit. He's Bite. He's Turtle. Dynamus Charge. Super Every Samurai General Jade. Dynamus Brachion. Dynamus Stegosaur. And a Magispector Supercell. So this is, wait, this is guaranteed, I think. Yeah, this is guaranteed. Oh, look, a Kaiju. That might actually be worth a couple bucks. Kaiju pull. All right. Very solid. Okay. Next, we have Flames of Destruction. This could have Ghost Bell, which unfortunately, not unfortunately, but it's been reprinted. So it's probably not as valuable anymore. I guess that's still a good thing. But here we go. We got the Trickstar Mandrake. Cyberversal Cyclone. The Background Dragon. Kinden Kendo Spirit. Crystal Keeper. Prompthorn. Palace of the Elements of Lords. Okay. We have an Ultra Rare. I don't know if that's any good. I don't really even know this card. So it's probably not that great, but we've got a couple cards out for that. All right. Not too bad. This is actually going to be really close around $10. What's up next? Oh, Fusion Enforcers. And yes, we will be looking for that Alistair and Invoked Stuff. Let's go. I don't remember if it's at the front or not. Let's just do this. Polymerization. We got the Super Solar Nutrient. This might actually be worth something. I think it's worth like $3. So that's actually a big pull. Performing Pal of Trump, which, okay, it might be next. Battle Fusion. Nope, I was right. It was at the front. And Fusion. Oh, Fright for Kraken. Okay. I think for some reason I have a feeling that this is not that bad. Fright for Kraken. I don't know. That seems like a pretty good pack. The Super Rare Poly is actually really valuable. Not really valuable, but valuable. A couple more packs to go. They might have won it with that. Oofero's Servant. You know, it really could win it. You need to slam dunk. Jinzo. Jinzo himself. Three, four. Swap him up. Give us the Seeker Rare. We have Four Star Ladybug of Doom. Insect Barrier. Armour Gloss. Skull Mirror. By Choose. Driving Snow. Cyber Falcon. Hayabusa Knight. And we have a Limiter Removal. Okay, that is a Super Rare. So, I mean, this one does not have a lot of foiling on it, which is very interesting. I kind of like cards like this. Very subtle. Very nice. Old school. Limiter Removal. Pretty good card, actually, in some certain case. You know, hit it with that Cyber Dragon goes a little crazy. All right. How many packs do we have left? Two packs? Okay. Secret Forces. Let's see. So many packs. No, there's ten packs in here. Not nine. Yeah, there's just so many, so many packs. They're very, very solid in terms of value. Altitude Knight. We have the Divine Wind of the Mist Valley. Preparation of Rights. That's a dollar. Very nice. Jin, Presider of Rituals, and Necrozz Kaleidoscope. If you guys remember, I think it was an Oxen series episode. I could not pull this card. I couldn't ritual summon all my Necrozz stuff. I pulled it all, but I couldn't ritual because I had no ritual spells. One more to go. Maximum Crisis. Ash Blossom. Will we pull it? We have pulled it before. We opened 300 packs of this and pulled some stuff, but other than that, I've never pulled it. Other than that big opening, which we really, you know, had a great chance to pull it with so many packs. Breakaway. We have the Kaiser Sea Snake. Diamond Dustin. Firecracker. Zodiac Hammer Kong. The Prologue of Destruction Swordsman. Oh, Ignis Heat, the true Draco, that snuck up on me and it popped up way before I thought it would. That's an ultra rare. Okay. That was a lot closer than I thought it was going to be though. I'm giving those sleeves like a $10 value actually made that super close. I think the monster may have pulled it off, but you guys are going to see right now what the value is right in front of you. And you guys can see one, but it was pretty fun. If you guys enjoyed this, make sure to let me know in the comments and make sure to like the video and subscribe for more epic content like this. We're almost to 150k where we're opening every single pack in Yu-Gi-Oh history, first edition if possible. 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