The National Broadcasting Company, in conjunction with the Fund for Adult Education, presents Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville. Guard your glasses, gentlemen, for the thirteenth and final toast whose sentiments are time-honored and traditional. I give you the Fair Sex, always entitled to our protection. The Fair Sex! Albany, New York, July the 4th, 1831. How true, that if you want to understand American manners and American society, you must first understand the situation of the American woman. Any woman is a lady. A study in American manners, item five in the series Democracy in America, prepared by the Division of General Education of New York University, under the direction of George Probst, American historian. A series designed to bring to life the America of 1831, as recorded by Alexis de Tocqueville, and so to illuminate the image of democracy itself. A study in American manners, any woman is a lady. The moment I have not been in America long before we noticed that the first and most intense passion that is produced by equality is the love of that same equality. Indeed, everybody has remarked that now, in 1831, and especially in our native France, this passion for equality is every day gaining ground in the human heart. But the principle may be established in civil society without prevailing in the political world. In America, there is a good deal of both, and the signs of both are to be found everywhere in society. One class, one price. But the best cars are, of course, reserved for ladies and folks with them. The roughest character understands that a lady, and I need hardly tell Frenchman that any woman is a lady, has an absolute right to the front seat of the show, the head of the table, the best cabin, and so forth. Rich or poor, mistress or maid, those are her rights as an American female. And mark this, one lone female, old or young, pretty or ugly, may travel from one end of the United States to the other and find nothing but respect from every man she meets. Well it's true, equality of conditions and greater mildness and customs are related to each other. So I certainly can't admit that there is nothing commendable in the manners of a democratic people. In a democratic age, men rarely sacrifice themselves for one another. But they do display general compassion for the human race. Only because of equality, Tocqueville. The same man who's full of humanity towards his fellow creatures, when they're his equals, becomes insensible to afflictions as soon as that equality ceases. Ah, but wait, Beaumont. There are servants in American society and they are well treated. How do you explain that? They aren't even called servants. What do they call them? The help. They don't call them servants because they don't think of them as servants. Not as we think of servants in France. In a democracy, at any moment, a servant may become a master. The servant is therefore not a different man from the master. They talk familiarly to each other. They eat with each other. To give a man a tip would insult and humiliate him. One evening, gentlemen, I was at the house of the president of Harvard University. We were waited on a tea by the Butler. One of the president's help, who's also a major of the militia. Now on cavalry days, when guests are invited to dine with the regiment, the major dresses in his regimentals takes the head of the table and has the president of the Harvard at his right hand. And there is no embarrassment. Not a bit on either side. And when the toasts are over, he goes home, takes off his regimentals, and waits on everybody a tea and still no embarrassment. For all honest callings are honorable. That gentleman is democracy. That indeed is democracy, which does not attach men deeply to one another, but places that have habitual relations on a much easier footing. Men, but what about women? We are in America, Beaumont, ladies. Oh, beg your pardon, ladies. What about them? Really, Beaumont, to judge from your intent observation, I should have thought you were the authority on American ladies. And I won't have a word said against them. They are paragons of virtue. It really is remarkable. Every American lady is a guardian of morality. True enough, and Americans respected admire them, without, however, having much time for them. Americans are so busy, restless, even in the midst of their prosperity. And yet, you know, Beaumont, the Americans are the freest and the most enlightened men in the world today. In spite of their being so serious, even in their pleasures. I must say, Mr. Livingstone, that I am finding this a charming party. I usually find this kind of affair pretty dull, myself. It is a social affair, and it has social interest. Your friend, Mr. Beaumont, seems to be enjoying himself. He's already an admirer of American ladies, so indeed am I. We find them very fresh and natural. You will also find them, sir, very moral. Well, that I am sure you had better be very sure. Our ladies have free and open manners, but their standard of morality is high, very high, extremely high, exceedingly high, excessively high. I assure you, sir, neither I nor my friend will ever have occasion to test the truth of your assertion. Good. This saves misunderstandings, and one of the drawbacks of American society is that it has a short way with misunderstanding. One of the drawbacks? Are there others? Well, I shouldn't tell you, but I will. There are drawbacks, yes. In my opinion, the chief drawback is the want of intellectual toll. We're in society everywhere, surely. Brainlessness is set at the premium. Oh, I can still remember, Mr. Tocqueville, when I was young, having seen this country people with rich proprietors who lived on their lands in the states, they cultivated the mind and followed certain traditions of thought and manners. Now, then, this inheritance law, giving all the heirs equal shares in the estate, has constantly worked to destroy and redistribute the fortunes. Their ideals became lost and will soon become extinct. Land changes hands with unbelievable speed. No one has time to become attached to a place. The people have no roots in the country. Everyone has to resort to practical work, to trade, to maintain himself, and the position his father occupies. Is there anything in America resembling the prestige of landed proprietors? No, sir. A man only counts from what he himself is worth. How do the wealthy classes like this? Well, you might as well put up with it, since there's no way of preventing it. In that case, is there not hard feeling between the wealthy classes and the rest of the people? None whatsoever. All classes, without exception, took part in the War of Independence. Since then, the power of democracy has been so great and so invincible that no one has spoken against it. And in general, the people as a whole elect to office the wealthiest and the best educated. I see. Of course, what strikes me most in America is the extreme equality in social relationships. The rich men and the laborer shake hands publicly in the street. Equality, yes. Yes, we have equality, a great deal of it. But perhaps just a little less than you might suppose at first glance. The rich don't have to sacrifice their money. They only need to sacrifice their pride. You see, in a democracy, you attach the poor to you not so much by the benefits you give them, as by your manners. But these manners are sometimes no more than formal expressions of feeling. In what way? Well, in this way. The handshake that you see in the street may mean no more than subscribing yourself at the end of a letter. Your very humble servant. Ah, I understand. You see, in America, it is vital to be polite to everybody. Or everybody has political rights. Of course, here in New York, there's a good deal of financial pride. Among the newly rich, that is. We Americans recognize something that has recognized the whole world over. The aristocracy of money. Oh, so there is an aristocracy after all. Well, if you can use the word aristocracy for a class that changes all the time and has pretensions, but no power.  Shall we move into the other room? The horses ran away. I will not argue about this anymore. Ah, hello, Beaumont. What have you found out now? Opinions in a democracy have by no means unanimous. And you? That the ladies are charming. And virtuous. Oh, that is the greatest part of their charm. I must say that if one were to enter American society with the purpose of accomplishing seductions, one would find one's time largely wasted. American society then has several aspects. Equality, of course. Then the love of wealth, which makes for monotony in the midst of animation. There are no masters and servants as we know them. And in no country has such constant care been taken as in America to trace two clearly distinct lines of conduct for the two sexes and to make them keep pace with one another, but in two pathways that are always distinct. This, very sensibly, is the way the Americans understand the equality of the sexes, that each should fulfill its respective task in the best possible way. But the public attitude towards American ladies must sometimes be very irksome. Yes, sir, you can certainly say that. I put in 10 or 12 hours a day in the counting house. And then I find when I go into society that I have to handle the ladies as if they were poor, helpless, pitiable creatures. The ladies must be waited upon. The ladies must be helped. The ladies must be put into the carriage. The ladies must be taken out of the carriage. The ladies must be- Do you regret these little attentions, sir? Regret them? No, I can't say that. But I'd like to have a little more choice about who I bestow them on. You hardly ever get a chance of making yourself agreeable to a particular individual, you know?  