I really do hope you enjoy your Monday body because I am it's the 40th day of October almost not end month gosh almost half of the month and we have a holy day on Friday clear throat is gonna be a little month my name is Valentine and you are watching what in the morning so you run from 7 till 10 in the a.m. and it's a daily show so Monday all the way through Friday and we have a different themes and today we highlighted with health politics and a conversation with our gentlemen that is not crush but we start off with health and today I think is is gonna benefit you because I want to believe everyone can relate to this particular topic meanwhile in other news I tried to Facebook at Y254 channel on Twitter hashtag is one in the morning that's how you can communicate ask your questions or you can text us at 2 0 1 5 4 starting with Y254 now please help me welcome my two very able guests and the one that was only me a lot of other topics you know hi good morning good morning how are you guys you look lovely you look lovely as well the poster makes you look like a supermodel from I don't know where do you model you like the 99th person to ask me that you should immediately after this you are so gorgeous oh my gosh you really should you really thank you so much love thank you but but to tell us your name miss V is my name I already present our TV host and a love of life yeah yeah that's why we connect absolutely a good morning to you professor I don't know if it's in the cards for me but hey I'll never be called my first name ever again if I have a professor right there how are you fine Valentine you look amazing thank you so our name your full name I am Catherine gosh other how can we find you if someone maybe likes how you conduct yourself how can we reach out to you you can reach out to me from Kenya Institute of Business and Counseling Studies keep call which is opposite Meridian hotel or best Western hotel yes at the southern house building yes and you are a bit more social so your social media platforms would be yeah that's miss V underscore ke that's V with two ease on Instagram Twitter Facebook and YouTube aha today we're talking about stress what is stress previously okay last week previously the weather story originated from is on the 10th of the month 10th of October was World Mental Health Day so today we're trying to we grabbed on an aspect of stress because mental health is a lot there's so much to mental health so we're just gonna nitpick and we picked a stress and I think that would be very relatable to the youth because every time you know the sum to how are you am I say Niko stress what is just in you in September my mom used to ask me if she asked me if I'm okay and I say no I'm stressed yes me but you don't have children you don't have a husband yes so those are the only people allowed to be stressed please help us understand what stresses professor yeah it's very interesting that you say that because in our African culture somehow we do not have an orientation of being around to say what we feel and what we think about distressing distressing situations and so because of that we learn not to say them so that when we meet with people we tell them about the good things of our own life but we don't tell them about what we are going through that is stressing us so when we think about stress it is about our internal charges that we may be having or external charges that we may be contending with that we are not able to have a capacity to manage so that amounts to stress because then you feel I am abandoned with what is happening to me that may be something physical or it may be something that you're thinking about but even when we think about mental health mental health is all that what we are thinking what we are feeling our own values that we think that we are keep not keeping up to yes so it's very subjective very subjective sometimes but the physical aspect of stress anyone can see because they can see that someone is fatigued or someone is not able to handle situations very well yes again I want to use something my mom used to tell me before there was that the onset of social media before you know we could take pictures and post and show everyone that we're living good life my show London before that people you just used to meet on the street and a story hi how are you all I'm fine this is what's going on and we didn't have the pressure for this one is better than me and we were used to we used to be in the same school used to wear the same uniform now look at us one is driving house v8 you yeah just you know because life lies to us they want us to believe all the same but we really are not the same we are not the same at all so there's that pressure for okay now I'm young and and I want to be like this person I want to make this amount of money say keep talking that fame I'm sure there's someone who is running who has been running for a while now who wants to be like keep talking who wants to 159 open this town how do you deal with the pressure mom I think when it comes to social media especially because we live in an era of social media it's just you as a person how disciplined are you and how principled are you because if I have my goals and I know this is what I want and this is a route I'm going to take if I come on social media and I see you driving your cars that's good for you but I shouldn't feel like I have to compare myself to you because what people don't understand is when you compare in yourself to someone else you compare in your disadvantages against the advantages which is so not fair so if I go on social media and people have nice cars people are moving into nice apartments that shouldn't bother me because that's not what I want maybe maybe I want something different maybe I want to mention and just because it got it before me does not mean I'm not gonna get mine eventually I will but if I allow that that's going on on social media to get into my head I'm not likely to get what I will what I'd set aside to achieve yes so how I deal with the pressure is I'm just principled like okay you have nice cars good for you nice houses good for you I'm made to get to my own yeah and when I do I know what to do with this and you all got know what it is all right so I want to paint a picture of a youth who's you know scrolling down the phone down Facebook on Instagram and they see something maybe that they cannot afford some that's called let's say makeup or or viato I don't know something that you don't need but you really think that you want to have in order to fit into society I so you see this you can't afford it because a you're barely making ends meet already at a fair by they don't even know those roots that have my tattoos that increase fair absurdly okay let's drop them for you know that is a wrap you know but you're constantly taking screenshots or just building hope that you want to get this but you want it now you don't have that patience for it's okay let maybe one day at a time I can save up for something like this I'm on a copper you want to borrow from someone else that you can get something that you don't really need and it's not working out but you either still going to school or you still have a job so now you're not sleeping because you're feeling like you're not fitting in to this place that you're supposed to be fitting in so now there's some some sort of stress who lally fatigue you have bags under your eyes so what what's the process how do you get yourself out of it you get yourself out of it by management learning how to manage yourself and being contented with what you have at a particular time because just like she has said that you need to visualize what is reality for me at this particular time because when you want to have that the shoes whatever else that you would want to have it is something that you hope to have and it is a good thing to hope it's a go to have an unexpected that is human but you cannot leave the fantasy you have to leave the reality and the reality is I am going to wear the shoes that I have because they are the ones that I can be able to afford at this particular time what I see to be quite a charge with young people today is to leave the fantasy instead of leaving the reality and because of that they stress themselves to the limit because you see you can't be where you're not the only thing that we can be able to manipulate at a particular time is now because it is the resource that we have in terms of time if you walk around that you will be able to get what you want into the future and so I would say if young people accepted this is where I am yes comparison is normal but then you need to know I need to vary my comparison so that I can be able to see this particular person has this because they have done one two three or because maybe they are privileged because of the families they come from since I come from a different kind of a family I also need to work an extra mile so that I can be able to get where they are I think living with the reality and knowing that they can manage their feelings their thoughts that are out of the realm of what they are going through is very important and just just to add on a bit I think it's okay to go on social media and take screenshots of you know a nice dress a nice car it's okay to take screenshots but you know what you do about that is what really matters do you take that to start you calling yourself off do you take that so you can start comparing or do you take it up as a challenge like man if she did it if she's wearing such clothes why shouldn't I so if you're not wearing such clothes if you're not driving such cars then that should jump start something inside of you so it should motivate you to get somewhere I don't have to necessarily get the exact clothes but it should motivate me to get somewhere apart from where I am so if you take screenshots it's fine but just use it for the greater good yeah I like what you said because my next question was today we were talking about of course the 159 is a craze still and something that intrigue does is he didn't run alone he had around if I'm not wrong six pay setters so that says something about the people you keep around you very much you have a goal and there are certain type of people who you know their vision is aligned but you would find and it's and it's a terrible thing because especially if you find yourself either you're emotional or you're