But as you describe it, the adoration consists of a sort of phallitism in which no particular goddess has a temple dedicated to herself alone. I don't know about that, sir, but I'll tell you this. When an American gentleman meets a lady, he looks upon her as the representative of her sex. And it is to her sex not to her own peculiar, amiable qualities that she has indebted for his attention. Equality again, Beaumont. All American ladies must be treated equally. Hence the high morality? No. Equality of conditions cannot ever make men chaste. But it may make their immorality less dangerous. No American has the time or opportunity to assail a virtue armed in self-defense. So you will expect to find, at the same time, a great number of courtesans and of virtuous women. Remember, Dr. Ville, our conversation with the gentleman in Boston? When we asked him if it was true that morals are as pure here as they pretend. Well, let me see. Morals are less good in the lower classes than among the enlightened. However, I think them superior to the same classes in Europe. As for the educated, their morals are as perfect as it is possible to imagine them. I don't believe that there is a single intrigue in Boston society. Not one. A woman suspected would be lost. Mind you, the women here are very coquettish. They even display their cockatry with greater boldness than with you, because they know they cannot go beyond a certain point. And no one believes they overstepped the bomb. To tell you the truth, gentlemen, I prefer European women with all their weaknesses to the glacial and egotistical virtue of American ladies. How do these young women learn to be so virtuous? What is their education like? To begin with, of course, paternal authority is strangely lacking. Whenever we hear of elopements, public sympathy is almost always with the daughter and against the father. An American girl has scarcely ceased to be a child when she already thinks for herself, speaks with freedom, and acts on her own impulse. But the education of young girls is not without its peculiarities, as you would know if you were to hear a group of ladies talking. Listen to that piano. Surely that girl knows nothing about music. She's been practicing that same piece ever so long. That's a fact. My daughter went to the same school with her. And except for astronomy and trigonometry, Susan beat her in everything. Susan can play the storm. And her music master tells me when a young lady can once do that, she can do anything. Oh, ma. And she's doing just as well in history. How far have you got with it, Susan? About two-thirds through with the book.  Prima-dame, what boarding school is it your daughter went to? It's kept by the Mrs. Jones, three miles from Albany. And what branches are taught in that school? Susan, you tell the gentleman. We had reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, grammar, geography, history, maps, the globe, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, astronomy, natural philosophy, chemistry, boundary, mineralogy, geology, and zoology in the morning. And dancing, drawing, painting, French, Italian, Spanish, and German in the afternoon. Greek and the higher branches of mathematics were only studied by the tall girls. And how many masters were there for teaching all that? Oh, the two Mrs. Jones teach everything. They wouldn't allow a gentleman to enter the house. I know this to be a fact. And that's the reason their school is so popular. It is principally on the score of morality I sent Susan there. And what is the usual age of the young ladies? They take them from the age of five to the age of 18. Well, madam, I trust that your daughter will marry a gentleman capable of appreciating her education. And yet it is so difficult to judge of men in these times. There was not one girl of 10 of my acquaintance knew a word of Latin and mathematics. And yet we all married respectable men. But they say this is the progress of education. And I don't wish Susan to be inferior to other girls. Boys don't cost half as much. They learn everything they want at the counting house. And what they learn there sticks to them as long as they live. American education, even at its best, tends to make cold and virtuous women instead of affectionate wives and agreeable companions to man. Society may be more tranquil and better regulated, but domestic life often has fewer charms. These, however, are secondary evils, which may be braved for the sake of higher interests. A democratic education is indispensable to protect women from the dangers with which democratic institutions and manners surround them. But then in America, the independence of women is irrecoverably lost in the bonds of matrimony. But surely there are compensations, increased attentions from their husbands, or we businessmen have no time for cooing. An American man of business so rarely shows his family a sign of tenderness and affection that there's a nickname for those households where, after an absence, the husband kisses his wife and children. We call them kissing families. Generally, of course, the first objective is trade. Everything else is subordinate. However, we don't have too many disappointments. You mean unhappy marriages? That's right. You see, suppose one of our young men marries a woman whose tastes and character are essentially different from his own. Well, in our way of life, he may never know it. The points of contact are so few. The sphere of action of each party is so well-defined by custom and law. And the occupation of the man outside the house so constant that he may become the father of a large family and die without finding out his mistake. Within this pragmatic society where everyone is engaged in business, American girls have theirs, too, that of finding a husband. To every girl over 16, marriage is the great interest in life. In France, she desires it. In America, she hunts it. They are quite right. It is an important question. As you know, I feel strongly that whatever affects the condition of women, their habits and their opinions has great political importance. Women in America are the guardians of status. Equality, you see, is not quite everything. There is an aristocracy, usually of money. And woe betide the unhappy girl whose family is trying to enter the American aristocracy.  I'm sure I'd never seen her before. Do you know her? Oh, indeed I don't. Wonder how she got here. Don't stare at her too hard. She'll blush. Why not? I'm sure that material is not worth 75 cents a yard. And who's that unlicked cub that's with her? Heaven alone knows. I daresay just come from the woods.  I hope she isn't going to dance. If she does, I should leave the room. I shan't stay either. Let us look no longer on this tender victim of a more fashionable society. She is now only serving her apprenticeship, but she will soon rise to the rank of an ancient in the Clic and then treat every newcomer in precisely the same manner she is treated now. But status in society has another aspect, which we saw at its height in a theater in Baltimore. When we first entered, I was surprised at the care with which the spectators of white skin were distinguished from the black faces. I see. In the first gallery are the whites. In the second are the milattos. In the third are the negroes. You must realize, sir, that the dignity of the whites requires this sort of classification. Talk of you look. Well, in the milattos gallery, over to the left, an extraordinarily beautiful young woman. And surely she's white. I see her. That woman is colored. Colored? She is whiter than a lily. She is colored. The tradition of the country establishes her origin and everyone knows that she numbers a milatto among her ancestors. But a little near the center in the whites gallery, surely I see a face that is at least half black. Now what is she doing there? The lady who now attracts your attention is white. White? Well, her complexion is white. The tradition of the country says that the blood flowing in her veins is Spanish. Social status is important even in the land of equality. And the equality itself varies from one sphere to another. In Massachusetts, for instance, negroes have the rights of citizenship. They may vote in elections. But prejudice is so strong that it is impossible to receive their children in schools. However, I see no more of this aspect of American society but return to the situation of American women who so jealously garb their division into classes. All men are equal. But you do not hear that assertion from the lips of a lady. It is almost in vain to talk of female republicanism. There exists and can exist no such being on either side of the Atlantic for human nature is the same on both. American women are, however, also the guardians of culture and remarkably mediocre it is. In the United States, men rarely even read. They haven't the time. Women are charged with this duty. And they report on all political and literary publications to either their fathers or their husbands so that the men can discuss them as if they had read them. As for music? As for music. Well, when the music starts, it is a signal for conversation. And this is very understandable when you have heard a certain amount of American music. Oh, listen to that. Well, you know, she does her best. How is it possible to applaud such singing like this? There is not a simplicity or a taste. Now, they are feeling or execution in the performance. And this storm of applause is not the reason. For the Lord's sake, don't say that loud enough for other people to hear you. It would deprive you, Mr. Beaumont, of many an innocent pleasure you would perhaps otherwise enjoy during your stay in the city. Our elite never forget the difference of opinion to one of their own clique. How much more, then, must a foreigner be on his guard? You'll forgive me. In society, this is a free country, sir. Every man may do or think what he pleases only. He must not let other people know it. You might just as well attack one of our fashionable preachers. Doc Ville got into more such difficulties. The singer, a lady, about 45 springs is passionately fond of music and unhappy passion, if ever there was one. She howled for two hours as if possessed by devils. And what was Doc Ville doing hearing all this? Seated near the piano with a smiling face, he was approving, applauding each