shy or whatever kind of character that you have and then you confide in someone and they break that confidence you know that now there's there's another type of stress going on there oh my god what I do with it my fault what kind of person in my and in reality it's not really your fault so you'd have someone being upset with you maybe for something that you have how many times in a day do you get told you are you told that you're beautiful honestly if you don't you see yeah you know then if someone if you have a friend who maybe is not as aesthetically pleasing as you and now they won't they feel some type away because you're gorgeous and everyone will tell you you know so they'll use something that you don't have that they know you don't have against you so car for example one nation a mom and a mini mehama and I'm a chock-a-wattok I'm going to give you that car you know yeah how do you deal with that man say like me me personally I have a very bold personality and I'm very I love myself and I know my own when you table I know my words whether I have something on the table yet or not I know my worth and I think that's people that's something the challenge is so many people in that if you don't know your worth you're very likely to be swept off your feet so know your worth value yourself do not negotiate your value don't want to meet someone's standards just do I give up on you if I'm not as pretty as came Kardashian I still know my war thumbs I still know there's something I can bring to the table that a Kardashian cannot that's very true by the way so it's all about just knowing your worth because when you know your worth and you know your value I don't think there's anything that can put you down and if anything tries to put you down you know how to get up but at the end of the day I think the challenge is what is your source of life what what is you know what's the center of your life because if you make material stuff the center of your life then you're going to miss on so much if you make houses and cars to be the center of your life so if cars vanish you don't have life if you decide that your friends are going to be a center of your life if they vanish that's just about it so again I want to bring in the aspect of just making God the center of everything making sure he's your source of life he's my source of life so but I have a corner oh well I know I'm killing it all here I like you you know they say and and and I want to phrase this carefully because I I know you okay I don't know how to tell you this because you you're over there and I'm over here with her in studio but she has a very calming presence it's like you have you're very centered you have peace of mind how can we get that and how because it's our lives every time every time something if you had these young children talking about heartbreak as if okay yes heartbreak yet maybe chat break I know but heartbreak nowadays it sounds like your heart literally is broken someone has done something to it how do you how do you stay so calm allow me first of all to start from the discussion you're having there before in regard to someone has betrayed you betrayed your trust you have given out some information that has been used against you and you feel betrayed and you feel distraught how do you handle emotions when they are everywhere one of the things that you need to do is to know what is the emotion that is disturbing me I am disturbed by betrayal but betrayal may not be the other eyeing emotion the other eyeing emotion may be anger you feel angered with what has happened to you or what a friend has done to you so then when you know it is anger then you need to motivate yourself to deal with the anger you don't just leave it like that many people what they do is that they keep it by the side they go drinking that is a way of dealing with it but you see you have just suspected dealing with an issue that you need to deal with instead of knowing I need to be prompt with my own issues I am answering the question of I'm very prompt in dealing with my own issues if I'm going through shame I would deal with it if I'm going through anger if I'm going through resentment I am going to deal with it and just like she has said the Bible says let the sun not go down before you handle your anger and I would say that about all the negative emotions that we go through and young people will go through up and down with their own emotions so you need to learn I need my own self-care in terms of mental health I need me to be whole and I need me to be complete and I need me to be centered just like you have said and the only way that I'm going to do that is to make sure that my emotional health is taken care of if your emotional health and spiritual health am I doing things against my own conscience if you do things against your own conscience you find yourself hitting at yourself and people will commit suicide because of that they don't like themselves they are out of themselves they are fragmented in little in relationship to themselves but bringing ourselves together to say I forgive me for the things I have done against myself then you're able to do a re-correction of yourself put yourself together and start moving again it is continuous work it is moment to moment work knowing that no one else can do it for you only you can walk that journey with yourself that whatever is happening inside yourself the processes that are happening inside yourself that you are in tune with them and you are ready to make sure that you're putting them on a healthy path then you can know that you and yourself in the inside are good companions that's important very have I not been telling you to love yourself have I now we have a professor saying the same thing love yourself please it's important let me use myself as an example so Niju last week sometime someone had upset me you know I had been trying I was trying to see this person but our schedules were not just adding up so in my head I'm so upset and I why why are you not putting enough effort why why are you not doing this why why why and I'm not saying it out loud because I have understood I've realized speaking when you're a bit emotional is not a very good idea just chill just to pay to sugar leave my friend and then when you've come down that's because there's power in words and you cannot take back something that you've said you can't you just can't so ask myself okay now I'm having an argument with him in my head we've argued we've argued I'm like okay but what's wrong with you Valentine what's wrong why are you angry like why for real are you angry say it's not something he did it's something either you are you are not able to do right now or something that you're trying to I don't know but it's it's with me it's not with someone else so now that took me a bit back I said okay why am I feeling like this how can I fix it am I ashamed of what I did am I feeling guilty for something and and it's important not to take stock of those emotions because if I don't deal with how I'm feeling about me I'll probably project it to you so if I don't like maybe the way my hair turned out today it after twisting for a street for how long and then I see how looking some type of way the first thing I'll do is be angry with you why do you look nice but you know angry with me you know I'm angry with me like why didn't I do this instead of this why didn't I you know it's it's it's all in here literally inside your head which which brings me to a long time a long time is necessary do you think so yeah very much so especially when you're trying to take a break from the normal personally when I was I think it started struggling with depression I was very young I just didn't it was depression until I grew up and I was like oh they have a name for this okay it's not a big problem for white people it's also black people problems so I used to suppress so much like I you know something comes my way I don't deal with it I just you know push it at the back push it at the back and it gets to a point where now I'm just frustrated about anything anything everything anybody everybody so if you don't do something for me I start relating it to maybe a past experience and I can maybe I'm not as important as I think I am and so I can understand you know when you're having an argument in your head I really feel you so that's that's a rose I gotta say yeah so basically I used to suppress so much and I realized I used to bleed because and that's very that's very toxic because some people come to you with just cleaning tensions and then you just end up bleeding on them because you've not dealt with your issues per se so it's very important to just deal with yourself comes and alone times really mean so low it could be just a break from the room environment a break from your even parents a break from your friends colleagues just about anything that makes you feel very you know that step away sometimes if I'm in a closed room for a long time I do not think this is claustrophobia I don't actually feel like the walls I just I feel like my presence has filled the whole thing now I need to go somewhere bigger like I need to go outside and remember that it's not all about me that I'm a very if you see me from you know area of view I'll be a dot sometimes I just need to remember that even though what's up in my head is a lot this is a lot but there's a lot more bigger picture but also when you have in alone time it depends on what you're doing not alone time personally I used to be very I'm very outgoing I'm a very bad person but at some point I was just laid back I just locked myself in my room because I was really I was really in a dark place and then when I finally decided to have a change of environment I was just around people who just want to drink and drink and that for me was therapeutic somehow I I just used to drink so much I used to cut myself so much I used to be very sweet idol I just didn't have only to cut yourself really oh yeah yes I do I do have scars I'll give you a hug after this so yeah it depends when you're having a change of environment what are you doing and whom are you doing that with so for me it was a bit very toxic because I'm you know out of the frying pan into the fire so just alcoholism just been even more depressed just it was too dark so when you having a break from an environment when you want some you time just be very cautious because you're also very vulnerable at the moment so anything that looks like a solution could seep you off your feet yeah well related to that doctor is because I also had a similar experience that I had a life changing situation and I did not do it myself and I did not want to hear my my own voice so like I said I cannot do what she did as long as I was never alone what are you if you want to take it's okay let's go drink but now I say I was drunk 24-7 it was not helping anyone you know and I had people worrying about me the people who loved me like my family and all this and I was wrong with you should we take it to rehab like but I'm stressed how do we what do we do there the long time and both of you have captured it very very well that you can have learned you may want to have long time but it's important to think do I have mental health to allow me to be able to have a mid-time that is going to be productive as a therapist I meet so many young people or even people who say I can't stand my loneliness I can't stand me with me alone in a room and for the others who are going through like depression yes they are going to be alone but is cutting themselves away from the people because they don't have energy for the people and therefore they are there because they are suicidal or they are there because they are not able to have the energy to be with other people and so this tells us that we need to know just like Kipchoge he knows that he needs to be disciplined so that eventually he can be able to win there is and even us as individuals whether young people or older people they need to know that you need to make sure that you are relating with yourself in ways that you understand that what you're doing to yourself is gainful or is adding value to you and if you get yourself to a point that you are cutting yourself or mutating yourself that means you're not in a good place in terms of your mental health emotional health moral you know all those aspects of our own being you're not in a good place completely and many a times again what we see a lot is you're not able to help yourself come out of the hole you are in you need other people caring people we are talking to young people but we are also talking to family members we are talking to friends it is a friend who will see Valentine is not in a good place let's go and talk with her let's have moments two months three months with her we'll get her out of the hole that she is in before we learn her to a therapist or we read her to a doctor a psychiatrist who is going to take care of her we need to convince her that she really needs help so we need other people to help us to be able to see that we need help whether we need help where we can help ourselves but if a person is not able to help themselves then the social unit around them is the one to help them if not those ones then they need to go to a physician or they need to go to a psychologist like me so that we can be able to see together and a psychologist when we do an assessment we will say this is not only something that is requiring us to talk about it has gone to clinical levels where you need medication for you to get out of the hole you are in and get well and many people when they are proactive about their mental health instead of now going to crab or going to drinking some people will even get addicted to some behaviors like having sex you know you're not interested with that relationship but the only thing that is taking you there is because you need companionship but this companionship is not healthy for you because again it's taking away your integrity is taking away your love for yourself and you're feeling whatever I become a thing to be used by other people but you see you are taking yourself to that and you don't know you're taking yourself to that because you're not in a good place when it comes to a mental health oh my goodness I like that okay now that unfortunately my director is telling me we're running out of time but I don't want to go but at WhiteFive for Facebook at WhiteFive for channel Twitter hashtag is why in the morning so maybe in how do we conclude this how do we tell them to manage stress because stress is not something very large all the time it's not that you've lost someone or you've been in an accident or something that has happened to your lover it could be a small thing like you know maybe your boss was not happy with something you did you already now feel like you need to validate yourself again or just small thing we need to we need to learn how to manage a small stresses so that that lead up now to to the big one because if you don't fix this one this one will become two three four five six suddenly you go into the hospital for shock therapy okay so how do we maybe manage that can I start here yeah sure you can I think for starters the people around someone who's depressed you have to be very sensitive depression does not have a face I cannot look at you and they don't look depressed but so and so looks depressed so if if someone is being stressed and they're depressed you don't have the right to tell them they're not supposed to be you don't have the right to tell them but you have a family don't have you're not of eight yeah you're still trying your 20s why are you depressed that no that's very negative and very toxic because when someone comes to you the problem just at a common who terms idea just listen to them yeah don't call them off but mainly again your source of life you make a code your source of life you make code the center of everything you don't even have to worry about the people around you he got you you know why I fully applaud that statement is because yes we've talked about pay setters we've talked about friends but sometimes they won't understand you know it's just you it abacky to me well and sometimes even those people that you think you're reaching out to when I don't come on beer now and I don't go update what 411 Zavals as I said that kind of hurts it it's negates now you want to get better but not the person you're supposed to so how do we find that inner strength then ourselves first before we reach out I would say that all the time you need a tool to help you to understand where you are at for some people they will say I write a journal others we will say I like a diary whatever you do right you're bringing out your thoughts here and your emotions here so that you can be able to understand them and so that you can be able to know is it beyond me or it is within my only sources to deal with it let us not get ashamed as young people to go to a therapist actually I always advise people go and see a therapist like three times an year because just the same way we go to take tea or to eat we need to go and see our therapists so that we can be able to talk about something that is not going well with us and also to get an assessment of where we are at because we do assessments of where people are at in the different aspects of their own lives whether it is emotional or physical or spiritual or moral all those aspects we do an assessment and that helps it helps an individual to know where am I at and what would I want to put effort in if it is my emotional or spiritual then you really know where your a lot of your energies need to go so that all the time there is something you do with yourself let me say that life is a business you are transacting with yourself how well are you transacting with yourself just like we get the coaches or the pacitors so that they can help us to be able to do our business in ways that are productive it is the same thing thank you so very much for your words of wisdom is there anything else you'd like to say before we finish up I love you thank you so very much professor for coming and you over there if you know you know someone who is not okay and you're there telling them I have feelings get over yourself shame on you if you know someone has confided in you and you weren't telling everyone because you have gist about someone shame on you okay I will be telling myself shame on you because I think you might end up mother because a weekend but it's okay it's in-house problem I can sort I tried to perform Facebook at white two five four channel on Twitter hashtag is why no one you don't want to miss it okay Alex is coming up with you and politics


This is TFNN, the Tiger Financial News Network Update. Good morning everyone, Basel Chapman on this Wednesday, the 16th of August, we're looking at the Dow 114 of this 10 o'clock Tiger Financial News Network, market update 35,061, we're watching very closely to see whether the law of 34,086 today is taken out either or tomorrow, why? Because that nine-period moving average for a moment when pink announced back to green, but look at the YM, that's the futures, YM has already turned pink, so the Dow cash is the only index that didn't flip negative, I believe it will, and then we have to assess, have the indexes really had a big pullback shorter term and are they ready for a decent balance? We're going to be watching this very closely, S&P up 264, 44.39, sitting on the 50-period exponential moving average support, we'll see if that can hold by the end of the day, QQQ and the X100 trading at, where did it go? Trading down 53 cents at 365.89, that's together with the SMHs, SMHs, semiconductor index which is trading down 60 cents at 148.17, we're watching these really closely, they're all tells as far as I'm concerned about the market action over the next week or two, IWM up 10 cents, we're making lower lows and lower highs, now let's go to gold, gold is trying to find some kind of support here, it's a 1934, it's going to be tough because that dollar is showing at least bounce material, but look at the magnet of this 200-period exponential moving average, it might just hang around you for a little bit longer, crude oil, crude oil is down just a fraction, it's down 0.19 at 80.79, it looks like it might be turning down but that 9 is still very strong over the 14, here we go, TLT, bonds, bonds are trading down 16 cents again at a lower low than the left side low of 94.54, we're at 94.42, that's a problem because those yields are going higher and the weekly chart is in a leg G and that very often goes from a G and then it bounces and it comes back and makes a slight jump, all tight, tight, tight technicians are coming up, I'll be right back and also check out my opening call daily newsletter.