tirade. I was merely being polite. And then you sat down and rolled back to our friends that America was an El Dorado for husbands. So it is. American wives live their whole lives bounded by domesticity. Besides, I had advice. Mr. Doc Ville, if you heard an oratorio performed by our Handel and Haydn Society, you would perhaps change your mind. That society is almost entirely composed of working men who cultivate music from taste. What a singular society in which the laboring classes cultivate the arts from taste and in which the rich people listen to it from obligation. Oh, excuse me, sir. I've smiled long enough at this. I should be obliged to lead the home. Will you accompany me? Oh, no, I'd like to, but people would notice. And I live here, you know, among the Romans, do as the Romans do. By the way, if anybody asks you about the concert and especially about that lady, say you were delighted. That's the word now. There's no use in making yourself enemies. Delighted, sir. Don't forget. Delighted. Good. Delighted. That was my advice and very sensible, too. And what did you really think, Tocqueville? I was delighted. That's the word, Beaumont, delighted. After all, they are a serious nation not given to frivolity. How can they cultivate taste, not for a while at any rate? Tocqueville, you are cynical. I assure you I am not. American society is a very remarkable thing. And its cornerstone is those very remarkable American women, the guardians of class, of culture, and above all, the guardians of morality. Men and women are both considered beings of equal value. And as for myself, though I do not hesitate to avow that the women of the United States are confined within the narrow circle of domestic life, and their situation is in some respects one of extreme dependence, I have nowhere seen women occupying a loftier position. And if I were asked finally to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of the Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply to the superiority of their women. You have just heard any woman is a lady, a study in American manners, item five, in a series based on Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. This series, presented by the National Broadcasting Company, was prepared by the Division of General Education of New York University under the direction of George Probst, American historian, produced in the studios of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation by Andrew Allen, scripted by Lister Sinclair, music by Lucio Agostini. This series, Democracy in America, is made possible by a grant from the Fund for Adult Education as part of a general course of study of the nature of American society. Teachers of American history and American civilization and adult education leaders may be interested in using these dramatizations and other materials which are available for study and discussion at a reasonable charge. For information, write to American Foundation for Continuing Education, post office box 749, Chicago 90, Illinois. Now this has been Grower inviting you to listen next week to The Cement of Democracy, item six on Democracy in America. 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Previously in this lecture series, we've learned about quadratic functions, and as part of that, we've learned about graphs of quadratic functions, which we often call parabolas. Now, long before the invention of algebra, mathematicians have been studying parabolas, so how do they study it if they didn't have a formula like y equals x squared or something more complicated than that? Well, to the ancient geometers, a parabola was considered a collection of all points in the plane that are the same distance from some fixed point f, which we'll call the focus of the parabola, and some fixed line d, which we call the directorics of the parabola. So as an example, you see a parabola illustrated here on the screen, where the focus would be a point like this right here, and then the directorics will be a line as illustrated here in blue. And hence, the parabola is the locus of all points, which is equidistant from the point to the focus and from the point to the directorics. Now, just so we're clear, the distance from a point to a line is actually the shortest path from that point to the line, which is necessarily going to be the right angled path, like so. And so then the parabola is just a collection of all points, which are equidistant from this line to the focus. And you see several examples of that right here. Now, let me discuss a little bit of the anatomy of a parabola. We've mentioned already the focus and the directorics. If we take the line that passes through the focus and is perpendicular to the directorics, there's a unique such line, and this line is called the axis of symmetry of the parabola. It gets its name because the parabola will always be reflective. It'll be symmetric across the axis of symmetry, and it can always pass us to the focus, which will sit inside of the parabola over here. This, if we take the midpoint between the midpoint between the focus and the directorics, which will live on the axis of symmetry here, because it's the midpoint, the distance between the focus at that point and the distance from that point to the directorics will be the same. And therefore, this is a point on the parabola, which we call the vertex of the parabola. And this does coincide with the previous notion of vertex of parabola, as we mentioned before. The next thing I want to mention is that if we take the line that's parallel to the directorics that goes through the focus. And we look at the points on the parabola associated to this line. We form a chord of the parabola, which is referred to as the focal diameter of the parabola. It kind of measures how big the parabola is going to be. Now, so say that we say that the distance between the vertex and the focus is some distance p p for parabola, I guess, and because of the equidistance condition the distance from the vertex the directorics would likewise be p. So if we look at the endpoints of the focal diameter, then the distance between those endpoints to the directorics will be the same as the distance from the focus of the directorics, which would be 2p. And therefore, the distance from the focus to the endpoints of the focal diameter would likewise be 2p. And because of symmetry, we see that on both sides. And therefore, when you put the focal diameter together, this tells us that the diameter has a has a girth of 4p, which that'll come up again in just a second. So what I want to do next is actually connect this geometric notion of equidistance between a point and a line to the usual algebraic formula of parabolas that we've seen previously. So we say that a parabola is horizontal if its axis of symmetry is a horizontal line, like the one we see illustrated below. Similarly, we'll say a parabola is vertical if its axis of symmetry is a vertical line. And so for simplicity, suppose that a parabola is horizontal and it passes its center, its vertex of the parabola is the origin. Again, like the picture you see right here. Now, if the origin is the vertex of the parabola, that actually says that the axis of symmetry will be the x axis itself, again, illustrated in the diagram below. In such a situation, the equation for this parabola will actually be given as y squared equals 4px, where x and y have the usual meaning and 4p, like we saw before, was the focal diameter of the parabola. Now in this situation, the focus would be located at the point p comma 0, the directorics would be located at the line x equals negative p, and then we're going to derive an equation using this relationship right here. So by the equidistance of the parabola, we see that the distance from any point on the parabola from the point to the focus is the same as the distance from the directorics to that point. Now let's say that point has the coordinates x comma y, just kind of a generic point there. Then by the distance formula, the distance from the focus to the point would be x minus p squared plus y minus 0 squared. That's the distance from the focus to the point. This will be the same thing as the distance from the point to the directorics, for which, just to be clear, we're looking at this point right here, which is going to be negative p comma y.  Squaring both sides and simplifying this thing, we're going to end up with x minus p squared plus y squared is equal to x plus p squared. Of course, you can y minus y, which is 0, so that disappears.  Combining like terms, we're going to see that the x squared actually cancel out and the p squared is likewise cancel out. And then if we add 2px to both sides, we skip the formula we had above, we see that y squared is going to equal 4px. That's giving us the formula we had above. That gives us a formula for the horizontal parabola centered at the origin. By similar argument, if you have a vertical parabola, that is, it centers the origin and its focus is at the point 0 comma p, this will actually recapture the usual notion of a parabola that we're used to, x squared equals 4py. Now to see that, we would solve for y and we get 1 over 4px squared. This is, this would be a usual function, right? And so recognizing here that p just equal, like, if you take the standard parabola, I should say, y equals x squared, this is just the situation where you have 1 over 4 times 1 fourth x squared. So the standard parabola that we're used to is just the parabola who's the distance between the vertex and the focus is 1 fourth. Now, as these are graphs of equations in the plane, we can shift and transform these graphs. It's vertical stretching and reflecting will be represented in this parameter p for the focus. But in terms of shifting it, right, if we have x squared is equal to 4py or 4py, we could shift it so we could move it horizontally by replacing x with x minus h squared, and we could replace y with y minus k. And this would shift the graph so that its vertex becomes h comma k. This is, we wanted to shift a horizontal parabola, we wanted to shift a vertical parabola, the same basic idea. I'm sorry, this one right here is the vertical parabola. This one now is the horizontal parabola. Take y squared equals 4p, 4px, you could shift it. So you get y minus k squared is equal to 4p times x minus h squared. Then the vertex of this parabola would be h comma k. And if you know the p-value, which you can factor out the 4 here, you can then locate the focus, the directorics, and the focal diameter from this information. So this right here gives us the general formula of a parabola, whether it's horizontal or vertical. So let's take a look at an example of such a thing. Consider the parabola x squared plus 4x minus 4y equals 0. I can see for a fact that because we have an x squared, this means that the axis of symmetry is going to have to be vertical. We're going to have a vertical parabola because you only have the one, the only the one square, which in this case is going to be x squared. Now to determine the vertex and the focal constant p, we're going to have to complete the square here. So to complete the square, we're going to separate the x's from the y's, and I'm actually just going to move y to this side so we get 4y right here. Then we have to add the guest of honor here. So take half of the 4, we see 2, we then square that, we then add a 4 in there. Make sure you do so to both sides. The left hand side then factors as x plus 2 squared. And then the right hand side would also factor as 4 times y plus 1. So this tells us that the vertex is going to be negative 2 comma negative 1. You do have to take the opposite of the sign when you consider the shifting right here. So the vertex is going to be negative 2 and negative 1. The focal constant will just be a 1. Notice when we look at here, this is 4 times p, so p would have to be equal 1. And so because our parabola is vertical, we can get started on graphing this thing. We're going to get our focus right here, which is going to be negative 2 and negative 1. Since the parameter p is 1, we would go 1 above the focus to 1 above the vertex to find the focus. If you had a negative p, you would actually go below, but the directorics will be below and the focus will be above like so. And then we can find the focal diameter here by taking the distance of 2 to the left and right. And so let's actually consider doing that from scratch without seeing the graph here. That is without seeing the graph already made. If I was to graph this thing, I'd probably put like my x-axis right there, my y-axis right here, something like that. Let's then graph the focal, let's drop the vertex and the focus. The vertex we saw was at negative 2, negative 1. So that would be like a point right here. That's the focus, excuse me, that's the vertex. The focus would then be 1 point above it. So if we list this here, you get negative 2, negative 1. And then the focus would be at negative 2 and 0. We want to graph the directorics, which would then be below. It would be at the point y equals negative 2. And so then from there, we want to draw the points on the focal diameter. So we're going to find points, which we're going to go 2 to the right, which gives us the origin. And then 2 to the left, which would give us the point negative 4, 0. And then using these three points, the vertex and the focal diameter, you probably can get a pretty good picture. Ooh, that was pretty bad. Let me try that again. You get something like the following. The best drawing picture ever know, but that gives us the parabola in consideration here. Now, why might one desire this representation of the parabola as opposed to our previous exposure with y equals ax squared plus bx plus c? Well, it turns out that the parabola has a powerful and useful reflective property. Suppose that a mirror has a parabolic shape. If light is placed at the focus of the parabola, like you can see right here. Then all rays emanating from the light will reflect off of the mirror and lines parallel to the axis of symmetry. So if you have like a light source at the focus as as photons leave the focus, eventually they'll hit the reflective mirror. And then they'll reflect at an angle, which is parallel to the axis of symmetry. And this doesn't matter which line, which path you take, all of them will reflect outward in the same direction. This essentially magnifies the luminescence of the light source here. Conversely, if you have, for example, a ray of light or sound or whatever that's entering a parabola, once it hits the parabolic surface, it'll reflect and thus come to the focus. And this is actually why the focus gets its name is that as all lines enter the parabola, they'll reflect and meet at the focus. And so because of this reflective property, one can utilize this reflection of a parabola for many applications in engineering. For example, we could build headlights in our car, which you'll notice that your headlights in your car, you have a light source with some of the lights coming out, right? But some of the light is reflecting inward where it hits a reflective parabolic mirror and therefore it reflects outward, which this intensifies the light. One can construct telescopes using this reflective property. Satellite dish also work in this basic idea. If you have a direct TV satellite on your house or something and you probably have a satellite that looks just like this, where the dish is a parabola and then the transmitter slash receiver is located at the focus of that parabola. So that as particles, you know, information comes from outer space where the satellites are located, they'll bounce off of your dish and then reflect to this receiver where the signal then becomes strong enough that you can watch your favorite TV shows. And so this gives you some idea why we care about the focus of a parabola. And it comes down from this very simple observation here that y, I should say y squared is equal to 4px or if you prefer x squared equals 4p, 4py. However you want to orient this as a vertical horizontal, but focusing on this focal distance is important because of the engineering applications we can construct from parabolas.


Narcissists always do this at the end of a relationship. There is something that every narcissist will do at the end of a relationship. And this could be a way to identify whether or not you were dealing with a narcissist. Because they all do it. They have to do it. Because they think that it benefits them. They think that it is the most favorable thing for them to do. In any relationship, you might experience problems and difficulties. You might experience arguments and disagreements. This is normal. But in narcissistic relationships, these situations are dealt with differently. In a healthy relationship, both people will take responsibility. They will hold themselves accountable for their actions. They will recognize what they did wrong. And they will own up to it. Because they want to improve their relationship. They want things to be better. Narcissists do not hold themselves accountable.  And they don't want to deal with the consequences of their actions. So at the end of a relationship, the narcissist will always blame the other person. This is something they all do. When you first meet them, it's like you can't do anything wrong. Even if you do make a fault or mistake, they will overlook it or they will minimize it.  Because at that stage of the relationship, they are idealizing you.  So they see you as being perfect. But in any relationship, problems and difficulties will arise. There will be arguments and disagreements. And this threatens to expose the narcissist's false image. Which is why they get very angry. Because in that moment, they feel like their false self is dying. It's like they're in a life or death situation. They feel like they're in a fight for their lives. So they will do whatever it takes to protect their false self. Even if they have to lie or distort the truth, they will blame you for everything. They will make you feel like you're not good enough. Because deep down, that's exactly how they feel. But they don't want to reflect on it, because it threatens their false self. So they have to see themselves as being perfect. They have to see it as though they didn't do anything wrong. Even if it was their fault, not hold themselves accountable. Because then that would mean that their false self isn't real. Accountability is like death to a narcissist. But it is also the only thing that will make them change. Which is why there is no record of a narcissist changing their ways. Because they wouldn't know where to start. They would probably go insane or end up suicidal.  They can't deal with the idea that they messed up. So instead they blame you. They project their insecurities onto you. They shift the blame onto you. And then they spear your name. To get everyone to see you in the same way. To get everyone to validate the illusion. So that they can feel like they're okay. Because they don't care about the truth. They run from reality. Which is how they abandoned who they really were. And created a false self. If they abandoned their true self. It should reveal to you that you don't have a chance. Because they will abandon you too. If you dare to confront or expose them. Their false self is all they have left. So they will do whatever it takes to defend it. Even if that means lying or distorting the truth. They have to do that. Because their false self isn't real. So anything that is real. Threatens their false self. Which includes you.  It threatens to expose them. Which is why that is one of the first things they will target. They will target your credibility. They will target your quality of being trusted and believed in. They will say that you're crazy.  