Now that we have discussed how to graph different transformations, we are going to work on the opposite skill. So we are going to be given a graph of one of our parent functions and just from the graph we should be able to come up with the equation. So the first thing that you'll always want to do when finding an equation, of course, is identify what your parent function is. So if you just look at the shape of the graph, you should be able to figure that out. Here we have a parabola and so we know that our parent function will just be an x squared function. So once we have identified our parent function, what we want to look for is any shifting that has occurred. So if you think of your parent function for our parabola, it typically begins right at the origin for its vertex and then goes up from there. So if you look at this parabola here, you'll notice that its vertex is down here at the point 0 negative 4. So you want to look to see if it has shifted to the right or left at all, but here the right and left shift is none. It doesn't exist. And then you also want to look to see if it has shifted up or down. I'll use arrows instead. And here you'll notice that this graph has shifted down 4. So think about what we talked about when learning our basic transformations. A shift down 4 is going to be something that occurs outside of our typical function. So this shift down 4 is going to translate our function. The x squared will stay the same, but to shift down 4 we have to subtract 4 at the end. And if all that was happening was that this graph was shifting down 4, then we would be all set. But you'll notice that it's not a direct mapping that would take place. So our final step when finding equations is going to be to look for any stretching or compressing or even reflecting that occurs. And the way that you can do this is just by finding another point on the graph. And then we can plug that in in order to see if there really should be a leading coefficient here in front of our x squared. So looking at my graph I like to find it has to be a point other than that vertex that you used. So I'm looking for one that crosses perfectly on here. We would hope that I made that the case. It looks like up here is the first one that really does cross perfectly from what I'm seeing. So this is the point 5, 6. What I'm going to do is think of this as the function y equals a x squared minus 4. I'm going to plug that point 5, 6 in for my x and my y in that equation. So my x will get replaced with the 5 and my y will be replaced with the 6. If I solve this I'll simplify the 5 squared. I get 25a minus 4 equals 6 and then if I add 4 to each side get 10 equals 25a and then if I were to solve that for a 10 divided by 25 you can leave it as a fraction but simplify the fraction or you can do it as a decimal but I would get a equals point 4. So what that means is my final equation in this case would be y equals 0.4x squared minus 4. I think that went off the screen. I'll do that on the next page. I'll write that out. But what you have to see is this point 4 means that we would have a vertical compression and that is what's happening here. It's all compressing downward from where it would have been before. So that would be our final equation. Let's look at one more example just to practice finding that stretch compression or reflection number. Okay we're going to look now at the graph here given below and this graph here you should be able to tell by looking at it that the parent function for this is our square root function. So if we didn't have any transformations we would have the function y equals the square root of x. If you want to you can graph what that looks like or what that would have looked like on here just so you can kind of see how that transformation has changed it but it typically starts at the point zero zero and then shifts from there. So as I said before the first thing you want to look at is you want to check to see if it has shifted at all. So if you look here our graph typically starts at zero zero and you'll notice that it has shifted to the left three and it hasn't shifted up or down at all. So we just have a shift to the left three. If you need to look back through your notes you can examine how to show a shift left three but it's a horizontal shift and so that means right by our x value we're going to put a plus three. So all of that is going to be underneath our square root and if this just was a perfect shift three then that would be our equation but you'll notice like if we shifted this point left three it would have been right through this point and our graph doesn't quite go through that. So we have to now see if there is a compression or a stretch or a reflection. This one doesn't look like there's a reflection at all but we have to check for that and the way we check for that is we find our I always call it our a value and a is this leading coefficient that goes in here and so we will go about finding that. I'll use a different color down at the bottom but the way to find your a value is find another point on the new graph that you have and you want it to be one that crosses perfectly so I'm going to use this point here one three that it goes through. So what I'll do is I will replace the x with one and I will replace the y with three and what I get when I do that is three equals a times a square root of four which is just two so three equals two a and if I solve that for a a is equal to three over two or one point five and that I can see will mean I have a bit of a vertical stretch which makes sense because my point was supposed to be right here and it's stretched up a little bit so that makes sense with what the graph looks like and so my final equation here that a goes in front of the square root and then that plus three accounts for my horizontal shift to the left and that would be my final equation in this case


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Hey guys it's Nate aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Happy Sunday and happy Easter. It is a huge day inside of FIFA 22 because today begins the first of the many days of team of the season build up and basically it's the first day of team of the season hype because we have official voting today for the community team of the season the first tots cards that we will see on this game in a couple weeks from now about a week and a half we will see these cards on this game but today is huge because it really begins that team of the season hype with the voting starting today and we have weeks about some of the players that are going to be included in the voting so I want to take a look at that today and it's also a pretty big day of content regarding foot captains with the many release coming out today of course a guy like Busquets and Payet some of those items we're looking forward to seeing today on this game and of course with the news of team of the season coming prices on the market are crashing once again more panic selling more price drops across the board we have to take a look at that in today's video but it is a very exciting time on this game because again team of the season it's just around the corner and today really starts the beginning of that hype in the beginning of that push towards this next promo that will come after the foot captains promo in team of the season so if you're excited for team this season hit the thumbs up on the video and of course subscribe if you're new let's dive right into it right what is actually coming today related to team of the season now we talked about this in yesterday's video and we did start to see the market drop off because of that initial hype but this was the official tweet from EA sports yesterday saying tomorrow aka today team of the season begins community tots kicks us off and your vote decides the team so this is once again the official car design tweeted out by ea sports i mean yes it does look similar to team the seasons of years past that's no surprise right we know that these team the season cards look pretty similar year in and year out i like that design though i think it's sick big w in my opinion but what goes on with voting today like what does this mean basically what they're going to be giving to us it's just like team of the year the voting is very similar to team of the year where they're going to give us a bunch of players and we have to pick a squad that is voted in as our community team of the season squad and basically what community toss is if we take a look back at last year's community team this season it's a lot of players in the voting that haven't had that many special cards this year but have played somewhat well for their clubs and pretty consistently right it's usually called team of the season community or team of the season most consistent so some of these cards that we're going to look at in a second year that have been leaked don't have a lot of special cards for performance based upgrades for informs or whatever but they've played a lot for their teams and they're maybe worthy of some recognition for that consistent and solid performance throughout this season for their club so that's what team of the season community is all about and of course it is 100% community voted that's where the hype is with these cards as well so this all starts today i'm going to drop the link to this uh web page down below in the description if you want to take a look at that you'll be able to vote i'm assuming it's like team of the year where you just kind of drag the cards in on the web page do that sort of thing you'll vote for your community team in season here on this website on the ea website now these are the leaked cards that we actually have these are these are nominees these are not players that will like are guaranteed to get a community tots card in the next couple of weeks but these are some of the names that are going to be in the voting with their potential team this season card boosts in this graphic right here surge nabry ideyemi lacazette yuris who both have had promo cards recently inside of the foot cappence promo which is interesting to see suarez corasco parejo zaha and fred a lot of people are making some sick concept cards this one included for a team of the season fred i would be very surprised if he did not get into community team this season because again just like it is with a lot of other voting based stuff on fever 22 the community ends up picking a lot of those cards where it's it's a popularity contest is really what it is right people are going to pick fred they're going to pick lacazette they're going to pick nabry because they're bigger name players and you know not all those guys have had that insane special cards released yet on this game this year so you know a lot of people will say hey you should vote for the performances or hey you should just vote for the fifa meta whatever it comes down to vote for who you want to but it usually does end up being the end the end squad does end up being a little bit more of a popularity contest because that now that is what ea knows will sell his packs and that's why they do voting and that's why people vote for some of these cards they do on this game so these are the actual some of the cards that we'll see in voting today will probably see a lot again with community tides last year they released a full side of 11 plus four on the bench i would imagine this year they would do the exact same thing so expect a lot more cards as a part of the voting today and then we also have this is kind of looking down the road a couple weeks but we have leaked confirmed dates for team this season this is kind of what we were expecting and usually this is pretty rocks out like this does not vary that much you know community is going to start on the 29th of april so we're still it's not this next friday it's going to be the friday after so we still have a little bit of time between then uh but then we have premier league bonus league a lot of league league one in syria which is a bit of an interesting switch up here because usually league one is last i believe it was last last year but they're running league one before syria and then ultimate team this season at the very end kind of in that second week of june so team this season is a long time but there's so much great content that's going to come out during and it all starts today with the team of the season boat so that's a lot of talking about that but that's kind of the whole situation all we know right now about that team this season stuff now like we mentioned with that web page and with the ea tweet dropping a lot of people saw for the first time confirmed team of the season information and that has the market dropping this is where i want to start talking it's going to continue today boys it really is and i even mentioned it in yesterday's video just a tweet like that is started people selling some cards off and you've started to see prices drop once again right prices kind of bounced back up from you know monday tuesday wednesday last week it was just drop drop drop every single day some cards bounced up a little bit on the weekend and now cards are coming back down again and some of them are down a lot i was taking a look at lucas paqueta he is like 480 thousand