Because they know that's what they're doing. But they don't want to own it. They will disown any parts of themselves that they don't like. And then they will assign those traits to you. They see things in black and white. Where a person is either all good or all bad. And for them to see themselves as all good. You have to be seen as all bad. And they have to get everyone to see you the same way. To validate the illusion. To reflect back to themselves that they're okay. To reflect back to themselves that they haven't done anything wrong. They're very delusional people. Who are constantly on the run from reality. Which is why they all have some form of addiction. They're constantly engaged in escapism. Because reality is too painful for them to deal with. Which is why they abandoned their true identity a long time ago. And created a false self. Because they just couldn't hack reality. They didn't have the qualities needed to cope with certain situations. Because they're emotionally underdeveloped. They experienced trauma in childhood. Which stunted their emotional growth. But rather than accepting this reality. They chose to create a false character who is mature and responsible. Which they displayed to the outside world. But when you get to know them. You realise that they're very different. They're very immature. They're very irresponsible. They don't want to take responsibility for anything. They hold you accountable for things. That they should be attending to. Because they just don't want to deal with anything. They're very lazy and unproductive. With anything that doesn't serve them. Yet they want to portray this image of them being so capable and efficient. But for them to portray this image. They need to have someone who they can blame for when things go wrong. Which is why when you first met them. You may remember that they blamed their exes or their family. They always had something bad to say about someone. Whether it was a waiter at a restaurant. Or their boss. They always made it seem like someone was doing them wrong. And they were the cause of some unfavourable situation. Narcissists never take responsibility for where they are in life. And that is why they always stay the same. Because they're always blaming other people. Instead of looking at themselves. And recognising what they're doing. Accountability is the key to success. And that is why these people remain stuck. That is why they're never going to change. Because they can't look at their own actions. Which got them to where they are now. Instead. They choose to blame everyone else. So although they may think and they're distorted in minds that they'll win by blaming you. It's just stunted their growth even more. It's what keeps them stuck at the emotional development of a 2 year old child. It's what causes their endless temper tantrums to persist. Because they just can't accept that they're just like everyone else. They can't accept that they make mistakes. They can't accept their flaws. They can't be vulnerable. But this is something that all narcissists will do. At the end of a relationship. They will always blame you. They will exaggerate your faults and mistakes. And they will minimise their own. They will lie and distort the truth. And it may seem like they're running from the relationship. But they're actually just running from themselves. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to donate. My paypal link is in the video description. Coaching queries. You can email me at coaching.narc-survivor.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


So, I'm Mike, 3sb.co, all your looks, apparel needs are available. Now I'm answering all y'all's questions.  How to getting GF. First of all, learn proper grammar. Cause girls don't like men who don't know proper grammar. The real first question, I'm small, I can't get big and I can't get my appetite up, how do we get big?  You start to eat earlier in the day, so you get more calories in. Yeah, more meals. You prepare, so you have to bring snacks. So you're eating throughout the day. Like the opposite of that, I need to get out of the house so I don't snack, so I don't overeat.  Yeah, I think it's so popular to talk about tracking when you're dieting, but for those that have issues gaining, tracking is just as important. So hit your calorie goals, and then I'll say the same thing, snacking more helps. More calorie dense food, so if you're used to eating chicken breasts, go chicken thigh or fattier beef, it's literally just the exact opposite of cutting. If you're cutting, you wanna look for like 90 or 95% lean ground beef. If you're bulking, why not go to like 85 or 80% beef? It's way fattier, way more calories. Adding oils, avocados. Yeah, butter.   Literally, we're just like, that's all the things we avoid doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kinda easier.  A latte. Yeah, there's kinda no reason not.   Add carbs into. Yeah, you're not used to doing it. It's gonna be hard, duh. But like if you really want it, it's prepared. It's not losing weight, that's just hard. It's also gaining weight. Yeah, it's all hard.  To run a mile every day for me would be very hard. But it's gonna take more than you think. Probably, and longer than you think. Yeah. What dictated, or I'll switch it, dictates if you'd use steroids or not. For those that don't know, I am a natural human being, organic, non-GMO human. Me, myself, why don't really ever make the decision to try any kind of PED or steroid? It's simply, I know, I've been pretty self-aware my whole life and I know it probably won't make me any happier or more fulfilled in my life. I've always said if it's life-changing, if I can take care of my mom and the people around me a little bit easier, right?  That's a $20 million check and take care of a lot of people with that. But as of right now, although it may accelerate my success in social media, YouTube, Instagram, being more jacked, showing more skin, posing like everybody does, it's not who I am. And once you start to live a life, not to get all life-coachy on you, but if you start to live in a way that doesn't align with who you actually are, what you believe in and your morals, you'll have less fulfillment and you'll feel shittier. My entire life routine is built around not feeling shitty. We all have negative minds, we all have negative lives, we all have issues and I try to work as hard as I can to not feel shitty mentally or physically.  There's kind of just no instance besides that life-changing where I could find that it would actually make me a happier, more fulfilled human being. I'm allergic to freaking everything. How do I get a better nutritional diet going for weight loss and healthier lifestyle? Allergies are weird. I didn't really like grow up with any.  Like I don't think I'm super allergic to anything. And I've also never eaten cats. I don't get it. I don't know either, but like one, have you done like a allergic test so I go to your doctor and then two, don't eat the things you're allergic to and still eat less calories. Like the boundaries of losing weight still always apply. Three, if you have the financial capabilities is I would grab a real dietitian. A real dietitian is actually that's more what they're made for. A lot of people can teach you how to lose weight and build muscle, but when things get complicated with celiac disease and all these other issues is I would dive into a real nutritionist, invest in yourself, and then you can probably learn better things there.  Yeah. With all the limitations you want to get rid of all that gas and track work because that'll just take forever. You know how funny how allergies work?  But both are an allergy. They could categorize them as themselves.  Or like a lot of people are allergic to different fruits, right? Like citrus fruits or some people just can't have or like, yeah, gluten.   Natural selections. Take in my side delts to pop like yours. Any recommendations? Get better genetics. Dang. You used to insult their mama. Sorry, mom, you got great delts. Honestly, two things. One, don't be fooled. The picture I posted, I had a pump and I'm posing. I'm not even good at posing. They're not even that big. No, they're really not. Most FITSBOs, bodybuilders you follow are taking exogenous hormones. PEDs, juice, gear, yeah, steroids. In males and females, we have receptors that accept those steroids and a lot of them sit for a majority of people genetically in your shoulders and your traps.  Like they're not just gonna do the work. Studies actually show the opposite. Steroids, most of them were invented to do the work and can build muscle on their own. They were made for people that can't move in the hospital to retain and maintain and grow muscle while they're unable to move, right? So yes, they can. They do all the work to build a physique like Ronnie Coleman or Sibam.  That being said, we're great genetics. Great genetics are our thing. They are our thing. Beyond that, we can build our delts. A lot of pressing movements are really gonna focus on your front delt, your anterior delt, which helps build it. You want all three heads. But what are some of your favorite shoulder movements in general? Lateral raises. Lateral raises. I really like lateral raises. Egyptian lateral raises you lean over and you're doing one side at a time. That one side. Yeah, you're basically leaning over to get gravity to be on your side. Right? Against you. Yeah. On your side to build muscle. Right, yeah, yeah. It doesn't assist you. It makes it harder through the full range because a lot of times we're just lateral raising. All this space is kind of useless if you're using free weights. So you lean with a dumbbell. Or you do cable. You use a cable and just kind of set it around knee height or hip height so you get kind of a 90 degree with your arm and the cable and that'll cause more resistance to the full range. And just make sure you're doing enough volume and pushing them. Just like anything else, right? Train it two to three times a week. Get it close to failure. 12 to 15. Yeah, same thing. Those are my two favorite movements plus an upright row. I know that hurts a lot of people's shoulders so if it's uncomfy, don't do it.  The other thing you can do is dumbbells, upright row, which will end up being kind of like a drag lateral raise anyways. So it'll free up your shoulders. Sometimes if you have pain, but still good. Ladies and gentlemen, as I told you, at least I talked about it on Instagram.  I think it's forming a hive mind and killing creativity. So we're just gonna do what we do here. We train, we hang out, unfiltered raw, hopefully help you and entertain you along the way. Coach Abby in the house, where can they find you on Instagram? abby.lu Abby.lu, hit her up in the DMs.  But if you guys want some coaching, yeah, I'll be answering them. Actually a little freakos. But if you guys want some coaching advice, let her know she's taking clients online. Abby at 3sb.co. If you guys want to get a hold of her if you're more serious about coaching, 3sb.co. Good company, apparel.com. 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On behalf of the Board, welcome to all of your cameras. We're here in what I feel to be a very noble cause. That's, of course, the Presidential Library, and also the vehicle by which we will continue to have public discussion and seminar in the public fair section. We've been working at this for the last several months, and it's been a real pleasure for me, I must say, reuniting with a lot of people that have been friends of mine for a long while, meeting many new ones, and recognizing that in a few short months we're going to be successful, and we're going to raise probably as much money as has ever been previously raised in connection with any Presidential Library. I have associated very closely with Mary Jane Wick in this venture. Believe me, I've never known of venture in which Mary Jane has participated. There's been nothing less than a spring winter, so that's been a real pleasure for me. And, of course, the cause couldn't be better. We're going through a historic period, and we all know that, although some of us who live in this town, the collapse topic situation we had before today's crisis is history tomorrow, sometimes I wonder if we're fully appreciating the being each of the Reagan administration. And I think the best safeguard of that, of course, is going to be through the library and through the public fair section so that this historic period can be truly evaluated. I think, in all probability, even objective historians will say that this is a tremendously, tremendously innovative, creative and productive period in American history. So I'm happy now to introduce to the man who's fully accountable for all this, our friend, Bob Laird. Quite awesome. Before saying anything else, I wanted to know how lucky I feel. It's not often these days that I get to have a munch with so many good friends. And I'm especially lucky today, because Nancy's having a munch in England. Whenever the subject of presidential libraries comes up, it puts me in mind to promise Jefferson, you may know that Jefferson, on his own, amassed one of the great private libraries in the United States, and libraryed it into thousands of letters and personal records. And today that collection provides historians with valuable material and labeled with a way of getting in touch with the American past. Some of my favorite readings is the correspondence that Jefferson carried on with John Adams in their later years after they had been astringed and then thumbed each other by way of correspondence. And I think you will agree that the point here is important that good historical library like the Jefferson Collection brings the past alive, enabling succeeding generations to see with their own eyes the issues and personalities of another time. It represents a national resource, a body of knowledge that can be tapped for unending instruction and even delight. A source of lessons that can be used to adapt the joys and achievements of the past to the present while avoiding past mistakes. This is just the kind of library that Nancy and I so firmly behold to see take shape at Stanford. A library that would tell about the detailed issues of our day and all the bitlessly people who acted them out. The issues have been great ones as Paul Sarkondi said. Great attorney in the second half of our century to actually form rebuilding of our defenses. The appointment of federal benches of judges determined not to make law but to interpret it to deprive or derive their opinions from the Constitution itself. The reassertion of America's world role in behalf of human freedom. With so much history being made, we better take care to put the documents in good order. Sometimes it takes a little doing. Not long after leaving Sacramento, we discovered some of the gubernatorial records have been stored in old courier boxes. Beyond the documents, Nancy and I are eager to see a library that conveys the drama and the feel of these years. I went to Tokyo, President Mitterrand, and I found ourselves discussing the way farming had shaped the fundamental values of our work-trip family of both our nations. Now, this is Patrick Topney of the Williamsburg Inomic Centers, a summit a couple of years ago. We decided when it was our turn to host that summit to have an old Williamsburg, the historic old city of Britain beginning to hear in our country. And as usual, the first meeting of the summit is always a dinner, the first night. And the Senate has sustained, the head of the European community, eight of the people who are on the table. And I think it's all due to Margaret Thatcher that we're all on a first-name basis. You'd be surprised what it does for meetings of that kind when you're not speaking to someone, Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. President or something. And it was Margaret. Of course, it was a helmet. But anyway, I was all set for it because that dinner at Williamsburg was going to be held in the dining room of what had been the British Colors' residence when they moved these shores. And I had it all planned that after everyone was seated, I was going to open a well-chosen remark.  LAUGHTER Something else about tirelessly messy at work and the campaign to save our young people from drugs. And I think from here now, we've got to move on to a real nationwide consolidated program because no matter how hard we try, you're never going to be able to take the drugs away from the customer completely. You can't take the customer away from the drugs and that's not what it must be. But all of this is the kind of library that we hope to see, a resource for scholars and everyday Americans alike living gift to the nation. And let me say something. I'm always a little self-conscious. Particularly in the presence of people like yourselves who are doing so much to help with this, there always seem to be a little self-conscious about my name as if this is being done with it as a personal history of me. Let me explain something. Maybe some people have become president and have shown their attitude. I don't believe you become president. The presidency is an institution in and of itself and people like myself are given temporary custody over that institution and that's what this history is really about, is the continuing history not of an individual but of that institution, the presidency and what happened during the years. Well, we know that you share our hopes and we want you to know that all your efforts in the part of this library well, they mean more to Westland than we can say and it's just to I don't know how to thank you all and the funny thing is I never was very good at what so many of you were doing even when I was making speeches for politicians and everything, I wasn't very good at asking anybody for money because I liked the taxes. You have been doing all of this I just kind of bless you in your personal life now I know that if you don't mind so that we can at least have a personal word to each other and a greeting, I'm going to stand in front of that fireplace in there with a picture of Lincoln and I hope that you won't combine we can say hello to each other formally. Thank you.


Today we're opening Walmart Legacy Packs. What's up guys, we're back with another video. Today we're opening more Walmart Legendary Packs. Inside there are two Legacy Packs, which is pretty fun and a bonus card. So we have 12 of these different blisters. It's gonna be pretty fun. I will be giving away every pull in this opening. All you have to do is like this video, be subscribed and let me know what card you want because you're gonna get all of them if you win. So just let me know in the comments. We have 12 of these, which means 24 different packs. So you guys can win all of these cards. We could roll Ginzo. I think this is an Invasion of Chaos pack. Yeah, so there's a Pharaoh Servant Invasion of Chaos. You guys can win all this stuff and you can get these promos, Galaxy Queen. I don't think the promos are gonna be what you really want though. I believe I pulled out all of the same blisters. So it should be 12 Invasion of Chaos versus 12 Pharaoh Servant. So I think we're gonna do like a mini battle. Let's see if Pharaoh Servant or Invasion of Chaos will come out on top. Let me know in the comments who you think will win between Invasion of Chaos and Pharaoh Servant. I think Invasion of Chaos has more big hitters but Pharaoh Servant has some good stuff as well. Limit or removal, we're starting it off with a super rare right off the bat. Pharaoh Servant, first haymaker of the fight. Very nice, we got a Limit or Removal Super Rare. Then we got a Force Requisition, a Mystic Probe, Skull Mariner, Island Turtle, and Spike Bot. Invasion of Chaos, here we go. First pack of here. Let's see which one can win. We've got a DD Borderline, Gale Lizard. Smashing Grounds are a pretty cool card. Bulgarian, and we've got a Mataza, the Zapper. Okay, Lord Poison and Molten Zombie. Okay, okay. On to the next blister pack. Don't forget, you guys can win all these and also I'm giving away a Blue Eyes White Dragon and a Red Eyes Black Dragon from LOB, Original Print. So if you guys are interested in winning both of those cards, I'll have that pop up on the screen. Then go check out my Twitter at ruxan34.com and you guys can win a Blue Eyes or a Red Eyes as well. So you guys can win all the cards in