coins at the moment and so i think he's down like you know 40 or 50k just in a day for minos foot birthday card was like 780 he's down under 700 thousand coins it's not just foot birthdays it's just two examples that i'm giving you right here but the whole entire market is really dropping as people are seeing this note this uh this news and the notifications that team this season is right around the corner so more and more people are going out and selling their teams and and that's also causing people to not want to buy cards and that just causes the prices to drop lower and lower because there's not much demand and also people are scared again about the promo that's going to be coming so they just keep selling their cards i think you're going to see more price drops today on this game i know i was just looking at golden pape he's only down like i think 20k he was like 330 highs to 340 yesterday before the stuff was shown by EA now he's down uh to like 320 i think the simbape card before we get to team this season is going to be 300k flat or below that's just my opinion on a leak we still have a lot of time before the actual team this season is released uh and there's still some more panic to come but what i think you're going to see today on sunday is more panic selling just based off of the fear the based off of that again panic that team this season is coming i mean look at this jude bellingham i'm losing some coins on this card right now because i was trading with him over the weekend i sold one yesterday for 1.39 million coins he went down to 1.1 bounce really quick and has just been continually dropping even more he's down like 300 000 coins in one day and i think he's going to go down even more today on sunday for a card like this also for some of your really high tier meta cards like this jude bellingham a lot of pros are playing qualifiers this weekend so a lot of pros are finishing all these games for qualifiers if they're losing and not competing anymore and it's driving the prices a little bit lower as well on these high tier very pricey meta cards that people are using in those pro teams but again if you just take a look at not not all the market is down a ton but look at sancho right sancho is down a hundred thousand coins he was 680 yesterday and now he is down to five hundred and sixty four thousand coins if we take a look at footcaps from team one who are out of packs by the way look at this ben yetter card ben yetter was 1.1 mil i believe yesterday 1.05 went all the way down to 879 and that's currently where he is now like 87880 a lot of people are just selling cards rois i sold yesterday over 400k um let's see militos 533 dina tally is down 300 000 coins everywhere you look on the market right now this panic selling is kind of starting and it's continuing honestly it's it's going to continue even more into today though right if there are cards that have not dropped that much yet like this coutinho this dembele i think there's more drop coming today for a lot of those cards and cards that have dropped a lot again you just have to kind of think about okay these cards still are going to have another about week and a half time period before uh team the season is actually here they're going to hit their lowest point before then but what right now and what this weekend is again the start of is the low period and we were talking about this a little bit last week and we're going to talk about it a lot in this next upcoming week right now what we are entering into is what i would call the low period this is the low period kind of like the the panic selling is reaching its peak prices have been dropping for like the whole last three weeks now at this point and now you've got cards that are being panic sold so much so much their prices have dropped so much over the past couple of weeks and we're just getting into that we're getting into the valley right before team of the season starts the absolute lowest point is so hard to time with all of these cards so if you're looking to buy cards for your team if you're looking to buy items for you know your team of the season squad or stuff like that i mean just what i would do right now is just start to plan and what we're going to do a lot of this week is watch prices because ea is going to continue to drop good content in my opinion throughout this upcoming week and that's going to drive prices a little bit lower as good as that content could potentially be with upgrade packs gamble packs they did it last week during week one of footcappings i would imagine they're going to do it again this week inside of week two so um you know if you have cards still in your club right now that are not down that much i would say you know maybe go ahead and take take the coins like i think of a card right now who's up in price a lot still and that is a saudiomane road to the final version i know that he just got upgraded and there's a lot of hype with this card and you know the reason why he's up in price so much is because he got this plus two but i'd be taking the money on this i really would because the whole rest of the market is dropping and this card should be dropping as well because again team of the season just brings out some of the best cards on the game that's why people are selling that's the bottom line right people are selling this stuff because the cards that are coming out people are worried about how cheap they're going to be how awesome they're going to be statistically and that's just that's just what team the season does to the market so it's that fear and that panic that is driving prices down and i think it is going to continue today watch for big time fluctuations because like i showed you with that bellingham he was 1314 went all the down to 1.1 and then went back to 125 you're going to see fluctuations today tomorrow into this week some more where you see a lot of cards that drop down really low and they drop down like 20 or 30 percent then they have a little bit of a bounce back just because the panic selling was too drastic and too much in a short amount of time especially if a card is really really rare even here's a good example another future stars item where's pejori future stars pejori was 1.1 like almost 1.1 flat i think he's rebounding back up now into the high 1.1 yeah 1.17 1169 you know if you see a card like this today it's like one mil flat you know that would be down like almost 20 in price then not quite 20 you have to be under a mil for that but you know that might be something where it's like okay this pejori card if he's 950 he might bounce back bounce back up to 1.05 after just how rare this card is how meta this card is you know there's still that are there's still going to be people on this market today that are in this weekend that are buying cards but that buying power is going to slow down a lot and that's just what you have to be careful with because there's so much selling and not as much buying that's what makes the prices go lower right that's just the simple supply and demand of the situation but again it's all triggered by that fear of team this season actually coming out and today with the voting i think that's going to trigger some more fear with prices on the market as well now speaking just besides the team of the season item and stuff and content that's coming out today with the voting there's a lot going on with foot captains today on this game as well we have the mini release that is going to be dropping today on this game now again a lot of the leaks have shown in the past couple days that we have been waiting for a Busquets foot captains card now i don't know exactly what this card is going to look like statistically i'm going to try to find the card really quick right here for you guys and show it if i can find the Busquets item really fast i know that he was leaked a long time ago so i'm going to scroll back into the archives oh this is one of the cards we're getting today Payet Busquets Payet and Seamus Coleman so this is going to be the Payet card that we will see as a part of the mini release today on sunday so another french center attacking mid he's probably going to end up being pretty cheap again you think about a comparison card for him would be foot birthday fakir you might see a card like fakir drop down a little bit extra if that payet is really cheap i think these are confirmed stats for Busquets as already said that's official for the Busquets this is the most popular card coming today in the sunday mini release little easter egg mini release from ea 86 pace 93 defense 88 physical 95 passing 92 dribble now without sheep these captains cards are already as a part of team two because and with prices dropping on these cards as well henderson's 390 000 coins and i would kind of compare henderson and Busquets as pretty similar cards out of this promo Busquets is going to be higher rated uh or sorry he's 92 henderson's 93 i feel like Busquets might be a little bit harder to pack since his base gold version is higher rated than henderson's still um and you know it's a mini release so he's going to have a little bit less height but i would say that this Busquets probably around you know maybe like five four to five hundred k as he drops down in price later on this week should be maybe his his central point but that's going to be a card that a lot of people are excited to use again we talked about the paillette he'll be a popular one that should be today right sunday mini release days that's the most popular day for them to release something along those lines and also sunday content today we would expect another icon moments sbc right yesterday we had immanuel petite which was again ea is just dropping incredible value icon sbcs i'm pretty sure this petite's value is like 450 000 coins on an sbc craft his card on the market i literally sold him for 700 000 coins yesterday um actually was a friday night i sold him for 700 k so this guy's price on the market is down because this sbc is so good um and such great value so gg's ea now again the other moments icons that we have leaked right now are huge huge names and we don't have a leak at a moment from what i've seen on who is coming today as our um icon moments player sbc but some other names that have been leaked are zadan and the center back maldini so i don't exactly know which one is going to be dropping today but zadan or maldini i would expect to be pretty soon and that would be a huge sbc it could facilitate some more market panic as well if ea were to drop one of those two um big players and again we didn't see pepe yesterday as well um i was a little bit surprised actually i felt if i'm honest i was a little surprised that we didn't see the pepe center back sbc just again if you guys aren't aware this was a leak that we saw uh earlier on these are predicted stats these are not official but i believe that if um you know we had that on their herrera sbc yesterday instead of you know um i think instead of another flashback today i wouldn't expect another one of those i think this pepe could be an sbc card that we see today on sunday uh just kind of showing that card again so that might be our sunday content right i don't think we're getting another icon pack i'd be surprised if we are i'm three out of four on this icon moments upgrade at the moment i am gonna buy the fodder because this does not expire today it expires um tomorrow on monday so i'm gonna get that done and then rip it on stream on monday most likely but uh yeah watch out for an icon moments sbc delay maybe pepe and the mini release and then of course the team of the season voting that's you know plenty of content for a sunday on this game now talking about once again sbc's let's take a look at fodder for a second and we'll we'll talk about um the under herrera sbc as well uh fodder is low again it's not tremendously low and depending on how good the content is today that could affect that i'm just checking kivani is an 85 rated card um 85s on the market currently are about seven and a half to almost eight thousand coins but not quite there so you know these guys were 10k you guys remember this right thursday they were 10 thousand coins 86s were like 17k they're now down to 14 88s were over 30 they're now back in the in the high 20s so i do think that fodder especially if you think about what is upcoming in this next week we're having the second week of the food cappins promo a lot of people have sold cards and they have coins right a lot of people have coins liquid in the top left as they're running in tradeable teams maybe they've already been running in tradeable teams ea is going to take great advantage of this opportunity in the next week and a half before we get the start date of team of the season community on the 29th they're going to take advantage by running a lot of sbc's that's something i think they're going to do watch out for fodder this weekend if prices go even a little bit lower because we should still have lightning rounds today um if they drop another pack supply sbc like they did yesterday i know it was i think it was an untradeable rare mega pack from yesterday but if they drop another pack like this that's tradeable that's going to bring more supply on the market um and if there's not