this opening and you can win Blue Eyes and Red Eyes. I figured that 2022 starting, let's start off with some Epic Giveaways that you guys can win, Shadow of Eyes. Oni Tank, Ruxan 34, you guys can win that. I mean, that's pretty nice. Red Moon Baby, not Red Eyes Moon Baby. The Red Eyes Moon Baby, yeah, let's go. Invasion of Chaos. So it is one nothing in terms of foils and no real good comments so far. A couple of decent ones. Anti-Aircraft Flower, Giga Giga Gigo, Dimension Distortion and an Ultra Evolution Pill. Okay, nothing in there. I would say that IOC does have the advantage in comments because it has a Monju, which is a very good card. I don't think Ferro Servant really has a comment over a dollar unless there's one that's come up recently. I think Multiplication of Ants for a while was worth something. I don't think it is anymore, but I could be wrong. Crystal Avatar Gold Rare. So far, not the craziest opening. Let's see if we can get you guys a Secret Rare or something crazy so that you guys can win it. We got a Flame Champion. Bombardment Beetle, Respect Play. You're all seeing White Tiger. And a Mitches Zerry, cool. Okay, very nice. And if you guys enjoy these legacy openings, don't forget to subscribe to the channel because we are on our way to 111, 111. And we're very close, we're very close. So hopefully we can get there soon. Got a zero grab, we got a desk kangaroo. Here's Invasion of Chaos. Trying to make that come back. Inferno, we got a Pinch Hopper. And a Mataza the Zapper. So far, we have one foil. It's not going too crazy, but we got a lot of packs left. Another one. Let's do this. Can we pull a Ghost Sure out of the extra card? Like I have done once before. Not out of these specific ones, but it was out of some bonus cards, which was pretty insane. Pharaoh Servant. Still with the lead. A one nothing foil lead right now. Can we extend the lead over Invasion of Chaos? Invitation of Dark Sleep. Dark Fire Soldier, Harpy Spread Brother. Ooh, Magical Hats. Another Super Rare. So we have now pulled two Supers for Pharaoh Servant. I would say a Super is usually about like as good as one Ultra or something, unless it's like a bad Ultra. So maybe like one Ultra for IOC, especially if it's like a big one would take the lead back for him. But a Super is probably not going to. Let's see what we can pull for you guys. We have a Cannonball, Spear Shellfish, Soul Tiger, Amphibious Burgoth, Anojama Yellow, Frumashuri Kin, Sacred Crane, and Creamsun Ninja. Invasion of Chaos is way behind right now. Next, we're not even halfway through it on things. So we've got a lot of packs to go for the IOC Pharaoh Servant Legacy Pack from Walmart Battle. A lot of mouthful there. Raideraptor Final Fortress Falcon. Very cool. And now we have the Pharaoh's Servant. Come on. Give us something good. We've got Respect Play. We're respecting. Only tank rocks in 34. That's something good for sure. Regulation of Tribe. And a Cyber Falcon, Shallow Grave, Keysetai, Gamble, and Dark Bat. Okay, IOC. It is time. It is time for a pull. We got to do something, because so far you've done nothing. Gala's got a Witch Doctor of Chaos, a Hero Emerges, and Cannonball, Spear Shellfish. You got a Dark Dry Seraph Top, Sylphie, Crimson Ninja, and Chaosant. Wow. This is all Pharaoh Servant right now. I was saying Invasion of Chaos might have a little better chance. And right now they have not performed at all. So let's see what our first card is. Satellar Knight, Zephras Ziction. That's a mouthful. Back to the leader. Pharaoh's Servant. Can we pull a Genzo? Can we pull a Buster Blader? Let's pull something epic. Minor Goblin Official. Only tank rocks in 34. Cold Wave. A lot of only tank rocks in 34 today. Science Soldier, High Boots at Night, Mystic Probe, and Wing Weaver. Okay, leaving the door open though. Leaving the door open. They haven't slammed it closed for IOC yet. All it takes is a Chaos Emperor Dragon, BLS. You know, one of the cool ones. Dimension Fusion would probably be pretty good. Primal Seed, Gale Lizard. Oh, Jami Yellow. Here we go. Balloon Lizard and Compulse. Okay, Compulse is okay, but I don't think it's over a dollar. At halftime, we have a 2-0 lead for Pharaoh's Servant. But you guys know that meme. Haddish in the first half. That's what Invasion of Chaos is hoping is gonna happen. So here we go. Metapholes Crimson Knight. Cool. Can Pharaoh's Servant come out and end this thing? Let's go. See what they got. They've got a Cold Wave. That's what they want. Eye of Truth. They want to Cold Wave Invasion of Chaos. And Time Seal. Skull Invitation, Darkfire Soldier number two, Armour Glass, Numerous Healer, and Gift of the Miscal Elf. Eye of Seed, this is your time. This is the time to get going.  Let's see what you can do here. Pinch Hopper. Blazing Impachi. Boganean. Primal Seed gets our Fuma Tower. Not even a Monju. Like we can't get anything out of Eye of Seed. Onto the next blister. We are still looking for an Epic Pull because right now, not a lot of Epic Pulls. Promo. Vendred Knights. Okay, we got a Vendred Knights. Now let's go into Pharaohs. The Servant of the Pharaoh. Here we go. Oh, okay. We have the Sword Hunter. They all seeing White Tigray. Metal Detector. And the Gradius of Mitchezuri and Shannon Javelin. Type Zero Magic Crusher. Twin and Fire Dragon and Skull Mirror. It's time. It's time to redeem yourself. Because right now we have pulled literally zero out of these, blasting the ruins. We got a Stumbling. That's what Eye of Seed is doing. They're stumbling. Stealth Bird. Ryukoki. Lacuna Neo Bug. Monju. We're on the board. We are on the board. I think Monju actually is probably worth more than those Super Heirs or it's close. So it's probably of the equivalent. Eye of Seed is on the board. Four more blisters. It's not over yet. They finally pulled a card. Monju of the 10,000 Hands. Not a bad card there. Our Promo or our extra card is a Zephrine Nui. Secret of the Yanksing. I might have said that wrong. Now it's a Pharaoh Servant. We're still hot. They still have the lead, but it's not as big as it was before. Okay, Regulation of the Tribe. We got a Science Soldier. DNA Surge. We got a Magic Drain Skull Mariners. Solomon wishes three out of Guido and a Drop Bug. We haven't pulled the Guido yet. Invasion of Chaos. Can they defeat the Guido? The power of the Guido. Blazing Impachi. Spirit of the Pot of Greed. The Chaos Sword. Pretty good card. We finally just pulled one of those. And a Gigantus. We're pulling some good commons, but they aren't worth a ton. Like Chaos Swords or Gigantus are both pretty cheap. But they're good cards. We're into the fourth quarter. The last three of the blisters. So we have three packs left of each. Who will pull it off? We need some sort of Ultra or something for this opening. We have a Parallel Port Armor, okay? We just need something. I mean, right now it's been a little bit of a dud. Come on, Pharaoh Servant. Get it together. Respect play. All Seeing White Tiger. Don't cruise to the end. Time Seal. Sword Hunter again. Skull Invitation. Major Riot and Gust. Wow. They're leaving the door open for sure. Invasion of Chaos. Like you could win this. Let's do this. Which Doctor of Chaos? Again, Begone, Nave. Chaos Swork. Okay, another good one. And, Oh, the Viadragon Daedalus. Wow. Okay. It's not an amazing Ultra, but it's an Ultra. So this is like kind of a tie because like a common in Ultra versus two supers. I don't know. It's borderline. Like if this ends like this you guys are gonna have to let me know who won. I don't, I don't really know who I would pick because Pharaoh Servant does have the nostalgia of magical hats, which is very good. Limiter removal is pretty cool but it's not as nostalgic. But let's just see. Hopefully something else will be pulled into side for us. We have a Pendulum Reborn. Cool. All right, Pharaoh Servant. You have not pulled anything in a while. Invasion of Chaos is hot on your heels with an Ultra Rare. We've got a Science Soldier. Seven completed. Souls of the Forgotten.  You gotta love the Bite Shoes. I mean, how do you not? Dimension Hole, Ground Collapse, Change Out of Flying Comic Carry and Thousand Eyes, Idol. I think that this actually might be worth something. I'm not sure if it still is. If it is, well, I mean, it'll pop up. I'm throwing it in the pile. I think it might be like a dollar. All right, IOC. You've hit. Now, I guess two in a row. A common and a nice Ultra or a nice common and an Ultra. Hero Emerger. We've got a Pagon, Dave. Heart of the Underdog. Can we pull another one? Grenmaju De Iso. Okay. Fenrir Torpedo and Tower of Babel. Wow, this is close. We're into the final Blister Pack of the opening. Can we do it? Can we?  My Pharaoh Servant or my IOC? I don't know. One of them. Can one of them win the battle? We've got a Flower Cardian. Final two packs of the opening. Make sure you guys hit the like button, subscribe so you guys can enter that giveaway and win all of these cards pulled. And I hope we will pull something big in these last couple of packs. We've got a Time Seal. Sword Hunter. Mr. Volcano. And Shadow of Eyes, Force of Requisition, Burning Land, Overdrive and Doko Royaiba. So right now, if Thousand Eyes, Idol is a dollar, maybe they have a slight lead or maybe it's still tied. I don't know. Invasion of Chaos could win it here. Walk off in the final seconds. Multiplication of Ants. Is this the one that's worth something? It might be. Multiplication of Ants. We'll set that over there. I'm not sure. A Hero Emerges. Stumbling. And the final card of the, well, final foil pull. Pinchopper. No, Sacred Grain and Torpedo Fish. Okay. Not the best opening ever, but we did get a few really cool cards. So if you guys want a chance to win all of these like magical hats and the Levi Dragon Daedalus, make sure to subscribe and enter the giveaway. Shout out to TCU, Trester, Cards, Toe & Fo Show, Tomato Juice, Noa J, Stanley, Mike, Nance, Ben Begacco, Duelist, King of the Cards, Bank of it, Farland and G-Raider. Thank you guys for supporting the channel and I'll see you guys next time. Peace.


Hello my people, welcome to the SCORE channel. It's been a while since I've done an interview. So, to make today's interview a little bit more special, I've got not one, not three, but two people together for this interview. Our previous interviews have only dealt with students who were actually in the process of getting their bachelor's degree. What about students who have decided to study abroad but haven't started yet? Today I'm going to introduce you to two students who are getting ready to study in France. Let's meet Isabella and Adrienne! Hi everybody, I'm Isabella and I'm going to be studying in Strasbourg, France starting in September of this year. I'm going to be studying applied foreign languages because it's a super useful bachelor's degree for getting into the international marketing and international commerce domain. My name is Adrienne, I'm 19, I live in Columbia and I'm going to go to study in the University of Strasbourg. Bachelors of applied foreign languages with Spanish and English are some main focus of the bachelors. Very excited! Okay, so applied foreign languages sounds interesting. Can you tell me a little bit more about the program? Here, you know, if you do an applied foreign languages course, which it's not even called applied foreign languages, it's just, you know, foreign language. You can basically be like a translator or a teacher and your options are a little more limited. Whereas in France, you can do a master's degree after this bachelor's degree in a variety of subjects. Like in my case, I would be doing international commerce because the bachelor's degree in applied foreign languages actually includes some business classes in it. I'm going to the same bachelor's, but I want to do more translation and language stuff. But that's the cool part as she was telling you when I came in. It's very broad, so you can decide what you want to do as you go along.  It's like, I don't know if I want to do that. So have you run into any problems or any unexpected obstacles? Okay, I have a pretty big one that was right off the bat, like right when I was the first applying. So I'd been preparing to go to a specific university. I was, you know, in contact with this university over a year or so. And, you know, COVID hit, connection with them got a little wonky, of course.  We're going to be open for sure. We're going to be open. So application time rolls around. I kept trying to get in touch with them because I was like, hey, you know, like I traveled 4,000 kilometers to do an Italian exam that you guys asked for. You know, I never got a response from them. That was a major obstacle. You know, I had given them months in advance to respond to me, but that's definitely a thing to look out for with French institutions. You have to have your stuff planned in advance. You have to have your questions a while beforehand. First of all, our campus friends in Columbia is like very, very useful. So I didn't necessarily have that kind of problem. But when communicating directly to the university, they did take very, very long to respond. Another thing that you have to consider is the time frames. Because they're very, very strict with that. And if you don't meet them, then you're going to pretty much be out of luck. So for example, usually the application times open in November and in mid January, but you're not done yet. So you have to gather all of these documents between that time frame because otherwise then you're not going to be able to apply. And they're not going to help you out or giving you a little more time. It's here and it's done. Time of Paris, 12 a.m., done. You have to do an interview and they tell you like time of France. And they even though we're both here in Columbia, me and the interviewer, they gave me time of Paris. And I was like, that is like 8 a.m. I did my video recently for how to study in France, but I don't remember hearing a whole lot about this interview. So can you fill me in? Campus France has to do something called a SCAC interview. In my case, my campus France was in Washington, DC. And that's I think a six hour difference from here in Hawaii. Gosh, so my first interview got postponed, but they didn't tell me when they were going to move it. So they emailed me at 4 a.m. Hawaii time to be like, okay, can we do this interview in a couple of hours? And I was like, what? By the time I woke up, it was already that time, like that time had passed. So they asked you about your motivations for studying in France, what your plans are after you finished your diploma. They write out like this whole report on you and then they attach it to your application, but you can't see it. We had to do it in French, and that was the thing that we had to prepare for for sure, because we're not used to doing that, obviously. Yeah, speaking of French, how hard was it to get your documents in order? Well, because of some kind of accord that they have with France and Colombia, we didn't have to translate anything. Only an apostee that's done by the government. That was kind of problematic because of the way that aposteas are done for high school diplomas here. You have to go to the place that you graduated in, and I don't leave there. I have to go all the way there, do it, get some seals, get some people to sign on it, and then send it online. So I needed to have everything translated into French, including my high school diploma and my transcripts. They recommended the American Translators Agency, I think that's what it's called, but nobody on that site responded to me. So I was sort of scrambling near the end trying to find a translator that would do it. What about your French speaking level? What did they expect from you guys? So there are universities, quite a few actually, that need a C1 French level, so you need to ask them if they don't post it on their sites. Their sites are kind of shitty, so you have to ask them and then wait for like a month for the response. In my case, I was actually going to apply to two universities there. I needed the C1 for one of them. The other one did take a B2, but you know, they didn't open up. So in my case, I applied to Strasbourg, Grenoble, and Angers, because all three of them were the ones that, first of all, take the B2. And they let you start off with Advanced Italian, which for me is super important because that's a requirement for some Master's degrees, is that you have to start the language at an advanced level already. Now I have to ask, have you actually been to France before? No. Yeah, you know, I was supposed to go to France during COVID. Like I had, you know, tickets to stuff and everything, but obviously that, you know, did not happen here in the US. It's like, you have to go to student debt basically if you don't have like a full ride scholarship. My reason to go to France was much more out of the blue. Like I was just looking at memes on my phone, January 2020. And I came across a meme in French and I was like, huh, I wonder what this thing says. And then I started learning French without any reason. And then like five months later, I saw that campus France exists. I was already enrolled in a university here that we have a lot of protests and protests are usually led by students with memes. School stops a lot. And I was like one month into the school and we already had stopped for like four months. And I was like, yeah, this is not going to work out, especially if this is so. Then I decided that I was going to try it, but I hadn't been learning French for like five months. So then I started learning French seriously. And the same year, 2020, I took the DELF and that was the main factor, the main decider, the main thing that was going to determine if I was going to make it or not. I took it and I passed it. And that's very much why I apply at the end of the day. So is your family cool with you studying abroad? Yeah, yeah, for sure. They would definitely prefer that I go to Europe, you know, financially supporting a student in the U.S. is like super hard on the wallet. And, you know, you're getting basically the same quality of education depending on the institution. It can be a lot better than what I have, you know, here in rural Hawaii. And, you know, it's also a super good experience culturally. It's always good to see the world and stuff. If you get your education in another country, that's great for you. In my case, it was much more difficult. My mom wasn't really into it at the beginning. She wasn't really on board. I really had to talk to her quite a few times until she finally saw that I was accepted. Then she kind of changed her mind and it's helping me out more now. It's a very long and difficult road to get to where we are on the topic now. Okay, so what comes next? Now that you've been admitted to university, what do you have to do now? I actually just got my visa last week. It was actually a day after I got back here, so it was super fast. Then what I needed to do was confirm my apartment because my apartment needed a bunch of documents from me basically saying that I have a guarantor, which is a super important thing if you're living in France is that most places require that you have a guarantor. So in my case, my guarantor was my mom. So I had to upload some documents about her financial situation, statement of guarantee from her, and I had to upload my own stuff. So I got my apartment confirmed and now what I need to do is enroll.  They assign you a French student number. I still have to do that. That starts next week. The only things I really need to do are things after I get there. So, you know, like bank account or phone plan. In Colombia, we're still stuck in middle of COVID. So just over the COVID and vaccine situations, the embassy is closed. So we can't really do anything. I can't really do anything. I'm just waiting for it to open because I have essentially everything I need for the visa part, except for some photos, but that's not urgent. I'm still here waiting for the visa part to open and then I can actually continue. I imagine you guys are pretty excited. So what are your expectations? How do you see this playing out? I'm an over planner, so I've been researching this for a while now.  You know, it's not going to stop. Good expectations. I hear good things about the Strasbourg area and being welcoming, you know, to foreign students. And I know that there's a lot of services at the university that help with new students. Like, I know there's a buddy system of some sort where they like, you know, put you with a French student and they show you around. Something that I'm looking forward to as well is the fact that things in Europe are so close together, you know, because I like to travel a lot. If anybody's interested in checking out travel photos, because I know a lot of people watching this are probably into that, you know, I have an Instagram where I upload travel photos, Madame Mundial, and, you know, that's something that's kind of hard to do on an island in the middle of this Pacific Ocean. It's going to be a good experience. I know that for sure. Bureaucracy, validating things, and rolling to the university. Those are the main things. I'm also planning on getting a job because you can work 20 hours a week, getting to know my way around, meeting some people that already know that lived there from the internet. Very exciting times, waiting for that to come. Are you nervous about anything at all? Is there anything you're kind of worried about? A little bit, you know, like, I'm an 18-year-old woman who's never lived away from my parents, right?  Like, I'm doing a lot of research, what to look out for, and I'm trying to sort of familiarize myself with the area a little bit before I even get there. You know, Strasbourg's a pretty safe place, but, you know, this is sort of general advice. And, you know, my parents aren't going to be there to, you know, help me with stuff. I don't want to involve my parents more than they really need to be involved. You know, I have to try to become more independent. It's probably not going to be that bad. Me, I'm looking forward to living by myself. That's kind of, that's going to be, it's going to be some new living by myself in a different country. That is even newer. Essentially, things like food and knowing when to clean, you're always cleaning stuff. Being able to keep myself on track, knowing that I have no guidance. Also, I'm afraid of not being able to follow the curses, the classes in French. Yeah, I think about that sometimes too.  Yeah, this is not Duolingo. So yeah, those are the main things. Living by myself and following French at a native speed. Those are the main, never-recognized things that I think about often. Well look, I'm sure you both are going to be totally fine. And thank you for talking to me. I hope to hear from you guys again. Well, yeah, thank you. Thank you for having us on here. It's been a pleasure talking about this. Hope we maybe helped somebody a little bit. Yeah, maybe give our insight into the process and things that you may look for. Thanks again, guys. Something you should look forward to is seeing the follow-up interview that we do with Isabella and Adrienne. After they've been in France for a few months. We all have expectations of what it's going to be like, but how do those hold up when you compare them with reality? So make sure you're subscribed to the channel so that you don't miss that interview and all the other content that we got coming out for you. I'll see you next week.