any insane sbc content i would do a club stock on fodder i really would because what it would seem is that they're not going to do any promo cards in packs the next week so like the 22nd of april this next coming friday probably not going to have any cards in packs that means not as much supply fodder is a good look always the week before a big promo because ea are dropping sbc's imagine as a don imagine the maldini imagine more of those you know party bag type sbc's the campaign bag player pick that goes away today could we see a campaign bag or some sort of upgrade pack even today on sunday potentially who knows maybe they'll drop something like easter related i don't know um again player picks don't have to be added to the code the packs do player picks don't so they could kind of drop anything we'll see if they do anything along those lines but i think fodder is a good look this weekend um you know in the mid to high tier range you know even you think about some of the higher tier cards like some of our brand new foot captains items are literally like the cheapest 89 rated card on the market is captains tottage right now and like 33 000 coins if they're dropping big icon moments cards like the dana maldini as i keep mentioning and these other icons that require some of the higher rated squads you know that's got potential that provides potential for some of these higher rated fodder cards to go up a little bit extra on the market this week because they'll be supplied of course less since their pack weight is lower but their demand might be up a little bit as people are doing those sbc's so that's one place that i would watch this weekend if you're trying to make some last minute coins before team of the season fodder is probably going to be the place to do that um in the next couple of weeks and of course again as i mentioned even the foot captains that are in packs for team two at the moment these guys just keep dying man i mean i literally sold robby keen at 900 000 coins and i even sold them for a little bit of a loss um just just friday night and now robby keen is 745 000 coins like these guys are so rare but they're also so down in price because again nobody wants to buy cards right now at the moment so you might be able to trade with a few of these guys as well just be careful if you're trying anything out in this game right now i sniped an abedi yesterday at 1.19 sold him at 1.3 something and now this abedi is all oh my gosh he's down to 1.23 like look at all this man nobody wants to hold cards right now on this game it's crazy so more prices dropping today though i really think you're gonna see more prices dropping today i'm semi liquid still have a few cards in the transfer list have some fodder again i didn't really trade too much this weekend after we made a bunch of profit on friday kind of keeping it chill with the holiday weekend and everything going on but that's kind of the rundown of what is happening on fever 22 right now so we're going to cover the market step by step as we head into this week so one thing to really look out for this next week since we're in this low period is i'm going to start talking about some of the best team of the season preparation things that you can do for your club for your ultimate team depending on what your goals are and what your perspective is with team this season whether it's to open packs and or buy a team or do upgrade packs and sbcs whatever it may be we're going to talk through a lot of that stuff in the coming days as we get closer to team this season and especially some of the best investments for out of packs cars that's specifically for trying to build a team the timing on that is going to be pretty key so i want to talk about a lot of that stuff throughout this week this is just the beginning of that low bottom period of the market we have we have almost arrived i think you're going to see more prices dropping across the rest of the game today and maybe into this week as well and and then we're going to be deciding on hey what cards could be some of the best to go up as we get towards team of the season so that's enough for me on the video today have a good Easter Sunday for all you guys that are out there celebrating and again if you're excited for the team of the season voting which i am a team the season voting is a lot of fun we'll be talking about it of course later on this week i'll probably post my vote on twitter maybe look at it in tomorrow's video as well make sure you tweet me those votings by a way by the way you to put them in the discord tweet them to me i want to see who guys are voting for after we see what all nominees are released but if you're excited for team the season hit a thumbs up on the video comment down below if you have any question of course and subscribe if you are new it has been Nathan put account now we'll catch you guys later peace out


So the key point when I'm thinking about activity in electrolytic solutions, solutions that dissolve and dissociate into ions, is to keep in mind the fact that when you dissolve a salt, you get a predictable ratio of the cation to the anion. For example, if I have a simple one-to-one salt like KCl, when I dissolve potassium chloride in solution, I'll get one potassium one chloride ion for each unit of KCl that dissolves in the solution. I will always have the same number of potassium ions in the solution as I have as the number of chloride ions in solution as long as they all came from dissolving KCl. So this is the case for a one-to-one salt like KCl. Let's think about, as we begin to think about activities in thermodynamics of these solutions, I could say if I'm going to be interested in talking about the chemical potential of this salt, I can think of that as the chemical potential of the cation and the chemical potential of the anion added together, in this case cation being potassium chloride being the anion. We know in solutions, I can write the chemical potential of a component as the standard chemical potential plus RT log of the activity. So here's where we're going to start to make connections to the activity of the different components of the solution. So what I've written down here, that's the chemical potential of the cation, perhaps K plus, perhaps sodium, perhaps something else. I can do the same thing for the anion. That would be standard chemical potential of the anion plus RT natural log of the activity of the anion in this solution. So standard state chemical potential of the cation and the anion, I won't dwell too much on what those mean, partially because we can define the standard state to be whatever is most convenient in any problem that we like, and partially because it turns out that quantity is not going to usually matter too much. So what I'll do is I'll combine that cation chemical potential, anion chemical potential in the standard states. I'll combine those two into something that I'll just say standard state chemical potential of my salt. So I've defined that standard state chemical potential of the salt as the sum of these two terms, the two standard state chemical potentials. What I'm really interested in are the terms that involve the activity. So I've got RT natural log of one activity, RT natural log of another activity. If I add these two natural logs together, that's the same as the natural log of their product, activity of cation, activity of anion. So what I'm going to do next is reflect that cations and anions, as I mentioned, always come in a solution in the same ratio, and a one to one salt, they come in in a one to one ratio. So if I were interested in saying what is the activity of potassium ions, go prepare me a solution that's one molar or one molal or whatever concentration we want in potassium ions and nothing else, you can't do it. You can't dissolve potassium ions in a solution without also bringing along some anion, perhaps a chloride anion, perhaps a nitrate anion, but every time you dissolve a cation, it's going to come with an anion paired along with it. So in fact, we can rarely, if ever, measure directly the activity of the bare cations or the bare anions. What we can do, however, is measure this combination of the cation with the anion together. The potential of this solute is some standard state chemical potential plus an RT natural log of this combined activity, and this is the only one we have a real chance of being able to measure in the lab. So what we'll do is say, I'll just rewrite this as natural log of an activity plus minus. That just means the combined, the averaged activity of the cation with the anion. Here I had activity multiplied by activity, so I'll leave this as an activity squared, and the quantity I've just essentially defined by rewriting the equation in this way, this A plus minus, that's something that we'll call the mean ionic activity. It's an activity, not of potassium nor of chloride, but a kind of combination of the two of those. So it's a mean, in particular it's a geometric mean, it's not an arithmetic mean, but it's a mean activity for the two different types of anions. So like I've said, this is how things work if I have a one to one salt, it'll work a little bit differently if I have a salt with a different stoichiometric ratio. So just to see how that works, let's say we have calcium chloride dissolving to calcium and two chloride ions. In that case, if we just repeat these steps, I can say, again, the chemical potential of the salt is the chemical potential of all the cations plus the chemical potential of all the anions, but I've got twice as many of the anions as I have of cations. So I can say chemical potential of the cations plus twice the chemical potential of my chloride ions because they appear in solution twice as much and in a concentration twice as high. So if I rewrite these chemical potentials as the standard state chemical potential plus RT log of activity, I've got one term for the cations and I've got another term for the anions, I need a two out front here. This chemical potential for the anion has a two in front of each of these terms again because of the higher concentration, because of this higher stoichiometric coefficient in the formula. So once again, we can combine the standard state terms and just call the standard state chemical potential of the salt. That in this case is cation plus twice the anion. The more interesting term is if I combine these RT log of cation activity and twice the RT log of anion activity, that's the RT natural log of the product of cation and anion and another anion. So when I go to define the mean ionic activity in this case, here cation times anion was equal to the mean activity squared. In this case, in this 2 to 1 salt, I'll write this as a mean ionic activity cubed. Again, I have three activities, activity of cation and two factors for the anion. So all together I've got an activity cubed, but I've defined in this case cation times the anion squared to be equal to mean ionic activity totally to the third power. So this equation is different than this equation. Like I said, it's different for a 2 to 1 salt. It'll be slightly different for a 3 to 1 salt or a 2 to 3 salt in general. If I can write down the general case. Suppose we have some arbitrary salt that dissociates into some cations and some anions. So let's say the stoichiometric coefficient, the cation, I'm going to use the Greek letter nu for my stoichiometric coefficient. So just like I have k1 cl1 or ca1 cl2, these stoichiometric coefficients, I've got a stoichiometric coefficient nu plus for the cation, nu minus for the anion. It's going to dissolve into some number of cations. And I won't write the charge here. So it's got some amount of positive charge, some amount of negative charge that I haven't specified. But the stoichiometric coefficients are what I need to know. The chemical potential of the salt will be some standard state chemical potential plus RT natural log of a mean ionic activity raised to some power, a power that's related to the stoichiometric coefficients. In this case, that power was 2 because I had 1 potassium and 1 chloride combining to give me a power of 2. If I have 1 calcium and 2 chlorides combining to give me 3 ions in solution, then that power is 3. So this stoichiometric, this combined stoichiometric coefficient is the coefficient from the cation and the coefficient from the anion added together. That's the definition of this exponent. And then the mean ionic activity coefficient, that's defined, the mean ionic activity coefficient raised to this total stoichiometric coefficient is going to be activity of the cation raised to the cation's stoichiometric number times activity of the anion raised to the anion's stoichiometric number. So that entire quantity there lets me define the mean ionic activity coefficient. And if you look at the two examples we've seen, you can see that they both fall under this general definition. Ionic activity squared for the 1 to 1 salt, cubed for the 2 to 1 salt. So this is how we define a mean ionic activity for an electrolytic solution because we have a hard time separating the cations from the anions. We can do a very similar thing for the activity coefficient just as we've done here for the activity. So that's what we'll focus on next.


I'm Vice Admiral Steve Kaler, the commander of the U.S. Third Fleet out of San Diego, California. Pleasure to be here at the International Sea Symposium. The first one I've been able to attend, so fascinating to see the amount of countries that are here and be able to talk to all of these great leaders of the Navy and spend a bunch of time with them and learn what their challenges are and how we can work together to synchronize it across all of our navies. It's been an absolute pleasure to spend time with multiple people, both that I've known from before, that may not be in my current AOR and certainly now the ones that are in and around Third Fleet and have the opportunity to work with them. So it's been an absolute pleasure looking forward to the next one.


Family Theatre presents Celeste Holm, Dane Clark, and Henry Hull. Theatre Incorporated brings you Henry Hull as Captain Ahab, and Dane Clark as Ishmael in Herman Melville's familiar classic, Moby Dick. To introduce the drama, your hostess, Celeste Holm. Thank you, Jean. When the Good Ship Highlander weighed anchor in New York for Liverpool in 1837, it was indeed a momentous and fortunate event in the history of American literature. For it was then that a lad of 17 set out upon the eight years of seafaring that were to take him to the faraway reaches of the seven seas. This young man was Herman Melville, who began and ended his 72 years in New York, and with his writing built a lasting monument to America's literary genius. Of his eight successful works, the seventh, alive with Melville's sense of beauty and of terror, was titled Moby Dick. In recounting the story of Moby Dick, The White Whale, Melville inspires the longing for and respectful awe of the sea in each generation. And now, with sincere pleasure, I invite you to listen to Dane Clark as Ishmael recounting the fanatic and tragic hunt of Henry Hull's Captain Ahab for Moby Dick, The White Whale. It is now weeks since the Nantucket Whaleship Pequod turned southward from her Massachusetts anchorage and aboard her the ship and crew has settled down to the monumental monotony of a ship's routine, a monotony that wells the crew into one mind, one force to be driven by the words of its captain, a monotony that finds relief in endless speculation about the days to come and often as the sinking sun changes the deep blue water to evening's gray their talk becomes graver, one of whispers among small clusters of men, forward to the crew of the Pequod who have yet to see their captain even now the ship seems to have set sail upon a journey of darkening destiny. Call me Ishmael, for though a seaman has no need for a name in the records of time, I am also of the land and to it I have returned since the fateful days of the old Pequod and her captain and crew. I was of that crew. I and there were the mate, Starburt, the dollar, Nantucket man and Stubb, neither a craven or a bold man with all lazy and easy of smile. There were the Harpooners, for the Pequod was a Whaleship and we were Whales all and then there was Quiqueweg, the South Sea Islander who brought me to the Pequod. For the stories he spun of the mammoth whales in distant waters persuaded me to sign aboard the Pequod with him and with him I now shared my watches upon the afterdeck. Still awaiting my first glimpse of the man who captained the stout whaling ship. It worries me, soar Quiqueweg, here it is a week we'd meant to see and narrate a sight nor a sound of the captain. I'd grunt of you will for you've no interest to save for your harpoons and that monstrous tomahawk pipe at your belt but I tell you it's unnatural that's what it is.  He might find it a bit difficult to get about the deck what with one leg and all but but even then he should have shown himself to the crew. It's no secret among the crew he must know that Quiqueweg. Still in all I wonder how a man feels when he's lost a leg to a whale.  Me think we no like it on Pequod until he does. Maybe no like it even then. Now indeed I should like to see this man whose thirst for vengeance is so great to do you suppose that's why we're carrying a secret crew aboard. Oh I know I know and none has seen it but every night you hear whispers of them in the folksal. I know sea strange men I know listen folksal. Well the steward said there were others aboard but no one's seen them now Quiqueweg do you suppose you did you hear that? Did you hear that Quiqueweg and must be the captain. He walked like that two three minutes you're not here. Oh I have not your heathen ears my friend. Faith it's an eerie sound in the night. He's coming towards us. I'm a poor pipe even you have failed me now. Then you were meant for sereneness not to send up your mild white vapors among troubled torn gray locks like mine. If I could but forget forget I must alas my pipe there is no longer pleasure in even you. Here here go and join the devils of the sea. I may have they'll yet be company for you there sent from the Pequod with the compliments of her master Captain Ahab. What's the story Mrs. Dobb trouble? It's the captain man. Captain Ahab wishes to meet his crew. Here now men you think I said oh Nick himself were here to greet you. There's no need to be afraid. Attention! May you see this it's gold. Whoever of you raises me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw. A white monster with three holes in his starboard fluke. He shall have this ounce of Spanish gold I've nailed to the mast. That one year shall win it for we'll not see port again until I have killed the monster that tripled me.  Aye starbook. It was at a cursed white whale that dismasted me and I'll chase him through the southern ice flow there I'll give him up. I cannot speak for the crew Captain Ahab but I came here to hunt whales not my commander's ventures.  And so we sailed on but now we were a cold ship a ship ridden with hate prayed to the daily increasing uneasiness as more and more one heard talk of a secret crew aboard yet none saw them. Aye we were a ridden ship fearfully awaiting the day when the look out would first cry. Those men there has been a secret tour board look at that leader the one with the turban. I'd hop to it there quick quick check your gear there's whale to be gotten. Mr. Starbuck Starbuck who's the leader there the Chinese fellow. But one thing he's the best harpooner whoever sailed blue water for another he's a quick one with that knife of his keep clear of it.  On the double now into the whale boat. All right you two stop the chatter keep a sharp eye out he turns towards we'll have a little enough time to escape without waiting for you to finish the conversation. We knew not where but by midday next the Pequod sighted us and in the afternoon threw a line down to us where we laid barely afloat. In the days that followed I was to learn that lost boats are a common occurrence on a whaler and soon immersed in the daily shipboard routine had all but forgotten the ordeal. Then the day came the day came of our northward run and that day also we made our first kill. Now instead of dried fish and ships biscuits we dined in the thick steaks we cut from our kill. Ishmael secure the harpoons for tomorrow's hunt. Aye sir. Oh Perth the harpoon's ready for number two boat.  Good evening captain I didn't see you. Hey Perth. Aye sir. Look here here man. I warned a harpoon maid. One that a thousand yoke of fiends couldn't tear apart. Something that will stick to a whale like his own fin bone. In this bag here's the stuff. Here are gathered nails stubbed from the steel shoes of racing horses. Horse shoe stub sir. Then you have the finest and stubbornest stuff we blacksmiths ever worked. Serpent. It'll melt together as butter and a hot biscuit do come.  You two can stay to spell me. Perth send your boy for fedala and the other harpooners. Aye sir. You heard the captain lard on the double now. Now Perth let us to work. They're not yet ready for the water. Bedala tell this shaft where he may find our mobidic. And now Perth the water. Well done blacksmith well done. And now for the barbs you must make them yourself here. Here are my razors. They are the best steel. But your razors sir they are so fine. Take them I say. For now I neither shave sup nor breathe until they are to work to work. Mobidic shall indeed meet his end at my hands. And now nightly captain Ahab sat in his cabin. The harpoon he had fashioned held across his lap and the light of madness in his eyes. I heard him talk to fedala his faithful person. Fedala I dreamed it again. Do you hear fedala? I saw them again. Did stream again of the herces captain. Have I not said old man again and again that neither herce nor coffin shall be done. Aye but who are you the herce or coffin that die upon the sea fedala. But I also said old man that thou couldst die upon this voyage. Two herces must truly be seen by the upon the waters.  Who can say old man yet one that you see must not be made by mortal hand and the visible wood of the other must be grown in American forest. Aye and a strange unlikely sight that would be such a sight we would not believe.  Indeed indeed what nonsense for when you are gone then must you return again to appear before me to guide me to my end. Then then I now have two pledges that I shall yet slay Moby Dick and survive. Then take yet another pledge old man. Hemp alone can kill him. The gallows you mean. Then indeed I am a mortal on land and on sea. I am immortal on the sea. In the days that followed we saw no whales but soon we did meet the Nantucket ship Rachel and from her skipper learned that the white whale had but the day before towed off one of her boats in its crew and in that direction we sat sail leaving the Rachel to continue the search for her orphans of the sea.  Tearsman. Soon the boats were strung out from the ship's side and suddenly we watching from the peak quad could see the boats put about frantically roaring for their very lives or out of the sea came Moby Dick and dead ahead lay the boat of Captain Ahab. Look Mrs. Carbock he's got the boat. Moby Dick's got the boat. The man who survives. The crew has disappeared only for down on the captain remain. Look look his jaws crush the boat. Tearsman such a home for Moby Dick we must drag him off and say what we can. Sir the captain's escaped. You see you see how he swims in the water the whale has thrown him clear. I think we have enough speedish now. See even now the whale turns upon Captain Ahab. I have bought the peak watches watching Moby Dick crash about mad circles crazily trying to shake off the tiny human form that gripped its tail flute with the determination of the drowning. Then he gave a great shake of his tail and tossed the captain like a dart off to the sea. The great white monster leisurely turned tail upon us and swam majestically to lure. Five oarsmen of Captain Ahab's boat were missing and we saved only the captain in Fidella still grimly holding Captain Ahab's harpoon. The next morning found them once again setting out in the small boats with Captain Ahab sitting tensely in the spare boat hurriedly rigged out the evening before. Has never bore four men. Today Moby Dick's hour and harpoon are near at hand full closer. Any closer old man and his breathing will fan our cheeks. Look even now he gathers to rush us. So much the better soon he'll be so close he can't see us before him then the harpoon will find his mark quickly. Old man he's going to turn. You will have us all in the water again. Here here change places of infinite. I'll get him with an iron. There! Ahab's iron went true as did those from the other boats and then Moby Dick went a muck as a crazed monster turned in the sea powered up the lines about him. He caught both Stubbs' boat and the other and crashed them into the sea where they became a sea of chips. As for Captain Ahab's boat Moby Dick saved it until the last and then a headlong charge made it also but a mass of splinters. We found Captain Ahab grimly clinging to the wreckage of his own boat as had Fidella the day before. Here sir lean on me. Hey this this splinter of whale bones is a poor excuse for which way which way did that white demon go? As before sir to Lewitt. Then why waste me time here to the ship we must chase him. I now want a boat crew for Fidella and myself who'll stand up for it? Sir I think I should tell you that Fidella did not return. We could not find him among the wreckage. Oh no no no that that that cannot be. No no send send another boat for him search the ship. He he must have swum back to it.  Sir we saw him go among the tangle of the lines on Moby Dick. The white whale pulled him down with him. Solemn heavens above. I promise you that we'll girdle the earth 12 times over. I'll dive right through it if need be but I'll slay him yet. Get me a harpoon. Here here. I'll slay him yet. And thus we tracked the white whale through the night but there were none who slept aboard the ship. And as the sun began a new day we put out a gain from the Pequod for the third time and this time I was among the crew. You see you see Starbuck now for the third time my soul starts its journey of vengeance. Aye sir you must have it so. Some ships sail from their ports and never afterwards are missing saddest truth sir. Some men die at high tide some at ebb as for me. Now you men put your backs into it. I don't like the looks of the sharks about his crew cake. They have a look of waiting. They wait for Moby Dick not thus. Still I shall be glad to be aboard the Pequod again tonight. See there see there the look I'll give the signal pull harder men squeals ahead drive men drive harder. Peter no coffin and no hearse can be mine nor can I dive but by him I'll see you through. Oh men. The broadside of sir is running by him. Why then should I fear death from away sir lines on Moby Dick's side. Fidella my faithful Posse Fidella I I am dragged to his grave but the white whale the prophecy the prophecy I Posse I see you again and I'll go as before me as you propicide and this then this white monster of the hearse you promised me but I'll still hold you to the last letter of your word. Well then there's a second hearse sir the other boats are leaking badly that request permission to return to the Pequod for repairs. Where's Moby Dick.  Look alive now men we're near claim at last soon now Moby Dick my devil and I'll have the Pequod sir it is no more the whale has smashed it it's sunk now shipmates with her all sunk. That towards the second hearse its wood could only be American. Sir the whale sounded again he's not to be. Look Chopin he rises before us and I robbed of ship and friends I shall still have my victory quick place the harpoon in him. He no killed whale he'm bad to kill.  Now then thus I give up let's be about your leg captain the lion's a new man. Tis as Fidella has said only the hemp of a harpoon line could kill our captain Ahab. He am escaped alone to tell thee as it says in the book of Job but during the night the small boat swamped and buoyed by its fragments I alone floated through the sea of sharks to live to testify to captain Ahab's madness but for what purpose I have not yet learned. Perhaps perhaps it is that I shall bear witness against the follies of man search for his vengeance or perhaps it is that man's task here is for nobler purposes than the slaughter of those who would merely defend the life they have been given. No no I do not yet know the purpose nor did I on that second day when a sail drew nearer and nearer and picked me up at last it was a devious cruising Rachel that in her retracing search after her missing children found only in the sea another orphan. I think all of us find it fascinating to appear into the mind of a man like captain Ahab a man obsessed with a single idea a man unbalanced by his morbid unreasonable desire for revenge which ruined his every chance for happiness. Lack of balance does that to a man yes and it'll do it to a family too. We can become obsessed with the idea that some one thing spells the difference between happiness and unhappiness in our home. Money for instance or social standing or the education we're able to give our children. Well there's something else that's more important it's the love and loyalty and faith in god that exist in a truly happy home. Men and women who are really balanced and truly reasonable understand this. They understand that prayer daily family prayer is a necessity in every home. We of family theater invite you to discover for yourselves that praying together as a family is a way of ensuring your family happiness for the family that prays together stays together.   The story was adapted for radio by Arthur Sawyer with music composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman and was directed for family theater by Jaime Del Valle. Others in our cast were Nestor Piva, Jim Nussar, William Conrad, Joseph Kearns and Tudor Owen. This series of family theater broadcasts is made possible by the thousands of you who felt the need for this type of program and by the mutual network which has responded to this need. This is Gene Baker inviting you to be with us next week at this time when your family theater will bring you Alan Young and Patricia Neal in my terminal parade. Join us won't you?